Hachette Books Canada Spring 2014 Catalog by ChristianOrcutt

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS INDEX........................... 37 LITTLE, BROWN – ATOM................................ 35 ORION CHILDREN’S BOOKS.......................... 25 ORCHARD CHILDREN’S BOOKS..................... 15 HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS....................... 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS HEADLINE . .................................................... 1 LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP...................... 19 HACHETTE IRELAND...................................... 39 HODDER......................................................... 43 ORION............................................................ 77 INDEX............................................................. 101 ORDERING INFORMATION............................ 105

HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS

– THE FAMOUS FIVE – The Famous Five - Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy - have been delighting readers for over 70 years!

THE FAMOUS FIVE ANNUAL 2014

ENID BLYTON’S ADVENTURE TREASURY

Fiction • 64 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

Picture Book 384 pages Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

Enid Blyton

Fiction • 80 pages Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

9781444916492 $32.00 HC • MAY

The definitive Enid Blyton adventure story treasury with stories from the Famous Five, the Secret Seven and many more of her intrepid heroes.

THE FAMOUS FIVE COLOUR READS: GOOD OLD TIMMY Enid Blyton Illustrations by Jamie Littler

9781444916294 $9.99 PB • MAY

It’s so terribly hot, the Five are having a lazy afternoon . . . but the gang don’t get the peace and quiet they imagined! What are the men on the motorbikes up to? Can they be stopped?

THE FAMOUS FIVE COLOUR READS: FIVE AND A HALFTERM ADVENTURE

THE FAMOUS FIVE COLOUR READS: GEORGE’S HAIR IS TOO LONG

Fiction • 80 pages Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

Enid Blyton Illustrations by Jamie Littler

Fiction • 80 pages Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

9781444916300 $9.99 PB • MAY

After the Five see a boy being kidnapped at the beach, they set out to find him. But where have the kidnappers hidden the boy? Will Timmy lead them to the answer?

Enid Blyton Illustrations by Jamie Littler

Enid Blyton

9781444914429 $12.99 HC • MAY

A whole year of Famous Five fun for new and old readers - with stories, puzzles, quizzes and full-colour illustrations.

THE FAMOUS FIVE COLOUR READS: A LAZY AFTERNOON

Enid Blyton Illustrations by Jamie Littler

9781444916256 $9.99 PB • JUNE

George’s dog Timmy sniffs out an adventure when he spots some suspicious-looking passengers on a train. He is very interested in one of them, but what has he spotted?

9781444916263 $9.99 PB • JUNE

Borrowing some scissors is the beginning of an adventure for the Famous Five, as George manages to get mixed up with some burglars. Julian, Dick and Anne are too busy eating ice cream to realise that George is in trouble!

– STICKY STORYBOOKS –

STICKY STORYBOOKS: CARS AND TRAINS 9781444909449

STICKY STORYBOOKS: DIGGERS AND DUMPERS 9781444908268

From an award-winning author and a bestselling illustrator comes an exciting new young transport series. Each book is bright and made of crinkly cloth. The books come with a handy strap and an innovative sticky pad that can be placed on a variety of surfaces so they don’t slide off! Great for tables and high chairs. 2

STICKY STORYBOOKS: LORRIES AND BUSES 9781444908251

STICKY STORYBOOKS: PLANES AND JETS 9781444909432

STICKY STORYBOOKS SERIES Karen Wallace

Activity Book • 12 pages • Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

$11.99 CLOTH FABRIC • MAY

Binny’s life has been difficult since her father died and her dreadful old Aunt Violet disposed of her beloved dog, Max. Then one day Aunt Violet dies, leaving a small cottage in Cornwall to Binny and her family. Binny finds herself in a new world once more, full of sunshine and freedom and Gareth, the enemy-next-door and the ideal companion for dangerous dares. But Max is still lost in the past, and it seems impossible that she’ll ever find him again . . .

BINNY • 9781444900545 • HC CADDY’S WORLD • 9781444905076 • PB

ALSO AVAILABLE:

BINNY FOR SHORT Hilary McKay

Fiction • 304 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444915433 • $9.99 PB • MAY

• A multi-award-winning author: the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Children’s Award. ‘. . . So good it hurts.’- INDEPENDENT ‘. . . More Binny please.’ - DAILY MAIL

HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS

A funny and endearing new story of friendship from the Whitbread-winning author

‘. . . Nourishing and tremendously entertaining. Warm, wise and witty . . . BINNY FOR SHORT shows a mistress of her medium at work.’ - GUARDIAN ‘Her books are so good you want to climb inside the covers and live there.’

- THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

From the world of Odin and Thor . . . meet Freya the Valkryie. Fourteen-year-old Freya is a Valkyrie: a Norse goddess, a reaper of souls from human battlefields. Now she must return to the World of Man again on a new quest to track down the runaway Valkyrie of legend. There she will discover a dark secret that leads her to the Land of the Frost Giants, where she must take on new enemies. ALSO AVAILABLE: VALKYRIE • 9781444907551 • PB

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE PEGASUS SERIES: PEGASUS AND THE FLAME #1 • 9780340997406 • PB PEGASUS AND THE FIGHT FOR OLYMPUS 9780340997413 • PB PEGASUS AND THE NEW OLYMPIANS 9781444907513 • PB

A reissue of this magical picture book with over 300,000 copies sold to date The ghost library is a room full of empty shelves where the ghosts go to listen to stories borrowed from unsuspecting children - until they try to borrow a book from Bo. Bo, unable to let her book go, travels with the ghosts to the ghost library and there she teaches them that stories exist everywhere, not just in books. ALSO AVAILABLE: TOTALLY TERRIFYING THREE • 9781444903034 PB PICTURE BOOK

VALKYRIE 2: THE RUNAWAY Kate O’Hearn

Fiction • 352 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444916607 • $9.99 PB • MAY

• From the author of the Pegasus series comes a brand new world, this time using the legendary Valkyrie from Norse mythology. • Visit Kate at www.kateohearn.com • Follow Kate O’Hearn on Twitter: @KATEOHEARN ‘. . . Modern world meets mythology and a spirited heroine stars in this story of good versus evil.’ - THE CALGARY HERALD ‘ . . . Much to love.’ – RICK RIORDAN, AUTHOR OF PERCY JACKSON

THE GHOST LIBRARY David Melling

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444916218 • $10.99 HC • MAY

• From the bestselling creator of Hugless Douglas - over 500,000 copies sold in 25 languages to date. • Exquisitely illustrated in strong watercolour. Children will love the wordless pages which allow them to create their own stories. • A celebration of libraries, stories and reading, this classic story has enduring appeal. • An inventive picture book which is spooky without being scary.

HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS

– MICK INKPEN –

A new edition of this classic story to celebrate Kipper’s 25th Birthday The day before Kipper’s birthday, he prepares his party invitations and makes a cake. He invites everyone to his party tomorrow, but doesn’t deliver the invitations until the next day. When exactly is my birthday, wonders Kipper. Is it today or was it yesterday? Maybe it’s tomorrow! However, when his friends finally arrive, they bring the perfect present. ALSO AVAILABLE: DON’T LOSE PIGLEY, WIBBLY PIG 9781444908442 • PB PICTURE BOOK WIBBLY PIG HAS 10 BALLOONS 9781444902679 • PB PICTURE BOOK IS IT BEDTIME WIBBLY PIG? • 9781444904840 PB PICTURE BOOK

A wonderful new edition of THE MICK INKPEN TREASURY, with a gorgeous padded cover This treasury contains seven of Mick Inkpen’s classic children’s stories - from The Blue Balloon, where Kipper first appears, to Billy’s Beetle and Penguin Small. With a special Kipper bookmark, gatefolds, flaps and a pop-up, this classic collection is a perfect present. ALSO AVAILABLE: MICK INKPEN COLLECTION • 9781444913064 HC PICTURE BOOK

KIPPER’S BIRTHDAY Mick Inkpen

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444918175 • $10.99 PB • MAY

• A brilliant story for children learning about past, present and future, and for any child who loves birthdays! • Kipper is a household name, loved by millions of children the world over - the perfect pup to grow up with. • Kipper is a BAFTA award-winning character. ‘The charmingly comical Inkpen, as always, hits the spot.’- THE GUARDIAN

THE MICK INKPEN TREASURY Mick Inkpen

Picture Book • 256 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444913064 • $32 HC • MAY

• Mick Inkpen is a multi-million selling author whose name is known around the world. • Contains a selection of his best-loved picture books - with a padded cover, foldout pages, a Kipper bookmark and a popup. Superb production values make this a perfect gift. • A wonderful gift book to share and treasure year after year.

MR CROC: HUNGRY OR NOT, MR CROC?

DINOSAUR DOO Andrew Weale

Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

NEWT IN A SUIT • 9780340988671 HC PICTURE BOOK

Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

Picture Book 12 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781444901627

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Kes Gray

Jo Lodge

9781444901634 $10.99 PB • MAY

The perfect book for young children who love dinosaurs, poo and inventing things!

OI FROG!

9781444910858 $16.99 HC • MAY

9781444915846 $10.99 HC • MAY

Mr Croc munches lots of different foods in this brilliant pop-up book! ALSO AVAILABLE: FLIP FLAP, MR CROC • 9781444909920 HC PICTURE BOOK READY TO ROCK, MR CROC • 9781444909913 HC PICTURE BOOK

A wonderfully funny story with laugh-out-loud illustrations from an award-winning team. ALSO AVAILABLE: PEPE TAKES A TUMBLE • 9781444900316 HC PICTURE BOOK CHESNEY RUNS INTO TROUBLE • 9781444900682 HC PICTURE BOOK

This brand-new story will delight Wibbly Pig fans everywhere! Big Pig’s sister should have brought a cuddly toy to the zoo but instead she’s put Tooky in her backpack. Tooky’s not a toy. He’s a toucan. A REAL toucan. And he’s soon causing chaos. How will Wibbly and his friends ever get Tooky home? ALSO AVAILABLE: WIBBLY PIG PICKS A PET • 9781444908206 • HC WIBBLY PIG PICKS A PET • 9781444908213 • PB WIBBLY PIG’S SILLY BIG BEAR • 9780340997529 • PB

WIBBLY PIG AND THE TOOKY Mick Inkpen

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444912234 • $16.99 HC • MAY

• The Wibbly Pig books have sold millions worldwide. • Wibbly is one of the most popular characters on CBeebies and the animation series is now shown in 21 countries.

HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS

– MICK INKPEN –

‘. . . An irresistible character. Wibbly Pig does things every toddler can relate to.’ - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Who could resist Wibbly Pig?’ - THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Perfect bedtime reading or as a fun and endearing way to introduce the alphabet to children

KIPPER’S ALPHABET ADVENTURE

Come on an alphabet adventure with everyone’s favourite puppy and his friends: little pig, Arnold - who has lost his ant - and the hopeful Zebra, who is waiting and waiting for his turn to join the book.

Mick Inkpen

KIPPER’S ALPHABET ADVENTURE Mick Inkpen

Picture Book • 64 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444918144 • $10.99 PB • JUNE

• Mick Inkpen has won the British Book Award, the Children’s Book Award and been shortlisted for both the Kate Greenway Medal and the Nestle Prize. • A brilliantly original and funny story that will be returned to long after children have mastered the alphabet. ‘Kipper has touched a chord with children and parents alike.’ - PRACTICAL PARENTING

THE STORY OF THE STARS

KEEP OUT!

Picture Book 22 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

FOXY TALES: THE CUNNING PLAN

Sally Grindley & Peter Utton

Neal Layton

9781444901122 $16.99 HC • MAY

Alex T. Smith

Picture Book • 176 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444909319 $9.99 PB • MAY

9781444914153 $16.99 HC • MAY

From the stars, solar systems and galaxies to beyond, in 10 pop-up spreads!

A follow-up to the bestselling Shhh! that has sold over 170,000 copies.

Foxy DuBois is on a mission to get rich quick!

ALSO AVAILABLE:

STORY OF THINGS • 9780340945322 HC PICTURE BOOK

BEAR DETECTIVES: MYSTERIOUS EARTH 9781846161636 • PB BEAR DETECTIVES: STRANGE PAWPRINT 9781846161643 • PB

CATCH US IF YOU CAN-CAN! • 9781444903669 PB PICTURE BOOK BELLA AND MONTY • 9780340959848 PB PICTURE BOOK EGG • 9780340959862 • PB PICTURE BOOK

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HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS

What would you do if you met your own ghost? Twelve-year-old Kit Connelly has been saved from almost certain death . . . by a ghost. A ghost who looks a lot like a fourteen-year-old version of herself. Believing that her ghost must have saved her for a reason and knowing that she only has two years left to make her mark, Kit decides to do something life-changing. But her plan to save the world takes her on a nightmare journey involving a crazed rock singer, an old World War II fort - and a spectacular siege that brings Kit’s story to a dramatic and surprising conclusion.

SPOOKED: THE HAUNTING OF KIT CONNELLY Paul Bryers

Fiction • 304 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9780340930786 • $10.99 PB • MAY

• A chilling and thrilling ghost story told with dry, wry humour - tackling universal themes of love and friendship, loss and loneliness.

ALSO AVAILABLE: ABYSS • 9780340930779 • PB AVATAR • 9780340930762 • PB KOBAL • 9780340930755 • PB

East meets West; past meets present; criminal minds meet skilled artists - welcome to the Mysterium, a circus with dark and thrilling secrets at its heart. Twelve-year-old Danny Woo is half-Chinese, half-British. His parents are performers in the Mysterium. Following their death in a mysterious fire, Danny is sent to live with his aunt Laura, an investigative journalist. When Danny’s school is closed after an explosion, he joins Laura on a trip to Hong Kong. She is researching the Triad gangs; he is trying to understand more about his cultural background. But Laura disappears, and Danny is plunged into a dangerous quest to find her which opens the door on the past he could never have imagined, and which leads him to question everything he has ever known .

Magic, mystery and murder collide in a gripping debut about the world’s most thrilling circus . . . Danny Woo has escaped from the jaws of death once - but his trials are not yet over. He’s meant to be recovering, but when he discovers the Mysterium - the circus into which he was born, and which cost his parents their lives - is being reformed in Barcelona, he determines to join them. Everything, he knows, is linked to the death of his parents: he must continue his quest to find their killers.

MYSTERIUM 1: BLACK DRAGON Julian Sedgwick

Fiction • 352 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444913705 • $10.99 PB • MAY

‘Magic, mind-reading and escapology combine in this action-packed debut.’ - BOOKSELLER

‘. . . The first of an exciting new trilogy.’ - THE SHEFFIELD STAR

‘. . . A fantastic debut combining breathtaking action with magic, intrigue and mind-reading.’ - THE CHILDREN’S BOOKSELLER

MYSTERIUM 2: THE PALACE OF MEMORY Julian Sedgwick

Fiction • 360 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444913712 • $10.99 PB • MAY

• Combines mentalism, escapology and magic with an exotic setting and an exciting search for identity. • The trilogy has a gripping story arc.

HICCUP THE VIKING WHO WAS SEASICK

Unlike Hiccup’s Dad, Stoick the Vast, Hiccup is tiny, thoughtful and polite and scared of almost everything - especially of going to sea for the very first time. But go he must . . .

9780340969991 • $9.99 PB • MAY

So who will save the day when everything goes disgustingly wrong aboard ship and all the big Vikings lose their cool? This wonderfully witty fable will delight all those who have ever faced up to their worse fears. Just in time for the new HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON MOVIE releasing June 2014.

Cressida Cowell

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 3–7 yrs.

• This picture book was the inspiration for Cressida Cowell’s best-selling fiction books.

HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Cressida Cowell’s hilarious book about a little Viking who cannot fit in

• More than half a million Hiccup books sold, and over thirty-three foreign-rights deals to date! • Visit Cressida at www.cressidacowell.co.uk • Follow Cresida on Twitter: @CressidaCowell

Dragons are alive! Features all of the dragon species from the series plus brand new ones created just for this book, with illustrations of each and every one. It even includes a gatefold map and a Dragonese dictionary! ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON SERIES: HOW TO BETRAY A DRAGON’S HERO 9781444913989 • PB HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 9780340997178 • PB HOW TO BE A PIRATE • 9780340999080 • PB HOW TO SPEAK DRAGONESE • 9780340999097 PB A HEROES GUIDE TO DEADLY DRAGONS 9780340999134 • PB HOW TO BREAK A DRAGON’S HEART 9780340996928 • PB HOW TO CHEAT A DRAGON’S CURSE 9780340999103 • PB HOW TO RIDE A DRAGON’S STORM 9780340999127 • PB

MY CAT PIP: DOODLE PIP Karen Bendy

Picture Book • 48 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444915907 $6.99 PB • MAY

Pip has lots of Kitty-cat friends and inside this book, you’ll find lots of friendship activities. It’s full of puzzles, games, colouring and lovely things to design for your pals. With over 50 stickers.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: COMPLETE WORLD OF DRAGONS Cressida Cowell

Fiction • 192 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444914009 • $19.99 PB • JULY

Praise for the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON books: ‘Fiercely exciting and laugh-aloud funny, it is as full of joy for children of 7+ who have given up reading as for those who love it.’ - AMANDA CRAIG, THE TIMES ‘This book is great fun and has a Blackadderish sense of humour . . . full of the sort of jokes that will make schoolboys snigger.’ - NICOLETTE JONES, THE SUNDAY TIMES

MY CAT PIP: PIP AND PALS STICKER ACTIVITY BOOK

MY CAT PIP: WHERE ARE YOU PARTY PIP?

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

Karen Bendy

9781444915921 $6.99 PB • JUNE

My Cat Pip is a fast growing international brand in merchandising with over 1.5 million products sold to date. Winner of the prestigious Henries Award in the Best Cute category.

Karen Bendy

9781444915938 $6.99 PB • JUNE

Balloons, streamers and dressing up - Pip is ready to celebrate! Each brilliant bash is crammed with copy-kitties, but there’s only one Pip hiding on every page. Can you pick out Pip? Every scene sparkles with finding fun and secret.

HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS

– BOOKS FOR BOYS – These books offer the first steps on the path to reading confidence, and include enough drama, excitement and humour to entice ALL readers.

BOOKS FOR BOYS 11: GHOST STRIKER AT THE FOOTBALL CLUB

BOOKS FOR BOYS 12: SAVE THAT TRAIN!

BOOKS FOR BOYS 13: FROM BURGLAR TO FOOTBALL STAR

9781444915730

9781444915747

9781444915723

• Ian Whybrow is one of the UK’s best-loved authors, best known for Little Wolf and Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs, and the Books for Boys series has been building for over ten years!

‘Full of adventure and humour, these are not just for boys, but for all young readers who love aliens, heroes, football and go-karting.’ - THE LONDON PARENTS GUIDE

BOOKS FOR BOYS SERIES Ian Whybrow

Fiction • 64 pages • Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

$7.99 PB • MAY

SPORTS DAY

Nick Butterworth Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444918243 $10.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780340932407

9781444910209 • $16.99 HC • MAY

For train lovers everywhere comes a fabulously energetic adventure written by the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011.

SESAME SEADE MYSTERIES 2: GARGOYLES GONE AWOL Clementine Beauvais Fiction • 224 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444912531 $9.99 PB • JUNE

Where have all the gargoyles gone? Sesame Seade is slightly spooked. She’s Cambridge’s number one supersleuth. And now she’s taking to the rooftops to tackle her most puzzling mystery yet.

Picture Book • 32 pages • Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9780340917435 • $10.99 PB • JUNE 9780340917428 • $16.99 HC • MAY

From an award-winning author-illustrator, comes a warm and witty tale about finding the perfect home.

JUST LIKE JASPER • 9780340945100 • PB SCHOOL TRIP • 9780340932391 • PB

THE NEW KID

SESAME SEADE MYSTERIES 3: SCAM ON THE CAM

Marie Louise Fitzpatrick Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

Clementine Beauvais Fiction • 224 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444912548 $9.99 PB • JUNE

Sesame Seade is suspicious. There’s something fishy going on by the river: a case for a number one supersleuth! Sesame’s parents insist that there are no pirates in Cambridge, but she’s determined to prove them wrong . . . ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE SESAME SEADE SERIES: SESAME SEADE MYSTERIES 1: SLEUTH ON SKATES 9781444912524 • PB

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Picture Book • 32 pages • Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

Sam McCullen

From the bestselling creators of Kipper and Percy the Park Keeper, this new edition celebrates jumping through hoops, wheelbarrow racing and the spirit of Sports Day!

Peter Bently

HAIRY BEAR

THE CAT, THE MOUSE AND THE RUNAWAY TRAIN

9781444908183 $16.99 HC • JUNE

A powerful story about being yourself. ALSO AVAILABLE: DARK WARNING • 9781444006285 • PB HAGWITCH • 9781444008807 • PB TIMECATCHER • 9781842556771 • PB

London, 1880. As Rosa and Luke get to know each other, Luke realises it will be impossible for him to kill Rosa, just as Rosa knows she will bring disgrace on her family if she does not marry Knyvet. But Knyvet is hiding dark secrets - including the key which will unlock the mystery of Luke’s murdered parents. Torn between appeasing their elders and their love for each other, Rosa and Luke must each make their choice between life and death. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE WITCH SERIES: WITCH ALONE • 9781444904710 • PB WITCH IN LOVE • 9781444904703 • HC WITCH IN WINTER • 9781444904697 • PB

A supernatural thriller-romance set in an all-girl teenage bomber-pilot regiment, combining witchcraft and legend Rain Aranoza is a teenage bomber-pilot from Rodina, a nation of science and fact ruled by the all knowing Aura, where the belief in witches or any type of superstition is outlawed. Rain’s regiment is made up of only teenage girls and their role is vital to the war effort against the Crux, a nation of faith and belief, where nature and God are celebrated and worshipped. But Rain is struggling with another battle. She’s always had a sense that her nature is different from everyone else’s . . . and a dormant power threatens to burst out of her.

MUDDY PAWS 3: ROCKING WITH ROXY AND ROSIE

MUDDY PAWS 4: SAVING SNOWDROP

Fiction • 144 pages Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

9781444913200 $8.99 PB • JUNE

9781444913217 $8.99 PB • JUNE

Jenny Oldfield

No animal - or animal-shaped problem - is too big or small for Lexi and Lily, known as ‘Muddy Paws,’ the animal experts. The girls are charged with looking after two adorable rare breed Gloucester Old Spot piglets who like to be entertained in a very special way. ALSO AVAILABLE IN MUDDY PAWS SERIES: MUDDY PAWS 1 • 9781444913187 • PB MUDDY PAWS 2 • 9781444913194 • PB

WITCHFINDER: WITCH FINDER Ruth Warburton

Young Adult • 384 pages

9781444914467 • $10.99 PB • MAY

• Set in the same universe as the Winter Trilogy, this new sequence will appeal to existing fans, but can be read as a standalone. ‘. . . Gorgeously romantic.’ - AMANDA CRAIG, THE TIMES

‘It’s a great read, steeped in witchcraft, with a steamy romance, feisty leads and a brooding coastal setting.’ - THE BOOKSELLER

‘. . . A great deal to like here.’ - BOOKBAG

NIGHT WITCHES L J Adlington

Young Adult • 336 pages

9781444904314 • $10.99 PB • JUNE

• Romance and adventure combine to create a compulsive thriller. • Set in a convincing fantasy world, but with very real emotional drama and a strong heroine to guide readers through.

Praise for L J ADLINGTON: ‘. . . An original and disturbing dystopian fantasy told in a smart and sympathetic teen voice.’ - BOOKLIST ‘This is a brilliant example of storytelling at its most seductive . . . a fastpaced, utterly absorbing novel that is hard to put down . . .’ - SUNDAY MORNING POST

MY FUNNY FAMILY’S GOT TALENT

Jenny Oldfield

With mixed excitement and trepidation, the girls agree to look after the orphaned lamb, Snowdrop. But it’s only January, and as snow falls, the farm is cut off. Now the girls are in sole charge and Snowdrop falls ill. They call the vet who offers no solution except patience and tender loving care. Lexi and Lily prepare for an overnight vigil . . .

HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS

When Luke Lexton falls in love with Rosa, a witch-girl he’s sworn to kill, the two face an impossible choice between love and death.

Chris Higgins & Lee Wildish

Fiction • 128 pages Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

9781444918403 $8.99 PB • JUNE

Mum’s 30th birthday is coming up and after such a hectic year for the Butterfields, Mattie wants to make it extra-special! ALSO AVAILABLE: MY FUNNY FAMILY GETS BIGGER 9780340989869 • PB MY FUNNY FAMILY • 9780340989845 • PB MY FUNNY FAMILY ON HOLIDAY 9780340989852 • PB

HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS

– SECRET BREAKERS – A thrilling adventure takes the characters across the globe; THE DA VINCI CODE for kids!

SECRET BREAKERS 1: POWER OF THREE 336 pages

9780340999615

Brodie Bray likes a challenge, and when she receives a coded message through the post her life changes for ever. She’s chosen for a secret team working to crack the most complicated code in the world to uncover the secret it hides.

SECRET BREAKERS 2: ORPHAN OF THE FLAMES

SECRET BREAKERS 3: THE KNIGHTS OF NEUSTRIA

9780340999622

9780340999639

Now our team of code-breakers are on a twisting trail via medieval book burnings in Florence, a mysterious boy known as the Orphan of the Flames, and a one-time famous prisoner in London’s Newgate Prison, who wrote about King Arthur. Where is it all leading?

SECRET BREAKERS 4: TOWER OF THE WINDS

SECRET BREAKERS 5: THE PIRATE’S SWORD

9780340999646

9780340999653

336 pages

353 pages

336 pages

353 pages

The stakes are getting higher as our young trio chase their quest from Cambridge to a terrifying struggle along the currents of the surging River Wye. Only one step behind them is the secret organisation who will stop at nothing to block them from discovering the truth . . . • Brilliantly original ‘puzzle-solving’ story line so the reader works alongside the characters to crack these real codes themselves. • Based on a real-life unbroken code known as the Voynich Manuscript. ‘Dennis mixes complex code breaking theories with humour and excitement to produce this action packed adventure.’ - SCHOOL LIBRARIAN

The Knights of Neustria’s quest is clearer to Team Veritas now - but so is their understanding of the terrible enemy they are up against. People are going missing. No one at Station X is safe anymore. But there are still important truths to uncover.

STRICTLY COME DANCING: FASHION FANTASTIC STICKER BOOK Chloe Melody

Picture Book • 24 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444912944 $9.99 PB • JUNE

Enter the glitz and glamour of the biggest entertainment show in the world - Strictly Come Dancing - with this fabulous dressingup sticker book.

Answers to the mystery of the coded Voynich Manuscript are getting closer. But with the sinister Black Chamber out to get revenge, can we be sure that everyone will survive to discover them?

STRICTLY COME DANCING: WHIRLING WORLD TOUR STICKER BOOK Chloe Melody

Picture Book • 24 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444912937 $9.99 PB • JUNE

The Strictly Dance Academy is going on a wonderful world tour! Bella, Natalie and Sofia can’t wait to dance their way all across the globe. Will you help the girls dress up in their sparkly tour outfits? There are carnival skirts from Rio, Spanish flamenco dresses and floaty ballroom gowns for the Vienesse waltz. With over 300 stickers!

SECRET BREAKERS SERIES H.L. Dennis

Fiction • Age Range: 9–11 yrs

$11.99 PB • JUNE

THE QUEEN’S HAT Steve Antony

THE QUEEN’S HAT

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 3–5 yrs.

9781444919141 $16.99 HC • JUNE

STEVE ANTONY

A sudden gust of wind sets off a marvellous London adventure for the Queen, the Queen’s men and one very special hat. So let’s follow one determined, daredevil queen through the zoo, over Tower Bridge and up Big Ben . . . just where will that hat land? A witty and stylish celebration of London, the Queen and the royal family’s new addition.

Something dark has woken in the British Museum, and it has stopped time, literally freezing the city in its tracks. The people are there, but unmoving, unseeing - like statues. The statues, on the other hand, can move, and are astonished at what they see. In the Children’s Hospital at great Ormond Street, Alfie wakes up to find himself in this frozen world. He’s deafened by dressings following an operation on his hearing. He’s rescued by a girl called Jess who’s the only other person moving in the hospital. They venture into the still city and witness an airborne fight between a small city dragon and a golden girl statue. The Dragon drops a shield. When it comes to attack them Alfie picks the shield up – and his hearing comes back. In fact all his senses are heightened, and he can move unnaturally fast.

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An exhilarating and action-packed new trilogy from the bestselling Charlie Fletcher - linked to the fantastical Stoneheart books.

When Jess is taken by the dragon, Alfie must find allies amongst the Spits (statues of humans) to rescue her. The golden girl (Ariel) takes him to a couple of St Georges, who know a thing or two about how to defeat a dragon. Meanwhile Jess is imprisoned in the British Museum where she begins to understand what has stopped time . . . • A powerful new sequence which brings statues to life in a world of dragons and heroes. • Thrilling and fast-paced new trilogy for children age 9+. • Charlie Fletcher is an experienced writer in other fields, and an exciting new voice in children’s fiction.

DRAGON SHIELD 1: UNTITLED

Praise for THE STONEHEART TRILOGY:

Fiction • 258 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

‘ . . . A fantastical, fast-paced adventure.’ - PUBLISHING NEWS

Charlie Fletcher

9781444917321 • $10.99 PB • JUNE

‘An admirable debut . . . A highly original page-turner.’ - THE SUNDAY TIMES ‘ . . . A supernatural thriller with an intriguing premise.’ - THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE STONEHEART TRILOGY:

STAND ALONE:

STONEHEART • 9780340911631 • PB STONEHEART • 9780340911624 • HC IRON HAND • 9780340911655 • PB SILVERTONGUE • 9780340911679 • PB SILVERTONGUE • 9780340911662 • HC

FAR ROCKAWAY • 9780340997338 • PB

A new Gothic dark tale of stolen birthrights, unrequited love and addiction Penniless, and escaping the horrors of life as a governess to brutal households, Maud seeks refuge with the cousin-by-marriage she never knew. But her efforts to please Juliana are met with increasing levels of contempt as it becomes apparent that Juliana is jealous of Maud’s youth and beauty. Further, Juliana quashes Maud’s emerging friendships with the staff and locals - especially John. John, however, is smitten with Maud . . .

DEVIL IN THE CORNER Patricia Elliott

Young Adult • 400 pages

9780340956786 • $10.99 PB • JUNE

• Patricia Elliott’s skill in creating dark, Gothic worlds has been recognised by international sales and commendations, including being longlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE PIMPERNELLES SERIES: PALE ASSASSIN #1 • 9780340956762 • PB TRAITOR’S SMILE #2 • 9780340956779 • PB WATCHING EYE #3 • 9780340956786 • PB

GET WELL FRIENDS: TO THE RESCUE STICKER ACTIVITY 2

THE BIGHEARTED BOOK

Activity Book • 24 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444900347 $6.99 PB • JUNE

9781444900378 $6.99 PB • JUNE

Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

Kes Gray

FT RA

Nicholas Allan

9781444913095 $10.99 PB • JUNE

Kes Gray

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GET WELL FRIENDS: HAPPY HOSPITAL STICKER ACTIVITY 1

The perfect activity books for keeping children entertained, and for all those children who love playing doctors and nurses!

Join Nurse Nibbles and the Get Well Friends for activities galore. With puzzles to solve, games to play and pictures to colour, plus over 100 stickers!

ALSO AVAILABLE:

From the bestselling creator of The Queen’s Knickers and Father Christmas Needs a Wee comes a brand new picture book written in association with the International Children’s Heart Foundation. ALSO AVAILABLE:

PEPE TAKES A TUMBLE • 9781444900316 • PB MOMO GOES FLYING • 9781444900286 • PB CHESNEY RUNS INTO TROUBLE • 9781444900682 PB ZOE THE ZEBRA • 9781444900255 • PB

ANDROID IN THE ATTIC • 9780340997062 PB PICTURE BOOK

Can you find Mimi and her family in every scene? Hours of eye-boggling fun! Includes stickers and an exciting board game. ALSO AVAILABLE: LET’S FIND MIMI: AT HOME 9780340999738 • PB LET’S FIND MIMI: ON HOLIDAY 9781444906813 • PB

LET’S FIND MIMI: IN THE CITY

LET’S FIND MIMI: AROUND THE WORLD

Picture Book • 32 pages • Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444909722 • $10.99 PB • JUNE

9781444912920 • $10.99 PB • AUGUST

Katherine Lodge

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781444909715

MORTIMER KEENE: ATTACK OF THE SLIME

MORTIMER KEENE: GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE

Picture Book • 96 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

Tim Healey & Chris Mould 9780340997734 • $8.99 PB • JULY

Mortimer Keene is full to bursting with madcap plans, and if it’s trouble you’re after, look no further! With laugh out loud illustrations and short chapters perfect for new readers, this first book sees Mortimer Keene and his slime machine on the attack. When slime upon slime attacks the school, a special task force of teachers set out to find Mortimer Keene and his slime machine at the source of the crime! 12

Tim Healey & Chris Mould 9780340997741 • $8.99 PB • JULY

This second book in the series sees Mortimer Keene and his phantom machine up to no good again! When the school is overrun with ghosts and ghouls from the past, it’s up to Mortimer Keene to blast them back in time and save the school.

Fay’s no ordinary fifteen-year-old. She’s spent the last eighteen months cooling her heels in a Secure Training Centre after attacking a police officer. Her mother brought her up on the run, sniffing out cash houses and robbing dealers, until she kicked down the wrong door and wound up dead. Drug deals and rip-offs are the only things Fay knows. She’s back on the street, using what her mother taught her and working to avenge her death. But the heroin in Fay’s part of London is unusually pure and British Intelligence believes that’s getting them close to a major drug trafficker. Nobody knows the neighborhood better than Fay, and CHERUB agents Fu Ning and Ryan Sharma must dig in and root out the source of the drugs. But Fay has made a lot of enemies and she’s running out of time . . .

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For official purposes, these children do not exist.

• Ryan Sharma is CHERUB’s new hero. Like James Adams, Ryan is a strong central character rooted firmly in reality. • CHERUB action is believable and attainable, making this a much more credible read than many of the spy stories on the market. • www.cherubcampus.com is the essential internet destination. Packed with exclusive content, you can see in-depth biographies of all the CHERUB characters, and read out-takes and bonus stories. • Readers are quick to acclaim the CHERUB series: Robert has won many awards voted for by readers, including the Red House Children’s Book Award for Older Readers and the 2008 Independent Booksellers’ Award. • Visit www.muchamore.com • Follow Robert Muchamore on Twitter: @RobertMuchamore

CHERUB: LONE WOLF

Praise for ROBERT MUCHAMORE:

Robert Muchamore

‘Pacy writing, punchy dialogue and a gripping plot, it’s got it all.’ - DAILY EXPRESS

Fiction • 400 pages • Young Adult

‘. . . Crackling tension and high-octane drama.’ - DAILY MAIL

9781444914092 • $19.99 HC DEMY • AUGUST

‘Punchy, exciting, glamorous and, what’s more, you’ll completely wish it was true.’ - SUNDAY EXPRESS

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE CHERUB 2.0 SERIES:

‘Readers should brace themselves for an action-packed ride.’ - THE DAILY EXPRESS

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC • 9780340999202 • PB GUARDIAN ANGEL • 9780340999226 • PB BLACK FRIDAY • 9780340999233 • HC DEMY BLACK FRIDAY • 9780340999240 • PB

‘. . . A skilful writer and the book has great pace.’ - FINANCIAL TIMES ‘It has the feel of something quite big and satisfying . . . Muchamore’s voice is fresh and direct.’ - DAILY TELEGRAPH

IN THE CHERUB SERIES: BRIGANDS M.C. • 9780340956465 • PB THE SLEEPWALKER • 9780340931837 • PB THE GENERAL • 9780340931844 • PB

MAD DOGS • 9780340911716 • PB THE FALL • 9780340911709 • PB MAN VS BEAST • 9780340911693 • PB

From the award-winning Martin Waddell comes a tale about a little girl who wants more, more, more. Ruby likes bears. So she puts up a sign inviting them to call. She isn’t content with just one bear though - she wants more and more and more. But, as Ruby soon discovers, you can have too much of a good thing! ALSO AVAILABLE: ORCHARD BOOK OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON’S FAIRY TALES 9781846169380 • HC SUPER SWOOPER DINOSAUR 9781408307816 • PB

DIVINE MADNESS • 9780340894347 • PB THE KILLING • 9780340894330 • PB MAXIMUM SECURITY • 9780340884355 • PB

BEARS, BEARS, BEARS Martin Waddell

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444906790 • $10.99 PB • AUGUST

• Stunning storytelling from the bestselling author of OWL BABIES and CAN’T YOU SLEEP LITTLE BEAR? • Martin Waddell has well over a hundred books to his name. He is one of the most prolific and successful children’s writers of our time. • Lee Wildish is the winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award and his bold, colourful illustrations add plenty of zip and humour. 13

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FALL 2013/WINTER 2014 DROP-IN TITLES A world exclusive! This is the first book ever about Fifth Harmony, the amazing girl group taking the whole world by storm! The book charts their rise from X-Factor USA and includes all the essential details for Harmonizers to test their knowledge, plus loads of photos, quotes, profiles and more. So whether the girls have got you through tough times or just helped to make you smile, if you love their music you’ll love this book!

FIFTH HARMONY

The Dream Begins Now Franklin Watts Music • 48 pages • Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

9781445126906 • $12.99 HC • JANUARY

• This is the first book about Fifth Harmony to become commercially available. • Fifth Harmony has a fanbase of over 1 million school-aged children. • The cover features a special finish, and has been commerically packaged for Franklin Watts by a company who has produced books for One Direction. • Fifth Harmony is on tour with Demi Lovato. • Includes interactive quizzes and games.

CHERUB: BLACK FRIDAY

CHERUB

Dark Sun and Other Stories Robert Muchamore

Robert Muchamore Fiction • 400 pages

Young Adult • 208 pages

9780340999240 • $11.99 PB • APRIL

9781444916447 • $9.99 PB • NOVEMBER

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780340999233

Book three of the second CHERUB series Ryan is about to board a plane, knowing that the next twentyfour hours will change everything. His mission is to stop the biggest terrorist attack America’s ever seen. Ryan works for CHERUB, a secret organisation with one key advantage: even a trained terrorist won’t suspect that a teenager is spying on them.

Who would believe that a kid at a sleepover could be a spy? CHERUB: Dark Sun is a short novel aimed at new readers to CHERUB, originally written for World Book Day and now made available in print again by popular demand!

For official purposes, these children do not exist.

PIRATES ‘N’ PISTOLS Chris Mould

Picture Book 96 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9780340999356 $10.99 PB • SEPTEMBER

Come face-to-face with some of the most villainous and scurrilous rogues ever to sail the seven seas!

GRANNY GRABBERS’ WHIZZ BANG WORLD Charlotte Haptie

Fiction • 272 pages Age Range: 7–11 yrs.

9781444904086 $9.99 PB • SEPTEMBER

Meet Delilah Smart and her robot nanny Granny Grabbers!

COLOUR WITH SPLOSH! David Melling

Activity Book 24 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444914337 $8.99 BOARD BOOK DECEMBER

This bright, bold, rhyming story with a wonderfully funny introduction to colours is for the very young and is great to read aloud.

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An ideal first introduction to eight of his most-loved stories Eight of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, including Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and Macbeth, are retold in this truly classic collection. Andrew Matthews’ lively retellings capture all the drama and excitement of the original plays and Angela Barrett’s beautiful illustrations bring the well-known characters and their stories gloriously to life. ALSO AVAILABLE:

THE ORCHARD BOOK OF SHAKESPEARE STORIES Andrew Matthews

Fiction • 128 pages • Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

9781408332665 • $16.99 HC • MAY

• A beautiful new edition, reissued and reformatted to celebrate 450 years since William Shakespeare’s birth. • A perfect addition to any child’s library. • A selection of Shakespeare’s most-loved stories, retold with flair and illustrated with beautiful art.

TAMING OF THE SHREW • 9781408305058 • PB MERCHANT OF VENICE • 9781408305041 • PB JULIUS CAESAR • 9781408305065 • PB

A lively collection of favourite fairy tales that are guaranteed to give little ones the giggles From Goldilocks and the Three Bears to Cinderella and The Billy Goats Gruff to Hansel and Gretel, Laurence Anholt’s lively retellings are full of fun and silly humour and perfectly complemented by Arthur Robins’ brilliantly funny illustrations. Storytime has never been such fun!

THE ORCHARD BOOK OF FUNNY FAIRY TALES Laurence Anholt

Picture Book • 128 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781408307649 • $16.99 HC • MAY

• From the bestselling team that brought you the Seriously Silly series. • A collection of favourite fairy tales retold with a generous dollop of humour for young children. • Fairytales in any form are perennially popular and these witty and slightly anarchic retellings will really appeal to the target audience.

A wonderful 21st anniversary edition of this classic collection of sixteen favourite Greek myths Geraldine McCaughrean’s elegant retellings continue to keep children captivated. Combined wiith Emma Chichester Clark’s glorious illustrations, this collection will form an essential part of every child’s library. ALSO AVAILABLE: ORCHARD BOOK OF GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES 9781408309834 • HC ORCHARD BOOK OF SWORDS, SORCERERS AND SUPERHEROES • 9781408309216 • HC ORCHARD BOOK OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES • 9781846169380 HC

THE ORCHARD BOOK OF GREEK MYTHS Geraldine McCaughrean Picture Book • 96 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781408324370 • $16.99 HC • MAY

• A perfect introduction to Greek Myths in which each story is retold with spark, drama, wit and warmth - ideal for today’s readers. • Stunning artwork by an award-winning, much-loved artist helps the stories shine from each page.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID meets LORD OF THE RINGS!

‘I will tell you all my secrets. But then of course I’m going to have to kill you . . . ‘ Thirteen-year-old schoolboy Dirk Lloyd has a dark secret - he is the earthly incarnation of a Dark Lord, supreme ruler of the Darklands intent on destruction and bloody devastation. But one day when he is banished out of his world he finds himself on earth trying to explain that he is the Dark Lord, but people think he means Dirk Lloyd. The fact that he’s trapped in the puny body of a schoolboy doesn’t help. Now he needs help to get back home.

DARK LORD 1: THE TEENAGE YEARS Jamie Thomson

Fiction • 352 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781408315118 • $10.99 PB • MAY

• Winner of the 2012 Roald Dahl Funny Prize!

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— THE DARK LORD —

• A brilliant concept - this is the hugely comic tale of a Dark Lord trapped in a normal thirteen-year-old’s body! ‘Dark Lord is a wonderfully absurd take on beings from another planet.’ - MICHAEL ROSEN, ROALD DAHL FUNNY PRIZE JUDGE

‘Very funny, very silly . . . brilliant concept.’ - BOOKSELLER

You can call me master. Sooz, a 13 year-old girl from Surrey, has become the Dark Mistress of Dirk’s otherworldly kingdom, the Darklands. Thanks to the Ring of Power given to her by Dirk, his minions recognize her as their ruler. Sooz immediately sets about redecorating Dirk’s Dark Tower to the taste of a young girl. And what of Dirk? He continues on slaving away at school, plotting ways to rescue Sooz. Eventually he is able to advise her on life in the Darklands and Sooz is able to hold back the fanatical paladins.

DARK LORD 2: A FIEND IN NEED Jamie Thomson

Fiction • 448 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781408315125 • $10.99 PB • MAY

• A compelling, entertaining story that’ll have boys 9+ hooked.

Praise for the DARK LORD series: ‘. . . One of the most original children’s books of the year.’ - DAILY EXPRESS ‘. . . Funny, utterly silly and enjoyable book, which lots of young readers will love.’ - BOOKBAG ‘. . . Wonderfully original, completely mad.’ - LOVEREADING

The Dark Lord returns. Fear me, o miserable worm! I, the Great Dirk, take up my pen once more to record the utter misery that is SCHOOL. My sworn enemy, Hasdruban the White, has infiltrated Whiteshields School and seeks vengeance on me. Naturally, I will triumph. But it is the Dirkest Hour indeed . . .

DARK LORD 3: ETERNAL DETENTION Jamie Thomson

Fiction • 432 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781408330258 • $10.99 PB • MAY

BUY THIS BOOK OR SUFFER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: • Being struck with a Blast of Ravening Flame. • Banishment to the Slave Pits of Never Ending Toil. • Torment by the Hewer of Limbs.

Praise for the DARK LORD Series: ‘It’s funny-clever as well as funny-silly.’ - MEL GIEDROYC, ROALD DAHL FUNNY PRIZE JUDGE 2012

ORCHARD CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Reach for the stars with Katie as she explores five van Gogh masterpieces! The stars in van Gogh’s painting are so beautiful that Katie can’t resist reaching in and taking one. But what will she do when all the other stars come tumbling out of the painting, too? Will Katie be able to catch the stars before the gallery guard notices they’ve floated away? Features five Van Gogh masterpieces: The Starry Night; Noon; Vincent’s Chair; Fishing Boats on the Beach; The Olive Grove.

KATIE AND THE STARRY NIGHT James Mayhew

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781408304662 • $10.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408304655

• Katie explores the incredible paintings of one of the world’s most popular artists. • The Katie series is a tried, trusted and much-loved way of teaching children about art and artists.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

• Follow Jane Simmons on Twitter: @TheJaneSimmons

KATIE IN SCOTLAND • 9781408308783 • PB PICTURE BOOK WHEN DRAGONS ARE DREAMING • 9781846164248 • PB KATIE AND THE WATERLILY POND • 9781408304648 • PB

‘. . . A lovely way to discuss art with a child.’ - BOOKBAG ‘. . . An exciting way to teach children about art.’ - BABY & ME

THE WORLD OF NORM 5: MAY BE CONTAGIOUS

THE WORLD OF NORM 6: MAY NEED REBOOTING

Fiction • 288 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

Jonathan Meres

9781408328392 $10.99 PB • MAY

Upset plans and upset stomachs . . . Norm’s out of luck. And it may be contagious!

9781408329498 $10.99 PB • JULY

What do you think - is life still unfair for Norm? Abso-flipping-lutely!

IF YOUR DREAMS TAKE OFF AND FLY John Butler

Picture Book • 32 pages • Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE WORLD OF NORM SERIES:

9781846163012 • $10.99 PB • MAY

WORLD OF NORM 1: MAY CONTAIN NUTS • 9781408313039 • PB WORLD OF NORM 2: MAY CAUSE IRRITATION • 9781408313046 • PB THE WORLD OF NORM 3: MAY PRODUCE GAS • 9781408323601 • PB

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781846163005

A poetic and inspiring story about the power of imagination that’s perfect for sharing at bedtime.

BILLY BONKERS: AND THE WACKY WORLD CUP!

I LOVE YOU, BABY

Fiction • 128 pages Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

Giles Andreae & Emma Dodd

Giles Andreae

9781408330586 $8.99 PB • MAY

Three fantastically funny football stories in one from the bestselling author-illustrator team. ALSO AVAILABLE: BILLY BONKERS • 9781846161513 • PB BILLY BONKERS 2 • 9781408303573 • PB BILLY BONKERES 3 • 9781408314654 • PB

9781408327494 $16.99 HC • MAY

An exuberant and heartwarming book about the arrival of a new baby from the bestselling, award-winning creators of I LOVE MY MUMMY and I LOVE MY DADDY. ALSO AVAILABLE: I LOVE MY MUMMY • 9781408309575 • PB

I LOVE YOU

Giles Andreae & Emma Dodd Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781408324332 $10.99 PB • JUNE

A warm and joyful look at a child’s world and all the things they love: friends, grandparents, toys, games, delicious food and the moon and stars up above!

Fox has lived a long and happy life in the forest. One day, he lies down in his favourite clearing, takes a deep breath and falls asleep for ever. Before long, Fox’s friends begin to gather in the clearing. One by one, they tell stories of the special moments that they shared with Fox. And, as they share their memories, a tree blooms, big and strong, eventually watching over all the friends, just as Fox did when he was alive.

A powerful look at the effects of war and the meaning of courage, told from both sides of the conflict Bernard Ashley’s new novel focuses on two brothers coming of age in WWI London and also looking at the conflict from the perspective of a German Zeppelin pilot.

THE MEMORY TREE Britta Teckentrup

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781408326336 • $16.99 HC • MAY

• A beautiful book about the loss of a loved one. • The positive, uplifting message of the strength and comfort that memories can bring will appeal to both children and parents.

ORCHARD CHILDREN’S BOOKS

This gentle and comforting tale celebrates life and the memories that are left behind when a loved one dies.

• The simple, sensitive story is perfect for sharing with children of all ages.

SHADOW OF THE ZEPPELIN Bernard Ashley

Young Adult • 304 pages

9781408327272 • $11.99 PB • MAY

• Timely publication to tie in with the commemoration of the World War I centenary. • The new novel from a hugely respected and award-winning writer with multiple Carnegie shortlistings to his name.

