PA N MACMILLAN C a talogue g n i r p S 2017
CONTENTS Picador 03 Mantle 35 Macmillan 47 Pan 77 Tor 109 Bluebird 117 Non-fiction 139 Macmillan Collector’s Library 167 Paperbacks 170
PICADOR
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Innocents and Others, Dana Spiotta Letters to a Young Muslim, Omar Saif Ghobash Little Deaths, Emma Flint Lord of the Darkwood, Lian Hearn The Nix, Nathan Hill The Rain in Portugal, Billy Collins Fathers and Sons, Howard Cunnell The Good Lieutenant, Whitney Terrell The Good People, Hannah Kent Christodora, Tim Murphy The Last Days of New Paris, China Mieville Ithaca, Alan McMonagle Useful Verses, Richard Osmond Swimmer Among The Stars, Kanishk Tharoor Let Go My Hand, Edward Docx The Boy Behind the Curtain, TimWinton Selected Poems, Colette Bryce All That’s Left to Tell, Daniel Lowe The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness, Graham Caveney To Die in Spring, Ralf Rothmann The End We Start From, Megan Hunter The Reminders, Val Emmich Bleaker House, Nell Stevens Perfect Little World, KevinWilson Selfie, Will Storr Skin, Hollie McNish Connect, Julian Gough A Manual for Heartache, Cathy Rentzenbrink Pages for Her, Sylvia Brownrigg
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IMPRINT OF THE YEAR 2016 Picador was named Imprint of the Year 2016 at the British Book Awards. The judges described Picador as ‘that rarest of things in publishing: a literary brand that resonates beyond publishing, with authors, readers and critics alike.’ The citation continued: ‘What impressed most about Picador is the huge strength in depth throughout the list and its ability to be both literary and commercial, with no sense of compromise between the two. Picador has real personality and it’s far greater than the sum of its parts.’ 2015 certainly was a great year, with bestsellers across all our categories (fiction, nonfiction and poetry), and 2016 has been equally exciting so far. We had critically acclaimed fiction, including the Man Booker shortlisted Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways, Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, paperback bestsellers in The Miniaturist, Mrs. Hemingway, and Station Eleven and non-fiction bestsellers from Jon Ronson, Oliver Sacks, Cathy Rentzenbrink and Ben Judah. And let us not forget the top-selling new poetry collections from Clive James and Carol Ann Duffy. We were very proud to receive this top industry accolade and we are determined not to rest on our laurels. So looking ahead to the first half of 2017, I am convinced we have our strongest list of new talent and I know we are introducing writers who will join our established greats. In the pages that follow you will find literary fiction of the highest order, from established and debut writers, some wonderfully inventive and moving memoirs, poetry by established stars and new voices and a continued reinvention of backlist titles through the Picador Classic list. We have a few more wonderful titles up our sleeves (to be announced in due course), so I hope you will keep an eye out for the very best new voices and storytellers around.
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INNOCENTS AND OTHERS Dana Spiotta
....................................................................................................................... An extraordinary new novel about friendship, seduction and art. Meadow Mori and Carrie Wexler grew up together in Los Angeles, and both became film-makers. Meadow makes challenging documentaries; Carrie makes successful feature films with a feminist slant. The two friends have everything in common - except their views on sex, power, movie-making and morality. And yet their loyalty trumps their different approaches to film and to life. Until, one day, a mysterious woman with a unique ability to cold-call and seduce powerful men over the phone - not through sex, but through listening - becomes the subject of one of Meadow's documentaries. Her downfall, and what makes her so extraordinarily moving, is that she pretends to be someone she is not. Heart-breaking and insightful, Innocents and Others is an astonishing novel about friendship, identity, loneliness and art.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 288 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509839124 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
Dana Spiotta is the author of Stone Arabia, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Eat the Document, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Lightning Field. Spiotta received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and the Rome Prize for Literature. Her work has been published by the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches in the creative writing programme at Syracuse University.
REVIEWS 'A wondrous and mysterious novel, a spectacular and subtle meditation on sight and sound . . . brilliant, and erotic, and pop' Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers 'A literary marvel . . . As Don DeLillo did for rock and roll with Great Jones Street, so Spiotta does for film . . . Her aim is nothing less than redemption, and she delivers' Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club
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LETTERS TO A YOUNG MUSLIM Omar Saif Ghobash
....................................................................................................................... From the Ambassador of the UAE to Russia comes a bold and intimate exploration of what it means to be a Muslim in the twenty-first century In a series of personal letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current global crisis with the training of an experienced diplomat and the personal responsibility of a father. Today's young Muslims will be tomorrow's leaders, and yet too many are vulnerable to extremist propaganda that seems omnipresent in our technological age. The burning question, Ghobash argues, is how moderate Muslims can unite to find a voice that is true to Islam while actively and productively engaging in the modern world. What does it mean to be a good Muslim? What is the concept of a good life? And is it acceptable to stand up and openly condemn those who take the Islamic faith and twist it to suit their own misguided political agendas? In taking a hard look at these seemingly simple questions, Ghobash encourages his sons to face issues others insist are not relevant, not applicable, or may even be Islamophobic. These letters serve as a clear-eyed inspiration for the next generation of Muslims to understand how to be faithful to their religion and still navigate through the complexities of today's world. They also reveal an intimate glimpse into a world many are unfamiliar with and offer to provide an understanding of the everyday struggles Muslims face around the globe.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Omar Saif Ghobash is the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia. In addition to his post in Moscow, Ambassador Ghobash sponsors the Saif GhobashBanipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and founded the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in collaboration with the Booker Prize in London. Ambassador Ghobash studied law at Oxford and mathematics at the University of London.
Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 272 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509842599 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Religion Subcategory: Islam
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LITTLE DEATHS Emma Flint
....................................................................................................................... It's every mother's worst nightmare. But Ruth Malone is not like other mothers . . . It's the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and her two young children missing. After a desperate search, the police make a horrifying discovery. Noting Ruth's perfectly made-up face and provocative clothing, the empty liquor bottles and love letters that litter her apartment, the detectives leap to convenient conclusions, fuelled by neighbourhood gossip and speculation. Sent to cover the case on his first major assignment, tabloid reporter Pete Wonicke at first can't help but do the same. But the longer he spends watching Ruth, the more he learns about the darker workings of the police and the press. Soon, Pete begins to doubt everything he thought he knew. Ruth Malone is enthralling, challenging and secretive - is she really capable of murder? Haunting, intoxicating and heart-poundingly suspenseful, Little Deaths is a gripping novel about love, morality and obsession, exploring the capacity for good and evil within us all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 368 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509826575 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
Emma Flint grew up in Newcastle and graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA in English Language and Literature. She later completed a novel-writing course at the Faber Academy. Since childhood, she has read truecrime stories, developing an encyclopaedic knowledge of real-life murder cases. She lives in London.
REVIEWS 'Utterly atmospheric and with style to burn, Emma Flint's Little Deaths is a novel that troubles and transfixes from its simmering first pages all the way to its searing final words' Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me 'Little Deaths is a rarity: a period piece and police procedural that is wrenching and real and deeply moving. I fell fast and hard under the spell of this lush, moody, film noir of a novel' Chris Bohjalian, author of The Guest Room
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LORD OF THE DARKWOOD Lian Hearn
....................................................................................................................... The second and final instalment of 'The Tale of Shikanoko': a bold new epic of a fantastical medieval Japan from the creator of the global phenomenon 'Tales of the Otori', Lian Hearn, whose books have sold over four million copies worldwide. Against a background of wild forest, elegant castles, hidden temples and savage battlefields, the adventure that began with Emperor of the Eight Islands draws to its thrilling conclusion. The rightful emperor is lost. Shikanoko is condemned to live, half-man and halfdeer, an outlaw in the Darkwood. Yet the mighty lords who now rule the Eight Islands are prey to suspicion and illness, and drought and famine choke the realm. Only Shikanoko can bring healing, by restoring the preordained ruler to the Lotus Throne. And only one person can bring him back from the Darkwood . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lian Hearn studied modern languages at Oxford University and worked as a film critic and arts editor in London before settling in Australia. She is the author of Across the Nightingale Floor, the first in the internationally acclaimed 'Tales of the Otori' series. Grass for His Pillow, Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry of the Heron and Heaven's Net is Wide follow.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 26/1/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 145 x 210 mm Series: The Tale of Shikanoko
REVIEWS 'A thrilling tale of love, violence, loyalty and betrayal' Guardian on Tales of the Otori 'The plot is gripping and the writing is beautiful, packed with authentic, atmospheric detail' Daily Mail on Tales of the Otori
ISBN: 9781509812813 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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THE NIX Nathan Hill
....................................................................................................................... A gloriously ambitious, witty and deeply touching debut novel of fifty years of America and of American radical protest, the story of a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own. Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help. As Samuel begins to excavate his mother's - and his country's - history, the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during the Great Recession and the Occupy Wall Street movement, and back to the infamous riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. Finally, the trail leads him to wartime Norway, home of the mysterious Nix that his mother told him about as a child, a spirit that can take the shape of a white horse, luring children to their deaths. And in these places, Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother - a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 26/1/2017 Pages: 640 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509807833 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nathan Hill was born in Iowa in 1975 and lives with his wife in Naples, Florida. The Nix is his first novel.
REVIEWS 'Hill has so much talent to burn that he can pull off just about any style, imagine himself into any person and convincingly portray any place or time. The Nix is hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart, and the author seems incapable of writing a pedestrian sentence or spinning a boring story' New York Times 'Nathan Hill's whirling debut novel [begins] with a splashy blend of violence and farce . . . the first sign that we're in the presence of a major new comic novelist . . . There's no denying what a brilliant, endearing writer Hill is . . . As surely as Samuel finds his mother, the right readers will find this novel. And they'll be dazzled' Washington Post
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THE RAIN IN PORTUGAL Billy Collins
....................................................................................................................... From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase his trademark generosity, wit, and imaginative play. The Rain in Portugal - a title that admits he's not much of a rhymer - sheds Collins's ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. His tones range from the whimsical - 'the dogs of Minneapolis . . . / have no idea they're in Minneapolis' - to the elegiac in a reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. A student of the everyday, here Collins contemplates a weathervane, a still-life painting, the calendar, and a child lost at a beach. His imaginative fabrications have Shakespeare flying comfortably in first class and Keith Richards supporting the globe on his head. By turns entertaining, engaging, and enlightening, The Rain in Portugal amounts to another chorus of poems from one of the most respected and familiar voices in the world of poetry.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback
Billy Collins has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A professor of English at Lehman College, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001 to 2003, and Poet Laureate of New York State from 2004 to 2006.
Pub Date: 26/1/2017 Pages: 120 Trim: 153 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509834259 Price: ÂŁ9.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Poetry Subcategory: General
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FATHERS AND SONS Howard Cunnell
....................................................................................................................... A memoir about what it means to be a man. Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is? As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was dominated by his father's absence. Now, years later he is a father, and his daughter is becoming his son. Starting with his own childhood in the Sussex beachlands, Howard tells the story of the years of self-destruction that defined his young adulthood and the escape he found in reading and the natural world. Still he felt compelled to destroy the relationships that mattered to him. Saved by love and responsibility, Cunnell charts his journey from anger to compassion, as his daughter Jay realizes he is a boy, and a son. Most of all, this is a story about love - its necessity and fragility, and its unequalled capacity to enable us to be who we are. Deeply thoughtful, searingly honest and exquisitely lyrical, Fathers & Sons is an exploration of fatherhood, masculinity, authenticity and family.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 208 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509812165 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: Personal Memoirs
Howard Cunnell has a Ph.D. from the University of London, and has been a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Sussex. He is the editor of Jack Kerouac's On the Road: The Original Scroll, which the New York Times described as 'the living version for our time'. A former professional scuba-diving instructor, he lives in London with his wife and children.
REVIEWS 'A miracle of a book: sad, wise, strong and hopeful, its depiction of parenthood will stay with me for a long time' Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways 'With Father & Sons, Howard Cunnell rips himself apart and reminds us what true artists do with all the mistakes they've ever made. They turn them into art. Dazzling and memorable, here is a strong and moving mosaic depicting the wayward mystery of our souls' Austin Collings, author of The Myth of Brilliant Summers
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THE GOOD LIEUTENANT Whitney Terrell
....................................................................................................................... A gripping, insightful, necessary novel of the war that is proving to be the defining tragedy of our time. Whitney Terrell's remarkable novel of the Iraq War, The Good Lieutenant, literally starts with a bang, as an operation led by Lieutenant Emma Fowler goes spectacularly wrong. Men are dead - one, a young Iraqi, by her hand. Others of the casualties were soldiers in her platoon. And the signals officer, Dixon Pulowski. Pulowski is another story entirely - Fowler and Pulowski have been lovers since they first met at Fort Riley in Kansas . . . From this conflagration, The Good Lieutenant unspools backward in time as Fowler and her platoon are guided into disaster by suspect informants and questionable intelligence, their very mission the consequence of a previous snafu in which an American soldier had been kidnapped by insurgents. We hear the voice of Lieutenant Fowler but also those of jaded career soldiers and Iraqis both innocent and not so innocent. Ultimately, as all these stories unravel, Terrell reveals what can happen when good intentions destroy, experience distorts, and survival becomes everything.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Whitney Terrell was an embedded reporter in Iraq during 2006 and 2010 and covered the war for the Washington Post, Slate, and NPR. He teaches creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and lives nearby with his family. He is the author of two previous novels.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 288 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509836949 Price: ÂŁ14.99
REVIEWS 'Devastating . . . Superb: [Terrell's] dialogue, his prose, the humane sorrow that suffuses his observations . . . Startlingly original . . . [The Good Lieutenant] might be the best work of fiction the Bush wars have produced so far.' Guardian US 'A bitter, sly, heartbreaking story of well-meant but ill-fated intentions, and of a battlefield incident that wreaks havoc on the lives that converge, or end, there.' New Yorker
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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THE GOOD PEOPLE Hannah Kent
....................................................................................................................... From Hannah Kent, the bestselling author of Burial Rites, comes The Good People, set in nineteenth-century Ireland and based on newspaper reports and a court case from the time. County Kerry, Ireland, 1825. NÓRA, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheál. Micheál cannot speak and cannot walk and Nóra is desperate to know what is wrong with him. What happened to the healthy, happy grandson she met when her daughter was still alive? MARY arrives in the valley to help Nóra just as the whispers are spreading: the stories of unexplained misfortunes, of illnesses, and the rumours that Micheál is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley. NANCE's knowledge keeps her apart. To the new priest, she is a threat, but to the valley people she is a wanderer, a healer. Nance knows how to use the plants and berries of the woodland; she understands the magic in the old ways. And she might be able to help Micheál. As these three women are drawn together in the hope of restoring Micheál, their world of folklore and belief, of ritual and stories, tightens around them. It will lead them down a dangerous path, and force them to question everything they have ever known.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781447233350 Price: £14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
Based on true events and set in a lost world bound by its own laws, The Good People is Hannah Kent's startling new novel about absolute belief and devoted love. Terrifying, thrilling and moving in equal measure, this long-awaited follow-up to Burial Rites shows an author at the height of her powers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. Her first novel, Burial Rites, has been translated into nearly thirty languages and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), the Guardian First Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In Australia it won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award, amongst others. Hannah is also the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. The Good People is her second novel.
REVIEWS 'The Good People is, like Burial Rites, a thoroughly engrossing entrée into the macabre nature of a vanished society, its virtues and its follies and its lethal impulses. The Good People takes us straight to a place utterly unexpected and believable, where amidst the earnest mayhem people impose on each other, there is no patronizing quaintness, but a compelling sense of the inevitability of solemn horrors' Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark (winner of the Booker Prize)
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CHRISTODORA Tim Murphy
....................................................................................................................... A novel of great scope and ambition, Christodora is a bold and poignant portrait of the bohemian Manhattan of sex, drugs, art, and activism, from the early 1980s into the near future. In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan's East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbour, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly's and Jared's lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, the couple's adopted son, Mateo, grows to appreciate the opportunities for both selfrealization and oblivion that New York offers. As the junkies and protestors of the 1980s give way to the hipsters of the 2000s and they, in turn, to the wealthy residents of the crowded, glass-towered city of the 2020s, enormous changes rock the personal lives of Milly and Jared and the constellation of people around them. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize a response to the AIDS epidemic, to the New York City of the future, Christodora recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, illustrates the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life the ever-changing city itself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 448 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509818570 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
Tim Murphy is a journalist who has written for, among others, the New York Times, New York Magazine, Details, CondĂŠ Nast Traveler, WSJ Magazine, Out, and The Advocate. He lives in Brooklyn and in the Hudson Valley.
REVIEWS 'An impassioned and "devastating" story set in a real-life building . . . the breathtaking new novel from Brooklyn writer Tim Murphy . . . a powerful and rewarding reading experience. Stylistically challenging, emotionally devastating (both positive and negative), realistic (even when it shifts into an imagined future) and impassioned, it is one of the finest novels we are likely to encounter this year.' Toronto Star 'Hugely ambitious . . . this rich, complicated story . . . compelling . . . The richness of Murphy's account . . . the most moving sections of the book deal not with the height of the [AIDS] crisis but with its aftermath . . . The book's overwhelmingly powerful final sections... the last hundred [pages] have a rare narrative sweep and force. For all the despair it documents, [it is] a book about hope' Garth Greenwell, Washington Post
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THE LAST DAYS OF NEW PARIS China Miéville
....................................................................................................................... A thriller of a war that never was. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new. 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world for ever. 1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts - and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, Thibaut must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse. But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties - to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 224 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781447296546 Price: £14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: Fantasy
China Miéville is the multiple award-winning author of many books, including The City & The City, Embassytown and Perdido Street Station. He lives and works in London.
REVIEWS 'A novel both unhinged and utterly compelling, a kind of guerrilla warfare waged by art itself, combining both meticulous historical research and Miéville's unparalleled inventiveness.' Los Angeles Times 'There's so much absurd beauty among the fauna in this story of surrealist art come to life in Nazi-occupied France, in fact, that the author's subtler points about imagination and oppression arrive as a surprise . . . The finale of The Last Days of New Paris is both moving and disturbingly timely: Imagination has often been used to puncture fascism; now Miéville asks whether fascism can defeat and subvert art.' Newsday
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ITHACA
Alan McMonagle ....................................................................................................................... The darkly comic story of how far a lonely boy will go to find what he's looking for, and how in searching for what we've lost, we risk losing sight of what we have. This was the summer all the money disappeared. One minute it was here. The next it had vanished. All of it. Without trace . . . Now that all the money had vanished everyone had their eyes and ears ready for all manner of doom. Summer 2009, and eleven-year-old Jason Lowry is preoccupied with thoughts of the Da he has never known. In the meantime, his vodka-swilling, swings-from-thehip Ma is busy entertaining her latest boyfriend and indulging her fondness for joyriding. Jason escapes to the Swamp: a mysteriously rising pool of fetid water on the outskirts of the town. There, he meets the girl, a being as lost as himself, and with even less regard for reality. Together, they conjure exotic adventures - from ancient Egypt to the search for Ithaca, home of Odysseus. But what begin as innocent flights of fancy soon become forays into hazardous territory; the girl is a dangerous (and very committed) partner in crime.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/3/2017 Pages: 272 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509829842 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
Alan McMonagle has written for radio, published two collections of short stories both of which were nominated for the Frank O'Connor Award - and contributed stories to many journals in Ireland and North America. He lives in Galway. Ithaca is his first novel.
REVIEWS 'Fast and urgent and full of feeling and savage humour and all kinds of tenderness a real find.' Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane and winner of the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 'Strange and wondrous; savage with vision, leaping with wit and moving in ways that are quite impossible to shake off, Alan McMonagle's Ithaca is a stunner. A quest story with the wisdom of an epic and with the whip-smart energy of a brilliantly fresh and audacious new voice.' Belinda McKeon, author of Tender and Solace, winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
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USEFUL VERSES Richard Osmond
....................................................................................................................... A brilliant debut collection from an exciting new voice in British poetry. Richard Osmond's debut collection Useful Verses follows in the tradition of the best nature writing, being as much about the human world as the natural, the present as the past: Osmond, a professional forager, has a deep knowledge of flora and fauna as they appear in both natural and human history, as they are depicted in both folklore and herbal - but he views them through a wholly contemporary lens. Chamomile is discussed through quantum physics, ants through social media, wood sorrel through online gambling, and mugwort through a traffic cone. In each case, Osmond offers an arresting and new perspective, and makes that hidden world that lives and breathes beside us vividly part of our own. This is a fiercely inventive, darkly witty and brilliantly observed debut from a voice unlike any other you have read before - and as far from any quaint and conservative notion of 'nature poetry' as it is possible to get.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Richard Osmond was born in 1987. He works as a wild-food forager, searching for plants, fruits and fungi among the forests and hedgerows of Hertfordshire.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 23/3/2017 Pages: 64 Trim: 153 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509824199 Price: ÂŁ9.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Poetry Subcategory: General
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SWIMMER AMONG THE STARS Kanishk Tharoor
....................................................................................................................... Furiously inventive, beautifully crafted and remarkably assured, Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a blazing new Indian talent. An interview with the last speaker of a language. A chronicle of the final seven days of a town that is about to be razed to the ground by an invading army. The lonely voyage of an elephant from Kerala to a princess's palace in Morocco. A fabled cook who flavours his food with precious stones. A coterie of international diplomats trapped in near-Earth orbit. These, and the other stories in this collection, reveal an extraordinary young storyteller, whose tales emerge from a tradition that includes the creators of the Arabian Nights, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter and other ancient and modern masters of the fable.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kanishk Tharoor is an Indian writer based in New York City. His journalism, criticism, and short stories have appeared in international and Indian publications; his story 'Tale of the Teahouse' was shortlisted for a US National Magazine Award. He studied at Yale, Columbia, and at New York University.
REVIEWS
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 256 Trim: 135 x 216 mm
'Haunting and mysteriously powerful . . . Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a writer who is gifted not just with extraordinary talent but also with a subtle, original and probing mind.' Amitav Ghosh 'A refreshingly profound and gifted 31-year-old writer . . . Swimmer Among the Stars is a mesmeric introduction to a writer . . . the work of a storyteller who stands lucid on the cusp of reinventing storytelling.' India Today
ISBN: 9781509822218 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: Short Stories (single author)
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LET GO MY HAND Edward Docx
....................................................................................................................... A brilliant, darkly hilarious and very moving novel about a dysfunctional family and their final chance to fix things The Laskers are a family in crisis. Despite his unshakable faith in the love of his second marriage, Larry struggles with the guilt of having wrecked one home to make another. His middle-aged sons, Ralph and Jack, never recovered from the divorce and still live each day in rebuke to their father. Even Larry's youngest and favourite son, Lou, born more than a decade later, hasn't escaped the corrosive effects of the long-buried secrets and lies that have come to define the family.
Š Monica Curtain
Everyone always assumed the mess could be sorted out later. But now Larry has a terminal illness. In the time he has left, he desperately wants two things: to heal the wounds he's caused and to choose when his own life ends. We join him as he sets off on what might be his final journey, a road trip across Europe just like the ones he used to take in the boys' summer holidays. But will his sons come together to aid in his dying wish? Is redemption or forgiveness possible any more? Can a family's love prove powerful enough to keep a dying man alive?
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 368 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9780330463522 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
Let Go My Hand is a darkly hilarious and very moving novel about a singular family in the twenty-first century; through these vividly realized characters, it asks elemental questions about how we love, how we live, and what really matters in the end. Frequently playful, sometimes profound, always beautifully written, this novel shows the Booker-longlisted author of Self Help at his brilliant best, and confirms him as one of Britain's most intelligent and powerful writers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Docx was born in 1972. His previous novels are The Calligrapher, Self Help and The Devil's Garden. He lives and works in London.
REVIEWS 'Docx knows that what we want most from a novel are stories into which we can sink our teeth and our hearts' Guardian 'Docx has a gift for assessing "the exact shape and weight of other people's inner selves, the architecture of their spirit" and even his most ancillary characters flare into being, vital and insistent' The New Yorker
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THE BOY BEHIND THE CURTAIN Tim Winton
....................................................................................................................... Following on from his gorgeous memoirs Land's Edge and Island Home, The Boy Behind the Curtain tells more remarkable true stories from Tim Winton. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been in the business of trouble. In his novels, chaos waits in the wings and ordinary people are ambushed by events and emotions beyond their control. But as these extraordinarily powerful memoirs show, the abrupt and the headlong are old familiars to the author himself, for in many ways his has been a life shaped by havoc. In The Boy Behind the Curtain, Winton reflects on the accidents, traumatic and serendipitous, that have influenced his view of life and fuelled his distinctive artistic vision. On the unexpected links between car crashes and religious faith, between surfing and writing, and how going to the wrong movie at the age of eight opened him up to a life of the imagination. And in chapters on class, fundamentalism, asylum seekers, guns and the natural world he reveals not only the incidents and concerns that have made him the much-loved writer he is, but some of what unites the life and the work. By turns impassioned, funny, joyous, astonishing, this is Winton's most personal book to date, an insight into the man who's held us enthralled for three decades and helped us reshape our view of ourselves. Behind it all, from risk-taking youth to surprise-averse middle age, has been the crazy punt of staking everything on becoming a writer.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509816941 Price: ÂŁ16.99
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tim Winton has published twenty-seven books for adults and children and his work has been translated into twenty-nine languages. He has won the Miles Franklin Award four times and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia.
REVIEWS 'An exhilarating eulogy to a life lived from boyhood to manhood by and on the beach . . . this is as good as it gets' The Times on Land's Edge
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Literary Collections Subcategory: Essays
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SELECTED POEMS Colette Bryce
....................................................................................................................... Selected poems from the prize-winning poet Colette Bryce. Selected Poems draws together the best of Colette Bryce's highly acclaimed and prize-winning collections; including The Heel of Bernadette (2000), winner of the Aldeburgh Prize, The Full Indian Rope Trick (2004), short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Whole & Rain-domed Universe, shortlisted for the Forward Prize and winner of the Ewart-Biggs Prize. Moving from the melodic to the political, from the humorous to the nostalgic, Bryce's poetry explores home, escape, family and childhood. Her Selected Poems is a perfect compilation of her most impressive work and the perfect introduction to one of poetry's most lyrical voices.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Colette Bryce was born in Derry in 1970, and has lived in England, Spain and Scotland.
