Spring Catalog
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2015
Picador 4 Picador Classics 8 Mobile Library 9 Disinformation 10 The Sense of an Elephant 11 The Utopia Experiment 12 The Last Kind Words Saloon 13 Dead Man’s Walk/ Comanche Moon/Streets of Laredo 14 The Way Things Were 15 The Unknown University 16 The Beautiful Librarians 17 Before the Fire
18 So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed 19 Tender 20 The Ladies of the House 21 Sentenced to Life 22 Villa America 23 All Involved 24 Furiously Happy 25 The Followers 26 Your Father Sends His Love 27 Arbitrary Conduct 28 The Year of the Runaways 29 The Not-Dead and the Saved and Other Stories 30 The Remains
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 5 FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE Niall Williams
Picador Classics Change your mind
On 6 October 1972, Picador published its first list of eight paperbacks. It was a list that demonstrated ambition as well as cultural breadth, and included great writing from Latin America (Jorge Luis Borges’s A Personal Anthology), Europe (Hermann Hesse’s Rosshalde), America (Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America) and Britain (Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains). Within a few years, Picador had established itself as one of the pre-eminent publishers of contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry. What defines Picador is the unique nature of each of its authors’ voices. We have launched the Picador Classic series to highlight some of those great voices and bring neglected classics back into print. We have commissioned new introductions from writers and public figures that illuminate these works, as well as putting them into a wider context. Many of the Picador Classic editions will also include afterwords from their authors which provide insight into the background to their original publication. This selection of great writing will be reflected in the production values of all the books: printed on high quality paper stock and with thick cover boards, the Picador Classic series will be a celebration of the physical book. In addition a dedicated Picador Classic website (www. picador.com/classic) will provide interested readers with a wealth of background information. Whether fiction, journalism, memoir or poetry, Picador Classic represents timeless quality and extraordinary writing from some of the world’s greatest voices. Paul Baggaley
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THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE John Banville £8.99 9781447275367 9/10/2014
‘Remarkable . . . If all crime novels were like this one, there would no longer be the need for a genre’ Ruth Rendell
AMERICAN PSYCHO Bret Easton Ellis
£8.99 9781447277705 1/1/2015
‘Serious, clever and shatteringly effective’ Sunday Times
Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize
A film adadptation was released in 2000 and a musical in 2014
With an introduction by Colm Tóibín
With an introduction by Irvine Welsh
THE LOVELY BONES Alice Sebold
ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE Andrea Ashworth
‘Spare, beautiful and brutal prose . . . compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing’ The Times
‘This is a brilliant book. Brilliantly written, brilliantly thought, brilliantly remembered . . . Ashworth has written an extraordinary memoir; the only pity is that she had to live it to make it’ Scotsman
Adapted for film in 2009 by Peter Jackson
Winner of a 1999 Somerset Maugham Award
With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker
With an introduction by Eimear McBride
£8.99 9781447275206 1/1/2015
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£9.99 9781447275121 1/1/2015
THE SOUTH Colm Tóibín
£8.99 9781447275107 1/1/2015
£8.99 9781447277729 1/1/2015
‘A novel about love, but even more about the longing ‘A broad and that goes with beautifully worked love . . . a deeply canvas . . . An satisfying work of imaginative, deeply art’ Sunday Times felt and evocative tale’ An international Sunday Times bestseller sold in over 20 countries Won the Irish and a New York Times First Fiction Times Notable Award in 1991 Book Of The Year With an introduction by With an Roy Foster introduction by John Hurt
THE LINE OF BEAUTY Alan Hollinghurst £8.99 9781447275183 1/1/2015
‘Both classic and modern, Alan Hollinghurst . . . imbues human nature and interaction with a timeless, monumental quality’ Observer Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and released as a BBC TV series in 2006 With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks
DISPATCHES Michael Herr
SCOTTSBORO Ellen Feldman £8.99 9781447275343 1/1/2015