A must-have anthology featuring stories by awardwinning, bestselling authors, to commemorate the centenary of World War I Compiled by Tony Bradman, this collection of short stories chronicles the events of World War I - imagining the conflicts and emotions of those people caught up in the war and its aftermath. With stories from Malorie Blackman, Geraldine McCaughrean and Oisin McGann, among others, this anthology will be treasured for generations.

STORIES OF WORLD WAR ONE Tony Bradman

Anthology • 304 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781408330357 • $11.99 PB • MAY

• The centenary of WWI will be big news throughout 2014 and beyond. • Featuring brand-new material from bestselling, award-winning writers.

ORCHARD CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with the feather in her hair . . . In the forbidden woods of Neverland, Tiger Lily falls under the alluring Peter Pan’s spell. She will risk everything - her family, her future - to be with him. But Tiger Lily soon discovers that the most dangerous enemy can live inside even the most loyal and loving heart. From the New York Times bestselling author comes a magical and bewitching story of the romance between a fearless heroine and the boy who wouldn’t grow up.

TIGER LILY

Jodi Lynn Anderson Young Adult • 304 pages

9781408330449 • $10.99 PB • JUNE

• Classic fairytale re-telling is an upcoming trend among target audience. • New York Times bestselling author has already garnered acclaim in the US, including four starred reviews. ‘. . . A richly re-imagined Neverland . . . Anderson weaves an enchanting tale.’ - KIRKUS (STARRED REVIEW)

‘Readers will find it hard to resist being drawn into Tiger Lily’s world.’ - PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

‘Many layers create a place of dangerous wonder.’ - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)

SNIP & SNAP: ONE OR TWO Christyan Fox & Diane Fox

9781408316184 $16.99 HC • MAY

ALSO AVAILABLE: RAIN & SHINE • 9781408316139 PB PICTURE BOOK RAIN & SHINE • 9781408316122 HC PICTURE BOOK RED & BLUE • 9781408316146 • HC

MONKEY BUSINESS

Smriti Prasadam-Halls Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781408313787 $16.99 HC • MAY

A rollicking rhyming potty-to-toilet tale. ALSO AVAILABLE: ELEPHANT PANTS • 9781408313473 • HC ELEPHANT PANTS • 9781408313480 • PB

TWO LITTLE ALIENS

Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

Sam Lloyd

Michelle Robinson

Picture Book 20 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

Learn all about numbers with this fantastic lift-the-flap picture book!

DING DONG GORILLA

9781408312018 $9.99 PB • MAY

9781846169441 $9.99 PB • MAY

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408312001

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781846169434

Oh, look! There’s a gorilla on the doorstep! He may look fierce, but all he wants to do is play football, or watch a film or make a cake . . . which results in one monstrous MESS! So what would you do if a big beastie rang your doorbell?

Two little aliens come to Earth, looking for fun! A play park seems the perfect place to start . . . but even the simplest things can seem pretty confusing when you’re new to the world.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

YUCKY MUCKY MANNERS • 9781846169489 PB PICTURE BOOK

HOW TO FIND A FRUIT BAT • 9781408308554 PB PICTURE BOOK

ALSO AVAILABLE:

THE DEEP DARK WOOD

READY, TEDDY, GO!

Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

Algy Craig Hall

9781408325148 $16.99 HC • MAY

A new take on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, with an ending you won’t expect!

Michael Davidson

9781408320242 $10.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408320235

Who will win the race to Robot City?

Fantastically silly adventure stories of well-known characters when they were kids - now in paperback!

SHORT JOHN SILVER

SIR LANCE-A-LITTLE

ROBIN HOODIE

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408313534

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408313541

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408313589

What shall we do with the shrunken sailor? Short John Silver has a map to buried treasure but no ship to sail in. So with the help of Captain Poopdeck and his motley pirate crew, he sets out to seek his fortune. But first the scurvy sailors have to brave the deadly seven seas before they can get their hooked hands on the secret hoard! A highseas adventure with a low-stature pirate!

A tin-pot knight on an epic adventure! Young Sir Lance-a-Little has a dangerous quest to fulfill. He must face evil wizards, save damsels in distress, outwit hungry ogres, win a jousting contest, and battle a terrible creature whose name rhymes with flagon. Will he fail, or will he prevail?

It’s Robin Hoodie vs robbin’ Prince John! ’Tis a terrible crime! Prince John has stolen all the sweets from the children of Sherbet Forest. So it’s up to brave Robin Hoodie and his Merry Boyz - Very Little John, Will Starlett, Friar Tuckshop and Maid Marionette - to get them back. Will Robin Hoodie’s sweet plan go sour?

JUNIOR CAESAR

FLORENCE NIGHTINGIRL

HENRY THE 1/8TH

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408313565

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408313572

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 97814083135

Junior Caesar’s school is awful and the pupils are revolting! So Junior Caesar decides to teach the teachers a lesson. Can he tackle terrible tongue twisters? Will he reach the end of the known world? Can he rule the Roman Games? Young Junior Caesar fights the power in ancient Rome!

Little Florence puts the ‘nurse’ into nursery rhymes! Florence Nightingirl wants to clean up grim fairytales with the National Elf Service and her ruthless hygiene regime! Follow her cleanly quest as she clears up Rapunzel’s nits, sheep-dips Mary and her little lamb, and fights germs everywhere! Can Florence tidy up this fairytale grimewave?

Young Henry 1/8 is Prince of the Pitch! Henry 1/8 has a goal - to captain England in Ye First Worlde Cup! To win, his team of Young Lion Cubs must tackle the Potent Portuguese, the French Strikers, the Dutch Masters and the Smashing Spaniards. Will the pint-sized prince bring football home?

Pocket Heroes 1 9781408313596

Pocket Heroes 4 9781408313626

Pocket Heroes 3 9781408313640

Pocket Heroes 2 9781408313602

Pocket Heroes 5 9781408313633

Pocket Heroes 6 9781408313619

POCKET HEROES SERIES

• A new series from the brilliant Chris Inns and Dave Woods!

Fiction • 64 pages • Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

• Exciting stories and brilliant artwork make these perfect for Key Stage 1 readers.

Dave Woods & Chris Inns $8.99 PB • JUNE

ORCHARD CHILDREN’S BOOKS

— POCKET HEROES —

ORCHARD CHILDREN’S BOOKS

A gruesomely funny series for fans of Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket When twins Greta and Feliks are sent to the ill-omened Schwartzgarten Reformatory for Maladjusted Children, it seems their fate is sealed. That is, until they are rescued by the glamorous Olga Van Veenen, a fabulously wealthy children’s author plagued by writer’s block. But Olga’s life is apparently in danger, threatened by a second-rate novelist who wishes to see his rival dead! ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE TALES FROM SCHWARTZGARTEN SERIES:

TALES FROM SCHWARTZGARTEN 2: THE WOEBEGONE TWINS Christopher William Hill

Fiction • 304 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781408314562 • $10.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408330135

• The second in a thrilling series of four, all set in the fictional city of Schwartzgarten. • With shades of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl, the Schwartzgarten Tales are as hilarious as they are dark.

OSBERT THE AVENGER #1 • 9781408314555 • PB

When evil rises, good magic must fight back in the conclusion to the richly magical Lily sequence. Having rescued their father from a terrible prison, Lily and Georgie now find themselves in greater trouble than ever. Their evil mother has filled Georgie with wicked spells and means to use her as an unwilling weapon to execute a deadly plot against the Royal Family. Lily must join forces with her father and friends to overcome evil. But faced with such powerful dark magicians, can they really hope to succeed? ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE LILY SERIES: LILY AND THE PRISONER OF MAGIC • 9781408313510 PB LILY AND THE SHINING DRAGONS • 9781408313503 PB

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Holly Webb

Fiction • 224 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781408313527 • $9.99 PB • JULY

• The final fantasy adventure in this sequence from the bestselling author of the Rose series, which has now sold over 150,000 copies. • Set in the same magical world as Rose, but with a new generation of characters, these books will enchant new readers and existing fans alike. • Magic, suspense and action rule in this spellbinding story: the perfect package for girls.

AWESOME ENGINES: DIG DIG DIGGING

Ursula Jones & Sarah Gibb

TOM AND MILLIE: WHIZZY BUSY PEOPLE

Margaret Mayo

Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

Guy Parker Rees

Fiction • 12 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781408312728 $10.99 PB • JUNE

Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781408330111 $9.99 BOARD BOOK JUNE

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408312711

LILY AND THE TRAITORS’ SPELL

A sumptuous new retelling of Beauty and the Beast from the creators of the bestselling THE PRINCESS WHO HAD NO KINGDOM.

A bright and bold board book packed with diggers, tractors, bulldozers and more awesome engines!

ALSO AVAILABLE:

THE PRINCESS WHO HAD NO KINGDOM 9781846167997 • PB PICTURE BOOK

STOMP, DINOSAUR, STOMP • 9781408303856 PB PICTURE BOOK

9781408315521 $10.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408315514

Lots to spot on every page for young children to pore over again and again! ALSO AVAILABLE: PARTY TIME WITH LITTLEBOB AND PLUM 9781408304440 • PB LENNY LEOPARD’S JUNGLE HIDE-AND-SEEK 9781408312063 • HC PLAYTIME WITH LITTLEBOB AND PLUM 9781408304204 • PB

Ten little pirates set out to sea in search of adventure. But what will the ten little pirates do when they meet a hurricane . . . and a giant squid . . . and a HUNGRY SHARK? This fun-filled rhyming story, which incorporates counting backwards from ten to one, is great to share with young children who are learning about numbers. The colourful, humourous illustrations feature objects to spot and count on every page. With a bouncy, rhythmic text and lots of great sound words, this piratical adventure is perfect for sharing again and again.

TEN LITTLE PIRATES

Mike Brownlow & Simon Rickerty Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781408320044 • $10.99 PB • JULY

• An action-packed rhyming pirate adventure! • Counting fun - readers can count the animals they spot, and count backwards from ten to one as the pirates disappear. • Rhythmic, rhyming story that’s great to read aloud.

ORCHARD CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Boat-loads of pirate fun!

FALL 2013 / WINTER 2014 DROP-IN TITLES A wonderful world for children to explore! Tom and Millie are on a treasure hunt and, as they go from the busy beach to the crowded town to the packed playground, all their friends join in their search. There’s lots to look at and to find, including different colours, numbers and shapes - and every other spread invites the reader to look, too.

TOM AND MILLIE`S GREAT BIG TREASURE HUNT Guy Parker-Rees

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781408311769 • $16.99 HC • SEPTEMBER

• Tom and Millie introduce colours, numbers and shapes in a fun and friendly way. • Large-format book with busy scenes, filled with detail galore, for young children to explore again and again. ‘A grand outdoor adventure . . . follow them as they explore the beach, town and playground, inviting friends and readers to help them discover colours, shapes and numbers along the way.’ - JUNIOR

Boo the bunny learns that Christmas is a time for sharing Enter the charming world of Belle and Boo, a bob-haired little girl and her adorable bunny friend. Follow the adventures of this curious pair as they enjoy the simple pleasures of childhood, drawing us into a magical world of imagination and discovery. It’s almost Christmas Day. Time to decorate the tree, hang up stockings and bake delicious treats. Boo the bunny thinks the best thing about Christmas is the presents waiting for him under the tree. But, with a little help from his friend Belle, Boo learns that kindness and sharing will also make for the merriest Christmas of all.

BELLE & BOO AND THE VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS Mandy Sutcliffe

Picture Book • 32 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781408320907 • $16.99 HC • NOVEMBER

• The fourth picture book from Belle & Boo, an established, popular and successful international lifestyle brand in merchandising, homeware and apparel. • A wonderfully festive story about preparing for Christmas, with sparkling red foil on the cover for added seasonal appeal. • Distinctive and pretty illustrations - a contemporary look with vintage charm.

ORCHARD CHILDREN’S BOOKS

FALL 2013 / WINTER 2014 DROP-IN TITLES A classic fairy story, with a feisty heroine and a dark side . . . Once upon a time, a fairy is born. She lives in an old oak tree at the bottom of a garden with the rest of the fairy folk. Never has she known a time when life hasn’t been hard, with many dangers and much adversity. But when she becomes the Hunter of the group and learns to do battle in the outside world, her adventures really take off . . . Don’t read this book if you’re expecting fairy dust - the last thing Knife is likely to wield is a magic wand.

KNIFE

R J Anderson Fiction • 320 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781408303122 • $10.99 PB • OCTOBER

• Too old for Rainbow Magic but still love fairies? This is the book for you! ‘Readers will fall in love with Anderson’s debut.’ - THE TIMES ‘. . . A compelling adventure/love story.’ - FINANCIAL TIMES

‘Love, fear, compassion and courage are woven into a magical story.’ - AMANDA CRAIG, THE TIMES

No ordinary fairytale . . . the thrilling sequel to the bestselling KNIFE Linden is a feisty faery with a lot on her mind. She her fellow faeries are under threat: their magic is fading, and if they do not act fast, they will die . . . When Linden meets Timothy, a human staying in the house opposite her Oak, she knows he can help. Together they embark on a dangerous journey to seek more magic - and discover that there is more to fear from other faeries than they could ever have imagined.

REBEL

R J Anderson Fiction • 304 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781408307373 • $10.99 PB • OCTOBER

• Stunning foiled cover shimmers beautifully just like KNIFE. ‘. . . A compelling fantasy adventure.’ **** - BOOKS FOR KEEPS

‘Myth and magic is beautifully sustained and this is a book to enchant anyone who loves a fairy story.’ - SCHOOL LIBRARIAN ‘This delightful book is a charm to read with lots of exciting action.’ - GUARDIAN

If you prefer cleavers to kittens and fiends to fairies, then welcome to the gruesomely funny tales from Schwartzgarten! When twins Greta and Feliks are sent to the ill-omened Schwartzgarten Reformatory for Maladjusted Children it seems their fate is sealed . . . until they are rescued by the glamorous and wealthy Olga Van Veenen. The two twins are grateful but something tells them that Olga’s motives are not entirely genuine . . .

TALES FROM SCHWARTZGARTEN 2: THE WOEBEGONE TWINS Christopher William Hill

Fiction • 304 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781408330135 • $16.99 HC • NOVEMBER

• With shades of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl, the Tales from Schwartzgarten are as hilarious as they are dark. • THE WOEBEGONE TWINS is the second in the thrilling series of four books, all set in the brilliantly woven mock-gothic fictional city of Schwartzgarten.

ORION CHILDREN’S BOOKS

A sweeping magical reality adventure inspired by the Bronze Age Far East Like Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, Sheila Rance excels in this first adventure where a young girl undertakes a dangerous quest to find her place as a Sun Catcher and saviour of her people. Guarding her secret, denying her future, Maia steps into places she has never explored where she’ll encounter mercenaries, spies, friends and enemies. And where she will face her destiny as a Sun Catcher.

SUN CATCHER Sheila Rance

Young Adult • 368 pages

9781444009477 • $10.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781444006209

• Exotic Far East settings and Bronze Age inspiration, rich, multi-layered storytelling and historical research combine to deliver an engrossing and rewarding novel. ‘It’s hard not to be won over by the zest and originality of Sheila Rance’s debut novel SUN CATCHER, set in the Bronze Age Far East . . . SUN CATCHER is a fine and unusual children’s tale.’ - DAILY TELEGRAPH

Silk whispers. Clouds gather. A storm is coming. Many years ago, a storm brought Maia to the cliffs. Now she is Sun Catcher in the land of Khandar, but when her father, Tareth, needs silk, Maia must go back to the clifftops she once fled. Danger awaits her every step of the way: assassins, thought-stealers, the Marsh Lord - all greedy for her power. And Razek, who deserted his people to follow her, must pay a high price as he tries to bend wind and rain to his will - and chase away the storms. ALSO AVAILABLE: SUN CATCHER • 9781444006209 • HC

LOTTIE AND DOTTIE SOW CARROTS

THE CURSE OF THE PAMPERED POODLE Mariella Mystery 4 Kate Pankhurst

Claire Burgess

Early Reader • 80 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

Mystery • 144 pages Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

9781444011289 $7.99 PB • MAY

Lottie and Dottie love growing things and when they take a trip to Mr McWelly’s Garden Centre they make the amazing discovery that carrots taste much better when they grow them themselves!

9781444008944 $8.99 PB • MAY

Fourth title in the series about young detective Mariella Mystery! There’s no mystery too mysterious, no problem too perplexing. The perfect read for 7+ girls and fans of Clarice Bean and Dork Diaries. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE HUGE HAIR SCARE • 9781444008920 • PB A CUPCAKE CONUNDRUM • 9781444008906 • PB THE GHOSTLY GUINEA PIG • 9781444008883 • PB

STORM CHASER Sheila Rance

Young Adult • 356 pages

9781444006216 • $14.99 HC • MAY

• SUN CATCHER was described as ‘Game of Thrones for a younger audience’ by the Guardian. ‘Flame-haired Maia has known she was different from the Cave Dwellers since the day many years before when she and her father Tareth were washed up, half-drowned, on their beach. But now she is thirteen, and her destiny as the Sun Catcher who must save a distant land from failed harvests and starvation is slowly revealed to her.’ - THE BOOKBAG

THE LITTLE NUT TREE

Sally Gardner Early Reader • 64 pages Age Range: 3–5 yrs.

9781444010275 $7.99 PB • MAY

A brand new Early Reader edition of millioncopy selling, Carnegie Medal-winning Sally Gardner’s picture book based on the favourite nursery rhyme.

Laura, her faithful husky Skye and Tariq are whirled into a breathtaking mystery adventure when they join the film crew on the set of The Aristcratic Thief about an art heist that could never be pulled off in real life. Or could it? When a priceless Leonardo da Vinci painting is stolen in broad daylight Laura suspects the evil Straight A criminal masterminds are not far away. Adventure and drama just seem to find Laura - even when she’s not looking for it! ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE LAUREN MARLIN MYSTERIES: DEAD MAN’S COVER • 9781444001488 • PB KIDNAP IN THE CARIBBEAN • 9781444003277 • PB KENTUCKY THRILLER • 9781444006476 • PB

What if victory cost you your life? The concluding novel of the One Dollar Horse trilogy! Teenage eventing star Casey Blue has it all - fame, her champion horse Storm and a boyfriend who loves her. Then Kyle West walks into her life. The country’s hottest equestrian coach is also drop-dead gorgeous and Casey knows right away that she’s in trouble. But who is Kyle and why are there so many unanswered questions about his past? And what is his connection to Anna Sparks, Casey’s old rival? ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE ONE DOLLAR HORSE SERIES: THE ONE DOLLAR HORSE • 9781444006360 • PB RACE THE WIND • 9781444002706 • HC RACE THE WIND • 9781444007978 • PB

THE MIDNIGHT PICNIC Lauren St John

Fiction • 96 pages Age Range: 7–9 yrs.

9781444012286 $1.99 PB • MAY

When a prize-winning essay earns Laura Marlin an invitation to a midnight picnic on mysterious Bodmin Moor she can hardly wait, especially since her best friend, Tariq, and husky, Skye, get to come too. But Bodmin is a place steeped in legend and as the fog descends it becomes hard to separate myth from reality.

THE ANT GIANT Lauren St John

Early Reader • 80 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444008043 $7.99 PB • AUGUST

Antony the ant is tired of being small and wishes he was big enough to be a hero. Then, one day, he climbs to the top of the tallest tree in the jungle and makes an enormous discovery!

LAURA MARLIN MYSTERIES 4: RENDEZVOUS IN RUSSIA Lauren St John

Mystery • 192 pages • Age Range: 9–12 yrs.

9781444009453 • $10.99 PB • AUGUST PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781444000238

• DEAD MAN’S COVE was selected as the winner of the 2011 Blue Peter Book Award for Favourite Story and also as overall winner of 2011 Blue Peter Book Book of the Year Award.

ORION CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Eleven-year-old ace detective Laura Marlin is whirled into a breathtaking Russian adventure in her fourth mystery!

• Total Laura Marlin sales of more than 120,000 copies. • Fantastic success with author’s previous The White Giraffe quartet of books. • Lauren’s total sales for Orion now exceed 510,000 copies.

FIRE STORM

Lauren St John Fiction • 224 pages • Age Range: 9–12 yrs.

9781444002713 • $14.99 HC • MAY

Praise for LAUREN ST. JOHN: ‘. . . Clear, warm-hearted storytelling.’ - THE TIMES

‘. . . A pleasure to read.’ - DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Lauren St. John’s THE ONE DOLLAR HORSE is rare among pony books in setting its dream-come-true story in inner-city London . . . Writerly, full of equestrian knowledge and rich in character - not least of the horse - this is also a tale of first love, and is a handsome package with deep pink-edged pages.’ - THE SUNDAY TIMES

HATE

Alan Gibbons Young Adult • 304 pages

9781780621760 $14.99 PB DEMY • MAY

Eve’s older sister, Rosie, was bright and alive and always loved being the centre of attention. Then one day, she is brutally murdered. Six months later, Eve meets Antony and discovers that he was there the night Rosie died and did nothing to help. Is there any way she can ever get past that?

ORION CHILDREN’S BOOKS

A colourful history of the World Cup from the author of THE STORY OF THE OLYMPICS

THE STORY OF THE WORLD CUP Richard Brassey

Sports/Soccer • 24 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444009460 • $8.99 PB PICTURE BOOK • MAY

• Published in the summer of 2014 to coincide with the World Cup in Brazil. • Sales of Richard Brassey’s books total over 800,000!

From the first tournament in Uruguay to England’s legendary 1966 win and beyond, with red cards, penalty shoot-outs and goals galore, there are fun facts football fans can use to impress their family and friends. This book will delight fans of all ages, and is a great value!.

THE STORY OF WORLD WAR ONE

THE STORY OF WORLD WAR ONE RICHARD BRASSEY

Richard Brassey

History/WWI • 24 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444010855 $7.99 PB PICTURE BOOK ( 7 x 10") • JULY

Full of fascinating, colour illustrations and interesting stories, this book will interest even the most reluctant readers.

• The fascinating story behind the biggest single-event sporting competition in the world. Featuring exciting victories, heartbreaking defeats, glory and tears, this is a stunning history for all fans of this beautiful game.

ASTERIX OMNIBUS 7

ASTERIX OMNIBUS 8

Graphic Novel 152 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444008364 $19.99 PB • MAY

9781444008388 $19.99 PB • AUGUST

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781444008357

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781444008371

Rene Albert & Uderzo Goscinny

A special collectors’ edition of three Asterix stories - ASTERIX THE SOOTHSAYER, ASTERIX IN CORSICA and ASTERIX AND CAESAR’S GIFT - in one volume. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE ASTERIX SERIES:

Rene Albert & Uderzo Goscinny

In this special collectors’ edition, books 22 to 24 - ASTERIX AND THE GREAT CROSSING, OBELIX AND CO. and ASTERIX IN BELGIUM are brought together in one fabulous volume for the first time ever.

ASTERIX OMNIBUS 6 • 9781444004915 • PB ASTERIX OMNIBUS 5 • 9781444004908 • PB ASTERIX OMNIBUS 4 • 9781444004878 • PB ASTERIX OMNIBUS 3 • 9781444004755 • PB

MR MONKEY AND THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

SUGAR AND SPICE

Early Reader • 80 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444011883 $8.99 PB • JUNE

Linda Chapman

9781444009859 $7.99 PB • MAY

Mr Monkey is a toy monkey who belongs to Class 2. No one can quite remember now how long he’s been at the school or where he came from. And when Anya takes him home, she soon finds out that Mr Monkey is more than just an ordinary toy . . .

A SPOONFUL OF SECRETS

Linda Chapman

Fiction • 144 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

A SPOONFUL OF SECRETS LINDA CHAPMAN

A brand new series about friendship, family and baking from the million-selling author of My Secret Unicorn! Hannah knows she can turn the Sugar and Spice Bakery’s fortunes around - all she needs to do is convince Mum that she can be useful. Can Hannah use her baking talent to save the bakery, learn to live with her big new family and - most importantly - make some friends before school starts?

Linda Chapman

Fiction • 144 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444011906 $8.99 PB • JUNE

After a difficult beginning, things are starting to look up for the Sugar and Spice Bakery. Business is good, Hannah is learning to enjoy life with her new dad and twin sisters, and best of all she has two new best friends who love baking almost as much as she does! But when trouble strikes, can Hannah and her best friends Mia and Alice use their baking talents to save the day?

Brand new editions of Georgie Adams’ irresistible animal adventure series from a best-selling children’s author, with gorgeous extra material and a classic new cover look. Perfect for fans of Beatrix Potter or Brambly Hedge.

FERN AND THE DANCING HARE

BRAMBLE AND THE EASTER EGG

BRACKEN FINDS A SECRET TUNNEL

Fiction • 96 pages Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444012170 $6.99 PB • MAY

9781444012163 $6.99 PB • MAY

9781444012187 $6.99 PB • MAY

PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9781444001587

PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9781444001594

PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9781444001600

The Railway Rabbits 3 Georgie Adams & Anna Currey

When Grandmarr tells the young rabbits a story about a beautiful lost pendant in the shape of a hare, Fern can’t resist going to look for it. With the help of her sister Wisher’s unusual talents, can Fern solve the mystery of the pendant’s disappearance?

MELLOW AND THE GREAT RIVER RESCUE GEORGIE ADAMS & ANNA CURREY

The Railway Rabbits 4 Georgie Adams & Anna Currey

When Bramble the rabbit hears a strange story about golden eggs at Fairweather’s Farm Park, he knows that this is his chance to do something special. But what he finds when he gets there turns out to be much more important than an Easter egg . . .

MELLOW AND THE GREAT RIVER RESCUE The Railway Rabbits 6 Georgie Adams & Anna Currey

Fiction • 80 pages • Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444012194 • $6.99 PB • JUNE

Mellow and her children are on a visit to Eldermarr and Elderparr Eyebright. Along the way, they meet twins Tansy and Teasel. The young rabbits are enjoying themselves, but a heavy rainfall leaves Mellow worried. When danger threatens Daisy Duck and her ducklings, will careful Mellow be brave enough to help?

On a misty morning in Ripple Valley, Bracken and his sister Wisher decide to go exploring - and end up getting very lost! Their adventure takes a frightening turn when they find themselves on the run from a fox!

FERN AND THE FIERY DRAGON

FERN AND THE FIERY DRAGON GEORGIE ADAMS & ANNA CURREY

PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9781444001617

The Railway Rabbits 5 Georgie Adams & Anna Currey

ORION CHILDREN’S BOOKS

—THE RAILWAY RABBITS! —

The Railway Rabbits 7 Georgie Adams & Anna Currey

Fiction • 96 pages • Age Range: 0–5 yrs.

9781444012200 • $6.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9781444002539

It’s been a long hot summer in the Ripple River Valley. The grass is all dry and the Longears family are hungry. But their adventure to a nearby cabbage field is interrupted by a fire at Fairweather’s Farm Park! Fern gets lost - but then she’s found by the dog Toby. Can Fern trust her new friend? And will the frightening Red Dragon make things worse . . . or save the day?

ALSO AVAILABLE: WISHER AND THE RUNAWAY PIGLET #1 • 9781444001563 • PB BERRY GOES TO WINTERLAND #2 • 9781444001570 • PB

CHOCOLATE PORRIDGE

THE TALE OF A TAIL

Early Reader • 80 pages Age Range: 3–5 yrs.

Fiction • 160 pages Age Range: 8–11 yrs.

Margaret Mahy & Tony Ross

Margaret Mahy

9781444012156 $14.99 HC • JUNE

9781444011302 $7.99 PB • MAY

Brand-new full colour Early Reader edition of this charming story from the Carnegie winning- and Hans Christian Anderson nominee-author Margaret Mahy, with brand new illustrations by Terry Milne.

When Tom and his mother move into their new house on Prodigy Street, Tom is delighted to discover that there is a dog in the house next door. But this is not just any dog. This dog has a tail that can grant wishes!

THE DRAGON’S DENTIST John McLay

Early Reader • 80 pages Age Range: 3–5 yrs.

9781444011043 $7.99 PB • MAY

A hilarious new Early Reader story about a knight, a dragon and a horse called Oats from John McLay and Horrible Histories illustrator Martin Brown.

ALSO AVAILABLE: GREAT PIRATICAL RUMBUSTIFICATION 9781444005448 • PB

ORION CHILDREN’S BOOKS

MONSTAR FINDS A HOME Steve Cole

Cliff McNish

Fiction • 224 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

Steve Cole

Early Reader • 80 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

MONSTAR, THE SUPERHERO

9781444009712 $7.99 PB • MAY

Monstar is a furry five metres tall, a funny shade of green and wears the grubbiest tutu you ever saw. She is Jon and Jen’s overprotective pet monster. But although Monstar causes chaos wherever she goes, her heart is usually in the right place. (Just under her left knee!)

GOING HOME

MONSTAR, THE SUPERHERO

STEVE COLE

Early Reader • 64 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444011005 $10.99 PB • MAY

9781444009729 $7.99 PB • JULY

Monstar is sure that she can be a superhero who will help the town with all its problems. But will Monstar save the day - or just cause chaos everywhere she goes?

A beautiful and heartwarming new animal story for younger fans of The Incredible Journey or Eva Ibbotson’s moving story One Dog and His Boy. Set in a dogs’ home, GOING HOME proves that there is hope even in the darkest moments.

ALSO AVAILABLE: TWIT • 9781444009699 • PB

‘MOVE OVER BEAR GRYLLS - HERE COMES STEVE BACKSHALL.’ - GUARDIAN DEADLY TOP TEN ACTIVITY BOOK Nature/Activity Book 24 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

DEADLY ACTIVITY BOOK • 9781444007046 PB • PB

Nature/Activity Book 80 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

Fiction • 224 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

Steve Backshall 9781444009644 $10.99 PB • JUNE

9781444010046 $7.99 PB • MAY

9781444010077 $7.99 PB (10 x 8.5") MAY

ALSO AVAILABLE:

GHOSTS OF THE FOREST

Steve Backshall

Put your DEADLY knowledge to the test with Steve Backshall’s newest interactive activity book!

DEADLY FACTBOOK 5: BIZARRE BEASTS

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781444004397

Discover the world’s most extraordinary creatures in the fifth factbook from BAFTA award winning, TV Deadly presenter Steve Backshall. Illustrated throughout with full colour photographs and art.

The second adventure in Deadly presenter Steve Backshall’s gripping Falcon Chronicles, filled with intrigue, adventure, exotic wildlife and dramatic locations!

ALSO AVAILABLE:

DEADLY FACT BOOK 4 • 9781444008326 • PB

TIGER WARS • 9781444006483 • PB

DEADLY STICKER BOOK

DEADLY DETECTIVES

Steve Backshall

Nature • 96 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444011357 • $10.99 PB (11 x 9") • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781444006438

DEADLY STICKER BOOK

Nature/Activity Book • 24 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444010084 • $7.99 PB (10 x 9") • JULY

STEVE BACKSHALL

A lavish full colour gift book in which BAFTA Award-winning Deadly 60 presenter Steve Backshall shows you how to follow in his footsteps and become a deadly detective tracking animals all around the world, from your own back garden to the Amazon rain forests and Arctic tundra.

Create your very own DEADLY adventure with Deadly presenter Steve Backshall’s first ever sticker book, perfect for Deadly fans everywhere.

Elf Girl and Raven Boy head to Terror Town to save the world from the Goblin King. Terror Town is Trouble with a capital T. What will happen to our intrepid trio (that includes Rat) when the Tears of the Moon are taken, and Terrible Tim and the Trolls are on their trail? There are tempers (Elf Girl’s), tests (for Raven Boy), tunes (the Singing Sword’s), oh and Zombies, with a capital Z, too. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE RAVEN BOY AND ELF GIRL SERIES: DREAD DESERT • 9781444005264 • PB FRIGHT FOREST • 9781444004854 • PB MONSTER MOUNTAINS • 9781444004861 • PB SCREAM SEA • 9781444005257 • PB

Sasha can see the future - but can she use her power to save her brothers and change their destiny? It is 1915. 17 year-old Sasha Fox is the privileged only daughter of a respected doctor. But her brothers, Edgar and Tom, have gone to war and Sasha has a terrible gift. She can see the future. Her premonitions show her untold horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and worse still, what will happen to Edgar and Tom. No one will believe her. Her family has lost faith in her. She is determined to win them back, whatever the price. And it is a high one - seeing the future is a fate almost too awful to contemplate - for who wants to see the end of their own story?

Set in London and Manhattan, prize-winning author Marcus Sedgwick explores obsession, trust and coincidence. Laureth Peak’s father is a writer. For years he’s been trying, and failing, to write a novel about coincidence. He’s supposed to be doing research in Austria, so when his notebook shows up in New York, Laureth knows something is wrong. Reunited with the notebook, Laureth and her brother begin to follow clues inside, trying to find their wayward father. Ahead lie challenges and threats, all of which are that much tougher for Laureth than they would be for any other 16-year old. Because Laureth Peak is blind.

TERROR TOWN Marcus Sedgwick

Fiction • 224 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444005271 • $10.99 PB • JUNE

• The fifth laugh-out-loud adventure from Blue Peter Book Award-shortlisted Marcus Sedgwick and Pete Williamson.

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— MARCUS SEDGWICK —

• Total Raven Mysteries sales exceed 100,000 copies. • FLOOD AND FANG (Raven Mysteries Book 1) was selected as a Richard and Judy Children’s Book Club title and LUNATICS AND LUCK (Raven Mysteries Book 3) was selected as the winner of the 2011 Blue Peter Book Award in the category Most Fun Story With Pictures.

THE FORESHADOWING Marcus Sedgwick

Fiction • 288 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444011067 • $10.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9781842555170

• Strong plot, place and pace with a twist in the tale that is a hallmark of his writing. • Total Marcus Sedgwick sales in the UK exceed 700,000 copies. • Marcus has frequently been shortlisted and longlisted for numerous awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Costa Book Award and the Booktrust Teenage Prize.

SHE IS NOT INVISIBLE Marcus Sedgwick

Young Adult • 240 pages

9781780621340 • $10.99 PB • AUGUST PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781780621098

‘. . . Superb.’ – THE BOOKBAG ‘I was thoroughly captivated by this smart and intriguing contemporary thriller with heart.’ – THE BOOKSELLER

ALSO AVAILABLE: WHITE CROW • 9781444001495 • PB BLOOD RED, SNOW WHITE • 9781842556375 • PB FLOODLAND • 9781858817637 • PB

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SCHOOL FOR STARS: THIRD TERM AT L’ETOILE Kelly Willoughby

Fiction • 224 pages Age Range: 9–12 yrs.

9781444008159 $7.99 PB • MAY

Molly, Maria and Pippa are back for their third term at L’Etoile, the exclusive School for Stars, and there are plenty of new adventures in store for them! Maria enters a competition for young journalists, Pippa performs a song at the annual charity fundraiser, Molly gets involved in raising money for the homeless, and their arch enemy, Lucifette, plots to set the girls up by planting exam papers in their room.

LET’S BAKE

Cathryn Dresser Cookery • 176 pages Age Range: 8+

9781444010817 $22.00 HC (10 x 7.5") • JUNE

Cat, star of 2012’s Great British Bake-Off, presents 52 recipes inspired by the changing seasons and her own family’s tea-time favourites, and guaranteed to get everyone excited about baking. This is the book that makes baking together fun, accessible and stress-free.

KELLY WILLOUGHBY

TILLY’S HORSE, MAGIC Pippa Funnell

Fiction • 128 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

Kelly Willoughby

Fiction • 224 pages Age Range: 9–12 yrs.

9781444011982 $8.99 PB • JUNE

9781444008173 $7.99 PB • AUGUST

The fourth book in this starry new series about dance, drama and friendship by Holly and Kelly Willoughby, set in a performing arts academy.

First of four new novels for older readers packed with expert advice by top event rider and Grand Slam winner Pippa Funnell!

ALSO AVAILABLE: FIRST TERM AT L’ETOILE • 9781444008111 • PB SECOND TERM AT L’ETOILE: SCHOOL FOR STARS 978144408135 • PB

ALGY’S AMAZING ADVENTURES AT SEA

ALGY’S AMAZING ADVENTURES IN SPACE

Early Reader • 80 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

Kaye Umansky

9781444006896 $7.99 PB • JUNE

There are lots of things Algy doesn’t like. He doesn’t like bright colours. He doesn’t like birds. But at the top of the list of things he doesn’t like is the sea. So when Algy, his best friend Cherry and her little brother Brad discover that the shed at the bottom of the garden is taking them on an ocean adventure, he isn’t very pleased! But will the sea turn out to be more fun than Algy always thought it was?

9781444006902 $7.99 PB • JULY

With his best friend Cherry and her little brother Brad, Algy opens the loose board at the back of his garden shed - to find himself in space! Cherry and Brad are really excited, but Algy’s not so sure. Space seems very dangerous! ALSO AVAILABLE: ALGY’S AMAZING ADVENTURES IN THE ARTIC 9781444006872 • PB

THE APPLE TART OF HOPE

THE PIRATES’ PICNIC

MILLY AND THE MERMAIDS

Fiction • 272 pages Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

Early Reader • 80 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444006926 $14.99 HC • JULY

9781444010947 $7.99 PB • AUGUST

Picture Book 32 pages Age Range: 0–3 yrs.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

The second sensational novel from Irish author Sarah Moore Fitzgerald about family, friendship and first love, and about not giving up on the things you hope for.

SCHOOL FOR STARS: FOURTH TERM AT L’ETOILE

Angela McAllister

The pirates of the bad ship Scullywag are fed up. They haven’t found any treasure for weeks! Jim the cabin boy knows exactly how to cheer them up - a PIRATES’ picnic! Can they avoid rain, rotten eggs and quicksand and find the perfect island to hold their party - or even discover some treasure?

Maudie Smith

9781444006933 $14.99 HC (11 x 9") AUGUST

On a visit to the seaside, Milly is desperate to meet a mermaid. She’s sure if she just wishes hard enough, her dream will come true! ALSO AVAILABLE: ABOUT ZOOMING TIME • 9781444004793 • PB OPAL MOONBABY FOREVER • 9781444004809 PB

When Ryan Flint accompanies his journalist mother to an archaeological expedition in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, he isn’t expecting life-threatening danger and a 3,000-year-old murder mystery - but that’s exactly what he finds! Before he knows it, he has joined forces with Cleo McNeil, an archaeologist’s daughter, to solve a secret code, discover an ancient treasure and outwit a strange cult intent on gaining possession of the relic.

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A high-octane new adventure series that takes readers on a tour of some of the most exciting and mysterious places in the world!

• An exciting new series inspired by the secrets, treasures and legends of the great ancient civilisations. • Helen’s Adventure Island series has sold over 80,000 copies to date, proving that she can write pacy adventures that engage her readership. • An adventure series for both boys and girls; fans of Jake Ransom or Indiana Jones will love SECRETS OF THE TOMBS. • Informative as well as entertaining, this is a series that will appeal to fans of history as well as adventure!

SECRETS OF THE TOMBS 1: THE PHOENIX CODE Helen Moss

Adventure • 272 pages • Age Range: 9–11 yrs.

9781444010398 • $10.99 PB • JULY

ALSO AVAILABLE: ADVENTURE ISLAND: THE MYSTERY OF THE WHISTLING CAVES • 9781444003284 • PB ADVENTURE ISLAND 2: THE MYSTERY OF THE MIDNIGHT GHOST • 9781444003291 • PB ADVENTURE ISLAND 3: THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN GOLD • 9781444003307 • PB ADVENTURE ISLAND 4: THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MASTERPIECE • 9781444003314 • PB

The final gripping thriller in this paranormal romance trilogy There’s trouble in paradise. Alice is closing in on her sister’s killer and trying to resolve her complicated love life, but she can no longer access the virtual world of Soul Beach. Finding the Beach’s real-life location is her last hope but does it exist and can she find it before the killer finds her?

SOUL STORM Kate Harrison

Young Adult • 256 pages

9781780621456 • $12.99 PB • AUGUST

• The third book in the Soul Beach trilogy, SOUL FIRE is a highly commercial and compelling mix of celebrity glamour, teen romance and chilling mystery. • An intriguing, clever plot that explores the sinister side of glamour, celebrity and ‘virtual’ life, and will resonate with the online-savvy Facebook generation. • Kate Harrison is a bestselling and wellconnected author of romantic comedies for adults.

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PETS FROM SPACE 1: SPLASHLANDING! JAN BURCHETT

PETS FROM SPACE 1: SPLASHLANDING! Jan Burchett

Fiction • 96 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444011807 $7.99 PB • AUGUST

PETS FROM SPACE 2: COSMIC CLAWS

Jan Burchett

Fiction • 96 pages Age Range: 5–7 yrs.

9781444011821 $7.99 PB • AUGUST

JAN BURCHETT ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE SAM SILVER, UNDERCOVER PIRATE SERIES:

When Tom finds an alien in his garden, he discovers that keeping alien pets with special powers a secret may be fun, but it isn’t easy!

Of course alien pets have to be hidden from annoying parents and teachers - people who don’t necessarily understand the value of a pet that can snatch ice-cream from a distance with its long sticky tongue!

THE DOUBLE-CROSS: SAM SILVER: UNDERCOVER PIRATE 6 • 9781444005899 • PB THE GREAT RESCUE: SAM SILVER: UNDERCOVER PIRATE 7 • 9781444007633 • PB THE TREASURE MAP: SAM SILVER: UNDERCOVER PIRATE 8 • 9781444007640 • PB THE GHOST SHIP • 9781444005851 • PB SKELETON ISLAND • 9781444005844 • PB KIDNAPPED • 9781444005868 • PB DEADLY TRAP • 9781444005875 • PB

FALL 2013 / WINTER 2014 DROP-IN TITLE The long-awaited, brand new Asterix adventure! When Asterix and Obelix rescue a mysterious Pict named MacAroon, they must journey to Caledonia, now Scotland, to return him to his lady love, Camomilla, the adopted daughter of the old king. However, the treacherous chieftain, MacCabeus, plans to marry her and claim the throne - with the help of the Romans! What with caber-tossing, bagpipes, malted water and an enormous otter in the loch, can the Gauls reunite MacAroon and Camomilla and enjoy some Roman-bashing along the way?

• The much-loved Asterix brand has sold over 350 million copies worldwide. • UK and English language sales stand at 23 million. • Asterix has been translated into 107 languages and dialects.

ASTERIX AND THE PICTS

Jean-Yves Ferri & Didier Conrad Graphic Novel • 48 pages • Age Range: 9–11 years

9781444011678 •$16.99 HC • OCTOBER

LITTLE, BROWN - ATOM

– SARRA MANNING’S ‘DIARY OF A CRUSH’ TRILOGY – The first in the much-loved Diary of a Crush trilogy from bestselling teen author Sarra Manning New town, new college, new people, Edie’s feeling overwhelmed. What if nobody wants to be her friend? But then something happens that turns her life upside down: Edie spots Dylan. Messyhaired, pouty, frustratingly elusive Dylan . . . Fast forward to the college trip to Paris and things are really heating up. In between the shopping, the clubbing, the kissing and the making up, something happens between Edie and Dylan that changes both their lives for ever. But do boys like Dylan ever play for keeps?

Number 2 Sarra Manning

9780349001579 • $10.99 PB • JULY

9780349001562 • $10.99 PB • JULY

• Sarra Manning is the queen of British teen fiction. Her books are full of likable, relatable, real teen characters. • The Diary of a Crush trilogy has already sold over 37,500 copies in the UK alone and has been voted one of UK YA’s Top 100 teen books of all time.

Young Adult • 288 pages

9780349001586 • $10.99 PB • JULY

They’re crazy in love, but what if that’s not enough? Edie and Dylan have been dreaming about their road trip across America for ever. But nine weeks in a car together is going to be a huge test for them. Trailer parks, diners, motels and glitzy casinos are the backdrop for an adventure that threatens the whole future of their relationship. Will Edie and Dylan be able to go the distance?

AN EPISODE OF SPARROWS

THE DARK HORSE

Young Adult • 208 pages

9781844088515 • $10.99 PB • MAY

9781844088522 • $10.99 PB • MAY

Someone has dug up the private garden in the Square and taken buckets of dirt, and Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is sure that a gang of boys from Catford Street must be to blame. Angela’s sister Olivia isn’t so sure. She wonders why the neighbourhood children - the ‘sparrows’ she sometimes watches from her window - have to be locked out of the garden: don’t they have a right to enjoy the place too? But nobody has any idea what sends neighbourhood waif Lovejoy Mason and her few friends in search of ‘good garden earth.’ A captivating classic novel of a poor girl striving to create beauty among the bombsites of postwar London.

Dark Invader is a superbly-bred racehorse but after a disappointing first season, he is sold and shipped from England to Calcutta. He wins the hearts of the people but only days before the race, an alarming incident occurs which threatens to destroy his chances, and the way disaster is averted is nothing short of a miracle. A richly glowing portrait of India in the thirties, and a moving portrayal of the bond between man and horse.

A Virago Modern Classic Rumer Godden

Young Adult • 240 pages

Number 3 Sarra Manning

Young Adult • 288 pages

When everyone heads off to a summer festival, Edie wants to forget her troubles and try and have fun. But she didn’t count on her leftover feelings for Dylan and now she’s all churned up again. Edie’s got some big decisions to make, but is she ready to kiss and make up?

Number 1 Sarra Manning

DIARY OF A CRUSH: SEALED WITH A KISS

DIARY OF A CRUSH: KISS AND MAKE UP

Edie’s having major boy issues. Trying to get over Dylan is hard, but snogging new boy Carter isn’t hurting . . .