REVIEWS '[Bryce's] poems, sensitive as the needle that registers some distant earth tremor, are delicately poised . . . Bryce's vision is questing, disquieting, dark . . . as she seeks out the truths of life and love that transform the human heart' The Times
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 128 Trim: 153 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509840380 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Poetry Subcategory: General
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ALL THAT'S LEFT TO TELL Daniel Lowe
....................................................................................................................... A mesmerising and unforgettable debut novel - The One Thousand and One Nights meets Life After Life. Marc Laurent, an American businessman, is taken hostage in Karachi where, night after night, he is blindfolded and visited by a mysterious woman named Josephine. He knows very little about her, but she seems to know quite a lot about him including the fact that his only daughter, Claire, was killed a month ago and that Marc didn't go home for her funeral. When Josephine insists that she and Marc tell one another stories about Claire some true, some imagined - Marc is incensed. But as the stories unfold - taking us across America, into the past, and into a future that may never come - Marc finds himself confronting the loss of a daughter he barely knew, even as his own death draws closer . . . Lyrical, seductive and utterly compelling, All That's Left to Tell is a book about second chances and the stories we tell to make sense of both the past and the future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Daniel Lowe teaches writing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and received his MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh. His fiction and poetry have appeared in a wide variety of literary magazines. All That's Left to Tell is his first novel.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 288 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509810550 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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THE BOY WITH THE PERPETUAL NERVOUSNESS A Memoir of an Adolescence Graham Caveney
....................................................................................................................... A fascinating, often hilarious, and exceptionally powerful book about an adolescence navigated via literature and music, the British class system - and the impact of and recovery from abuse. Graham Caveney was born in 1964 in Accrington: a town in the north of England, formerly known for its cotton mills, now mainly for its football team. Armed with his generic Northern accent and a record collection including the likes of the Buzzcocks and Joy Division, Caveney spent a portion of his youth pretending he was from Manchester. That is, until confronted by someone from Manchester (or anyone who had been to Manchester or anyone who knew anything at all about Manchester) at which point he would give up and admit the truth. In The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness, Caveney describes growing up as a member of the 'Respectable Working Class'. From aspiring altar boy to Kafkaquoting adolescent, his is the story of a teenage boy's obsession with music, a love affair with books, and how he eventually used them to plot his way out of his home town. But this is also a story of abuse. For his parents, education was a golden ticket: a way for their son to go to university, to do better than they did, but for Graham, this awakening came with a very significant condition attached. For years Graham's headteacher, a Catholic priest, was his greatest mentor, but he was also his abuser.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 256 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509830671 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: Personal Memoirs
As an adult, Graham Caveney is still struggling to understand what happened to him, and he writes about the experience - all of it - and its painful aftermath with a raw, unflinching honesty. By turns, angry, despairing, insightful, always acutely written and often shockingly funny, The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness is an astonishing memoir, startling in its originality.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Graham Caveney is a freelance writer. He has written on music and fiction for the NME, The Face and the Independent. He is the author of two previous books, on William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
REVIEWS 'The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness is a fascinating book, a hilarious book and a horrifying one. On the surface it is a vivid, funny memoir of growing up in 1970s Lancashire; a wry treatise on the British class system; a hymn to traditions, rituals, ways of life and habits of thought which are already sliding into oblivion. At its core, however, lies something darker, much harder to talk about, and profoundly disturbing. It's a book which blew me away and shook me to the core.' Jonathan Coe 'The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness is about the dark ironies of growing up working class and Catholic in a small industrial town. It is an incredibly powerful book about addiction (to alcohol), music, politics and books and the long road to recovery.' Julie Hesmondhalgh, Guardian
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TO DIE IN SPRING Ralf Rothmann
....................................................................................................................... The German bestseller, a beautifully told and heart-breaking story of a friendship tragically interrupted by war. 'A sublime novel of damaged lives and of fathers and sons.' Der Spiegel Walter Urban and Friedich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to 'volunteer' for the SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, bloody close. Walter is put to work as a driver for a supply unit of the Waffen-SS, while Fiete is sent to the front. When the senseless bloodshed leads Fiete to desert, only to be captured and sentenced to death, the friends are reunited under catastrophic circumstances. In a few days the war will be over, millions of innocents will be dead, and the survivors must find a way to live with its legacy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ralf Rothmann is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. To Die in Spring is a bestseller in Germany, where it has sold 60,000 copies in hardcover, and is being translated into twenty-four languages.
REVIEWS
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 208 Trim: 135 x 216 mm
'In contemporary German literature, there is nothing that can be compared to this book.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 'In this masterpiece, Ralf Rothmann manages the seemingly impossible. He describes the guilt of their fathers' generation from the viewpoint of the post-War generation without betraying it to a moralising know-it-all attitude.' Badische Zeitung
ISBN: 9781509812851 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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THE END WE START FROM Megan Hunter
....................................................................................................................... The mainland is on fire, they say in so many words. After the flood, the fire. I am losing the story. I am forgetting. It is bad, the news. Bad news as it always was, forever, but worse. More relevant. This is what you don't want, we realise. What no one ever wanted: for the news to be relevant. In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, and as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, the family are forced to leave their home in search of safety. The End We Start From is a deeply moving account of the first months of motherhood, but in a terrifying setting: a familiar world made unstable, the UK turned into a place of danger, its inhabitants become refugees. As the narrator and her baby move from place to place, shelter to shelter, the story traces both fear (abandonment, hunger, sleeplessness) and wonder, as Z's small fists grasp at the first colours he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Megan Hunter was born in Manchester in 1984, and now lives in Cambridge with her young family. She has a BA in English Literature from Sussex University, and an MPhil in English Literature: Criticism and Culture from Jesus College, Cambridge. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize.
Pub Date: 18/5/2017 Pages: 96 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509839100 Price: ÂŁ9.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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THE REMINDERS Val Emmich
....................................................................................................................... An irresistible debut novel about love, loss, memory and unlikely friendship, for fans of Nick Hornby, Mark Haddon and Maria Semple. Overcome with the loss of his boyfriend Sydney, Gavin Winters has set fire to every reminder in their home. A neighbour has captured the blaze on video, turning this little-known TV actor into a household name. Gavin flees LA for New Jersey, where he hopes that ten-year-old Joan, the daughter of a close friend, can reconnect him with the memories of Sydney he is now in danger of losing for ever. Joan was born with a rare ability to recall every single day of her life in perfect detail, and in return for sharing her memories of Sydney, Gavin will help her write a song for a local competition. For Joan has had enough of being the girl who can't forget - she wants to be the girl who will never be forgotten . . . Charming, beautifully observed, poignant and funny, The Reminders is an irresistible story of the unlikely friendship between a grief-stricken man who can't remember and a ten-year-old girl who can't forget.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 18/5/2017 Pages: 224 Trim: 135 x 216 mm
Val Emmich is truly a man of varied talents. As an actor, he's had recurring roles on HBO's Vinyl (produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger), ABC's Ugly Betty, and a memorable guest role as Tina Fey's coffee-boy fling, Jamie, on NBC's 30 Rock. Emmich is also an award-winning recording artist who's released a dozen albums and toured the US several times over. The Reminders, his first novel, draws on his experiences on screen and stage, and is based on a short story that won an award in Glimmer Train's New Writers competition. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, with his wife and two children.
ISBN: 9781509829422 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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BLEAKER HOUSE
Chasing My Novel to the End of the World Nell Stevens
....................................................................................................................... Hilariously funny, warm and wise, Bleaker House is a book about trying, and failing, to write a novel. When Nell Stevens was offered a Global Fellowship in Fiction (up to three months in a location of her choice in order to write her novel) she was determined to rid herself of distractions. So Nell decided to travel to the isolated Bleaker Island in the Falklands where she would write 2,500 words a day. But Bleaker House is not that novel. Rather, it is about a genuinely talented writer realizing that the way to writing fiction doesn't necessarily lie in total solitude and a clear plan. Played out in Bleaker Island's barren landscape, Bleaker House is the story of Nell's ill-thought-through adventure, her loneliness, the ridiculous processes she goes through in order to keep herself sane. Time-hopping back to her London life, the breaking apart of a relationship, a terrible humiliation at the hands of a dubious pilot TV show called Any Idiot Can Write a Book, it is a book that brilliantly captures the self-torture of the creative process as Nell struggles to understand what it is to be a writer. This is a whimsical blend of memoir and travelogue, fiction and tongue-in-cheek writing advice. Funny and honest, Bleaker House is one author's journey away from a novel, but towards a very different sort of book.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 1/6/2017 Pages: 256 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509824410 Price: ÂŁ12.99
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nell Stevens has a First in English and Creative Writing from Warwick, after which she went on to study Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard, and to receive a Marcia Trimble Fellowship and the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award for her MFA in Fiction at Boston University. She is currently researching a Ph.D. in Victorian literature at King's College London. She was a finalist in the 2011 Elle magazine Writing Talent Contest, and a runner-up in both the 2014 Mslexia Memoir Competition and the 2015 Mslexia Short Story Prize.
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: Personal Memoirs
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PERFECT LITTLE WORLD Kevin Wilson
....................................................................................................................... From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Family Fang - a warmhearted and moving story about a young woman making a family on her own terms. When Isabelle Poole meets Dr Preston Grind, she's fresh out of high school, pregnant with her art teacher's baby, and totally on her own. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or relatives to help, she's left searching. Dr Grind, an awkwardly charming child psychologist, has spent his life studying family, even after tragedy struck his own. Now, with the help of an eccentric billionaire, he has the chance to create a 'perfect little world' - to study what would happen when ten children are raised collectively, without knowing who their biological parents are. He calls it The Infinite Family Project and he wants Izzy and her son to join. This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester, the project's funding becomes tenuous and Izzy's growing feelings for Dr Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place. Written with the same compassion and charm that won over legions of readers with The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson shows us with grace and humour that the best families are the ones we make for ourselves.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 1/6/2017 Pages: 368 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509820672 Price: ÂŁ14.99
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kevin Wilson is the author of The New York Times bestseller The Family Fang, named a best book of the year by Time, People, Salon, and Esquire. His story collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association as well as the Shirley Jackson Award. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the KHN Center for the Arts. He teaches fiction at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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SELFIE Will Storr
....................................................................................................................... This bold new book explores the mysterious power of the self and reveals the danger of our modern obsession with it. We live in an age of perfectionism. Every day, we're bombarded with the beautiful, successful, slim, socially-conscious and extroverted individual that our culture has decided is the perfect self. We see this person constantly in shop windows, in newspapers, on the television, at the movies and all over our social media. We berate ourselves when we don't match up to them - when we're too fat, too old, too poor or too sad. This cycle can be extremely bad for us. In recent years, psychologists have even begun to think that many people take their own lives because of the impossible standards that are set for who they ought to be.
Š Jay Cheel
Will Storr began to wonder about this perfect self that torments so many of us. Who, actually, is this person? Why does it hold such power over us? Could it be humanity's deadliest idea? And, if so, is there any way we can break its spell?
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 368 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781447283645 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Science Subcategory: General
To find out, Storr takes us on a journey from the shores of Ancient Greece, through the Christian Middle Ages, the encounter groups of 1960s California and selfesteem evangelists of the late twentieth century to modern-day America, where research suggests today's young people are in the grip of an epidemic of narcissism. He'll tell the strange story of the individualist Western self from its birth on the Aegean to the era of hyper-individualistic neoliberalism in which we find ourselves today. Selfie reveals, for the first time, the epic tale of the person we all know so intimately . . . because it's us.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Will Storr is a longform journalist and novelist. His features have appeared in various publications, including the Guardian, The Times, Observer, GQ, Marie Claire and the Sydney Morning Herald. He is a contributing editor at Esquire magazine. He has been named New Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year, and has won a National Press Club award for excellence. In 2010, his investigation into the kangaroo meat industry won the Australian Food Media award for Best Investigative Journalism and in 2012 he was presented with the One World Press award and the Amnesty International award for his work for the Observer on sexual violence against men. In 2013, his BBC radio series 'An Unspeakable Act' won the AIB award for best investigative documentary.
REVIEWS 'Will Storr is a versatile, imaginative, committed long-form journalist with a populist touch. He is often brave with regard to his article choices . . . a talented, ambitious writer.' Independent 'Storr can open chapters like a stage conjurer, and his prose has an easy, laconic style embracing Jon Ronson's taste for the fabulously weird and Louis Theroux's ability to put his subjects at ease. He is a funny and companionable guide' Guardian
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SKIN
Hollie McNish ....................................................................................................................... Hollie McNish has thrilled and entranced audiences the length and breadth of the UK with her emotionally charged and powerfully delivered performances. Her debut for Picador - a semi-autobiographical collection that looks at the trials and tribulations of being a young woman, using her own life journey from the ages of seven to thirty - is a passionate and vivid exploration of the body, gender politics and self-definition.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Hollie McNish is a published UK poet based between London, Cambridge and Glasgow. She has two poetry collections - Cherry Pie and Papers - and an album, Versus, which made her the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios, London. Her memoir of parenthood, Nobody Told Me, will be published by Little Brown in February 2016.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 80 Trim: 153 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509815760 Price: ÂŁ9.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Poetry Subcategory: General
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CONNECT Julian Gough
....................................................................................................................... A brilliantly and thrillingly smart novel of today and tomorrow, by one of the most genuinely original voices in Irish writing, for readers of William Gibson, Station Eleven and Ready Player One. Colt is a teenage boy, the only child of divorced parents, living in Nevada. For all his brilliance, he is impossible at school and is being home-schooled by his mother. At least in theory. His mother is a biologist, on the verge of a major scientific breakthrough; his father works for a mysterious government agency that isn't supposed to exist. Socially awkward and benignly neglected by his parents, Colt spends most of his time living in a virtual reality gaming world. Colt is on the spectrum, to say the least. Like most people who are borderline autistic, Colt tries to keep his life simple. But when Colt meets a girl online; when he submits his mother's breakthrough scientific paper to a conference and the paper comes to the attention of the organization his father works for; when his father comes to see his own son and ex-wife as threats to national security, things start to become complicated. Very complicated indeed . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Julian Gough is the author of three comic novels and was formerly the lead singer of the underground literary band Toasted Heretic. He won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize in 2008 and 2012. In 2011 he wrote the ending to Minecraft, Time magazine's computer game of the year.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/3/2017 29/06/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509809837 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador
Praise for Julian Gough: 'Julian Gough is a wonderful writer' Sebastian Barry 'An outstanding talent' Observer 'Thoroughly entertaining' New York Times (Juno & Juliet) 'Extremely original and surprising' Sunday Independent (Jude) 'Gough makes it look easy, with an instinctive sense of timing, and a razor sharp and subversive intellect' Sunday Tribune (Jude)
Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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A MANUAL FOR HEARTACHE Cathy Rentzenbrink
....................................................................................................................... The wise and inspiring new book from the bestselling author of The Last Act of Love When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In A Manual for Heartache she describes how she learnt to live with grief and loss and find joy in the world again. She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult and overwhelming and how we can emerge from suffering forever changed, but filled with hope. This is a moving, warm and uplifting book that offers solidarity and comfort to anyone going through a painful time, whatever it might be. It's a book that will help to soothe an aching heart and assure its readers that they're not alone.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cathy Rentzenbrink was born in Cornwall, grew up in Yorkshire and now lives in London, where she works as a writer and journalist. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling memoir The Last Act of Love, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 29/6/2017 Pages: 224 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509824458 Price: ÂŁ9.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Antiques & Collectibles Subcategory: General
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PAGES FOR HER Sylvia Brownrigg
....................................................................................................................... Two women are reunited twenty years after the love affair that changed both their worlds. Flannery, a writer with one well-known rather racy book to her name is, by her own admission, in a situation she never thought she'd be: married to a man who overshadows her and defined by her primary relationships as wife and mother. When Flannery is invited to a writers' conference she sees a chance to return to a world she knew well. And then she recognizes the name of the chair of the event: Anne Arden. Suddenly Flannery is thrown back twenty years to her eighteen-yearold self and the most intense love affair of her entire life. On the other side of the world Anne is travelling for work. Recently out of a decades-long partnership, she feels adrift, unsettled. When a friend asks her to chair an event at a writers' conference she says yes and a couple of months later, on the same campus where they met and fell in love, Anne and Flannery are reunited. Though their lives have taken them in different and unexpected directions, the pull between them proves irresistible.
Š Reenie Raschke
Elegant, clever, witty and sensual, Pages for Her is a novel about love, memory and what it is to be a woman, a wife, and a mother.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 29/6/2017 Pages: 304 Trim: 135 x 216 mm
Sylvia Brownrigg was born in California, and grew up in Los Altos and Oxford. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and has an MA in writing from the Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at the American University in Paris, and has written for The Times, Guardian, Independent, Times Literary Supplement, New York Times, Salon.com, Village Voice, Newsday and Los Angeles Times. Her previous novels include The Metaphysical Touch, Pages for You, The Delivery Room and Morality Tale. Her young adult novel Kepler's Dream was published in 2011 and is currently being made into a feature film.
ISBN: 9781509831067 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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A Life to Kill, Matthew Hall The Death of Kings, Rennie Airth City of Friends, Joanna Trollope What You Don’t Know, JoAnn Chaney Miss You, Kate Eberlen Testimony, Scott Turow The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes Meet Me in the In Between, Bella Pollen The Faithful, JulietWest The House at Riverton, Kate Morton
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A LIFE TO KILL Matthew Hall
....................................................................................................................... From the bestselling author of the Coroner Jenny Cooper series comes Matthew Hall's most gripping, moving and timely thriller to date. If they're hiding something, we've got a right to know. We've got a right to know what Kenny died for . . . The day they've all been waiting for is at hand. The last British combat soldiers in Helmand are counting the minutes until their departure for home. For their excited families in Highcliffe, it spells the end of an agonizing six month wait. But in the final hours, disaster strikes. Nineteen-year-old Private Pete 'Skippy' Lyons is abducted and the patrol sent out to locate him is ambushed. One killed, two injured. One still missing in action . . . Their loved ones are left desperate for answers the Army won't provide. How could Private Lyons have been snatched from a heavily fortified command post? And why are officers trying to disguise what happened during the mission to save him? Their only hope lies with Coroner Jenny Cooper, who must take on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried along with the boy soldiers. But in a town filled with secrets and rumours, it's not only the Army that has something to hide.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 288 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9780230752382 Price: ÂŁ16.99
Matthew Hall is an award-winning screenwriter and former barrister. Educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Worcester College, Oxford, he lives a stone's throw from the Welsh border in Herefordshire. He is married to journalist Patricia Carswell and they have two sons, Tom and Will. His other loves are bee-keeping, boxing, trail running and native woodlands. A Life to Kill is the seventh novel in Matthew Hall's twice CWA Gold Daggershortlisted Coroner Jenny Cooper series, following The Coroner, The Disappeared, The Redeemed, The Flight, The Chosen Dead, The Burning and the prequel novella to the series, The Innocent.
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Mantle Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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THE DEATH OF KINGS Rennie Airth
....................................................................................................................... The fifth novel in Rennie Airth's outstanding Inspector Madden series set in post-war Britain. I have reason to believe that the jade pendant accompanying this letter is the same one that disappeared from Miss Portia Blake's body in August 1938 . . . Since the piece could not have been stolen by the man who was hanged for Miss Blake's murder, the question arises: who else could have taken it? And why? 1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Enclosed is a jade pendant, identical to the one that went missing from the body of Portia Blake, an actress murdered a decade previously. The case had been shut quickly at the time - the accused vagrant giving a written confession and sentenced to the gallows - but in the police's haste to close the inquiry, the necklace was never recovered. Until now. Inspector Madden is asked to investigate the letter's worrying claims by his old friend, and former Chief Inspector, Angus Sinclair, who fears the wrong man may have been hanged on his watch. But with a world war separating Madden from the murder, the truth will not come easy . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. The first novel in his John Madden series, River of Darkness, was published in 1999 to huge critical acclaim, was shortlisted for four crime fiction awards and won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France. River of Darkness was followed by The Blood-Dimmed Tide, the CWA Ellis Peters Award shortlisted The Dead of Winter, The Reckoning, and now The Death of Kings.
Pub Date: 26/1/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: Inspector Madden series
REVIEWS
ISBN: 9781509817313 Price: £18.99
'An almost too beautifully written series' New York Times
'Rennie Airth keeps us riveted' Daily Mail
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Mantle Category: Fiction Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
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CITY OF FRIENDS Joanna Trollope
....................................................................................................................... Four Friends. One City. City of Friends is the twentieth novel from the number one bestselling author, Joanna Trollope City of Friends is the twentieth novel from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Joanna Trollope. She glanced at her phone again. There were appeals from the girls, from her colleagues, a text from Steve reading with uncharacteristic imperiousness, 'Call me.' She couldn't. She couldn't call anyone . . . She leaned forward, gripping the edge of the bench, and stared at the ground. God, she thought, am I losing my mind? Is this what happens when you lose your job? The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at least has The Girls to fall back on. Beth, Melissa and Gaby. The girls, now women, had been best friends from the early days of university right through their working lives, and for all the happiness and heartbreaks in between.
FORMAT: Hardcover
But these career women all have personal problems of their own, and when Stacey's redundancy forces a betrayal to emerge that was supposed to remain secret, their long cherished friendships will be pushed to their limits . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Mantle
Joanna Trollope is the author of nineteen highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, including The Rector's Wife, Marrying the Mistress and Daughters in Law. She was appointed OBE in 1996, and a trustee of the National Literacy Trust in in 2012. She has chaired the Whitbread and Orange Awards, as well as being a judge of many other literature prizes; she has been part of two DCMS panels on public libraries and is patron of numerous charities, including Meningitis Now, and Chawton House Library. In 2014, she updated Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility as the opening novel in the Austen Project. City of Friends is her twentieth novel.
Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
REVIEWS
Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 304 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509823475 Price: ÂŁ18.99
'Trollope is an extremely assured writer, with a brilliant eye for detail and a finely tuned emotional intelligence' Sunday Times 'She can be as subtle as Austen, as sharp as BrontĂŤ. Trollope's brilliant' Mail on Sunday
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WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW JoAnn Chaney
....................................................................................................................... When you get that close to a serial killer, can you really just move on? JoAnn Chaney's dark debut, What You Don't Know, tells the story of the three victims the murderer didn't kill but whose lives he ruined all the same . . . A crime like this isn't only about the killer. There are others to consider . . . Seven years ago, Detective Paul Hoskins and his larger-than-life partner solved one of the biggest serial killer cases of the decade. They dug up 33 bodies in a crawlspace belonging to the beloved Jacky Seever, a pillar of the community and a successful businessman. Sammie Peterson was the lead reporter on the case. Her byline was on the front page of the newspaper every day. Seever's wife, Gloria, claimed to be as surprised as everyone else. But when you get that close to a killer, can you really just move on? Today, Hoskins has been banished to the basement of the police station, Sammie is selling make-up at the shopping mall, and Gloria is trying to navigate a world where she can't escape condemnation. Then a series of copycat killings take place, with the victims all connected to Seever. While Gloria is determined not to be forced into the spotlight again, Hoskins and Sammie see a chance to get their lives back. But it could mean forfeiting their humanity in the process . . .
FORMAT: Hardcover
It isn't over. It'll never be over.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 384 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509824311 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Mantle Category: Fiction Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
JoAnn Chaney is a graduate of UC Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program. She lives in Colorado with her family. This is her first novel.
REVIEWS 'Superb characters, sparkling dialogue, and a gripping, terrifying plot, plus flashes of humour to boot; this book has it all. It's very hard to believe this is Ms. Chaney's first novel' Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Travelers 'JoAnn Chaney's book, mysterious with all that is concealed and undeclared, compels the reader to acknowledge that things are not as simple as we like to believe, and to recognize that evil does not always lay outside of us, but deep within us. Chaney's psychological insights and social perceptions are infallible - brutal, indignant, and full of surprises' Susanna Moore author of The Whiteness of Bones and In the Cut
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MISS YOU Kate Eberlen
....................................................................................................................... Sometimes it's the people you miss who matter most. Get to know Tess and Gus in Kate Eberlen's first novel, Miss You. Tess and Gus are meant to be. They just haven't met properly yet. And perhaps they never will . . . 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life' is the motto on a plate in the kitchen at home, and Tess can't get it out of her head, even though she's in Florence for a final, idyllic holiday before university. Her life is about to change forever - but not in the way she expects. Gus and his parents are also on holiday in Florence. Their lives have already changed suddenly and dramatically. Gus tries to be a dutiful son, but longs to escape and discover what sort of person he is going to be. For one day, the paths of an eighteen-year-old girl and boy criss-cross before they each return to England. Over the course of the next sixteen years, life and love will offer them very different challenges. Separated by distance and fate, there's no way the two of them are ever going to meet each other properly . . . or is there?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 464 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509819959 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan
Kate Eberlen grew up in a small town thirty miles from London. She studied Classics at Oxford University before pursuing various jobs in publishing and the arts.
REVIEWS 'If ever a couple was "meant to be" it's Tess and Gus. This is such a witty, poignant and uplifting story of two lives criss-crossing over the years, with near-miss after near-miss . . . I couldn't put it down' Sophie Kinsella 'If you liked One Day by David Nicholls, you are going to love this' Essentials Magazine
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Romance
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TESTIMONY Scott Turow
....................................................................................................................... Four hundred dead. Only one witness. Scott Turow is back tackling his biggest case yet in The Hague . . . In spring 2004, a refugee camp made up of four hundred Roma Gypsies disappeared overnight from their Bosnian settlement. Only one witness survived, hiding in a long-drop with his young son, watching helplessly as a legion of unidentifiable vehicles rounded up his community and marched them away. Now, over a decade later, it's time for someone to be brought to justice. The problem is, it's not clear who. Whispered rumours have the perpetrators ranging from Serb paramilitaries to the US Army, but there's no hard evidence to hold either accountable.
Š Jeremy Lawson Photography
Bill ten Boom, a defence lawyer from Kindle County, is hired by The Hague's International Criminal Court as the prosecutor on the case. Having put him up for the role, the US government hope the friendly face will help their position, but they aren't the only party with a vested interest and no qualms about trying to steer the investigation their way . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of nine bestselling works of fiction, including his first novel, Presumed Innocent (1987). Mr Turow has been a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal, a national law firm, since 1986, concentrating on criminal defence. Turow is currently President of the Authors Guild.
Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 384 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509843329 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Mantle Category: Fiction Subcategory: Thrillers
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THE CHILDREN OF JOCASTA Natalie Haynes
....................................................................................................................... A stunning reimagining of the Oedipus and Antigone stories told from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked. When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced . . . Because that is what happened the last time, and that is why my siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . . Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband. Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change. With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you know it. In Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes reimagines the Oedipus and Antigone stories from the perspectives of two of the women who have often been overlooked; retelling the myth to reveal a new side of an ancient story.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 304 Trim: 135 x 216 mm
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award, and a nonfiction book about Ancient History, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life. She has written and presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience.
ISBN: 9781509836154 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Mantle Category: Fiction Subcategory: Historical
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MEET ME IN THE IN BETWEEN Bella Pollen
....................................................................................................................... A heartfelt and hilarious memoir by author Bella Pollen about a life most extraordinary. Growing up the middle child of transatlantic parents, Bella Pollen never quite learnt how to belong. Restlessly crossing back and forth between the boundaries of family and freedom, home and away, she has sought but generally failed to contain an adventurous spirit within the confines of a conventional life. Waking up one morning to find herself, once again, in the throes of an existential crisis, she finally comes to the conclusion that to move forwards, it's time to take a good look at her past . . . From New York and London to the the dusty border towns of Mexico, cue a journey that revisits the family's beloved alcoholic parrot, Mafiosi in-laws and Pink Floyd-obsessed smugglers, while Pollen struggles with relationships, career ups and downs and a pathological fear of being boxed-in. The story of her quest to find the extraordinary in an ordinary life is surprisingly tender, frequently funny and achingly poignant. For all those who loved Wild by Cheryl Strayed, My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff and Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe, Meet Me in the In Between is a must-read and a cautionary tale for those of us who wish we could but lack the courage to try . . .