£8.99 9781447275343 1/1/2015
‘The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time’ John Le Carré
‘An astute history . . . clear-sighted . . . Feldman’s book should be read’ Independent Shortlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize for fiction, and based on one of the most famous cases of the civil rights era
‘Single-handedly, de Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest and most important purpose: helping us to live our lives’ Independent
£9.99 9781447275060 1/1/2015
Inspired classic Vietnam War films Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now With an introduction by Kevin Powers
ESSAYS IN LOVE Alain de Botton
Published when de Botton was 23, it went on to sell two million copies
With an With an introduction by introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips Sheila Heti
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The World’s Wife Carol Ann Duffy £9.99 9781447275244 1/1/2015
‘Duffy takes a cheeky, subversive, no-nonsense swipe with a dish clout at the famous men of history and myth’ The Times
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks
£8.99 9781447275305 1/1/2015
‘Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction . . . Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be’ Sunday Times
‘A fragmented, hilarious, crude, mystical soap opera. In a rich Australian idiom, Winton lets his characters rip against an evocation of Perth so intense you can smell it’ Sunday Telegraph
With an With an introduction by introduction by Jeanette Winterson Will Self
£9.99 9781447275220 1/1/2015
Cloudstreet Tim Winton
£9.99 9781447275404 1/1/2015
A brilliant, witty, subversive collection of poems Adapted as an and now an A-level opera, with music set text by Michael Nyman
The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 7
£8.99 9781447275503 1/1/2015
Winner of the 1992 Miles Franklin Award
‘Perfectly controlled, superbly written. Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order’ Guardian Shortlisted for the 1983 Booker Prize and realeased as a film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal in 1992
With an introduction by Philip Hensher
With an introduction by John Burnside
Them: Don’t Let’s Go to ADVENTURES the Dogs Tonight WITH EXTREMISTS Alexandra Fuller £9.99 Jon Ronson £9.99 9781447275466 1/1/2015
Waterland Graham Swift
9781447275084 1/1/2015
‘Like Frank ‘One of the late McCourt, Fuller ‘A funny and 20th century’s pre- compulsively writes with eminent chroniclers readable devastating humour of the migrant and directness picaresque experience’ adventure through about desperate Aamer Hussein a paranoid shadow circumstances . . . tender, remarkable’ world’ Louis Maxine Hong Theroux, Guardian Daily Kingston has Telegraph been awarded the Accompanied the National Medal of Channel 4 series A New York Times Arts by President Notable Book for The Secret Rulers Obama 2002 and a finalist of the World and for the Guardian features David With an First Book Award Icke expounding introduction by his theory that the Xiaolu Guo world is controlled With an introduction by by 12-foot lizards Anne Enright With an picador.com introduction by Russell Brand
The Snow Geese William Fiennes £9.99 9781447275442 1/1/2015
‘Why are we drawn to birds, to landscape, to nature? It is for the sense of wonder – and in capturing that sense of wonder, Fiennes reminds us how desperately we all need it’ Sunday Telegraph Winner of a 2003 Somerset Maugham Award With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
The Debt to Pleasure John Lanchester
The Piano Tuner Daniel Mason
£8.99 9781447275428 1/1/2015
£8.99 9781447275381 1/1/2015
The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe
£8.99 9781447275169 1/1/2015
‘Remarkable . . . a novel that immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor’ Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
‘Coruscatingly, horribly funny . . . a cunning commentary on art, appetite, jealousy and failure’ John Banville, Observer
The basis for a 2004 opera
Winner of the 1996 Whitbread First Novel Award
Adapted for film in 1996 and shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize
With an introduction by Sadie Jones
With an introduction by John Banville
With an introduction by Ross Raisin
Unreliable Memoirs Clive James
We Wish to Inform An Unquiet Mind You That Tomorrow Kay Redfield We Will Be Killed Jamison With Our Families £8.99 9781447275282 Philip Gourevitch
£8.99 9781447275480 1/1/2015
£9.99 9781447275268 1/1/2015
‘You can’t put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal, decent resistance within seconds. Not to be missed’ Sunday Times