DIARY OF A CRUSH: FRENCH KISS

ALSO AVAILABLE: LISTEN TO THE NIGHTINGALE • 9781844088508 • PB THURSDAY’S CHILDREN • 9781844088485 • PB

CHILDREN’S BOOKS INDEX

DARK LORD 3: ETERNAL DETENTION 17

GHOST LIBRARY, THE 3

ALGY’S AMAZING ADVENTURES AT SEA 32

DEADLY DETECTIVES 30

GHOSTS OF THE FOREST 30

ALGY’S AMAZING ADVENTURES IN SPACE 32

DEADLY FACTBOOK 5: BIZARRE BEASTS 30

GOING HOME 30

DEADLY STICKER BOOK 30

GRANNY GRABBERS’ WHIZZ BANG WORLD 14

ANT GIANT, THE 27 APPLE TART OF HOPE, THE 32 ASTERIX AND THE PICTS 34 ASTERIX OMNIBUS 7 28 ASTERIX OMNIBUS 8 28 AWESOME ENGINES: DIG DIG DIGGING 22

DEEP DARK WOOD, THE 20 DEVIL IN THE CORNER 11 DIARY OF A CRUSH: FRENCH KISS 36 DIARY OF A CRUSH: KISS AND MAKE UP 36 DIARY OF A CRUSH: SEALED WITH A KISS 36

BEARS, BEARS, BEARS 13

DING DONG GORILLA 20

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 22

DINOSAUR DOO 4

BELLE & BOO AND THE VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS 23

DRAGON’S DENTIST, THE 29

BIG-HEARTED BOOK, THE 12 BILLY BONKERS AND THE WACKY WORLD CUP! 18 BINNY FOR SHORT 3 BOOKS FOR BOYS 11: GHOST STRIKER AT THE FOOTBALL CLUB 8

DRAGON SHIELD 1: UNTITLED 11

E ENID BLYTON’S ADVENTURE TREASURY 2 EPISODE OF SPARROWS, AN 36

H HAIRY BEAR 8 HATE 27 HICCUP THE VIKING WHO WAS SEASICK 7 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: COMPLETE WORLD OF DRAGONS 7

I IF YOUR DREAMS TAKE OFF AND FLY 18 I LOVE YOU 18 I LOVE YOU, BABY 18

K KATIE AND THE STARRY NIGHT 18 KEEP OUT! 5 KIPPER’S ALPHABET ADVENTURE 5 KIPPER’S BIRTHDAY 4

BOOKS FOR BOYS 12: SAVE THAT TRAIN! 8

FAMOUS FIVE ANNUAL 2014, THE 2

BOOKS FOR BOYS 13: FROM BURGLAR TO FOOTBALL STAR 8

FAMOUS FIVE COLOUR READS, THE: A LAZY AFTERNOON 2

FAMOUS FIVE COLOUR READS, THE: FIVE AND A HALF-TERM ADVENTURE 2

LAURA MARLIN MYSTERIES 4: RENDEZVOUS IN RUSSIA 27

FAMOUS FIVE COLOUR READS, THE: GEORGE’S HAIR IS TOO LONG 2

LET’S BAKE 32

CAT, THE MOUSE AND THE RUNAWAY TRAIN, THE 8 CHERUB 14 CHERUB: BLACK FRIDAY 14 CHERUB: LONE WOLF 13 CHOCOLATE PORRIDGE 29 COLOUR WITH SPLOSH! 14 CURSED OF THE PAMPERED POODLE, THE 26

D DARK HORSE, THE 36 DARK LORD 1: THE TEENAGE YEARS 17 DARK LORD 2: A FIEND IN NEED 17 38

DEADLY TOP TEN ACTIVITY BOOK 30

KNIFE 24

LET’S FIND MIMI: AROUND THE WORLD 12 FAMOUS FIVE COLOUR READS, THE: GOOD OLD TIMMY 2

LET’S FIND MIMI: IN THE CITY 12

FIFTH HARMONY 14

LILY AND THE TRAITORS’ SPELL 22

FIRE STORM 27

LITTLE NUT TREE, THE 26

FORESHADOWING, THE 31

LOTTIE AND DOTTIE SOW CARROTS 26

FOXY TALES: THE CUNNING PLAN 5

G GET WELL FRIENDS: HAPPY HOSPITAL STICKER ACTIVITY 1 12 GET WELL FRIENDS: TO THE RESCUE STICKER ACTIVITY 2 12

MEMORY TREE, THE 19 MICK INKPEN TREASURY, THE 4 MIDNIGHT PICNIC, THE 27 MILLY AND THE MERMAIDS 32

POCKET HEROES 5: FLORENCE NIGHTINGIRL 21

SPORTS DAY 8

MONSTAR FINDS A HOME 30

POCKET HEROES 6: HENRY THE 1/8TH 21

STICKY STORYBOOKS: CARS AND TRAINS 2

MONSTAR, THE SUPERHERO 30

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STICKY STORYBOOKS: DIGGERS AND DUMPERS 2

MORTIMER KEENE: ATTACK OF THE SLIME 12

QUEEN’S HAT, THE 10

MORTIMER KEENE: GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE 12

RAILWAY RABBITS 3, THE: FERN AND THE DANCING HARE 29

MR CROC: HUNGRY OR NOT, MR CROC? 4 MR MONKEY AND THE BIRTHDAY PARTY 28 MUDDY PAWS 3: ROCKING WITH ROXY AND ROSIE 9 MUDDY PAWS 4: SAVING SNOWDROP 9 MY CAT PIP: DOODLE PIP 7

STICKY STORYBOOKS: LORRIES AND BUSES 2

RAILWAY RABBITS 4, THE: BRAMBLE AND THE EASTER EGG 29 RAILWAY RABBITS 5, THE: BRACKEN FINDS A SECRET TUNNEL 29 RAILWAY RABBITS 6, THE: MELLOW AND THE GREAT RIVER RESCUE 29 RAILWAY RABBITS 7, THE: FERN AND THE FIERY DRAGON 29

STICKY STORYBOOKS: PLANES AND JETS 2 STORIES OF WORLD WAR ONE 19 STORM CHASER 26 STORY OF THE STARS, THE 5 STORY OF THE WORLD CUP, THE 28 STORY OF WORLD WAR ONE, THE 28 STRICTLY COME DANCING: FASHION FANTASTIC STICKER BOOK 10

MY CAT PIP: PIP AND PALS STICKER ACTIVITY BOOK 7

READY, TEDDY, GO! 20

MY CAT PIP: WHERE ARE YOU PARTY PIP? 7

REBEL 24

STRICTLY COME DANCING: WHIRLING WORLD TOUR STICKER BOOK 10

MY FUNNY FAMILY’S GOT TALENT 9

SUGAR AND SPICE 28

MYSTERIUM 1: BLACK DRAGON 6

SCHOOL FOR STARS: FOURTH TERM AT L’ETOILE 32

SUN CATCHER 26

SCHOOL FOR STARS: THIRD TERM AT L’ETOILE 32

MYSTERIUM 2: THE PALACE OF MEMORY 6

TALE OF A TAIL, THE 29

NEW KID, THE 8

SECRET BREAKERS 1: POWER OF THREE 10

NIGHT WITCHES 9

SECRET BREAKERS 2: ORPHAN OF THE FLAMES 10

O OI FROG! 4 ORCHARD BOOK OF FUNNY FAIRY TALES, THE 16 ORCHARD BOOK OF GREEK MYTHS, THE 16 ORCHARD BOOK OF SHAKESPEARE STORIES, THE 16

P PETS FROM SPACE 1: SPLASH-LANDING! 34

CHILDREN’S BOOKS INDEX

MONKEY BUSINESS 20

TALES FROM SCHWARTZGARTEN 2: THE WOEBEGONE TWINS 22, 24 TEN LITTLE PIRATES 23

SECRET BREAKERS 3: THE KNIGHTS OF NEUSTRIA 10 SECRET BREAKERS 4: TOWER OF THE WINDS 10 SECRET BREAKERS 5: THE PIRATE’S SWORD 10 SECRETS OF THE TOMBS 1: THE PHOENIX CODE 33 SESAME SEADE MYSTERIES 2: GARGOYLES GONE AWOL 8 SESAME SEADE MYSTERIES 3: SCAM ON THE CAM 8

PETS FROM SPACE 2: COSMIC CLAWS 34

TERROR TOWN 31 TIGER LILY 20 TILLY’S HORSE, MAGIC 32 TOM AND MILLIE`S GREAT BIG TREASURE HUNT 23 TOM AND MILLIE: WHIZZY BUSY PEOPLE 22 TWO LITTLE ALIENS 20

V, W

SHADOW OF THE ZEPPELIN 19

VALKYRIE 2: THE RUNAWAY 3

SHE IS NOT INVISIBLE 31

WIBBLY PIG AND THE TOOKY 5

SNIP & SNAP: ONE OR TWO 20

WITCHFINDER: WITCH FINDER 9

SOUL STORM 33

WORLD OF NORM 5, THE: MAY BE CONTAGIOUS 18

PIRATES ‘N’ PISTOLS 14 PIRATES’ PICNIC, THE 32 POCKET HEROES 1: SHORT JOHN SILVER 21 POCKET HEROES 2: SIR LANCE-A-LITTLE 21 POCKET HEROES 3: ROBIN HOODIE 21

SPOOKED: THE HAUNTING OF KIT CONNELLY 6

POCKET HEROES 4: JUNIOR CAESAR 21

SPOONFUL OF SECRETS, A 28

WORLD OF NORM 6, THE: MAY NEED REBOOTING 18

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HEADLINE

A heartwarming novel of family, friendship and coming home, set in the picturesque Dublin village of Bakers Valley When actress Jodi Ludlum returns home to Ireland to raise her young son, she’s determined to shield him from the media spotlight that has dogged her throughout her glittering career. Even if coming home means leaving her husband - and waking old ghosts. Meanwhile, Francine Hennessy, queen of the coffee mornings, was born and raised in Bakers Valley. She takes pride in juggling her children, her beautiful home and her high-powered career. But, behind closed doors, Francine’s life is crumbling around her.

PERFECT WIVES Emma Hannigan

Fiction • 448 pages

9781472209962 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• Emma is an Irish bestseller, has sold over 50,000 copies of her fiction and is already a household name with a growing international fan base. • Emma Hannigan’s nonfiction memoir TALK TO THE HEADSCARF went onto the Irish bestseller list at #2 and dominated for the first half of 2011. • Follow Emma Hannigan on Twitter: @MsEmmaHannigan

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Praise for EMMA HANNIGAN:

DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS • 9781472209269 PB

‘. . . A wonderful, magical storyteller.’

A lovely, warm, Irish family saga of three generations of women - each with a secret set in the small seaside town of Caracove Lexi and Sam have put their hearts and souls into renovating #3 Cashel Square, but have not yet filled it with the children their families are longing for. And then, one summer, the mysterious Kathleen arrives on the doorstep from America, with a wish to see the house she was born in. Soon the elderly lady has found a place in all their hearts. But Kathleen has another reason for coming to Caracove, and her secret will touch them all in more ways than they can imagine . . .

Thrilling historical fiction at its very best London, 1785. When the body of a West Indies planter is found, suspicion falls on one of the victim’s former slaves, who was found with his watch on the London streets. As Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther begin investigate, however, they find the answer is not that simple. Together, they negotiate the interests of the British government, the secrets of the plantation owners, and a network of alliances stretching across the Atlantic. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE CROWTHER AND WESTERMAN SERIES: CIRCLE OF SHADOWS • 9780755372089 • PB ISLAND OF BONES • 9780755372041 • PB ANATOMY OF MURDER • 9780755348442 • PB INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS • 9780755348411 • PB

- CATHY KELLY

SUMMER IN CARACOVE BAY Emma Hannigan

Fiction • 320 pages

9781472209993 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY

• The first book in an exciting new deal with Irish Top Ten bestseller Emma Hannigan. • Emma Hannigan is a TV presenter and bestselling author in Ireland but this is the first time she is being published in the UK and internationally. • Emma’s heartwarming fiction is perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Cathy Kelly and Patricia Scanlan.

THEFT OF LIFE

Imogen Robertson Historical Fiction • 384 pages

9780755390168 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9780755390151 • $32.99 HC • MAY

• Follow Imogen Robertson on Twitter: @RobertsonImogen ‘ . . . Robertson’s is a rich tapestry that provides the scope to encompass mystery, wealth, poverty, music, art, joy and desperation.’ - THE TORONTO STAR ‘ . . . a well-researched, well-paced historical thriller that marries the worlds of art, early feminism and Paris.’ - HAMILTON SPECTATOR

In its heyday, ‘The Cream’ was the bestselling facial cosmetic of all time and the family-run firm, The House of Farrell, thrived on customer loyalty and a traditional touch. At 83, Athine Farrell, the doyenne of her family, has no plans to relinquish control. But times have changed, and other brands have leapt to the fore, leaving The House of Farrell on the sidelines. When Bianca Bailey is brought in to turn things round, it’s clear that she and Athine will clash. Bianca is no fool - she knows The House of Farrell encapsulates tradition and heritage, and she also knows that in order to find the next big thing, she has decisions to make. It’s all about survival - and a kind of promise . . .

HEADLINE

The new novel from The Globe & Mail’s bestselling author

• Penny Vincenzi is a top 10 bestseller in Canada, and over 7 million copies of her books have sold to date. • Penny Vincenzi was a guest contributor for The National Post. • Visit www.pennyvincenzi.com and Facebook

Praise for PENNY VINCENZI: ‘. . . Another classic from the queen of the blockbuster novel.’ - THE GLOBE AND MAIL ‘. . . British writer Vincenzi’s opus could be the beach novel for this summer.’ - THE GLOBE AND MAIL ‘. . . Highly addictive. Don’t even think of opening unless you’ve got a lazy week to fill.’ - DAILY TELEGRAPH

A KIND OF PROMISE Penny Vincenzi

Fiction • 528 pages

9780755377589 • $24.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9780755377572 • $34.99 HC • MAY

‘. . . Deliciously readable.’ - MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Vincenzi is a master of dialogue that reads like delicious, overheard cocktail-party chatter, with clever twists that sometimes fool the reader about just who is talking and propel the plot forward.’ - USA TODAY ‘There are few things better in life than the knowledge that sitting on your bedside table is the latest novel by Penny Vincenzi . . . Penny never fails her devoted fans.’ - DAILY EXPRESS ‘In her newest big, elaborately detailed novel, bestseller Vincenzi weaves an intricate, dramatic, and intense tale about irrevocable butterfly-effect consequences in the lives of a compelling cast of characters.’ - BOOKLIST

ALSO AVAILABLE STAND ALONE NOVELS: LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON • 9780755399567 HC DEMY THE DECISION • 9780755320912 • TPB R THE DECISION • 9780755379538 • PB THE BEST OF TIMES • 9780755320899 • PB AN ABSOLUTE SCANDAL • 9780755336807 • PB

SHEER ABANDON • 9780755320837 • PB ALMOST A CRIME • 9780755332656 • PB WINDFALL • 9780755332397 • PB THE DILEMMA • 9780755332670 • PB FORBIDDEN PLACES • 9780755332649 • PB ANOTHER WOMAN • 9780755332663 • PB

A stunning gift hardcover to tie-in with Mother’s Day, for the huge number of Penny Vincenzi fans As well as ten stunning short stories, Penny also shares some of her thoughts on a huge range of subjects from love and relationships to work and families, and gives us a peek at the tantalising first chapter of her new novel making LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON AND OTHER DELIGHTS a must-have for any Vincenzi fan.

AN OUTRAGEOUS AFFAIR • 9780755332373 • PB SPOILS OF TIME SERIES: NO ANGEL 9780755332403 • PB SOMETHING DANGEROUS • 9780755332410 • PB INTO TEMPTATION • 9780755332427 • PB

LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON AND OTHER DELIGHTS Penny Vincenzi

Fiction • 208 pages

9780755399581 • $12.99 PB • APRIL PREVIOUS EDITION: HC DEMY: 9780755399567

Praise for PENNY VINCENZI: ‘. . . A juicy page-turner.’ - COSMOPOLITAN ‘Penny is the doyenne of the modern blockbuster.’ - GLAMOUR ‘Teeming with memorable characters, this is pure pleasure, Vincenzi-style.’ - WOMAN & HOME

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Games can become deadly. . . When Emma meets Beattie and Jake on her gap-year travels, the three of them swiftly form a tight friendship. Their adventures take a perilous turn when they begin playing ‘the dangerous game’ – a competition in which they dare each other into ever more brazen and hazardous stunts. When The Game culminates in a tragic accident on the Greek island of Icaria, the connection between the three is severed, seemingly forever. Thirty years later, Emma, now known as Kate, lives in London with her husband and daughter. Her life, at least from the outside, is a charmed one. When Beattie suddenly makes contact out of the blue, Kate’s orderly existence threatens to come crashing down . . . ALSO AVAILABLE: REDEMPTION • 9781472207203 • TPB R TARNISHED • 9780755378050 • PB EVERY VOW YOU BREAK • 9780755378029 • PB CUCKOO • 9780755377992 • PB

An enthralling story of obsession, superstition and hope, set against the turbulent years of the English Civil War On the shattered May day that young Ruth Flowers witnesses her mother hanged as a witch, she has little choice but to flee Ely and the household of Oliver Cromwell where she has grown up as a servant. With the Civil War raging and society turned upside down, Ruth feels very much alone. On the road to London, she sparks an uneasy alliance with a deserting soldier, Joseph, who has his own dark battle scars to deal with. But Ruth is carried right to the dangerous heart of the country’s conflict, and she must learn to recognise the difference between passion and true love . . .

THE LONG FALL Julia Crouch

Thriller • 384 pages

9781472207203 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

• There’s a huge demand for dark psychological fiction at the moment. • Follow Julia Crouch on Twitter: @thatjuliacrouch

Praise for JULIA CROUCH: ‘. . . Very enjoyable; expertly placed and cleverly ambiguous.’ - DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Crouch excels at creating low-level menace, slowly ratcheting up the tension to full-on horror for another terrific page-turner.’ - LAURA WILSON, GUARDIAN ‘. . . a high-octane psychological thriller.’ - WOMAN & HOME

THE CRIMSON RIBBON Katherine Clements Fiction • 352 pages

9781472204202 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781472204196 • $32.99 HC • MAY

• A new series with a brilliantly drawn relationship between the two female characters, THE CRIMSON RIBBON will appeal to fans of Sarah Waters. • Rich material for reading group discussion: women’s place in society, the persecution of witches, and the strong women who found a voice against the dramatic backdrop of the English Civil War. • Katherine Clements is active on Twitter: @KL_Clements

A WHOLE LOT OF HISTORY

JOHN WHAITE BAKES AT HOME

Autobiography/Music 384 pages

Cookery/Baking 256 pages

9781472209320 $16.99 PB • MAY

9780755365128 $32.00 HC • MAY

Kimberley Walsh

In 2002 Kimberley Walsh won a place in Girls Aloud, and her life changed forever. Ten years later, after six platinum albums, twenty top-ten singles, a Brit Award, an entry in the Guinness Book of Records and a triumphant sell-out reunion tour, the girls have decided to go their separate ways. What was it like behind the scenes of a such a hugely successful band? Was there any truth in the rumours of endless feuds within Girls Aloud? 4

A LIVERPOOL LEGACY

John Whaite

The second book from the hugely popular winner of the Great British Bake Off 2012. ALSO AVAILABLE: JOHN WHAITE BAKES: RECIPES FOR EVERY DAY AND EVERY MOOD • 9780755365098 • HC

Anne Baker

Sagas • 384 pages

9780755399604 $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: HC: 9780755399598

On a spring day in 1947, Millie and Pete Maynard take their daughter Sylvie on a boat trip that is to end in tragedy. Poor Sylvie blames herself for the accident and Millie needs all her strength to comfort her children and overcome her grief. Then Pete’s will is read and further heartache lies in store . . . ALSO AVAILABLE: LOVE IS BLIND • 9780755378364 • PB

Elias Hawks’ world changed for ever when, as a teenager, he crashed his car and woke, six weeks later, to find he had lost the girl of his dreams and very nearly his life. Seventeen years later, all Elias has left is his career as an accident investigator and a ticking time bomb in his head from the traumatic brain injury he suffered. But then the girl reappears out of the blue to tell him that her daughter is missing and Elias finds himself caught up in an increasingly deadly search for answers. With his health already hanging in the balance, Elias will have one last chance to make amends for the past and one last chance to find the truth, even if this time it means paying for it with his life . . .

It’s hard to get a fresh start after prison - just ask Peter Boutrup. It’s the coldest winter in memory as ex-convict Peter Boutrup moves to remote, rural Denmark to start a new life. But when a young woman goes missing on New Year’s Eve and Peter discovers the body of Ramses, an old acquaintance from prison, things start to unravel. Two days after the disappearance, the body of a young girl is found in the harbour she is naked, attached to an anchor and her face has been torn off. Is this the body of the missing woman and is it connected with Ramses’ murder? And could Peter’s strange new neighbour, Felix, be involved? Peter Boutrup just wants peace and quiet but he must accept that the truth lies hidden in the past he is trying to forget.

Two brutal killings and a missing boy. But it was only the beginning . . . At midnight on Halloween the living and the dead meet in the churchyard. But for Peter Boutrup the dead are not all he encounters when he visits his friend My’s grave one late and rainy evening. My’s mother appears and wants him to find her son, Magnus, who has gone missing. And the next day a young nun, Melissa, is pulled out of the moat at the convent in Djursland where Peter works as a carpenter. Melissa had been garrotted - an ancient Spanish method of execution - and Peter was the last person to see her alive.

EVERY SECOND LOST Dylan Lawson

Thriller • 416 pages

9780755378838 • $15.99 PB • MAY

HEADLINE

A gripping, remarkable thriller in the vein of Harlan Coben and Linwood Barclay

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755378821 HC: 9780755378814

• A highly talented screenwriter whose credits include Twin Peaks and The X-Files. • Dylan lives in Montana.

Praise for DYLAN LAWSON: ‘ . . . Exhilarating.’ - GUARDIAN ‘NEVER FEAR is as tough a crime novel as I have ever read, with a plot that twists and turns like a snake on crack. A classic crime novel.’ - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

THREE DOG NIGHT Elsebeth Egholm

Crime/Mystery • 384 pages

9780755397839 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755397822 HC: 9780755397815

• Elsebeth is a bestseller in her native Denmark and is most commonly compared to Camilla Lackberg, Liza Marklund and Anne Holt. • THREE DOG NIGHT is the start of a new series introducing ex-convict Peter Boutrup. ‘Egholm is a better storyteller than most other female crime writers . . . It’s thrilling and brutal.’ - EKSTRA BLADET, DENMARK

DEAD SOULS

Elsebeth Egholm Crime/Mystery • 400 pages

9780755398140 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST 9781472204011 • $32.99 HC • AUGUST

• A fast-paced thriller that paints a picture of a rarely-seen side of Denmark. • Elsebeth Egholm is a Danish author and journalist who lives in Jutland, Denmark. She has written ten books.

ALSO AVAILABLE: THREE DOG NIGHT • 9780755397822 • TPB R THREE DOG NIGHT • 9780755397815 • HC

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Menacing, suspenseful and utterly compelling novel for fans of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP and GONE GIRL Some friendships fizzle out. Rachel and Clara promised theirs would last for ever. They met when Rachel was the new girl in class and Clara was the friend everyone wanted. Instantly, they fell under one another’s spell and nothing would be the same again. Now in their late twenties Rachel has the TV career, the flat and the boyfriend, while Clara’s life is spiralling further out of control. Yet despite everything, they remain inextricably bound. Then Clara vanishes. Is it abduction, suicide or something else altogether?

Beneath the shimmering surface lies a dark secret . . .

Diana and Julian Denver have the world at their feet. With a blissful marriage, a darling son and beautiful homes in London and the country, Diana’s life, to the outside world, is perfect. But nothing is as it seems.

9781472205957 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB ROYAL: 9781472205940 HC: 9781472205933

• Like S.J. Watson before her, Colette McBeth was picked out from the Faber Writing Academy class of 2011. • A BBC TV news correspondent, Colette has a strong online prescence on Twitter: @colettemcbeth and Facebook • Visit her website www.colettemcbeth.com

DEEP BLUE SEA Tasmina Perry

Fiction • 544 pages

9780755358540 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755358533 HC: 9780755358526

For Rachel, Diana’s request opens old wounds. But she is determined to make amends for the past, and embarks on a treacherous journey to uncover the truth - wherever it may lead . . .

‘Perry is staking her claim to be crowned queen of the blockbuster.’ - WOMAN

Praise for TASMINA PERRY:

‘. . . The hottest holiday accessory this season.’ - ELLE ‘. . . The perfect beach read - a sexy guilty pleasure.’ - GLAMOUR

THAT DARK REMEMBERED DAY

THE BABY’S COMING

GIFTED AND TALENTED

Fiction • 304 pages

Memoir • 320 pages

Fiction • 448 pages

9781472211736 $16.99 PB • MAY

9780755385270 $15.99 PB • MAY

Tom Vowler

Fiction • 352 pages

• Visit www.tasminaperry.com

PERFECT STRANGERS • 9780755358502 • PB PRIVATE LIVES • 9780755358465 • PB KISS HEAVEN GOODBYE • 9780755358427 • PB

Colette McBeth

When Julian dies suddenly and tragically, Diana is convinced there is more to it than meets the eye. She calls on the one person she had never wanted to see again - her sister, Rachel.

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PRECIOUS THING

9780755392230 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

Virginia Howes

Wendy Holden

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755385263 HC: 9780755385256

A son returns to the small town where he grew up, where his mother still lives and where a terrible event in his childhood changed the lives of every person living there.

HOME DELIVERY is the heartwarming and inspirational story of Virginia Howes’ life as a midwife. For fans of CALL OF THE MIDWIFE.

It’s the new university term among the dreaming spires. The start of a whole new life. The rich, the poor, the shy, the extrovert, the givers, the takers. Meet the Gifted and Talented.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

WHAT LIES WITHIN • 9780755392193 • TPB R WHAT LIES WITHIN • 9780755392186 • HC WHAT LIES WITHIN • 9780755392209 • PB

MARRYING UP • 9780755342648 • PB GALLERY GIRL • 9780755342600 • PB BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE • 9780755342563 • PB

Pavo’s journey begins when he encounters the Roman soldier Macro, who has been charged with his training. Bonds of friendship develop between the two men, both aware that their fates depend not only on Pavo’s skills in the arena but also on the whims of powerful and ruthless senators. Can Pavo survive to fulfil his most cherished goal - revenge for the murder of his father at the hands of a champion gladiator? ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE CATO SERIES: THE EAGLE’S CONQUEST • 9780755349968 • PB WHEN THE EAGLE HUNTS • 9780755349975 • PB EAGLE AND THE WOLVES • 9780755349982 • PB EAGLE’S PREY • 9780755349999 • PB EAGLE’S PROPHECY • 9780755350001 • PB EAGLE AND THE SAND • 9780755350018 • PB

The twelfth novel in the Roman Army series featuring centurions Macro and Cato

ARENA

Simon Scarrow Historical Fiction • 512 pages

9780755398256 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781472207395 HC: 9780755398225

• Simon Scarrow’s novels are hugely successful and irresistible reading for fans of Patrick O’Brian, Conn Iggulden, Harry Sidebottom, Bernard Cornwell and other writers of historical adventure fiction. • Visit www.scarrow.co.uk and Facebook

Praise for SIMON SCARROW: ‘I don’t need this kind of competition.’ - BERNARD CORNWELL

THE BLOOD CROWS Simon Scarrow

Historical Fiction • 480 pages

9780755353828 • $15.99 PB • JULY

The Roman Empire has fought ceaselessly to strengthen its hold over Britannia. But opposition from native tribes led by the ruthless warrior Caratacus threatens to destroy everything. Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro are summoned by Governor Ostorius to Londinium. Tasked with leading a newly formed cavalry cohort into the heartland of Wales, they must destroy the growing resistance. But this final test will push the soldiers to their limits.

• Centurions Macro and Cato are brilliantly portrayed - fine soldiers, staunch friends, courageous to the end; the best of the Second Legion, the toughest legion in the civilised world.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE CATO SERIES:

Praise for SIMON SCARROW:

CENTURION • 9780755348367 • PB THE LEGION • 9780755353767 • PB THE GLADIATOR • 9780755327799 • PB PRAETORIAN • 9780755753798 • PB

A dramatic and atmospheric novel of war, betrayal and friendship against the backdrop of a beautiful Greek island during World War II Schoolboys Peter Dorner and Nicolaos Papandraki became friends while Peter’s father worked on an archaeological dig on the Greek island of Lefkas. Years later, at the height of WWII, they are fated to meet again. Now Peter is an intelligence officer in the German army, brought in to help suppress the partisans, while Mahos is the leader of the local resistance movement. They stand torn between loyalty to each other and loyalty to the country of their birth. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE REVOLUTION SERIES: FIELDS OF DEATH • 9780755324408 • PB FIRE AND SWORD • 9780755324385 • PB GENERALS • 9780755324361 • PB YOUNG BLOODS • 9780755324347 • PB

HEADLINE

Ancient Rome provides the setting for the gripping story of the champion gladiator Pavo.

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755353811 HC: 9780755353804

‘An engrossing storyline, full of teethclenching battles, political machinations, treachery, honour, love and death . . . More, please!’ - ELIZABETH CHADWICK

HEART OF STONE Simon Scarrow

Historical Fiction • 448 pages

9780755380237 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9780755380220 • $32.99 HC • JULY

• Simon Scarrow is a consistent UK #1 bestselling author.

Praise for SIMON SCARROW: ‘. . . A good, uncomplicated, rip-roaring read.’ - MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘For those who like their historical fiction to include plenty of bloody thrills and spills, Scarrow’s latest book will prove irresistible.’ - LIVING HISTORY

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A stolen baby. A murdered woman. A decades-old atrocity. Something connects them all . . . A month before Christmas, and Ballyterrin on the Irish border lies under a thick pall of snow. When a newborn baby goes missing from hospital, it’s all too close to home for forensic psychologist Paula Maguire, who’s wrestling with the hardest decision of her life. Then a pregnant woman is found in a stone circle with her stomach cut open and it’s clear a brutal killer is on the loose.

THE LOST • 9780755386383 • TPB R THE LOST • 9780755386376 • HC THE LOST • 9780755386406 • PB THE FALL • 9780755386369 • PB

Claire McGowan

Crime/Mystery • 384 pages

9781472204370 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

• Follow Claire McGowan on Twitter: @inkstainsclaire

Praise for CLAIRE MCGOWAN: ‘Either Tana French and Michael Connelly secretly co-wrote this book, or Claire McGowan is a knockout new talent you should read immediately. I’m betting on the latter.’ - LEE CHILD ‘. . . A cool and twisted debut.’ - DAILY MIRROR ‘. . . Page-turning.’ - GUARDIAN

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THE DEAD GROUND

The Bark Knight has risen. Unfortunately for weary owner October Jones (but luckily for us), that means we are party to the most bizarre texts from his insane canine companion and his friends: Batdog and CatCat (half cat, half cat), and a new ‘friend’ in Benedict, the creepiest pug in the world.

THE EMPTY CRADLE

THE DEVIL’S ARK

Fiction • 384 pages

Fiction • 320 pages

9780755385768 $15.99 PB • MAY

9781472210395 $15.99 PB ORIGINAL • MAY

Rosie Goodwin

Stephen Bywater

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780755385751

TEXTS FROM DOG The Dog Delusion October Jones

Humour • 128 pages

9781472211347 • $16.99 HC • MAY

• The official Facebook page has over 355,000 likes and the Twitter account has 55,000 followers.

THE GAFFER

The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager Neil Warnock Memoir/Soccer 384 pages

9780755362790 $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780755362776

To the outside world, Charlotte is the privileged daughter but behind closed doors she is a prisoner. But her deep compassion, and desire to prevent anyone else suffering the same horror she did, leads her into a darker and more dangerous place. ALSO AVAILABLE: MISFIT • 9780755385737 • PB BAND OF STEEL • 9780755353927 • PB THE RIBBON WEAVER • 9780755353903 • PB

Haunted by bloody visions of the Great War, Harry Ward takes up the offer of a simple job, working as a photographer on an archaeological dig at a ziggurat outside of Mosul. As the dig progresses, Ward begins to realise that this is no ordinary temple; it holds a terrible secret. Now nightmares are the least of his problems . . . with nightmares, you wake up. For fans of Dan Simmons and Dean Koontz.

Ever wondered how a transfer deal is done? What a manager says during his pre-match team talk? What he screams from the techincal area? What goes on in training sessions, and on those long away trips? It’s all here!

Carlotta O’Keefe is happily engaged to Chris, a successful surgeon, excited about her wedding, and clear about her future path both personally and in her busy career. Maybe Chris no longer makes her heart miss a beat, but you can’t have that feeling forever. Can you? Then in Seville, Carlotta hears the voice of Luke Evans, no longer the boy who once abandoned her, but an attractive and intriguing man. Was Luke just her first crush, or the love of her life? Read on . . .

HEADLINE

For every woman who remembers their first love . . .

• The author of numerous Sunday Times bestsellers, most recently THINGS WE NEVER SAY, BETTER TOGETHER, ALL FOR YOU and STAND BY ME, Sheila O’Flanagan once again delivers an engrossing and insightful read for women of all ages. • Sheila O’Flanagan was a #1 Sunday Times paperback bestseller in the UK and a #1 Irish Times bestseller in Ireland with SOMEONE SPECIAL. • Sales of Sheila O’Flanagan’s titles have sailed beyond the 4 million mark. • Sheila O’Flanagan has a strong online presence via her website, sheilaoflanagan.com, and her regular updates on Twitter: @sheilaoflanagan

Praise for SHEILA O’FLANAGAN: ‘. . . Highly readable.’ - DAILY EXPRESS ‘. . . Packed with action, romance and loads of characters to identify with.’ - EVENING HERALD, DUBLIN

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Sheila O’Flanagan

‘. . . Hugely enjoyable.’ - BEST

Fiction • 448 pages

‘. . . A must-read.’ - WOMAN’S OWN

9780755378487 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST 9780755378470 • $32.99 HC • AUGUST

‘. . . The Sheila O’Flanagan guarantee is a pretty powerful one.’ - IRISH INDEPENDENT

ALSO AVAILABLE: THINGS WE NEVER SAY • 9780755378449 • TPB R THINGS WE NEVER SAY • 9780755378432 • HC BETTER TOGETHER • 9780755378418 • PB ALL FOR YOU • 9780755343874 • PB

SEASON TO REMEMBER • 9780755375172 • PB ALL FOR YOU • 9780755343874 • PB STAND BY ME • 9780755343843 • PB

A fabulous story of a family’s world turned upside-down when old secrets come to light Abbey Andersen’s life in San Francisco is in serious danger of hitting a rut. Meanwhile in Ireland Fred Fitzpatrick is finding it impossible to keep his grown-up children and their families on side, and they’re a demanding lot at the best of times. But when Fred asks solicitor Ryan Gilligan to contact Abbey about a long-buried family secret, things start to change dramatically. And not everyone affected is happy about it . . .

THINGS WE NEVER SAY Sheila O’Flanagan Fiction • 512 pages

9780755378494 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755378449 HC: 9780755378432

‘THINGS WE NEVER SAY is up there with the best . . . [It] cleverly throws twists and turns into the mix as the story unfolds and gives you a lot to think about . . . it’s not fluffy and pink, it’s thought-provoking, well-written and thoroughly enjoyable.’ - SUN ON SUNDAY ‘The perfect summer distraction . . . A great book for any chick-lit fan.’ - ESSENTIALS MAGAZINE

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Your sins will find you out. For Michael Flynn, loyalty and crime pay. Michael rises to heights beyond anything the criminal underworld has seen. He owns everyone and he rules his empire with an even but fierce hand. No one would dare challenge him. Then the unthinkable happens. Perhaps Michael Flynn is not so untouchable after all, and he must learn that without the shedding of blood, there can be no forgiveness of sins. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE LIFE • 9780755375592 • PB THE FAMILY • 9780755375516 • PB HARD GIRLS • 9780755328703 • PB HARD GIRLS • 9781405507288 • AUDIO THE BUSINESS • 9780755328673 • PB THE GRAFT • 9780755374137 • PB THE KNOW • 9780755374120 • PB MAURA’S GAME • 9780755374113 • PB FACELESS • 9780755374106 • PB THE RUNAWAY • 9780755374090 • PB

REVENGE

Martina Cole Thriller • 608 pages

9780755375639 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755375622 HC: 9780755375615

• Martina Cole’s phenomenal sales currently stand at over ten million copies. • Visit www.martinacole.co.uk • Follow Martina Cole on Twitter: @MartinaCole

Praise for MARTINA COLE: ‘Right from the start [Cole] has enjoyed unqualified approval for her distinctive and powerfully written fiction.’ - THE TIMES ‘. . . Intensely readable.’ - GUARDIAN

The story of one of the most sucessful spies in history When the three leaders of the victorious allies, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, met at Potsdam in July 1945, President Truman announced to Stalin that the US had a new and devastating weapon. Observers report that Stalin paid no attention to this remark. In fact, Stalin was well aware of the existence of the atomic bomb, and the Soviet Union was rapidly developing its own. Stalin owed his knowledge to the atomic scientist Dr Klaus Fuchs, who can lay claim to being the most successful spy in history.

THE SPY WHO CHANGED THE WORLD Mike Rossiter

Military History • 352 pages

9780755365654 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9780755365647 • $34.99 HC • JULY

• Contains previous unheard revelations about the Soviet spy operation that stole the secrets of the nuclear bomb. • Military history in the tradition of Ben Macintyre’s Agent X and Operation Mincemeat. • Rossiter is an independent documentary filmmaker, whose work has been nominated for BAFTA and EMMY awards. • Mike is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Ark Royal and Target Basra.

PLAYFAIR CRICKET ANNUAL 2014

Ian Marshall

Sports/Cricket 336 pages

TUFFERS’ ALTERNATIVE GUIDE TO THE ASHES

MATT DAWSON’S LIONS TALES

Sports/Cricket 384 pages

9780755366026 $16.99 PB • JUNE

Phil Tufnell

9781472212177 $16.99 PB • MAY

9780755362950 $16.99 PB • JUNE

IAN MARSHALL

Matt Dawson Sports/Rugby 288 pages

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: HC: 9780755365364

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780755362943

Coverage of the 2014 season, including the County Championship, Clydesdale Bank and the Friends Life. ALSO AVAILABLE: PLAYFAIR CRICKET ANNUAL 2013 9780755387526 • PB

Drawing on incidents from his own colourful career and the reminiscences of great English and Aussie cricket characters, both past and present, Tuffers highlights all the elements that make for a truly memorable Ashes series, on and off the pitch. ALSO AVAILABLE: TUFFERS’ CRICKET TALES • 9780755362929 • PB

LIONS’ TALES traces the history of the team’s remarkable 125-year traditions, peppered with insight and laugh-out-loud moments, dredged from the memory banks of Dawson’s own time in the iconic red shirt, and also from his keen interest in the Lions’ remarkable 125-year traditions.

In 101 LEGENDARY WHISKIES, whiskies from $175,000 a bottle and $1,800 a glass are described, discussed and dissected. These drams may be extraordinarily hard to find, impossible to buy or literally the sole survivor of a long-lost distillery - some are even priceless but, for the first time ever, they’re assembled here for you to ‘savour’.

HEADLINE

Ian Buxton’s 101 LEGENDARY WHISKIES explores the finest and rarest whiskies in the world.

Some are the Ferraris of whisky: luxury thoroughbreds beyond the reach of all but the most fortunate, discerning and wealthy of enthusiasts and collectors. Some are whisky’s equivalent to the Model T Ford - once ubiquitous, but now rendered exceptional by the passage of time. If you’ve ever gazed enviously on Dalmore’s Trinitas; The Macallan Finest Cut Lalique decanter; Highland Park 50 Year Old or dreamt of the last surviving bottle of the now legendary Maltmill distillery (as featured in Ken Loach’s latest film, The Angels’ Share), you need this book.

• Over 150,000 copies of Ian Buxton’s book 101 WHISKIES have sold worldwide.

These legendary whiskies are also complemented with some stand-out bottles that won’t break the bank. There’s something here for every budget: as well as some simply exquisite whiskies to buy and savour forever, you’ll find out about the first whisky ever made; the oldest whisky sold at auction; the whisky which inspired the classic novel and film Whisky Galore and the whiskies which (almost) bankrupted an entire industry.

101 LEGENDARY WHISKIES YOU’RE DYING TO TRY BUT (PROBABLY) NEVER WILL Ian Buxton

Entertainment/Beverages • 224 pages

9781472210678 • $19.99 HC • JULY

ALSO AVAILABLE: 101 WHISKIES TO TRY BEFORE YOU DIE • 9780755360833 • HC 101 WORLD WHISKIES TO TRY BEFORE YOU DIE • 9780755363193 • HC

The fifth Victorian crime novel to feature Scotland Yard’s Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie When Inspector Ben Ross is called to Newgate Prison late one evening, the last thing he expects is to hear is the testimony of a man who is to be hanged at dawn. Seventeen years ago, James Mills witnessed a murder in Putney and it is only now that he has chosen to speak up. Unable to save Mills from death, Ben is told to pursue the case no further. But his wife Lizzie cannot resist the temptation of taking a trip to Putney to uncover the truth and, within days, another murder occurs that brings the long-buried past into the present . . . ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE LIZZIE MARTIN SERIES:

THE TESTIMONY OF THE HANGED MAN Ann Granger

Crime/Mystery • 320 pages

9781472204486 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST 9781472204479 • $32.99 HC • AUGUST

Praise for ANN GRANGER: ‘Characterisation, as ever with Granger, is sharp and astringent.’ - THE TIMES ‘The plot is neat and ingenious, the characters rounded and touchingly credible, and the writing of this darkly humorous but humane and generous novel fluent, supple and a pleasure to read.’ - HAM AND HIGH

A PARTICULAR EYE FOR VILLAINY • 9780755349135 • PB A BETTER QUALITY OF MURDER • 9780755349098 • PB

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Skinner is in the depth of a career-threatening and lifechanging personal nightmare. A woman’s naked body is found washed up on Cramond Island near Edinburgh. Days later detectives are called to a flat in Edinburgh. The kitchen is covered in blood, and the occupier is missing. But Skinner, now Chief Constable of Strathclyde, is based in Glasgow, so the cases are off his patch and he has no reason to become involved. Yet he does, unwittingly setting a course that will lead him to the toughest choice of his life. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE BOB SKINNER SERIES: PRAY FOR THE DYING • 9780755356997 • TPB R PRAY FOR THE DYING • 9780755356980 • HC PRAY FOR THE DYING • 9780755357000 • PB FUNERAL NOTE • 9780755356973 • PB GRIEVOUS ANGEL • 9780755356942 • PB A RUSH OF BLOOD • 9780755357666 • PB

The stunning new Primavera Blackstone mystery from the Scottish crime master A fiercely protective single mother, Primavera Blackstone doesn’t welcome the arrival of a blast from her murky Scottish past, retired cop Ricky Ross, now a private detective and working for Jack Weighley, millionaire owner of a budget airline. Jack is a powerful, persuasive man with deep pockets, someone you don’t say ‘no’ to without considering the consequences. So Primavera teams up with Ricky to investigate a series of mystery assaults on Jack’s aircraft. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE PRIMAVERA BLACKSTONE SERIES: DEADLY BUSINESS • 9780755357109 • PB AS EASY AS MURDER • 9780755340293 • PB BLOOD RED • 9780755340262 • PB INHUMAN REMAINS 9780755348992 PB

BRITTY BRITTY BANG BANG: ONE MAN’S ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND HIS COUNTRY

YOURS, E.R.

Humour • 320 pages

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780755365814

Hugh Dennis

9780755364329 $16.99 PB • JUNE

Britain should be embarrassed by nothing and proud of everything, from sheep to chimneys to the Spice Girls to industrial action and what had always previously been described as our ‘ailing transport network’. This is Hugh Dennis’ exploration of the changing image of Britain and Britishness.

Terence Blacker Humour • 128 pages

9780755365821 $12.99 PB • JUNE

HOUR OF DARKNESS Quintin Jardine

Crime/Mystery • 384 pages

9780755357024 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9780755357017 • $32.99 HC • JULY

Praise for QUINTIN JARDINE: ‘He’s at the very top of his game, telling a mesmerizing tale of love, loss and desperation.’ - GLOBE AND MAIL ‘Remarkably assured . . . a tour de force.’ - NEW YORK TIMES FOR RUSH OF BLOOD

‘. . . Deplorably readable.’ - GUARDIAN ‘Well constructed, fast-paced, Jardine’s narrative has many an ingenious twist and turn.’ - OBSERVER

AS SERIOUS AS DEATH Quintin Jardine

Crime/Mystery • 384 pages

9780755357147 • $15.99 PB • AUGUST PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755357130 HC: 9780755357123

• Quintin Jardine’s Primavera Blackstone series is proving to be a huge hit with his fans and there has been a significant sales boost for all his novels. • Quintin Jardine’s total sales have reached in excess of 1.4 million copies. • Quintin Jardine was a guest contributor for The National Post. • www.quintinjardine.com

THE MAHARAJAH’S GENERAL Paul Fraser Collard Historical Fiction 320 pages

9781472200303 $15.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781472200297 HC: 9781472200273

For many years, Her Majesty the Queen has received a weekly report on the news and issues of the day, known at the Palace as ‘The Current Affairs Briefing Document’, from one of her senior private secretaries.

A riveting tale of battle and adventure in a brutal land of the Crimea, modern day Middle East, where loyalty and courage are constantly challenged and the enemy is never far away.

Affectionately imagined, YOURS, E.R. provides a glimpse into a year that has seen the Queen jump out of a helicopter. It also offers a view on the way we live now, as seen from the top by someone who is both at the centre of British life and yet removed from it.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE JACK LARK SERIES: THE SCARLET THIEF • 9781472200266 • PB

It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh’s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn’t know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It’s desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door. Gilbert’s wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was . . .

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The Tenth Anniversary edition of Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel

• SMALL ISLAND has been awarded multiple prizes, including: » The 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction » The 2004 Whitbread Book of the Year Award » The 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize » Shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2005, the Man Booker Prize and two Nibbies • Andrea’s latest book, The Long Song, sold over 16,000 copies in Canada. ‘Levy’s careful research sets her vivid tale against a historical backdrop that, though it appears to be no more than a stage set, stealthily and indelibly etches itself onto the reader’s heart and mind. This is a book that can bestir the sediment of painful truths that many a conscious mind has conveniently let go.’ - THE GLOBE AND MAIL ‘SMALL ISLAND brought something unfamiliar to the literature of whiteblack relations: rarely had so many varieties of racism been anatomized with such gentle mockery and to such fine tragicomic effect.’ - NEW YORK TIMES

SMALL ISLAND Andrea Levy

‘. . . A terrific book.’ - ALAN PLATER

Fiction • 544 pages

‘Wonderful . . . seamless . . . a magnificent achievement.’ - LINDA GRANT

9781472211064 • $15.99 PB • JULY

‘A cracking good read . . . I think what appealed to me most was the passion and anger in the writing all the way through, yet it was always leavened with a particularly wry sort of humour - the sort that, tho’ you find yourself smiling, you at the same time realise you almost shouldn’t be.’ - MARGARET FORSTER

PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9780755307500

ALSO AVAILABLE: FRUIT OF THE LEMONS • 9780747261148 • PB EVERY LIGHT IN THE HOUSE BURNING • 9780747246534 • PB NEVER FAR FROM NOWHERE • 9780747252139 • PB

‘I enjoyed SMALL ISLAND enormously and wish it every success. It conjures up so vividly the era of the 1940’s and expresses so vividly through the lives of its four protagonists the conflicts and racist attitudes that existed at that time. A wonderful insight into a little understood period.’

An English couple ‘coming home’ from India in 1944 make their way in a changed Britian Will and Flo Sutherland have found themselves, and each other, in colonial India, but as the war and the age of empire draws to a close, so they must make their way back to England. There, they and their young family attempt to fashion a new life for themselves in rural Devon, but managing a farm proves harsher than Will had anticipated, while Flo struggles to marry the pressures of domestic life with her desire to write. But through all the misunderstandings and heartache, this less-than-perfect family remain committed to one another above all things. ALSO AVAILABLE: READING IN BED • 9780755303120 • PB EARTH AND HEAVEN • 9780747268079 • PB THE HOURS OF THE NIGHT • 9780755303137 • PB

- JOAN BAKEWELL

COMING HOME Sue Gee

Fiction • 480 pages

9781472207128 • $15.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781472207104 HC: 9781472207098

• COMING HOME is a tender and richly rewarding novel of an emblematic family over three decades, which beautifully conjures a quintessentially British, and now completely vanished, way of life.

Praise for SUE GEE: ‘Gee transforms the stuff of ordinary life into art.’ - THE SUNDAY TIMES ‘Sue Gee is a magical writer.’ - DAILY EXPRESS

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Leaving home is one thing. Surviving is quite another. Desperate to escape their manipulative mother, two Pakistani boys leave to be educated abroad, abandoning their sisters to their mother and her plans for their arranged marriages. Overseas, one brother falls in love with a suitable Indian girl, the other with an unsuitable white man, thereby shaking the shackles of his upbringing for good. Their sisters disgrace the family when they strike out to build their own lives. As they raise their own families, and return to bury the dead, the ‘good children’ realise the tragic consequences of dishnour and disobedience, and learn how hard it is to leave the lessons of home behind. ALSO AVAILABLE: FLYING MAN • 9780755383405 • PB FLYING MAN • 9780755383382 • HC FLYING MAN • 9780755383399 • TPB R

The epic story of the advent of the Wars of the Roses England, 1455: a kingdom on the brink of civil war. King Henry of Lancaster is deemed unfit for rule, even by his own mother. Simon Roseblood – London lord, taverner and alderman – is one of few loyal servants left to fight his cause. Ruthless Richard of York has his eye firmly set on the crown – and plenty of powerful allies who will do anything to help him win it. Henchman Amadeus Sevigny makes no bones about asserting law and order at York’s command. When Roseblood is summoned by Sevigny to stand trial for a crime he didn’t commit, their paths cross in ways that will alter them both forever.

GOOD CHILDREN Roopa Farooki

Fiction • 352 pages

9780755383436 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9780755383429 • $32.99 HC • JULY

Praise for ROOPA FAROOKI: ‘Ms Farooki creates the strong suspicion that she could tell a story about any type of people.’ - NEW YORK TIMES ‘One thing will always stand out when it matters: the author’s voice. And Farooki has one to be proud of.’ - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

‘. . . One of the brightest young British authors to have emerged in recent years.’ - BELLA

ROSEBLOOD Paul Doherty

Historical Fiction • 352 pages

9780755395972 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9780755395965 • $32.99 HC • JULY

Praise for PAUL DOHERTY: ‘. . . Resurrectionist magic.’ - NEW YORK TIMES ‘. . . The best of its kind since the death of Ellis Peters.’ - TIME OUT ‘I really like these medieval whodunnits.’ - BOOKSELLER

‘. . . The maestro of medieval mystery.’ - BOOKS MAGAZINE

ALSO AVAILABLE: LAST OF DAYS • 9780755397853 • TPB R LAST OF DAYS • 9780755397846 • HC TEMPLAR MAGICIAN • 9780755358335 • MM

POIROT AND ME

BEND IT LIKE BULLARD

David Suchet

Entertainment/TV 384 pages

9780755364220 $16.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: HC: 9780755364190

The ultimate companion to one of the world’s longest-running television series – essential reading for Poirot fans. Peppered with anecdotes about filming, including many tales of the guest stars who have appeared over the years.

BEND IT LIKE BULLARD JIMMY BULLARD

Jimmy Bullard

Autobiography/ Soccer • 304 pages

9780755365500 $32.99 HC • JULY

Told with candour, this is the extraordinary story of his journey from cable TV fitter to cult hero. Having played under the likes of Barry Fry, Harry Redknapp and Phil Brown, appeared alongside names as diverse as Neil Ruddock and Paolo di Canio, and as long as Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Jimmy has racked up an amazing collection of tales and pranks both on and off the football front-line.

DREAMLAND Graham Mccoll Sports/Soccer 320 pages

9780755319381 $16.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB ROYAL: 9780755319374

Graham McColl has used his encyclopaedic knowledge and huge imagination to create a credible, alternative history of Scotland’s World Cup campaigns

THE BOY IN THE BOOK is Nathan’s poignant discovery of the scribblings of a little boy who had once owned 106 of the Choose Your Own Adventure books, a little boy named Terence who wrote intimations of a tormented childhood, and of the boys and teachers who had bullied him. Nathan’s quest to find the lost boy forces him to examine his own childhood and, as his relationship with Terence deepens, he begins to believe that the two men are not so different.