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 18/5/2017 Pages: 368 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509828968 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Mantle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bella Pollen is a writer and journalist who has contributed to a wide variety of publications, including the Sunday Telegraph, American Vogue and the Observer. She is the author of five novels, All About Men, Daydream Girl, Hunting Unicorns, Midnight Cactus and The Summer of the Bear. She lives in Ladbroke Grove, London.
REVIEWS 'Bella Pollen creates magic' Vanity Fair 'A writer you need to read' A. A. Gill
Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: Personal Memoirs
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THE FAITHFUL Juliet West
....................................................................................................................... As England is pulled towards war, the secrets within two families threaten to tear them apart . . . July 1935. In the village of Aldwick on the Sussex coast, sixteen-year-old Hazel faces a long, dull summer with just her self-centred mother Francine for company. But then Francine decamps to London with her lover Charles, Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts arrive in Aldwick, and Hazel's summer suddenly becomes more interesting as she finds herself befriended by two very different people: Lucia, an upper-class Blackshirt, passionate about the cause; and Tom, a young working-class boy, increasingly scornful of Mosley's rhetoric. In the end, though, it is Tom who wins Hazel's heart - and Hazel who, ultimately, breaks his. Autumn 1936. Now living in London and herself a member of the Blackshirts, Hazel has grown up fast over the past year. But an encounter with Tom who is about to travel to Spain to fight against the Fascists sends her into freefall. He must never know why she cut off all contact last summer - but then Hazel isn't the only one with secrets. Nor is she the only one with reason to keep the two of them apart . ..
Š Jo Russell
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Juliet West worked as a journalist before taking an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University, where she won the Kate Betts' Memorial Prize. Before the Fall, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Myriad Editions novel-writing competition in 2012. Juliet also writes short stories and poetry, and won the H. E. Bates short story prize in 2009. The Faithful is her second novel. She lives in West Sussex with her husband and three children.
Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 288 Trim: 135 x 216 mm
REVIEWS
ISBN: 9781447259091 Price: ÂŁ12.99
'My favourite Great War novel . . . Incredible writing' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, on Before the Fall
'A wonderful writer' Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist, on Before the Fall
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Mantle Category: Fiction Subcategory: Historical
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THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON Kate Morton
....................................................................................................................... A special tenth anniversary edition of Kate Morton's acclaimed bestselling debut, The House at Riverton, featuring a new foreword from the author. Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could. A thrilling mystery and a compelling love story, Kate Morton's The House at Riverton will appeal to readers of Ian McEwan's Atonement, L. P. Hartley's The GoBetween, and lovers of the film Gosford Park.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback
Kate Morton grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland and lives now with her husband and young sons in London. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature, specializing in nineteenth-century tragedy and contemporary gothic novels. Kate has sold over ten million copies of her novels in 33 languages, across 38 countries. The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours and The Secret Keeper have all been number one bestsellers around the world. Each novel won the Australian Book Industry award for General Fiction Book of the Year.
Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 624 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509841417 Price: ÂŁ8.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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MACMILLAN
MACMILLAN 49 Run, Mandasue Heller 50 Under a Watchful Eye, Adam Nevill 51 Rattle, Fiona Cummins 52 The House of New Beginnings, Lucy Diamond 53 Before You Go, Clare Swatman 54 Daughters of Courage, Margaret Dickinson 55 The Bear and the Serpent, Adrian Tchaikovsky 56 Exposure, Aga Lesiewicz 57 The Doorstep Child, Annie Murray 58 Wrong Place, Michelle Davies 59 A Simple Favour, Darcey Bell 60 Dangerous Games, Danielle Steel 61 Freebooter, Tim Severin 62 The Confessions of Young Nero, Margaret George 63 The Killer, SusanWilkins 64 Sleep Baby Sleep, David Hewson 65 The Fix, David Baldacci 66 A New Map of Love, Abi Oliver 67 Against All Odds, Danielle Steel 68 Daughters of Penny Lane, Ruth Hamilton 69 The Conqueror’s Queen, Joanna Courtney 70 Need You Dead, Peter James 71 The Space Between the Stars, Anne Corlett 72 The Sunshine Girls, Jane Green 73 Are You Sleeping, Kathleen Barber 74 The Eternal Kingdom, Ben Peek 75 Shattered Minds, Laura Lam
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RUN
Mandasue Heller ....................................................................................................................... A gripping thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Afraid, Mandasue Heller. Run by Mandasue Heller is a gritty story of Manchester's criminal underworld. After being cheated on by her ex, Leanne Riley is trying her hardest to get her life back on track, which isn't easy without a job and living in a bedsit surrounded by a junkie and a mad woman. On a night out with her best friend she meets Jake, a face from her past who has changed beyond all recognition. Jake is charming, handsome and loaded, a far cry from the gawky teenager he used to be. Weary of men, Leanne isn't easy to please, but Jake tries his best to break through the wall she's built around herself. But good looks and money can hide a multitude of sins. Is that good-looking face just a mask? And what's more, what will it take to make it slip, and who will die in the process . . . ?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781447288329 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan
From the back streets of Manchester to the nightclubs and penthouses of the beautiful people, Mandasue Heller, author of the top ten bestseller Afraid, knows the world she writes. Born in Warrington, she moved to Manchester in the 1980s, where she found the inspiration for her novels: she spent ten years living in the infamous Hulme Crescents and was a professional singer for many years before turning her hand to writing. She has three children, three grandchildren, and still writes and records songs with her musician partner, Wingrove, between books.
REVIEWS 'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel' Martina Cole on Forget Me Not 'Captivating from first page to last' Jeffery Deaver on Lost Angel
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Thrillers
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UNDER A WATCHFUL EYE Adam Nevill
....................................................................................................................... An unputdownable thriller from 'Britain's answer to Stephen King', Adam Nevill. Under a Watchful Eye by Adam Nevill is a supernatural thriller from the awardwinning writer of The Ritual and Last Days. Seb Logan is being watched. He just doesn't know by whom. When the sudden appearance of a dark figure shatters his idyllic coastal life, he soon realizes that the murky past he thought he'd left behind has far from forgotten him. What's more unsettling is the strange atmosphere that engulfs him at every sighting, plunging his mind into a terrifying paranoia. To be a victim without knowing the tormentor. To be despised without knowing the offence caused. To be seen by what nobody else can see. These are the thoughts which plague his every waking moment. Imprisoned by despair, Seb fears his stalker is not working alone, but rather is involved in a wider conspiracy that threatens everything he has worked for. For there are doors in this world that open into unknown places. Places used by the worst kind of people to achieve their own ends. And once his investigation leads him to stray across the line and into mortal danger, he risks becoming another fatality in a long line of victims . . .
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509820405 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Adam Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is the author of the supernatural horror novels Banquet for the Damned, Apartment 16, The Ritual, Last Days, House of Small Shadows, No One Gets Out Alive and Lost Girl. Both The Ritual and Last Days won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel in 2012 and 2013 respectively, as well as the RUSA for Best in Category: Horror. Adam lives in Birmingham, England.
REVIEWS 'Britain's answer to Stephen King' Guardian
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Thrillers
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RATTLE
Fiona Cummins ....................................................................................................................... A glimpse into the mind of a psychopath more frightening than Hannibal Lecter A SERIAL KILLER TO CHILL YOUR BONES He has planned well. He leads two lives. In one he's just like anyone else. But in the other he is the caretaker of his family's macabre museum. Now the time has come to add to his collection. He is ready to feed his obsession, and he is on the hunt. Jakey Frith and Clara Foyle have something in common. They have what he needs. What begins is a terrifying cat-and-mouse game between the sinister collector, Jakey's father and Etta Fitzroy, a troubled detective investigating a spate of abductions. Set in London's Blackheath, Rattle explores the seam of darkness that runs through us all; the struggle between light and shadow, redemption and revenge. It is a glimpse into the mind of a sinister psychopath. And it's also a story about not giving up hope when it seems that all hope is already lost.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 26/1/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509812264 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan
Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former Daily Mirror showbusiness journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing A Novel course. She lives in Essex with her family. Rattle is her first novel.
REVIEWS 'Fresh, original, heart-rending, utterly chilling and dark, dark, dark. Great stuff' Tammy Cohen 'Cleverest and creepiest plot I've read in a long time. Left me breathless with fear . . . utterly brilliant' Michelle Davies
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Thrillers
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THE HOUSE OF NEW BEGINNINGS Lucy Diamond
....................................................................................................................... From the bestselling author of The Secrets of Happiness and Summer at Shell Cottage, this is a story about love, loss and starting over. Number 11, Princes Square, looks just like the other houses on the Brighton seafront: a Regency terrace with elegant sash windows, a winding staircase, and post piled up in the hall for its tenants. It might be part of the city's history, but it's also a place of brand new beginnings. Georgie has followed her childhood sweetheart to Brighton but is determined to carve out a career for herself in journalism. Throwing herself into the city's delights is fun and exciting, but before she knows it, she's sliding into all kinds of trouble . . .
Š Alexander James
Charlotte's in the city for a new start, hoping to keep her head down and somehow get over the heartbreaking loss she's suffered in the past. But Margot, the stylish old lady on the top floor, has other ideas. Like it or not, Charlotte must confront the outside world, and the possibilities it still holds. A terrible revelation sent Rosa running from London to start again as a sous chef. The work is gruelling and thankless but it's a distraction at least . . . until she comes up against the stroppy teenager next door who challenges her on her lifestyle choices. What if Rosa's passion for food could lead her to more interesting places?
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 26/1/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781447299110 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Romance
As the three tenants find each other, it's as if a whole new chapter of their lives has begun. The House of New Beginnings is a moving and uplifting novel from bestselling author Lucy Diamond.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lucy Diamond lives in Bath with her husband and their three children. She has written many bestselling novels, including The Secrets of Happiness, Summer at Shell Cottage and The Year of Taking Chances.
REVIEWS 'Seamless, engaging, believable, fun and heartfelt' Heat 'An absolute treat' Katie Fforde
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BEFORE YOU GO Clare Swatman
....................................................................................................................... This story starts with an ending. But this ending is just the beginning. When Zoe's husband Ed dies, her world caves in. But what if Zoe can get Ed back? You find your soulmate . . . Some people stare love in the face for years before they find it. Zoe and Ed fumbled their way into adulthood, both on different paths - but always in the same direction. Years later, having navigated dead-end jobs and chaotic house shares, romance finally blossoms. Their future together looks set . . . Then the unthinkable happens. One morning, on his way to work, Ed is knocked off his bike and dies. Now Zoe must find a way to survive. But she's not ready to let go of the memories. How can she forget all of the happy times, their first kiss, everything they'd built together? Zoe decides she has to tell Ed all the things she never said. Now it's too late. Or is it?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Clare Swatman is a journalist for a number of weekly women's magazines. Before You Go is her first novel. Clare was Features Editor for Bella and has written for Best, Woman's Own and Real People. She currently writes for her local magazine as well as the travel pages for Take a Break and is working on her second novel, due to be published in 2018. Clare lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and two boys.
Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509824809 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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DAUGHTERS OF COURAGE Margaret Dickinson
....................................................................................................................... A sequel to bestselling The Buffer Girls Can love and friendship survive hardship and war? Following the gripping story of the Ryan family in Margaret Dickinson's top ten bestseller The Buffer Girls, Daughters of Courage sees Emily and Trip fight to keep their new life afloat in the turbulent 1930s. Emily Ryan has gone up in the world since her arrival in Sheffield. Brought there by her mother's ambitious schemes for her brother, Josh, she had found work as a buffer girl polishing cutlery in the city's famous trade. With the help of a friend, Nell, Emily eventually set up her own buffing business employing those with whom she had once worked. Married to Thomas Trippet - 'Trip' to his friends - they plan to build a life together, but when Nell's daughter disappears it seems that the menace from the past is never very far away. Trip is now a partner with his half-brother in the Trippet family's cutlery manufacturing business, but their success is threatened by the Great Depression of the 1930s. Can Emily keep their family and friends safe from the shadow of unemployment? And then comes the threat of another war . . .
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781447290919 Price: ÂŁ20.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Sagas
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Margaret Dickinson moved to the coast at the age of seven and so began her love for the sea and the Lincolnshire landscape. Her ambition to be a writer began early and she had her first novel published at the age of twenty-five. This was followed by many further titles including Plough the Furrow, Sow the Seed and Reap the Harvest, which make up her Lincolnshire Fleethaven trilogy. She is also the author of Fairfield Hall, Welcome Home and The Clippie Girls. Margaret is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.
REVIEWS 'With instantly likeable characters and a thoroughly engrossing story, you'll be gripped from the very first page' Sunday Express on The Buffer Girls 'The Queen of Saga' Daily Express
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THE BEAR AND THE SERPENT Adrian Tchaikovsky
....................................................................................................................... Book Two in a fantasy series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Shadows of the Apt series. Maniye, child of Wolf and Tiger, has a new soul and a new shape. But as Champion of the Crown of the World, does she represent an opportunity for the north - or a threat? Travelling as a bodyguard to the southern prince, with her warband of outcasts, she hopes to finally discover her true place in the world. But if only it was that simple. Tensions rise, and new allies face up to old enemies as civil war threatens to tear the south apart. Royal twins can't share a throne, so one must be chosen. And whoever rules the southern Sun River Nation will hold the fate of the world in their hands. As the protector of one potential heir, Maniye soon finds herself at the eye of a political storm. Yet, all the while, an enemy from the most ancient of times prepares for conquest, and could destroy everything in their path . . . The Bear and the Serpent is the second book in Adrian Tchaikovsky's epic fantasy series, Echoes of the Fall, following The Tiger and the Wolf.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 544 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: Echoes of the Fall ISBN: 9781509830220 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself, he subsequently ended up in law. He has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor. He has also trained in stagefighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind - possibly excepting his son. He's the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, Children of Time and Guns of the Dawn.
REVIEWS 'A classically brilliant fantasy writer, a pusher of boundaries, a great storyteller' Paul Cornell 'It's addictively brilliant! The protagonist is vivid and sympathetic - and I love both the story and the world Adrian has created. It's meticulously thought out and utterly believable' John Gwynne on The Tiger and the Wolf
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Fantasy
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EXPOSURE Aga Lesiewicz
....................................................................................................................... Breathtaking and shocking, Exposure is a psychological thriller that will grip you until the last snap of the camera shutter. You know that moment when you think your life's on track and then something happens which turns everything on its head? It's hard but you deal with it. When up-and-coming photographer Kristin Ryder begins to receive anonymous emails, her life in a trendy loft in London's Hoxton with ultra-cool street artist boyfriend, Anton, suddenly feels unsafe. The emails come with sinister attachments that suggest the sender has an intimate knowledge of Kristin's past, and soon her life spirals out of control. Who can she trust? And will she be able to discover the sender's identity before it's too late?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Aga Lesiewicz has lived in London for over thirty years. She has worked as a radio presenter, voice-over artist, interpreter, screenwriter and a TV producer and director. A freak knee injury in 2013 led to a change in her career and prompted her to write her first book Rebound. Exposure is her second novel. She's currently working on her third London-based psychological thriller.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 153 x 234 mm
REVIEWS 'Claustrophobic and tightly wound, Rebound by debut author Aga Lesiewicz is an edge-of-your-seat read' Good Housekeeping on Rebound 'A smart, sexy first novel . . . it races along with great verve and introduces an interesting new voice' Daily Mail on Rebound
ISBN: 9781447283140 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Thrillers
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THE DOORSTEP CHILD Annie Murray
....................................................................................................................... A tale of hardship and survival, The Doorstep Child is a heart-rending story from bestselling author Annie Murray. From a tender age little Evie struggled . . . Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful mother, all little Evie has ever craved is a safe home and a normal existence. Her young eyes had seen so much but this never tainted her spirit. If it wasn't for her best friend Gary, and friendly dog called Whisky, Evie might never have made it to her sixteenth birthday. At sixteen she meets Ken, a sweet, brown-eyed boy, not much older than she is. Perhaps her fortunes have changed? But as soon as she gives over her heart she is betrayed, not for the first time in her young life . . . Will Evie ever find the love and warmth she's always craved?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781447283973 Price: ÂŁ20.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan
Annie Murray was born in Berkshire and read English at St John's College, Oxford. Her first 'Birmingham' story, Birmingham Rose, hit the Sunday Times bestseller list when it was published in 1995. She has subsequently written many other successful novels, including the bestselling Chocolate Girls and War Babies. This is Annie's twenty-first, after the top ten bestselling Now The War Is Over. Annie has four children and lives near Reading.
REVIEWS 'This epic saga will have you gripped from start to finish' Birmingham Evening Mail on Chocolate Girls 'Classy historical fiction - heartwarming and full of adventure' Newswatch UK on The Narrowboat Girl
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Sagas
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WRONG PLACE Michelle Davies
....................................................................................................................... The second gripping crime novel featuring FLO Maggie Neville. Wrong Place is the gripping sequel to the critically acclaimed debut Gone Astray by Michelle Davies. When a man fails in his attempt to murder his wife and then commit suicide, DC Maggie Neville is assigned as the surviving woman's FLO. As the husband lies in a coma in hospital, the wife sets about making sure everyone knows he's guilty. But there's something about her story that doesn't ring true to Maggie. Digging deeper, she finds an unexpected link between the couple's case and a series of burglaries she and her colleagues are investigating in the local area - and the mysterious disappearance of a young woman twenty years ago.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: DC Maggie Neville ISBN: 9781447284277 Price: ÂŁ12.99
Michelle Davies has been writing professionally for twenty years as a journalist on magazines, including on the production desk at ELLE, and as Features Editor of Heat. Her last staff position before going freelance was Editor-at-Large at Grazia magazine and she currently writes for a number of women's magazines and newspaper supplements. Michelle is also crime fiction reviewer for the Sunday Express's Books section. Michelle lives in London and juggles her freelance journalism with motherhood and writing crime fiction.
REVIEWS 'A full-bodied police procedural thriller from start to finish - with a whirlwind plot and sensational sub stories, it's a real binge-read kind of book' Stylist, Book Wars '[A] stunningly accomplished debut . . . deserves to shoot to the top of the bestseller lists. I read it in a single sitting' Daily Mail
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
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A SIMPLE FAVOUR Darcey Bell
....................................................................................................................... A chilling portrayal of female friendship by debut author Darcey Bell. A twisting free-fall ride filled with betrayal, reversal, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, Darcey Bell ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing story that holds you in its grip until the final page. You look after her child. What if she doesn't come back? It starts with a simple favour - an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son after school she happily says yes. Their children are classmates and best friends. And five-year-olds love being together - just like she and Emily do. As a widow and stay-at-home blogger mum living in suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a glamorous and successful PR executive. The trouble is that Emily doesn't come back. No matter what the police say, Stephanie knows that she would never leave her son. Terrified, she reaches out to her fellow mummy bloggers. And she also reaches out to Emily's husband offering her support.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Darcey Bell was raised on a dairy farm in western Iowa and is currently a preschool teacher in Chicago. She was born in 1981.
REVIEWS
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/3/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509836840 Price: ÂŁ12.99
'A psychological thriller that is as hip and relevant as it is gripping. . . . I couldn't stop reading about these two truly terrifying moms!' Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes 'Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent and the fallacy of the picture-perfect, suburban family' Kimberly McCreight, author of international bestseller Reconstructing Amelia
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Thrillers
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DANGEROUS GAMES Danielle Steel
....................................................................................................................... An unputdownable novel from the biggest-selling living fiction writer in the world. Dangerous Games is a gripping story of family, ambition and power by bestselling phenomenon Danielle Steel. Alix Phillips is a successful TV news journalist always willing to put herself on the front line for her job. All that matters is getting the story. After great loss in her early life, Alix struggles to let anyone get too close. The only people she has allowed to get close to her are her mother, Isabelle - their bond is so strong that it crosses oceans - and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Faye. And Ben, her friend and cameraman. Neither of them fears death - it's love that is more terrifying. When Alix's boss suspects a major political scandal in the White House involving the Vice-President, he sends Alix to uncover the truth. This story could blow the corridors of power wide open, and this time Alix is feeling the heat. But then she receives some devastating news that helps her to put her life in perspective and find out what is truly important to her. For someone who was never scared, Alix now realizes that the time has come to play some very Dangerous Games.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/3/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509800087 Price: ÂŁ18.99
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Property of a Noblewoman, Blue, Precious Gifts, Undercover, Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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FREEBOOTER Tim Severin
....................................................................................................................... The next thrilling adventure in the Pirate series. Hector Lynch, wanted by the authorities in London for piracy, has come to St Mary's Island, near Madagascar, on his search for the elusive Libertalia - a settlement where it is said that all are allowed to live freely. Here, he meets Captain Henry Avery, captain of the freebooter Fancy, which is sailing north through the Indian Ocean in search of a huge haul of gold. Avery requires a navigator, and persuades Hector and his friends Jacques and Jezreel to join the voyage, with the promise that they should be free to leave if they come across the fabled Libertalia on their travels. Although Hector is reluctant to return once more to a life of piracy, his desperation to find a place he can finally settle with his wife Maria draws him in. The Fancy joins forces with other notorious pirate ships, including Thomas Tew's Amity, and as they sail up through the Arabian Sea, they encounter a convoy of the Grand Mogul's ships, including the Ganj-i-Sawa'i, the 'Exceeding Treasure', laden with riches. Soon, Hector finds himself caught up in one of the most deadly plunders in history . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/3/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: Pirate
Tim Severin, explorer, filmmaker, and lecturer, has retraced the storied journeys of Saint Brendan the Navigator, Sindbad the Sailor, Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, Genghis Khan and Robinson Crusoe. His books about these expeditions are classics of exploration and travel. He made his historical fiction debut with the hugely successful Viking series, followed by the Pirate and Saxon series.
ISBN: 9781447262251 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Action & Adventure
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THE CONFESSIONS OF YOUNG NERO Margaret George
....................................................................................................................... A stunning historical fiction novel about the young Emperor Nero and his infamous rise to power. In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman - or child. As a boy, Nero's royal heritage becomes a threat to his very life, first when the mad emperor Caligula tries to drown him, then when his great aunt attempts to secure her own son's inheritance. Faced with shocking acts of treachery, young Nero is dealt a harsh lesson: it is better to be cruel than dead. While Nero idealizes the artistic and athletic principles of Greece, his very survival rests on his ability to navigate the sea of vipers that is Rome. Most lethal of all is his own mother, Agrippina, whose only goal is to control the empire. But as her machinations earn her son a title he is both tempted and terrified to assume, Nero's determination to escape her thrall will shape him into the man he was fated to become - a legendary Emperor. Impeccably researched and written in captivating prose, The Confessions of Young Nero by Margaret George is the story of a boy's ruthless ascension to the throne. From innocent youth to infamous ruler, his is an epic tale of the lengths to which man will go in the ultimate quest for power and survival.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/3/2017 Pages: 592 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781447283355 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Historical
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Margaret George is the author of several bestselling novels, including The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles, Mary, Called Magdalene and Elizabeth I. She travels widely to research her novels and lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin.
REVIEWS 'This is one of the best historical novels I have read in ages, a stunning tour de force. It conveys a vivid and authentic sense of Elizabeth Tudor and her world. Extensively researched with the highest integrity, and deeply engaging, it sets a new benchmark for the genre. I cannot recommend it highly enough' Alison Weir, on Elizabeth I 'Readers looking to be transported to another place and time will find their magic carpet here' Publishers Weekly, on The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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THE KILLER Susan Wilkins
....................................................................................................................... A heartstopping crime thriller set in and around London which explores villainy from both sides of the law. A glossy and gripping crime thriller about survival and vengeance, it puts the pedal to the metal as it hurtles through contemporary London, from the glass towers of the super-rich to the down and dirty backstreets of organized crime and blackmail. She was a woman, so they thought she'd be easy to kill . . . Kaz Phelps is on the run - from the past, from the legacy of her criminal family, from the haunting memories of her murdered lover. The police want her back in jail and her enemies want her dead. While standing by the grave of her gangster brother, Kaz realizes she only has one option. To fight back. Nicci Armstrong was one of the Met's best detectives until personal tragedy forced her to quit. Now she's responsible for the security of the super-rich who use her city as a playground. She is one of the few people Kaz might trust. But Nicci's biggest mistake yet is falling in love with a man she knows is only using her. Meanwhile, as envious rivals back home plot against him, a Russian billionaire searches for a special gift to keep the Kremlin onside, a disgraced politician dreams of revenge and a Turkish drug baron plots to purge his dishonour with blood.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/3/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509850747 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan
ABOUT THE AUTHOR After a degree in law and a stint as a journalist, Susan Wilkins embarked on a career in television drama. She has written numerous scripts for shows ranging from Casualty and Heartbeat to Coronation Street and EastEnders. She created and wrote the London-based detective drama South of the Border of which the BBC made two series. The Informant and The Mourner were her previous two novels.
REVIEWS 'Faultless plotting. Bring on the sequel' Mari Hannah on The Informant 'A thundering new talent - read it and be gripped' Jessie Keane on The Informant
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
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SLEEP BABY SLEEP David Hewson
....................................................................................................................... Sleep Baby Sleep is the fourth title in David Hewson's gripping Amsterdam detective series, featuring Brigadier Pieter Vos Vivid characters, great sense of place and atmosphere showcase what this author does best: taking his reader to a European city and letting them breathe in the vibe through his wonderful descriptions of, in this case, Amsterdam life. With colourful scenes from the flower market to the cemetery, the reader is taken on a sinister journey with a serial killer on the loose in the city. A killer who leaves the victims with a trademark tattoo - 'Sleep Baby Sleep'.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Former Sunday Times journalist David Hewson is well known for his crime-thriller fiction set in European cities. He is the author of the highly acclaimed The Killing novels set in Denmark and the Detective Nic Costa series set in Italy. The Killing trilogy is based on the BAFTA award-winning Danish TV series created by Søren Sveistrup and produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Hewson's ability to capture the sense of place and atmosphere in his fiction comes from spending considerable research time in the cities in which the books are set: Copenhagen, Rome, Venice and now Amsterdam. Sleep Baby Sleep is the fourth title to feature Detective Pieter Vos, following The House of Dolls, The Wrong Girl and Little Sister.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: Detective Pieter Vos
REVIEWS 'Dark and atmospheric with breathless pacing' Linwood Barclay 'Literary gold' Daily Telegraph
ISBN: 9781447293439 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
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THE FIX
David Baldacci ....................................................................................................................... From one of the world's favourite thriller writers, this is the third title in the Amos Decker crime series, following the bestselling Memory Man and The Last Mile. David Baldacci's unique special agent, who suffered a head injury that resulted in giving him the gift of a remarkable memory together with a condition called synaesthesia, takes on another case in the continuation of this thrilling crime series.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
© Alexander Jamesn
David Baldacci is a worldwide bestselling novelist. With his books published in over forty-five languages and in more than eighty countries, and with over 110 million copies in print, he is one of the world's favourite storytellers. His works have been adapted for both feature-film and television and his many bestsellers include the rest of the Amos Decker series: Memory Man and The Last Mile, the John Puller and Will Robie series and smash-hit standalone novels including Absolute Power. David is also the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation®, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. David is still a resident of his native Virginia.