‘Factual, unemotional – and utterly gutwrenching . . . The great achievement of his book is that it allows us to imagine this unimaginable crime . . . and those who stood by, human beings all’ Irish Times
The first instalment of memoirs from a national treasure
‘Brilliant, unique . . . reading fiction will never be the same again’ Roddy Doyle
1/1/2015
‘It stands alone in the literature of manic-depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty’ Oliver Sacks
An Unquiet Mind remains the definitive book on manicdepression
Quarantine Jim Crace 18 Jun 15 9781447275145 £8.99 B Format WELXUSCN
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers 18 June 15 9781447275046 £9.99 B Format WELXUSCN
Lost For Words Edward St Aubyn 18 Jun 15
With an 9780330454230 introduction by £7.99 Winner of the 1999 Andrew Solomon B Format WELXUSCN Guardian First Book Award
With an introduction by PJ O’Rourke
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 8
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 9
Mobile Library
Disinformation
David Whitehouse
Frances Leviston
The breakout second novel from the award-winning author of Bed
The compelling new poetry collection from the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poet
Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku is an archivist of his mother. He catalogues traces of her life and waits for her to return home.
Frances Leviston’s first collection, Public Dream, was one of the most acclaimed debuts of recent years. Leviston’s keenly anticipated second book sees an intensification of her project. We often credit poetry as a kind of truth-telling, but it can also be an agent and a vessel of disinformation. Leviston addresses one of the key questions of the age: how have we come to know what we think we know? Many of these poems are concerned with ruined or abandoned structures, dismembered and disappearing bodies, constructed and deconstructed identities; behind them lie the false gods who manipulate the streams of information with which we must navigate the contemporary world. In Leviston’s inimitably vivid and vital language, Disinformation challenges us to rescue our idea of identity from that mass of glib truth and persistent falsehood – and proposes how we might begin to think of poetry itself as a means to that end.
Bobby thinks that he’s been left to face the world alone until he meets single mother Val and her daughter Rosa. They spend a magical summer together, discovering the books in the mobile library where Val works as a cleaner. But as the summer draws to a close, Bobby finds himself in trouble and Val is in danger of losing her job. There’s only one thing to do – escape in the mobile library . . . Quirky, dark, magical and full of heart, Mobile Library is both a tragicomic road trip and a celebration of the adventures that books can take us on. It’s a love-letter to unlikely families and the stories that shaped us. David Whitehouse is an award-winning novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His first novel, Bed, won the 2012 Betty Trask Award and was published in 14 languages. David writes regularly for the Guardian and The Times and is editor-at-large of ShortList magazine. Originally from Warwickshire, he now lives in London.
Frances Leviston read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. In 2006 she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. Public Dream, her first collection, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.
Publication date: 15 Jan 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447274728 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £14.99 ISBN: 9781447274735 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
Publication date: 12 Feb 15 ISBN: 9781447271147 Price: £9.99 Format: S Format Paperback Page extent: 80 Rights: WXUS
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 10
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The Sense of an Elephant
The Utopia Experiment
Marco Missiroli
Dylan Evans
A prize-winning story of paternal love and powerful secrets
An experiment in human psychology that goes horribly wrong
Pietro arrives in Milan with a battered suitcase full of memories, to take up a new job as concierge. Living in his palazzo are lost and eccentric souls: Poppi, a lawyer; Luciana and her son; and Luca, a doctor, whose wife Viola holds a secret that could destroy their marriage. Right from the start Pietro has a special interest in Luca and his family, and soon he’s letting himself into their apartment while everyone is out. As his story emerges in snatches and flashbacks, each prompted by his case of treasures, we begin to find out what has brought him to be guardian here, so late in his life . . .