Istanbul is bloody in January 2012, and it only gets worse as the months pass. The murder of one eccentric man in the poor multicultural district of Tarlabasi turns into a hunt for someone or something who may be that rare phenomenon in the golden city on the Bosphorus: a serial killer. As their investigation gathers pace, Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman face almost unprecedented violence as they attempt to construct a chain of logic to lead them to the killer. But when every month brings yet another unsolved homicide, how many must die before they find the solution? ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE CETIN IKMEN SERIES: DEADLINE • 9780755388905 • PB DEAD OF NIGHT • 9780755371662 • PB A NOBLE KILLING • 9780755371624 • PB DEATH BY DESIGN • 9780755335695 • PB

An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive new novel featuring one of Bateman’s best loved characters. When billionaire’s daughter Alison Wolff disappears following a massacre at a party, nobody knows if she has been kidnapped or killed. Dan Starkey is hired to find the missing student but instead is drawn into a violent struggle between rival gangs. In a Belfast rapidly descending back into chaos, Dan is left with an impossible choice - betray his client or risk losing his family . . . ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE DAN STARKEY SERIES: BELFAST CONFIDENTIAL • 9780755309276 • PB DRIVING BIG DAVIE • 9780755343645 • PB THE HORSE WITH MY NAME • 9780755343614 • PB OF WEE SWEETIE MICE AND MEN 9780755378746 • PB DIVORCING JACK • 9780755378739 • PB

THE BOY IN THE BOOK Nathan Penlington Memoir • 272 pages

9780755365692 • $26.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY

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The story of a man connecting with another person through Choose Your Own Adventure books

• Nathan Penlington is a poet, performer and writer. • Nathan wrote and directed Choose Your Own Documentary, a documentary based on the discoveries of the book. The documentary won a Fringe First award at Edinburgh in August 2013.

BODY COUNT Barbara Nadel

Crime/Mystery • 384 pages

9780755388943 • $15.99 PB • AUGUST PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755388936 HC: 9780755388929

• Barbara Nadel was shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Dagger in the Library Award and longlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year. • Follow Barbara Nadel on Twitter: @BarbaraNadel

Praise for BARBARA NADEL: ‘ . . . the explosive plot is as Byzantine as ever, and both Turkish and immigrant cultures are treated with a deft insight and poignant charm.’ - THE WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

FIRE AND BRIMSTONE Bateman

Crime/Mystery • 416 pages

9781472201218 • $15.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB ROYAL: 9781472201201 HC: 9781472201195

• Bateman featured in the Daily Telegraph’s Top 50 Crime Writers to Read Before You Die.

Praise for BATEMAN: ‘ . . . Funny as well as gripping.’- IAN RANKIN ‘ . . . Witty, fast-paced and throbbing with menace.’ - TIME OUT ‘Bateman has a truly unique voice . . . he is a dark and brilliant champion of words.’- JAMES NESBITT 15

MR STRUTH

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A SIXPENNY SONG

WHERE MEMORIES ARE MADE

The Boss Ian David & Stewart Mason

Jennifer Johnston

Fiction • 208 pages

9781472209238 $15.99 PB • JULY

Lynda Page

Saga • 384 pages

Biography/Soccer 288 pages

9780755398485 $15.99 PB • AUGUST

9780755365494 $16.99 PB • AUGUST

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC DEMY: 9780755378821

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780755398461

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780755365418

A vintage novel by one of our greatest living novelists who, in a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years, has won the Whitbread Prize and many others, including the 2012 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. ALSO AVAILABLE: SHADOW STORY • 9780755383498 • PB TRUTH OR FICTION • 9780755330553 • PB

The book explores early life of the most celebrated manager in the history of Rangers Football Club, as well as his celebrated years in Glasgow. It recounts his career in professional athletics and in football with Heart of Midlothian, Clyde and ultimately, Rangers. It reflects on the legacy of the Struth era and his influences that remain at Ibrox today.

There’s never a dull moment at Jolly’s holiday camp in Mablethorpe in the 1950s. When Rhonnie’s husband Dan is involved in a tragic accident while rescuing a holiday maker from the ferris wheel, Rhonnie turns to her staff for help and support . . . ALSO AVAILABLE: A BITTER LEGACY • 9780755349074 • PB A PERFECT CHRISTMAS • 9780755380602 • PB

SPRING/SUMMER 2014 MASS MARKET PHARAOH David Gibbins

• David’s blogs were featured in the National Post. ALSO AVAILABLE: TIGER WARRIOR • 9780755335190 • MM

Fiction • 432 pages

9780755399499 $10.99 MM • JUNE

Martina Cole Thriller • 608 pages

9780755399451 $10.99 MM • APRIL

9780755399475 $10.99 MM • JUNE

The stunning new adventure thriller from the UK bestselling author of ATLANTIS.

THE LIFE

Jill Mansell

Fiction 480 pages

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755354023 HC: 9780755354016 PB: 9780755354030 PB: 9780755354030

DON’T WANT TO MISS A THING

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755375585 HC: 9780755375578 PB: 9780755375592

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780755355884 HC: 9780755355877 PB: 9780755355891

Dexter Yates is now in charge of his sister’s eight-month-old daughter Delphi. How is he ever going to cope?

The most authentic novel of gangster family life ever written, from the #1 UK bestselling author.

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WALK IN THE PARK • 9780755355860 • MM TO THE MOON AND BACK • 9780755355822 • MM

FAITHLESS • 9780755390755 • MM THE FAMILY • 9780755388875 • MM

In his own words and images, this is David Beckham’s stunningly-designed and beautifully-illustrated celebration of his 20-year football career.

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FALL 2013/WINTER 2014 DROP-IN TITLES

In May this year he brought down the curtain on a hugely successful playing career that spanned two decades, during which he proudly wore the shirts of Manchester United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy, AC Milan, Paris Saint-Germain, and England. He captained his country on 58 occasions, winning 115 international caps in total, an English record for an outfield player. His colourful and stellar career has been characterised by the emotional highs of great goals and remarkable trophy successes around the world, as well as by more than the occasional moment of set-back, disappointment and despair, but through it all Beckham has emerged as a universally adored figure, both inside and outside the game. Here, intimately talking us through 150 of his favourite images which define his playing days, he invites us behind the scenes of an incredible 20-year footballing journey. • 150 photographs, some never before seen. • David Beckham is arguably the most instantly recognisable sportsman on the planet. • This is the definitive account of his career and life beyond football by Beckham himself.

DAVID BECKHAM David Beckham

Autobiography/Soccer • 288 pages

9780755365890 • $40.00 HC • DECEMBER

• Following his recent retirement, this is the perfect time to release a celebration of his 20-year career. • This book features many exclusive images, including some family photos from David’s childhood. • DAVID BECKHAM: MY SIDE (2003) sold over 525,000 hardcovers and 150,000 paperbacks. • DAVID BECKHAM: MY WORLD (2000) sold 239,000 hardcovers and 150,000 paperbacks. • He has over 28 million Facebook likes. • He has been a model for several international brands, including Armani. • Beckham had a key ambassadorial role in London’s successful bid for the 2012 Olympics. • Beckham has recently become a global football ambassador for Chinese football.

A wonderfully honest and beautifully-written memoir from one of the most intriguing football managers of the last 25 years. Here, in his no-holds-barred autobiography, the secretive Swede takes us on one of the wildest rides in world football. Populated by fake sheikhs, Italian lawyers, Nottingham outlaws and, of course, many of the biggest names in the game, his is a 40-year-long career that coincides with the evolution of football into a global multibillion-pound industry. Most of all, this is a surprisingly tender, sometimes heartbreaking, but never bitter account of a simple man with a most complicated story. A man who has reached a crossroads in his life, who until now has never stopped to ask himself the question: was it worth it?

SVEN

My Story Sven Göran Eriksson Autobiography/Soccer • 384 pages

9781472213259 • $24.99 TPB ROYAL • NOVEMBER 9781472211507 • $34.99 HC • NOVEMBER

• Sven-Goran Eriksson’s remarkable career spans four decades over as many continents. • He has won numerous league and cup titles in Portugal and Italy with Benfica, Roma and Lazio. • In 2001, Sven became the first foreign manager of the England national team, reaching three consecutive quarter-finals. • Sven is currently the manager of Chinese Super League club Guangzhou R&F. 17

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FALL 2013/WINTER 2014 DROP-IN TITLES Dream big. No limits. Be bold. Manhattan is there for the taking. There isn’t a woman on earth who doesn’t have her beauty secrets. But for Dina Kane, beauty is more than just business. It’s power. And it is the secret. She’s dragged herself up from poverty to Park Avenue. She’s rolled with the punches. And she’s learned how to win. Now someone is out to destroy her, and all she’s built. They’ve underestimated Dina Kane. She’s staying at the top - and she’s happy to wait for the perfect moment to exact her revenge . . . ALSO AVAILABLE:

BEAUTY

Louise Mensch Fiction • 480 pages

9780755358977 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • FEBRUARY 9780755358960 • $32.99 HC • FEBRUARY

• Louise Mensch is Louise Bagshawe. ‘A sparkly hit from the never-dull Louise Bagshawe. . . If a novel was a glass of champagne, this would be it.’ - COSMOPOLITAN

‘Addictive . . . Louise Bagshawe knows how to keep her readers engrossed.’ - HEAT

DESTINY • 9780755336173 • TPB R DESTINY • 9780755336166 • HC DESTINY • 9780755336180 • PB DESIRE • 9780755336142 • PB

THE WINTER GATHERING

WHAT LIES WITHIN

Fiction • 448 pages

9780755392209 $15.99 PB • NOVEMBER

Thriller • 368 pages

Deirdre Purcell

9780755332298 $22.99 TPB ROYAL NOVEMBER 9780755332281 $32.99 HC • NOVEMBER

A moving and hugely enjoyable novel about Christmas and how to survive it by the much-loved Deirdre Purcell, author of several huge Irish bestsellers.

Andy Murray

Autobiography/ Tennis 288 pages

9780755365968 $32.00 HC • DECEMBER

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: HC: 9780755392186 TPB R: 9780755392193

A tightly spun, atmospheric and powerful psychological suspense.

Andy Murray’s intriguing and personal account of his road to Wimbledon glory. 130 color photographs included.

POIROT AND ME

7 SECRETS OF CONFIDENCE

Biography/Entertainment 320 pages

Self Help • 336 pages

David Suchet & Geoffrey Wansell 9780755364190 • $32.00 HC • DECEMBER

The ultimate companion to one of the world’s longest running television series; essential reading for Poirot fans. Color photographs included.

ANDY MURRAY: 77

Tom Vowler

Steve Miller

9781472210647 • $16.99 PB • JANUARY

7 SECRETS OF CONFIDENCE is a no-nonsense, easy-to-use guide to overcoming your inner fears. Full of encouraging, step-by-step advice, this book is here to help you build your self-belief - learning to have confidence is at the heart of this book.

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

— MARGARET YORKE — Winner of the 1999 Cartier Diamond Dagger for her outstanding contribution to the crime fiction genre— and the queen of household horrors

THE PRICE OF GUILT Crime/Mystery 304 pages

9780751552096 $15.99 PB • MAY

Louise Widdows’s facade of gentility disguises two secrets: a child born in adultery and given away at birth, and a small inheritance she has always kept hidden. Her husband abruptly leaves her, and suddenly her new life seems very precarious indeed, putting in doubt that she will ever locate her unknown son.

ALMOST THE TRUTH Crime/Mystery 304 pages

9780751553031 $15.99 PB • JUNE

Derek Jarvis, a mild-mannered accountant, conceives a plan to avenge his family, regain his self-respect and punish a rapist in a way that the law will not. But Derek has never truly looked at himself or anticipated the terrifying twist his quest for revenge may take, as it leads him down the darkest back alleys of the psyche, strips away his controls and confronts his soul with a shocking choice . . .

A QUESTION OF BELIEF

ACT OF VIOLENCE Crime/Mystery 496 pages

Crime/Mystery 384 pages

9780751552072 $15.99 PB • JUNE

9780751552065 $15.99 PB • JUNE

Philip Winter’s life as he knows it is over. A mild, sweet-tempered salesman, he never suspects a nicely dressed woman will make a pass at him . . . and then accuse him of rape. Now not only Philip, but a smitten lawyer and a very genteel widow, will find their worlds shaken, or ended, by emotions exploding in unexpected ways.

Peaceful Mickleburgh is the perfect English market town - or so it seems. In fact, it is a perfectly constructed façade, having successfully hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for generations. But the casual murder of a man trying to prevent an act of vandalism shatters the genteel appearance.

CAUSE FOR CONCERN

FALSE PRETENCES Crime/Mystery 320 pages

Crime/Mystery 336 pages

9780751552089 $15.99 PB • JUNE

9780751552119 $15.99 PB • JUNE

Susan Trent is in her sixties, living in a house she loves in a prosperous village. Her friends suspect that the cuts and bruises she explains away as her own clumsiness are really caused by her son’s fists, but no-one steps in, unsure of why she puts up with it. Then a stranger comes to lodge in the village, triggering a series of events which will eventually bring to light why Susan has really been so protective of her son.

When her god-daughter, Emily, turns up after years of no contact, Isabel feels duty-bound to help. To her surprise, Emily is determined to be independent and takes a job as nanny. Emily’s charge turns out to be the illegitimate child of the naïve daughter of a well-to-do couple and a ne’er-do-well con man who disappeared before the baby was born. And now he is back, intent on exploiting his parental status in return for cash.

A CASE TO ANSWER Crime/Mystery 336 pages

9780751552102 $15.99 PB • JUNE

‘. . . The mistress of the skilfully-spun suspense novel . . . her quiet, unemphatic style of narrative makes the story a compelling read.’ - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘Her short, sparse accounts of things going wrong and innocent people getting caught up in events beyond their control never fails to induce a powerful sense of apprehension and foreboding.’ When a woman’s body is found, Jerry’s decision to retire from a life of crime is in doubt. At first the police assume it was an accident, or suicide, but one detective is sure it is murder, especially when the prime suspect cannot supply an alibi for the night of the victim’s disappearance . . .

- GUARDIAN

‘. . . Wholly-and distressingly believable.’ - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

‘Yorke has an extraordinary feel for the passions that lurk beneath unremarkable façades.’ - SUNDAY TIMES

When Ella Holt answers 50 questions on her perfect man in a glossy magazine, she has no idea that her responses will be used by a new state-of-the-art dating agency to find her perfect match. Not only is he drop-dead gorgeous, but spontaneous trips to Paris, declarations of love, romantic gestures (and gourmet sex) all become part of her daily routine. However, as ‘romance fatigue’ sets in, Ella’s suspicions about the consequences of her answers begin to mount. And she remembers that she asked for a man who will do anything to keep her . . . and destroy anyone who stands in his way.

A novel about sex, relationships and other natural disasters When Martha Seymore finds out about her boyfriend’s one-night-stand she doesn’t know what to do. And Martha’s business is relationships. She’s the girl who gets paid to sympathise with the cheated and jilted, the under-sexed and over-attached at Gloss magazine. Realising she’s just as clueless as her hapless readers, Martha finds it increasingly difficult to continue giving relationship advice whilst dealing with her own heartache. Tired of always doing the right thing, Martha starts to wonder is she has the right approach to relationships after all: is the best way to get one man off your mind, at least temporarily, to get another one into your bed?

How far would you go to protect the people you love? As private investigator Jasmine Sharp battles her demons and Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod chases her ghosts, these two very different detectives will ultimately confront the secrets that have entangled both of their fates.

THE MAN FROM PERFECT Andrea Semple

Fiction • 352 pages

9780349402062 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• Andrea Semple has been hailed as the ‘new Marian Keyes.’ (Company). • Andrea Semple is a freelance journalist who has written for a variety of national newspapers and magazines including the Independent, Company and The Big Issue.

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

What happens when the man in your head becomes the man in your bed?

THE EX-FACTOR Andrea Semple

Fiction • 288 pages

9780349402086 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

• A fresh and funny take on relationships from a highly marketable young journalist.

FLESH WOUNDS Chris Brookmyre

Crime/Mystery • 416 pages

9780349138701 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781408704097 HC: 9781408704080

• Brookmyre’s sales total 1.5 million copies.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE JASMINE SHARP SERIES: WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED • 9780349123356 • PB WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES • 9780349123905 • PB WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES • 9781408703427 • TPB R WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES • 9781408703410 • HC

• Both WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED and WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES were Sunday Times bestsellers. • Brookmyre’s crime novel is in the Kate Atkinson mould, but retaining Brookmyre’s distinctly dark sense of humour. • Visit www.brookmyre.co.uk • Follow Chris Brookmyre on Twitter: @cbrookmyre

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– JANE GARDAM’S ‘OLD FILTH’ TRILOGY – A genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise , OLD FILTH is now reissued with a new cover. Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent ‘Home’ from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam’s novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In so doing, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of British Empire, through the Second World War, to the present and beyond, but also illuminates the complexities of the character known variously as Eddie, the Judge, Fevvers, Filth, Master of the Inner Temple, Teddy and Sir Edward Feathers.

A box of delights - another masterpiece from Jane Gardam Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth’s hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions . . .

The witty and sparkling new novel from Jane Gardam, bestselling author of OLD FILTH. OLD FILTH and THE MAN IN THE WOODEN HAT told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. LAST FRIENDS, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth’s great rival in work and - though it was never spoken of - in love. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE THE OLD FILTH TRILOGY: OLD FILTH • 9780349118406 • PB MAN WITH A WOODEN HAT • 9780349118468 • PB

OLD FILTH

Jane Gardam Fiction • 288 pages

9780349139494 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9780349118406

• Jane Gardam is twice winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel.

Praise for JUNE GARDAM: ‘Jane Gardam is at her most characteristic and briliant.’ - VICTORIA GLENDINNING

THE MAN IN THE WOODEN HAT Jane Gardam

Fiction • 288 pages

9780349139487 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9780349118468

‘This [THE MAN IN THE WOODEN HAT] is a companion piece by this treasure of a writer to her magnificent novel, OLD FILTH . . . Sharp, funny and slyly subversive. Both books are essential reading.’ - THE GLOBE AND MAIL.

LAST FRIENDS Jane Gardam

Fiction • 304 pages

9780349000169 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781408704394 HC: 9781408703670

‘ . . . All three Gardam books are beautifully written but it’s a pleasure to note that LAST FRIENDS is the most enjoyable, the funniest and the most touching.’ - THE NATIONAL POST ‘She writes a light, easy style that quickens suddenly when she tells us something we didn’t anticipate. Like [Robertson] Davies, she fills the pages of her trilogy with surprises that make the reader hurry forward.’ - THE NATIONAL POST

Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her eldest brother, Edward, brings his bride home to Wolf Hall. Katherine Filliol is the perfect match for Edward, as well as being a breath of fresh air for the Seymour family, and Jane is captivated by the older girl. Over the course of a long, hot country summer, the two become close friends and allies, while Edward is busy building alliances at court and advancing his career. However, only two years later, the family is torn apart by a dreadful allegation made by Edward against his wife. The repercussions for all the Seymours are incalculable, not least for Katherine herself. When Jane is sent away, to serve Katharine of Aragon, she is forced to witness another wife being put aside, with terrible consequences. Changed forever by what happened to Katherine Filliol, Jane comes to understand that in a world where power is held entirely by men, there is a way in which she can still hold true to herself.

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

The story of a crucial period in Jane Seymour’s life

• Suzannah Dunn is a brand name, selling over 249,000 copies of her historical novels worldwide. • Tudor fiction has never been so popular, with Hilary Mantel’s two Booker prize-winning novels shining a light on the period. • For fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory.

THE MAY BRIDE Suzannah Dunn

Historical Fiction • 320 pages

9781408704691 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781408704684 • $32.99 HC • MAY

Detective Lorimer must protect his city from a terrifying threat in the countdown to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Security is extra tight, particularly after a mysterious bomb explodes in nearby countryside. But Detective Superintendent Lorimer has other concerns on his mind. One is a beautiful red-haired woman from his past. And, hiding behind false identities, are those who pose a terrible threat not just to the Games but to the very fabric of society. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE DC LORIMER SERIES: THE SWEDISH GIRL • 9780751548228 • PB THE SWEDISH GIRL • 9781847445667 • TPB THE SWEDISH GIRL • 9781847445650 • HC A POUND OF FLESH • 9780751543841 • PB SLEEP LIKE THE DEAD • 9780751543797 • PB FIVE WAYS TO KILL A MAN • 9780751540789 • PB GLASGOW KISS • 9780751540772 • PB

THE BIRD THAT DID NOT SING Alex Gray

Crime/Mystery • 352 pages

9781847445674 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781847445681 • $34.99 HC • MAY

• Over 130,000 copies of her books sold. • DCI Lorimer, her central character, has been described as ‘a real threat to Inspector Rebus.’ (Glasgow Herald) ‘. . . Gray is the new master of Scottish crime writing.’ - SCOTTISH DAILY EXPRESS ‘. . . Brings Glasgow to life in the same way Ian Rankin evokes Edinburgh.’ - DAILY MAIL

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– CAROLE MATTHEWS – A PLACE TO CALL HOME

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

9780751552188 $15.99 PB • MAY 9780751552195 $32.99 HC • MAY

9780751551488 $15.99 PB • MAY

Fiction • 320 pages

Uplifting, heart-breaking and emotional, this is the new spring book from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller Carole Matthews!

YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY

Fiction • 416 pages

PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9780755345779

Spencer Knight is offering Sally a ticket to a new life. He’s got the looks, the charm everything she could wish for. But is he really the answer to her prayers or does her hapless ex-boyfriend Johnny still hold the key to her heart?

PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9780755309962

The last place Anna Terry expects to fall in love is in the waiting room of her divorce lawyer’s office, but that’s where she meets Nick Diamond. When Anna gets a job as Nick’s secretary, what starts as a mild flirtation soon accelerates into overdrive - and then their ex-partners show up . . .

LET’S MEET ON PLATFORM 8

THE SWEETEST TABOO

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU

9780751551495 $15.99 PB • JUNE

9780751551457 $15.99 PB • JUNE

Fiction • 416 pages

PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9780755346608

PREVIOUS EDITION: MM: 9780747267706

Fiction • 416 pages

Teri has dated more men than she’s had low-calorie, low-fat dinners, and she still hasn’t found Mr Right. That is until she’s literally knocked off her feet by Jamie Duncan as they rush to catch the same train from Euston station. There’s just one problem. Sadie may have found Mr Right but he may not be Mr Available . . .

IT’S A KIND OF MAGIC

Fiction • 416 pages

9780751551419 $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITION: MM: 9780755344697

Fiction • 416 pages

Carole Matthews

Sadie Nelson has two men to choose from and neither is hassle-free. The longer she leaves it, the harder it gets, and Sadie’s about to discover that in LA anything can happen . . .

PREVIOUS EDITION: MM: 9780755309931

When Jake tells Lyssa it’s not working, she knows he’s not talking about the toaster. In a bid to escape, she embarks on a trekking holiday in Nepal. When it’s time to go home - back to reality and a very sheepish Jake Lyssa is faced with the hardest choice of her life.

• Funny, romantic, heartwarming fiction at its best.

Praise for CAROLE MATTHEWS: ‘. . . Simply brilliant.’ - CLOSER

When Leo’s path crosses with an unusual girl called Isobel - and as he falls under her spell - Emma sees him change before her very eyes. Soon she regrets wishing for a ‘new’ Leo at all. If Emma’s going to win Leo back, she’ll need to do some changing of her own . . .

9780751551518 $15.99 PB • JUNE

• As well as being shortlisted for the 2012 RoNA Award for Romantic Comedy, Carole was presented with a Hall of Fame Award for outstanding achievement by the Festival of Romance in 2011.

‘. . . The perfect escape.’ - WOMAN

9780751551471 $15.99 PB • MAY

‘Witty, funny and incredibly touching, this is perfect for lifting the spirits.’

‘Matthews is one of the few writers who can rival Marian Keyes’ gift for telling heart-warming tales with buckets of charm and laughs.’ - DAILY RECORD

- HEAT

ALSO AVAILABLE: THE ONLY WAY IS UP • 9780751551365 • PB A MINOR INDISCRETION • 9780751551372 • PB IT’S NOW OR NEVER • 9780751551389 • PB MORE TO LIFE THAN THIS • 9780751551396 • PB THAT LOVING FEELING • 9780751551501 • PB

A WHIFF OF SCANDAL • 9780751551341 • PB THE CHOCOLATE LOVERS’ CLUB 9780751551327 • PB THE CHOCOLATE LOVERS’ DIET 9780751551334 • PB

Just as the bidding gets exciting in a Bath auction house, three armed men stage a hold-up and attempt to steal Lot 129, a medieval carving of the Wife of Bath. The highest bidder, appalled to have the prize snatched away, tries to stop them and is shot dead. The case demands that someone go undercover. The dangerous mission falls to Sergeant Ingeborg Smith, reverting to her journalist persona to get the confidence of a wealthy local criminal through his pop star girlfriend. And soon, murder makes a reappearance . . . ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE PETER DIAMOND SERIES:

THE STONE WIFE Peter Lovesey

Crime/Mystery • 400 pages

9780751554052 • $34.99 HC • MAY

Praise for PETER LOVESEY: ‘As ever, Lovesey produces a well-crafted mystery with twists and turns to tax the brain . . . a perfect puzzle from the master of the genre.’ - BELLA ‘Lovesey proves a dab hand at dry humour.’ - TIME OUT

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Peter Diamond is in pursuit of a murderer after a theft at an auction house goes wrong.

‘ . . . A stand-out instalment of one of the most enjoyable police series around.’ - MORNING STAR

THE TOOTH TATTOO • 9780751550603 • PB THE TOOTH TATTOO • 9780751550610 • HC SKELETON HILL • 9780751543315 • PB STAGESTRUCK • 9780751545050 • PB

A fresh, daring and gory mashup of the biblical tale of Judas Iscariot Two days after Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, Judas Iscariot receives an anonymous note stating, I know what you did. Wrapped with it is an eye, complete with trailing optic nerve, and a splintered tooth - trophies ripped from two recently butchered friends. Someone, it seems, knows what Judas did on that fateful night following the Last Supper. And that someone is intent on exacting a bloody and gruesome revenge . . .

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUPPER

Darren Allan & Wayne Williams Fiction • 384 pages

9780749958879 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• Judas Iscariot: the architect of the ultimate treachery. But what if there was more to the story than the Bible tells us? What if the full version of events was so deeply disturbing that none of the Gospel writers dared commit it to parchment . . . • There is a huge market for mash-up fiction with a supernatural twist (e.g. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and this novel offers something fresh as it’s based on a well-known - but not often written about section of the Bible.

A fresh twist on assertiveness Many people’s lives, relationships, careers and wellbeing are blighted by the belief that to be liked, loved and accepted they have to limit themselves to the behaviours they believe are approved of by others. Many people would like to be known as ‘lovely,’ but for a growing number of people it can feel like a curse. They feel unable to put their own needs before those of everyone else, and feel that changing this is not an option. This highly practical and motivational book will show readers how to break the curse of lovely to live a more complete, fulfilling life.

THE CURSE OF LOVELY

How to Break Free from the Demands of Others and Learn How to Say No Jacqui Marson Self-Help • 240 pages

9780749957223 • $19.99 PB DEMY • MAY

• Jacqui has already attracted PR for this growing trend with a much commentedon feature in Psychologies magazine. ‘. . . Insightful.’ - TELEGRAPH ‘Marson offers coping strategies, delivered in a cosy, confiding tone, that makes even the most problematic of scenarios seem solvable.’ - MARIE CLAIRE ‘This is a light-hearted look at asserting yourself, saying no and breaking free from others’ demands. Go on, dare to be a disappointment.’ - STYLIST 25

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L.M. MONTGOMERY From the author of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES comes the Emily of New Moon trilogy. Emily Starr has never known what it is to be unloved. But when her father dies, she is left in the care of her mother’s family. Emily is a stranger to the proud Murrays, none of whom think they can cope with such a heartbroken, headstrong girl. They decide to draw lots for her, and Emily is sent to live at New Moon with stern Aunt Elizabeth, the head of the clan. Kind Aunt Laura and friendly, eccentric Cousin Jimmy also live at New Moon, though, so she is not without hope. Emily is enchanted by New Moon, but cannot believe she will ever belong there.

Emily’s story is heart-rending, magical and completely unforgettable. Emily never imagined Aunt Elizabeth would allow her to go to high school in Shrewsbury, and she’s thrilled, especially as her close friends Ilse, Teddy and Perry will be there. But there are certain conditions: for the whole three years Emily must board with hateful Aunt Ruth, and she must promise to stop writing stories. To Emily, this is unthinkable, but she wants an education, and reluctantly agrees. Her happy childhood friendships - especially with Teddy and Perry - start to turn into something more complicated and in a small-town, the merest hint of gossip can cause scandal.

Emily knows she’s going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily’s world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn’t love . . . as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really means . . .

EMILY OF NEW MOON A Virago Modern Classic L. M. Montgomery Fiction • 320 pages

9781844089888 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• The Emily trilogy has not been published in the UK for over twenty years, despite it being a great favourite of many readers, who remember it from childhood. There is a whole generation of new readers who will adore this wonderful series. • For readers aged approx 9–12.

EMILY CLIMBS

A Virago Modern Classic L. M. Montgomery Fiction • 320 pages

9781844089895 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• Of all the books L. M. Montgomery wrote, the Emily trilogy was her personal favourite. She, like many readers, loved Emily even more than Anne of Green Gables.

EMILY’S QUEST

A Virago Modern Classic L. M. Montgomery Fiction • 320 pages

9781844089871 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• Beautiful new covers by a talented artist, which are perfect for these classic books.

A VIEW OF THE HARBOUR

ANGEL

Fiction • 320 pages

Fiction • 336 pages

A Virago Modern Classic Elizabeth Taylor

9781844089642 • $22.99 HB • MAY

9781844089345 • $22.99 HB • MAY

In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory’s best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates in her novels, oblivious to the relationship developing next door. Their daughter Prudence is aware, however, and is appalled by the treachery she observes. Into their lives steps Bertram, a retired naval officer with the unfortunate capacity to inflict lasting damage while trying to do good.

Fifteen-year-old Angelica Deverell knows she is destined to become a feted author. Escaping the dreariness of her provincial life, she locks herself in her room, pouring all her romantic longings on to the page. ALSO AVAILABLE: A GAME OF HIDE & SEEK • 9781844085293 • HC WREATH OF ROSES • 9781844087129 • PB

TERRITORIAL RIGHTS

THE PUBLIC IMAGE

Fiction • 192 pages

Fiction • 160 pages

A Virago Modern Classic Muriel Spark

9781844089659 • $15.99 PB • MAY

9781844089673 • $15.99 PB • MAY

In Venice, Robert encounters a grand carnival of lust, lies, blackmail, cocktail parties and regicide. As he chases Lina, his heart’s desire, the city itself provides a priceless education in love, art and beauty.

First published in 1968 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, THE PUBLIC IMAGE couldn’t be more relevant for today’s celebrityobsessed culture. This is Spark at her wittiest, wickedest best. Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image must be carefully cultivated, whatever the cost.

ALSO AVAILABLE: THE MANDELBAUM GATE • 9781844089666 • PB A FAR CRY FROM KENSINGTON • 9781844085279 • HC MEMENTO MORI • 9781844085521 • PB

UP THE JUNCTION

POOR COW

Fiction • 144 pages

Fiction • 160 pages

9781844089826 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

9781844089819 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

Published in 1963, UP THE JUNCTION won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, was adapted into a film and was the inspiration for the song of the same name. The girls - Rube, Lily and Sylvie - work at McCrindle’s sweet factory during the week and on Saturday they go up the Junction in their clattering stilettos and talk about their boyfriends. In these uninhibited, spirited vignettes of young women’s lives in the shabby parts of South London in the Sixties, money is scarce and enjoyment to be grabbed while it can.

Nell Dunn’s 1967 novel - which was made into a film directed by Ken Loach - is an exuberant, pink-lipsticked tale of London life, love and young motherhood in the Sixties. Joy - also called Blossom, Sunshine and Blondie by the men in her life - walks down Fulham Broadway carrying her week-old baby, Jonny. She is twenty-one, with a head full of dreams. Her husband Tom is a thief and on the proceeds of a job they move to a luxury flat - ‘the world was our oyster and we chose Ruislip’. Then Tom is sent to prison. This is Joy’s story.

A Virago Modern Classic Nell Dunn

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— VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS —

A Virago Modern Classic Nell Dunn

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LISA APPIGNANESI Using sensational public trials, this book takes madness and passion into the courts and puts them on trial. What is criminal, what is sane and what is mad or simply bad? Through trial and asylum records, as well as newspapers accounts, this book brings to life some key trials of the last decades of the 19th and the first of the 20th, a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of the human; sexual and class roles, attitudes to love and madness, let alone notions of respectability and honour, all are at play in the theatre of the courtroom - where the new figure of the expert witness begins to make his power felt.

LOSING THE DEAD

Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness Lisa Appignanesi True Crime • 320 pages

9780349004815 • $24.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9781844088744 • $34.99 HC • JUNE

• TRIALS OF PASSION was the winner of the British Medical Association Award for the Public Understanding of Science, and longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. • MAD, BAD AND SAD was shortlisted for four prizes and won one.

MAD, BAD AND SAD

FIFTY SHADES OF FEMINISM

Lisa Appignanesi

Biography • 272 pages

A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 Lisa Appignanesi

Lisa Appignanesi & Rachel Holmes

9781844089291 $16.99 PB • MAY

Appignanesi had shunned her parents’ stories of war-time Poland, but now she set out to find the truth. In her quest she flew to Warsaw - imagining and revisiting a past she never knew. This is the moving story of the Jews who survived outside the camps, but it is also the author’s own voyage of self-discovery - a family memoir of the rites of passage of emigration, childhood, and growing up an outsider in a closed community.

TRIALS OF PASSION

Feminism • 336 pages

9781844089451 $22.99 HC DEMY • MAY

The antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire. Fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, actors, scientists, mothers - reflect on what being women means to them today. Contributors include: Tahmima Anam, Joan Bakewell, Bidisha, Lydia Cacho, Shami Chakrabarti, Lennie Goodings, Linda Grant, Natalie Haynes and many more.

ALL ABOUT LOVE

Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion Lisa Appignanesi Psychology • 416 pages

9781844085910 • $16.99 PB • JUNE

Psychology • 608 pages

9781844082346 $16.99 PB • JUNE

From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, this is the story of how we have understood mental disorders and extreme states of mind in women over the last two hundred years, and how we conceive of them today.

Praise for LOSING THE DEAD: ‘Distinguished . . . Appignanesi has a sharp eye for the details of everyday life in the Warsaw ghetto . . . Read LOSING THE DEAD and you begin to appreciate what life must have been like for hundreds of thousands of European Jews during the long nightmare of the Third Reich.’ - THE TIMES

Praise for MAD, BAD AND SAD: In this insightful and eloquent meditation on that many-splendored thing, Lisa Appignanesi draws on history, philosophy, psychology, literature, popular culture, and her own experience in order to tangle with love’s paradoxes through the span of our lives. Beginning with the rose-tinted raptures of first love, she proceeds to love in marriage, the passions of triangulated love, jealousy and adultery, love in the family, and friendship, illuminating the expectations, the joys and difficulties that accompany each stage. 28

** ‘A tantalising mix of polemic and history, of ideology and fact . . . A gripping read . . . In a league far above any other book of its kind on this topic.’ - SUNDAY BUSINESS POST ** ‘. . . Endlessly fascinating.’ - THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ** ‘Subtle, textured and enthralling . . . One of the great strengths of this book is the way in which it charts the uncanny relationship between fashions in psychiatric theory and sufferers’ symptoms.’ - SUNDAY TIMES

Ronnie Bagley is awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend and baby. Two weeks before he’s due in court he suddenly fires his defence team, claiming that there’s only one lawyer he wants to defend him: Joe Parker. Despite his misgivings about taking on the case in such strange circumstances, Joe decides to represent Bagley. Little does he know that Bagley is smarter than anyone has given him credit for, and soon Joe will find himself pitched against his own brother, Sam, in a race to outwit the most terrifying serial killer the city has ever seen.

NEXT TO DIE Neil White

Crime/Mystery • 416 pages

9780751549461 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9780751549454 HC: 9780751549447

• Neil White is a No.1 bestselling Kindle author. • Combined sales of all of Neil’s print and ebook editions stand at 400,000 copies. • His latest title BEYOND EVIL reached #1 and #3 in the suspense and thrillers Kindle chart and #11 in overall Kindle fiction chart.

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An unforgettable thriller that pits good against evil and brother against brother

• Follow Neil White on Twitter: @neilwhiteatavon

Brothers Joe and Sam Parker return in the breathtaking follow-up to NEXT TO DIE The Death Collector is charming, sophisticated and intelligent, but he likes to dominate women, to make them give themselves to him completely; to surrender their dignity and their lives. Joe Parker, Manchester’s top criminal defence lawyer, is drawn into the Death Collector’s world, and when the case becomes dangerous, Sam Parker, a brilliant detective with the Greater Manchester Police force, is the first person he turns to. In this gripping thriller, danger lurks for not only the Parker brothers, but also those closest to them.

THE DEATH COLLECTOR Neil White

Crime/Mystery • 416 pages

9780751549485 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9780751549478 • $34.99 HC • JULY

• Combined sales of all of Neil’s print and ebook editions stand at over 500,000 copies. • COLD KILL was Amazon UK’s third-biggestselling Kindle title of 2011 across all genres.

ALSO AVAILABLE: NEXT TO DIE • 9780751549454 • TPB R NEXT TO DIE • 9780751549447 • HC

In the world after 1066, vast empires clamour for dominance. From the Normans in the north to the Byzantines in the south, battles rage across Europe and around its fringes. But in the east, an empire still mightier stirs, wielding a weapon to rule the world: gunpowder. Seeking the destructive might of this ‘fire drug’, the mercenary Vallon - a man made as of grit and earth as much of flesh and blood - is sent by the defeated Byzantine emperor on a secret and near-impossible quest to the far off land of Song Dynasty China.

IMPERIAL FIRE Robert Lyndon

Historical Fiction • 528 pages

9781847445001 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781847444998 • $34.99 HC • MAY

• This follow-up to HAWK QUEST can be read as a superb standalone yet rewards Lyndon’s existing fans. • Vast in scale, elegantly written and completely authentic, Lyndon’s historical adventure will appeal both to fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden, and to those who love the epic canvas of George R.R. Martin.

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The funny, perceptive and candid story of her 30-year pop career Tracey Thorn was one half of internationally successful group Everything But the Girl and collaborated with Paul Weller, Massive Attack and dance legend Todd Terry. She went on countless tours, had hit singles and flop singles, and has been reviewed and interviewed to within an inch of her life. She’s been in the charts, out of them, back in. She’s seen herself described as an indie darling, a middle-of-theroad nobody and a disco diva. She hasn’t always fitted in and that’s made her face up to the realities of a pop career - there are thrills and wonders to be experienced, yes, but also moments of doubt, mistakes, violent lifestyle changes from luxury to squalor and back again, sometimes within minutes.

The brand-new thriller from the author of the terrifying Swedish phenomenon SHE’S NEVER COMING BACK Anna and Lukas have a happy marriage, but when, in a moment of madness, Anna has a brief fling with Erik, a man she met at a work conference, she lives to regret more than just her infidelity. Erik is a disturbed individual who goes to extreme lengths to get Anna’s attention, including kidnapping her ten-year-old daughter and attacking her mother. Before she knows it, Anna’s life is in the grip of this psychopathic stalker and she must try desperately to escape his clutches before it’s too late . . .

BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN

How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star Tracey Thorn Autobiography/Music • 320 pages

9781844088683 • $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781844088669

‘. . . An entertaining and bracingly frank look back on [Thorn’s] experience as an indie darling.’ - TORONTO STAR ‘. . . A witty and charming chronicle of a career full of happy accidents and success found in the least likely of places.’ - GAWKER.COM ‘It’s about self-discovery and love, and will be an inspiration for quiet girls everywhere to pick up guitars.’ - BITCH MAGAZINE

YOU’RE MINE NOW Hans Koppel

Thriller • 400 pages

9780751551181 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9780751551174

• Hans Koppel is at the forefront of the new wave of Scandinavian crime thrillers. • SHE’S NEVER COMING BACK sold 40,000 copies through UK Bookscan. • The film rights to SHE’S NEVER COMING BACK have been optioned to Yellowbird, the production company behind the Steig Larsson film adaptations.

ALSO AVAILABLE: SHE’S NEVER COMING BACK • 9780751547825 • PB

CANCEL THE APOCALYPSE The New Path To Prosperity Andrew Simms Social Studies 352 pages

9780349122922 $16.99 PB • MAY

WALKING WITH TIGERS

THE PEOPLE YOU ARE

Success Secrets from the World’s Top Business Leaders Frank Furness

Rita Carter

Psychology • 320 pages

9780349139968 $16.99 PB • MAY

Business • 192 pages

9780749941178 $16.99 PB • MAY

PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9781408702369

A fascinating look at a world in which we have become obsessed with economic growth at the expense of quality of life and what we can do to change.

Learn how to succeed in business and in life from one of the world’s most popular speakers and motivators.

A practical guide to building a happy ‘household’ of personalities. Rita explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. ALSO AVAILABLE: MAPPING THE MIND • 9780753827956 • PB

Eleanor Blake, distraught after breaking up with her fiance Will, decides to do what most would scarcely dare: secretly follow him to the island hideaway where he’s on holiday with the woman who took her place. But on the shimmering, sun-drenched Sicilian island of Panarea, distractions come in many forms including her fellow hotel guest Lewis, an enigmatic Englishman with secrets of his own to protect . . . ALSO AVAILABLE: DISAPPEARANCE OF EMILY MARR • 9780751543568 PB THE DAY YOU SAVED MY LIFE • 9780751543551 • PB SECOND HUSBAND • 9780751544459 • PB OTHER PEOPLE’S SECRETS • 9780751543544 • PB

The first historical novel from a critically acclaimed writer The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic. He joins a regular hunting ship, but the crew and the passengers are not what they seem. Caught in the web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the motivations of the sociopathic, embroideryloving Captain Sykes, the silent First Mate French, the flamboyant laudanum-addicted Bletchley and, most importantly of all, Bletchley’s beautiful but strange ‘‘cousin’ Clara. As the ship moves further and further into the wilds of the Arctic sea, Eliot clings to what he believes in, desperate to save Clara but drawn irrevocably back into the past that haunts him.

The addictive new thriller. No one knows crime like Kray. Ava Gold lands herself a trial run at being nightclub owner Chris Street’s personal driver. Working for one of the notorious Streets - who have a history of violence reaching back to the boom time of the sixties - is never going to be easy. Chris’ ex-wife is newly involved with his worst enemy and his younger brother Danny and his crazy girlfriend are up to something that will pull Ava into a world of blackmail, murder, sex and greed . . . ALSO AVAILABLE:

THE ISLAND HIDEAWAY Louise Candlish

Fiction • 352 pages

9780751541243 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• From the bestselling author of THE DISAPPEARANCE OF EMILY MARR and SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU. • SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU sold over 113,000 copies. • Over 320,000 Louise Candlish books sold to date in the UK alone.

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

How far would you follow him before you accept it’s over?

‘. . . Brilliantly funny and bittersweet.’ - COSMOPOLITAN

‘Superbly crafted comedy . . . ripe for Hollywood.’ - ELLE

THE COLLECTOR OF LOST THINGS

Jeremy Page

Fiction • 388 pages

9780349138787 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781408704400 HC: 9781408704189

• Perfect for fans of story-driven historical literary fiction such as The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell and English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. • Jeremy Page has worked as a script editor and writer for FilmFour and the BBC. • Jeremy’s first novel, SALT, was shortlisted for The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the Jelf First Novel Award.

STREETWISE Roberta Kray

Crime/Mystery • 384 pages

9780751549843 • $32.99 HC • MAY

• Powerful, compelling and gritty, perfect for readers of Martina Cole and Jessie Keane. • Full of fantastic, strong female characters and authentic East End gangland grit. • Roberta Kray’s novels have sold over 180,000 copies in the UK alone.

BAD GIRL • 9780751549836 • PB BAD GIRL • 9780751549829 • TPB BAD GIRL • 9780751549812 • HC NOTHING BUT TROUBLE • 9780751544794 • PB STRONG WOMAN • 9780751541083 • PB THE VILLIAN’S DAUGHTER • 9781847442437 • PB BROKEN HOME • 9780751544749 • PB

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

A powerful novel, set in Glasgow, about a young man who fights with his longing to go home Set in Glasgow, THE WALK HOME tells the contemporary story of a young displaced Scottish boy whose family has been torn apart by the legacy of the Irish Protestant/Catholic divide. The long shadow of the damage done only one generation back - very nearly destroys him too.

Rachel Seiffert

Fiction • 224 pages

9781844089932 • $22.99 PB DEMY • MAY 9781844089925 • $26.99 HC DEMY • MAY

• THE DARK ROOM won a Betty Trask Award and the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. • Rachel Seiffert was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for THE DARK ROOM.

TEA BY THE NURSERY FIRE

WAR DOG

Biography • 224 pages

Memoir • 272 pages

A Children’s Nanny at the Turn of the Century Noel Streatfeild 9781844088980 $16.99 PB • MAY

A life in service, from nursery maid to head nanny, in Victorian and Edwardian England.

SUMMER IN FEBRUARY

Jonathan Smith Fiction • 368 pages

9780349139128 $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9780349107462

This true tale of love, liberty and scandal among the Edwardian artists’ colony in Cornwall has been made into a stunning film starring Dominic Cooper (Mama Mia) and Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey).

THE WALK HOME

The No-Man’s Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies Damien Lewis 9780751552294 $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: HC DEMY: 9780751552751 PB DEMY: 9780751553475

A heartwarming story about an abandoned puppy and the World War II pilot who saved him.

HOW TO BE A WRITER

COMMANDO

Winning World War II Behind Enemy Lines James Owen History • 448 pages

9780349123622 $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781408703021

Weaving together official documents, new research and veterans’ own accounts, COMMANDO reveals for the first time the exhilarating full story of WWII’s most formidable fighting force.

THE ENGLISH GIRL Margaret Leroy

The Definitive Guide to Getting Published and Making a Living from Writing Sally O’Reilly

Historical Fiction 464 pages

Writing/Career 256 pages

PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9780751551761

9780749954055 $16.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9780749954802

A comprehensive guide - from choosing an agent to café scribbling, and from filing a tax return to flirting with the literati - featuring an introduction by Fay Weldon CBE.

9780751551778 $15.99 PB • JUNE

A breathtaking historical novel set in 1930s Vienna, about an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times. And at the dawn of this terrifying new world, no one is safe. From the author of THE SOLIDER’S WIFE.

Meet THE BEAR - a cat who carries the weight of the world on his furry shoulders, and whose wise, owl-like eyes seem to ask, Can you tell me why I am a cat, please? Like many intellectuals, The Bear would prefer a life of quiet solitude with plenty of time to gaze forlornly into space and contemplate society’s ills. Unfortunately he is destined to spend his days surrounded by felines of a significantly lower IQ . . . And then there’s Tom, writing with his usual wit and charm about the unexpected adventures that go hand in hand with a life at the beck and call of cats.

Everything we know about Christ’s death . . . is a lie. As ex-mercenary Leo Tillman and ambitious cop Heather Kennedy investigate a series of baffling deaths, the trail leads them to the Dead Sea Scrolls - and the deadly gospel hidden within them. But soon Tillman and Kennedy are running for their lives from a band of sinister assassins who weep tears of blood and believe themselves descended from Judas. These ‘fallen angels’ will stop at nothing to expose the world-changing secret of the Scrolls . . . the secret of how Christ really died.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE FURRY

Life with the World’s Most Melancholy Cat and Other Whiskery Friends Tom Cox Autobiography/Pets • 288 pages

9780751552393 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• Following in the footsteps of A STREETCAT NAMED BOB, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE FURRY will give feline fans their fix for 2014. • Tom Cox is the author of several bestselling books, including UNDER THE PAW and BRING ME THE HEAD OF SERGIO GARCIA.

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

A heartwarming memoir about a man at the mercy of his unpredictable, demanding and endlessly lovable cats

• Tom has more than 13K followers on Twitter: @cox_tom

THE DEAD SEA DECEPTION Adam Blake

Thriller • 560 pages

9780751545739 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• This is the first conspiracy thriller since The Da Vinci Code to focus on Christ’s death.

Rocketing from a spectacular plane crash in the American desert to a brutal murder at a London university to a phantom city in Mexico, THE DEAD SEA DECEPTION is the most gripping, revelatory thriller since The Da Vinci Code.