REVIEWS 'The page-turner of the season' The Times on The Last Mile
FORMAT: Hardcover
'Already among the world's bestselling writers, Baldacci hardly needs to prove himself but he's created one of the most intriguing, complex anti-heroes . . . Impossible to put down, especially because of Decker, who weaves a powerful spell' Daily Mail on The Last Mile
Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 368 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: Amos Decker series ISBN: 9781447277439 Price: £16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
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A NEW MAP OF LOVE
Abi Oliver Annie Murray
....................................................................................................................... Antiques shop owner George is about to forge A New Map of Love - will the antiques that pass through his shop show him the way? How can you pack for the journey of a lifetime? George Baxter has settled for a comfortable life, content as the years unfold predictably - until Win, his wife of twenty-six years, dies. With his loyal dog Monty by his side, George throws himself into his work as an antiques dealer. His business is at the heart of the village and all sorts pass through the doors, each person in search of their own little piece of history. When George meets local widow Sylvia Newsome, he imagines a different kind of future. But life has more revelations to offer him. Over the course of an English summer George uncovers some unexpected mysteries from his past, which could shape his tomorrows . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Abi Oliver has spent much of her life in the Thames Valley. She studied at Oxford and London Universities, has worked for a charity, as a nurse, on Indian Railways and as a writer. She has also raised four children and lives in Purley-on-Thames. This is her first novel as Abi Oliver.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781447284024 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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AGAINST ALL ODDS Danielle Steel
....................................................................................................................... A new title from the biggest-selling living fiction writer in the world, written straight from the heart. It's a novel about family relationships - essentially those a mother has with each of her children. It's about situations where the odds are stacked and where a mother's wisdom is not heard. It's about a successful woman who has made mistakes of her own. Kate's learned the lessons of life along with the support of her own mother. Now she has four grown-up children of her own - all in their twenties - who each have their problems, dilemmas and decisions to make. She's concerned for them but she hopes they'll listen to the advice she has to give. Of course, that's not how the story goes. They will learn the hard way, but hopefully they will learn valuable lessons. All a mother can do is stand by and support. And you're never too old to make mistakes, as Kate finds out.
Š Brigitte Lacombe
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Property of a Noblewoman, Blue, Precious Gifts, Undercover, Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509800209 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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DAUGHTERS OF PENNY LANE Ruth Hamilton
....................................................................................................................... A page-turning saga from the bestselling author Ruth Hamilton. In 1946, Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane, having lost her house in Bootle and three sisters to the bombs that fell over Liverpool. Estranged from her husband Dan, who suffered from two strokes triggered during the Blitz, she finds comfort in living closer to her remaining sister, Nellie, and a cast of new neighbours. But they too have problems of their own: Vera Corcoran fears for her life at the hands of an abusive husband and Olga Konstantinov fled Russia to seek a new life in Britain. But even though the bombs have stopped falling, tremors still rock the family when Alice's reviled mother is kicked out of Nellie's home and seeks vengeance. Despised by her daughters, Elsie Stewart was a cruel mother and forced their father to an early grave. Alice is desperate to start a family of her own and be a much better example to her own children. But will it be with the man she's married to? And when visions from the past resurface, she soon uncovers a dark secret that her mother has kept hidden for so long . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Ruth Hamilton was the bestselling author of numerous novels including Mulligan's Yard, The Reading Room, Mersey View, That Liverpool Girl, Lights of Liverpool, A Liverpool Song and Meet Me at the Pier Head. She became one of the most popular writers of the north-west of England. She was born in Bolton, which is the setting for many of her novels, and spent most of her life in Lancashire. She also lived in Liverpool for many years, before passing away in 2016.
Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781447283584 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Sagas
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THE CONQUERORĘźS QUEEN Joanna Courtney
....................................................................................................................... For William the Conqueror's bride, Mathilda, there is only one prize - the English throne. A crown can be won, blood cannot be changed. Mathilda of Flanders is furious at her father's choice of husband. William the Bastard of Normandy has a reputation as a rough warrior but after a violent start to their courtship she discovers him to be a man of unexpected sensitivity, driven by two goals: to win her heart and to win her a throne. Astoundingly the throne seems to come first for King Edward of England invites the newlyweds to Westminster and declares William his heir. But with the passing of time, this secretive promise is soon forgotten... Though not by William. Or Mathilda. As events either side of the Narrow Sea reach crisis point, Mathilda has to decide what she wants: heart or throne? How deep does her ambition run and what is she prepared to sacrifice to succeed?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 18/5/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: Queens of Conquest ISBN: 9781447282037 Price: ÂŁ20.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan
Joanna Courtney has wanted to be a writer ever since she could read. After spending endless hours entertaining her siblings with made-up stories, it was no surprise when Joanna pursued her passion for books during her time at Cambridge University - where she combined her love of English and History by specializing in Medieval Literature. Joanna continued to write through her first years of work and then, married and living in Derbyshire, in the sparse hours available between raising four children. She teaches creative writing across the country and for the Open University. Joanna is fascinated by defining moments in history, of which the Battle of Hastings is certainly one. The outcome of that momentous day is one of the big 'what-ifs?' of England's past and she has loved being able to immerse herself in the world of the Anglo-Saxons, Normans and Vikings whilst writing The Queens of the Conquest trilogy.
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Historical
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NEED YOU DEAD Peter James
....................................................................................................................... The thirteenth Roy Grace novel from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Peter James. What does it take for a decent man to turn into a killer? Greg, a married man, has been having an affair for three years with another man's wife. One evening, after a fight with her at their rented love nest, he storms out. When he returns an hour later she is dead. Did he kill her in a fit of rage and blank it out, or did someone else do it while he was out of the building? Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex Police, assigned to the case, soon discovers that there is more than one person who had a reason to kill her. But only one man has the most to lose - and when his marriage and career are at stake, what lengths will he go to protect all that he holds dear? And what will he do next . . .?
Š Sthen Lawrence
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pub Date: 18/5/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: Roy Grace
Peter James is the international bestselling author of many award-winning novels. His Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, set in Brighton, has been translated into thirty-six languages with worldwide sales of over eighteen million copies, and has given him nine consecutive Sunday Times number ones. In 2015 WHSmith customers publicly voted him the Greatest Crime Author of All Time and in 2016 he became the recipient of the coveted CWA Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement, awarded for sustained excellence. Peter has also written a short story collection, A Twist of the Knife, and his standalone titles include his ghost story The House On Cold Hill and The Perfect Murder, which has been turned into a smash hit stage play. All his novels reflect his deep interest in the world of the police. Three of his novels have been filmed and before becoming a full-time author he produced numerous films, including The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons. He divides his time between his homes in Notting Hill, London and near Brighton in Sussex.
ISBN: 9781509816316 Price: ÂŁ20.00
REVIEWS
FORMAT: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
'Peter James has penetrated the inner workings of police procedures, and the inner thoughts and attitudes of real detectives, as no English crime writer before him. His hero, Roy Grace, may not be the most lively cop, nor the most damaged by drink, weight or misery, but he's one of the most believable' The Times
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THE SPACE BETWEEN THE STARS Anne Corlett
....................................................................................................................... A novel of love, loss and second chances from debut novelist Anne Corlett, perfect for fans of Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven. The Space between the Stars by Anne Corlett is an enthralling novel of love, the choices we make, and what it means to be human. It's also a dramatic road-trip across the stars, as a woman journeys across a plague-ravaged universe to the place she once called home, and the man she once loved. After a virus wipes out most of humanity, Jamie leaves her isolated posting on the planet Solitaire and heads for Earth. She must reach the Northumberland coast, to see if her ex-partner Daniel is still alive. Joining a band of misfits and fellow survivors, each with their own agenda, she struggles to survive while wrestling with loss and heartache in order to gain one last chance at happiness.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Š Peter Travers
Anne Corlett has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and has won a number of awards for her short stories, including the H. E. Bates Award. She works as a criminal solicitor and freelance writer, and lives with her partner and two young boys in Somerset. The Space Between The Stars is her first novel.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 1/6/2017 Pages: 512 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509833528 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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THE SUNSHINE GIRLS Jane Green
....................................................................................................................... A stunning new novel from the Sunday Times number one bestselling author It was never easy, being one of Ronni Sunshine's daughters. Publicly, she is the glamorous, successful, dramatic Hollywood actress. Privately she is self-absorbed, angry, and a disinterested, narcissistic mother. Now in her seventies, her adult daughters are largely estranged, both from her, and from each other. Ronni has had strange symptoms for a while, but has refused to believe her diagnosis: she has ALS. There is no cure. And she is adamant that her daughters must come home, and help her take her own life. Ronni's three daughters - Nell, Meredith and Lizzy - are very different and each have their own very full, complicated lives and relationships. They all come back to Westport, Connecticut, none of them truly believing their mother is as sick as she says. Will they be able to help their mother in her final, greatest demand of them? And who will do it?
Š Ian Warburg
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A former feature writer for the Daily Express, Jane Green took a leap of faith when she left in 1996 to freelance and work on her book. She is now the bestselling author of several novels including Saving Grace, The Beach House and Summer Secrets. Jane lives in Connecticut with her husband and their blended family of six children.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm
REVIEWS 'I'm in AWE of Jane Green. A truly gripping read' Marian Keyes, on Summer Secrets 'Warm, witty, sharp and insightful. Jane Green writes with such honesty and zing' Sophie Kinsella, on Summer Secrets
ISBN: 9781447288534 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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ARE YOU SLEEPING Kathleen Barber
....................................................................................................................... An addictive debut psychological thriller for fans of Serial, Disclaimer and Luckiest Girl Alive. Josie has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family's reputation, and with good reason: her father was murdered, her mother ran away to join a cult, and her twin sister stole her high-school sweetheart. Now, Josie has finally settled into a new life in New York with her boyfriend. The only problem is that she has lied to him about every detail of her past . . . When a podcast, Reconsidered, begins reinvestigating the long-closed case of Josie's father's murder, Josie's world threatens to unravel. Investigative journalist Poppy Parnell is determined to find out what really happened that night - many listeners believe that the seventeen-year-old neighbour of the family who was imprisoned for Josie's father's murder is innocent. The only proof that put him behind bars was Josie's twin sister's testimony, despite there being no forensic evidence. As Poppy becomes ever more determined to give her listeners the truth, Josie returns to her hometown to confront her twin sister and the lies of her past, as well as those on which she has built her future. Can Josie solve the mystery of her father's murder before Poppy broadcasts it to the world?
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kathleen Barber is a lawyer, and her short fiction has been published in Luna Luna Magazine, Vending Machine Press and WhiskeyPaper. She previously blogged about wellness for Wanderlust and Lipstick, a women's travel website, and about her trip backpacking through Africa on a personal travel blog called Nonbillable Hours. This is her first novel.
ISBN: 9781509843022 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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THE ETERNAL KINGDOM Ben Peek
....................................................................................................................... The third and final novel in Ben Peek's epic Children trilogy, continuing from The Godless and Leviathan's Blood. A nation in fragments On the shores of Yeflam, Ayae struggles to keep her people together. She acts as liaison between the camp leaders and the immortals who could save them. Zaifyr's immortal siblings have arrived - but they have their own unfathomable agendas and Ayae is caught in their power games. An army on the march Heast has returned to his role as Captain of Refuge, a mercenary unit that answers the call of lost causes. With help from an unexpected source, Heast and his band of mercenaries could turn the tide of war - if they live long enough. A world in danger Bueralan Le is trapped in the company of the new god child. Though he fights to prevent her from unleashing her forces on the world, he is bound by blood to her darkest creation. The future of the world may depend on his choices.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 436 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: Children ISBN: 9781447251880 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Fantasy
Ben Peek is the critically acclaimed author of The Godless and three previous novels: Black Sheep, Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, and Above/Below, co-written with Stephanie Campisi. He has also written a short story collection, Dead Americans. In addition to this, Peek is the creator of the psychogeography pamphlet, The Urban Sprawl Project. With the artist Anna Brown, he created the autobiographical comic Nowhere Near Savannah. He lives in Sydney with his partner, the photographer Nikilyn Nevins, and their cat, Lily.
REVIEWS 'I'm not overstating things when I say that Ben Peek is one of the most accomplished writers of richly detailed and intricately plotted epic fantasy working in Australia today' Newton Review of Books 'One of the most unique and enthralling epic fantasies that I have read in recent years. Peek's vision and execution are wonderful, and his deft and creative touch with this series a joy to behold. If Peek continues to write to this standard he will go down in history as a master of the genre' Smash Dragons on Leviathan's Blood, Book 2
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SHATTERED MINDS Laura Lam
....................................................................................................................... A gripping near-future thriller from the author of False Hearts. Carina is a troubled rebel with a cause, who'll fight her own dangerous urges as well as a corrupt mega-corporation. Sudice Inc. plans to use the latest virtual-reality tech to hack our very minds - and only Carina, who's been on the inside of their illegal operation, can stop them . . . but only if she can unlock her own buried memories with a piece of code. Carina will need the help of a small band of hackers, especially Dax. And if Carina can keep her humanity, maybe she and Dax will have a future too. Laura Lam's Shattered Minds stars a female 'Dexter' with a drug problem and a conscience, in a terrifying near-future where technology rules our lives and haunts our dreams.
Š Elizabeth May
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Laura Lam was raised near San Francisco, California, by two former HaightAshbury hippies. Both of them encouraged her to finger-paint to her heart's desire, colour outside of the lines, and consider the library a second home. This led to an overabundance of daydreams. She relocated to Scotland to be with her husband, whom she met on the internet when he insulted her taste in books. She almost blocked him but is glad she didn't. At times she misses the sunshine.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm
REVIEWS 'Just fantastic. Rarely have I torn through a book so quickly. Dark, smart, fastpaced and sexy' Samantha Shannon on False Hearts 'A rich and entertaining sci-fi tale that is brimming with ideas' SciFiNow on False Hearts
ISBN: 9781447286905 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Science Fiction
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PAN 79 48, James Herriot 80 Rosy is my Relative, Gerald Durrell 81 Gilded Cage, Vic James 82 The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly, Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg 83 The Silk Weaver, Liz Trenow 84 Freeks, Amanda Hocking 85 Nothing But Trouble, KerryWilkinson 86 The Women of Baker Street, Michelle Birkby 87 Fierce Gods, Col Buchanan 88 The Escape Artist, Diane Chamberlain 89 Date with Death, Julia Chapman 90 The Wedding Girls, Kate Thompson 91 Madensky Square, Eva Ibbotson 92 Masquerade, Laura Lam 93 Beneath the Cypress Tree, Margaret Pemberton 94 The Apartment, S. L. Grey 95 A Not Quite Perfect Family, Claire Sandy 96 Red Earth, Tony Park 97 The Girlfriend, Michelle Frances 98 The Years That Followed, Catherine Dunne 99 The Butlins Girls, Elaine Everest 100 Twist, Kylie Scott 101 Among the Lemon Trees, Nadia Marks 102 The Never King, Jon Abbott 103 Tomorrow Brings Sorrow, MaryWood 104 Intense Pleasure, Lora Leigh 105 Maeve Haran 2017 book, Maeve Haran 106 Pam Weaver untitled book 3, PamWeaver 107 Karen Swan Untitled Summer 2017, Karen Swan
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James Herbert ....................................................................................................................... A chilling alternate-history novel from James Herbert In 1945, Hitler unleashed the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance. Those who died at once were the lucky ones. The really unfortunate took years. The survivors - people like me, who had the blood group that kept us safe from the disease - were now targets for those who believed our blood could save them. I survived for three years. I lived alone, spending my days avoiding the fascist Blackshirts who wanted my blood for their dying leader. Then I met the others and life got complicated all over again . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR James Herbert was not just Britain's number one bestselling writer of chiller fiction, a position he held ever since publication of his first novel, but was also one of our greatest popular novelists. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his twenty-three novels have sold more than fifty-four million copies worldwide, and have been translated into over thirty languages, including Russian and Chinese. In 2010, he was made the Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention and was also awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to literature. His final novel was Ash. James Herbert died in March 2013.
REVIEWS
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 336 Trim: 130 x 197 mm
'Break-neck pace . . . a story for those who like their plots exploding with excitement and fear, set against an apocalyptic backdrop. A perfect adrenalinpacked alternative to Booker Prize pretension' Daily Express 'Herbert's best yet' Daily Mail
ISBN: 9781447294610 Price: ÂŁ8.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Horror
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ROSY IS MY RELATIVE Gerald Durrell
....................................................................................................................... From one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists. Written with Gerald Durrell's usual sharp eye for observing humour in any situation, Rosy is my Relative will delight fans both old and new. At the age of thirty, Adrian Rookwhistle's life hasn't quite turned out the way he'd have hoped. Working an unfulfilling job as a clerk in the city and living under the tyranny of his fearsome landlady, he can't help but think that there is more to life. However, all of this suddenly changes when he receives a curious letter from his dying uncle who has bequeathed him ÂŁ500 and an elephant by the name of Rosy who has a seemingly unquenchable thirst for liquor. At a loss of what to do with his unexpectedly gargantuan - and rarely sober - inheritance, Adrian sets forth on a journey believing to have the answer to his dilemma; he'll give her away to the circus. Together Adrian and Rosy carve a trail of destruction through the peaceful countryside of southern England, meeting a curious cast of misfits along the way. Drunk or sober, Rosy spreads chaos in her wake, until the full weight of the law finally catches up with her . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 234 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: Pan Heritage Classics ISBN: 9781509815371 Price: ÂŁ8.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan
Gerald Durrell was one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists. His books, such as the bestselling My Family and Other Animals which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2006, continue to entertain generations of children and adults alike. The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is an international conservation charity with headquarters in Jersey, UK.
REVIEWS 'His uproarious first novel' Daily Mirror 'Comic havoc!' New York Times
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Historical
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GILDED CAGE Vic James
....................................................................................................................... A thrilling Orwellian vision of Britain, with a rebellious Hunger Games heart, Gilded Cage is the astonishing debut novel from Vic James, and the first title in her electrifying The Dark Gifts Trilogy. A modern Britain An age-old cruelty Britain's magically skilled aristocracy compels all commoners to serve them for ten years - and now it's the Hadleys' turn. Abi Hadley is assigned to England's most ruthless noble family. The secrets she uncovers could win her freedom - or break her heart. Her brother Luke is enslaved in a brutal factory town, where new friends' ideals might cost him everything. Then while the elite vie for power, a young aristocrat plots to remake the world with his dark gifts. As Britain moves from anger to defiance, all three must take sides. And the consequences of their choices will change everything, forever.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 26/1/2017 Pages: 304 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: The Dark Gifts Trilogy ISBN: 9781509821457 Price: ÂŁ7.99
Vic James is a current affairs TV director who loves stories in all their forms, and Gilded Cage is her debut novel. She has twice judged the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize, has made films for BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4 News, and is a huge Wattpad.com success story. Under its previous title, Slavedays, her book was read online over a third of a million times in first draft, and went on to win Wattpad's 'Talk of the Town' award in 2015 - on a site showcasing 200 million stories. Vic James lives and works in London.
REVIEWS 'I really enjoyed this. It was a fast-paced, entertaining story, in a world that left me wanting to find out more. I will definitely be getting the next book when it comes out' Genevieve Cogman, author of The Invisible Library 'A dark and intriguing vision of an alternate, magic-drenched Britain, GILDED CAGE kept me up way into the night' Aliette de Bodard
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Fantasy
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THE LITTLE OLD LADY BEHAVING BADLY Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
....................................................................................................................... Another hilarious crime caper, charting the misadventures of some devilish blue-rinsed criminals - set against the glamorous backdrop of Saint-Tropez. From Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, the author of the smash-hit The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, comes the third hilarious title in this much-loved series: The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly. Nothing can stop The League of Pensioners, a wily gang of blue-rinsed rebels. They have a plan and to realize it they are going to need money, lots of money. Martha and her friends set out to catch some of the biggest financial fish in the sea. In their hunt for the big bucks, the gang plan to cheat billionaires out of their luxury yachts in the south of France's sun-bleached Saint-Tropez. But with the police hot on their heels, will this group of unassuming conspirators be able to cover their tracks?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 26/1/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: Little Old Lady
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg is the Swedish author of the internationally bestselling The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules and The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! After pursuing a career in journalism and a stint as a marine archaeologist, Catharina turned her hand to writing fiction. Over two million copies of her books have sold internationally and her books have been translated into thirty languages. Catharina lives outside Stockholm, in Sweden, and writes from a log cabin in her garden. To find about more, visit her website, www.catharinaingelman-sundberg.com.
REVIEWS 'A good-natured, humorous crime caper' Independent on Sunday 'A complete hoot' Saga Magazine
ISBN: 9781447281672 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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THE SILK WEAVER Liz Trenow
....................................................................................................................... A novel of illicit romance set against the world of the silk trade in London Anna Buttterfield moves from her Suffolk country home to her uncle's house in London, to be introduced to society. A chance encounter with a local silk weaver, French immigrant Henri, throws her from her privileged upbringing to the darker, dangerous world of London's silk trade. Henri is working on his 'master piece' to make his name as a master silk weaver; Anna, meanwhile, is struggling against the constraints of her family and longing to become an artist. Henri realizes that Anna's designs could lift his work above the ordinary, and give them both an opportunity for freedom . . . This is a charming story of illicit romance, set against the world of the burgeoning silk trade in eighteenth-century Spitalfields - a time of religious persecution, mass migration, racial tension and wage riots, and very different ideas of what was considered 'proper' for women.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Liz Trenow is the author of three previous historical novels: The Last Telegram, The Forgotten Seamstress and The Poppy Factory. Liz's family have been silk weavers for nearly three hundred years, and she grew up in the house next to the mill in Suffolk, England, which still operates today, weaving for top-end fashion houses and royal commissions. This unique history inspired her first two novels, and this, her fourth novel.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 26/1/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Liz is a former journalist who spent fifteen years on regional and national newspapers, and on BBC radio and television news, before turning her hand to fiction. She lives in East Anglia, UK, with her artist husband, and they have two grown-up daughters. Visit Liz's website at www.liztrenow.com or join her on Twitter @liztrenow
ISBN: 9781509823253 Price: ÂŁ7.99
REVIEWS
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan
'Liz Trenow sews together the strands of past and present as delicately as the exquisite stitching on the quilt which forms the centrepiece of the story' Lucinda Riley, on The Forgotten Seamstress
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Historical
'An assured debut with a page-turning conclusion' Daily Express, on The Forgotten Seamstress
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FREEKS
Amanda Hocking ....................................................................................................................... A standalone novel from the Kindle million-copy bestselling author of the Trylle trilogy. Freeks is an atmospheric story of powerful mysteries and dark secrets by Amanda Hocking, author of the phenomenal 'Trylle' trilogy and the Kanin Chronicles. The Carnival is all she's ever known - but an old terror could tear it down. In the spring of 1982, the carnival comes to small-town Cauldry, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Besnick, the carnival is home. It's also a place of secrets, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard to connect with outsiders. However, sparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's world. They find the word 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 336 Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Amanda Hocking lives in Minnesota, had never sold a book before April 2010 and has now sold her millionth. She is now 'the most spectacular example of an author striking gold through ebooks' according to the Observer. Amanda is an obsessive Tweeter, John Hughes mourner, Batman devotee, Muppets activist and unicorn enthusiast. Her books include the Trylle trilogy and the 'Watersong' series.
REVIEWS 'Generated an excitement not felt in the industry since Stephenie Meyer or perhaps even J. K. Rowling' New York Times
ISBN: 9781509807659 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Romance
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NOTHING BUT TROUBLE Kerry Wilkinson
....................................................................................................................... The eleventh novel in the Jessica Daniel series from the million-copy bestselling author, Kerry Wilkinson. In Nothing But Trouble, a gripping crime thriller by bestselling crime author Kerry Wilkinson, DI Jessica Daniel has to protect the streets of Manchester from escaped prisoners - and those trying to hunt them down. Niall O'Brien is a veteran living on the edge of a rundown estate, refusing to sell his house to developers. He's the only remaining resident, alone and frightened by a series of break-ins. He's been threatening to shoot the next intruder but he can't be serious . . . what if the next person through the door is a police officer trying to help? Elsewhere, on a bright Manchester morning a vehicle screeches across a junction and wipes out a prison van. Two prisoners run for it, leaving the police to track them down. They don't have long to wait. Hours later, one of the escapees is hanged from a motorway bridge. Was he broken out solely to be killed, or is there something deeper going on?
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: Jessica Daniel series ISBN: 9781447285441 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
Meanwhile, someone's conning pensioners out of their savings and there are rumours that the bare-knuckle British middleweight title fight is coming to the city. DI Jessica Daniel fears finding herself in the middle of an all-out war, not knowing that the biggest threat might come from a frightened pensioner.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kerry Wilkinson has been busy since turning thirty. His first Jessica Daniel novel, Locked In, was a number one ebook bestseller, while the series as a whole has sold one million copies. He has written a fantasy-adventure trilogy for young adults, a second crime series featuring private investigator Andrew Hunter, plus the standalone thrillers Down Among the Dead Men and No Place Like Home. Originally from the county of Somerset, Kerry has spent far too long living in the north of England, picking up words like 'barm' and 'ginnel'. When he's short of ideas, he rides his bike or bakes cakes. When he's not, he writes it all down.
REVIEWS 'Wilkinson's story spreads like a pool of blood . . . his talent becomes ever more obvious' Daily Mail
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THE WOMEN OF BAKER STREET Michelle Birkby
....................................................................................................................... A gripping Mrs Hudson and Mary Watson investigation. As Sherlock and Watson return from the famous Hound of the Baskervilles case, Mrs Hudson and Mary must face their own Hound, in the swirling fog of Victorian London . . . When Mrs Hudson falls ill, she is taken into a private ward at St Barts hospital. Perhaps it is her over-active imagination, or her penchant for sniffing out secrets, but as she lies in her bed, slowly recovering, she finds herself surrounded by patients who all seem to have some skeletons in their closets. A higher number of deaths than usual seem to occur on this ward. On her very first night, Mrs Hudson believes she witnesses a murder. But was it real, or just smoke and mirrors? Mary Watson meanwhile has heard about young boys disappearing across London, and is determined to find them and reunite them with their families. As the women's investigations collide in unexpected ways, a gruesome discovery in Regent's Park leads them on to a new, terrifying case.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: A Mrs Hudson and Mary Watson Investigation ISBN: 9781509809738 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
Michelle Birkby has always loved crime stories, and read her first Sherlock Holmes book when she was thirteen. She was given a beautiful collection of all the short stories and has been hooked with the wonderful, gas-lit, atmospheric world of crime and adventure ever since. A few years ago Michelle was re-reading The Empty House and a blurred figure in the background suddenly came into focus. It became clear to her that Mrs Hudson was much more than a housekeeper to 221b and she'd always been fascinated by Mary Watson's character. So she set about giving the women of Baker Street voices and adventures of their own . . . The Women of Baker Street is the second book in the series, following The House at Baker Street.