In 2006, Dylan Evans left his job, moved to the Scottish Highlands and founded a community called The Utopia Experiment. There, together with an eclectic assortment of volunteers, he tried to live out a scenario of global collapse, free from modern technology and comforts. Within a year, Evans found himself detained in a psychiatric hospital, shattered and depressed, trying to figure out what had gone wrong. In The Utopia Experiment he tells his own extraordinary story – his frenzied early enthusiasm, the challenges of postapocalyptic living, his descent into madness and his gradual recovery – and what he learned along the way. Dylan Evans is an academic, philosopher and journalist. He has written several popular science books, was named by the Independent as one of the 20 best young writers in Britain, and described by the Guardian as ‘Alain de Botton in a lab coat’.
For readers of The Elegance of the Hedgehog and The Yacoubian Building, this is an atmospheric and unforgettable novel about the ties that bind. Marco Missiroli was born in Rimini, Italy. He is the author of the prize-winning novels Senza Coda, Il Buio Addosso and Bianco. The Sense of an Elephant was awarded the prestigious Campiello Prize in 2012. Marco writes for the culture pages of Corriere della Sera, and for Vanity Fair.
Publication date: 12 Feb 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WEL ISBN: 9781447241911 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £14.99 ISBN: 9781447241935 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
Publication date: 12 Feb 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9781447261292 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £14.99 ISBN: 9781447261322 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 12
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 13
The Last Kind Words Saloon
Dead Man’s Walk/ Comanche Moon/ Street’s of Laredo
Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry A stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Lonesome Dove Evoking the greatest characters and legends of the Old Wild West, McMurtry tells the story of the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge – more often with a mean look than a pistol – the taciturn Wyatt now idles away his time between bottles, while the dentist-turnedgunslinger Doc is more adept at poker than extracting teeth. With the buffalo herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great Plains enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as the storied West that forged their myths disappears. As harsh and beautiful and as brutal and captivating as the open range it depicts, The Last Kind Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of the most original American writers. Larry McMurtry was born in Texas. The cinematic treatment of Terms of Endearment swept the boards at the 1984 Academy Awards, winning Oscars in several categories including Best Picture. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Lonesome Dove. Larry McMurtry now lives in Washington, where he runs a bookshop.
Larry McMurtry’s acclaimed tetralogy, of which the eponymous masterpiece Lonesome Dove won the Pulitzer Prize Dead Man’s Walk, the first novel in the sequence, begins the story of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, two young Texas Rangers on the wild frontier. Danger, sacrifice and fear will test these men to the limits of endurance; while friendship will give them the strength and courage to survive against almost insurmountable odds in the West of the early nineteenth century. Their story continues in Comanche Moon, as they are pitched into a long, bloody fight against the Comanches. Beyond Lonesome Dove, the final part of Gus and Call’s story is told in Streets of Laredo, completing their legendary tale of heroism, honour and adventure, and embracing the spirit of the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier. Larry McMurtry was born in Texas. The cinematic treatment of Terms of Endearment swept the boards at the 1984 Academy Awards, winning Oscars in several categories including Best Picture. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Lonesome Dove. Larry McMurtry now lives in Washington, where he runs a bookshop.
Dead Man’s Walk Publication date: 12 February 2005 ISBN: 9781447274643 Price £8.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page Extent: 416 Rights WELXUSCN Non-exclusive EU & EFTA Comanche Moon Publication date: 12 February 2005 ISBN: 9781447274629 Price £8.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page Extent: 416 Rights WELXUSCN Non-exclusive EU & EFTA
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 14
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 15
The Way Things Were
The Unknown University
Aatish Taseer
Roberto Bolaño
A breathtaking family story that will change the way you think of India
The collected poems of Roberto Bolaño, selected and ordered by the author
When Skanda’s father Toby dies, estranged from Skanda’s mother and from the India he once loved, it falls to Skanda to return his body to his birthplace. This is a journey that takes him halfway around the world and deep into the story of three generations of his family, whose fractures, frailties and toxic legacies he has always sought to elude.
Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolaño touted poetry as the superior art form. When asked, ‘What makes you believe you’re a better poet than a novelist?’ Bolaño replied, ‘The poetry makes me blush less.’