Thorne must risk losing those closest to him. A cluster of suicides among the elderly. Only one man is convinced that something more sinister is taking place. However, no one listens to Tom Thorne anymore. Unable to trust anyone, Thorne must gamble with the lives of those targeted by a killer unlike any he has hunted before. A man with nothing to lose and a growing list of victims. A man with the power to make people take their own lives. ALSO AVAILABLE: RUSH OF BLOOD • 9780751544039 • PB RUSH OF BLOOD • 9781847444226 • TPB R RUSH OF BLOOD • 9781847444219 • HC GOOD AS DEAD • 9780751544978 • PB SLEEPYHEAD • 9780751548914 • PB SCAREDY CAT • 9780751548860 • PB LIFELESS • 9780751548815 • PB THE BURNING GIRL • 9780751548969 • PB BURIED • 9780751548563 • PB

THE DYING HOURS Mark Billingham

Crime/Mystery • 512 pages

9780751544084 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781847444240 HC: 9781847444233

• Billiingham’s first new novel since the hit drama Thorne on HBO CANADA (The Movie Network and Movie Central). • Sales up 20% for FROM THE DEAD - each book keeps outselling the last. • Features both Tom Thorne and Helen Weeks from IN THE DARK. • www.markbillingham.com and follow Mark on Twitter: @MarkBillingham

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

Dreams are shattered and futures altered on one fateful day during the Great War. In the summer of 1913, the world seems full of possibility for four very different young men. Three years later, on the first of July 1916, their lives have been taken in entirely unexpected directions. Now in uniform they are waiting for dawn on the battlefield of the Somme. The generals tell them that victory will soon be theirs but the men are accompanied by regrets, fears and secrets as they move towards the line. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE STRANGE FATE OF KITTY EASTON 9781844086337 • PB THE STRANGE FATE OF KITTY EASTON 9781844086320 • TPB R THE STRANGE FATE OF KITTY EASTON 9781844086313 • HC RETURN OF CAPTAIN JOHN EMMETT 9781844086092 • PB

A new adventure for Matthew Bartholomew, medieval physical/sleuth Matthew Bartholomew doesn’t want to travel to Peterborough in the summer of 1358, but his friendship with the lovely Julitta Holm has caused a scandal in Cambridge, so he has no choice. He is one of a party of Bishop’s Commissioners, charged to discover what happened to Peterborough’s abbot, who went for a ride one day and has not been seen since. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE MATTHEW BARTHOLOMEW SERIES: MURDER BY THE BOOK • 9780751542578 • PB MYSTERY IN THE MINSTER • 9780751542592 • PB THE KILLER PILGRIMS • 9780751542585 • PB A VEIN OF DECEIT • 9780751539158 • PB MURDER ON HIGH HOLBORN • 9781847444332 HC DEMY

DEATH OF A SCHOLAR

Fiction • 400 pages

9781844087815 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: PB DEMY: 9781844087808 HC DEMY: 9781844087792

• THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN JOHN EMMETT was a Richard & Judy Summer Book Club, selling more than 60,000 copies in paperback (TCM). • Will appeal to fans of Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy, and her most recent, TOBY’S ROOM, as well as those who enjoyed Louise Young’s MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU. • follow Elizabeth Speller on Twitter: @lizziespeller

THE LOST ABBOT

The Nineteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew Susanna Gregory Crime/Mystery • 448 pages

9780751549744 • $15.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC DEMY: 9780751549737

• This is #19 in the Matthew Bartholomew series. • The natural successor to Brother Cadfael. • Sales of the Matthew Bartholomew series exceed 100,000 copies.

THE TRUNDLERS Harry Pearson Sports/Cricket 256 pages

Nigel Cawthorne

History • 272 pages

Crime/Mystery 448 pages

9780751549751 $32.99 HC DEMY • JULY

Elizabeth Speller

THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND

The Twentieth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew Susanna Gregory

Tensions between town and gown rise further still when physician Matthew Bartholomew snatches an unpopular felon from the jaws of death - an incident that coincides with a sudden increase in violent crime across the whole region.

AT BREAK OF DAY

9780749954154 $16.99 PB • JUNE

9780349138688 $16.99 PB • JULY

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780749950361

PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9781408704066

Did you know that it’s against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking?

Affectionate, witty and often hilarious, Harry Pearson celebrates medium-paced ‘trundlers’; cricket’s most overlooked men.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

BEASTLY BATTLES OF OLD ENGLAND 9780749956196 • HC CURIOUS CURES OF OLD ENGLAND 9780749950729 • HC

SLIPLESS IN SEATTLE • 9780349000107 • PB DRIBBLE • 9780349122441 • PB

The absence of DS Ben Cooper, on extended leave after an arson attack, has left a serious gap. DS Diane Fry is a reluctant temporary replacement, but now their makeshift team is about to be tested to the limit. As the rain turns into a deluge, loyalties among the officers will be put under intolerable strain as they try to solve their toughest case yet. And that’s before it emerges that Ben Cooper is not at home, but has vanished into thin air . . . ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE BEN COOPER AND DIANE FRY SERIES: THE DEVIL’S EDGE • 9780751545647 • PB DEAD AND BURIED • 9780751545692 • PB

Detective Sergeant Ben Cooper must unravel the mystery of the Corpse Bridge if he’s going to be able to move on with his life. The old Corpse Bridge is the route taken for centuries by mourners from villages on the western fringes of Derbyshire to a burial ground across the River Dove, now absorbed into the landscaped parkland of a stately home. When Earl Manby, the landowner, announces plans to deconsecrate the burial ground to turn it into a car park for his holiday cottages, bodies begin to appear once again on the road to the Corpse Bridge. Is there a connection with the Earl’s plans? Or worse, is there a terrifying serial killer at work?

A dark, bloody story of murder and revenge in modern-day Naples Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he’s marking time, waiting out an awkward scandal. But when the bloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city, victims of a strange and sinister killer whom police and locals take to calling The Crocodile, it soon becomes clear to Lojacono that the killings are more than simple Mafia hits, and that the labyrinthine streets of Naples are more deadly than he’d dared imagine. Can he catch the assassin in time to save the city’s innocents?

ALREADY DEAD Stephen Booth

Crime/Mystery • 400 pages

9780751551723 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9780751551709 HC: 9780751551716

• Stephen Booth is the internationally bestselling, CWA-award winning author of twelve acclaimed thrillers, with over 400,000 books sold worldwide to date. • Perfect for fans of Peter James and Peter Robinson.

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

The breathtaking new thriller starring DC Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry

• Follow Stephen Booth on Twitter: @stephenbooth

THE CORPSE BRIDGE Stephen Booth

Crime/Mystery • 384 pages

9780751551747 • $24.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9780751551730 • $32.99 HC • JULY

THE CROCODILE

Maurizio de Giovanni Crime/Mystery • 272 pages

9780349138893 • $15.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9780349138886

• A bestseller in Italy. ‘The Naples we are plunged into in de Giovanni’s vivid and astringent novel is a phantasmagoric place . . . [The novel is] rich and strange.’ - FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Intriguing . . . de Giovanni’s tale is fast-paced.’ - SUNDAY BUSINESS POST

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

Overflowing with scandal, politics, sex, triumphs and tragedies Young, golden-haired and blue-eyed Eleanor has everything to look forward to as the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her beloved father dies suddenly in the summer of 1137, her childhood is over. Forced to marry the young prince Louis of France, she barely adjusts before another death catapults them to being crowned King and Queen of France. Leaving everything behind, Eleanor must face the complex and vivacious French court. She is only 13. ALSO AVAILABLE: SHADOWS AND STRONGHOLDS • 9780751551822 • PB LADY OF THE ENGLISH • 9780751541342 • PB LORDS OF THE WHITE CASTLE • 9780751551839 • PB FALCONS OF MONTABARD • 9780751551853 • PB

THE KILLING OF RICHARD III 9780751552782 $15.99 PB • JULY

Memoir • 384 pages

9780749955953 $16.99 PB • AUGUST

The extraordinary true story of Kim Noble who suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or ‘multiple personality disorder’, in her own words.

9780751548303 • $15.99 PB • AUGUST PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781847445452

• Elizabeth Chadwick was nominated as one of the Top Ten landmark historical novelists of the decade, by Historical Novel Society founder Richard Lee. • Based on the most up-to-date research, this novel presents a different Eleanor, one who has not been written about before. • The hardcover edition spent four weeks in the top 50.

TRENCH FEVER

Christopher Moore Biography/History 256 pages

9780349139685 $16.99 PB • JULY

Memoir • 320 pages

9780751553017 $16.99 PB • JULY

PREVIOUS EDITION: PB: 9780349110950

This charming memoir of a vicar’s daughter growing up in the north-east’s largest mining town is warm-hearted, classic tale of family, community and the unforgetable thrill of childhood adventure.

Chris Moore retrieves his grandfather’s WWI war-song by following (with reluctant family in tow) the three-year march of the Fifth Leicesters through France and Flanders.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

ROGER, SAUSAGE AND WHIPPET • 9780755363674 HC

BEDPANS AND BOBBY SOCKS 9780751544046 • PB

My Incredible True Story of How I Learned to Live with the Many Personalities Sharing My Body Jeff Hudson & Kim Noble

Historical Fiction • 400 pages

From the Pit to the Pulpit – My Childhood in a Geordie Vicarage Barbara Fox

Thriller • 416 pages

ALL OF ME

Elizabeth Chadwick

IS THE VICAR IN, PET?

Robert Farrington

Murder, mystery and bloody battle meet in Robert Farrington’s brilliant novel of the life and death of Richard III.

THE SUMMER QUEEN

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SOUL MATES

OUR CHEATING HEARTS

Magical and Mysterious Ways to Find True Love Jenny Smedley

Love and Loyalty, Lust and Lies Kate Figes

Mind, Body, Spirit 224 pages

Self Help/Relationships 272 pages

9780749958404 $16.99 PB • AUGUST

9781844087297 $16.99 PB • AUGUST

PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9780749958381

Now, for the first time, Jenny unravels the mysteries behind this most sought after state - that of being in love with the right person and making it last - and explores what magical and mystical means there are to help nature along, including colour, aura, spells, astrology, numerology and asking your angels to help.

PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9781844087280

Monogamy is possible and many couples manage it either throughout their relationship or for long periods of time. But for the countless others a more honest and humane public debate around the subject of infidelity is essential. ALSO AVAILABLE: COUPLES • 9781844084708 • PB

BIRDS IN THE SPRING Evelyn Hood

Fiction • 496 pages

9780751552416 • $12.99 MM • MAY

A PROCESSION OF ONE

ANOTHER DAY

Fiction • 368 pages

9780751552409 • $12.99 MM • MAY

Evelyn Hood

9780751552423 • $12.99 MM • MAY

THE SHIMMER OF THE HERRING

A CERTAIN FREEDOM

A SPARKLE OF SALT

Fiction • 416 pages

Fiction • 352 pages

9780751552447 • $12.99 MM • JUNE

9780751552454 • $12.99 MM • JUNE

WIZARD’S FUNERAL

SCABBARD’S SONG

Evelyn Hood

9780751552430 • $12.99 MM • MAY

KNIGHT’S DAWN The Red Pavilions: Book One Kim Hunter

Evelyn Hood

The Red Pavilions: Book Two Kim Hunter

Evelyn Hood

The Red Pavilions: Book Three Kim Hunter

Fantasy • 384 pages

Fantasy • 352 pages

Fantasy • 416 pages

9780356503103 • $14.99 MM • MAY

9780356503110 • $14.99 MM • MAY

9780356503127 • $14.99 MM • MAY

PREVIOUS EDITION: MM: 9781841490908

PREVIOUS EDITION: MM: 9781841491431

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LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

SPRING / SUMMER 2014 MASS MARKET TITLES

Evelyn Hood

Fiction • 368 pages

LOOKING AFTER YOUR OWN

STAYING ON

Fiction • 352 pages

9780751552478 • $12.99 MM • JUNE

Evelyn Hood

9780751552461 • $12.99 MM • JUNE

THE MORLAND DYNASTY 35: THE PHOENIX

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Historical Fiction 592 pages

9780751549904 • $12.99 MM • MAY

Evelyn Hood

Fiction • 464 pages

SHADES OF DECEIT Mary Larkin

Sagas • 464 pages

9780751551655 • $12.99 MM • AUGUST PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780751551648

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780751549911

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

FALL 2013/WINTER 2014 DROP-IN TITLES Restless young women, two of whom want more than a husband . . . Motherless Alathea Sawneyford, her charms grown disturbing as she rebels against her father, has made the city’s streets her own, while Annie Cantabile is constrained to his pianoforte workshop under the shadow of Tyburn gibbet. One afternoon the dusty workshop receives a visitor. A man, representing an unscrupulous band of City speculators, Alathea’s father among them, require a pianoforte and its charming teacher to find titled husbands for all their daughters. It seems an innocent enough plan but these are subversive times and perhaps even a drawing-room piano lesson isn’t exactly what it seems. All of which will suit Alathea perfectly.

Katharine Grant Fiction • 240 pages

9781844089857 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • FEBRUARY 2014 9781844089840 • $34.99 HC • FEBRUARY 2014

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF EMILY MARR

MORLAND DYNASTY 35: THE PHOENIX

Fiction • 432 pages

Fiction • 592 pages

Louise Candlish

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

9780751543568 $15.99 PB • SEPTEMBER

9780751549911 • $32.99 HC DEMY • OCTOBER

An enthralling story of secrets, scandal, identity and infidelity, from the bestselling author of THE DAY YOU SAVED MY LIFE. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE DAY YOU SAVED MY LIFE • 9780751543551 • PB BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE • 9780708865866 • MM I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU • 9780751541236 • PB I’LL BE THERE / SECOND HUSBAND OMNIBUS • 9780751547313 • MM

THE KING’S REVENGE

Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History Michael Walsh & Don Jordan History • 400 pages

9780349123769 $16.99 PB • OCTOBER 2013 PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9781408703281

When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen. This is a blistering narrative of one of the most exciting periods in British history that will appeal to readers of historical fiction and non-fiction alike. 38

SEDITION

The next thrilling installment of The Morland Dynasty series, which will take readers on a wonderful journey from 1931 to 1936. ALSO AVAILABLE: MORLAND DYNASTY 34: THE WINDING ROAD • 9781847441430 • HC

WAR DOG

A LOVESONG FOR INDIA

The No-Man’s Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies Damien Lewis

Tales from East and West Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Memoir • 288 pages

9780751553475 $19.99 PB DEMY NOVEMBER 2013 9780751552751 $24.99 HC DEMY NOVEMBER 2013

A heartwarming story about an abandoned puppy, and the World War II pilot who saved him.

Fiction • 288 pages

9781408705148 $15.99 PB • FEBRUARY 2014 PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9781408703540

Multi-layered, subtle, wonderful short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author. ALSO AVAILABLE: HEAT AND DUST • 9780349000138 • PB

HACHETTE BOOKS IRELAND

A sassy and sexy contemporary novel by Irish author Clodagh Murphy - pure, escapist fun Bookseller by day, blogger by night, Claire’s wildest dreams come true when a hot publisher offers her a book deal. But she can’t face telling him that the erotic adventures on her blog are fiction, not fact - especially when she finds herself falling for him. So she enlists the assistance of brooding artist Luca to help bring her real-life sexual CV up to scratch. And that’s when things start to get complicated . . .

SOME GIRLS DO Clodagh Murphy

Fiction • 400 pages

9781444726268 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

• For fans of Jilly Cooper, Fiona Walker and Jo Carnegie. • A frothy, pacy read. Total escapism.

Praise for CLODAGH MURPHY: ‘. . . Humour crackling on every page.’

ALSO AVAILABLE:

- IRISH INDEPENDENT

FRISKY BUSINESS • 9781444726244 • PB FRISKY BUSINESS • 9781444726237 • TPB R

A sweeping romantic tale about love, family and the letter that changed everything Sandy Devine is a young woman with everything - good looks, a stellar career and a stunning penthouse apartment. After some stormy setbacks, her romance with handsome investor Sam Ross is back on track. Then disaster strikes. Her mother’s health declines and she has to be hospitalised. As Sandy is cleaning out her mother’s house she comes across a letter in a sealed box. The letter unleashes a long-hidden family secret that rocks Sandy to her heels and sends her on a voyage of discovery that takes her from Dublin to the Costa del Sol in search of her true identity.

‘Fast-paced escapism which does what it promises – transports readers out of their daily lives.’ - WOMAN’S WAY MAGAZINE

THE SPANISH LETTER Kate McCabe

Fiction • 368 pages

9781444726329 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

• Ireland’s most popular writer of romance stories. • Previous bestselling books by Kate McCabe include THE BEACH BAR, MAGNOLIA PARK, CASA CLARA and HOTEL LAS FLORES.

ALSO AVAILABLE: THE MAN OF HER DREAMS • 9781444726299 • TPB THE MAN OF HER DREAMS • 9781444726305 • PB

ORDINARY BEAUTY Mary McEvoy

Self Help • 240 pages

9781444785876 $22.99 HC • MAY

DEAR ROSS

SAY YES TO LIFE

Discover Your Pathways to Happiness and Well-Being Christy Kenneally & Linda Finnegan Self Help • 288 pages

9781444743609 $16.99 PB • JUNE

Evelyn O’Rourke Memoir • 320 pages

DEAR ROSS EVELYN O’ROURKE

9781444789843 $22.99 TPB ROYAL• JUNE

PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB 9781444743593

Irish actress Mary McEvoy draws on her experience of dealing with depression and brings together her simple thoughts and observations on the everyday things that make her happy. A book for those who want to connect with the simple pleasures in life.

Psychologist and psychotherapist Dr Linda Finnegan - and well-known broadcaster, author and motivation speaker Christy Kenneally - look at ways you can release the power of your own potential to lead a happier and more fulfilling life.

Irish journalist and broadcaster Evelyn O’Rourke was pregnant with her second child when she discovered she had breast cancer. This remarkable and beautifullywritten memoir gives an account of Evelyn’s battle against the disease while also preparing to bring her son Ross into the world.

When Ali met Max in the summer of 1990, he turned her empty life around and filled it with love. Now, years on, Ali’s greatest fear is that their happiness might be taken away from them. But just as Max’s star is rising, unsettling incidents threaten their dream. Finn and Jo were running away from heartache when they met in Australia over twenty years ago. Now Finn is in shock and Jo fears for him and their marriage. Then an accident on a Saturday night has devastating consequences for both families. Both Jo and Ali find out that the future depends on the strength of their love and courage.

THE TRUTH BEHIND US Zoe Miller

Fiction • 400 pages

9781444743203 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

• A hugely intriguing, sweeping story full of forbidden love and secrets. • Follow Zoë Miller on Twitter: @ZoeMillerAuthor

Praise for ZOË MILLER: ‘A FAMILY SCANDAL has bravely thrown the chicklit rule book under a speeding 46A (bus) . . . A glamour-filled read.’

ALSO AVAILABLE: THE COMPROMISE • 9781444743180 • PB THE COMPROMISE • 9781444743173 • TPB R RIVAL PASSIONS • 9780749952242 • PB SINFUL DECEPTIONS • 9780749953300 • PB

A perfect holiday read!

THE PINK PEPPER TREE Muriel Bolger

Career woman June Cusack and restaurateur Peter Braga have their successful lives even more successfully planned out - together - until a chance encounter in Monte Carlo changes that forever. As their worlds spin in totally different directions, forcing them apart, they are forced to take second chances, forging new paths for themselves. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE CAPTAIN’S TABLE • 9781444743357 • PB THE CATPTAIN’S TABLE • 9781444743340 • TPB R INTENTIONS • 9781444733044 • PB CONSEQUENCES • 9781444733020 • PB

Warm, heartbreaking and truly magical, ANOTHER SUMMER will sweep you off your feet and offer some welcome sunshine It’s the beginning of May on Roone Island, two years after Nell Mulcahy called off her engagement to the handsome Tim. Now she’s preparing for a very different wedding, but as she sets off to get married in an old church in County Clare, little does she realise that by the time she returns home to Roone, life on the island will have undergone a terrible and terrifying change ALSO AVAILABLE: SOMETHING IN COMMON • 9781444743548 • PB SOMETHING IN COMMON • 9781444743531 • TPB R ONE SUMMER • 9781444706826 • PB

HACHETTE BOOKS IRELAND

A story of family, intrigue, passion and drama

- IRISH INDEPENDENT

‘Zoë Miller’s done it again . . . a hot page turner with a shiver of sensuality.’ - THE EVENING HERALD

THE PINK PEPPER TREE Muriel Bolger

Fiction • 400 pages

9781444743371 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

• An engaging and perceptive story of two lovers forced apart by fate who are then offered a second chance. • A summer read featuring the perfect combination of a beautifully-told story and stunning settings - including the French Riviera, Portugal and Napa Valley.

ANOTHER SUMMER Roisin Meaney

Fiction • 400 pages

9781444743562 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

• An effortless and heart-warming read that will leave you wanting more. • Follow Roisin Meaney on Twitter: @roisinmeaney

Praise for ROISIN MEANEY: ‘If you like Maeve Binchy, this will be a treat.’ - STELLAR MAGAZINE ‘. . . A book to bring some sunshine into your life.’ - WOMAN’S WAY ‘This is a feelgood book you won’t be able to put down.’ - IRISH INDEPENDENT

HACHETTE BOOKS IRELAND

A moving, vivid and lifeaffirming picture of a Dublin boyhood In this evocative and affectionate book, Sean O’Connor recollects the unique and colourful district of his Dublin childhood. Remembrances of the 1940s classroom, of bird-watching in Phoenix Park, of roaming in the streets of his ancestors are mingled with tales of ancient ghosts and the coming of change to the Liberties.

Gripping and suspenseful Clodagh Hamilton, trying to come to terms with her past, visits a hypnotherapist who unleashes disturbing childhood memories of her father’s death, and memories of another tragedy come to light. What terrible events took place in the Hamilton house all those years ago? And what connects them to the recent murders in Dublin being investigated by criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson? ALSO AVAILABLE: RED RIBBONS • 9781444743036 • PB

GROWING UP SO HIGH Sean O’Connor

Memoir • 352 pages

9781444743098 • $16.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB 9781444743081

• Beautifully-written debut by a rare talent and father of Joseph O’Connor and singer Sinead O’Connor. • In the memoir tradition of Frank McCourt’s ANGELA’S ASHES.

THE DOLL’S HOUSE Louise Phillips

Crime/Mystery • 416 pages

9781444743067 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

• For fans of Tana French and Sophie Hannah. • Louise’s debut novel RED RIBBONS was a Top 10 Bestseller and was nominated in the Crime Fiction Book of the Year category at the Irish Book Awards 2012. • Check out author website at www.louise-phillips.com

THE MANAGERS

The Tactics and Thinkers that Transformed Gaelic Football Daire Whelan Sports/Gaelic Football 368 pages

9781444744026 $16.99 PAPERBACK • JULY

DID THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN?

Paddy Duffy Humour • 336 pages

9781444750409 $14.99 PB • JULY

CINNAMON TOAST AND THE END OF THE WORD Janet E. Cameron

Fiction • 384 pages

PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB 9781444744019

Sports journalist Daire Whelan looks at the development of the tactics and management techniques of Gaelic football’s leading managers, and speaks to them about the secrets of their successes, the truth about their losses, and their fears for the future of the game.

WINTER 2014

With characteristic wry humour, columnist and broadcaster Paddy Duffy recounts the ridiculous but true stories that make Irish politics what it is. Intriguing, amusing and completely daft.

9781444743975 $15.99 PB JANUARY

Teleport yourself to Nova Scotia! The year is 1987 and the world of Stephen Shulevitz, who, with three months of high school to go, has just realised he’s fallen in love - with exactly the wrong person. And sometimes leaving the past behind is harder than it seems . . .

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The deadliest love affair to involve the Royal Family and its attempted cover-up Author and barrister Andrew Rose argues that friends of ‘the hapless Edward VIII-to-be’ conspired to get Marguerite Alibert, a highclass Parisian hooker and notorious gold-digger, off the hook for murder; silencing the fact that she, a prostitute, had bedded and partied with the Prince on numerous occasions during the last 18 months of World War I while he was serving with the Army in France. And she had racy love letters from him to prove it.

THE PRINCE, THE PRINCESS AND THE PERFECT MURDER Andrew Rose

History • 352 pages

9781444776478 • $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444776461 HC: 9781444776454

• Book of the Week in Zoomer Magazine. • Sensational material including brand new revelations about the Royal Family. • Published alongside a major Channel 4 UK documentary on the same subject featuring the author. • With a reign of 326 days, Edward was one of the shortest-reigning monarchs in British and Commonwealth history. He was never crowned.

A story of passion, desire and fierce emotion Freya Hammond is used to people fulfilling her every whim. Wealthy and spoiled, she is accustomed to getting her own way. Which is why the new bodyguard is riling her. Miles Murray is ex-SAS and obeys her instructions with barely repressed scorn. When Freya comes to after a car accident, she is lying on the freezing ground, Miles beside her. Now Freya needs Miles to save her life. Using all his survival skills, Miles manages to locate an old shepherd’s hut and get them both there despite Freya’s twisted ankle. Rescue will surely come before too long . . . but until then Freya is no longer in control . . .

A SEASON OF DESIRE Sadie Matthews

Erotica • 400 pages

9781444781106 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• The first in the new Seasons Quartet series is the must-read for all fans of Sadie Matthews’ After Dark series, and will win her legions of new ones. • The After Dark series sold over 100,000 copies in ebook alone.

ALSO AVAILABLE: FIRE AFTER DARK • 9781444765502 • PB SECRETS AFTER DARK • 9781444766707 • PB PROMISES AFTER DARK • 9781444775877 • PB

Part two of the first book in a sensual and provocative romance series, by the bestselling author of the After Dark trilogy Flora Hammond is trying to make her dream of being an actress come true by studying her craft in Paris. Her path crosses with that of a mysterious businessman, Andrei Dubrovski, and there is an instant attraction between them. Even though Flora is warned off getting involved with him, she doesn’t think she can resist. As Flora’s obsession with Andrei grows, it’s clear that where passion is concerned, the heart has its reasons . . .

SEASONS QUARTET BOOK TWO (Complete Edition) Sadie Matthews Erotica • 352 pages

9781444781168 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

• The current appetite for erotica is showing no signs of slowing down. • There is sustained interest for this sort of sophisticated, well-written, passionate romance.

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I’ve chased him for over twenty years, and across countless miles, and though often I was running, there have been many times when I could do nothing but sit and wait. Now I am only desperate for it to be finished.

In 1944, just days after the liberation of Paris, Charles Jackson sees something horrific: a man, apparently drinking the blood of a murdered woman. Terrified, he does nothing, telling himself afterwards that worse things happen in wars. Seven years later he returns to the city - and sees the same man dining in the company of a fascinating young woman. When they leave the restaurant, Charles decides to follow . . .

• Marcus Sedgwick is the hugely acclaimed, multiple prize-winning author of 12 YA novels and several series for younger readers. His first adult book will appeal to his thousands of now grown-up fans.

Praise for MARCUS SEDGWICK: ‘Marcus Sedgwick is a true original.’ - INDEPENDENT ON THE BOOK OF DEAD DAYS

A LOVE LIKE BLOOD Marcus Sedgwick

‘Like Pullman, Sedgwick draws characters so magnetic that readers will find it hard to look away.’ - BOOKLIST ON MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING ‘You’re in safe hands with Sedgwick.’ - GUARDIAN ON THE BOOK OF DEAD DAYS

Thriller • 272 pages

9781444751949 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781444751932 • $32.99 HC • MAY

A dramatic and fascinating tale of clashing cultures, illicit passion, betrayal, honour and shame in many guises On the edge of a small town in New South Wales, thousands of miles from the battlefields of the Second World War, a prisoner of war camp holds both Italians - largely relieved to be out of the fighting and willing to work on the local farms - and Japanese, so ashamed to have been caught alive that they’d rather die than return home. When there is a breakout, there are explosive consequences in the camp, the local community and as far away as Sydney. ALSO AVAILABLE:

SHAME AND THE CAPTIVES Thomas Keneally

Fiction • 384 pages

9781444781281 • $32.99 HC • MAY

• The Booker Prize-winner at his best with a novel about war, public disgrace and private passions. • Keneally’s most recent novel, the Daughters of Mars, has been universally acclaimed, sold double his previous novel in hardback and is currently on the shortlist for the Walter Scott and Warwick Prizes.

THE DAUGHTERS OF MARS • 9780340951880 • PB DAUGHTERS OF MARS • 9780340951873 • HC SCHINDLER’S ARK • 9780340936290 • PB PEOPLE’S TRAIN • 9780340951866 • PB

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Isabel Delancey has always taken her gifted life for granted. But when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her with a mountain of debt, she and her two children are forced to abandon their home and move to a crumbling pile in the country. As she fights to make her house a home, passions and lives collide. Isabel will discover an instinct for survival she never knew she had - and that a heart can play a new song . . .

NIGHT MUSIC (Reissue) Jojo Moyes

Fiction • 416 pages

9780340895962 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• Featured in Zoomer Magazine. • The bestselling author of Me Before You and two-time winner of the RNA Novel of the Year award. • A compelling and inspiring story with magical settings and utterly convincing characterisation. • Rosamunde Pilcher for a new generation. ‘With its skilful blend of emotional intensity and satisfyingly drawn characters, Jojo Moyes’ sixth novel is a perfect summer read.’ - MARIE CLAIRE

Athene Forster embraced the Sixties like few others. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was spoiled, beautiful, and out of control. And within two years of her marriage, the rumours had begun again. Thirty-five years on, Suzanna Peacock finds refuge from her mother’s shameful legacy in her shop, the Peacock Emporium. Within its magical walls she discovers not just friendship, and an escape from her troubled marriage, but the first real passion of her life. But the spectre of her mother still haunts Suzanna, setting in place a series of dramatic events. Only by confronting the past will she finally be able to face the future . . .

The comedian, writer and mental health campaigner shows us how our minds can jeopardize our sanity. With her own periods of depression and now a Masters from Oxford in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy to draw from, Ruby Wax explains how our busy, chattering, self-critical thoughts drive us to anxiety and stress. If we are to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world. Helping you become the master, not the slave, of your mind, here is the manual to saner living.

THE PEACOCK EMPORIUM (Reissue) Jojo Moyes

Fiction • 448 pages

9780340960370 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• Jojo Moyes won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year award for Foreign Fruit, and was shortlisted again last year for The Ship of Brides. • Silver Bay was shortlisted for the inaugural Good Housekeeping Book of the Year Award in 2007.

SANE NEW WORLD

Ruby Wax

Self Help • 272 pages

9781444755756 • $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB R: 9781444755749 HC: 9781444755732

• #1 non-fiction bestseller in the UK. • She worked with Jennifer Saunders on Absolutely Fabulous and had her own show Ruby Wax Meets where she interviewed everyone from Imelda Marcos to Pamela Anderson. ‘Wax touches upon her own anxieties and fears with honesty and humour . . . it royally hauls a stigmatised fact of life kicking and laughing into the open.’ - THE TIMES

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The sequel to the bestselling A STREET CAT NAMED BOB continues the remarkable adventures of James and Bob. ‘Since Bob has appeared, I’ve made huge strides in my life. For more than a decade I was a homeless drug addict. I was lost to the world and had forgotten what was important in life. Now I’ve got myself back on my two feet, but as I put the past behind me, I’m still stepping unsteadily into the future. I still need help in the right direction. Bob is always there to offer guidance and friendship.’ In the continuing tale of their life together, James shows the many ways in which Bob has been his protector and guardian angel through times of illness, hardship, even life-threatening danger. As they high five together for their crowds of admirers, James knows that the tricks he’s taught Bob are nothing compared to the lessons he’s learnt from his street-wise cat.

• Interviewed on CBC Radio, The Current and CTV Canada AM. • A STREET CAT NAMED BOB has sold over 200,000 copies since March 2012 and spent over 40 weeks in the top ten. It has been nominated for the Nonfiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards.

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BOB The Further Adventures of One Man and His Street-Wise Cat James Bowen Biography • 304 pages

9781444777574 • $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444777567 HC: 9781444777550

• Now translated into 9 languages, James and Bob have captured the world’s heart with over 12,000 Facebook fans and 11,000 followers on Twitter. They have appeared on BBC Breakfast, This Morning and The One Show and been the subject of numerous national and international news pieces. They continue to attract huge crowds wherever they go. And negotiations are in the works for a Hollywood film. • The first book finishes in 2009. Much has happened to James and Bob in the intervening years. This new book shows how far Bob has helped James recover from his turbulent life and helped him to enjoy its simple pleasures. In various stories we learn, for example, how Bob protects James from a mugging, wakes him up when he falls ill on a bus, learns to perform tricks which enchant the crowds, and helps him through another tough period on the streets.

ALSO AVAILABLE: STREET CAT NAMED BOB • 9781444737110 • PB BOB: NO ORDINARY CAT • 9781444764901 • PB

The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor - hailed as the greatest travel writer of his generation A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. ‘When are you going to finish Vol. III?’ was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. But he had written an early draft of the last part of the walk, and it predated the other two. It remains unfinished but THE BROKEN ROAD completes an extraordinary journey. ALSO AVAILABLE: TIME OF GIFTS • 9780719566950 • PB BETWEEN THE WOODS AND THE WATER 9780719566967 • PB

THE BROKEN ROAD Patrick Leigh Fermor

Travel Narrative • 304 pages

9781848547544 • $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: HC: 9781848547520 TPB R: 9781848549333

• The book that the fans of Patrick Leigh Fermor have been waiting for. • Huge amount of interest and publicity surrounding all things Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Praise for PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR: ‘Elegant and vividly exotic . . . done with brilliant aesthetic feeling and a charming philosophic melancholy.’ - THE TIMES

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– GERALD SEYMOUR – A small British paramilitary team of men are sent into Iran to smuggle out a feisty, independent, beautiful young woman. If they are caught, they will all be executed by the fundamentalist government - the Brits because they are effectively spies and Farideh because she has a dangerous mind of her own. The journey out is an epic of drama and suspense, culminating in a never-to-be-forgotten run for the border. Along the way, we meet many characters, both British and Iranian, who display courage, cowardice, hatred, and love.

THE CORPORAL’S WIFE Gerald Seymour

Thriller • 432 pages

9781444758573 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444758566 HC: 9781444758559

Praise for GERALD SEYMOUR: ‘. . . Evokes the atmosphere and smell of the back streets of Belfast as nothing else I have ever read.’ - FREDERICK FORSYTH, SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘Devastatingly good . . . you can smell the mean streets where the terrorists hide.’ - SPECTATOR

RED FOX

FIELD OF BLOOD

AT CLOSE QUARTERS

Thriller • 496 pages

9781444760071 $15.99 PB • MAY

Thriller • 496 pages

9781444760156 $15.99 PB • MAY

Thriller • 496 pages

9781444760194 $15.99 PB • MAY

Beautiful, seductive and extremely dangerous, Franca Tantardini is one of Italy’s most ruthless political extremists. When she is captured in a shoot-out, her fanatical young lover, Giancarlo Battestini, vows to set her free . . .

Peter Holt, a young diplomat, witnesses the horrific murder of his fiance and the British Ambassador within days of a new posting to the Soviet Union. A British Intelligence officer suspects Palestinian involvement, althought the Russians insist that it was not a terrorist attack. The British government are determined to extract revenge . . .

The conclusion to Gemma Malley’s terrifyingly dark vision of our near future will leave you gasping for air. Evie and Raffy may have escaped the City but they still fear for their lives. Now the only person who can help them is Frankie, a total stranger, the most popular girl in the world, watched every second by millions of people. But Frankie has other ideas . . . ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE KILLABLES TRILOGY: THE KILLABLES • 9781444722802 • PB THE DISAPPEARANCES • 9781444722857 • PB

Sean McNally has sworn his oath to the IRA. But then he’d turned his back on the violence and the hatred, and gone south to the Republic. Life was good, until they came for him to do one last job. But in its aftermath, McNally is captured and is facing a lifetime’s imprisonment. Unless he dares think the unthinkable . . .

THE SYSTEM

The Killables Book Three Gemma Malley Young Adult / Science Fiction • 368 pages

9781444722901 • $11.99 PB • MAY 9781444722888 • $14.99 PB DEMY • MAY

• High-concept plot set in a future state, that follows two emotionally engaging teenage characters. • Follow Gemma Malley on Twitter: @gemmamalley

Praise for GEMMA MALLEY: ‘. . . Thought-provoking and an important one to read.’ - THE TIMES ‘. . . Chillingly well-imagined.’ - DAILY MAIL 48

THE GLORY BOYS

Praise for GERALD SEYMOUR:

9781444760033 $15.99 PB • AUGUST

‘Picking up a novel by Gerald Seymour is like taking a deep breath of fresh air . . . When readers get to the nailbiting climax, involving an agonising wait for airborne rescue, they may be wondering why they should bother with any other thriller writer.’ - INDEPENDENT

Thriller • 368 pages

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‘FIRST RATE . . . EDGE-OF-THE-SEAT READING.’ - WASHINGTON POST

‘After 28 novels, Seymour’s empathy for those he ensnares in his moral minefields remains movingly even-handed.’ - DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘. . . Gripping, informative and well-paced.’ - INDEPENDENT

When Abdel-El-Famy, a Palestinian zealot and would-be terrorist, is sent with two others to assassinate a leading Israeli nuclear scientist giving a lecture in London, he knows that there is little prospect of a safe return. Yet he feels no fear. Famy is prepared to sacrifice himself for his cause.

‘I would class this book with the first-rate achievements of Graham Greene, Charles McCarry and Le Carré.’ - CHICAGO TRIBUNE ‘. . . Combines the landscapes and rugged manhunts of Geoffrey Household with the dispassionate sniper’s eye of Eric Ambler.’ - THE TIMES ‘Gives the many-sided suspense story such a wealth of factual detail, it is in the same class as Frederick Forsyth’s best.’ - DAILY MAIL ‘. . . Absorbing from beginning to end . . . the sort of book that makes you lose track of time.’ - NEW YORK TIMES ‘. . . A well-written, fast-moving and infinitely superior thriller.’ - DAILY MAIL ‘Expertly handled . . . the climax is bloody and violent.’ - DAILY EXPRESS

Thriller • 368 pages

HOME RUN

Thriller • 368 pages

ARCHANGEL

THE CONTRACT

9781444760217 • $15.99 PB • AUGUST

9781444760118 • $15.99 PB • AUGUST

9781444760095 • $15.99 PB • AUGUST

It is an unwritten rule in the Intelligence Services that Desk Heads never travel. But when Mattie Furniss is ordered to improve the quality of information coming out of Iran by travelling to the region, it is easy to see that desperation is in the air. And it isn’t long before Iran’s spymasters are all too aware of his purpose . . .

They never told Michael Holly the risks of espionage in the Soviet Union. But when the unimaginable happens and he finds himself staring certain, inevitable death in the face, Holly has to find the strength to gather his resources to fight the camp’s brutal regime in any way he can and with the limited means at his disposal.

Johnny Donoghue enjoyed a glittering career in the British Army until he was discharged for his involvement in the shooting of a young girl in Northern Ireland. It is not difficult to convince him to accept the mission to atone for past mistakes and to escape from the infernal boredom.

Thriller • 368 pages

ALSO AVAILABLE: CONDITION BLACK • 9781444760231 • PB KINGFISHER • 9781444760170 • PB A SONG IN THE MORNING • 9781444760170 • PB

His past is catching up with him . . . Charlie Stuart, the laird of Castle Sodhaill and disappointed father of a brood of grown-up children, had longed since childhood to inherit the Castle on the loch. He had fallen in love with the landscape and looked forward to the responsibilities that came with it, but his mother’s devestating death while he was away at school and his father’s remarriage to an unwelcome stepmother had swept away any easy path to fulfilling his destiny. Now - thirty years since finally becoming the castle’s guardian - his past had caught up with him. It was about to tear his ‘perfect’ family apart. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE HAUNTING • 9780340936900 • PB HAUNTING • 9780340936894 • TPB R HAUNTING • 9780340936887 • HC FOLLY • 9780340936870 • PB

BRING ME HOME Alan Titchmarsh

Fiction • 352 pages

9780340936924 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9780340936917 • $32.99 HC • MAY

• Alan Titchmarsh has more than proven himself as a bestselling novelist with eight previous top ten bestsellers. • His last novel The Haunting achieved sales of over 120,000 copies. • His new novel will be the perfect Mother’s Day gift targeting the Richard and Judy market and fans of escapist fiction authors like Judy Finnegan and Kate Morton.

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Love is in the air in Fogas, but not all is going according to plan. One man struggles to declare his love, while another is trying to propose . . . unsuccessfully. But these small-scale complications are thrown into sharp relief when the town is hit by a much bigger problem. The man in charge of the department, the Préfet of Ariège, decrees that with its dwindling birth rate, Fogas is not a viable community on its own and will have to merge with neighbouring Sarrat. Facing a battle for their commune, the inhabitants of Fogas organise a fête around the apple harvest in October. But will low attendance at the fête merely serve to prove the Préfet right? Or can community spirit triumph in a time of crisis? ALSO AVAILABLE:

A FÊTE TO REMEMBER Julia Stagg

Fiction • 368 pages

9781444764437 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781444765991 • $34.99 HC • MAY

• For Francophiles and anyone with a fantasy about living in a small, close rural community. • Follow Julia Stagg on Twitter: @juliastagg

Praise for JULIA STAGG: ‘. . . A humorous insight into French living.’ - TATLER IRELAND ‘. . . Entertaining drama in small-town France.’ - WOMAN AND HOME

THE FRENCH POSTMISTRESS • 9781444765960 • PB

Marcus Aquila is back in Rome, hunting the men who destroyed his family. The young centurion’s urge to exact his own brutal justice upon the shadowy cabal of assassins who butchered his family means that he must face them on their own ground, risking his own death at their hands. But the revenge he craves may cost him and those around him dearly. A senator, a gang boss, a praetorian officer and, deadliest of all, champion gladiator Mortiferum - the Death Bringer - lie in wait. The knives are unsheathed, and ready for blood . . . ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE WOUNDS OF HONOUR SERIES:

THE EMPEROR’S KNIVES Empire VII Anthony Riches

Historical Fiction • 352 pages

9781444731927 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781444731910 • $34.99 HC • MAY

• Brilliantly authentic story about the Roman army from the point of view of the Roman soldier - with breathtaking sword play and hand-to-hand fighting that will delight both fans of Gladiator and readers of Andy McNab.

THE EAGLE’S VENGEANCE VI • 9781444711912 • TPB R THE EAGLE’S VENGEANCE VI • 9781444711905 • HC

THE EAGLE’S VENGEANCE

THE LOST ART OF HAVING FUN

FIGHTING ON THE HOME FRONT

Historical Fiction 368 pages

Games/Hobbies 480 pages

History • 448 pages

Empire VI Anthony Riches 9781444711929 $15.99 PB • MAY

Gyles & Saethryd Brandreth 9781848549746 $29.99 HC • MAY

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE WOUNDS OF HONOUR SERIES: EMPIRE I • 9780340920329 • PB ARROWS OF FURY: EMPIRE II • 9780340920350 • PB FORTRESS OF SPEARS: EMPIRE III 9780340920381 • PB LEOPARD SWORD: EMPIRE IV • 9781444711844 PB THE WOLF’S GOLD: EMPIRE V • 9781444711882 PB

9781444759693 $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444759686 HC: 9781444759679

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444711912 HC: 9781444711905

The barbarian leader Calgus defies both his captors and Britannia’s legions.

The Legacy of Women in World War One Kate Adie

THE LOST ART OF HAVING FUN picks out 150 games, guaranteed to make even the grumpiest child or adult laugh, and then with all kinds of interesting stories and lovely illustrations, shows you clearly (and very entertainingly) how to play them.

In 1914 the world changed forever. When WWI broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, women emerged from the shadows of their domestic lives. This is history at its best - a vivid, compelling account of the pioneering women who helped win the war as well as a revealing assessment of their legacy for women’s lives today.

Where is the best place to hide a murder? Amongst a million other deaths.

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The first book in a thrilling new crime trilogy from the author of THE GIRL ON THE STAIRS A pandemic is rapidly sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden death of her boyfriend Simon was not from natural causes. Stevie’s search for Simon’s killer takes her into the depths of the dying city and into a race with death.

• Louise Welsh is the author of five highly acclaimed novels including THE CUTTING ROOM and, most recently, THE GIRL ON THE STAIRS. • The queen of psychological suspense. • A fast-paced and explosive plot covering pandemic and murder, combined with Welsh’s usual literary touch. • An exciting new trilogy from an established and well-respected crime author. • Louise Welsh is the recipient of several awards including The John Creasy Memorial Dagger and the Saltire First Book Award.

A LOVELY WAY TO BURN Louise Welsh

Crime/Mystery • 288 pages

9781848546615 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781848546516 • $34.99 HC • MAY

ALSO AVAILABLE: GIRL ON THE STAIRS • 9781848546509 • PB GIRL ON THE STAIRS • 9781848546608 • TPB R GIRL ON THE STAIRS • 9781848546486 • HC

A man has a heart transplant and finds his feelings - and capacity for love - seem mysteriously to have changed. Patrick, a fifty-year-old professor of American Studies, drinker and womaniser, has been given six months to live. In a rural part of Cambridgeshire, a teenager dies in a motorcycle accident. When his heart is transplanted into Patrick’s chest, the lives of two strangers are forever conjoined. Patrick makes a good recovery from surgery, but has the strange feeling that his old life ‘won’t have him’. . .

THE TELL-TALE HEART Jill Dawson

Fiction • 256 pages

9781444731071 • $19.99 PB DEMY • MAY 9781444731064 • $32.99 HC DEMY • MAY

• Jill Dawson’s novels have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Novel Award. • Likely to appeal to the reading group market, with plenty of themes for discussion.

ALSO AVAILABLE: LUCKY BUNNY • 9780340935682 • PB LUCKY BUNNY • 9780340935675 • HC

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The follow-up to the hugely successful TURNING THIRTY High flier Matt Beckford’s sole ambition is to turn forty with his life sorted. And with a Porsche on the drive and a job that requires him to spend more time in BA’s club lounge than his own lounge, it looks like things are going in the right direction. But when Matt’s wife unexpectedly calls time on their marriage, a chain of events is set in motion that very quickly sees him facing forty broke, homeless and completely alone. But all is not lost because Matt has a plan . . . ALSO AVAILABLE: STAG AND HEN WEEKEND • 9781444708608 • PB IMPORTANCE OF BEING A BACHELOR 9780340918524 • PB

TURNING FORTY Mike Gayle

Fiction • 416 pages

9780340918555 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9780340918548 HC: 9780340918531

• Mike has sold just under 1 million novels in the ten years since he wrote My Legendary Girlfriend.

Praise for THE STAG AND HEN WEEKEND: ‘The Brummie author is particularly adept at depicting male and female characters with equal conviction . . . He affords his characters patience, and his plots all move along swimmingly on the back of his clear and comfy prose . . . The execution is pretty damn smart.’ - DAILY MIRROR, BOOK OF THE WEEK ****

THE DIVORCED DADS’ CLUB

THE TRADER’S REWARD

FORCE BENEDICT

Fiction • 352 pages

Sagas • 400 pages

9781444708639 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST 9781444708622 $32.99 HC • AUGUST

9781444761290 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781444761283 $34.99 HC • MAY

Autobiography/History 352 pages

Mike Gayle

When Joe Clarke writes a feature for his newspaper on the guys called the Divorced Dads’ Club, he doesn’t think he’ll ever see this sorry bunch of losers again. Why would he? He’s happily married to Penny, his university sweetheart. Joe has never strayed from his marriage vows . . . until one drunken night which leaves his life in ruins, and Penny showing him the door.

TWEET OF THE DAY Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss Birds/Birdwatching 336 pages

9781848549777 $34.99 HC • MAY

This vivid biography of 225 birds, what they look like, sound like and where and when you can see them is also packed full of folklore, poetry and ornithological observation. Award-winning naturalist Brett Westwood and bestselling author Stephen Moss have distilled a lifetime’s knowledge, insights and enthusiasm into these pages.

When Fergus Deagan’s wife dies, leaving him to care for their small children, he doesn’t know how to manage; the final book in the Traders series. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE TRADER’S SERIES: THE TRADER’S WIFE • 9781444711264 • MM THE TRADER’S SISTER • 9781444711295 • MM THE TRADER’S DREAM • 9781444711325 • MM THE TRADER’S GIFT • 9781444761245 • HC THE TRADER’S GIFT • 9781444761269 • MM

9781444785128 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781444785135 $32.99 HC • MAY

WWII fighter pilot Eric Carter is the last surviving member of a Top Secret mission, code-named ‘Force Benedict’. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941, Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR’s only port not under Nazi occupation. Now he reveals his experiences of seventy years ago in the hell on earth that was Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic Circle.