REVIEWS 'I loved The House at Baker Street. This is the perfect post-Sherlock book: warm, compassionate, intelligent, with plot and language crafted in the style of the Master Conan Doyle himself. Martha Hudson and Mary Watson step off the page, finally given the life they always needed. It's the kind of book any of us would be proud to have written, but to have done so as a debut is little short of exceptional. Michelle Birkby is a name to watch as she rises to literary stardom - and I can already feel the television adaptation on the way' Manda Scott, author of the Rome and Boudica series 'Cleverly incorporating much-loved elements of the original Conan Doyle novels, this is a witty feminist take on the crime classic' The Lady, on The House at Baker Street
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FIERCE GODS Col Buchanan
....................................................................................................................... The fourth book from the author of Farlander. A time of reckoning has begun. For ten years the Free Ports held their own against the despotic empire of Mann but the empire is now poised to destroy them. The crucial fortress city of Bar-Khos is under attack and its freedom depends on a few unsteady hands. Betrayal could come from any side, at any moment. While chaos reigns, Nico will search for his captive mother and attempt to defend his people. And Shard the Dreamer will hunt for legendary charts, which could yet save the city. However, a Red Guard officer gone rogue could bring about the end, and a visitor from another world has a hidden agenda. With the war entering its darkest hours, will any of them survive? Fierce Gods is the fourth and final novel in Col Buchanan's 'Heart of the World' series.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Colin Buchanan is an Irish writer who was born in Lisburn in 1973, and now lives on the west coast of Connemara. In recent years he has mostly settled down, and loves nothing more than late-night gatherings around a fire with good friends.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: Heart of the World
REVIEWS 'Something special . . . Buchanan writes vividly and well, and the story grips from the astonishing opening sequence to the unexpected conclusion' The Times on Farlander, Book One 'One of the most refreshing new fantasies out there' SFX on Farlander, Book One
ISBN: 9781447211211 Price: ÂŁ8.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Fantasy
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THE ESCAPE ARTIST Diane Chamberlain
....................................................................................................................... Heart-wrenching and compassionate, bestselling author Diane Chamberlain's The Escape Artist is a moving tale of the sacrifices a mother will make for her child. If you are a fan of Jodi Picoult or Susan Lewis, this is equal parts family drama, love story and thriller. Diane Chamberlain is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silent Sister and The Midwife's Confession. Susanna Miller loses custody of her eleven-month-old son, Tyler, but rather than turning the little boy over to her ex-husband and his new wife, she goes on the run. She dyes her hair, changes her name and escapes from Boulder, Colorado, leaving behind everyone she knows including Linc Sebastian, the man who has been her best friend since childhood and who knows her better than anyone. Susanna lands in Annapolis, Maryland, alone, frightened, and always looking over her shoulder for someone who might recognize her. Just as she's beginning to feel safe in her new surroundings, she stumbles across information that could save the lives of many people . . . if she's willing to take it to the police. But going to the authorities means revealing her identity, admitting her guilt and, worst of all, losing her son.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Diane Chamberlain is the bestselling author of numerous novels including Necessary Lies and The Silent Sister. Her storylines are often a combination of romance, family drama, intrigue and suspense. She lives in Northern Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole.
FORMAT: Paperback
REVIEWS 'Twisty and smart' Heat on Pretending to Dance
Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 464 Trim: 130 x 197 mm
'An emotionally perceptive, gripping novel and a deft exploration of long-hidden and quietly explosive familial truths' Sunday Express on Pretending to Dance
ISBN: 9781447256731 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Romance
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DATE WITH DEATH Julia Chapman
....................................................................................................................... A charming new series for fans of Alexander McCall Smith, Robert Galbraith and Midsomer Murders. Samson O'Brien has been dismissed from the police force, and returns to his home town of Bruncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales to set up the Dales Detective Agency while he fights to clear his name. However, the people of Bruncliffe aren't that welcoming to a man they see as trouble. Delilah Metcalfe, meanwhile, is struggling to keep her business, the Dales Dating Agency, afloat - as well as trying to control her wayward Weimaraner dog, Tolpuddle. Then when Samson gets his first case, investigating the supposed suicide of a local man, things take an unexpected turn, and soon he discovers a trail of deaths that lead back to the door of Delilah's agency. With suspicion hanging over someone they both care for, the two feuding neighbours soon realize that they need to work together to solve the mystery of the dating deaths. But working together is easier said than done . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Julia Chapman is the pseudonym of Julia Stagg, who has had five novels, the Fogas Chronicles set in the French Pyrenees, published by Hodder. Date with Death is the first in the Dales Detective series.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 9/3/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509823833 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Mystery & Detective
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THE WEDDING GIRLS Kate Thompson
....................................................................................................................... They made brides' dreams come true on the brink of war - but what of their own lives? If a wedding marks the first day of the rest of your life, then the story starts with the dress. It's 1936 and the streets of London's East End are grimy and brutal, but in one corner of Bethnal Green it is forever Hollywood . . . Herbie Taylor's photography studio is nestled in the heart of bustling Green Street. Tomboy Stella and troubled Winnie work in Herbie's studio; their best friend and hopeless romantic Kitty works next door as an apprentice dressmaker. All life passes through the studio, wishing to capture that perfect moment in time. Kitty works tirelessly to create magical bridal gowns, but with each stitch she wonders if she'll ever get a chance to wear a white dress. Stella and Winnie sprinkle a dusting of Hollywood glamour over happy newly-weds, but secretly dream of escaping the East End . . . Community is strong on Green Street, but can it stand the ultimate test? As clouds of war brew on the horizon, danger looms over the East End. Will the Wedding Girls find their happy ever afters, before it's too late?
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 9/3/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 130 x 197 mm
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kate Thompson is a journalist with twenty years' experience as a writer for the broadsheets and women's weekly magazines. She is now freelance, and as well as writing for newspapers she's also a seasoned ghostwriter. The Wedding Girls is her third novel, following Secrets of the Sewing Bee and Secrets of the Singer Girls.
REVIEWS
ISBN: 9781509822232 Price: ÂŁ6.99
'Marvellous, full of gutsy characters I immediately empathized with' Margaret Pemberton on Secrets of the Singer Girls
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan
'The way Kate Thompson writes . . . made me feel that I was reading about old friends. I just had to keep the pages turning. I am sure that before long her readers will be clamouring for more' Pam Weaver on Secrets of the Singer Girls
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Sagas
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MADENSKY SQUARE Eva Ibbotson
....................................................................................................................... By the award-winning author of The Secret Countess. Madensky Square is Eva Ibbotson's magical novel set in that most poignant of all times and places - Vienna before the First World War. Susanna's dress shop stands in the delightful Madensky Square and is the very hub and heart of life. Susanna sympathizes with her neighbours, watches over Signi, the wretched, orphaned child prodigy, and with her infallible eye for fashion, turns an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. Of all the colourful characters in Madensky Square, only her dear friend Alice has the slightest inkling that Susanna hides more than one secret. This hidden life, full of passion and anguish, gradually unfolds in a city of romance, music and gossip.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eva Ibbotson was born into a literary family in Vienna in 1925 and came to England as a small girl before the war. She took an honours degree in physiology at the University of London and went on to do postgraduate research at Cambridge, where she married a fellow scientist.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 9/3/2017 Pages: 264 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: Pan Heritage Classics ISBN: 9781509821907 Price: ÂŁ8.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan
Ibbotson wrote more than twenty books for children and young adults, many of which garnered nominations for awards for children's literature in the UK, including the NestlĂŠ Smarties Book Prize and the Whitbread Prize. In her fiction for young adults, including The Secret Countess, Magic Flutes and A Company of Swans, Ibbotson was determined to prove that romantic novels can be funny, wellwritten and even a little erudite. Eva passed away at her home in Newcastle on 20 October 2010.
REVIEWS '[Ibbotson] provides not only charm, but intelligent prose and a character with finely tuned sensibilities' Kirkus 'Sunshine and shadows, laughter and tears . . . the grace and gaiety of a Viennese waltz' Sunday Telegraph
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Romance
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MASQUERADE Laura Lam
....................................................................................................................... The final novel in a mesmerizing fantasy trilogy from the author of False Hearts. Perfect for fans of The Night Circus, Holly Black and Laini Taylor Masquerade is the third and final novel in Laura Lam's Micah Grey trilogy, following Pantomime and Shadowplay.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Laura Lam was raised near San Francisco, California, by two former HaightAshbury hippies. Both of them encouraged her to finger-paint to her heart's desire, colour outside the lines, and consider the library a second home. This led to an overabundance of daydreams. She relocated to Scotland to be with her husband, whom she met on the internet when he insulted her taste in books. She almost blocked him but is glad she didn't. At times she misses the sunshine.
REVIEWS 'A fantastical, richly drawn, poignant take on a classic coming-of-age story . . . a vibrant tale told with surety and grace' Leigh Bardugo on Pantomime, book one in the series 'An exotic and detailed world, peopled by characters that I'd love to be friends with . . . and some I'd never want to cross paths with' Robin Hobb on Pantomime, Book One in the series
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 9/3/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: Micah Grey Trilogy ISBN: 9781509807789 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Fantasy
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BENEATH THE CYPRESS TREE Margaret Pemberton
....................................................................................................................... A sweeping saga of friends and lovers, set in Crete during the Second World War. A war that could turn friends into enemies, lovers into fighters . . . Summer 1935. Best friends Kate Shelton, Ella Tetley and Daphne St. Maur are on the cusp of a new life, having graduated with Classics degrees. Kate is desperate to start work on an archaeological dig straightaway and she is thrilled to be given a position at the famous Knossos palace site in Crete. However, she doesn't bargain for working with gruff site director Lewis Sinclair - nor for her own complex feelings towards him. In Yorkshire, Ella's family expect her to marry Sam, her steady friend who is training to be a doctor, but Ella too feels pulled to the Mediterranean by the promise of freedom. When she meets Christos, life as a country GP's wife seems even less appealing . . . Daphne however throws herself into London's high society, falling madly in love with diplomat and heir Sholto Hertford - but then his work brings them to Crete, and Daphne becomes enchanted by the island as well.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 23/3/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781447248675 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Sagas
Meanwhile, the threat of war rumbles on, as reports of Hitler's rapid expansion across Europe become impossible to ignore. It seems that nothing can touch the perfect, glittering sea and snow-capped mountains, but Kate, Ella and Daphne know that the island haven they now call home will never be the same again.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Margaret Pemberton is the bestselling author of over thirty novels in many different genres, some of which are contemporary in setting and some historical. Her previous work includes The Londoners Trilogy. She has served as Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association and has three times served as a committee member of the Crime Writers' Association. Born in Bradford, she is married to a Londoner, has five children and two dogs and lives in Whitstable, Kent. Apart from writing, her passions are tango, travel, English history and the English countryside.
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THE APARTMENT S. L. Grey
....................................................................................................................... A high-concept thriller from the combined talents of Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg writing as S. L. Grey in the vein of Stephen King and Agatha Christie. From S. L. Grey comes this suspenseful psychological thriller. Mark and Steph are struggling to move on with their lives after armed robbers broke into their home and brutalized them. Shaken, they decide to get away and leave their troubles behind. A house swap in Paris with a couple they meet online, the Petits, seems to provide the perfect escape. But upon arriving for a week's luxurious break, they find themselves in a festering, run-down apartment. And when Steph attempts to contact the Petits, she gets no answer. Mark and Steph try to make the most of the trip, but they are unable to relax. After a series of increasingly unsettling events, they decide to return home. Yet when they arrive, neither of them can shake the feeling that there's now something sinister about their own house. As time passes, Mark is terrorized by a series of unsettling visions. But is it all in his imagination or is there a far more worrying explanation . . .?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 23/3/2017 Pages: 304 Trim: 130 x 197 mm
S. L. Grey is a collaboration between Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg. Based in Cape Town, Sarah is a novelist and screenwriter and die-hard zombie fanatic. She writes crime novels and thrillers under her own name, and as Lily Herne she and her daughter Savannah Lotz write the Deadlands series of zombie novels for young adults. Louis is a Johannesburg-based fiction writer and editor. He was a bookseller for several years, and has a master's degree in vampire fiction and a doctorate on the post-religious apocalyptic fiction of Douglas Coupland.
REVIEWS
ISBN: 9781447266563 Price: ÂŁ7.99
'Gripping, creepy as hell, and the dread will linger for days afterwards' Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls and Broken Monsters
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan
'The Apartment is a perfectly crafted, deeply unsettling thriller: a portrait of a marriage unraveling, of the haunting and the haunted, and the idea that grief might be a door that can let other horrific things in. This book had me turning on all the lights, checking under the bed and in the closet, and savoring every terrifying page' Jennifer McMahon, New York Times Bestselling author of The Night
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Thrillers
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A NOT QUITE PERFECT FAMILY Claire Sandy
....................................................................................................................... The new funny, foody and feel-good novel from the author of What Would Mary Berry Do? Fern loves her big, imperfectly perfect family. A hearty meal is the one thing that will routinely pull them together - even if it is just to eat too much and loudly argue. And there is plenty of drama to chew over: a midlife crisis looming, a pair of accidental teen parents, an ailing and cantankerous OAP to care for, an eight-yearold militant feminist . . . and the breakdown of Fern's marriage. Will things really be over with Adam by the time coffee is served?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Claire Sandy lives in Surrey with her husband, daughter and dogs. Before she wrote books, she made radio jingles and sold wool (not at the same time). Now she has her dream job as a novelist, having already written What Would Mary Berry Do?, A Very Big House in the Country and Snowed in for Christmas.
REVIEWS 'A great summer read' Bella on A Very Big House in the Country 'A warm and amusing easy read, full of gentle suspense and South-West sunshine' Daily Mail on A Very Big House in the Country
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 432 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509831289 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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RED EARTH Tony Park
....................................................................................................................... The next gripping thriller from bestselling author Tony Park. On the run, with everything to lose . . . On the outskirts of Durban, Suzanne Fessey fights back during a vicious carjacking. She kills one thief but the other, wounded, escapes with her baby strapped into the back seat. Called in to pursue the missing vehicle are helicopter pilot Nia Carras from the air, and nearby wildlife researcher Mike Dunn from the ground. But South Africa's police have even bigger problems: a suicide bomber has killed the visiting American ambassador, and chaos has descended on KwaZulu-Natal. As Mike and Nia track the missing baby through wild-game reserves from Zululand to Zimbabwe, they come to realize that the war on terror has well and truly arrived . ..
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback
Tony Park has worked as a newspaper reporter, a government press secretary, a PR consultant and a freelance writer. He is also a Major in the Australian Army Reserve and served in Afghanistan in 2002. Tony and his wife divide their time between Sydney and southern Africa where they own a home on the border of the Kruger National Park.
Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 448 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509815449 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Thrillers
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THE GIRLFRIEND Michelle Frances
....................................................................................................................... A relentlessly paced domestic noir examining the mother-son-daughter-in-law relationship in a chilling new light The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances is a gripping and chilling debut psychological thriller, based on the fall-out following an unforgiveable lie. It looks at the potentially charged relationship between girlfriend, boyfriend and his mother, which most women can identify with, and locates it in an extreme but believable setting. She loves your son. She wants your life. Laura has it all. A successful career, a long marriage to a rich husband, and a kind, handsome, talented twenty-three-year-old son. Then Daniel meets Cherry. Cherry is young, beautiful and smart but she hasn't had the same opportunities as Daniel. And she wants Laura's life. Cherry comes to the family wide-eyed and wants to be welcomed with open arms, but Laura suspects she's not all that she seems. When tragedy strikes, a lie is told when it appears that there is no other choice. It is a lie told in desperation, but the fall-out will change their lives forever.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback
Michelle has worked in television drama as a producer and script editor for fifteen years, both for the independent sector and the BBC. The Girlfriend is her first novel.
Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509821525 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
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THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED Catherine Dunne
....................................................................................................................... A gripping story of love and revenge, by Catherine Dunne. Inspired by Greek mythology, The Years That Followed is a compelling tale of two women, thousands of miles apart, whose lives are thrown into turmoil by the power of love - and the desire for revenge. Revenge is sweeter than regret . . . It is 1966. Calista is seventeen, beautiful and headstrong. She meets the handsome Alexandros, and in an instant her whole life changes. Alexandros is magnetic, much older - and rich. He sweeps Calista off her feet. She leaves her safe, affluent Dublin home for a different life in Cyprus alongside her new husband. But his family treat her with suspicion. Meanwhile, Pilar is desperate to leave the grinding poverty of her life in rural Extremadura, so she moves to Madrid. There, she meets a man who offers her excitement and opportunity. Petros charms Pilar, and she begins to imagine a future with him - although she knows it's impossible for them to be together. Unknown to both women, tragic events are unfolding that will inextricably link their lives in a way that neither could have imagined - events that will change them and their families forever.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781447211709 Price: ÂŁ8.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
Catherine Dunne is the author of several novels, including Missing Julia, Something Like Love, At a Time Like This and Set in Stone. She has also written about Irish immigration in An Unconsidered People. All of her work has been published to both critical and popular acclaim. The novels have struck a chord in several countries and have been translated into many languages and optioned for film. Catherine Dunne lives near Dublin.
REVIEWS 'Exciting, elegant, urgent, true - her writing is all of these things and more. One of Ireland's best novelists' Roddy Doyle 'In Calista and Pilar, Dunne has created two very different, but equally intriguing characters, and it is impossible not to root for them as they battle to forge their own way in a world where men hold sway' Irish Independent
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THE BUTLINS GIRLS Elaine Everest
....................................................................................................................... The feel-good, sweeping new novel from bestselling author of The Woolworths Girls. They escaped their pasts, for the holiday of a lifetime . . . 'Molly Missons gazed around in awe. So this was Butlin's. Whitewashed buildings, bordered by rhododendrons, gave a cheerful feeling to a world still recovering from six years of war. The Skegness holiday camp covered a vast area, much larger than Molly expected to see.' Molly Missons hasn't had the best of times recently. Having lost her parents, now some dubious 'family' have shown up, attempting to steal her home and everything her parents left her . . . After a horrendous ordeal, Molly applies for a job as a Butlin's Aunty. When she receives the news that she has got the job, she immediately leaves her small home town in search of a new life in Skegness. When she arrives, Molly soon makes friends in Connie, Bunty and Plum. But the biggest shock of them all is discovering that star of the silver screen, Johnny Johnson, is working at Butlin's. Before long, Johnny takes an instant liking to Molly. Perhaps he is just the distraction Molly needs?
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781447295532 Price: ÂŁ6.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Historical
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Elaine Everest was born and brought up in north-west Kent. She has written widely for women's magazines, with both short stories and features. When she isn't writing, Elaine runs The Write Place creative writing school in Dartford, Kent, and the blog for the Romantic Novelists' Association. Elaine lives with her husband, Michael, and their Polish Lowland Sheepdog, Henry, in Swanley, Kent. You can say hello to Elaine on Twitter @ElaineEverest or Facebook www.facebook.com/elaine.everest
REVIEWS 'Heartwarming . . . a must-read' Woman's Own on The Woolworths Girls 'A warm, tender tale of friendship and love . . . sweet as a Woolies pick'n'mix' Milly Johnson on The Woolworths Girls
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TWIST
Kylie Scott ....................................................................................................................... The second in the Dive Bar series, following Dirty. When his younger brother loses interest in online dating, hot, bearded, bartender extraordinaire Joe Collins only intends to log into his brother's account and shut it down. Until he reads about her - Alex. Alex Parks is funny, friendly, and pretty much everything he's been looking for in a woman. And in no time at all they're emailing up a storm, telling each other their deepest darkest secrets . . . apart from the one that really matters. And when it comes to love, serving it straight up works better than with a twist.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kylie is a long-time fan of erotic love stories and B-grade horror films. She demands a happy ending and if blood and carnage occur along the way then all the better. Based in Queensland, Australia, with her two children and one delightful husband, she reads, writes and never dithers around on the internet.
REVIEWS
FORMAT: Paperback
'Nobody writes inked-up, sexy-as-sin rockers like Kylie Scott! I devoured every deliciously dirty page of this hot, witty, surprisingly sweet romance. If you loved the Stage Dive guys, be prepared to fall hard for Dive Bar's Vaughan Hewson' Emma Chase, bestselling author of Tangled
Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509806317 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Romance
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AMONG THE LEMON TREES Nadia Marks
....................................................................................................................... A romantic and evocative novel from Nadia Marks Anna thought her marriage to Max would last forever. Having raised two happy children together, she looked forward to growing old with the man she loved. But when a revelation from her husband just before their wedding anniversary shakes her entire world, she's left uncertain of what the future holds. Needing time to herself, Anna takes up an offer from her widowed father to spend the summer on the small Aegean island of his birth, unaware that a chance discovery of letters in her aunt's house will unleash a host of family secrets. Kept hidden for sixty years, they reveal a tumultuous family history, beginning in Greece at the beginning of the twentieth century and ending in Naples at the close of the Second World War. Confronted by their family's long-buried truths, both father and daughter are shaken by the discovery and Anna begins to realize that if she is to ever heal the present, she must first understand the past . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nadia Marks (ne Kitromilides, which in Greek means Bitter Lemons) was born in Cyprus, but grew up in London. An ex creative director and associate editor on a number of leading British women's magazines, she is now a novelist and works as a freelance writer for several national and international publications. She has two sons and lives in North London with her partner Mike.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 18/5/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509815715 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Historical
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THE NEVER KING Jon Abbott
....................................................................................................................... This compelling standalone fantasy is a tale of revenge, oppression and heroism, inspired by the work of the late, great David Gemmell. Xavir Argentum is the legendary former commander of an elite warrior cadre. But Xavir was framed for an atrocity during an epic battle and imprisoned for life, taking him out of the running for the crown itself. Then, while powerless to influence events, the kingdom he'd sworn to protect fell into the hands of a tyrant. It will be up to a few - a mixed bag of rogues and heroes - to right some great wrongs. But first, Xavir must make his escape . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jon Abbott is a pseudonym for an established author who is trying an exciting new direction.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 18/5/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509803118 Price: ÂŁ8.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Fantasy
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TOMORROW BRINGS SORROW Mary Wood
....................................................................................................................... The dramatic new page-turner from the author of In Their Mother's Footsteps, Mary Wood. You can't choose your family . . . At sixteen, Sarah has her whole life ahead of her. She is planning her wedding and will soon be reunited with her childhood sweetheart, Billy. Megan and Jack have finally found stability in their lives . . . But the threat of Megan's troubled son Billy is never far from their minds. Billy's release from the local asylum is imminent and it should be a time for celebration. But they know all too well what Billy is capable of . . . Twins Theresa and Terrence Crompton are used to getting their own way. But with the threat of war looming, the tides are turning. Forces are at work to unearth a secret that will shake the very roots of the tight-knit community . . . Will Sarah have a chance at a future, and what will become of Jack and Megan? One thing's for sure: revenge, for some, will be sweet.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback
Born the thirteenth child of fifteen to a middle-class mother and an East End barrow boy, Mary Wood's childhood was a mixture of love and poverty. Over time, she developed a natural empathy with the less fortunate and is fascinated with social history. Mary raised four children and has numerous grandchildren, stepgrandchildren and great-grandchildren. An avid reader, she first put pen to paper in 1989, and is now a full-time novelist.
Pub Date: 18/5/2017 Pages: 420 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: The Breckton Novels ISBN: 9781447267461 Price: ÂŁ6.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Sagas
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INTENSE PLEASURE Lora Leigh
....................................................................................................................... A steamy, sexy Bound Hearts novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh. Sexy, scintillating, and secretive, Intense Pleasure is the story of hidden desires and illicit romance. When danger threatens a woman, the two men who crave her cannot live without her and will stop at nothing to protect her . . . while satisfying every burning desire she has. They must stay bound together to be stronger than what hunts her, and let passion consume them . . . #1 New York Times bestseller, Lora Leigh is the author of the Navy SEALS, the Breeds, the Elite Ops, the Callahans, the Bound Hearts, and the Nauti series.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lora Leigh lives in the rolling hills of Kentucky, and is the esteemed author of many novels of erotic fiction. Her writing is best known for its fiery tales of secrets, suspense, dangerous control and erotic obsession.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 1/6/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781447258032 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Erotica
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MAEVE HARAN UNTITLED 2017 Maeve Haran
....................................................................................................................... A novel about romance, friendship and all there is to love about Italy from the bestselling author of Having It All, The Time of Their Lives and What Became of You My Love? Four sixty-year-old women come together in this wonderful summer read about all we love about life. Angela is a successful entrepreneur who made her fortune in the fashion industry. Claire is a professional chef getting a little tired of both her life in the UK and her marriage to Martin. Monica is a recently widowed academic, forced by unwise investments into returning to live with her parents. And Sylvie is a colourful, largerthan-life interior designer with a husband who is easily led astray. Stephen Charlesworth is a multi-millionaire ex of Angela's from their days at Oxford. He owns the fabulous Villa Sirenuse on the coast in southern Italy. The house needs a new life and he knows that the talents of these four women could take it back to its former glorious self. He engineers a meeting between them, and anonymously suggests they take a break to the house with a view to putting together a proposal for its future use.
Š Graham Trott
Their stay at the Villa Sirenuse provides not only sanctuary from their problems, but offers them lifelong friendship and a way forward to do something exciting and different with their lives.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781447291954 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: General
Funny, moving, poignant and clever with all of Maeve Haran's trademark witticism and vivid characters.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Maeve Haran is an Oxford law graduate, former television producer and mother of three grown-up children. Her first novel, Having It All, which explored the dilemmas of balancing career and motherhood, caused a sensation and took her all around the world. Maeve has written a number of further contemporary novels and two historical novels, plus a work of non-fiction celebrating life's small pleasures. Her books have been translated into twenty-six languages, and two have been shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. She lives in North London with her husband (a very tall Scotsman) and a scruffy Tibetan terrier. They also spend time at their much-loved cottage in Sussex.