Both an intimate portrait of a marriage and its aftershocks, and a panoramic vision of India in transition, The Way Things Were is a magisterial novel about the pressures of history upon the present moment. Set at flashpoints in 1975, ‘84, ‘92 and in modern Delhi, it has the epic reach and thrilling ambition of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy. This novel, too, promises to become a classic of its time. Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. He is the author of Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic Lands, a Costa-shortlisted first novel, The Temple-Goers, and the highly acclaimed Noon. He has also written for the Sunday Times, Prospect and Esquire. He lives between Delhi and New York.
In 1993, fearing for his health, Bolaño began collecting the poetry he had written since his arrival in Spain in 1977. This bilingual edition of The Unknown University represents the author’s definitive work in his preferred medium. With poems written in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized, The Unknown University is a showcase of Bolaño’s gift for freely crossing genres. It confirms once again the undeniable genius of this giant of Latin American literature. Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, aged fifty.
Publication date: 12 Feb 15 Page extent: 560 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447272458 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447272724 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
Publication date: 26 Feb 15 ISBN: 9780330529976 Price: £16.99 Format: A Format Paperback Page extent: 848 Rights: WELXUSCN NonExclusive EU & EFTA
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 16
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 17
The Beautiful Librarians
Before the Fire
Sean O’Brien
Sarah Butler
A new collection of astonishing variety and virtuosity from the leading English poet of his generation
The stunning new novel from Sarah Butler, author of Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love
Each poem in Sean O’Brien’s superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet’s increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sorts, and a celebration of those unsung but central figures in our culture, often overlooked by both capital and official account. Here we find infantrymen, wrestlers, old lushes in the hotel bar – but none more heroic than the librarians of the title, those silent and silencing guardians of literature and knowledge who, the poet reminds us, also had lives of their own to be celebrated. Elsewhere we find a 12-bar blues sung by Ovid, a hymn to a grey rose, a writing course from hell, and a very French exercise in waiting. A book of terrific variety of theme and form, The Beautiful Librarians is another bravura performance from the most garlanded English poet of his generation.
It’s June 2011. Stick and Mac are a couple of months shy of eighteen; summer’s approaching and they’re about to leave their north Manchester estate for the beaches of southern Spain.
Sean O’Brien is a poet, critic, playwright and broadcaster. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Drowned Book won the Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes. November was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize.
But the night before they’re planning to go, Mac ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time, the victim of a random knife attack, and suddenly Stick’s going nowhere. His mum doesn’t want him to leave the house; his dad’s desperate to be his best friend; and his nan’s boyfriend keeps telling him Mac’s doing just fine in the spirit world. Then he meets J and she might just be everything he needs. Except she’s a firebrand with a grudge against the police, and the August riots are just around the corner . . . Sarah Butler is the author of Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love, which was published in 15 languages. She has taught creative writing for numerous organizations and runs her own consultancy, managing literary projects that engage with urban regeneration. She lives in Manchester.
Publication date: 12 Mar 15 ISBN: 9781447287513 Price: £9.99 Format: S Format paperback Page extent: 64 Rights: WOR
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 18
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 19
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
Tender
Jon Ronson
Belinda McKeon
The brilliant new book from the Sunday Times top-ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test
The astonishing, lyrical and ambitious second novel by the winner of the Irish Book of the Year Award
In 2012, Jon Ronson’s online identity was stolen. He was delighted when the wrongdoers were quickly shamed into stopping by an outraged public. But then things got out of hand.
Catherine and James meet in Dublin in the late 1990s, she a college student, he a fledgling artist – both alive to new freedoms, new possibilities.
This encounter prompted Jon to explore modern-day public shaming. He learns how our collective fury can devastate its victim, how we then forget about it and move on, and it doesn’t cross our minds to wonder what we’ve done. Does someone who made a bad joke on Twitter really deserve to become a global hate target, lose their job, or have their life ruined? How is this renaissance of shaming changing the world and what is the true reason behind it? Powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, this is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eyeopening truths about the escalating war on human flaws – and our very scary part it in.