KNIFE EDGE

THE WAR OF THE GRAIL

Fergus McNeill Crime/Mystery 352 pages

Geoffrey Wilson Fantasy • 400 pages

9781444739695 $15.99 PB • MAY

9781444721188 $15.99 PB • MAY

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444739671 HC: 9781444739664

He didn’t intend to let Kim get so close. But now that she’s become important to him, Robert Naysmith decides to tell his girlfriend his deadly secret. He wants her to recognise the power he holds. He hopes he won’t have to kill her. The explosive sequel to EYE CONTACT. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE INSPECTOR HARLAN SERIES: EYE CONTACT • 9781444739640 • PB

Eric Carter & Anthony Loveless

Anna Jacobs

The third volume in the enthralling alternative-history series continues a world in which an Indian empire rules Europe through the power of magic. ALSO AVAILABLE: LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY • 9781444721126 • PB THE PLACE OF DEAD KINGS • 9781444721157 • PB

Lord Wolf, hardened soldier and expert lover, has come to King Henry VIII’s court to claim his new bride: a girl who has intrigued him since he first saw her riding across the Yorkshire moors. Eloise Tyrell, now lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn, has other ideas. She has no desire to submit to a man she barely knows and who - though she is loath to admit it frightens her not a little.

WOLF BRIDE

(Lust in the Tudor Court - Book One) Elizabeth Moss Erotica • 352 pages

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The first instalment in a deliciously erotic trilogy, set against the sumptuous backdrop of the Tudor Court

9781444752427 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• Hilary Mantel meets Sylvia Day. • For fans of the hit BBC series The Tudors. ‘It’s Fifty Shades of Tudor sex, by Harry!’ - THE SUNDAY TIMES

Then comes that first kiss. It awakens in both a fierce desire that bares them to the soul. But as the court erupts into scandal around the ill-fated Queen, Eloise sees first-hand what happens when powerful men tire of their wives.

He is under her spell . . . Hugh Beaufort, favoured courtier of King Henry VIII, likes his women quiet and biddable. Susannah Tyrell is neither of these things. She is feisty, beautiful, opinionated and brave. And Hugh is fascinated by her - despite himself. Their lust is undeniable. When Susannah pulls her most outrageous stunt yet and finds herself lost in the wilds of England, Hugh must go to her rescue. Neither of them is prepared for the dangers that lie in wait. But most dangerous of all is their desire for one another. Alone together in the forest, far from the restraints of court . . .

ONE MILLION LOVELY LETTERS Jodi Ann Bickley Autobiography 240 pages

9781444754780 $26.99 HC DEMY • MAY

The heart-warming and inspirational true story of a stroke survivor who sends uplifting letters all around the world, providing her with a lifeline in her own darkest moment.

REBEL BRIDE

(Lust in the Tudor Court - Book Two) Elizabeth Moss Erotica • 288 pages

9781444752441 • $15.99 PB • MAY

• Two of the biggest fiction trends combine: erotica and the historical novel - the ‘literature crush of the decade’ according to Stylist magazine.

THE PATH OF THE NINJA

THE SIXTY MINUTE GRANDPARENT

Autobiography 352 pages

Parenting • 128 pages

Rob Parsons

Martin Faulks

9781444745702 $16.99 PB • MAY

9781444764406 $32.99 HC • MAY

This story of The Dalai Lama’s bodyguard is thrilling, funny and spiritually enlightening - a real-life Kick-Ass!

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781444745696

In this simple book Rob Parsons will help you reach the common aspiration: to be the best grandparent that you can possibly be. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE HEART OF FRIENDSHIP • 9781444745665 TPB R LOVING AGAINST THE ODDS • 9780340995990 PB

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– KEITH WATERHOUSE – BIMBO

GOOD GRIEF

Fiction • 224 pages

Fiction • 240 pages

Keith Waterhouse 9781444753875 $15.99 PB • MAY

Debra tells the story of her climb to stardom from the Donna Bella Rosa School of Fashion and how she met ‘The Sir’, Sir Monty Pratt, the ‘bonking baronet’ who so adored her and who was so compromised. She reveals the Debra Chase Diet Muffin Scandal and her part in it, as well as her on-off affair with hunky goal-ace, Brian Boffe.

SOHO

Keith Waterhouse Fiction • 256 pages

9781444753950 $15.99 PB • JUNE

Alex Singer’s pursuit of his errant girlfriend takes him from club to pub and into contact with a rich cross-section of Soho life. Twenty-four hours, three deaths, one fire and one mugging later, seduced, traduced and befriended, Alex is on his way to the Soho Ball.

80 NOT OUT

My Favourite Cricket Memories Dickie Bird Biography/Sports/Cricket 352 pages

9781444769630 $16.99 PB • MAY

Keith Waterhouse 9781444753974 $15.99 PB • MAY

June Pepper finds there is more to life than death in this touching, sensitive and funny exploration of bereavement from the creator of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell and Billy Liar.

SHARON & TRACY & THE REST Keith Waterhouse Fiction • 256 pages

9781444753936 $15.99 PB • MAY

Keith Waterhouse’s long-running column, which began appearing in the Daily Mail in 1986, won him numerous national press award. His characters Sharon and Tracy became a national institution, as did that venerable academy of English letters, the Association for the Annihilation of the Aberrant Apostrophe.

THERE IS A HAPPY LAND

UNSWEET CHARITY

Fiction • 144 pages

9781444753912 $15.99 PB • JUNE

Keith Waterhouse 9781444753905 $15.99 PB • JUNE

THERE IS A HAPPY LAND tells of the events of a few weeks in the life of a small boy on a north county council estate. Unlike most boys portrayed in fiction he is not an ultrasensitive soul but an ordinary boy, occasionally cowardly, sometimes a liar, tough in his own eyes and often insecure.

THE PEOPLE Selina Todd

History • 352 pages

9781848548817 $34.99 HC • MAY

Keith Waterhouse Fiction • 256 pages

As editor of the local newspaper in the small, pleasant town of Badgers Heath, Oliver Kettle is expected to join in the locals’ constant efforts to raise money for good causes. But the hapless Kettle finds himself drawn into a spiralling nightmare of adultery, blackmail and intrigue.

THE SACRED DIARY OF ADRIAN PLASS Adrian Plass and the Church Weekend Adrian Plass Religion/Christianity 192 pages

9781444745467 $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONN: HC: 9781444745443

Highlights of a career in cricket from Britain’s favourite umpire! Hardly a week goes by without Dickie Bird visiting a county or Test match arena where he can keep up to date with all that is happening in the cricket world, while at the same time taking the opportunity to reflect, in the company of old friends and acquaintances, on his own colourful contribution to the sport for over half a century. 54

It wasn’t until 1928 that everyone, rich or poor, male or female, had the vote and could make their voice heard. And when they could, everything changed. Charting the rise of the British working class, through two world wars to their fall in Thatcher’s Britain and today, she tells their story for the first time, in their own words.

A new installment of the Sacred Diary series once again shows just how good God is at caring for this mixed bag of people we call the church!

The first death looked like a suicide. But someone had tucked a picture of an angel and a handful of white feathers into the banker’s pocket - before pushing him in front of a Tube. A killer is stalking the Square Mile, an avenging angel intent on punishment. But why these victims? What were their sins? ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE ALICE QUENTIN SERIES: CROSSBONES YARD • 9781444738766 • PB

A KILLING OF ANGELS Kate Rhodes

Crime/Mystery • 336 pages

9781444738803 • $15.99 PB • MAY

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Alice Quentin returns to tackle a series of murders in the thrilling sequel to CROSSBONES YARD

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB R: 9781444738797 HC: 9781444738780

• The second in a series of psychological thrillers that combine gripping plots with very human characters, perfect for fans of Nicci French and Sophie Hannah.

Praise for CROSSBONES YARD: ‘There are some great twists, turns and surprises in this debut novel.’ - SUN ‘A stylish debut.’ - DAILY MAIL ‘Alice is a vividly realised protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline.’ - SUNDAY EXPRESS

Four girls have disappeared in North London. Three are already dead . . . Britain’s most prolific child killer murdered nine children before he was caught and locked away for life in Northwood high-security hospital. Now someone is carrying on his work. Psychologist Alice Quentin is working at Northwood, hoping for space and time away from her hectic London life. But she’ll do anything to save a child’s life - even if it means sitting down with a charismatic, ruthless killer and putting herself in greater danger than ever before.

THE WINTER FOUNDLINGS Kate Rhodes

Crime/Mystery • 384 pages

9781444738834 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST 9781444738827 • $34.99 HC • AUGUST

• Kate’s media presence is on the rise, with features appearing in the Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Guardian.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE ALICE QUENTIN SERIES: A KILLING OF ANGELS • 9781444738797 • TPB R A KILLING OF ANGELS • 9781444738780 • HC CROSSBONES YARD • 9781444738766 • PB

A captivating and haunting story of the richness beneath so-called ordinary lives Born just before the First World War, Elizabeth Pringle has been a familiar yet solitary figure on the Scottish island of Arran. A dutiful daughter, an inspirational teacher, a gardener. But did anyone really know her? When Elizabeth dies, her will contains a surprise. She has left her home and her belongings to someone who is all but a stranger, a young mother she watched pushing a pram down the road more than thirty years ago. Now it falls to her Martha, the baby in that pram, to find out how her mother inherited the house in such strange circumstances, and in doing so, perhaps leave her own past behind. But first she has to find the answer to the question: who was Elizabeth Pringle?

THE LEGACY OF ELIZABETH PRINGLE Kirsty Wark

Fiction • 448 pages

9781444777611 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781444777604 • $34.99 HC • MAY

• A heartwarming story of three strong women over 100 years, from pre-WWI to the present day. • Set on the beautiful Scottish island of Arran, this multi-generational story will appeal to fans of Rosamund Pilcher, Maeve Binchy, Jojo Moyes and Hannah Richell.

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The real life, death and remarkable discovery of history’s most controversial monarch Now - in an incredible find - Richard III’s remains have been uncovered beneath a car park in Leicester. THE KING’S GRAVE traces this remarkable journey. In alternate chapters, Philippa Langley, whose years of research and belief that she would find Richard in this exact spot inspired the project, reveals the inside story of the search for the king’s grave, and historian Michael Jones tells of Richard’s fifteenth-century life and death. The result is a compelling portrayal of one of Britain’s greatest archaeological discoveries, allowing a complete re-evaluation of our most controversial monarch - one that discards the distortions of later Tudor histories and puts the man firmly back into the context of his times.

The fascinating and littleknown history of the last days of WWII in Europe On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. Yet remarkably, the war in the rest of Europe went on for another ten days. AFTER HITLER looks at these days as a narrative day-by-day countdown but also as a broader global history of a European war that had seen some of the most savage battles in history. Relations between the ‘Big Three’ - the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union suddenly plunged to near breaking point. This book reveals that tumultuous story. ALSO AVAILABLE: TOTAL WAR • 9781848542310 • PB RETREAT • 9780719569722 • PB TOTAL WAR 9781848542297 HC TOTAL WAR 9781848542303 TPB R

BOSWORTH 1485

ARCHBISHOP

History • 256 pages

Fiction • 400 pages

9781848549081 $16.99 PB • MAY

9781444753363 $26.99 HC DEMY • JUNE

Michael Jones

Michael Jones, co-author of THE KING’S GRAVE: THE SEARCH FOR RICHARD III, rewrites this landmark event in English history. He shifts our perspective of its heroes and villains and puts Richard firmly back into the context of his family and his times.

Michele Guinness

Vicky Burnham-Woods is a master of diplomacy, and deeply committed to bringing the church back into the heart of community and cultural life - but not everyone wants a woman at the top, and behind the scenes dark forces are moving. Can the first-ever female Archbishop of Canterbury last long enough to achieve her mission?

THE KING’S GRAVE

The Search for Richard III Michael Jones & Philippa Langley History • 320 pages

9781848548916 • $24.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9781848548909 • $34.99 HC • JUNE

• The history story of the year - lead item for days in all media. • How an obsession radically realters our view of history. • Both an extraordinary historical portrait of the last British monarch to be killed in battle and the inspiring, contemporary story of a unique archaeological dig. ‘Jones’s historical chapters are measured, reasonable and elegantly written.’ - SUNDAY TIMES

AFTER HITLER Michael Jones

History • 400 pages

9781848544956 • $24.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST 9781848544949 • $34.99 HC • AUGUST

• A masterful telling of the little-known but crucial part of the conclusion of the Second World War. • Deals with the Nazi’s position in the war once Hitler had died. • Michael Jones tells the extraordinary human side of the story in a powerful way. ‘Jones deserves full credit for the remarkable personal testimonies he has amassed.’ - MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES

MINDFULNESS FOR BUSY PEOPLE Padraig O’Morain

Self Help • 224 pages

9781444785999 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

This brilliant handbook is packed with suggestions for ways to help you slow down, refocus and practice a form of mindfulness that actually fits in with your hectic life.

For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart.

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They’d never meant to be heroes.

But there must always be an account . . . and the past has a habit of catching up to the present. Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism - a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and bloodstained fields - to answer one last, impossible question: What makes a hero?

• THE VIOLENT CENTURY is John le Carré meets Watchmen, an extraordinary blend of superhero tropes and Cold War-era storytelling. • Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award winning author of OSAMA, of The Bookman Histories trilogy and many other works. • Lavie Tidhar has also won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella, for GOREL & THE POT-BELLIED GOD, and was nominated variously for BSFA, Campbell, Sturgeon, Kitschies and Sidewise awards. • Follow Lavie Tidhar on Twitter: @lavietidhar

Praise for LAVIE TIDHAR: ‘. . . An emerging master.’ - LOCUS ‘. . . Young, ambitious, skilled and original.’

THE VIOLENT CENTURY Lavie Tidhar

Fiction • 352 pages

- CHRISTOPHER PRIEST, AUTHOR OF THE PRESTIGE

‘He is a political writer, an iconoclast and sometimes a provocateur . . . OSAMA is a remarkable and ambitious work.’ - CHINA MIEVILLE

9781444762891 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444762884 HC: 9781444762877

The fourteenth novel in Julian Stockwin’s acclaimed Captain Kydd series When more and more merchantmen begin vanishing from the sea, fear spreads. Before long, the sugar ships refuse to set sail at all. Now Kydd and Renzi must embark on a dangerous game of espionage, seamanship and breathtaking action in order to destroy this new and terrible danger to the Empire. ALSO AVAILABLE AVAILABLE IN THE CAPTAIN KYDD SERIES: BETRAYAL • 9781444712025 • PB BETRAYAL • 9781444712018 • TPB R BETRAYAL • 9781444712001 • HC CONQUEST • 9781444711981 • PB VICTORY • 9780340961223 • MM INVASION • 9780340961179 • PB ADMIRAL’S DAUGHTER • 9780340898611 • PB COMMAND • 9780340898574 • PB TENACIOUS • 9780340832226 • PB

CARIBBEE

Julian Stockwin Historical Fiction • 368 pages

9781444712063 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444712056 HC: 9781444712049

Praise for JULIAN STOCKWIN: ‘In Stockwin’s hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world.’ - GUARDIAN ‘Stockwin assembles an exciting and suspenseful historical loaded with action, intrigue, treachery, and the bloody gore of 1805 warfare.’ - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON CONQUEST

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A completely revised and updated edition of international bestseller WATCHING THE ENGLISH Anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. Now with new survey data to add weight to her original fieldwork findings, and more extensive field research and experiments to back up earlier observations, Kate Fox has deciphered yet more enigmatic behaviour codes, adding new rules, new subcultures, new chapters and over 100 updates.

A brilliant debut historical crime novel with an exquisite sense of place Already a veteran of two wars - in Europe and Korea - PC Richard Bourton has joined the Met later in life than most of his fellow trainees on the rough streets of Notting Dale, a grimy, unloved corner of West London. It is hard for him to fit in. Amongst the bomb-sites and boarding houses, Bourton stumbles on a man who has been beaten nearly to death. This discovery, in the swirly fog of 1952, will either make or break his nascent career.

The hilarious sequel to NEVER GOOGLE HEARTBREAK Viv and Max were best friends for years, then they were lovers and then she betrayed him (his words) and then he disappeared. Now Viv’s public search for him - via Facebook, the radio and the ‘Ou est Max?’ T-shirts that were sold in Topshop - has paid off, and Max has been found! Viv feels sick. Not just because she’s on her way to Spain, where they will finally be reunited. But because she’s pregnant. And all hell is about to break loose. ALSO AVAILABLE: NEVER GOOGLE HEARTBREAK • 9781444741490 • PB

WATCHING THE ENGLISH REVISED AND UPDATED Kate Fox

Anthropology • 528 pages

9781444787382 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

• The international bestseller! • The original edition has sold over a million copies in total and been translated into 21 languages. • Now, 10 years on, Kate Fox has substantially revised the book, with over 100 new entries and updates including several totally new chapters.

BREATHE

Dominick Donald Crime/Mystery • 352 pages

9781444775549 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9781444775532 • $32.99 HC • JUNE

• Will appeal to fans of Foyle’s War and C J Sansom’s Dominion, with echoes of 10, Rillington Place.

OMG BABY! Emma Garcia

Fiction • 336 pages

9781444741513 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

• Perfect for fans of Harriet Evans, Lindsey Kelk and Sophie Kinsella. • Fun, fresh and hugely funny!

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The gripping fifth installment in the internationally bestselling Malin Fors series, perfect for fans of Scandinavian crime fiction and The Killing It’s early May when a young family out on a forest walk stumble upon a heavily mutliated body. The female corpse is in eerily good condition, and signs of torture are all too visible. Inspector Malin Fors immediately draws parallels between this case and that of Maria Murvall, the young woman who was found raped and brutally beaten in the forest several years ago. Maria has been living as a mute in the local psychiatric hospital ever since the attack, and Malin is haunted by her inability to help her. In the course of her investigation, Malin meets with a psychologist who tells her about another similar case, and suddenly Maria appears to be a small piece of a much bigger puzzle. But what is it that is so terrible it can’t be put into words? Malin is determined to find out the truth, no matter where it might take her.

• The first novel in the Malin Fors series, Midwinter Sacrifice, was selected as a Richard and Judy Book Club read and sold over 100,000 copies. • The series is a massive European bestseller and has been translated into over twenty languages. • A young, dynamic author with good English who is also a respected food critic in Sweden.

THE FIFTH SEASON Mons Kallentoft

Crime/Mystery • 368 pages

9781444776300 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

‘. . . it is worth the effort: Tense, black and gripping.’ - SASKATOON STAR PHOENIX

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE MALIN FORS SERIES: SAVAGE SPRING • 9781444721676 • PB SUMMERTIME DEAT • 9781444721577 • PB AUTUMN KILLING • 9781444721621 • PB MIDWINTER SACRIFICE • 9781444721522 • PB

Bravery may not be enough to save a fifteen-year-old girl Chantelle is single-handedly raising her nineyear-old brother Leon. She thinks her worst problem is the debt collectors at the door. But Leon has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have given him a mobile phone, a knife - and some drugs to hide in her flat. A part-time job seems to be the answer to Chantelle’s prayers. But the violence is about to come home to her - with a vengeance. And the only person who’s offering any help seems to be just as bad as the people she’s trying to escape from . . . ALSO AVAILABLE: BROKE • 9780340960134 • TPB R BROKE • 9780340960141 • HC BROKE • 9780340960141 • PB LOST ANGEL • 9780340960110 • PB THE DRIVER • 9780340954201 • PB

RESPECT

Mandasue Heller Crime/Mystery • 352 pages

9781444769470 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9781444769463 • $34.99 HC • JUNE

• Heller is perfect for fans of Martina Cole. • Follow Mandasue Helleron on Twitter: @MandasueHeller

Praise for MANDASUE HELLER: ‘ . . . A cracking read that will chill you to the bone.’ - SUN ‘One of the bad girls of gritty crime, Heller has written a blinder.’ - DAILY MIRROR ‘A glamorous nightclub hides a seedy underworld that Heller knows only too well.’ - DAILY EXPRESS 59

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In an isolated, snow-bound valley, a series of strange murders occurs . . . The first victim is a horse: its headless body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. Commandant Servaz, a Toulouse city cop, can’t believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there is something disturbing about this crime that he cannot ignore. Then DNA from one of the most notorious inmates of an asylum is found on the corpse . . . and a few days later the first murder takes place. In this snowbound valley, deep in the Pyrenees, a dark story of madness and revenge is unfolding. It will take all of Servaz’s skill to solve it.

DI Brady returns for his third case in a gritty murder mystery There’s a serial rapist plaguing the streets of Whitley Bay. Three young women have been horribly abused, and Brady’s boss and the press are screaming for answers. Everything seems to point to his old friend and foe, gangster Martin Madley, though Brady still struggles to believe he’s capable of such acts. With time running out before the villain strikes again, Brady must follow every scrap of evidence. But there are forces at work he knows nothing about, and his persistence is leading both him and those close to him ever further into danger . . .

Magic has returned and the world is returning to its natural ways in the second book of the Advent trilogy. In Cornwall, they have seen it rise: in an angel of death and endless, unseasonal snow. Across the ocean, on a remote Canadian island, the blood and offerings and smoke of England seem nothing more than distant rumours of hysteria. Until the girl disappears. And the whale comes. And The Plague spreads. And nothing is as it was before. ALSO AVAILABLE: ADVENT • 9781444728491 • PB ADVENT • 9781444728477 • TPB R ADVENT • 9781444728460 • HC

THE FROZEN DEAD Bernard Minier

Crime/Mystery • 496 pages

9781444732269 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9781444732252

• A bestseller in France with over 140,000 copies sold, the book is also published in Germany, Spain, Poland and Russia. • THE FROZEN DEAD has the atmosphere and chilly quality that makes Scandinavian crime so successful, as well as the preoccupation with social concerns. ‘. . . Chilling.’ - ELLE

BLIND ALLEY

Danielle Ramsay Crime/Mystery • 352 pages

9781444754827 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

• A massive hit in ebook as well as in print, the DI Brady series has many enthusiastic fans. • Danielle Ramsay was twice shortlisted for the CWA’s Debut Dagger award.

ANARCHY

James Treadwell Fantasy • 448 pages

9781444728545 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444728521 HC: 9781444728514

• One of the most highly-acclaimed fantasy launches of 2012. • Story is partially set in British Columbia.

Praise for ADVENT: ‘It’s a beautifully written tale - the first in a trilogy - which in one sense feels like a return to old-fashioned storytelling, yet manages to be utterly fresh.’ - BOOKSELLER

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From the prizewinning author of BOXER, BEETLE and the Booker-longlisted THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT comes his third and most ambitious novel to date. London, May 2010. Foxes are behaving oddly. Burmese people are going missing. A new synthetic drug, Glow, has begun to appear on the streets of London. And Raf, a 22-year-old dog-walker suffering from a bizarre sleeping disorder, undercovers a massive corporate conspiracy . . . and falls in love. This is a story of London’s underworld in every sense of the word: corporate mercenaries, pirate radio DJs, small-time gangsters, and the foxes that go through your bins at night. A conspiracy with global repercussions will converge on one small flat above a dentist’s office.

• With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation. • Ned Beauman is one of the most exciting and highly acclaimed writers in the UK today. He was the youngest of Granta’s once-a-decade Best of Young British Writers in April 2013. • Ned Beauman’s books have won or been nominated for numerous awards including the Desmond Elliot, Guardian First Book Award and Booker; and he is a tireless promoter. • His most commercial project yet - Ned’s first two novels were historical, involving Nazis; GLOW is a conspiracy thriller set in present-day London. • Film rights sold to Film 4. • Boxer, Beetle won the Jewish Book Council’s Outstanding Fiction Award and the UK Writers’ Guild Award in 2011.

GLOW

Ned Beauman Fiction • 360 pages

9781444765526 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9781444765519 • $34.99 HC • JUNE

Praise for NED BEAUMAN: ‘His prose is wonderfully discursive and buzzes with originality, while scenes of pure farce nod respectfully to Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson.’ - TIME OUT

ALSO AVAILABLE: THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT • 9780340998441 • PB THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT • 9780340998434 • PB DEMY BOXER, BEETLE • 9780340998410 • PB

The second novel in her all-new series set in Ancient Rome Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man’s world. Young, widowed and fiercely independent, she has unique insight into life in ancient Rome, and she puts it to good use by going places no man could go, and asking questions no man could ask. A mysterious death at a local villa may be murder and Albia is once again forced to involve herself. Her fight is not just for truth and justice; she’s also battling for the very lives of people who can’t fight for themselves. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE FLAVIA ALBIA SERIES: THE IDES OF APRIL • 9781444755824 • TPB R THE IDES OF APRIL • 9781444755817 • HC THE IDES OF APRIL • 9781444755848 • PB

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ENEMIES AT HOME Lindsey Davis

Historical Fiction • 352 pages

9781444766592 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9781444766585 • $34.99 HC • JUNE

• Combined print sales of all Lindsey Davis’s books come to almost 800,000.

Praise for MASTER AND GOD: ‘The narrative is rapid and the story well told with much sharp-edged detail. You can open this book and step right into a convincing yet extraordinary past.’ - INDEPENDENT

‘Davis’s descriptions of Rome are vivid and lively . . . this is a great yarn.’ - DAILY MAIL

MASTER AND GOD • 9781444707342 • PB

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The Harcombe Diet stops food cravings forever, with no calorie counting A word-of-mouth bestseller, THE HARCOMBE DIET has already transformed the lives of thousands of people by helping them to lose weight permanently. Now let it do the same for you! Zoë Harcombe explains how dieting makes us fatter and induces three common conditions which cause uncontrollable food cravings. By following the 3-Step Plan you can overcome these conditions and lose weight not by counting calories or starving yourself, but simply by eating real food.

A long-hidden family secret seems to unite Emma’s troubled past with her dangerous present. Days before their wedding, during their last separate nights of hard-partying singledom, Emma Holden’s fiancé has gone missing. Not only has Dan disappeared without a trace, his brother is found beaten and left for dead, and may not wake up from a coma. Without any evidence, suspicion for the attempted murder falls on Dan - but Emma refuses to believe his guilt. When crime scene photos get splashed across the pages of London tabloids, Emma knows that someone is following her. Watching her. It is an old, familiar feeling, though no less terrifying. As time runs out her trust in her family, her friends - and Dan - faces an ultimate test.

The gripping sequel to the million-downloaded THE ONE YOU LOVE Emma Holden and her friends are trying to move on from the horrific events surrounding Dan’s kidnap, when a shocking revelation drags them back into the nightmare and forces them to question everything they once believed to be true. More secrets will be revealed, more lies will be told, and more lives will be under threat.

THE HARCOMBE DIET 3-STEP PLAN Zoë Harcombe

Diet/Health • 320 pages

9781444769890 • $16.99 PB • JUNE

• The Harcombe Diet, like Dukan, has a loyal fan-base who are passionate advocates of the diet. • An easy-to-follow 3-step plan that won’t leave you feeling deprived but will still deliver fantastic weight-loss. • Typical weight-loss in the 5-day first step is 7lbs or more without feeling hungry.

THE ONE YOU LOVE Paul Pilkington

Thriller • 352 pages

9781444784848 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

• Spent a month at number one in the UK Kindle free chart, and reached the top of the US Kindle chart. • A fast-paced suspense mystery for fans of Nicci French and Sophie Hannah. • The first instalment of a gripping new trilogy from an exciting new talent in thriller writing.

THE ONE YOU FEAR Paul Pilkington

Thriller • 352 pages

9781444784862 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

• The second book in the best-selling Emma Holden trilogy. • An extended version of the self-published hit, published in print for the first time. • Another faced-paced mystery for fans of Nicci French and Sophie Hannah.

Ruby Miller has lost her faith in love. In an effort to forget her cheating ex and clear her writer’s block, she joins her sister for a week’s holiday in India . . . and embarks on an extraordinary adventure. Swept up on a magical mystery tour, amid silks and spices, palaces and weddings, Ruby investigates a hundred different stories of love lost and found. But will a romance of her own remain always out of reach? Or can she find her happy ever after?

THE LOVE DETECTIVE Alexandra Potter

Fiction • 352 pages

9781444712148 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

HODDER

Because love is the greatest mystery of all . . .

• One of the biggest names in chick-lit with 900,000 copies of her novels now in print. • Alexandra is a bestseller with her hilarious, heartwarming, magical novels, which include Me and Mr Darcy, Be Careful What You Wish For and Don’t You Forget About Me. ‘Nobody does it quite like Alexandra Potter.’ - DAILY MIRROR

An original, vivid and accessible one-volume history of the First World War 100 DAYS TO VICTORY brings the war to life through a hundred key dates and events, from 1914 to 1918, not just in Europe but throughout the world. The book reveals the key part played by non-British and non-white soldiers on the Somme and elsewhere - for example, 1.5 million Indians fought for Britain during the First World War, including Sepoy Khudadad Khan, the first Indian soldier to receive a VC.

100 DAYS TO VICTORY How the Great War Was Fought and Won Saul David History • 544 pages

9781444763386 • $16.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781444763355

• The centenary will be the focus for major media activity from 2013 through 2014.

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• TV series based around the book under negotiation, to be fronted by Saul David.

HEART OF EMPIRE • 9780340953679 • PB ZULU HART • 9780340953631 • TPB ROYAL

• Follow Saul David on Twitter: @sauldavid66

Praise for SAUL DAVID: ‘Fascinating, thrilling, convincing . . . reads like a novel.’ - ECONOMIST

The unputdownable new psychological suspense novel by the author of WINK MURDER and THE FIRST CUT Marriage is a prison for Kelly. Her controlling and manipulative husband Christos tracks her every move. If she runs, he’ll make sure she never sees her children again. Christos has a mistress, Sylvie, keen to pander to his every whim and even keener to step into Kelly’s shoes. Kelly thinks it’s stalemate for their twisted threesome, but one of Christos’s container ships is about to dock in London with a secret cargo that will change all their lives forever. ALSO AVAILABLE: FIRST CUT • 9781444715385 • TPB R FIRST CUT • 9781444715378 • HC FIRST CUT • 9781444721089 • PB WINK MURDER • 9781444715354 • PB

UNTIL DEATH Ali Knight

Crime/Mystery • 400 pages

9781444777116 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9781444777109 • $32.99 HC • JUNE

• Accessible psychological crime in a domestic setting, perfect for readers of Nicci French or Sophie Hannah. • Compelling, disquieting and page-turning, with a fantastic twist.

Praise for THE FIRST CUT: ‘[A] suspenseful Hitchcockian tale . . . [one of the] top ten crime books to take on holiday.’ - TELEGRAPH

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Honest and wise, poignant and warm, this is completely absorbing storytelling for fans of Cecelia Ahern and Marian Keyes.

NOW THAT I’VE FOUND YOU Ciara Geraghty

He knows his teenage daughter keeps getting into trouble and he knows his eight-year-old has wet the bed every night for the past year. What Vinnie doesn’t know is where his wife is, or how he will ever get better at single fatherhood. Ellen is too scared to get behind the wheel of a car ever again and knows that what happened was all her fault. What Ellen doesn’t know is that Vinnie is about to need her to face her fears. ALSO AVAILABLE: LIFESAVING FOR BEGINNERS • 9780340998120 • PB LIFESAVING FOR BEGINNERS • 9780340998113 • TPB R FINDING MR FLOOD • 9781444757811 • PB SAVING GRACE • 9780340976548 • PB

GROW MAKE EAT

NOW THAT I’VE FOUND YOU Ciara Geraghty

Fiction • 352 pages

9781444737943 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9781444737936 • $32.99 HC • JUNE

• Featured in Zoomer Magazine, Summer Reading. • Saving Grace reached Number 2 in Ireland, a brilliant start for a debut author, and Becoming Scarlett went to Number 3. • Ciara Geraghty’s writing has that rare ability to make you laugh out loud as well as cry. ‘SAVING GRACE is a page turner . . . Its characters are so real and empathic that not only do you feel you know them, you fervently wish that you did . . . This writer is a name to watch.’ - IRISH EXAMINER

CHILLI NOTES

HOW TO CLICK

Cookery • 224 pages

Self Help • 352 pages

9781444776881 $32.99 HC • JUNE

9781444740936 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

Thomasina Miers

The Great Allotment Challenge Tessa Evelegh Gardening 256 pages

Trevor Silvester

9781444782806 $32.99 HC • JUNE

GROW is a practical guide to making your garden a haven of productivity. With essential know-how on everything from soil and compost to pruning and pests, the book is aimed at novice gardens. There’s an A-Z section on easy-to-grow vegetables, fruit, herbs and cut flowers; foolproof recipes for transforming your produce into delicious jams, jellies, chutneys and cordials; and stunningly simple flower arrangements.

LAGOON

Nnedi Okorafor Science Fiction 320 pages

9781444762754 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

CHILLI NOTES shows you how, without exotic ingredients, the chilli can be your exotic bedfellow to add a wonderful, unusual note to your home-cooked family food. • MEXICAN FOOD MADE SIMPLE was featured in HELLO! Canada. ALSO AVAILABLE: WAHACA • 9781444722390 • HC MEXICAN FOOD MADE SIMPLE • 9780340994979 TPB R

HOW TO CLICK teaches you how to build on your confidence, relax, and be yourself on dates. By building on simple steps, you will learn how to be more confident, and read the non-verbal signs to find love. ALSO AVAILABLE: LOVEBIRDS • 9781444740875 • TPB R LOVEBIRDS • 9781444740899 • PB GROW • 9781444740905 • TPB R

THE 100 MOST POINTLESS ARGUMENTS IN THE WORLD

IT’S NOT RAINING, DADDY, IT’S HAPPY

Benjamin Brooks-Dutton Biography • 320 pages

9781444754773 $32.99 HC • JUNE

Alexander Armstrong & Richard Osman Humour • 320 pages

9781444762082 $16.99 PB • JUNE

When something like a meteorite plunges into the ocean and a tidal wave overcomes them, three people will find themselves bound together in ways never imagined. Together with Ayodele, a visitor from beyond the stars, they must race through Lagos and against time itself in order to save the city, the world . . . and themselves.

Articulate, intelligent and moving account of a terrible loss. One man’s account of what it meant to suddenly lose his wife and be left to care for their bewildered 2 yearold son. He argues that there are no rules when it comes to grief and much of what he is learning has come from watching his young son.

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC DEMY: 9781444762075

Alexander Armstrong and his pointless friend Richard Osman will put the world to rights and finally answer the 100 Most Pointless Arguments in the World . . . Ever. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE ARMSTRONG AND MILLER BOOK 9781847444318 • HC

Young SAS trooper Jamie Truman has a new mission. An MI6 agent needs to make contact with Syrian rebel forces, and also with the private military contractors who are - unofficially - training this rebel faction as it struggles to bring down their government and establish a new regime that will be favourable to British business interests. As they travel deep into rebel heartland, Jamie will learn who the masters of war, the men who call the shots, really are. And where a secret lurks that will change the course of Jamie’s own life, however long that might last . . . ALSO AVAILABLE: OSAMA • 9781444706468 • PB KILLING FOR THE COMPANY • 9781444710304 • PB THE KILL ZONE • 9781444710267 • PB

The first in a gripping Dutch crime series which uncovers a side of Amsterdam the tourists don’t see Pieter Posthumus is a member of Amsterdam’s Lonely Funerals team. It’s his responsibility to give the anonymous or abandoned dead a decent send-off. A determined, passionate man, Postumus cannot let things go when they don’t seem quite right. When a young Moroccan immigrant is found in the Prinsengracht canal, the police write it off as an accident or suicide. Posthumus is sure there’s more to it than that. He takes up the case and starts digging . . . an investigation that leads to him getting caught up in a terror plot and in the way of the Dutch secret service.

WHERE MEMORIES GO Sally Magnusson Autobiography 336 pages

9781444751796 $19.99 PB DEMY • JUNE 9781444751789 $24.99

TRUE COLOURS Stephen Leather Military Thriller 416 pages

9781444736564 $15.99 PB • JUNE

HODDER

Death seemed their servant.

MASTERS OF WAR Chris Ryan

Military Thriller • 400 pages

9781444706499 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

• Chris Ryan has sold over 4 million books to date.

Prasie for CHRIS RYAN: ‘The books are masterpieces of social realism.’ - LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS ‘This high octane tale certainly packs a punch.’ - NEWS OF THE WORLD ‘Nobody takes you to the action better than Ryan, because he’s the real deal.’ - EVENING STANDARD

LONELY GRAVES Britta Bolt

Crime/Mystery • 320 pages

9781444787283 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

• An atmospheric Amsterdam-set crime series, which combines the city’s oldworld charm with modern concerns of crime, immigration and terrorism. • Based on the real-life ‘Lonely Funerals’ team, who are responsible for making sure all those who die in Amsterdam receive a decent burial, even the nameless and friendless.

THE MANNER OF MEN Stuart Tootal

History • 368 pages

9781848546790 $16.99 PB • JUNE

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444736540 HC: 9781444736533

HC DEMY • JUNE

As well as chronicling the sadness, the loneliness and the unexpected laughs and joys of accompanying her beloved mother on the long dementia road, Sally seeks understanding from a range of experts and asks penetrating questions about how we treat older people. An extraordinary memoir and manifesto in one searingly beautiful narrative.

The tenth instalment in Stephen Leather’s bestselling Spider Shepherd series ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE SPIDER SHEPHERD SERIES: FALSE FRIENDS • 9780340925010 • PB FAIR GAME • 9780340924983 • PB ROUGH JUSTICE • 9780340924952 • PB LIVE FIRE • 9780340921753 • MM DEAD MEN • 9780340921722 • MM HOT BLOOD • 9780340921692 • MM COLD KILL • 9780340834121 • MM

THE MANNER OF MEN is an epic account of courage beyond the limits of human endurance, where paratroopers prevailed despite intelligence failures and higher command blunders, in what has been described as one of the most remarkable feat of arms of the British Army and the Parachute Regiment during the Second World War.

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A mother’s true story of how a rescue cat called Billy changed her autistic boy’s life Billy the cat was rescued from an abandoned house. Fraser was a two-year-old autistic child with a multitude of problems when he first met Billy at the cat protection shelter. Billy purred, laid his paws across Fraser and they have been inseparable ever since. Billy acts as Fraser’s guardian - never leaving his side at mealtimes and bedtimes or whenever he’s feeling low. Their profound bond has immeasurably improved their lives and the family’s. And brought them lots of hilarious and touching moments along the way!

BREAK POINT Kevin Mitchell Sports/Tennis 352 pages

9781848549326 $24.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9781848549302 $34.99 HC • JUNE

BREAK POINT chronicles how the old guard of tennis met the challenge of the hungry young contenders determined to break their stranglehold on the Tour, from the genteel lawns of Wimbledon to the raucous bleachers of Flushing Meadows, and all points in between.

WHEN THE NIGHT COMES Favel Parrett

Fiction • 352 pages

9781848548541 $32.99 HC • JULY

Set in Tasmania and Antarctica, a young girl, learns what is important in life and who to trust. And of a crewman on the Antarctic supply ship, the Nella Dan, a modern Viking searching to understand his past and find a place in this world for himself. ALSO AVAILABLE: PAST THE SHALLOWS • 9781848547506 • PB

WHEN FRASER MET BILLY Louise Booth

Biography • 352 pages

9781444769234 • $19.99 PB DEMY • JULY

• An uplifting and touching story of the bond between a rescue cat and a small autistic boy and how both turn each other’s lives around. • A Street Cat Named Bob has sold over 150,000 copies.

TOAST & MARMALADE AND OTHER STORIES

OPERATION SEALION Leo Mckinstry

History • 416 pages

9781848547001 $24.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9781848546981 $34.99 HC • JULY

Emma Bridgewater Biography 288 pages

9781444734911 $39.99 HC • JUNE

Emma Bridgewater’s distinctive kitchen pottery - manufactured and traditionally hand-decorated in the Staffordshire Potteries, just as it would have been 200 years ago - has found its way into homes all over the world. This book combines beautiful photographs of Emma’s life and designs with the inspirations for and characters involved in the success of this particularly English brand.

A groundbreaking new assessment, beginning with Winston Churchill’s accession to power and culminating in Germany’s abandonment of Operation Sealion. ALSO AVAILABLE: HURRICANE • 9781848543416 • PB LANCASTER • 9780719523632 • PB/ SPITFIRE • 9780719568756 • PB

THE AFTER SCHOOL COOKBOOK

HAPPINESS IS A STATE OF MIND His Holiness The Gyalwang Drukpa

My Daddy Cooks Nick Coffer

Mind, Body, Spirit 352 pages

Cookery • 256 pages

9781444784763 $19.99 PB DEMY • JULY

Exploring the simple ways we can train our minds to recognise a happiness that is already there, His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa gives us the tools to embrace an appreciation for life as it is, rather than as we feel it should be, and helps us flourish as individuals, and as part of the wider world.

9781444713732 $26.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY

100 quick and easy, affordable recipes for your hungry kids from the blogger behind MyDaddyCooks.com. Using easy-to-find ingredients and simple techniques, this book will be an essential part of your after school routine! ALSO AVAILABLE: MY DADDY COOKS • 9781444713718 • HC

Kitty Wellington, the narrator of Clare Morrall’s absorbing, sure-footed first novel, has been brought up in a large family by her painter father. Surrounded by older brothers, she has no real recollection of either her mother, who was killed in a car crash, or her sister, who ran away from home. The great strength of the novel is Kitty herself. Morrall has provided her with a compelling narrative voice - wry, confiding, perceptive. Echoes from JM Barrie’s disturbing masterpiece are quietly sounded, with particular emphasis on missing mothers and ‘lost boys’. ALSO AVAILABLE:

ASTONISHING SPLASHES OF COLOUR Clare Morrall

Fiction • 320 pages

9781444780314 • $15.99 PB • JULY

• Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. • The novel that created a storm of publicity - turned down by 14 agents but went on to be shortlisted for the Booker. • Superb reviews across the board. ‘At her very first attempt, Morrall has written a genuinely solid and satisfying work of fiction, skilfully plotted and fielding a cast of fully realised and individualised characters. More, please.’ - THE SUNDAY TIMES

ROUNDABOUT MAN • 9780340994320 • PB MAN WHO DISAPPEARED • 9780340994290 • PB

By the author of the international bestseller MR ROSENBLUM’S LIST When Juliet Montague’s husband disappears, so does she. As far as the conservative Jewish community in which she lives is concerned, she is invisible. She does her best to conform to their rules, but then joins London’s lively postwar art scene and proves to be an astute spotter of talent. Yet she remains an outsider in both her worlds: a mother of two, drawn to a reclusive artist who never leaves Dorset, and unable to feel free until she has found her husband - a quest that leads her to California and a surprising discovery. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE NOVEL IN THE VIOLA • 9780340995693 • PB

HODDER

The debut novel that catapulted Clare Morrall onto the Booker shortlist

THE GALLERY OF VANISHED HUSBANDS Natasha Solomons Fiction • 352 pages

9781444736373 • $15.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: PB DEMY: 9781444736359 HC DEMY: 9781444736342

• An absorbing, emotionally satisfying story with an unusual slant - both the Jewish theme and the narrative structure, which follows the portraits painted of the heroine throughout her life. • THE NOVEL IN THE VIOLA was a New York Times bestseller. ‘. . . A deeply touching and blissfully romantic elegy for a lost world.’ - THE TIMES

What happens when happily ever doesn’t work out quite as you expected?

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD Helen Chandler

Ella and Greg are in their late twenties, married, with two children. They’re happy enough, but on a rare weekend away by herself, for a friend’s hen party, Ella bumps into the first man she ever loved. They share a night of passion but while their night together helps Ella to understand where her priorities lie, and she returns home with a renewed determination to make her marriage work, she hasn’t reckoned on the fact that Callum sees her as his only chance at happiness . . .

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD Helen Chandler

Fiction • 352 pages

9781444786774 • $15.99 PB • JULY

• An entertaining and engaging read: an honest look at three marriages, with characters who truly come to life. ‘. . . A page-turner that keeps you gripped until the end.’ - DAILY MAIL ‘. . . An enjoyable romantic comedy with some entertaining twists.’ - SUNDAY MIRROR ‘Charming . . . warm, confidently written, very addictive . . . I thoroughly enjoyed it.’ - BOOKSELLER

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A compelling tale of obsession and mystery

AN APPETITE FOR VIOLETS Martine Bailey

Irrepressible Biddy Leigh, under-cook at the foreboding Mawton Hall, only wants to marry her childhood sweetheart and set up her own tavern. But when her elderly master marries the young Lady Carinna, Biddy is unwittingly swept up in a world of scheming, secrets and lies. Forced to accompany her new mistress to Italy, Biddy takes with her an old household book of recipes, The Cook’s Jewel, in which she records her observations. When she finds herself embroiled in a murderous conspiracy, Biddy realises that the secrets she holds could be the key to her survival - or her downfall . . .

Martine Bailey

Historical Fiction • 304 pages

9781444768725 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY

• A winning combination of an involving first-person narrative, a compelling mystery and a vivid evocation of the life (and food) of the late 18th Century. • An upstairs/downstairs setting - perfect for the Downton Abbey market. • Will appeal to fans of reading group historical fiction as well as more commercial - a wonderful mixture of both.

THE REAL MRS. BROWN

SHE LANDED BY MOONLIGHT

KANGAROO DUNDEE

Autobiography 384 pages

Autobiography/Military 432 pages

Autobiography 320 pages

9781444754513 $16.99 PB • JULY

9781444724622 $16.99 PB • JULY

9781444753325 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9781444753318 $32.99 HC • JULY

Carole Seymour-Jones

Brian Beacom

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444754537 HC: 9781444754544

This is the magical story of how a loveable Irishman with a wig and a wit as caustic as battery acid surprised everyone - most of all himself - by becoming one of the best-loved comedians in the world.

In September 1943, Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), dropped behind enemy lines. This is her incredible story.

WHEN BRITAIN BURNED THE WHITE HOUSE

MY OUTDOOR LIFE Ray Mears

Memoir • 384 pages

9781444778212 $16.99 PB • JULY

Peter Snow

History • 320 pages

9781848546134 $16.99 PB • JULY

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444778205 HC: 9781444778199

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781848546110 `

WHEN BRITAIN BURNED THE WHITE HOUSE highlights this unparalleled moment in American history, its far-reaching consequences for both sides and Britain’s and America’s decision to never again fight each other. ALSO AVAILABLE: TO WAR WITH WELLINGTON • 9781848541030 HC

AN APPETITE FOR VIOLETS

He has become recognized throughout the world as an authority on the subject of Bushcraft - but that is only part of his story. AN OUTDOOR LIFE gives us the opportunity to read about a life as rich and as inspirational as a walk in woods with the man himself. ALSO AVAILABLE: RAY MEARS GOES ON WALKABOUT 9780340961513 • HC THE REAL HEROES OF TELEMARK 9780340830161 • PB

Chris Barns

Brolga lives in a simple tin shed in the outback where he raises orphaned baby kangaroos. He’s has been rescuing these special creatures for years, slowly and painstakingly creating a sanctuary for the many kangaroos he has saved, reared and loved.

FAITH ON THE STREETS

Christians in Action Through the Street Pastors Movement Les Isaac & Rosalind Davies Religion/Christianity 240 pages

9781444750096 $24.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY

Pioneered in London in 2003 by Rev Les Isaac, Street Pastors is an inter-denominational church response to urban problems, engaging with people on the streets to care, listen and dialogue. There are now 9,000 trained volunteers in around 250 teams around the United Kingdom. This book collects together some of those people and tells the stories of their connection to Street Pastors.

Three teenagers from different periods of history find themselves flung together by a tear in the fabric of reality. With the help of a mysterious stranger, they learn to harness their abilities to move through time, only just managing to keep one step ahead of the evil Lord Sweetclover . . . who will stop at nothing to capture them.

TIME BOMB

Scott K. Andrews Young Adult / Science Fiction • 336 pages

9781444752069 • $19.99

HODDER

The adventure begins.

TPB ROYAL • JULY

• The first in a brilliant new YA time-travel series. • Perfect for fans of Alex Scarrow’s Time Riders series. • The first novel in Scott’s previous series, The Afterblight Chronicles, has been optioned for the big screen by Multistory Films.

The first memoir by a nonEuropean SAS man This extraordinary story will take you from the idyllic beaches of Fiji to a world of high-octane conflict with the SAS - culminating with Tak’s crucial role in the Battle of Mirbat. Described by Andy McNab as ‘the stuff of Regimental legend . . . the SAS’s answer to Rorke’s Drift’. Offering a rare insight into the making of an SAS legend, BROTHERS IN ARMS also tells the story of the deep and enduring comradeship between Tak and Laba, another legendary Fijian SAS man who remains, to this day, the only trooper whose heroism is enshrined in a statue at the elite regiment’s Credenhill HQ.

The man who was the inspiration for the film The Great Escape Roger Bushell was ‘Big X’, mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape. His life was governed by an unquenchable desire to escape from Occupied Europe. He made three escapes, coming within 100 yards of the Swiss border during his first attempt. Simon Pearson’s revealing biography is a vivid account of war and love, triumph and tragedy - one man’s attempt to challenge remorseless tyranny in the face of impossible odds.