REVIEWS 'Comic, poignant and thought-provoking' Marian Keyes 'It will make you laugh, cry and re-think your life' Jilly Cooper
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UNTITLED PAM WEAVER 2017 Pam Weaver
....................................................................................................................... To save your children from the war, you must send them far away . . . A moving story of hardship, loss and the power of family ties from bestselling author Pam Weaver. 1939. When war is declared, twins Shirley and Tom are evacuated to the coastal town of Worthing. Almost fourteen, they are very close to their mother, but leaving London is the only way to keep them safe. Shirley is the bright one of the pair, whereas Tom is sometimes slow to understand the world around him. But Shirley helps him get by and is his best friend and ally. The twins are taken in by a local farmer, but their new home quickly proves to be far from a rural dream. Tom is forced to do back-breaking work and sleep under the stairs each night. The farmer's wife is heavily pregnant, and seems to live in fear of him. She's refusing all midwives, so it will be up to Shirley, with no experience in the matter, to help her deliver her baby. Their new teacher at the local school notices that something is not right with the children, but the farmer keeps the twins from seeing anyone, even their own mother. As the cold weather sets in and Tom falls ill, will Shirley be able to find a way out for them both?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 350 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781447275923 Price: ÂŁ6.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction Subcategory: Sagas
Pam's saga novels, There's Always Tomorrow, Better Days Will Come, Pack Up Your Troubles, For Better For Worse and Love Walked Right In, are set in Worthing during the austerity years. Pam's inspiration comes from her love of people and their stories, and her passion for the town of Worthing. With the sea on one side and the Downs on the other, Worthing has a scattering of small villages within its urban sprawl, and in some cases tight-knit communities, making it an ideal setting for the modern saga.
REVIEWS 'What a terrific read - saga fans everywhere will love it and be asking for more from this talented author' Annie Groves 'An engaging and gripping post-war saga . . . a hard-hitting story of female friendship tested against the odds' Take a Break
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KAREN SWAN UNTITLED SUMMER 2017 Karen Swan
....................................................................................................................... Another compulsive, page-turning novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Secret 1974: Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born into wealth and a noted beauty, no door is closed to her and no man can resist her. At twenty-six, she is already on her third husband when she meets her love match. But he is the one man she can never have, and all the beauty and money in the world can't change it. 2017: newly graduated Francesca Hackett is living a year of la dolce vita in Rome, teaching English before she starts a new job in London and settles down to the Rest Of Her Life. When she finds a stolen handbag in her dustbin and returns it, she is brought into the orbit of her grand neighbour who lives across the piazza - famed socialite Viscontessa Elena. Elena greets the returned bag with exultation, for it contains an unopened letter written by her husband on his deathbed, twelve years earlier.
Š Alexander James
Intrigued by each other, the two women agree to collaborate on a project, with Chesca interviewing Elena for her memoirs. As summer unfurls, Elena tells her sensational stories, leaving Chesca in her thrall. But when a priceless necklace found in an ancient aqueduct below the Trevi fountain is ascribed to Elena, Chesca begins to suspect a shocking secret at the heart of Elena's life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 29/6/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 130 x 197 mm
Karen Swan was previously a fashion editor and lives in East Sussex with her husband and three children. Visit Karen's website at www.karenswan.com, or you can find her author page on Facebook or follow her on Twitter @KarenSwan1
REVIEWS
ISBN: 9781509838028 Price: ÂŁ7.99
'The Paris Secret had me from the moment I started reading' International bestseller Diane Chamberlain on The Paris Secret
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan
'A stunning journey' Sunday Express on The Paris Secret
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Romance
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TOR
TOR 111 Windwitch, Susan Dennard 112 Empire Games, Charles Stross 113 Infinity Engine, Neal Asher 114 The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi 115 Skullsworn, Brian Staveley
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WINDWITCH Susan Dennard
....................................................................................................................... This is the sequel to the astonishing Truthwitch, which Robin Hobb enthused 'will delight you'. The adventure continues in Windwitch . . . Sometimes our enemies become our only allies The Windwitch Prince Merik is presumed dead, following a lethal explosion. He's left scarred but alive and determined to expose his sister's treachery. Yet on reaching the royal capital, he's shocked to find it crowded with refugees fleeing conflict. Merik haunts the streets, fighting for the weak. This leads to whispers of a disfigured demigod, the Fury, who brings justice to the oppressed. Hunted by the Cleaved, Iseult is struggling to stay free while she searches for her friend Safi. When the Bloodwitch Aeduan corners Iseult first, she offers him a deal: she'll return what was stolen from him, if he locates the Truthwitch. Yet unknown to Iseult, there's a bounty on her head - and Aeduan intends to claim it. After a surprise attack and shipwreck, Safi and the Empress of Marstok barely escape with their lives. They find themselves amongst pirates, where a misstep could mean death. And the bandits' next move could unleash war upon the Witchlands.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: The Witchlands Series ISBN: 9781447282303 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Tor Category: Fiction Subcategory: Fantasy
Susan Dennard is based in the US, and was a marine biologist before becoming a full-time novelist. She is also the author of the Something Strange and Deadly trilogy in the US, as well as co-author on a serialized science fiction project with New York Times bestseller Sarah J. Maas.
REVIEWS 'Truthwitch is like a cake stuffed full of your favourite fantasy treats: highway robbery, swordplay, deep friendships, treachery, magic, piracy on the high seas, and romance. If you like any or all of the above in the fantasy tales, this book will delight you' Robin Hobb 'Make room on your all-time favourites shelf: Truthwitch is an instant new classic. It reminded me of why I started reading fantasy in the first place: its fierce and vibrant world, richly-drawn characters, and dazzling intrigue harkens to the best of Megan Whalen Turner, Robin Hobb, and Jacqueline Carey. And while it pays homage to the epic fantasies that have come before it, it also lays the foundation for a bright new chapter in the genre . . . Do not miss out!' Sarah J. Maas
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EMPIRE GAMES
Empire Games: Book One Charles Stross
....................................................................................................................... It's a time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secrets . . . when timelines collide, one reluctant spy will change the stakes. Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate them. The United States is waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale. And Rita will be their secret weapon. Miriam Beckstein has her own mission, as a politician in an industrial revolution US. She must accelerate her world's technology before their paranoid American twin finds them. It would blow them to hell. After all, they've done it before. Each timeline also battles internal conspiracies, as a cold war threatens to turn white hot. But which world is the aggressor - and will Rita have to choose a side? This new series is set in the same world as Charles Stross' 'Merchant Princes' series.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 26/1/2017 Pages: 356 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: Empire Games ISBN: 9781509814862 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Tor
Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but now writes full-time. To date, Stross has won two Hugo awards and been nominated twelve times. He has also won the Locus Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best Novella and has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke and Nebula Awards. In addition, his fiction has been translated into around a dozen languages. Stross lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife Feorag, a couple of cats, several thousand books, and an ever-changing herd of obsolescent computers.
REVIEWS 'Shocks, surprises, reversals, and elaborations keep tumbling from Stross's nimble fingers . . . . These books are immense fun' Locus on the Merchant Princes series 'Fantasies with this much invention, wit and gusto don't come along every day' SFX on the Merchant Princes series
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Science Fiction
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INFINITY ENGINE
Transformation: Book Three Neal Asher
....................................................................................................................... The action packed conclusion to Neal Asher's Transformation series, a noholds-barred space opera set in Asher's popular Polity universe. On the cusp of a black hole, the future of the Polity hangs in the balance. Several forces are now pursuing the rogue AI Penny Royal, and the Brockle is the most dangerous of all. This criminal swarm-robot AI has escaped its confinement and is upgrading itself, becoming ever more powerful in anticipation of a deadly showdown. Events escalate aboard Factory Station Room 101, the war factory that birthed Penny Royal. Here, humans, alien prador, and an assassin drone struggle to survive amidst insane AIs and technology gone wild. The situation is further complicated by the unexpected arrival of the Weaver. The Weaver is the last of the Atheter, resurrected from a race that suicided two million years ago. But why would Penny Royal want an Atheter here? And what could it contribute to the dark AI's plans? And beyond the war factory, a black hole conceals a tantalising secret - one that could destroy the entire Polity. Infinity Engine is the third and final novel in the Transformation series, by bestselling science fiction author Neal Asher, following Dark Intelligence and War Factory.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/3/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm Series: Transformation ISBN: 9780230750753 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Tor Category: Fiction Subcategory: Science Fiction
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and divides his time between here and Crete. His previous full-length novels are Gridlinked, The Skinner, The Line of Polity, Cowl, Brass Man, The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Line War, Shadow of the Scorpion, Orbus and The Technician. His Owner series novels include The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War. Infinity Engine is the conclusion of the Transformation Trilogy, a new series set in the Polity universe.
REVIEWS 'Asher ventures into some terrifying minds and incredible space battles in this tangled but heart-pounding sequel, which achieves a rare success in depicting truly non-human forms of intelligence' Publishers Weekly on War Factory 'What Asher delivers here is state-of-the-art SF on so many levels . . . a compelling, smart read' Locus on Dark Intelligence
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THE COLLAPSING EMPIRE John Scalzi
....................................................................................................................... A thrilling new space opera from the author of the hugely popular Old Man's War series. Our universe is ruled by physics and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, other stars. Humanity moves away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our homeworld. It creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos ensures no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a safeguard against interstellar war - and a way of controlling the empire's rulers. This future of faster-than-light travel is possible due to the huge discovery of The Flow - the extra-dimensional field which can transport us to other worlds. And while it is eternal, like a river, it does change its course. It now seems The Flow is moving, which could isolate every human world in space forever. So three individuals will make a last attempt to find a solution. A scientist, a starship captain and the Empress of the Interdependency will see what, if anything, can be salvaged. For an interstellar empire is on the brink of collapse.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 23/3/2017 Pages: 336 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509835072 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Tor
John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. His debut, Old Man's War, won him science fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, his most recent novel Lock In, and also Redshirts, which won 2013's Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog The Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com) has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.
REVIEWS 'John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today' Joe Hill 'Scalzi is one of the slickest writers that SF has ever produced' Wall Street Journal
Category: Fiction Subcategory: Science Fiction
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SKULLSWORN Brian Staveley
....................................................................................................................... A gripping standalone novel set in the world of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne trilogy. For one apprentice assassin, the clock is ticking . . . Pyrre Lakatur doesn't like the description skullsworn. It doesn't capture the beauty of her devotion to Ananshael, God of Death. She is not an assassin, but a priestess. Or she will be, if she can pass her final trial. The problem isn't killing: Pyrre has spent her life training to kill where necessary. The problem is love. To pass the trial, a skullsworn must offer their partner to Ananshael - but Pyrre has never been in love, and time is short. Pyrre throws herself into the other aspects of her trial - until she's arrested by the brilliant, enigmatic Commander Ruc Lan Lac. He might be Pyrre's last chance at love, so she must stay close - even as he investigates the murders she's committing. It's a dangerous dance, trying to fall for a man while worshipping a god he loathes. If she succeeds, she must betray her only love. And if she fails, a violent death awaits them both . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR After more than a decade teaching history, religion and philosophy, Brian decided to write epic fantasy. He now lives on a steep dirt road in the hills of southern Vermont, where he divides his time between fathering, writing, husbanding, splitting wood, skiing and adventuring - not necessarily in that order.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 608 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509822959 Price: ÂŁ16.99
REVIEWS 'A vividly imagined story of conspiracy and empire' Col Buchanan on The Emperor's Blades 'Following in the footsteps of George R. R. Martin, Joe Abercrombie and the like . . . Brutal, intriguing and continuing to head toward exciting events and places unknown' Kirkus Reviews on The Providence of Fire
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Tor Category: Fiction Subcategory: Fantasy
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BLUEBIRD
BLUEBIRD 119 The Bikini Body 28-Day Healthy Eating & Lifestyle Guide, Kayla Itsines 120 Unf*ck Your Habitat, Rachel Hoffman 121 Bodywise, Dr Rachel Abrams 122 Raw Cake, The Hardihood 123 I Quit Sugar Slow Cooker Cookbook, SarahWilson 124 The Girl Who Ran Away, Angela Hart 125 Bake, Lorraine Pascale 126 Solve For Happy, Mo Gawdat 127 Inside Out Parenting, Dr Holan Liang 128 The Healthy Life book 2, Jessica Sepel 129 Odd Girl Out, Laura James 130 One Part Plant, Jessica Murnane 131 how to: train your memory, Phil Chambers 132 how to: use crowdfunding, Julian Costley 133 how to: use innovation and creativity in the workplace, Patrick Collister 134 Real Love, Sharon Salzberg 135 My Lovely Wife... , Mark Lukach 136 Cooking on a Bootstrap, Jack Monroe 137 The Five Invitations, Frank Ostaseski
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THE BIKINI BODY 28-DAY HEALTHY EATING & LIFESTYLE GUIDE 200 Recipes, Weekly Menus, 4-Week Workout Plan Kayla Itsines
....................................................................................................................... The new healthy eating and lifestyle book from the inspirational and widely followed Australian personal trainer, Kayla Itsines. The body transformation phenomenon and #1 Instagram sensation's first healthy eating and lifestyle book! Millions of women follow Kayla Itsines and her Bikini Body Guide 28-minute workouts: energetic, kinetic, high-intensity interval training sessions that help women achieve healthy, strong bodies. Fans not only follow Kayla on Instagram, they pack stadiums for workout sessions with her, they've made her Sweat with Kayla app hit the top of the Apple App Store's health and fitness charts, and they post amazing before and after progress shots. Kayla's audience is avid and growing, with over 10 million followers worldwide. The Bikini Body 28-Day Healthy Eating & Lifestyle Guide features: - 200 recipes such as fresh fruit breakfast platters, smoothie bowls, and salads - A 4-week workout plan which includes Kayla's signature 28-minute workouts - Full-colour food shots and photos featuring Kayla throughout Kayla's international 2016 Sweat Tour sold out in only 4 hours!
FORMAT: Paperback
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pub Date: 29/12/2016 Pages: 352 Trim: 210 x 260 mm
Kayla Itsines is a personal trainer with over 10 million followers for herself and her Bikini Body Guide. The BBG has grown into a phenomenon, with women all over the world - many calling themselves 'Kayla's Army' - following her workout and diet plan. Kayla lives in Adelaide, Australia.
ISBN: 9781509842094 Price: ÂŁ18.99
REVIEWS
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird
'Women, particularly those younger than 30, can't get enough of her. (Fans include the actress Allison Williams and the model Candice Swanepoel)' New York Times
Category: Health & Fitness Subcategory: General
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UNF*CK YOUR HABITAT You're Better Than Your Mess Rachel Hoffman
....................................................................................................................... Marie Kondo meets Thug Kitchen in this practical, no-holds-barred approach to decluttering that'll motivate you to get off your butt and tidy up. Finally, here's a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who'd describe our current living situation as a 'f*cking mess' that we 'really need to get around to fixing one day.' What started out as a Tumblr blog to reach a younger demographic, using daily, weekly, and mini challenges to motivate the lazy to get up and start cleaning, Rachel Hoffman's Unf*ck Your Habitat is for anyone who has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems. The ones that so often ignore single people; people without kids; students; people with pets or roommates; those with full-time jobs; and people with mental illnesses, chronic illnesses, and physical limitations. Most organizational books are aimed at stay-at-home mums, DIY-ers, and people who seem to have unimaginable amounts of free time. They assume we all iron our sheets, have linen napkins that match our table runners, and can keep plants alive for longer than a week. Basically, they ignore most of us living here in the real world.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 29/12/2016 Pages: 256 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509830206 Price: ÂŁ8.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird
Interspersed with lists, challenges and other how-tos, this no-nonsense advice relies on UfYH's 20/10 system (20 minutes of cleaning followed by a 10-minute break; no marathon cleaning allowed) in order to help you develop lifelong habits. It's designed to encourage the reader to embrace a new lifestyle in manageable sections, so they can actually start applying the tactics as they progress. For everyone stuck between The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Adulting, this philosophy is decidedly more realistic than aspirational, but the goal is the same: not everyone will have a showcase of a home, but whatever your habitat, you deserve for it to bring you happiness, not stress.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rachel Hoffman launched the Unf*ck Your Habitat blog in 2011 to motivate the lazy to get up and start cleaning. Her columns have appeared in Persephone magazine, xoJane, and Glamour. Rachel lives in Rhode Island.
Category: Self-help Subcategory: General
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BODYWISE
Discovering Your Body's Intelligence for Lifelong Health and Healing Dr Rachel Carlton Abrams
....................................................................................................................... BodyWise teaches women to listen to the natural intelligence of their bodies so they can heal their symptoms and attain lasting health and well-being. Stanford-trained physician and leading integrative medical doctor Rachel Carlton Abrams MD's BodyWise shows women the simple way to cure fatigue, insomnia, low libido, chronic pain, anxiety or depression, allergy and autoimmune conditions and Chronic Body Depletion, as well as other illnesses, to create a better life for themselves and their bodies. Dr Abrams balances traditional medicine and wellness practices with your own intuition, complete with a personal 28-Day Plan to help you heal your life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr Rachel graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, received her Medical Degree at the University of California, San Francisco and a Masters Degree in Holistic Health and Medical Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She practised as a conventional family practice physician for seven years, prior to establishing an integrative medicine practice that allows her to focus on preventive and comprehensive care in more depth.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509816507 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Family & Relationships Subcategory: General
At Santa Cruz Integrative Medicine, Dr Rachel spends more time with her patients exploring the important connections between health and vitality, relationships, lifestyle choices, work and environment. She discusses potential avenues for treatment from both conventional and holistic medicine for all medical concerns, from lifestyle changes to herbal and supplement therapy to prescription medication. Her goal is always to assist her patients in healing from within and to limit the number of supplements or medications that they need to take, while maintaining their optimal health.
REVIEWS 'Direct, deeply knowledgeable and inspiring. I would follow Rachel Abrams anywhere. Thankfully with Rachel, it will be to my sustained health and well-being. I can't wait for this book' Alanis Morissette 'A true healer . . . Rachel Carlton Abrams marries grounded Western medical knowledge with cutting-edge integrative approaches to health, but more important than all of her genius knowledge and old-soul wisdom is the depth and purity of her wide-open heart. When the heart not only informs but leads the doctor-patient relationship, real miracles can happen, and Rachel embodies this quality more than any physician I have ever met' Lisa Rankin, New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine and founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute
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RAW CAKE The Hardihood
....................................................................................................................... Beautifully illustrated raw dessert cookbook with one hundred recipes. The Hardihood was set up by long-time friends Leah Garwood-Gowers and Daisy Kristiansen to prove that eating healthy desserts does not mean compromising on taste or beauty. Their range of handcrafted raw confectionery feature on their popular Instagram feed and comprise all natural ingredients and are completely free from refined sugar, gluten, wheat, dairy and soya. Raw Cake is a highly stylized guide to making beautiful, raw desserts that appeal to everyone. Fully illustrated and with one hundred recipes - from pistachio donuts to cookie dough ice cream, toffee cacao cheesecake to salted caramel crunch bars and packed with food styling techniques, Raw Cake will help you to create sensational-looking healthy cakes and embrace what makes your body happy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 192 ISBN: 9781509828654 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird
Friends for almost a decade, Daisy Kristiansen and Leah Garwood-Gowers met at a dinner party where they soon found they were the only ones laughing at each other's jokes. They founded The Hardihood in 2014 after boarding the sugar-free bandwagon towards a more vibrant lifestyle. They bought a basic blender, some nuts, dates and coconut oil and began experimenting with making raw desserts in their homes in Dalston. These days, inspired by modern alchemy, they create decadent, abundant, raw confectionery from their kitchen in Shoreditch.
REVIEWS 'The Hardihood girls make going raw cool, their cakes are breathtakingly beautiful, irresistibly scrumptious and packed full of goodness. This book is a must for all' Madeleine Shaw 'The Hardihood cakes are absolutely beautiful and incredibly delicious' Deliciously Ella
Category: Cooking Subcategory: Health & Healing
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I QUIT SUGAR SLOW COOKER COOKBOOK
Easy, nutritious slow cooker recipes for busy families and solos Sarah Wilson
....................................................................................................................... From the bestselling author of I Quit Sugar, the ultimate slow cooking guide for people on the go who want sugar out of their life Sarah Wilson taught the world how to quit sugar in 8 weeks and then went on to teach everyone how to cook delicious essentials, simply. Sarah incorporates her mindful, sustainable and economical practices to bring back the 'slow 'n' low' approach of slow cooking, with 60 recipes to create highly nutritious meals with no or very low sugar. They are designed to feed the family, individuals and people on the go. In I Quit Sugar: Slow Cooker Cookbook, Sarah and her team share how to: - Use a slow cooker, use leftovers and buy sustainable cuts of meat - Create simple staples and clever sides - Start the day with hearty breakfasts and weekday dump 'n' runs - Slow cook soups and stews, curries and comfort classics or, for those more adventurous, a little offal - Sweeten your day with slow cooked sugar-free cakes and puddings Written with all the care and knowledge you have come to expect from Australia's number one quit sugar team, this is the book that makes sugar-free cooking easier, less expensive and more creative.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 152 ISBN: 9781509843725 Price: ÂŁ9.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sarah Wilson is a bestselling author and entrepreneur. Her career as a journalist spanned twenty years, across television, radio, magazines, newspapers and online. She's the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and was the host of the first series of MasterChef Australia, the highest-rating show in Australian history. Sarah is the author of the international bestsellers I Quit Sugar, I Quit Sugar For Life and Simplicious and is director and founder of IQuitSugar.com, an online wellness program and series of bestselling ebooks. Sarah lives in Australia but travels to the UK three times a year to promote her books.
Category: Health & Fitness Subcategory: General
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THE GIRL WHO RAN AWAY
The Foster Mum Who Found Maria Angela Hart
....................................................................................................................... The third book in the series by foster mum Angela Hart who, along with her husband Jonathan, has fostered over fifty children in the past twenty-seven years The Girl Who Ran Away is the third book from much-loved, bestselling author Angela Hart. Maria meets foster parents Angela and Jonathan first when she is four and again when she is eight. Can their loving care and attention restore selfconfidence in this unloved girl who thinks that she is fundamentally bad?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Angela Hart, who writes under a pseudonym, is a specialist foster carer for children with complex needs. Along with her husband Jonathan she has fostered more than fifty children in the past twenty-seven years. Her first book, Terrified, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller.
REVIEWS 'A true tear-jerking tale of love and compassion' Sunday Mirror
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509839049 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: General
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BAKE
Lorraine Pascale ....................................................................................................................... The modern and creative baking bible from BBC celebrity chef, Lorraine Pascale. Are you ready for your best bake? From Matcha and Lime Marble Cake to Coffee Éclairs with Espresso and Hazelnut Cream, Bake by Lorraine Pascale is a delicious collection of simple and sophisticated recipes that will take your baking to the next level. Delight friends and family with sweet and savoury bakes that are perfect for an array of tastes and dietary needs. Lorraine's friendly and thorough guidance makes it easy to master impressive celebration cakes, such as Naked Pecan and Popcorn Layer Cake, Chocolate Layer Cake with Toasted Meringue and Fraisier Cake with Port, Strawberries and Almonds. Whisk, knead, dust and drizzle your way to sweet success with more than a hundred irresistible recipes.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lorraine Pascale is a leading patisserie chef, best known for her string of BBC TV series and accompanying international bestselling books, including Baking Made Easy and Lorraine Pascale's Fast, Fresh and Easy Food. She has sold more than 1 million books in the UK alone.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 9/3/2017 Pages: 336 Trim: 189 x 246 mm
After years in the modelling business, Lorraine completed Leith's Diploma of Food and Wine, followed by a two-year foundation degree in International Culinary Arts in Pastry. She has worked in some of the most renowned kitchens in the world, including Pétrus, The Mandarin Oriental, Gilgamesh and The Wolseley, later starting her own business making celebration cakes.
ISBN: 9781509820733 Price: £20.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Health & Fitness Subcategory: Diet & Nutrition
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SOLVE FOR HAPPY
Engineer Your Path to Joy Mo Gawdat
....................................................................................................................... In the tradition of The Power of Now and The Art of Happiness, and written by Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google [X], this is the first-ever attempt to present the equation for being happy - not just intermittently but as a default state of being. Solve for Happy is a startlingly original book about creating and maintaining happiness, written by a top Google executive with an engineer's training and fondness for thoroughly analyzing a problem. In 2004, Mo Gawdat, a remarkable thinker whose gifts had landed him top positions in half a dozen companies and who - in his spare time - had created significant wealth, realized that he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would, examining all the provable facts and scrupulously following logic. When he was finished, he had discovered the equation for enduring happiness. Ten years later, that research saved him from despair when his college-aged son, Ali - also intellectually gifted - died during routine surgery. In dealing with the loss, Mo found his mission: he would pull off the type of 'moonshot' that he and his Google [X] colleagues were always aiming for: he would help ten million people become happier by pouring his happiness principles into a book and spreading its message around the world.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 23/3/2017 Pages: 256 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509809936 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Self-help Subcategory: Personal Growth
One of Solve for Happy's key premises is that happiness is a default state. If we shape expectations to acknowledge the full range of possible events, unhappiness is on its way to being defeated. To steer clear of unhappiness traps, we must dispel the six illusions that cloud our thinking (e.g., the illusion of time, of control, and of fear); overcome the brain's seven deadly defects (e.g., the tendency to exaggerate, label, and filter), and embrace five ultimate truths (e.g., change is real, now is real, unconditional love is real). By means of several highly original thought experiments, Mo helps readers find enduring contentment by questioning some of the most fundamental aspects of their existence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mo Gawdat is a serial entrepreneur and Chief Business Officer at Google [X] whose personal story has taught him more about life and what really matters than all the board meetings and business deals he's attended. Solve for Happy is his first book.
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INSIDE OUT PARENTING
How to build strong children from a core of self-esteem Dr Holan Liang
....................................................................................................................... Consultant child psychiatrist Dr Holan Liang combines medical expertise and experience in an accessible and witty guide to empower parents, helping them develop their child's self-esteem. What is the value of our achievements without self-esteem? Dr Liang presents her practical approach to bringing up children from the inside out, setting aside exterior results in favour of building a core of self-esteem, resilience and social ability. Inside Out Parenting is witty blend of hard science from a research and professional point of view, memoir and hands-on anecdotal evidence, offering an assured route both to happiness and success. A balance of top tips and failed attempts, Liang offers an empowering and holistic approach to parenting that champions building a strong base of 'inside things' so that the 'outside things' such as achievement in musical exams and academia have a strong foundation and core of security and those successes will have a deeper meaning to your child.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr Holan Liang came to the UK from Taiwan aged three. A mother of two, she blogs about her experiences of parenting and is a consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and Honorary Consultant at Great Ormond Street.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 288 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509830176 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Family & Relationships Subcategory: General
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THE HEALTHY LIFE BOOK 2 Jessica Sepel
....................................................................................................................... The second book from nutritionist and health blogger Jessica Sepel with brand new recipes and tips for living a full, healthy life. Jessica Sepel believes great health starts with positive lifestyle changes such as more sleep, less stress and a better connection with those we love. But mostly it's about the food. She shows how we can eat with a sense of deep peace and enjoyment by choosing the foods that will nourish our bodies. She recommends whole foods, simply prepared. She explains why what we eat has such a strong effect on our mood, and shows us how to choose and prepare food that will create happiness rather than stress.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jessica Sepel is a qualified nutritionist with a Bachelor of Science degree, a health blogger and a wellness coach.