Catherine has never met anyone quite like James. Talented, adventurous and charismatic, he helps her to take on life with gusto, to find her voice as a writer and to meet with the people who will shape her world. But while Catherine’s horizons are expanding, James’s own life is becoming a prison; as changed as the new Ireland may be, it is still not a place in which he feels able to be truly himself. This is a dazzling exploration of the complexities of human relationships, a novel about friendship and youth, about selfhood and sexuality. Brave, moving and powerfully told, Tender confirms Belinda McKeon’s status as one of the most exciting contemporary voices in Irish fiction.
Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including Lost at Sea, The Psychopath Test, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Them: Adventures with Extremists. His first fictional screenplay, Frank, co-written with Peter Straughan, was directed by Lenny Abrahamson and stared Michael Fassbender. He lives in London and New York City.
Belinda McKeon’s first novel, Solace, won the Geoffrey Faber Prize and the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer Award, and was named Irish Book of the Year in 2011. She grew up in rural Ireland and now lives in New York, where she teaches at Barnard College.
Publication date: 12 Mar 15 Page extent: 304 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9780330492287 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447229797 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
Publication date: 26 Mar 15 Page extent: 432 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9780330529891 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447252177 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 20
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 21
The Ladies of the House
Sentenced to Life
Molly McGrann
Clive James
An atmospheric, imaginative and deliciously enjoyable novel for fans of Kate Atkinson and Muriel Spark
The masterly collection of verse from one of the great literary intelligences of the age
On a hot July day, three elderly people are found dead in a dilapidated house in Primrose Hill. Reading the story in a newspaper as she prepares to leave the country, Marie Gillies has an unshakable feeling that she is somehow to blame.
In the course of his new collection of poems – several of which have already become famous before their book publication – Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which – for all their open dealings with death and illness – are primarily a celebration of what is treasurable and memorable in our time here. Again and again, James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric accomplishment: he is also an immensely wise one, who delights in using poetic form to bring a razor-sharp focus to his thought. Miraculously, these poems see James writing with his insight and energy not only undiminished but positively charged by his situation: Sentenced to Life represents a career high point from one of the greatest literary intelligences of the age.
How did these three people come to live together, and how did they all die at once? The truth lies in a very different England, and in the secret world of the ladies of the house . . . Molly McGrann is a literary critic, poet and novelist. A former editor at the Paris Review, she is the author of two acclaimed novels, 360 Flip and Exurbia. Originally from the USA, she now lives in Oxfordshire with her family.
Clive James is the author of more than forty books. He has published verse, novels, collections of essays, literary criticism, television criticism, travel writing and five volumes of autobiography. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia, and in 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins memorial medal for literature. In 2012 he was appointed CBE and in 2003 an Officer of the Order of Australia.
Publication date: 26 Mar 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9781447274759 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447274766 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
Publication date: 9 Apr 15 ISBN: 9781447284048 Price: £14.99 Format: Demy Hardback Page extent: 208 Rights: WELXUSCN
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 22
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 23
Villa America
All Involved
Liza Klaussmann
Ryan Gattis
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tigers in Red Weather, a gorgeous novel of an enthralling marriage on the 1920s French Riviera
Propulsive, ambitious and utterly captivating, this is Picador’s biggest debut novel of the season
Sara and Gerald Murphy married young, and set forth together to create a beautiful world. This vision took shape at Villa America, their French Riviera home, where, with impeccable style and flamboyant imagination, they hosted and celebrated Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, counting them among their intimate friends. Taking inspiration from this real-life circle, Villa America is an unforgettable portrait of a complex, generous marriage, of artistry and tragedy. It asks what it really means to love, and what survives of love. Written with ravishing detail and enviable poise, it delivers on all the promise of Klaussmann’s bestselling debut. This is an overwhelming novel of passion, beauty, frailty and loss. Liza Klaussmann was born in New York but lives in London. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling novel Tigers in Red Weather.