BROTHERS IN ARMS A Memoir of War and Friendship in the SAS Sekonaia Takavesi

Autobiography/History • 352 pages

9781444769821 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9781444769807 • $32.99 HC • JULY

• Tak is a legend within and outside the SAS as a soldier of enormous skill and bravery. • This is the first time he has told his story and his version of events at key SAS actions. • The book will appeal to the same all-action market as Andy McNab and Chris Ryan, Bravo Two Sero, Sniper One - plus the extra ingredient of the Tak/Laba friendship which gives the story a special ‘Band of Brothers’ feel.

THE GREAT ESCAPER: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ROGER BUSHELL Love, Betrayal, Big X and The Great Escape Simon Pearson

Biography/History • 448 pages

9781444760668 • $16.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444760644 HC: 9781444760637

• Published in association with the Imperial War Museum who will support publication with PR and online activity. • The author has had access to never-beforeseen archive material on The Great Escape. ‘This gripping biography . . . Pearson has done uncommonly well in this, his first book, to unearth so much.’ - SUNDAY TIMES 69

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It is with our mind that we create our world. Here’s how to open it up and let the world in. The restless mind is frightened of silence, easily bored, and busy, busy, busy. The restful mind is creative and alert, relaxed and confident. The step from one to the other is all in the way we think. His Eminence Gyalwa Dokhampa has a real understanding of the pressures of modern life and how our crowded minds have left us too little space to stretch and grow. He shows us new ways to calm body and mind, become more aware, better able to deal with problems and appreciate the moment.

WHAT SHOULD WE TELL OUR DAUGHTERS? Melissa Benn

Cultural Studies 352 pages

9781848546301 $16.99 PB • JULY

DEATH IN THE TUSCAN HILLS Marco Vichi

Crime/Mystery 480 pages

9781444761214 $32.99 HC • JULY

THE RESTFUL MIND

Gyalwa Dokhampa His Eminence Khamtrul Rinpoche Mind, Body, Spirit • 272 pages

9781444762310 • $16.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB ROYAL: 9781444762303

• His Eminence Gyalwa Dokhampa is a young, charismatic teacher in the Drukpa branch of Buddhism which has millions of followers worldwide. ‘. . . A very practical book that will be of great value to new Buddhists and seasoned practitioners alike . . . THE RESTFUL MIND is a superb book that should be viewed as required reading for anyone who wants to calm both body and mind and live life in a genuinely effective manner.’ - BUDDHIST BOOK REVIEWS

TO THE TOPPERMOST OF THE POPPERMOST Mark Ellen

Autobiography/Music 352 pages

9781444775495 $32.99 HC • JULY

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781848546271

This is a manifesto for every mother who has ever had to comfort a daughter who doesn’t feel ‘pretty’, for every young woman who out-performs her male peers professionally and wonders why she is still not taken seriously, and for anyone interested in the world we are making for the next generation. • Author interviewed on CBC The Current.

The fifth book in the award-winning crime series by Marco Vichi sees Inspector Bordelli take the law into his own hands. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE INSPECTOR BORDELLI SERIES: DEATH IN FLORENCE • 9781444712308 • PB DEATH IN FLORENCE • 9781444712292 • HC DEATH IN SARDINIA • 9781444713657 • TPB R DEATH AND THE OLIVE GROVE • 9781444712247 PB DEATH IN AUGUST • 9781444712216 • PB

HOME FOR GOOD

PARADOXOLOGY

Parenting/Adoption 208 pages

Religion/Christianity 256 pages

9781444745337 $16.99 PB • JULY

9781444745344 $19.99 PB DEMY • JULY

Krish Kandiah

PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB: 9781444745313

There are thousands of children in need of adoptive or foster parents, and this strong call to action from Krish Kandiah, tying in to a nationwide campaign, urges us all to find ways to help them find a real home.

Many of us have big questions that the Christian faith seems to leave unanswered. So we push them to the back of our minds, for fear of destabilizing our beliefs. But leaving these questions unexamined is neither healthy for us, nor honouring to God. Rather than shying away from the difficult questions, we need to face them head on.

From his time at the NME and Smash Hits to Radio One, Old Grey Whistle Test, Live Aid, MTV, Q, Select, Mojo and The Word magazines, Mark Ellen has been at the molten core of rock & roll’s evolution, and watched its key figures from a unique perspective. This funny and touching personal memoir maps out his epic journey.

A YEAR’S JOURNEY WITH GOD

Jennifer Rees Larcombe Religion/Christianity 384 pages

9780340995013 $16.99 PB • JULY

A wonderful distillation of years of hardearned wisdom from one of the most-loved and significant women in the evangelical church. Taking inspiration from key events and Christian festivals throughout the year, she has put together daily devotions to inspire grace and faith.

A cake-themed caper that whisks you around New England on a mission to discover the secret recipes of America’s classic treats - to Boston for the Cream Pie, Manhattan for New York Cheesecake, Maine for Whoopie Pie and Cape Cod for all manner of cranberry-flavoured delights. Laurie is travelling with three other women, all with their own secrets (recipes and otherwise!) and heartaches to heal. As well as a grand appreciation of cupcakes, there’s also the chance for romance - but can making whoopie lead to love? ALSO AVAILABLE: WINTER WONDERLAND • 9780340994467 • PB

A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey now a Duke - and his wife Harriet Vane, set in an Oxford college in the 1950s Peter Wimsey is pleased to discover that along with a Dukedom he has inherited the duties of ‘visitor’ at an Oxford college. When the fellows appeal to him to resolve a dispute, he and Harriet set off happily to spend some time in Oxford. But the dispute turns out to be embittered. The voting is evenly balanced between two passionate parties - evenly balanced, that is, until several of the fellows unexpectedly die. The Warden has a casting vote - but he has disappeared.

THE TRAVELLING TEA SHOP Belinda Jones

Fiction • 350 pages

9780340994474 • $15.99 PB • JULY

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A deliciously funny and moving novel, perfect for anyone with an appetite for baked goods and sweet romance

• A heart-warming and humorous story, packed full of rich, vivid descriptions of the various cities in New England and the baked goods devoured along the way. • Follow Belinda Jones on Twitter: @belindatravels ‘Belinda Jones is on top form here in this magical, winter wonderland of a book. It’s wickedly funny, achingly romantic and I guarantee it’ll make you yearn for crackling log fires, dark nights and mulled wine.’ - CLAUDIA CARROLL ON WINTER WONDERLAND

THE LATE SCHOLAR Jill Paton Walsh

Crime/Mystery • 352 pages

9781444760873 • $15.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444751901 HC: 9781444760866

• A long-awaited new novel in the series the first since 2010. • It is 80 years since Lord Peter Wimsey first appeared (in Whose Body? in 1923). • Set in an Oxford men’s college, this book will remind readers of Gaudy Night, many readers’ favourite Sayers novel.

ALSO AVAILABLE: ATTENBURY EMERALDS • 9780340995747 • PB

A source of fabulous power in the heart of an enemy’s kingdom AD 273. Obsessed by the solar religions of the east, the emperor Aurelian sets out to obtain every sacred object within his realm. But one a conical rock said to channel the very voices of the gods - lies beyond his reach. Arabian King Amir Adi has captured the stone and intends to use its fabled power to raise an army against Rome. For imperial agent Cassius Corbulo, recovering the stone will constitute their toughest mission yet.

AGENT OF ROME

The Black Stone of Emesa Nick Brown Historical Fiction • 352 pages

9781444779103 • $22.999 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9781444779097 • $32.99 HC • JULY

• An explosive Roman Legion series from an outstanding new talent.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE AGENT OF ROME SERIES:

• Roman military novels are massively popular at the moment: witness Harry Sidebottom, Simon Scarrow and Anthony Riches.

THE SIEGE • 9781444714869 • PB THE IMPERIAL BANNER • 9781444714890 • PB THE FAR SHORE • 9781444714920 • TPB R THE FAR SHORE • 9781444714913 • HC THE FAR SHORE • 9781444714920 • PB

• Cassius Corbulo is the only fictional character who is a detective in Ancient Rome’s highly secretive Imperial Security Service.

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Detective Chief Inspector John Kerr is caught in a fight to the death with two gold smugglers. The American wife of the British Defence Secretary is brutally murdered while walking her dog. A senior judge is executed in Middle Temple Lane. Blocked by ‘affirmative inaction’ at New Scotland Yard and threats from MI6, Kerr deploys a talented female operative undercover to force the truth. A dirty bomb attack proves the motive is hatred of the United States and the special relationship. But is this domestic extremism or the work of foreign spies? ALSO AVAILABLE: AGENT OF THE STATE • 9781444721867 • PB

THE EXTREMIST Roger Pearce

Thriller • 448 pages

9781444721898 • $15.99 PB • AUGUST PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781444765052 HC: 9781444721881

• Roger Pearce is a former undercover officer, commander of Special Branch and Director of Intelligence, reponsible for coordinating all security services in the capital. • In the bestselling tradition of thriller writers like Stella Rimington, Chris Ryan and Lee Child and in the vein of TV series The Wire and The Spiral. ‘Vividly written and delivering a glimpse of what counter-terrorism feels like . . .’ - DAILY MAIL

In a world where death lurks in the shadows, four people must discover how they fit into the world. Nethmi, the gentle princess, who discovers a strength she never knew she had. Dae Ho, the savage warrior, who finds that a lifetime of bravery cannot make up for a single mistake. Eric, who follows his heart only to learn that love can exact a terrible price. And Krish, the humble shepherd, with a destiny he hardly understands and can never accept.

SMILER’S FAIR Rebecca Levene

Fiction • 480 pages

9781444753691 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST 9781444753684 • $32.99 HC • AUGUST

• This is the first novel of four in a spectacular new epic fantasy series. • MILER’S FAIR will appeal to fans of George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb, and Marion Zimmer Bradley. • Rebecca Levene edited Virgin Publishing’s Doctor Who novels.

SECRETS MY MOTHER KEPT Kath Hardy

Biography • 256 pages

9781444763256 $16.99 PB • JULY

Inspirational and moving, this is the story of a woman brave enough to confront her past, and strong enough to let love - not bitterness - define her.

TWIN AMBITIONS - MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

REVELATIONOLOGY

Autobiography/Sports/ Running • 288 pages

9781444749663 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST

Mo Farah

9781444779608 $24.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST 9781444779578 $32.99 HC • AUGUST

TWIN AMBITIONS is much more than an autobiography by the 2012 London Olympic hero. It’s a moving human story of a man who grew up in difficult circumstances, separated from his family at an early age, who struggled to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and realise his dream.

Nick Page

Religion/Christianity 400 pages

Nick Page travels to the key sites from the original book, and journeys metaphorically through the history of apocalyptic literature, unpicking the weird and wonderful truths - and wild fabrications - that have driven the creation of multitudinous sects down the centuries.

Deep inside the Arctic circle, the US Coast Guard icebreaker Terra Nova batters its way through the frozen sea. One day, a gaunt figure skis out of the fog. The crew bring him aboard and give him medical treatment for prolonged exposure, malnutrition - and a gunshot wound. The man has escaped from ice-bound research station two hundred miles south of the pole. And the tale he tells is one of secrets, insanity and death. ALSO AVAILABLE: ORPHEUS DESCENT • 9781444731378 • PB

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Death waits at the world’s end.

ZODIAC STATION Tom Harper

Thriller • 400 pages

9781444731415 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST 9781444731408 • $32.99 HC • AUGUST

• Perfect for fans of Dan Brown and sons of Brown, John le Carré, Steve Berry and Sam Bourne. • A suspenseful thriller with literary gravitas - it will appeal to the mass market and also a slightly more sophisticated audience. ‘Harper effortlessly draws the reader into an unfamiliar time, bringing alive the characters and their motivations.’ - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Can a holiday bring the sisters closer or blow the Benson family apart? Sisters Chelsea and Ronnie Benson haven’t spoken to each other in two years when their mother announces she wants the whole family to go on a week-long holiday in Lanzarote for her sixtieth birthday. The week begins badly and gets worse, as underlying tensions and secrets are exposed. And then their mother drops a bombshell on the group. ALSO AVAILABLE: WHAT I DID ON MY HOLIDAYS • 9780340992838 • PB KATE’S WEDDING • 9781444733655 • PB GETTING OVER MR RIGHT • 9780340992791 • PB

A PROPER FAMILY HOLIDAY Chrissie Manby

Fiction • 416 pages

9781444742732 • $15.99 PB • AUGUST

• A PROPER FAMILY HOLIDAY begins a series based around a large family and their friends, whom readers will love to follow from book to book. • Chrissie Manby combines laugh-out-loud comedy with heart. • This feel-good novel is a perfect holiday read for women aged 18–40. ‘. . . Hilarious.’ -DAILY MAIL ‘. . . Brilliant.’ - MARIE CLAIRE ‘. . . Will make you laugh - a lot!’ - CLOSER

A unique landmark oral history of D-Day on the Home Front, told through the voices of those who experienced it first-hand

THE SILENT DAY Max Arthur

Using a wealth of first person testimonies, renowned historian Max Arthur recounts a remarkable new oral history of D-Day, beginning with the two years leading up to the silent day which saw the UK transformed by the arrival of thousands of American and Canadian troops. Then, on that June morning and the days that followed, the whole population gathered around wireless sets, waiting for news. There are powerful testimonies from families of who lost loved ones on the beaches of Normandy, and dramatic personal accounts from young widows who had never had the chance to say goodbye.

THE SILENT DAY Max Arthur

History • 544 pages

9781444787535 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST 9781444787542 • $34.99 HC • AUGUST

• Max Arthur is a bestselling oral and military historian. • Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of D-Day, there will be lots of publicity opportunities.

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Death may already lurk beneath their feet in the burning desert sands . . . A downed nuclear B-52 bomber in an inhospitable desert. It should be only a few hours before rescue is on its way to the remaining crew, but the world has fallen to a deadly pandemic and nothing is as it once was. The survivors find themselves alone in an alien environment, their only shelter the wreckage of their giant aircraft. But they’re not alone . . . ALSO AVAILABLE: OUTPOST • 9781444709049 • PB JUGGERNAUT • 9781444709087 • PB TERMINUS • 9781444755855 • TPB R TERMINUS • 9781444755879 • PB

UNTITLED ADAM BAKER Adam Baker

Horror • 352 pages

9781444755886 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • AUGUST

• Adam is a widely respected British horror novelist. • Perfect for fans of zombie horror such as World War Z and The Walking Dead. • This is the fourth of Adam Baker’s thrillers set in the post-apocalyptic world of Outpost, Juggernaut and Terminus.

Praise for JUGGERNAUT: ‘JUGGERNAUT is hugely entertaining and as unstoppable as its namesake.’ - FINANCIAL TIMES

The third brilliantly funny and warm-hearted novel in the Little Village School series from bestselling author Gervase Phinn

Gervase Phinn

Fiction • 336 pages

9781444706079 • $15.99 PB • AUGUST

Summer has arrived in Barton-in-the-Dale and as a new term begins at the little primary school, it’s not just the warm weather that’s getting people hot under the collar.

• Bestselling author Gervase Phinn continues his new fiction series, featuring a cast of characters to rival the best of his Dales books.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE THE LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL SERIES:

• The hugely bestelling Dales series have sold over 900,000 copies. The warm, witty stories of Gervase’s life as a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales have enjoyed similar success to James Herriott and captured a huge fan base.

THE LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL • 9781444705584 • PB OUT OF THE WOODS BUT NOT OVER THE HILL 9781444705409 • PB TROUBLE AT THE LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL 9781444705607 • PB

THE CONSTANT STAR Jessica Stirling

THE CONSTANT STAR

THE SCHOOL INSPECTOR CALLS!

Fiction • 400 pages

9781444780581 • $34.99 HC • AUGUST

DANDY GILVER AND THE REEK OF RED HERRINGS Catriona McPherson

Crime/Mystery • 320 pages

9781444785517 • $32.99 HC • AUGUST

JESSICA STIRLING

The Second World War hits home to a scattered East End family in new and unexpected ways in the third volume of this series about Britain under siege.

On the wind-battered Banffshire coast, the herring drifters brave the storms to catch their silver darlings. It’s nowhere for a child of gentle Northamptonshire to spend Christmas.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE DANDY GILVER SERIES:

THE WAYWARD WIFE • 9781444744590 • HC THE WAYWARD WIFE • 9781444744606 • PB

DANDY GILVER AND A DEADLY MEASURE OF BRIMSTONE • 9781444731903 PB DANDY GILVER AND A DEADLY MEASURE OF BRIMSTONE • 9781444731880 HC

Sir Alex is widely considered to be the greatest manager in the history of British football. He was a man-manager of phenomenal skill, and increasingly he had to deal with global stars. His relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo, for instance, was excellent and David Beckham has described Sir Alex as a father figure.

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FALL 2013 / WINTER 2014 DROP-IN TITLES ALEX FERGUSON My Autobiography Alex Ferguson

Autobiography/Soccer • 496 pages

9780340919392 • $34.99 HC • NOVEMBER

• Featured in The Globe & Mail.

Over the past four years, Sir Alex has been reflecting on and jotting down the highlights of his extraordinary career and in his new book he reveals his amazing story as it unfolded, from his very early days in the tough shipyard areas of Govan.

A sweeping story of upstairs, downstairs, love and loss by the author of MR ROSENBLUM’S LIST In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she knows nothing about England, except that she won’t like it. As servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn, Elise wears her mother’s pearls beneath her uniform, and causes outrage by dancing with a boy called Kit. But war is coming and the world is changing. And Elise must change with it. At Tyneford she learns that you can be more than one person. And that you can love more than once.

The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor - hailed as the greatest travel writer of his generation A TIME OF GIFTS and BETWEEN THE WOODS AND THE WATER were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. ‘When are you going to finish Vol. III?’ was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remains unfinished but THE BROKEN ROAD completes an extraordinary journey.

THE NOVEL IN THE VIOLA Natasha Solomons Fiction • 416 pages

9780340995693 • $15.99 PB • OCTOBER

• MR ROSENBLUM’S LIST was an international bestseller and film rights have been bought by Film Four with Cowboy Films. Natasha and her husband are writing the screenplay. ‘ . . . A deeply touching and blissfully romantic elegy for a lost world.’ - THE TIMES ‘An unususal, comedy-rich novel . . . a treat of a book’. - GUARDIAN ‘. . . a subtle and moving examination of the dilemma faced by immigrants to modern Britain.’ - OBSERVER

THE BROKEN ROAD

From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos Patrick Leigh Fermor Travel Narrative • 384 pages

9781848549333 • $24.99 TPB ROYAL • OCTOBER

• The book that the fans of Patrick Leigh Fermor have been waiting for. • Huge amount of interest and publicity surrounding all things Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Praise for PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR: ‘Elegant and vividly exotic . . . done with brilliant aesthetic feeling and a charming philosophic melancholy.’ - THE TIMES

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FALL 2013 / WINTER 2014 DROP-IN TITLES Imagine waking up in a snow globe . . . That’s how travel journalist Krista feels when she arrives in magical Quebec to report on Canada’s glittering Winter Carnival. Over ten sub-zero days Krista’s formerly frozen heart begins to melt as she discovers an enchanting world of ice palaces, husky dog-sledding and maple-syrup treats galore. And then she meets Jacques, a man as handsome and rugged as he is mysterious. . . The two share a secret that could bond them forever, but can they find a way to break through the protective layers around their hearts to warm up this winter wonderland?

A cookbook of delicious Italian recipes, tying in to a new primetime ITV series Discover the secrets of real Italian food with Gino D’Acampo as he captures the flavours, smells and tastes of his homeland in over 100 deliciously simple recipes. From much-loved pizza, pasta and antipasti dishes, to Gino’s classics with a twist such as Honey & Rosemary Lamb Cutlets and Limoncello Mousse, this book is packed with mouth-watering favourites that will soon have you cooking and eating like a true Italian.

KIRSTIE’S CHRISTMAS CRAFTS

Kirstie Allsopp Craft/Do-It-Yourself 250 pages

9781444780758 $32.99 HC • OCTOBER

Hand-make your perfect Christmas with Kirstie! Nothing shows how much you love someone more than a handmade gift, card or decoration. And the pleasure is just as much in the planning and making as it is in giving and receiving. In this ultimate celebration of Christmas, Kirstie has brought together over 50 of her favourite festive projects to make, bake and create. 76

THE REAL MRS. BROWN The Authorised Biography of Brendan O’Carroll Brian Beacom Autobiography 384 pages

9781444754537 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • OCTOBER

This is the story of how a comic from Dublin surprised everyone - most of all himself - by becoming one of the most successful comedians in the world. It is a story of hardship, heartbreak, and talent and will remind readers afresh that sometimes the facts can be even more extraordinary than the fiction.

WINTER WONDERLAND Belinda Jones

Fiction • 320 pages

9780340998649 • $10.99 MM • OCTOBER

• Set in Quebec during Winter Carnival. • Belinda Jones has a unique blend of humour, engrossing plot and emotionally engaging storylines, providing a perfect read for ‘Upbeat’ and ‘Escapist’ consumers.

Praise for BELINDA JONES: ‘Fun, romantic . . . it’s the perfect escapist read.’ - CLOSER

GINO’S ITALIAN ESCAPE Gino D’Acampo

Cookery • 496 pages

9781444751727 $32.99 HC • OCTOBER

• Tying into a new primetime 6-part ITV series this autumn. • Italian food is as popular as ever. • This series will be the first to feature Gino in his home country.

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BOB? James Bowen & G&J Jenkins Editorial Activity Book 48 pages

9781444782820 $19.99 HC • OCTOBER

The perfect giftbook for street cat Bob’s thousands of fans, the fun is to spot Bob and best friend James among the crowds of each scene depicting a world destination. Look for Bob at the Great Wall of China, find him in a German Christmas market, and at a cat temple in Japan!

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For fans of The Avengers, this is the first adult epic fantasy novel from the multi-million copy bestselling author of CHOCOLAT The novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse gods - retold from the point of view of the world’s ultimate trickster, Loki. It tells the story of Loki’s recruitment from the underworld of Chaos, his many exploits on behalf of his one-eyed master, Odin, through to his eventual betrayal of the gods and the fall of Asgard itself. Using her life-long passion for the Norse myths, Joanne Harris has created a vibrant and powerful fantasy novel.

In the ruins of the apocalypse, mankind fights for survival in the Moscow Metro. A year after the events of Metro 2033, the last few survivors of the apocalypse, surrounded by mutants and monsters, face a terrifying new danger as they hang on for survival in the tunnels of the Moscow Metro. Featuring blistering action, vivid and tough characters, claustrophobic tension and dark satire, the Metro books have become bestsellers across Europe. ALSO AVAILABLE:

THE GOSPEL OF LOKI Joanne M Harris

Fantasy • 320 pages

9781473202368 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MARCH 9781473202351 • $34.99 HC • MARCH

• Joanne Harris is an enormous international bestseller for her women’s fiction. CHOCOLAT has sold over 1,000,000 copies and was made into an Oscar-nominated film. She has been a consistent top 5 bestseller in both formats ever since. • She has a dedicated digital following with over 11,000 followers on Twitter.

METRO 2034

Dmitry Glukhovsky Science Fiction • 320 pages

9781473204294 • $24.99 TPB ROYAL • MARCH 9781473204287 • $34.99 HC • MARCH

• METRO 2033 has sold 80,000 copies. • The Metro Last Light computer game based on the Metro books was an international, critically-acclaimed hit. • A new computer game is in production and will be released Spring 2014.

METRO 2033 • 9780575086258 • PB METRO 2033 • 9781473204287 • HC METRO 2033 • 9781473204294 • TPB R

Meet the world’s first criminologist in this compelling, fast-paced historical thriller. 1887. When James Murray, a young Scottish doctor fascinated by the workings of the criminal mind, travels to the vibrant city of Turin, it is to study with Cesare Lombroso, the worldrenowned criminologist. With the help of his fellow apprentice, a local investigator, and Lombroso’s beautiful but enigmatic housekeeper, Murray must put his learning to the test and endeavour to understand the mind of a serial killer if he is to stop the rapidly escalating bloodbath and clear the name of his mentor.

CITY OF DEVILS Diana Bretherick

Fiction • 464 pages

9781409127918 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409127925 HC: 9781409127901

• Lombroso was a real historical figure and his theories about criminal phrenology were much praised at the time. There is still a museum dedicated to him in Turin, filled with macabre death masks and human skulls! • Diana Bretherick is an acclaimed excriminal barrister and now a lecturer in criminology and criminal law at Portsmouth University.

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CHESTNUT STREET is a collection of previously unpublished, linked short stories in Maeve’s beloved inimitable style. While she was writing columns for the Irish Times and her bestselling novels, Maeve Binchy had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one of these people. She would then put it in a drawer; ‘for the future’ she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath’s Crescent (which readers will recognize from Maeve’s bestselling novel Minding Frankie) is Chestnut Street where neighbors come and go. Behind their closed doors we encounter very different people with different life circumstances, occupations, and sensibilities. Written with the humour and understanding that earmarks her work, it is a pleasure to be part of this world with all of its joys and sorrows, to get to know the good and the bad, and ultimately to have our hearts warmed by her storytelling. • No one rivals Maeve Binchy for stories of warmth, kindness, love, loss - and life not always turning out as expected. • Maeve Binchy was one of the world’s best-loved and most successful authors, a regular Globe & Mail bestselling author. • Her collection of short stories, THE RETURN JOURNEY, has sold over 350,000 copies in Orion mass-market paperback. • Maeve received lifetime achievement awards from the RNA and at the British Book Awards. • Maeve Binchy’s novels have been translated into 30 languages, and two have been made into films, including TARA ROAD.

Praise for MINDING FRANKIE: ‘After 27 years and more than 40 million books sold, for all the legions of Binchy wannabes, that Binchy code still remains uncracked. . . ’ - THE GLOBE AND MAIL

CHESTNUT STREET Maeve Binchy

Fiction • 320 pages

9781409151784 • $28.99 HC • MAY

‘Binchy is a skilful writer who combines the strong story line of popular fiction with well-developed characters found in serious literature.’ - WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

‘Like a cozy fleece, Maeve Binchy is warm and reassuring; her latest novel, MINDING FRANKIE, was just perfect. . . ’ - THE MONTREAL GAZETTE ‘Maeve Binchy is a grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition . . .’ - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

ALSO AVAILABLE: A WEEK IN WINTER 9781409113997 • HC A WEEK IN WINTER • 9781409117940 • PB MINDING FRANKIE • 9781409117919 • PB MINDING FRANKIE • 9781409117902 • MM HEART AND SOUL • 9780752884646 • PB

GLASS LAKE, THE • 9780752876870 • PB EVENING CLASS • 9780752876825 • PB COPPER BEECH, THE • 9780752876818 • PB NIGHTS OF RAIN AND STARS • 9780752865362 • PB

This beautiful gift edition of the classic First World War memoir contains a foreword by Kate Mosse OBE. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain’s account of how she survived those agonising years; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933.

QUENTINS • 9780752876849 • PB SCARLET FEATHER • 9780752876856 • PB TARA ROAD • 9780752876863 • PB WHITETHORN WOODS • 9780752881478 • PB

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH Vera Brittain

Memoir • 608 pages

9781780226590 • $16.99 HC (7.8 x 5") • MAY

• Released at the start of the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War. ‘. . . A haunting elegy for a lost generation.’ - THE TIMES ‘. . . A unique record of one woman’s experience of 25 of the most cataclysmic years in modern times.’ - TLS ‘. . . It remains the most eloquent and moving expression of the suffering and bereavement inflicted by the 1914–18 conflict.’ - GUARDIAN

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A superb literary SF novel of alternate pasts and futures Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. A century earlier, a stage magician is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. In the present day, a theoretical physicist stands in his English garden and creates the first adjacency.

THE ADJACENT

Christopher Priest Fiction • 512 pages

9780575105386 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780575105379 HC: 9780575105362

• THE ISLANDERS won the BSFA Award and the John W. Campbell Award. • THE SEPARATION won the BSFA Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. • THE PRESTIGE won both the James Tait Black and the World Fantasy Award.

ALSO AVAILABLE: THE ISLANDERS • 9780575078192 • TPB R THE SEPARATION • 9780575070035 • PB

A world of betrayals and deceit. A hero alone. A delicate sword. A thrilling new fantasy from an exciting new voice. Lucien de Fontein has grown up different. One of the mysterious and misshapen Orfano who appear around the Kingdom of Landfall, he is a talented fighter yet constantly lonely, tormented by his deformity, and well aware that he is a mere pawn in a political game. Ruled by an insane King and the venomous Majordomo, it is a world where corruption and decay are deeply rooted - but to a degree Lucien never dreams possible when he first discovers the plight of the ‘insane’ women kept in the haunting Sanatoria.

THE BOY WITH THE PORCELAIN BLADE Den Patrick

Fantasy • 320 pages

9780575133976 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9780575133839 • $34.99 HC • MAY

• Perfect for fans of Scott Lynch.

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Meet Hal Romsey: priest, sorcerer, assassin. It’s 1337. Genoese mercenaries under the French are harrying the channel ports and Edward III is powerless to stop them. Hal Romsey is a 16-year-old boy and a Luciferist - a visionary and a disciple of the devil. He has one of the keys to Hell, and knows how to use it. Hell is willing to ally with England - and thus begins a story that will shake the thrones of medieval Europe and see angels and demons fighting for the future of England and France.

SON OF THE MORNING Mark Alder

Fantasy • 608 pages

9780575115156 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

• A sweeping story set against a familiar background, with some surprising twists. • Perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin’s complex characters and gripping battles. • An accurate historical epic with rousing action and a dash of mythology that will delight fans of Bernard Cornwell.

An action-packed tale of chivalry and betrayal set during the Hundred Years War September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle. On the English side Edward, the Black Prince, who’d earned his spurs at Crecy. On the French side, the King and his son, the Dauphin. With 12,000 knights. And then there is William Gold. A cook’s boy - the lowest of the low - who had once been branded as a thief. William dreams of being a knight, but in this savage new world of intrigue, betrayal and greed, first he must learn to survive.

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– CHRISTIAN CAMERON –

THE ILL-MADE KNIGHT Christian Cameron

Historical Fiction • 400 pages

9781409137504 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409142423 HC: 9781409142416

• Visit Christian at www.hippeis.com • Follow Christian Cameron on Twitter: @Phokion1

Praise for CHRISTIAN CAMERON: ‘ . . . Cameron’s artistry and craftsmanship offer much to recommend.’ -THE GLOBE AND MAIL

The twins now find themselves caught in a deadly web of intrigue that could cost them everything. Twin monarchs Satyrus and Melitta have worked hard, seen much bloodshed and many good friends die to secure their fertile kingdom on the Black Sea. But as the colossal conflict between Alexander the Great’s former generals continue, sitting on the sidelines is not an option. If their kingdom is to have a future, Satyrus and Melitta must join forces with one of the contenders, knowing that making the wrong choice could mean disaster. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE TYRANT SERIES: TYRANT SERIES: TYRANT • 9780752883922 • PB TYRANT: STORM OF ARROWS • 9781409103660 • PB TYRANT: FUNERAL GAMES • 9780752883946 • PB TYRANT: KING OF THE BOSPORUS • 9781409102755 • PB TYRANT: DESTROYER OF CITIES • 9781409120681 • PB

The heroic story of Arimnestos of Plataea continues in the fourth volume of Christian Cameron’s Long War series. The indomitable Arimnestos of Plataea finds himself caught up in the ill-fated Spartan expedition to the land of the Sphinx, while on the horizon, forces gather for the colossal naval battle of Artemesium. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE LONG WAR SERIES: KILLER OF MEN • 9780752883939 • PB MARATHON • 9781409118060 • PB POSEIDON’S SPEAR • 9781409118084 • PB

STAND ALONE: ALEXANDER • 9781409135944 • PB

TYRANT: FORCE OF KINGS Christian Cameron

Historical Fiction • 400 pages

9781409104612 • $24.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781409104605 • $34.99 HC • MAY

• Christian Cameron’s Tyrant series has now sold over 100,000 copies. • The Tyrant series has already forged a loyal fan base and this novel continues the story of one of the most intriguing, action-packed and hitherto overlooked episodes in ancient history: the wars of Alexander’s successors.

THE GREAT KING Christian Cameron

Historical Fiction • 400 pages

9781409118107 • $15.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409114154 HC: 9781409114147

• Ultra-realistic historical detail and powerful storytelling make Christian Cameron the most exciting voice in historical fiction. • Now he takes on one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in ancient history, the ‘long war’ between the Greeks and Persians which includes the battles of Thermopylae (filmed as 300) and Marathon. 81

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Return to the lands of Aurian.

EXODUS OF THE XANDIM

The Xandim are a people enslaved by the fey and powerful Phaerie, masters of the Old Magic. They were trapped in their horse forms for so long they forgot their human shapes, until their shaman, Windeye, found a way to rouse some of her people and bring them back to their humanity. But the quest to free the Xandim is not over. Indeed, the fight for freedom has only just begun.

• Maggie Furey was a WH Smith Fresh Talent winner.

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• Perfect fantasy for a young female readership.

EXODUS OF THE XANDIM • 9780575076631 • TPB R HERITAGE OF THE XANDIM • 9780575084964 • PB

• Traditional high fantasy - a rich wonderful escapist read.

Maggie Furey

Fantasy • 512 pages

9780575088610 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB ROYAL: 9780575076631

Celebrating the centennial of his birth! Discovered at the age of nineteen through a

A DYLAN THOMAS TREASURY Poetry • 208 pages

9781780227269 • $12.99 PB • MAY

An exclusive and detailed collection of Dylan Thomas’s poems, stories and broadcasts, highlighting his myriad talents, as well as the fluctuating moods and passions that inform his work. A must-have for all literature lovers.

poetry competition in a London newspaper, Dylan Thomas became the object of immediate acclaim and criticism for his adventurous language and resonant verse. Thomas’s poetry and prose embrace touching childhood reminiscence and a spiritual yearning from which he emerges, not as the loud bohemian of the personal legend, but as the careful and reflective artist of the poems, stories and broadcasts themselves.

DYLAN THOMAS OMNIBUS Poetry • 400 pages

9781780227283 • $15.99 PB • MAY

A rich collection of Dylan Thomas’s bestloved poems and stories, such as PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG, and pieces he wrote for radio and magazines, including the celebrated radio play UNDER MILK WOOD. The DYLAN THOMAS OMNIBUS highlights the full range and genius of this tempestuous and meticulous artist.

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG Fiction • 144 pages

9781780227276 • $12.99 PB • MAY

In ten wonderfully evocative short stories, Dylan Thomas conveys the exuberance and enthusiasm of youth as he fictionalises events from his childhood. Adolescent sexuality and male friendship are two of the themes that pervade this collection, along with the more familiar topics of love, death and religion.

COLLECTED STORIES Fiction • 384 pages

9781780227306 • $15.99 PB • MAY

With PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG and ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE, Thomas found a new voice for his irreverent memories of lust and bravado in south-west Wales and London, leading to a sequence of classic evocations of childhood magic and the follies of adult life.

UNDER MILK WOOD Fiction • 208 pages

9781780227245 • $12.99 PB • MAY

Commissioned by the BBC, UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account of a spring day in a fictional Welsh seaside village. There have been myriad productions of UNDER MILK WOOD over the years and Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, Elizabeth Taylor, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Tom Jones have all starred in radio, stage or film adaptations.

It is the summer of 1976, the hottest since records began and a young man leaves behind his student days and learns how to grow up. A first job in a holiday camp beckons. But with political and racial tensions simmering under the cloudless summer skies there is not much fun to be had. And soon there is a terrible price to be paid for his new-found freedom and independence. A price that will come back to haunt him, even in the bright sunlight of summer.

THE YEAR OF THE LADYBIRD Graham Joyce

Fantasy • 288 pages

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A ghost story with a difference from the World Fantasy and multiple British Fantasy Awardwinning author of SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE

9780575115323 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC DEMY: 9780575115316

• Sales for SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE increased by over 100% over the previous title.

Praise for SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE: ‘. . . A riveting blend of historical folklore, mystery and scenes of risqué revelry.’ - CHATELAINE

ALSO AVAILABLE: SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE • 9780575115286 • PB THE SILENT LAND • 9780575083875 • PB

D.G. COMPTON SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS

BARRINGTON BAYLEY SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS

Barrington J. Bayley Science Fiction 624 pages

9780575103160 $32.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

D.G. Compton Science Fiction 640 pages

– SF GATEWAY –

9780575118102 $32.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

From the vaults of The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, come ideal introductions to the

Bayley was a hugely influential figure to some of the greats of British SF, such as Michael Moorcock and M. John Harrison. The omnibus includes his perhaps bestknown THE FALL OF CHRONOPOLIS, alongside THE SOUL OF THE ROBOT and the extraordinary story collection THE KNIGHTS OF THE LIMITS.

EDMUND COOPER SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS

Edmund Cooper Science Fiction 800 pages

9780575116382 $32.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

Cooper’s works tended to depict unconventional heroes facing unfamiliar and remote environments - often in postapocalyptic settings. This omnibus contains three titles that have been out of print for many years: THE CLOUD WALKER, ALL FOOLS’ DAY and A FAR SUNSET.

works of the most influential writers of the New Wave period.

GARRY KILWORTH SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS Garry Kilworth Science Fiction 800 pages

9780575114197 $32.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

This omnibus collects his critically acclaimed Navigator Kings trilogy, THE ROOF OF VOYAGING, THE PRINCELY FLOWER and LAND-OF-MISTS.

D.G. Compton is best known for his prescient 1974 novel, THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE, which predicted the 21st century’s obsessions with media voyeurism and ‘reality television’. This omnibus collects three of his incisive SF novels, THE SILENT MULTITUDE, SYNTHAJOY and THE STEEL CROCODILE.

JOHN BRUNNER SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS JOHN BRUNNER

JOHN BRUNNER SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS John Brunner

Science Fiction 928 pages

9780575101883 $32.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY

Three classic works from John Brunner: THE SHEEP LOOK UP, THE SHOCKWAVE RIDER and THE TRAVELLER IN BLACK.

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A celebration of one of the greatest gardens of our time As the months pass, the gardens at Highgrove change dramatically. By wandering through the seasons in each part of this astounding garden, The Prince of Wales, along with Bunny Guinness, describe the thinking behind each garden, the mistakes and the triumphs, and his plans for the future. Lavishly illustrated with photographs capturing both the scope and detail of each garden, this book will delight and inspire both gardeners and horticulturalists at every level. ALSO AVAILABLE: GARDEN AT HIGHGROVE • 9780297825449 • HC

HIGHGROVE

HRH Prince of Wales Gardening • 288 pages

9780297869351 • $50.00 HC • MAY

• The Royal Family maintain their enormous global popularity and this book offers a glimpse inside Prince Charles’ Highgrove home, with its extraordinary garden.

Praise for THE GARDEN AT HIGHGROVE: ‘. . . A superbly illustrated and engaging book. If you’ve not been there yourself, you’ll feel as though you have when you’ve enjoyed this book.’ - DAILY EXPRESS ‘This book had my eyes on stalks . . . The Prince is unstoppable . . . the garden thoroughly reflects its owner’s passions, life, taste and sense of humour. And that is what a garden should be about.’ - DAILY TELEGRAPH

– SIMON INGS – CITY OF THE IRON FISH Science Fiction 320 pages

9780575130890 $15.99 PB • MAY

Only a fool would question the strange magics that maintain the cool haven of The City of the Iron Fish in the middle of an inferno of scorching heat and splintered rock, for the well watered streets of the city hide secrets in the their shadows.

WOLVES

HOT HEAD

9780575119734 $24.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY

9780575130616 $15.99 PB • MAY

Science Fiction 400 pages

A story about technology becomes a personal quest into a changed world and the pursuit of a secret from the past. A secret about a missing mother, a secret that could hide a murder.

Thomas Kemp is just such a fool . . .

Malise has come downwell to Earth, but years of space combat have ruined her. But with an AI mining probe returning to Earth, having bred and grown until it is hundreds of miles across, Malise is in the firing line again. The probe is indestructable and it is insatiable for more metals. Malise doesn’t know she has a blueprint for humanity’s survival wired into her head.

HOTWIRE

HEADLONG

PAINKILLERS

9780575131088 $15.99 PB • MAY

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Science Fiction 320 pages

A fast-moving cyberpunk thriller set in a world of thinking cities, ruthless corporations and mad orbital AIs.

Science Fiction 320 pages

Surgically connected to their swarming robotic workers, architects Christopher and Joanne Yale are turning the moon into a paradise. But now, without warning, the machines have pulled the plug.

Science Fiction 20 pages

A mysterious box that he cannot open is all that might save Adam’s autistic son as they are plunged into a world of old corruptions and new terrors.

A human leg is discovered in a woman’s freezer, bagged up like a joint of pork. The search begins for the rest of the corpse, but the hunt soon turns out to be darker and stranger than anything the police have encountered before, with body parts turning up in kitchens, garages and potting sheds. DC Fiona Griffiths is drawn into a web of obsession, money, deceit - and acute personal danger. Which is exactly where she likes to be: in the middle of a gruesome puzzle with a pitch-black secret at its heart. ALSO AVAILABLE: TALKING TO THE DEAD • 9781409137221 • PB

DC Fiona Griffiths’ damaged psyche is given its sternest test as she volunteers to go undercover. Posing as a meek former payroll clerk now forced to work as a cleaner, Fiona Griffiths becomes Fiona Grey, hoping the criminals will try and recruit her - knowing that if they discover her real identity, she’s dead meat. But as Fiona penetrates deeper into their operation, coming closer to identifying the mastermind behind it, she faces another, even more frightening danger - that her always fragile grip on her sense of self has now been lost and she may never find her way back. ALSO AVAILABLE: LOVE STORY, WITH MURDERS • 9781409140900 TPB R LOVE STORY, WITH MURDERS • 9781409140894 HC

A gripping tale of corruption, rebellion and love. 1599. London is on the brink of revolution. But John Lawley - England’s finest swordsman just wants to be left alone to win back the heart of the woman he loves. And to design the fight scenes for the magnificent new Globe theatre. But in order to remain free to help his old friend Will Shakespeare finish the play that threatens to destroy him, John must dodge the Earl of Essex and Robert Cecil - the two men closest to the Queen. ALSO AVAILABLE: A PLACE CALLED ARMAGEDDON • 9781409120261 • PB VLAD: THE LAST CONFESSION • 9781409103301 • PB

LOVE STORY, WITH MURDERS Harry Bingham

Crime/Mystery • 400 pages

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Death will bring them together . . .

9781409137238 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409140900 HC: 9781409140894

‘With Detective Constable Fiona “Fi” Griffiths, Harry Bingham finds a sweet spot in crime fiction - a female protagonist with stunted emotions, a passion for protecting women (think Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander), outsider status (think Denise Mina’s “Paddy” Meehan), sheer guts, and an unstoppable drive to follow her own instincts even when it means breaking every rule in the book (think Lee Childs’ Jack Reacher).’ - BOSTON GLOBE

THE STRANGE DEATH OF FIONA GRIFFITHS Harry Bingham

Crime/Mystery • 400 pages

9781409140931 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781409140924 • $34.99 HC • MAY

• DC Fiona Griffiths is the most unusual and engaging detective to appear in UK crime fiction for years. • TALKING TO THE DEAD, the first novel featuring Fiona Griffiths, is being adapted for TV and will be shown in two parts on Sky Living. ‘. . . A new crime talent to treasure.’ - DAILY MAIL

SHAKESPEARE’S REBEL C.C. Humphreys

Historical Fiction • 352 pages

9781409120278 • $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409114901 HC: 9781409114895

• C.C. Humphreys lives in Vancouver, BC, and has a razor-sharp eye for historical detail, a flair for characterisation and writes some of the most dynamic action scenes around. • A sweeping, action-packed historical adventure with fantastic characters both real and imagined. • The novel is based on true historical events and an actual plot to overthrow Elizabeth I. • Profiled in The Globe and Mail, The Influence Interview. 85

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An exciting yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by award-winning author Robert Twigger In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, awardwinning author Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. As he navigates a meandering course through the history of the world’s greatest river, he plucks the most intriguing, colourful and dramatic stories truly a Nile red in tooth and claw. The result is both an epic journey through the whole sweep of human and pre-human history, and an intimate biography of the curious life of this great river, overflowing with stories of excess, love, passion, splendour and violence.

THE HAIRY BIKERS’ ASIA

RED NILE

Robert Twigger History • 600 pages

9781780220932 • $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780297866497

• A blend of Peter Ackroyd’s THE THAMES and Alan Moorehead’s THE WHITE NILE and THE BLUE NILE, it will also appeal to fans of GERMANIA by Simon Winder, JERUSALEM by Simon Sebag Montefiore and PARISIANS by Graham Robb.

THE HAIRY DIETERS

Dave Myers & Si King

SEVEN ELEMENTS THAT HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD

Dave Myers & Si King Cookery • 192 pages

Cookery • 288 pages

9780297870432 $14.99 HC DEMY (8.5 x 5.3") JUNE

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John Browne

Econmics • 288 pages

9781780224367 $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB ROYAL: 9780297869894

Follows the boys’ travels through China, Thailand, Korea and Japan to put together their favourite Asian dishes. Packed with delicious recipes, exotic flavours, tips to swap and techniques to learn.

The Hairy Bikers will always love their food pies and curries won’t be off the menu for long! - but using these recipes, and following their clever tips and heartfelt advice, you can bake your cake, eat it, and lose the pounds.

ALSO AVAILABLE: THE HAIRY BIKERS’ GREAT CURRIES 9780297867333 • HC THE HAIRY BIKER’S BIG BOOK OF BAKING 9780297863267 • HC

ALSO AVAILABLE: BEYOND BUSINESS • 9780753828359 • PB

ALL CHANGE FOR NURSE MILLIE

THE VANISHING

DOROTHEA’S WAR

Crime/Mystery 320 pages

Memoir • 320 pages

John Connor

Jean Fullerton

Saga • 400 pages

9781409136149 $15.99 PB • MAY

9781409137412 $15.99 PB • MAY

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409133643 HC: 9781409133636

Millie has enough drama to deal with without having to deal with more from home . . . and Alex Nolan, her ex-fiance, is back in town! ALSO AVAILABLE: CALL NURSE MILLIE • 9781409137405 • PB

Ex-policeman Tom Lomax gets a mysterious offer from an heiress, Sara. She wants him to fly to her private island, all expenses paid. But Sara has received a troubling message and, despite all the privileges in her life, she now has no one to turn to and doesn’t know whom she can trust. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE OPPOSITE OF MERSERY • 9780752885261 TPB R

This unique mix of science, history and politics is interwoven with the author’s extensive experience. Discover how titanium pervades modern consumer society, how natural gas is transforming the global energy sector and how an innovative new form of carbon could be starting a technological revolution.

Dorothea Crewdson 9781780224824 $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780297869184

These evocative diaries of a young nurse stationed in northern France during the First World War are published here for the first time. What shines out above all is the spirit of a courageous, compassionate young woman.

BEAUTY is a beautifully illustrated re-telling of the Sleeping Beauty story which takes all the elements of the classic fairytale that we love (the handsome prince, the ancient curse, the sleeping girl and, of course, the haunting castle) and puts a modern spin on the characters, their motives and their desires. This is fun, contemporary, sexy, and perfect for fans of Once Upon A Time, Grimm, Snow White and the Huntsman and more.

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A beautiful, sexy retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, illustrated by Les Edwards

BEAUTY

Sarah Pinborough Fantasy • 192 pages

9780575093072 • $12.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC DEMY: 9780575093058

• Beautifully packaged, entertainingly written and fun to read - as well as making some thoughtful points about stories we all grew up reading - this hits both the YA and adult markets. • Sarah Pinborough is an increasingly highprofile author with links to Neil Gaiman, Mike Marshall and Joe Hill as well as a huge social media following. • Follow Sarah Pinborough on Twitter: @SarahPinborough

Snow White with a contemporary twist! POISON is a beautifully illustrated re-telling of the Snow White story which takes all the elements of the classic fairytale that we love (the handsome prince, the jealous queen, the beautiful girl and, of course, the poisoning) and puts a modern spin on the characters, their motives and their desires. It’s fun, contemporary and sexy. ALSO AVAILABLE: THE CHOSEN SEED • 9780575089556 • PB A MATTER OF BLOOD • 9780575089471 • PB THE SHADOW OF THE SOUL • 9780575089518 • PB

POISON

Sarah Pinborough Fantasy • 128 pages

9780575092990 • $12.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITION: HC DEMY: 9780575092976

• With Once Upon A Time, Grimm, Snow White and the Huntsman, Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast and more hitting the screens, fairy tales are a big deal right now. • This is a smart, timely and commercial project.

CHARM

THE CRYING GAME

THE MISBEGOTTEN

Fantasy • 192 pages

Saga • 352 pages

Fiction • 432 pages

9780575093034 $12.99 PB • AUGUST

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Sarah Pinborough

A sexy, contemporary and inspired retelling of the classic Cinderella story, with fifteen original pen and ink illustrations by Les Edwards.