REVIEWS 'A complete guide on finding health and healing, with a focus on healthy eating, hair, skin and beauty tips, weight loss, cleansing - and changing your mindset when it comes to food. All we can say is get this book, it's a life changer!' Stella, allmygoodness.com 'A really loving book - feels like it's giving you a hug!' Madeleine Shaw
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 256 ISBN: 9781509828371 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Cooking Subcategory: Health & Healing
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ODD GIRL OUT
Being autistic in a neurotypical world Laura James
....................................................................................................................... A powerful memoir about dealing with a diagnosis of autism in womanhood. What do you do when you wake up in your mid-forties and realize you've been living a lie your whole life? Do you tell? Or do you keep it to yourself? Laura James found out that she was autistic as an adult, after she had forged a career for herself, married twice and raised four children. This book tracks the year of Laura's life after she receives a definitive diagnosis from her doctor, as she learns that 'different' doesn't need to mean 'less' and how there is a place for all of us, and it's never too late to find it. Laura draws on her professional and personal experiences and reflects on her life in the light of her diagnosis, which for her explains some of her differences; why, as a child, she felt happier spinning in circles than standing still and why she has always found it difficult to work in places with a lot of ambient noise.
Š Tim James
Although this is a personal story, the book has a wider focus too, exploring reasons for the lower rate of diagnosed autism in women and a wide range of topics including eating disorders and autism, marriage and motherhood. This memoir gives a timely account from a woman negotiating the autistic spectrum, from a poignant and personal perspective.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 153 x 234 mm
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Laura James is an author, PR professional and journalist. She lives with her husband, two of her four children and their dogs in North Norfolk. Since her diagnosis she has worked closely with the National Autistic Society.
ISBN: 9781509843060 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: Personal Memoirs
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ONE PART PLANT
100 Meals for a Whole New You Jessica Murnane
....................................................................................................................... A stunning collection of 100 plant-powered recipes from Jessica Murnane for a healthier and happier lifestyle. Wellness advocate and podcaster Jessica Murnane is the friend you never knew you had. And she's here to help you make a change you never thought was possible. In One Part Plant, Jessica has a friendly request: that you eat just one plant-based meal each day. There's no crazy diet plan with an anxiety-inducing list of forbidden foods. Or pages filled with unattainable goals based on an eating philosophy that leaves you feeling hungry and deprived. Instead, Jessica offers you the tools to easily and deliciously make plants the star of your plate - no matter how much junk food occupies it now. Jessica knows what it's like to have less than healthy eating habits. Just a few short years ago, her diet consisted of three major food groups: Sour Patch Kids, Diet Coke, and whatever Lean Cuisine had the most cheese. But when her endometriosis - a chronic and painful condition - left her depressed and desperate for help, she took the advice of a friend and radically overhauled her diet. Within months, her life dramatically changed - her pain started to fade and she she felt like herself again.
FORMAT: Hardcover
With a unique style and playful tone, Jessica shares what she's learned on her way to healing her body through food. She keeps it simple and, most importantly, delicious - with 100 allergy-friendly recipes like Creamy Mushroom Lasagna, Easy Vegetable Curry Bowls, Triple Berry Skillet Cobbler, and Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 272 Trim: 189 x 246 mm
Featuring her top ten pantry basics, practical advice, and colorful and bold photography, One Part Plant is an inspiring and educational guide to eating real and feeling your best.
ISBN: 9781509812646 Price: ÂŁ16.99
REVIEWS
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird
'This book is joyful, playful, delicious, and guess what? It will also change your life. I invite you to follow Jessica into the vast green wilderness' Lena Dunham
Category: Cooking Subcategory: Health & Healing
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HOW TO: TRAIN YOUR MEMORY Phil Chambers
....................................................................................................................... Remember anything you need to - perfectly Do you struggle to remember people's names at social events or business networking meetings? How often do you forget where you left your keys or your phone? Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why? A leading memory expert, Phil Chambers shows you how to make these lapses a thing of the past. With how to: train your memory, find out how to have facts and figures at your fingertips. Give speeches from memory, remember all your passwords, rapidly learn foreign language vocabulary and make studying easier, more rewarding and fun. Written in simple step-by-step fashion, with lots of exercises and examples, you will be guided from absent-mindedness to memory mastery.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback
Phil Chambers is a World Mind Mapping Champion, Chief Arbiter of the World Memory Sports Council, a member of the Professional Speaking Association and MENSA. He has authored or co-authored seven books: The Student Survival Guide, A Mind to do Business, 101 Top Tips for Better Mind Maps, The Memory Arbiters' Handbook, The Memory Yearbook, Brilliant Speed Reading and How to Remember Equations and Formulae. Phil's past clients include Surrey, Leicester and Southwark Councils, Benenden School, Warwick and South Bank Universities, City University Business School, Kent Police, the NHS, AAH Pharmaceuticals, Cancer Research UK, Norwich Union Healthcare, Smiths Detection, ING Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and the European Central Bank.
Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 144 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: how to: academy ISBN: 9781509814558 Price: ÂŁ6.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Business & Economics Subcategory: General
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HOW TO: USE CROWDFUNDING Julian Costley
....................................................................................................................... Give your project or business the flying start it needs with this essential guide to crowdfunding Crowdfunding is the springboard your project needs. From theatre to virtual reality headsets, small businesses to international corporations, crowdfunding has helped entrepreneurs and project leaders across the world to raise money, build their customer bases and prove that there is a market for their product. how to: use crowdfunding gives you the guidance and advice you need, taking you step by step all the way from planning your crowdfunding campaign to getting the money in the bank. Entrepreneur Julian Costley shares key tricks to make your campaign a roaring success, and includes the essential facts on company and regulatory law, tax and risk.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Julian Costley's career has included senior executive roles at Reuters, France Telecom, BSB (later BSkyB) and the UK's internet stockbroking firm E*Trade. He is an experienced angel investor for businesses in the UK, Canada, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and China. Alongside investing, he has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs turn their dreams into revenue and is also an occasional lecturer, mentor and course judge at the London Business School and other MBA schools around Europe.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 144 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: how to: academy ISBN: 9781509814510 Price: ÂŁ6.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Business & Economics Subcategory: General
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HOW TO: USE INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY IN THE WORKPLACE Patrick Collister
....................................................................................................................... Use creative thinking to maintain a happier and more productive workplace Are you hungry to increase productivity in your workplace? Do you want to solve problems and enhance working relationships? A creative director with more than 25 years' experience, Patrick Collister introduces new ways to get the creative juices flowing. Whatever your career, how to: use innovation and creativity in the workplace is packed with simple and practical techniques that are easy to introduce into the working day. Find out how to encourage the exchange of ideas with colleagues and make meaningful and positive changes. Use technology and digital platforms, break established work patterns and engineer working environments to harness creative potential and increase innovation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Patrick Collister was the executive creative director of Ogilvy & Mather UK before starting up training company Creative Matters in 2004. In 2013 he landed the best job in advertising when he became creative director of The ZOO, Google's clientfacing creative think-tank.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 144 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: how to: academy ISBN: 9781509814459 Price: ÂŁ6.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Business & Economics Subcategory: General
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REAL LOVE
Mindfulness exercises & meditation techniques to cultivate authentic love Sharon Salzberg
....................................................................................................................... Use mindfulness and meditation to deepen your relationships. What is love? Sharon Salzberg believes that love is a powerful healing force for us all, and that modern associations with romance and adoration are limiting. By redefining love, she helps us to recognize our desire for happiness and enhance our connections with each other. Real Love is a creative toolkit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that can help you to truly engage with your present experience and create deeper love relationships - with yourself, your partner, friends and family, and with life itself. The book encourages us to strip away layers of negative habits and obstacles and to improve deeper connections, helping us to experience authentic love based on direct experience, rather than preconceptions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509803361 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird
Sharon Salzberg is a central figure in the field of meditation, a world-renowned teacher and author. She has played a crucial role in bringing meditation and mindfulness practices to the West and into mainstream culture since 1974, when she first began teaching. She is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA and the author of nine books including NY Times bestseller, Real Happiness; her seminal work, Lovingkindness and most recently, Real Happiness At Work. Renowned for her down-to-earth teaching style, Sharon offers a secular, modern approach to Buddhist teachings, making them instantly accessible. She is a regular columnist for On Being, a contributor to Huffington Post, and the host of her own podcast: The Metta Hour. Sharon lives in the US but often travels to the UK to teach. For more information, visit SharonSalzberg.com
REVIEWS 'Sharon Salzberg is the superstar of loving kindness meditation. No one has done more to spread this powerful method for kindling universal love in our hearts.' Daniel Goleman
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit Subcategory: General
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MY LOVELY WIFE... In the Psych Ward Mark Lukach
....................................................................................................................... What matters more than love and life? A powerful memoir of one man's overwhelming love for his wife through mental illness and psychosis. When Mark and Giulia fell in love during their teens and married in their early twenties they had no idea that their lives would be struck by three psychotic episodes. Within a few short years Giulia is in the psych ward and Mark is fighting just to keep her alive. Mark quickly learns that there is no handbook for the spouse of someone who is psychotic and so begins to do all he can, visits every day, reads widely and keeps hoping that one day he might be able to find the words to make his wife's psychosis go away as quickly as it had arrived. In the depths of Giulia's psychosis Mark is left questioning: will life always be like this? Will he always have to force his wife to take pills she does not want to take? To take her to hospital when her psychosis deprives her of sleep and reason? But slowly as Giulia recovers and returns to more of her normal self, the couple are able to continue their love story. They recoup and prepare a 'mad map' plan allowing Giulia a say in her own treatment, and what is best for their young family should the psychosis return.
FORMAT: Hardcover
A heart-wrenching tale of one man's vow to save the person he loves and care for her no matter what.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 153 x 234 mm
Mark Lukach is a writer, surfer and carer. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, son and dog.
ISBN: 9781509805952 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: General
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COOKING ON A BOOTSTRAP
100 Delicious Recipes for a Budget Bonne Vivant Jack Monroe
....................................................................................................................... The hundred-recipe sequel to Monroe's first cookbook, the runaway bestseller A Girl Called Jack. Originally launched on Kickstarter, Cooking on a Bootstrap met its original funding target in just one day and Jack will produce a limited print run for these backers. The cookbook will follow the same style as Jack's first, with chapters including Breads and Breakfasts, Super Soups, Beans, Pulses and Lentils as well as new additions such as 'Eat Your Greens' and 'Don't Throw That Away' for nifty tips on using leftovers. This edition will contain original, full-colour photographs. Cooking on a Bootstrap will deliver affordable, authentic and delicious recipes to those who want to cook but don't have the money for fancy gadgets or premium ingredients.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Š Fox Fisher
Jack was awarded the 2013 Fortnum and Mason Judges' Choice Award for the impact that her blog, A Girl Called Jack, has had. She is now a well-known campaigner against hunger and poverty in the UK, weekly recipe columnist for the Guardian, and winner of Women of the Year 2014.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 240 ISBN: 9781509831111 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Cooking Subcategory: General
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THE FIVE INVITATIONS
Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Life Frank Ostaseski
....................................................................................................................... The co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life. Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most in life. So begins Frank Ostaseski's stirring book, The Five Invitations, an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present awareness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves. In his thirty-plus years as a companion to the dying, Frank Ostaseski has sat on the precipice of death with more than a thousand people. A renowned teacher of compassionate care-giving, Ostaseski has distilled the lessons gleaned over the course of his career into a powerful and inspiring exploration of the essential wisdom dying has to impart to all of us about how to forge rich and meaningful lives. The 'Five Invitations' Welcome Everything, Push Away Nothing; Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience; Don't Wait; Find a Place of Rest in the Middle of Things; and Cultivate a Don't Know Mind - show how death can be the guide we need to wake up fully to our lives. This stunning, unforgettable book offers a radical path to transformation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 29/6/2017 Pages: 384 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781447292876 Price: ÂŁ14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Bluebird Category: Body, Mind & Spirit Subcategory: General
Frank Ostaseski, founder of the Zen Hospice Project and the Metta Institute, is a Buddhist teacher, international lecturer and a leading voice in contemplative end-oflife care. He's been honoured by the Dalai Lama and AARP named him one of the 50 Most Innovative People. He consults for healthcare and spiritual institutions such as the Mayo Clinic and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and his work has been featured on programmes such as the PBS series With Eyes Open and The Oprah Winfrey Show, among others.
REVIEWS 'Frank is a very dear friend. I have worked in the field of death and dying close to Frank and this book represents the distillation of many years of his efforts. He shows us that if you are to die consciously, there's no time like the present to prepare. This book is a loving, compassionate reminder that the best preparation for death is a life fully lived' Ram Dass, international spiritual teacher and author of the bestseller Be Here Now and Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying 'Frank Ostaseski is one of the great contemporary teachers of ancient Buddhist wisdom and practice. Over the years his teachings have informed both my meditative and clinical practices. Now, through The Five Invitations, a broader audience can benefit from Frank's insights, soulful perspectives and practical guidance. What a gift!' Ira Byock MD, international leader in palliative care and author of The Four Things That Matter Most and The Best Care Possible
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NON-FICTION
NON-FICTION 141 Food, Health, Happiness, OprahWinfrey 142 I Own You, Dawn McConnell 143 Beasts in my Belfry, Gerald Durrell 144 Wonderland, Steven Johnson 145 Pill City, Kevin Deutsch 146 The Last of the Tsars, Robert Service 147 Truevine , Beth Macy 148 Sleeping Through the Revolution, Jonathan Taplin 149 Radical Candour, Kim Scott Malone 150 Reading With Patrick, Michelle Kuo 151 O’s Little Book of Calm and Comfort, The Editors of O, the Oprah magazine 152 The Knowledge Illusion, Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach 153 A History of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr 154 Shepherd of Another Flock, DavidWilbourne 155 How Your Emotions Are Made, Lisa Feldman Barrett 156 The Burning Time, Virginia Rounding 157 Awake, Tasha Eurich 158 The Anxiety Journal, Marcia Mihotich and Corinne Sweet 159 The Fact of a Body, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich 160 How to Be Careful, Steve Casner 161 Warriors in Scarlet, Ian Knight 162 The Trial of Adolf Hitler, David King 163 Our Iceberg is Melting, John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber 164 Jan Ullrich, Daniel Friebe 165 The King’s Assassin, BenjaminWoolley 166 The Women Who Flew for Hitler, Clare Mulley
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FOOD, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
'On Point' Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life Oprah Winfrey
....................................................................................................................... Oprah Winfrey's recipes for great meals and a better life. Oprah Winfrey has spent her life trying to make peace with food, which has been such a source of pleasure and meaning for her. Now Oprah has found ways to have her favourite meals while also controlling her weight, and in Food, Health and Happiness she shares not only her struggles with food but also the recipes that have allowed food to be a source of joy for her again. With help from the chefs who have cooked for her over the years such as Rosie Daley, Art Smith, Mei Lin, Taryn Huebner and Sonny Sweetman, this is an extraordinarily personal cookbook while also being an invitation to Oprah's many fans to eat both healthfully and happily. From simple pleasures such as 'Unfried Chicken' or 'Turkey Chili' to such celebrations of freshness as 'Farro With Peas, Asparagus, Pesto and Cured Olives' and 'Chilean Sea Bass with Lemon Fennel Chutney', this is food as it should be: a source of happiness, a ritual to be shared, a celebration of life.
Š Chris Craymer
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
Through the power of media, Oprah Winfrey has created an unparalleled connection with people around the world. As host and supervising producer of the top-rated, award-winning The Oprah Winfrey Show, she entertained, enlightened, and uplifted millions of viewers for twenty-five years. Her accomplishments as a global media leader and philanthropist have established her as one of the most respected and admired public figures today.
Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 240 ISBN: 9781509847778 Price: ÂŁ20.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Health & Fitness Subcategory: General
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I OWN YOU
She was an abused girl and a battered wife - until the day she fought back Jackie West
....................................................................................................................... The powerful and inspiring story of a woman who fought back against her abusers and found happiness on her own terms. As a little girl Dawn seemed to have a charmed life, but she was hiding a dark secret: that her older brother, John, was abusing her. Then, aged fourteen, she was groomed by the father of a schoolfriend, a local businessman who seemed to love her. She ran away from home to be with him. Pregnant at sixteen, and rejected by her parents, she ended up marrying him. For years, Dawn suffered psychological abuse from her husband, who belittled and threatened her. She was also forced to work all hours in the bars he owned and realized she was good at business - better than him. As her confidence grew, she found the strength to tell the police about her brother. Gradually, Dawn realized she was more than an abused wife - she was a survivor. When she fell in love with a genuinely good man, she hatched a dangerous plan to free herself from her husband and take the thing he cared about most - his money.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dawn is a successful businesswoman. Happily married to her second husband, she lives in Scotland.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509830886 Price: ÂŁ7.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: General
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BEASTS IN MY BELFRY Gerald Durrell
....................................................................................................................... From one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists. Written with Gerald Durrell's usual sharp eye for observing humour in any situation, Beasts in my Belfry will delight fans both old and new. At the age of two I made up my mind quite firmly and unequivocally that the only thing I wanted to do was study animals. Nothing else interested me. This is a charming account of Gerald Durrell's first job in 1945 as a student keeper at Whipsnade Zoo. Over a year, we encounter a typically absurd cast - including Albert the lion, who's a dab hand at ventriloquism, and Teddy the brown bear, with whom the young Durrell sings duets. With notebook and pen in hand, the eager young Durrell observes his co-workers and animal charges alike. Whether getting dirty mucking out the buffalo enclosure or attempting to cajole a jitter-bugging gnus into a transportation crate, life at the zoo is certainly never boring.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gerald Durrell was one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists. His books, such as the bestselling My Family and Other Animals which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2006, continue to entertain generations of children and adults alike.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Pages: 186 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: Pan Heritage Classics
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is an international conservation charity with headquarters in Jersey, UK.
REVIEWS 'A hilarious record that no Durrell fan will want to miss' Sunday Telegraph 'A loving chronicle of jitter-bugging gnus, singing duets with a bear, stealing eggs to feed the Arctic foxes, practising tiger sniffs . . . Highly entertaining and informative' The Times
ISBN: 9781509815364 Price: ÂŁ8.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: Science & Technology
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WONDERLAND
How Play Made the Modern World Steven Johnson
....................................................................................................................... Steven Johnson, international bestselling expert on innovation and technology, shows us how much of the modern world has been shaped by the pursuit of fun. What connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software? Or the Murex sea snail to the death of the great American city? How does the bag of crisps you hold in your hand help tell the story of humanity itself? In his brilliant new work on the history of innovation, international bestseller Steven Johnson argues that if you want to understand the world today, you have to understand play and delight. A staggering amount of the landscape of modern life is populated by environments and technology designed to entertain and delight us, and the pursuit of novelty and wonder continues to be a powerful driver of worldshaping technological change. Most history books don't concern themselves with play and delight. History is the serious business of war, treaties, governments and monarchs; it is imagined as a battle for survival, for power, for freedom, for wealth. Wonderland is a different kind of history book.
FORMAT: Hardcover
Throughout history, Johnson locates the cutting-edge of innovation wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused. He introduces us to the colourful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, taverns, gambling tables and magic shows.
Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 256 Trim: 135 x 216 mm
Everyone knows the old saying 'necessity is the mother of invention', but if you carry out a paternity test on many of the modern world's most important ideas or institutions, you will find, invariably, that leisure and play were involved in their conception as well.
ISBN: 9781509837267 Price: ÂŁ16.99
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: History Subcategory: World
Steven Johnson is the internationally bestselling author of ten books, including How We Got to Now, Where Good Ideas Come From, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map and Everything Bad is Good for You. The founder of a variety of influential websites, he is the host and co-creator of the PBS and BBC series How We Got to Now. Johnson lives in Marin County, California, and Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and three sons.
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PILL CITY
How Two Teenagers Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire Kevin Deutsch
....................................................................................................................... An extraordinary undercover investigation into two high-school students who became high-tech entrepreneurs in the opiate trade during the Baltimore riots Meet Brick and Wax, two bright eighteen-year-olds looking for a route out of poverty. When Baltimore was engulfed in riots in 2015 they helped loot pharmacies, stealing over $100 million worth of opiates. The plan: to use their gang connections and programming skills to set up a high tech drug delivery service. The result: the teens became America's youngest drug lords, in the process sparking bloody gang warfare and a nationwide wave of addiction and murder. Now mixing in deadly circles, Brick and Wax soon found their own lives were on the line . . . As gripping and compulsive as a thriller, Pill City takes us into the heat of the action as Brick and Wax outwit the FBI and DEA, gang members like Damage and Lyric live and die by their own brutal code, the cops battle to stop the carnage, and a highschool coach risks a bullet to get addicts into rehab. Award-winning criminal justice reporter Kevin Deutsch has interviewed all the key players and interweaves their stories to tell a gritty, hard-hitting story of survival in the Baltimore underworld.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 9/2/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 130 x 197 mm ISBN: 9781509843305 Price: ÂŁ8.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: True Crime Subcategory: General
Kevin Deutsch is an award-winning criminal justice writer for Newsday and previously worked on the staff of the New York Daily News, the Miami Herald and the Palm Beach Post. He is the author of The Triangle: A Year on the Ground with New York's Bloods and Crips. Kevin teaches journalism at Queens College and lives in New York City.
REVIEWS 'America's urban crisis has never been more alive, more shocking, than in Pill City. Reminiscent of HBO's The Wire, Kevin Deutsch's stunning investigation show how a $100 million fortune in opiates - heroin and pills - was stolen during the 2015 Baltimore riots following the death of Freddie Gray and then spread and sold illegally across the nation,compounding one tragedy with another. With this harrowing account from the encrypted Dark Web and our bloody streets, Kevin Deutsch proves himself among today's most insightful and eloquent observers of criminal life in the United States.' Thomas Maier, author/producer of Showtime's Masters of Sex
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THE LAST OF THE TSARS
Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution Robert Service
....................................................................................................................... A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia In February 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of that revolution, Robert Service, the eminent historian of Russia, examines Nicholas's reign in the year before his abdication and the months between that momentous date and his death, with his family, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918. The story has been told many times, but Service's profound understanding of the period and his forensic examination of hitherto untapped sources, including the Tsar's diaries and recorded conversations, shed remarkable new light on his reign, also revealing the kind of ruler Nicholas believed himself to have been, contrary to the disastrous reality. Last of the Tsars is a masterful study of a man who was almost entirely out of his depth, perhaps even wilfully so. It is also a compelling account of the social, economic and political foment in Russia in the aftermath of Alexander Kerensky's February Revolution, the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 and the beginnings of Lenin's Soviet republic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 496 Trim: 153 x 234 mm
Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Russia: Experiment with a People, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. His book Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children, he lives in London.
ISBN: 9781447293095 Price: ÂŁ25.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: History Subcategory: Europe
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TRUEVINE
Two Brothers, a Kidnapping and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the American South Beth Macy
....................................................................................................................... The extraordinary story of two brothers from the American South who were stolen away to become circus freaks. The year was 1899, as the old people told the story; the place a sweltering tobacco farm in Truevine, Virginia, the heart of the Jim Crow South, where everyone they knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves. The Muse brothers, George and Willie, were just six and nine years old, but they worked the fields from dawn to dark. Until a white man offered them candy and stole them away to become circus freaks. For the next twenty-eight years, their distraught mother struggled to get them back. But were they really kidnapped? And how did their mother, a barely literate black woman in the segregated South, manage to bring them home? And why, after coming home, would they want to go back to the circus? At the height of their fame, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the colour of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even 'Ambassadors from Mars'.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/2/2017 Pages: 432 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781447278061 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: General
The result of hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Truevine tells the extraordinary story of what really happened to the Muse brothers for the first time. It is an unforgettable story of cruelty and exploitation, but also of loyalty, determination and love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Beth Macy writes about outsiders and underdogs, and she is the author of the New York Times bestseller Factory Man. Her work has appeared in national magazines and newspapers and The Roanoke Times, where her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard and the Lukas Prize from the Columbia School of Journalism.
REVIEWS '"It's the best story in town," a colleague told Beth Macy decades ago, "but no one has been able to get it." She now has, with tenacity and sensitivity. She gives a singular sideshow its due, offering these "Ambassadors from Mars" a remarkable, deeply affecting afterlife' Stacy Schiff 'A sturdy, passionate, and penetrating narrative. This first-rate journey into human trafficking, slavery, and familial bonding is an engrossing example of spirited, determined reportage' Kirkus
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE INTERNET Jonathan Taplin
....................................................................................................................... A provocative examination of the figures who turned the internet into a landscape dominated by digital monopolies, the far-reaching impact this has had on our culture and what we can do change things. 'The question isn't who's going to let me: it's who is going to stop me' Google. Amazon. Facebook. Apple. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that create the content - the artists, writers and musicians - are finding they can no longer survive in this unforgiving economic landscape. But it didn't have to be this way. This is the story of how a small number of ideologically driven libertarians took the utopian ideal of the internet and turned it into the copyright-mauling, competitiondestroying, human-hating nightmare it has become. Their revolution began with a simple premise: to conquer the world, they would steal the value of art (as well as the value of everything else of importance to human beings) from its creators. It is the story of a massive reallocation of revenue in which $50 billion a year has moved from the creators and owners of content to the monopoly platforms. And if you think that's got nothing to do with you, their next move is to come after your jobs.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/3/2017 Pages: 304 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781509847693 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: General
The Secret History of the Internet is a call to arms to wake up, to say that is enough is enough, to call out the perpetrators of almost inconceivable large-scale cultural theft, and to demand that we do everything in our power to create a different future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jonathan Taplin is Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab and a former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, as well as a film producer for Martin Scorsese. An expert in digital media entertainment, Taplin is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the California Broadband Taskforce and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's Council on Technology and Innovation.
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RADICAL CANDOR Kim Scott Malone
....................................................................................................................... A revolutionary approach to management drawn from years of first-hand experience at Apple and Google Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism - delivered to produce better results and help employees develop their skills and boundaries of success. Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Kim Scott Malone has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees: make it personal, get stuff done, and understand why it matters. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, and distilled clearly to give actionable lessons to the reader, Radical Candor shows how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people both love their work, their colleagues and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/3/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509845354 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Business & Economics Subcategory: Leadership
Kim Scott Malone is the founder of Candor Inc. and is a well known CEO coach in Silicon Valley. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that worked at Google leading the AdSense, YouTube and DoubleClick teams. Earlier in her career she was co-founder and CEO of a software start-up, managed a paediatric clinic in war-torn Kosovo and built a diamond cutting factory in Russia. She now runs radicalcandor.com
REVIEWS 'Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives. Kim Scott's insights - based on her experience, keen observational intelligence and analysis - will help you be a better leader and create a more effective organization.' Sheryl Sandberg, author of the New York Times bestseller Lean In 'Kim Scott has a well-earned reputation as a kickass boss and a voice that CEOs take seriously. In this remarkable book, she draws on her extensive experience to provide clear and honest guidance on the fundamentals of leading others: how to give (and receive) feedback, how to make smart decisions, how to keep moving forward, and much more. If you manage people - whether it be 1 person or a 1,000 - you need Radical Candor. Now.' Daniel Pink, author of the New York Times bestseller Drive
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READING WITH PATRICK Michelle Kuo
....................................................................................................................... Reading with Patrick is the true story of a teacher, a boy who lost his way and the redemptive power of books. Finely written in the very best tradition of American long-form narrative, Reading with Patrick is a story of hope, redemption and the power of books to transform and even to save - a life. As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, bringing the wonders of literature to a young African-American boy named Patrick and his rowdy classmates. For the first time, these boys began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later, Michelle moved back to California; but Patrick began to lose his way, killing a man and ending up with a lengthy jail sentence. And that's when Michelle decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, to read with him again.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michelle Kuo lives in Paris. This is her first book.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 23/3/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9781447286073 Price: ÂŁ16.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan
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O'S LITTLE BOOK OF CALM AND COMFORT The Editors of O, the Oprah Magazine
....................................................................................................................... The fifth book in the O's Little Books and Guides series. The fifth instalment in our series of small, inspirational books from the editors of O, the Oprah Magazine - this one a collection of contemplative and meditative essays that will soothe and inspire the reader to lead a full life with ease. A tranquil, peaceful collection of soul-stirring writing designed to guide readers toward an easier, less-anxious existence. The editors at O, The Oprah Magazine have combed through the magazine's extensive archives to assemble O's Little Book of Calm and Comfort, a collection of stirring pieces from great writers and celebrated thinkers, that offers warm and reassuring companionship to any reader feeling frazzled by the demands of daily life. Each month, O, The Oprah Magazine helps readers live their best lives, serving up information and inspiration on everything from luscious food to lasting love. With a signature blend of candour and humour, fresh advice and timeless wisdom, the magazine offers people the tools they need to, as Oprah Winfrey says, 'become more of who they are' - to love themselves more deeply, to look hopefully towards the future and to leap wholeheartedly into the adventure of being alive.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 130 x 197 mm Series: O's Little Books/Guides
Since its record-breaking launch in 2000, O, The Oprah Magazine has been a trusted and beloved source of compelling stories and empowering ideas. Reaching twelve million readers each month, the content of O. Magazine, stamped with Oprah Winfrey's unique vision, encourages confident, intelligent women to reach for their dreams and make the choices necessary to lead happier, more fulfilling lives.
ISBN: 9781509832538 Price: ÂŁ9.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Self-help Subcategory: General
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THE KNOWLEDGE ILLUSION Why We Never Think Alone Steven Sloman, Philip Fernbach
....................................................................................................................... People are a little like bees and society like a beehive: our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. Human reasoning is remarkably shallow - in fact, our thinking and justifications just scratch the surface of the true complexity of the issues we deal with. The ability to think may still be the greatest wonder in the world (and beyond), but the way that individuals think is less than ideal. In The Knowledge Illusion, Sloman and Fernbach show that our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. To function, individuals rely not only on knowledge that is stored within our skulls but also on knowledge stored elsewhere, be it in our bodies, in the environment or especially in other people. Put together, human thought is incredibly impressive, but at its deepest level it never belongs to any individual alone. And yet the mind supports the most sublime, incredible phenomenon of all: consciousness. How can any of this be possible with a mind that is so imperfect? This is one of the key challenges confronted in this book. The Knowledge Illusion ties together established scientific facts whilst also considering what the mind is for. Understanding why the mind is as it is, and what it is for, will show why we need to consider it as extending beyond our skulls; why we should think about 'the mind' as far more than an extension of the brain but as an emergence from multiple brains interacting. Simply put, individuals know relatively little, but the human hive that emerges when people work together knows a lot.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509811069 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Self-help Subcategory: General
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Steven Sloman is a Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University where he has worked since 1992. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognition. Phil Fernbach is a cognitive scientist and professor of marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has written for and had his work profiled in numerous publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and BBC World News.
REVIEWS 'We all know less than we think we do, including how much we know about how much we know. There's no cure for this condition, but there is a treatment: this fascinating book. The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom' Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought
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A HISTORY OF MODERN BRITAIN Andrew Marr
....................................................................................................................... Andrew Marr's acclaimed Sunday Times number one bestseller, updated with an extensive new chapter. A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted. Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge - first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War and later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital and migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals too with comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies and the true heroes of British theatre.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andrew Marr was born in Glasgow. He has enjoyed a long career in political journalism, including five years as the BBC's Political Editor (2000-05). Andrew's broadcasting includes BBC2's History of Modern Britain series, political documentaries for Channel 4 and BBC Panorama, and Radio 4's 'Start The Week'.
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 736 Trim: 130 x 197 mm
REVIEWS 'Superb, colourful, outspoken, fresh and richly entertaining. Don't miss' The Times 'Lively, full of rich anecdotes and sparkling pen portraits. He has the rare gift of being able to explain complex issues in a few crisp sentences' Sunday Telegraph
ISBN: 9781509839667 Price: ÂŁ10.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: History Subcategory: General
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SHEPHERD OF ANOTHER FLOCK David Wilbourne
....................................................................................................................... The enchanting story of a Yorkshire rural community seen through the eyes of its young vicar 'Shh, new vicar might be listening...' As the newly appointed Vicar of Helmsley, David was looking forward to working in this picturesque market town, set in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside. Admittedly the vicarage, which dated back to the twelfth century, was extremely cold and damp. And not all of his parishioners were impressed by his new-fangled ways. But with the help of the irrepressible Father Bert, a retired cleric and onetime Tail End Charlie, David set about winning over the townsfolk. There was Lord Feversham, the local landowner who at times bore an unnerving resemblance to Henry VIII; fiery Ted, a retired chef who had fought with the Polish Free Army; Frank the singing shepherd, still working as he approached eighty, and redoubtable countrywoman Eva. All had stories of hardship and sacrifice, friendship and love. Charming and moving, Shepherd of A Different Flock is a mustread for fans of authors like Gervase Phinn, James Herriot and Amanda Owen.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover
David Wilbourne has spent the majority of his ministry in Yorkshire, and was Vicar of Helmsley for twelve years. In 2009 he was consecrated Assistant Bishop of Llandaff, working with the Archbishop of Wales. He is also a writer and broadcaster.
Pub Date: 6/4/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 135 x 216 mm ISBN: 9780283072703 Price: ÂŁ12.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Sidgwick & Jackson Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: General
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HOW YOUR EMOTIONS ARE MADE
The secret life of the brain and the future of human nature Lisa Feldman Barrett
....................................................................................................................... A brilliant and original understanding of the origin of emotions and the impact it has on the future of human nature When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside you? Most scientists would agree that emotions come from specific parts of the brain, and that we feel them whenever they're triggered by the world around us. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the sadness of a tear-jerker movie, the fear of losing someone you love - each of these sensations arises automatically and uncontrollably within us, finding expression on our faces and in our behaviour, and carrying us away with the experience. This understanding of emotion has been around since Aristotle. But what if it's wrong? In How Your Emotions Are Made, pioneering psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett draws on the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our ideas about emotion are dramatically, even dangerously, out of date - and that we have been paying the price. Emotions don't exist objectively in nature, Barrett explains, and they aren't pre-programmed in our brains and bodies; rather, they are psychological experiences that each of us constructs based on our unique personal history, physiology and environment.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509837496 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Psychology Subcategory: Emotions
This new view of emotions has serious implications: when judges issue lesser sentences for crimes of passion, when police officers fire at threatening suspects, or when doctors choose between one diagnosis and another, they're all, in some way, relying on the ancient assumption that emotions are hardwired into our brains and bodies. Revising that conception of emotion isn't just good science, Barrett shows; it's vital to our wellbeing and the health of society itself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Psychiatry and Radiology. She received a NIH Director's Pioneer Award for her research on emotion in the brain. She lives in Boston.
REVIEWS 'A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker since Darwin' Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestselling Stumbling on Happiness
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THE BURNING TIME
The Story of the Smithfield Martyrs Virginia Rounding
....................................................................................................................... A vivid account of the men and women who were burned at the stake for heresy by the Tudor monarchs. Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more sinister use: the public execution of heretics. Spanning all four reigns of British history's most remarkable dynasty, The Burning Time is a vivid insight into an era in which what was orthodoxy one year might be dangerous heresy the next. The first martyrs were Catholics, who cleaved to Rome in defiance of Henry VIII's break with the papacy. But with the accession of Henry's daughter Mary - soon to be nicknamed 'Bloody Mary' - the charge of heresy was levelled against devout Protestants, who chose to burn rather than recant. At the centre of Virginia Rounding's vivid account of this extraordinary period are two very different characters. The first is Richard Rich, Thomas Cromwell's protégé, who, almost uniquely, remained in a position of great power, influence and wealth under three Tudor monarchs, and who helped send many devout men and women to their deaths. The second is John Deane, Rector of St Bartholomew's, who was able, somehow, to navigate the treacherous waters of changing dogma and help others to survive.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 20/4/2017 Pages: 424 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9780230772311 Price: £20.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: History Subcategory: Europe
The Burning Time is their story, but it is also the story of the hundreds of men and women who were put to the fire for their faith. It is a gripping insight into a time when people were willing to die, and to kill, in the name of religion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Virginia Rounding is a writer, critic and former RLF Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Author of biographies of Catherine the Great, Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, and of Grandes Horizontales, a study of French courtesans, she also contributes to a number of newspapers and magazines, such as the Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times. She is involved in the current life of Smithfield as an elected City of London councillor, known as a 'Common Councilman', for the area.
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AWAKE
The Power of Self-Awareness in a Self-Deluded World Tasha Eurich
....................................................................................................................... A fascinating exploration into the importance of self-awareness and its benefits for work, health and success.
Š Erin Blackwell
Self-awareness is the meta-skill of the twenty-first century. Research shows time and again that self-aware people are generally happier and more satisfied with their relationships. They raise more mature children. They're superior students who make smart decisions about their careers. They tend to be more creative and are less likely to lie, cheat and steal. At work, they perform better and get more promotions. Once there, they're more effective leaders whose employees are more satisfied, and their companies tend to be more profitable. All that said, not many people are naturally self-aware, and those who are don't really know how or why that's the case. For the rest of us, developing true self-awareness means having to overcome all kinds of cognitive biases - not just our own, but also those of the people around us - so that we better understand ourselves and how others see us. The good news is that it's a state of being we can prioritize and hone, even if we don't start out that way.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509839612 Price: ÂŁ20.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Psychology Subcategory: General
Awake is a fascinating and enlightening exploration of everyone's favourite topic: themselves. Tasha Eurich first defines for readers what self-awareness is (a surprisingly difficult task) and explores why it is so difficult to achieve. She shatters persistent myths about how we cultivate self-knowledge (it's not by thinking more about ourselves, for starters) and then walks readers through some actual strategies that work. Through lively stories and surprising research findings, readers will discover that there's much more to the topic than they'd imagined, and will come away with tools to help them deepen their self-awareness and help others do the same. Eurich also arms readers with tactics for working and living alongside people who have no clue.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, speaker and New York Times bestselling author. Her first book, Bankable Leadership, was based on her corporate consulting curriculum and used as part of that work. She writes about psychology and the workplace, and her primary mission is to help people become more self-aware and successful both at work and at home. Over her nearly fifteenyear career, she's helped thousands of people transform themselves by bringing a fresh, modern voice alongside scientifically grounded research on human behaviour.
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THE ANXIETY JOURNAL Corinne Sweet, Marcia Mihotich
....................................................................................................................... A beautifully illustrated, practical journal to help combat anxiety wherever you are. Anxiety disorders are one of the most common mental health problems around the word. According to the World Health Organisation, more than one in ten people are likely to have a disabling anxiety disorder at some stage in their life and less severe forms are far more common. While some forms of anxiety are natural, and often even helpful, anxiety disorders can lead you into a spiral of stress and fear and interfere with your everyday life. Practical, supportive and uplifting, this is a journal for anyone who struggles with anxiety, whether in the form of phobias, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress or generalized anxiety (GAD) and day-to-day worrying. With beautiful contemporary illustrations by Marcia Mihotich, The Anxiety Journal encourages you to use CBT exercises and mindfulness techniques to reduce anxiety and provide comfort and calm. The Anxiety Journal will help to soothe stress and reduce worry, identify negative thought-cycles, and provide you with techniques to combat anxiety wherever you are.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Paperback Pub Date: 4/5/2017 Pages: 208
Corinne Sweet is a psychologist, psychotherapist and author of non-fiction titles including Change Your Life with CBT and The Mindfulness Journal. A journalist and broadcaster, she is a well-respected figure in self-help, and specializes in CBT and mindfulness. Marcia Mihotich is a London-based graphic designer and illustrator whose clients include The School of Life, Donna Wilson and Guardian. She is also creative director of Rosy Lee Tea London.
ISBN: 9780752266275 Price: ÂŁ9.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Boxtree Category: Self-help Subcategory: Anxieties & Phobias
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THE FACT OF A BODY A Murder and a Memoir
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich ....................................................................................................................... The gripping true story of a young law student, an unspeakable crime and a past that refuses to stay buried. Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working on the retrial defence of death-row convicted murderer and child molester, Ricky Langley, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti death penalty. But the moment Ricky's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes, the moment she hears him speak of his crimes, she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper and deeper into the case, realizing that despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, uncannily familiar. Crime, even the darkest and most unspeakable acts, can happen to any one of us, and as Alexandria pours over the facts of the murder, she finds herself thrust into the complicated narrative of Ricky's childhood. And by examining minute details of Ricky's case, she is forced to face her own story, to unearth long-buried family secrets, to reckon with how her own past colours her view of his crime. As enthralling as true-crime classics such as In Cold Blood and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and broadcast phenomena such as Making a Murderer and Serial, The Fact of a Body is a groundbreaking, heart-stopping investigation into how the law is personal, composed of individual stories and proof that arriving at the truth is more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 18/5/2017 Pages: 352 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509805624 Price: ÂŁ20.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: True Crime Subcategory: General
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in creative writing, an award given for her work on The Fact of a Body. Other honours in support of this, her first book, include a Rona Jaffe Award, a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, as well as fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center and Yaddo. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Oxford American, Salon and the anthology True Crime. She has a JD from Harvard, an MFA from Emerson and a BA from Columbia University. Alexandria currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches memoir writing at Grub Street and teaches graduate public policy students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
REVIEWS 'This book is a marvel. With unflinching precision and immense compassion, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich peels apart both a murder case and her own experience to reveal how we try to make sense of the past. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth ' Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You 'The Fact of a Body is a remarkable act of witness, an anatomy of silence and the violence it abets, a book of both public and private accountings. Rejecting the false comfort of certainty, it confronts the inadequacy of all our tools for fathoming not just unforgivable crimes, but the baffling, human grace that can forgive them. This is a profound and riveting book ' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You
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HOW TO BE CAREFUL Steve Casner
....................................................................................................................... A user's guide to our sometimes accident-prone minds which helps us to understand why we do things like insist on the fat-free salad dressing but then text and drive. As medical science offers to extend our lives by postponing sinister diseases, more people each year are figuring out ways to cut them short. Yes, after decades of steady improvement, the accident rate is climbing. Last year and in the US alone, more than 38,000,000 people suffered an injury that required medical attention. More than 130,000 of them died, and almost 10,000 of them were kids. Steve Casner is a research psychologist at NASA and a specialist in safety, and no one is better qualified to write about why accidents happen and the science of avoiding them, topics which are timelier than ever in an era of 'fast cars, smartphones, new drugs, and thrilling new sports, when we humans are still as fragile as ever'. This highly readable, authoritative and accessible narrative is full of surprising, must-know facts and stories, which have the potential to change our view of ourselves in the material world. We are less careful than ever, so we need the science and the story of how we can take better care, on small and grand scales.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 1/6/2017 Pages: 320 Trim: 153 x 234 mm
As a NASA research psychologist, Casner has spent the past twenty years helping to cut the airline accident rate to a fraction of what it once was. He holds a multidisciplinary PhD that spans psychology, computer science, medicine and the history and philosophy of science. Casner is well-published in scientific literature and has received much recent major media attention for his research. Casner is also the author of two textbooks, and is passionate about writing science in engaging, interesting and simple-to-understand ways. He is based in San Francisco.
ISBN: 9781509818426 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Psychology Subcategory: General
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WARRIORS IN SCARLET
Victory and Defeat in the British Army in the Age of Empire Ian Knight
....................................................................................................................... A gripping, authoritative new history of Queen Victoria's army based on eyewitness accounts. Between 1837 and 1881 the British Army underwent a seismic change, as the expansion of the Victorian empire saw them facing new enemies as diverse as Maori warriors, Afghan hill men, Asante gunmen in the rain forests of West Africa, Boer farmers and Zulu warriors. These were skilled, courageous and experienced fighters, while the British troops were often under-strength and operating in unfamiliar, difficult terrain. Disasters such as Chillianwallah and iSandlwana shocked the Victorian public - but in reality the army won more than four-fifths of the battles they fought in this era. In Warriors in Scarlet, Ian Knight draws on evocative accounts from ordinary soldiers as well as officers to show us what daily life was like in the army and how it was forced to abandon the strategies that had brought victory in the Napoleonic Wars and adapt new practices again and again. As the scarlet uniforms were giving way to khaki, the army was becoming a far more professional fighting force. With its exciting narrative style, careful analysis and emphasis on first-person accounts, this is destined to become a classic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 1/6/2017 Pages: 640 Trim: 153 x 234 mm
Military historian Ian Knight has been writing about nineteenth century British colonial campaigns for thirty years. His most recent book, Zulu Rising, received universal critical acclaim and he is a winner of the Anglo-Zulu Historical Society's Chief Buthelezi Medal for his life-long contribution to Anglo-Zulu studies. A former editor of the Journal of the Victorian Military Society, he is a regular contributor to historical journals.
ISBN: 9780230767300 Price: ÂŁ25.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: History Subcategory: Military
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THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER David King
....................................................................................................................... The amazing true story of the trial that mesmerized the world and transformed the fiasco of the Beer Hall Putsch into a stunning victory for Hitler and the fledgling Nazi party. Sixteen years before the Second World War, Adolf Hitler had already begun his plan to take over the world. With the help of nine close conspirators and a few hundred followers, he staged his first attempt at an overthrow of the German government. That night, Hitler stood on a table in the middle of Munich's crowded Bürgerbräu Beer Hall, fired his revolver into the air, and shouted 'The National Revolution has begun!' Although they managed to kill nineteen people, including four policemen, the attempt was far from a triumph. Cuffed and behind bars, Hitler and his accomplices, including Germany's most prominent war hero, found themselves accused of high treason; if found guilty, they would face deportation, or worse, life in prison. But the trial did not go as the prosecution had planned and, instead of being cowed, Hitler put his charisma and media savvy to the test, turning the trial into the single greatest opportunity of his life. Frustrating the prosecution and deftly enforcing his position under the eye of a sympathetic judge, Hitler's flamboyant rhetoric, combined with his timely populist message, would win him many admirers in the courtroom and in the media alike. Drawing on the original court transcripts and hundreds of other documents, David King's The Trial of Adolf Hitler will be the first book-length account of this gripping true story of drama, intrigue, and significance.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 1/6/2017 Pages: 356 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781447251118 Price: £25.00
ABOUT THE AUTHOR David King is the New York Times bestselling author of Death in the City of Light, Vienna 1814, and Finding Atlantis. A Fulbright Scholar with a master's degree from Cambridge University, King taught European history before becoming a full-time writer. His books have been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Turkish, Polish, Korean, Italian, Swedish and Russian. Film rights have been sold in Death in the City of Light.
Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: History Subcategory: World
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OUR ICEBERG IS MELTING
Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
....................................................................................................................... The huge international bestseller: a simple fable with profound lessons for working and living in an ever-changing world. This charming story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how we deal with the issue of change: handle the challenge well and you can prosper greatly; handle it poorly and you put yourself at risk. The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many years. Then one curious penguin discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home - and pretty much no one listens to him. The characters in this fable are like people we recognize, even ourselves. Their story is one of resistance to change and heroic action, confusion and insight, seemingly intractable obstacles and the most clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles. It is a story that is occuring in different forms around us today - but the penguins handle change a great deal better than most of us. Based on John Kotter's pioneering work on how to make smart change happen faster and better, the lessons you can learn from this short and easy-to-read book will serve you well in your job, in your family and in your community. And these lessons are becoming ever more important as the world around us changes faster and faster.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 160 Trim: 130 x 197 mm
John Kotter has been on the faculty at Harvard Business School since 1972. He is the author of eleven books that have won awards and honours, or have been business bestsellers. Professor Kotter gives speeches and seminars at Harvard and around the world. Holger Rathgeber works for Becton Dickinson, one of the world's leading medical technology companies.
ISBN: 9781509830114 Price: ÂŁ9.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Pan Category: Business & Economics Subcategory: General
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JAN ULLRICH
The Best There Never Was Daniel Friebe
....................................................................................................................... The first full biography of one of the most controversial champions of the Tour de France, Jan Ullrich. Jan Ullrich's performance in winning the first mountain stage of the 1997 Tour de France sent shock waves through the world of cycling. 'The Real Boss' was the headline on L'Équipe's front page the next morning. 'King Ullrich,' said Le Parisien. La Gazzetta dello Sport suggested that the Italian rider Francesco Casagrande would be proud just to have got a good view of the German rider. Ullrich went on to win the Tour that year by almost ten minutes, a margin not bettered since and a result that was greeted as an era-defining changing of the guard. Everyone agreed: Jan Ullrich was the future of cycling. And yet, he was never again to regain those heights. Though perfectly respectable, his career was already in decline as he stood on the winner's podium. When he retired amid allegations of doping, his reputation lay in tatters.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 304 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509801572 Price: ÂŁ18.99 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Category: Biography & Autobiography Subcategory: Sports
To be published on the tenth anniversary of his retirement, Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is an exploration of what went wrong. It is not a sporting disaster story, for Ullrich was one of the pre-eminent riders of his epoch and a German national treasure for almost a decade. Rather, it will provide a textured account of how unbearable expectation, mental and physical fragility, the legacies of a troubled childhood, a morally gangrened sport and one individual - Lance Armstrong - conspired to reroute his destiny as well as that of cycling. Never again after 1997 would cycling fans react to that level of performance with untainted awe. Contained within the Ullrich parable are lessons about how doping skewed the natural order and robbed even its abusers of their dignity, while in the short term bringing them fame and fortune. But this is not a book about drugs or an exercise in shaming one of the key protagonists of what has been dubbed cycling's 'EPO era'. By producing monochrome, moralistic snapshots of the Ullrich and Armstrong generation, of who did and who didn't err, of good versus evil, books on that period have so far neglected much of its colour and many of its human shades. In telling the story of Jan Ullrich's upbringing in seventies East Germany and how it shaped one of the great stories in cycling history, this book will redress the balance.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR One of the most experienced and well-respected British journalists covering cycling, Daniel Friebe is the long-serving European Editor of Procycling Magazine and a veteran of fourteen Tours de France. He is the author of Mountain High, Mountain Higher and Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal. He also collaborated with cycling superstar Mark Cavendish on his bestselling Boy Racer and At Speed. Daniel's writing on sport has appeared in publications including the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, SPIN World Cricket Monthly, Channel 4 Test Match Magazine, Outdoor Fitness and FourFourTwo. Daniel is fluent in French, Italian and German, and getting there in Spanish and Portuguese.
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THE KING'S ASSASSIN Benjamin Woolley
....................................................................................................................... The extraordinary story of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, favourite of King James VI - and possibly his murderer. The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain's first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity, the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his 'wife'. For a decade, Villiers was at the king's side - at court, on state occasions and in bed, right up to James's death in March, 1625. Shortly after, rivals and enemies of Villiers accused him of poisoning the king. A parliamentary investigation was launched, and scurrilous pamphlets and ballads circulated London's streets. But the charges came to nothing, and were relegated to a historical footnote. Now, new historical scholarship suggest that a deadly combination of hubris and vulnerability drove Villiers to kill the man who made him. It may have been by accident - the application of a quack remedy while the king was weakened by a malarial attack. But there is compelling evidence Villiers, overcome by ambition and frustrated by James's passive approach to government, poisoned him.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 15/6/2017 Pages: 336 Trim: 153 x 234 mm ISBN: 9781509837069 Price: ÂŁ20.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan
In The King's Assassin, acclaimed author Benjamin Wooley examines this remarkable story. Combining vivid characterization and a strong narrative with historical scholarship and forensic investigation, Woolley tells the story of King James's death, and of the captivating figure at its centre. What emerges is a portrait of a royal favourite whose charisma overwhelmed those around him and ultimately himself, and a tragic love story that throws new light on a period of history that shaped modern Britain.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Benjamin Woolley is an author and broadcaster whose work covers subjects ranging from the origins of virtual reality, to the Elizabethan philosopher, scientist and conjuror John Dee, and from the mathematician and computing pioneer (and daughter of Lord Byron) Ada Lovelace to the history of colonial America. His books have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese, and his documentaries broadcast across the world. He lives in London.
Category: History Subcategory: Renaissance
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THE WOMEN WHO FLEW FOR HITLER
The Remarkable Lives of Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg Clare Mulley
....................................................................................................................... A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots - Hitler's personal Valkyries. Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were strikingly attractive, courageous, ambitious women who fought convention to make their names in the maledominated field of flight - both were pioneering test pilots and both were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich. But they could not have been more different and neither woman had a good word to say for the other. Hanna was middle-class and distinctly Aryan, while Melitta, though from an aristocratic Prussian family, was part-Jewish, and while Hanna tried to save Hitler's life, begging him to let her fly him to safety in April 1945, Melitta covertly supported the most famous assassination attempt on the Fuehrer. Their lives constantly overlapped, offering a vivid insight into Nazi Germany and its attitudes to women, to class and to race. Acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley gets under the skin of these two most distinctive and unconventional women, telling the full - and as yet largely unknown - story of their contrasting yet strangely parallel lives, against a changing backdrop of the 1936 Olympics, the Eastern Front, the Berlin Air Club, and Hitler's bunker. Told with brio and great narrative flair, The Women Who Flew for Hitler is an extraordinary true story, with all the excitement and colour of the best fiction.
FORMAT: Hardcover Pub Date: 29/6/2017 Pages: 400 Trim: 153 x 234 mm
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Clare Mulley is the award-winning author of two books. The Spy Who Loved (Macmillan, 2012) and The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb (Oneworld, 2009), which won the Daily Mail Biographers' Club Prize. She has also contributed to The Arvon Book of Life-Writing (Methuen, 2010). She lives in Saffron Walden, with her husband and three daughters.
ISBN: 9781447274209 Price: ÂŁ20.00 Publisher: Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan
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