Katherine Webb

June Hampson

In an attempt to build a life for herself, Trixie becomes a singer in the pubs and clubs of Gosport. But her heart is set on finding the younger brother she had to leave behind in Portsmouth years earlier. And little does she know that fate has yet more cruel twists in store . . .

Bath, 1821. Rachel Crofton escapes her unhappy employment as a governess by marrying a self-made businessman. But her new life soon takes an unexpected turn. ALSO AVAILABLE: A HALF FORGOTTEN SONG • 9781409135890 • PB THE UNSEEN • 9781409117179 • PB

ALSO AVAILABLE: MOTHER’S JOURNEY • 9781409133698 • PB FIGHTING DIRTY • 9781409121046 • PB

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LADY BETTE AND THE MURDER OF MR THYNN

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

CHURCHILL AND EMPIRE

True Crime • 320 pages

Travel Essays • 80 pages

Biography/History 448 pages

9780752883755 $12.99 PB • MAY

9781780224817 $16.99 PB • MAY

A Traveller’s Anthology Laura Stoddart

N.A. Pickford

9780297870852 $32.99 HC • MAY

Lawrence James

PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780297869146

Lady Bette, the fourteen-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her to the dissident fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age with an evil reputation. Revolted by her new husband, Lady Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down in the street by three hired assassins.

ELVES: BEYOND THE MISTS OF KATURA James Barclay

Fantasy • 464 pages

9780575085268 $15.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780575085251 HC: 9780575085237

The Wytch Lords have rallied, men’s magic has grown more powerful, and their politics have become altogether more dangerous in the epic conclusion to the Elves trilogy. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE ELVES SERIES: RISE OF THE TAIGETHEN • 9780575085220 • PB ONCE WALKED WITH GODS • 9780575085039 PB

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK is a collection of quotations from intrepid travellers, such as Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Marco Polo, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Mary Kingsley, Isabella Bird, Captain Scott and Freya Stark - some of them awe-struck at the majesty of their surroundings and others distinctly unimpressed.

THE EYE OF WINTER’S FURY

THE CAUSAL ANGEL Hannu Rajaniemi

THE CAUSAL ANGEL HANNU RAJANIEMI

Science Fiction 448 pages

Michael J. Ward

Fantasy • 560 pages

9780575088979 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9780575088962 $32.99 HC • MAY

The new novel from the most exciting new SF author of the last five years. ALSO AVAILABLE: FRACTAL PRINCE • 9780575088924 • TPB R FRACTAL PRINCE • 9780575088917 • HC QUANTUM THIEF • 9780575088894 • PB

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As the shadows lengthen and danger threatens your beleaguered kingdom, you must finally prove yourself. You decide in this epic fantasy adventure - are you ready for the challenge? ALSO AVAILABLE: THE HEART OF FIRE • 9780575118782 • TPB R THE LEGION OF SHADOW • 9780575118720 TPB R THE LEGION OF SHADOW • 9780575118737 • PB

FRACTAL PRINCE

DISRAELI

MAKING IT HAPPEN

Science Fiction 320 pages

Biography/History 400 pages

Autobiography/Horses 288 pages

9780575088931 $15.99 PB • MAY

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Douglas Hurd

Hannu Rajaniemi

A genuinely new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory and lifelong relationship with the British Empire.

Jean le Flambeur is out of prison, but still not free. To pay his debts he has to break into the mind of a living god. But when the stakes are revealed, Jean has to decide how far he is willing to go to get the job done.

A reappraisal of the life of the most celebrated and colourful 19th-century politician, bringing together the personal and political. Hurd’s biography will become the definitive account of an exceptional life.

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QUANTUM THIEF • 9780575088894 • PB

CHOOSE YOUR WEAPONS • 9780753828526 • PB

Carl Hester

9781409147671 $32.99 HC • MAY

The lively memoirs of dressage rider and Olympic Gold medallist Carl Hester.

Larkswood House is home to the Hamilton children who enjoy the freedom and excitement of privilege. But in the glorious summer of 1896, with absent parents and a departed governess, disaster strikes the family, leaving it cruelly divided.

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In the tradition of THE FORSYTE SAGA, a sweeping historical novel that spans three generations, telling the dark secrets of a family torn apart

LARKSWOOD Valerie Mendes

Fiction • 400 pages

9781409129387 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781409129325 • $32.99 HC • MAY

• Valerie Mendes is the mother of awardwinning film-maker Sam Mendes. • For fans of Julia Gregson, Kate Furnivall and Dowton Abbey.

More than forty years later, as Louisa begins to fall under the spell of Larkswood, she realises it holds the key to the mystery that shattered her family two generations before. Will she find the courage to unravel the dark secrets of the past? And can Larkswood ever become home to happiness again?

A fast-paced thriller with a central character who gives Jack Reacher, Alex Cross and Jason Bourne a run for their money When Caleb Wardell, the infamous ‘Chicago Sniper’, escapes from death row two weeks before his execution, the FBI calls on the services of Carter Blake, a man with certain specialised talents whose skills lie in finding those who don’t want to be found. A man to whom Wardell is no stranger. Along with Elaine Banner, an ambitious special agent juggling life as a single mother with her increasingly high-flying career, Blake must track Wardell down as he cuts a swath across America, apparently killing at random.

THE MAN’S BOOK

DRAGON QUEEN

Reference • 224 pages

Fantasy • 352 pages

9781780226071 $10.99 PB • MAY

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Thomas Fink

THE KILLING SEASON Mason Cross

Thriller • 384 pages

9781409145677 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • MAY 9781409145707 • $34.99 HC • MAY

• With a virtually faultless blend of compelling action, intelligent plotting and well-drawn characters, this is a brilliant and incredibly polished debut thriller with a fantastic new series character.

THE SPLINTERED GODS

Stephen Deas

Fantasy • 640 pages

9780575100572 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY

PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB ROYAL: 9780575100534

The indispensible guide for men in the 21st century! Answers to every question you have ever needed to ask are within these pages: how to cook a decent chili, carve a roast, differentiate between types of beers, and which urinal to use in a public restroom, plus 85 ways to tie a tie.

Return to the world of the Adamantine Palace for death-dealing dragons and even more dangerous politicking. ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE SILVER KINGS SERIES: THE BLACK MAUSOLEUM • 9780575100497 • TPB R

IN THE MEMORY OF FLAMES SERIES: THE ADAMANTINE PALACE • 9780575083752 • PB THE KING OF CRAGS • 9780575083790 • PB ORDER OF THE SCALES • 9780575083820 • PB

Lost in a body that isn’t his own, Berren - the Bloody Judge - continues his search for the man who stole his life. But there is another power inside Berren, one which escapes when he is in danger and has the habit of disintegrating those around him. And that power has its own agenda. ALSO AVAILABLE: DRAGON QUEEN • 9780575100534 • TPB R

ORION

LOVE ON THE ROCKS

RICHARD HAMMOND’S CARAVANS

THE BURNING ANSWER

Veronica Henry

Keith Barnham

Fiction • 544 pages

The Essential Love ‘Em or Hate ‘Em Guide Richard Hammond

Popular Science 320 pages

9781409147077 $15.99 PB • MAY

Automobiles 144 pages

9780297869634 $16.99 HC • MAY

9780753826713 $16.99 PB • MAY

The much-loved Top Gear host, and #1 bestselling author of ON THE EDGE, on learning to love your caravan - includes advice on how to blow it up when you are finished with it.

When the rundown Rocks Hotel comes up for auction in Mariscombe, Lisa and her boyfriend George make a successful bid to escape and live the dream. But their dream quickly becomes a nightmare. Their archrival, Bruno Thorne, owner of the Mariscombe Hotel, seems intent on sabotage . . .

21ST CENTURY GIRLS

A user’s guide to the solar revolution, examining a solution for the energy crisis through solar power by utilizing Einstein’s ‘lost’ equation E=hf.

THE SPANISH ARMADA

RUNNING

Ronnie O’Sullivan Autobiography/Snooker 288 pages

Sue Palmer

Parenting • 320 pages

Robert Hutchinson History • 288 pages

9781409147398 $16.99 HC (7.8 x 5") • MAY

9781409148654 $16.99 PB • MAY

9781780220888 $16.99 PB • MAY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780297866374

PREVIOUS EDITION: TPB ROYAL: 9780752890135

Children today are introduced to 21st century adult values and behaviour at an increasingly early age, long before they are developmentally ready to cope with them. Sue Palmer tackles issues such as the problems facing parents in an age of materialism, the way gender wars have intensified those problems, the debate about the ‘female brain’, and the challenges involved in detoxifying family life.

The World Snooker Champion’s first volume of autobiography, RONNIE, was a major bestseller, acclaimed for its candour and insight into the life of a top sports star. In his second book, Ronnie reflects on how so much of his life has been spent running away or running towards (often inadvisable) things.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HERBERT CHAPMAN

EVENING’S EMPIRES

Paul McAuley Science Fiction 400 pages

The Story of One of Footballs’ Most Influential Figures Patrick Barclay

9780575100817 $15.99 PB • MAY

Biography/Soccer 288 pages

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780575100794 HC: 9780575100787

9780297868507 $32.99 HC • MAY

The definitive story of the father of modern football, Herbert Chapman, combining a footballing narrative with a social history of the inter-war years - the dramatic era of the General Strike and the Depression of the 1930s.

Divergent strands of far-evolved humanity are in a desperate battle for the future across the Solar system and beyond, from the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author. • Reviewed in the Toronto Star. ALSO AVAILABLE: IN THE MOUTH OF A WHALE • 9780575100756 • PB COWBOY ANGELS • 9780575082236 • PB PASQUALE’S ANGEL • 9780575086593 • PB FAIRYLAND • 9780575086586 • PB

A dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of derring-do and disaster on the high seas by one of our best narrative historians. ALSO AVAILABLE: YOUNG HENRY • 9780753827710 • PB HOUSE OF TREASON • 9780753826904 • PB

617

Going to War with Today’s Dambusters Tim Bouquet Military History 352 pages

9781409129882 $16.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB: 9781409144168 HC: 9781409144151

From dramatic air strikes to the life-anddeath search for IEDs and low-flying shows of force designed to spook and drive insurgents from civilian cover, 617 is the inside story of today’s Dambusters at war in Afghanistan.

A 30-year-old case is being reopened, and Rebus’s team from back then is suspected of foul play. With Malcolm Fox as the investigating officer, are the past and present about to collide in a shocking and murderous fashion? And does Rebus have anything to hide? ALSO AVAILABLE: STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN’S GRAVE 9781409109402 • PB THE IMPOSSIBLE DEAD • 9781409136293 • PB THE COMPLAINTS • 9781409103479 • PB WATCHMEN • 9781409120971 • PB KNOTS & CROSSES: REBUS 1 • 9780752883533 • PB HIDE & SEEK: REBUS 2 • 9780752883540 • PB TOOTH & NAIL: REBUS 3 • 9780752883557 • PB STRIP JACK: REBUS 4 • 9780752883564 • PB THE BLACK BOLT: REBUS 5 9780752883571 • PB MORTAL CAUSES: REBUS 6 • 9780752883588 • PB

A searing, energetic portrait of Tehran and of surviving in one of the world’s most repressive regimes Far removed from the picture of Tehran we glimpse in news stories, there is another, hidden city, where survival depends on an intricate network of lies and falsehoods. It is a place where Mullahs visit prostitutes, gangs sell guns supplied by corrupt Revolutionary Guards, cosmetic surgeons restore girls’ virginity and homemade porn is bought and sold in the bazaars. It is also the home of our eight protagonists, drawn from across the spectrum of Iranian society: the gun runner, the ageing socialite, the porn star, the assassin and enemy of the state who ends up working for the Republic, the volunteer religious policeman who undergoes a sex change, and the dutiful housewife who files for divorce.

Turning his hand to fiction for the first time, this is the fantastic new crime novel from champion jockey A.P. McCoy. Duncan was taught everything he knows by his father, Charlie, a former trainer whose career and reputation were destroyed when a series of bitter rivalries got out of hand. It ruined him and Charlie hasn’t been able to set foot on a racecourse since. Now, with his father’s health rapidly declining, Duncan is desperate to beat the best and at the same time take down the men responsible for Charlie’s ruin. But can he do both or must he choose between his family and his future?

SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE Ian Rankin

Crime/Mystery • 352 pages

ORION

Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder.

9781409128847 • $15.99 PB • JUNE

• STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN’S GRAVE was on The Globe & Mail bestseller list. • Rebus and Fox join forces in a stunningly good novel - guaranteeing masses of review coverage once again.

Praise for STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN’S GRAVE: ‘ . . . it’s no wonder this new Rankin book has hit the bestsellers list . . . ‘ - THE GLOBE AND MAIL

‘Full of the author’s dry humour and lovingly depicted details of Scottish life, the book is a welcome reunion with an old friend.’ - HELLO CANADA

CITY OF LIES Ramita Navai

Biography • 320 pages

9780297871316 • $24.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9780297869498 • $32.99 HC • JUNE

TAKING THE FALL A.P. McCoy

Crime/Mystery • 400 pages

9781409129585 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409129721 HC: 9781409129578

• Set in the tense, high-stakes world of competitive racing, A.P. McCoy brings his unrivalled knowledge of the racing world to this brilliant new thriller, featuring a series character that fans will love. • This is in the vein of the incredibly successful Dick Francis novels. The most recent Dick Francis and Felix Francis novel, CROSSFIRE, sold over 35,000 hardcovers and over 70,000 paperbacks.

ORION

THROWN

IN DARK SERVICE

Dominic Prince Fiction • 336 pages

9780297608141 $24.99 HC • JUNE

YEAH, I MADE IT MYSELF

Stephen Hunt

Fantasy • 512 pages

IN DARK SERVICE

Eithne Farry

9780575092068 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

Craft • 224 pages

9781780226255 $16.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

STEPHEN HUNT

This is the story of a stable lad and a suffragette, their reckless courage and doomed friendship, and the thrilling horse race that binds them together. In the tragedy that unfolds, fortunes are made and lost, hearts are broken and the course of history will change for ever.

Jacob’s son has been enslaved. His home destroyed. Now he has one goal: to reclaim his family, however much blood is spilt.

TITHE OF THE SAVIOURS

A CORNISH AFFAIR

Fantasy • 452 pages

9781409137498 $15.99 PB • JUNE

Fiction • 400 pages

9780575123229 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE CHRONICLES OF A COSMIC WARLORD SERIES: GATEWAY OF THE SAVIOURS • 9780575123182 TPB R GATEWAY OF THE SAVIOURS • 9780575123199 • PB EMPIRE OF THE SAVIOURS • 9780575123144 • PB

9781409127970 $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9781409122364

Devon, 1954. The villagers of Burracombe pull together to help each other though the tough times but now it’s summer, and a time to celebrate love and new life. Even so, there are still a few surprises to come . . . ALSO AVAILABLE:

THE CORNISH HOUSE • 9781409137481 • PB

Crime/Mystery 304 pages

9780575129641 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE

M.D. Lachlan

Fantasy • 400 pages

DI Zoe Dolan is tracking the Creeper - a stalker who’s been breaking into women’s homes and attacking them. But the Creeper’s violence is escalating - and there’s no clue as to who’s next.

Volume four moves the action to Norman England and an immortal wolf and an immortal woman on the run, fighting for their lives.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

WOLFSANGEL • 9780575089600 • PB FENRIR • 9780575089655 • PB LORD OF SLAUGHTER • 9780575089686 •TPB R LORD OF SLAUGHTER • 9780575089679 • HC LORD OF SLAUGHTER • 9780575089693 • PB

DARK ROOM • 9781409137603 • PB DARK ROOM • 9781409141907 • TPB R DARK ROOM • 9781409141891 • HC BLACK FLOWERS • 9781409101116 • TPB R

Fiction • 320 pages

STORM OVER BURRACOMBE • 9780752893150 PB

ALSO AVAILABLE:

VALKYRIE’S SONG

9781409141938 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JUNE 9781409141921 $32.99 HC • JUNE

Jude works as an archivist, sifting through the deceased owner’s huge collection of letters and plans for the house’s formal gardens. However Jude begins to realise that the elderly man was obsessed with a family legend - a riddle that points to a family heirloom hidden two centuries before.

THE NIGHTMARE PLACE Steve Mosby

Lilian Harry

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409142775 HC: 9781409142768

A J DALTON

The final battle for the people of the empire is at hand - and it will shake the universe itself.

WEDDINGS IN BURRACOMBE

Liz Fenwick

A J Dalton

TITHE OF THE SAVIOURS

A beautifully designed, fun, unintimidating and inspirational tour around the world of home-sewing, and generally messing around with bits of material. The ideas are accessible and adaptable - it’s all about creating an individual look, experimenting with ideas and laughing if it all goes a bit lopsided.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE CRAW TRILOGY:

SPICE

Layers of Flavour Dhruv Baker Cookery • 224 pages

9780297870159 $40.00 HC • JUNE

We now have wonderful ingredients on our doorsteps or even in our spice cupboards but we still fear them or treat them with a degree of confusion if not suspicion. In this cookbook, Dhruv instills an understanding of the characteristics of individual spices, which leads to an ability to blend or fuse more and more spices to give an enhanced culinary experience with the addition of each extra layer of flavour.

On a perfect summer evening in 1954, sixteenyear-old Nancy Denton walked into the woods of her hometown of Whytesburg, Mississippi. She was never seen again. As Sheriff John Gaines closes in on the truth, he is forced to not only confront his own demons, but to unearth secrets that have long remained hidden. And that truth, so much darker than he could ever have imagined, may be the one thing that finally destroys him. ALSO AVAILABLE: DARK AND BROKEN HEART • 9781409121329 • PB BAD SIGNS • 9781409118596 • PB SAINTS OF NEW YORK • 9781409118589 • PB A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS • 9780752882635 • PB

Florence, 1466 . . . a lust for life, a taste for death and a passion for power Nino’s greatest gift will be his greatest curse. Son of a butcher and nephew of great painter Fra Filippo Lippi, Nino can taste things that other people cannot. Every flavour, every ingredient comes alive for him as vividly as a painting. In an age of gluttony and conspicuous consumption, his desires will lead him into danger. His love for the beautiful Tessina Delmazza and his longing to create the perfect recipe prove equally dangerous. Nino must flee Florence if he’s to save his life and if he ever wants to see home or Tessina again, he must battle each of the deadly sins.

ORION

When the rains came they found just the girl’s face. At least that was how it appeared . . .

THE DEVIL AND THE RIVER R.J. Ellory

Crime/Mystery • 432 pages

9781409121336 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409124184 HC: 9781409124177

• R.J. Ellory is now critically recognised as one of the crime genre’s up-and-coming stars. • A SIMPLE ACT OF VIOLENCE won the prestigious Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2010. ‘RJ Ellory sets out his stall with terrific vim and a gripping premise in his latest thriller . . . an energetic and winning exercise in pulp fiction with a Southern Gothic flavour.’ - METRO

APPETITE

Philip Kazan Historical Fiction • 496 pages

9781409127888 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409142805 HC: 9781409142799

• APPETITE is the best kind of upmarket historical fiction - perfect for everyone who loved PERFUME, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING and AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST. • Beautifully written, APPETITE shines a light on the secret corners of Florence, the amazing characters within and their dark desires. ‘Kazan’s rich, sensuous prose is always a pleasure.’ - SUNDAY TIMES

No-one trusts humanity.

TERRA Mitch Benn

On one trip to Rrth, an alien biologist causes a horrendous accident. The occupants of a car traveling down a lonely road spot his ship (the sort of massive lemon-coloured, lemon-shaped starship that really shouldn’t be hanging in the sky over a road). Understandably, the car crashes. And in the wreckage of their car our alien discovers a baby girl. She needs rescuing. From the car. From Rrth. From her humanity. And now eleven years later a girl called Terra is about to go to school for the first time. It’s a very alien experience . . .

TERRA

Mitch Benn Science Fiction • 224 pages

9780575132108 • $15.99 PB • JUNE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: PB DEMY: 9780575132092 HC DEMY: 9780575132085

• Mitch has over 20,000 followers on Twitter. ‘I found myself thinking of Roald Dahl, Douglas Adams & Terry Pratchett. Wise, funny, and above all, human.’ - NEIL GAIMEN

‘Okay, so there might not be a god, but he’s trying very hard to prove otherwise.’ - TERRY PRATCHETT

ORION

In the sequel to THE CRIMSON ROOMS, Evelyn Gifford’s personal and professional lives intertwine amid the tensions of London’s General Strike. February, 1926. The city of London is tense. When Evelyn’s beloved grandmother dies, she finds herself very much alone. But not for long an unexpected proposal coincides with the return of a former love and Evelyn must ask herself what matters most - security or passion. She also discovers a secret hidden in her mother’s past - a mystery that throws a very different light on the cases she is investigating. ALSO AVAILABLE: CRIMSON ROOMS • 9780753825471 • PB SEASON OF LIGHT • 9780297858300 • TPB R SEASON OF LIGHT • 9780297853398 • HC SEASON OF LIGHT • 9781780220130 • PB

GOING BACK

ELLA MORRIS

Fiction • 320 pages

Fiction • 560 pages

Katharine McMahon Fiction • 368 pages

9780297866046 • $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9780297866039 • $32.99 HC • JULY

• The sequel to Katharine McMahon’s pacy, plot-driven CRIMSON ROOMS. • Katharine McMahon is a firm favourite with women readers and book clubs, and her novel THE ROSE OF SEBASTOPOL, having been picked for The Richard & Judy Book Club, was a runaway bestseller and sold 257,000 copies in mass market paperback.

A CORNISH STRANGER

John David Morley

Rachael English

Liz Fenwick

9780297871729 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9780297871385 $32.99 HC • JULY

9781409145202 $15.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409145257 HC: 9781409129837

Elizabeth Kelly returns to Boston more than twenty years later and is drawn back into the life she once lived. But will she be able to reconcile the dreams of her twenty-yearold self with the woman she has become?

THE WOMAN IN THE PICTURE

The eagerly awaited new novel from journalist and author John David Morley, played out on an epic, global scale.

Fiction • 320 pages

9781409148234 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9781409148227 $32.99 HC • JULY

Following on from her bestselling debut, THE CORNISH HOUSE, and well-received second novel, A CORNISH AFFAIR, Liz Fenwick will steal your heart with this delightful new tale that is touched with intrigue and romance. ALSO AVAILABLE: A CORNISH AFFAIR • 9781409142775 •TPB R A CORNISH AFFAIR • 9781409142768 • HC

THE BEACH HUT NEXT DOOR

OPERATION MAYHEM

NINA ST TROPEZ

Fiction • 400 pages

Autobiography/ Military History 288 pages

9780297870685 $32.99 HC • JULY

Veronica Henry

9781409146735 $15.99 PB • JULY 9781409146742 $28.99 HC • JULY

Return to Everdene Sands, setting for the THE BEACH HUT, and discover secrets, love, dreams, and lives not quite as they appear . . . ALSO AVAILABLE: NIGHT ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 9781409130956 • TPB R NIGHT ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 9781409130949 • HC NIGHT ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 9781409135470 • PB LONG WEEKEND • 9781409135463 • PB

Steve Heaney

OPERATION MAYHEM STEVE HEANEY

9781409148449 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY 9781409148432 $32.99 HC • JULY

Airlifted into the heart of the Sierra Leone jungle in the midst of the bloody civil war in 2000, twenty elite operators from the secret British elite unit X Platoon were sent into combat against thousands of Sierra Leonean rebels. This is the first account of a truly epic mission.

Nina Parker

Cookery • 256 pages

Oozing with charm and filled with classic recipes for gourmet breakfasts, picnics, lunchtime snacks and dinner parties to impress, NINA ST TROPEZ represents family cooking from across the south of France with that added splash of St Tropez elegance that’s intrigued people for decades.

Jocelyne is 47 and runs her own dressmaking shop. She’s a bit overweight, her husband is very ordinary and her best friends are the twins who run the hairdresser next door. Jocelyn has reached the point where she is examining her life and measuring it against what her teenage self had imagined. But then the twins persuade Jocelyn to enter the euromillion lottery and she wins 18 million euros. She could do anything with the money, change her life completely, but what does she really want?

Looking beyond first appearances to the real, underlying beauty of our inner selves Arthur Dreyfuss is a young mechanic at a garage in the little community of Long, France. On the surface, he leads a simple life, so when he opens the door of his simple flat one evening to find a distraught Jeanine Foucamprez standing there, he is more than a little overwhelmed. And as the plot unfolds, we learn that Arthur Dreyfuss is not all he seems. He’s a lover of poetry, someone who sees beauty in the mundane and someone with a darker past than we might imagine at first glimpse.

THE LIST OF MY DESIRES Gregoire Delacourt Fiction • 240 pages

ORION

If you could change your life, would you?

9781780224251 • $14.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC DEMY: 9780297868354

• 300,000 copies sold so far in France and still #1 in the bestseller charts a year after publication. • The success of THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG (160,000 copies) and NO ET MOI (over 50,000 copies) proves there is a real appetite for beautifully crafted and heartwarming stories.

THE FIRST THING YOU SEE Gregoire Delacourt Fiction • 240 pages

9780297871026 • $19.99 HC (7.8 x 5") • AUGUST

• Like THE LIST OF MY DESIRES, this is a warm, witty novel about an ordinary person in an extraordinary situation. It showcases Delacourt’s empathy and imagination perfectly.

ALSO AVAILABLE: LIST OF MY DESIRES • 9780297868354 • HC DEMY

BARRICADE

THE RAVEN’S SHADOW

Jon Wallace

Science Fiction 400 pages

Elspeth Cooper

Fantasy • 640 pages

9780575134393 $15.99 PB • JULY

BARRICADE JON WALLACE

9780575117945 $22.99 TPB ROYAL • JULY

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780575134386 HC: 9780575134379

In the Nordmen’s chilly halls, Savin plays out a game in which kings and chieftains and men are but pawns on a chessboard that spans the Veil itself. Three moons are rising. When the trinity is complete, the endgame will begin.

EMPIRE OF THE DEEP Ben Wilson

Military History 544 pages

9780753829202 $16.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780297864080

A fast-paced, droll and disturbing novel, BARRICADE is a savage road trip across the dystopian landscape of post-apocalypse Britain; narrated by the cold-blooded yet magnetic antihero, Kenstibec.

A landmark history of the British Navy, from King Alfred to the twenty-first century.

ALSO AVAILABLE: SONGS OF THE EARTH • 9780575096165 • PB TRINITY RISING • 9780575096202 • PB

ORION

THE ACE OF SKULLS

THE VILLAGE

MESSI

Fantasy • 512 pages

Memoir • 304 pages

Biography/Soccer 288 pages

Chris Wooding

Dot May Dunn

9780575098121 $15.99 PB • JULY

Guillem Balague

9781409148081 $22.99 HC • JULY

9781409146605 $16.99 PB • JULY

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9780575098114 HC: 9780575098107

The Ketty Jay and her crew make their final stand! ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE TALE OF THE KETTY JAY SERIES: RETRIBUTION FALLS • 9780575085169 • PB THE BLACK LUNG CAPTAIN • 9781780620756 • PB THE IRON JACKAL • 9780575098084 • PB THE IRON JACKAL • 9780575098077 • TPB R

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409149989 HC: 9781409146599

Following Dot through WWII, THE VILLAGE is a tender coming of age story - a child’s struggle to comprehend the world around her, haunted by the emotions of war, a sense of naïveté lost and what the future can possibly hold after these devastating times.

Guillem Balague’s perceptive and compelling biography goes to the heart of the mystery - and genius - that is one of the greatest footballers of all time, Lionel Messi. ALSO AVAILABLE: PEP GUARDIOLA • 9781409129462 • PB

– MRS BEETON – All of the recipes have been drawn from Mrs Beeton’s original BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT and have been updated for the 21st-century kitchen. Combined with sound, modern advice on how to source good food, plus detailed information on ingredients and equipment and illustrations of all the techniques required, these are the go-to mini books for any aspiring or experienced home cook.

MRS BEETON’S SOUPS & SIDES Isabella Beeton

Cookery • 96 pages

MRS BEETON’S CLASSIC MEAT DISHES

Cookery • 96 pages

9780297870388 $9.99 PB • JULY

9780297870395 $9.99 PB • JULY

Isabella Beeton

9780297870425 $9.99 PB • JULY

In this delicious cookbook, Mrs Beeton’s recipes will show you how to combine the best produce and ingredients to create a meal full on flavour and packed with locally sourced produce.

MRS BEETON’S CHICKEN OTHER BIRDS AND GAME

The complete guide to all things poultry by Britain’s most famous cook! From game terrine, pot-roast pheasant and rabbit curry, this gorgeous collection of recipes will inspire you to create timeless dishes with Britain’s most popular meat.

ALSO AVAILABLE: MRS BEETON HOW TO COOK • 9780297865971 • HC

MRS BEETON’S FISH & SEAFOOD Isabella Beeton

Cookery • 96 pages

9780297870401 $9.99 PB • JULY

From fish pie, smoked haddock, soused mackerel and potted shrimp, this cookbook will give you the know-how to prepare and cook fresh and delicious recipes for all of the family, all year round.

Isabella Beeton

From a beef roast, steak and kidney pudding and braised mutton, Mrs Beeton’s recipes were big on flavour. Here is traditional British cooking at its best, with the most economical and practical methods for you to create those classic suppers that continue to stand the test of time.

MRS BEETON’S CAKES & BAKES

MRS BEETON’S PUDDINGS

Cookery • 96 pages

9780297870371 $9.99 PB • JULY

9780297870418 $9.99 PB • JULY

Isabella Beeton

Classic recipes such as Eccles Cakes, Victoria Sandwich Cake, scones and shortbread, have stood the test of time. Here is a gorgeous and practical recipe book for the home cook, packed with delicious desserts and sweet treat ideas for any occasion.

Isabella Beeton

From the lightest lemon posset to a luscious trifle and an aromatic chocolate souffle, this is the complete guide to creating delicious puddings and desserts.

What starts as a novel about survivor’s guilt soon becomes a richer and more mysterious story as Nicholas Donaghue struggles to work out why he’s having bad dreams, full of omens of death, that seem to be striking down the people he sees in his sleep.

RAINBOW’S END • 9780753829233 • PB

Tom Neil

Memoir • 304 pages

9781780221212 $16.99 PB • JULY PREVIOUS EDITION: HC: 9780297868132

THE SILVER SPITFIRE is the first-hand, gripping story of Neil’s heroic experience as an RAF fighter pilot and his reminiscences with his very own personal Spitfire - A brilliantly vivid WWII memoir by one of ‘the Few’ fighter pilots.

ALSO AVAILABLE: WHEN IN ROME • 9781409136125 • PB THE VILLA GIRL • 9780752884400 • PB THE GYPSY TEAROOM • 9780752893228 • PB THE ITALIAN WEDDING • 9780752883915 • PB DELICIOUS • 9780752864631 • PB RECIPE FOR LIFE • 9780752884394 • PB

• THE OBITUARY WRITER brings together the emotive topics of Jojo Moyes ME BEFORE YOU with the emotional power of THE HORSE WHISPERER.

History • 224 pages

9781780226354 $12.99 PB • JULY

9780297870586 $16.99 HC DEMY • JULY

From the internationally-bestselling author of HORRIBLE HISTORIES, this is the first volume in a new series for adults. The book includes some of the violent ways to visit the Elysian Fields (i.e. death) including animal attack in the Coliseum; being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock - 370 deserters in 214 AD alone (or if the emperor didn’t like your poetry); by volcanic eruption from Vesuvius; and much more.

Autobiography/Music 240 pages

In the sun-drenched Sicilian hills, four women learn the lessons of a lifetime at the Food of Love Cookery School.

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409127093 HC: 9781409127185

History • 224 pages

Terry Deary

Fiction • 352 pages

PREVIOUS EDITIONS: TPB ROYAL: 9781409133803 HC: 9781409133797

9781409127949 • $15.99 PB • JULY

DANGEROUS DAYS ON THE VICTORIAN RAILWAYS

PLAN B: MY STORY

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ARENA 7

BROTHERS IN ARMS 69

21ST CENTURY GIRLS 90

ART OF DECEPTION 99

BURNING ANSWER, THE 90

DANDY GILVER AND THE REEK OF RED HERRINGS 74

80 NOT OUT 54

AS SERIOUS AS DEATH 12

100 DAYS TO VICTORY 63

ASTONISHING SPLASHES OF COLOUR 67

DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE 97

CANCEL THE APOCALYPSE 30 CARIBBEE 57

DANGEROUS DAYS ON THE VICTORIAN RAILWAYS 97

CASE TO ANSWER, A 20

DAVID BECKHAM 17

CAUSAL ANGEL, THE 88

DEAD GROUND, THE 8

CAUSE FOR CONCERN 20

DEAD SEA DECEPTION, THE 33

CERTAIN FREEDOM, A 37

DEAD SOULS 5

CHARM 87

DEAR ROSS 40

CHESTNUT STREET 79

DEATH COLLECTOR, THE 29 DEATH IN THE TUSCAN HILLS 70

BEACH HUT NEXT DOOR, THE 94

CHICKENS OF ATLANTIS AND OTHER FOUL AND FILTHY FIENDS, THE 99

BEAUTY 18, 87

CHILLI NOTES 64

AFTER SCHOOL COOKBOOK, THE 66

BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN 30

CHURCHILL AND EMPIRE 88

AGENT OF ROME 71

BEND IT LIKE BULLARD 14

CINNAMON TOAST AND THE END OF THE WORD 42

ALEX FERGUSON 75

BERLIN 100

ALL ABOUT LOVE 28

BÊTE 98

ALL CHANGE FOR NURSE MILLIE 86

BIMBO 54

100 MOST POINTLESS ARGUMENTS IN THE WORLD, THE 64 101 LEGENDARY WHISKIES YOU’RE DYING TO TRY BUT (PROBABLY) NEVER WILL 11 617 90

AT BREAK OF DAY 34 AT CLOSE QUARTERS 48 AUGUSTUS 99

B BABY’S COMING, THE 6

ACE OF SKULLS, THE 96

BARRICADE 95

ACT OF VIOLENCE 20

BARRINGTON BAYLEY SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS 83

ADJACENT, THE 80 AFTER HITLER 56

DEATH OF A SCHOLAR 34 DEEP BLUE SEA 6 DEVIL AND THE RIVER, THE 93

BIRDS IN THE SPRING 37 ALL OF ME 36 BIRD THAT DID NOT SING, THE 23 ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE 24 BLIND ALLEY 60 ALMOST THE TRUTH 20 BLOOD CROWS, THE 7 ALREADY DEAD 35 BODY COUNT 15 ANARCHY 60 BOSWORTH 1485 56 ANDY MURRAY: 77 18 BOY IN THE BOOK, THE 15 ANGEL 27 ANOTHER DAY 37

BOY WITH THE PORCELAIN BLADE, THE 80

ANOTHER SUMMER 41

BREAK POINT 66

APPETITE 93

BREATHE 58

APPETITE FOR VIOLETS, AN 68

BRING ME HOME 49

ARCHANGEL 49

BRITTY BRITTY BANG BANG: ONE MAN’S ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND HIS COUNTRY 12

ARCHBISHOP 56

INDEX

7 SECRETS OF CONFIDENCE 18

BROKEN ROAD, THE 47, 75

CITY OF DEVILS 78

DEVIL’S ARK, THE 8 D.G. COMPTON SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS 83

CITY OF LIES 91 CITY OF THE IRON FISH 84

DID THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN? 42

COLLECTOR OF LOST THINGS, THE 31

DISAPPEARANCE OF EMILY MARR, THE 38

COMING HOME 13

DISRAELI 88

COMMANDO 32

DIVORCED DADS’ CLUB, THE 52

CONSTANT STAR, THE 74

DOLL’S HOUSE, THE 42

CONTRACT, THE 49

DON’T WANT TO MISS A THING 16

CORNISH AFFAIR, A 92 CORNISH STRANGER, A 94 CORPORAL’S WIFE, THE 48 CORPSE BRIDGE, THE 35 CRIMSON RIBBON, THE 4 CROCODILE, THE 35 CRYING GAME, THE 87 CURSE OF LOVELY, THE 25

DOROTHEA’S WAR 86 DRAGON QUEEN 89 DREAMLAND 14 DYING HOURS, THE 33 DYLAN THOMAS: COLLECTED STORIES 82 DYLAN THOMAS OMNIBUS 82 DYLAN THOMAS TREASURY, A 82

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INDEX

FORCE BENEDICT 52

HOME RUN 49

EAGLE’S VENGEANCE, THE 50

FRACTAL PRINCE 88

HOT HEAD 84

LADY BETTE AND THE MURDER OF MR THYNN 88

EDMUND COOPER SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS 83

FROZEN DEAD, THE 60

HOTWIRE 84

ELLA MORRIS 94

HOUR OF DARKNESS 12

ELVES: BEYOND THE MISTS OF KATURA 88

GAFFER, THE 8

HOW TO BE A WRITER 32

GALLERY OF VANISHED HUSBANDS, THE 67

HOW TO CLICK 64

EMILY CLIMBS 26 EMILY OF NEW MOON 26 EMILY’S QUEST 26 EMPEROR’S KNIVES, THE 50 EMPIRE OF THE DEEP 95 EMPTY CRADLE, THE 8 ENEMIES AT HOME 61 ENGLISH GIRL, THE 32 EVENING’S EMPIRES 90 EVERY SECOND LOST 5 EX-FACTOR, THE 21 EXODUS OF THE XANDIM 82 EXTREMIST, THE 72 EYE OF WINTER’S FURY, THE 88

F FAITH ON THE STREETS 68 FALSE PRETENCES 20 FÊTE TO REMEMBER, A 50 FIELD OF BLOOD 48 FIFTH SEASON, THE 59 FIFTY SHADES OF FEMINISM 28 FIGHTING ON THE HOME FRONT 50 FIRE AND BRIMSTONE 15 FIRST THING YOU SEE, THE 95 FLESH WOUNDS 21 FOOD OF LOVE COOKERY SCHOOL, THE 97

102

GARRY KILWORTH SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS 83 GIFTED AND TALENTED 6 GINO’S ITALIAN ESCAPE 76 GLORY BOYS, THE 49 GLOW 61 GOING BACK 94 GOOD CHILDREN 14 GOOD GRIEF 54 GOOD, THE BAD AND THE FURRY, THE 33 GOSPEL OF LOKI, THE 78 GREAT ESCAPER, THE: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ROGER BUSHELL 69 GREAT KING, THE 81

LAGOON 64 LARKSWOOD 89 LAST FRIENDS 22 LATE SCHOLAR, THE 71

LEGACY OF ELIZABETH PRINGLE, THE 55

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUPPER 25

LET’S MEET ON PLATFORM 8 24

IMPERIAL FIRE 29

LIFE AND TIMES OF HERBERT CHAPMAN, THE 90

INCORRUPTIBLES, THE 98 LIFE, THE 16 IN DARK SERVICE 92 LIST OF MY DESIRES, THE 95 ISLAND HIDEAWAY, THE 31 LIVERPOOL LEGACY, A 4 IS THE VICAR IN, PET? 36 LONELY GRAVES 65 IT’S A KIND OF MAGIC 24 LONG FALL, THE 4 IT’S NOT RAINING, DADDY, IT’S HAPPY 64

LOOKING AFTER YOUR OWN 37

LOSING THE DEAD 28

JOHN BRUNNER SF GATEWAY OMNIBUS 83

LOST ABBOT, THE 34

JOHN WHAITE BAKES AT HOME 4

LOST ART OF HAVING FUN, THE 50 LOVE DETECTIVE, THE 63

GROWING UP SO HIGH 42

GROW MAKE EAT 64

KANGAROO DUNDEE 68

LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON AND OTHER DELIGHTS 3

KILLING OF ANGELS, A 55

LOVE LIKE BLOOD, A 45

KILLING OF RICHARD III, THE 36

LOVELY WAY TO BURN, A 51

KILLING SEASON, THE 89

LOVE ON THE ROCKS 90

KIND OF PROMISE, A 3

LOVESONG FOR INDIA, A 38

KING’S GRAVE, THE 56

LOVE STORY, WITH MURDERS 85

H HAIRY BIKERS’ ASIA, THE 86 HAIRY DIETERS, THE 86 HAPPINESS IS A STATE OF MIND 66 HARCOMBE DIET 3-STEP PLAN, THE 62

KING’S REVENGE, THE 38

HEADLONG 84

KIRSTIE’S CHRISTMAS CRAFTS 76

HEART OF STONE 7 HIDDEN RUNE OF IRON, THE 98 HIGHGROVE 84 HOME FOR GOOD 70

M MAD, BAD AND SAD 28

KNIFE EDGE 52

MAEVE’S TIMES 100

KNIGHT’S DAWN 37

MAHARAJAH’S GENERAL, THE 12 MAKING IT HAPPEN 88

PRICE OF GUILT, THE 20

MAN FROM PERFECT, THE 21

OBITUARY WRITER, THE 97

PRINCE, THE PRINCESS AND THE PERFECT MURDER, THE 44

SECRETS MY MOTHER KEPT 72

MAN IN THE WOODEN HAT, THE 22

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK 88 PROCESSION OF ONE, A 37

SEDITION 38

PROPER FAMILY HOLIDAY, A 73

SEVEN ELEMENTS THAT HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD 86

SEASONS QUARTET BOOK TWO 44

INDEX

MANAGERS, THE 42

OLD FILTH 22 MANNER OF MEN, THE 65 OMG BABY! 58 PUBLIC IMAGE, THE 27

MAN’S BOOK, THE 89 MASTERS OF WAR 65

ONE MILLION LOVELY LETTERS 53

MATT DAWSON’S LIONS TALES 10

ONE THAT GOT AWAY, THE 9

MAVERICK ONE 98

ONE YOU FEAR, THE 62

MAY BRIDE, THE 23

ONE YOU LOVE, THE 62

MESSI 96, 100

ON THE STEEL BREEZE 98

METRO 2034 78

OPERATION MAYHEM 94

MINDFULNESS FOR BUSY PEOPLE 56

OPERATION SEALION 66 ORDINARY BEAUTY 40

MISBEGOTTEN, THE 87 OUR CHEATING HEARTS 36 MORLAND DYNASTY 35: THE PHOENIX 38 MORLAND DYNASTY 35, THE : THE PHOENIX 37 MRS BEETON’S CAKES & BAKES 96

P PAINKILLERS 84 PARADOXOLOGY 70 PATH OF THE NINJA, THE 53

MRS BEETON’S CHICKEN, OTHER BIRDS AND GAME 96 MRS BEETON’S CLASSIC MEAT DISHES 96 MRS BEETON’S FISH & SEAFOOD 96 MRS BEETON’S PUDDINGS 96 MRS BEETON’S SOUPS & SIDES 96 MR STRUTH 16 MY OUTDOOR LIFE 68

N NEXT TO DIE 29 NIGHTMARE PLACE, THE 92 NIGHT MUSIC 46 NINA ST TROPEZ 94

PEACOCK EMPORIUM, THE 46 PEOPLE, THE 54

Q QUESTION OF BELIEF, A 20

R RACHEL KHOO’S PATES AND SPREADS 98

SHADES OF DECEIT 37 SHAKESPEARE’S REBEL 85 SHAME AND THE CAPTIVES 45 SHARON & TRACY & THE REST 54 SHE LANDED BY MOONLIGHT 68

RAVEN’S SHADOW, THE 95 REAL MRS. BROWN, THE 68, 76

SHIMMER OF THE HERRING, THE 37

REBEL BRIDE 53

SILENT DAY, THE 73

RED FOX 48

SILVER SPITFIRE, THE 97

RED NILE 86

SIXPENNY SONG, A 16

RED WINTER 99

SIXTY MINUTE GRANDPARENT, THE 53

RESPECT 59 RESTFUL MIND, THE 70 REVELATIONOLOGY 72 REVENGE 10

SMALL ISLAND 13 SMILER’S FAIR 72 SOHO 54 SOME GIRLS DO 40

PEOPLE YOU ARE, THE 30

RICHARD HAMMOND’S CARAVANS 90

SOUL MATES 36

PERFECT WIVES 2

ROSEBLOOD 14

SPANISH ARMADA, THE 90

PHARAOH 16

RUNNING 90

SPANISH LETTER, THE 40

PINK PEPPER TREE, THE 41 PLACE TO CALL HOME, A 24

S SACRED DIARY OF ADRIAN PLASS, THE 54

PLAN B: MY STORY 97 PLAYFAIR CRICKET ANNUAL 2014 10

SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE 91 SANE NEW WORLD 46

POIROT AND ME 14, 18 SAY YES TO LIFE 40 POISON 87 SCABBARD’S SONG 37 POOR COW 27

NOVEL IN THE VIOLA, THE 75

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG 82

NOW THAT I’VE FOUND YOU 64

PRECIOUS THING 6

SCHOOL INSPECTOR CALLS, THE 74 SEASON OF DESIRE, A 44

SPARKLE OF SALT, A 37 SPICE 92 SPLINTERED GODS, THE 89 SPY WHO CHANGED THE WORLD, THE 10 STAYING ON 37 STONE WIFE, THE 25 STRANGE DEATH OF FIONA GRIFFITHS, THE 85 STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND, THE 34

103

INDEX

STREETWISE 31

TRADER’S REWARD, THE 52

SUMMER AT THE LAKE 99

TRAVELLING TEA SHOP, THE 71

SUMMER IN CARACOVE BAY 2

TRENCH FEVER 36

SUMMER IN FEBRUARY 32

TRIALS OF PASSION 28

SUMMER QUEEN, THE 36

TRUE COLOURS 65

WHEN BRITAIN BURNED THE WHITE HOUSE 68

SVEN 17

TRUNDLERS, THE 34

WHEN FRASER MET BILLY 66

SWEETEST TABOO, THE 24

TRUTH BEHIND US, THE 41

WHEN THE NIGHT COMES 66

SYSTEM, THE 48

TUFFERS’ ALTERNATIVE GUIDE TO THE ASHES 10

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BOB? 76

TURNING FORTY 52

WHERE MEMORIES ARE MADE 16

TAKING THE FALL 91 TEA BY THE NURSERY FIRE 32

WHAT LIES WITHIN 18 WHAT SHOULD WE TELL OUR DAUGHTERS? 70

TWEET OF THE DAY 52 WHERE MEMORIES GO 65 TWIN AMBITIONS - MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY 72

WHOLE LOT OF HISTORY, A 4

TYRANT: FORCE OF KINGS 81

WINTER FOUNDLINGS, THE 55

WINTER GATHERING, THE 18

UNCLE BILL 98

WINTER WONDERLAND 76

UNDER MILK WOOD 82

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU 24

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH 79

UNSWEET CHARITY 54

WIZARD’S FUNERAL 37

TESTIMONY OF THE HANGED MAN, THE 11

UNTIL DEATH 63

WOLF BRIDE 53

UNTITLED ADAM BAKER 74

WOLVES 84

UP THE JUNCTION 27

WOMAN IN THE PICTURE, THE 94

TELL-TALE HEART, THE 51 TERRA 93 TERRITORIAL RIGHTS 27 TERRY PRATCHETT’S DISCWORLD COLLECTORS’ EDITION CALENDAR 2014 100

TEXTS FROM DOG 8 THAT DARK REMEMBERED DAY 6 THEFT OF LIFE 2 THERE IS A HAPPY LAND 54

V VALKYRIE’S SONG 92 VANISHING, THE 86

WORLD ACCORDING TO BOB, THE 47

THINGS TO MAKE AND DO WITH YOUR CHILDREN 97

VIEW OF THE HARBOUR, A 27

THINGS WE NEVER SAY 9

VILLAGE, THE 96

THREE DOG NIGHT 5

VIOLENT CENTURY, THE 57

THROWN 92

YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY 24

WALK HOME, THE 32

YOU’RE MINE NOW 30

TITHE OF THE SAVIOURS 92

WALKING WITH TIGERS 30

YOURS, E.R. 12

TOAST & MARMALADE AND OTHER STORIES 66

WAR DOG 32, 38

TIME BOMB 69

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD 67 TO THE TOPPERMOST OF THE POPPERMOST 70

104

WEDDINGS IN BURRACOMBE 92, 100

WAR OF THE GRAIL, THE 52 WATCHING THE ENGLISH 58

YEAH, I MADE IT MYSELF 92 YEAR OF THE LADYBIRD, THE 83 YEAR’S JOURNEY WITH GOD, A 70

Z ZODIAC STATION 73

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Catalog ISBN: 9780316331746

TRIM CONVERSION FORMAT Royal Hard Back [HB] Demy Hard Back [HB Demy] C Format Trade Paperback [TPB Royal] DC Format Trade Paperback [PB Demy]

DIMENSIONS 9.2 x 6" 8.5 x 5.3" 9.2 x 6" 8.5 x 5.3"

B Format Paperback [PB]

7.8 x 5"

A Format Paperback [MM]

7 x 5"

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