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots: six days of looting, arson, assault and murder. America’s second biggest city in chaos. In All Involved, Ryan Gattis weaves a heart-stopping narrative from the perspectives of people whose stories of the riots were never told. In six sections, each covering a single day, we follow the intersecting lives of eighteen characters: gang members, firefighters, nurses, law enforcement officers and graffiti artists, every one changed for ever. Inspired by unprecedented access to the inner workings of the gangs at the heart of these extraordinary events, Gattis channels their experiences into a cinematic tale that is shocking and devastating. Though the events of All Involved are fictional, every word is infused with authenticity and intimacy. All Involved, an epic story of race, revenge and loyalty, announces the arrival of a major new talent. Ryan Gattis is a writer, creative writing lecturer, cofounder of a publishing collective and a member and creative director of a street art collective. He earned an MA in Creative Writing Prose from UEA and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Publication date: 23 Apr 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9781447212089 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £14.99 ISBN: 9781447284383 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
Publication date: 7 May 15 Page extent: 480 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9781447283164 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447283188 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 24
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 25
Furiously Happy
The Followers
Jenny Lawson
Rebecca Wait
The poignant and hilarious new memoir by the bestselling author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
The arresting new novel from the author of The View on the Way Down
It’s the difference between surviving life and living life. It’s the difference between taking a shower and teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair. Jenny Lawson – aka The Bloggess – returns with the follow-up to her bestselling memoir Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, recounting stories from everyday family life in her inimitably frank, hilarious, bizarre and endearing way. She describes her battles with depression and anxiety and her quest to overcome them by saying yes to absurd opportunities and making the good times gloriously good. For as Jenny says: ‘You can’t experience pain without also experiencing the baffling and ridiculous moments of being fiercely, unapologetically, intensely and (above all) furiously happy . . . ’ It’s a philosophy that has – quite literally – saved her life. Jenny Lawson – also known as The Bloggess – is an award-winning and wildly popular columnist and blogger, and author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. You can find her online at thebloggess.com or on Twitter @TheBloggess, where she has close to 400,000 followers.
On the windswept moors of northern England, a small religious cult has cut itself off from society, believing they have found meaning in a purposeless world. Led by their prophet, Nathaniel, they eagerly await the end times. But when the prophet brings in Stephanie and her rebellious daughter Judith, the group’s delicate dynamic is disturbed. Judith is determined to escape, but her feelings are complicated by a growing friendship with another of the children, the naive and trusting Moses, who has never experienced the outside world. Meanwhile, someone else is having doubts, unleashing a horrifying chain of events that will destroy the followers’ lives. In the aftermath, the survivors struggle to adjust to the real world, haunted by the same questions: if you’ve been persuaded to surrender your individual will, are you still responsible for your actions? And is there any way back? Rebecca Wait is the author of the highly acclaimed debut novel The View on the Way Down and has won numerous prizes for her short stories and plays. Originally from Oxfordshire, she now lives in London.
Publication date: 7 May 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447238355 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447238355 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
Publication date: 21 May 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9781447224730 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447284727 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 26
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 27
Your Father Sends His Love
Arbitrary Conduct
Stuart Evers
Lena Andersson
A mesmerizing new collection of stories from one of our most distinctive voices
Winner of the August Prize 2013
The author of the critically acclaimed, prize-winning collection Ten Stories About Smoking returns with eleven unforgettable stories of parental love and parental mistakes. Set in the past, present and future, they are animated by the unsaid, unified by their compassion, and distinguished by how beautifully they extract the luminous from the ordinary. Your Father Sends His Love is a book of powerful emotion: of vulnerability, duty, betrayal, loss, anger, fear and joy. While its characters often feel more they can express, they are in the hands of a masterful storyteller, who gives time to what might otherwise be incidental, and who dignifies the things that might otherwise pass us by. Stuart Evers is the author of Ten Stories About Smoking (winner of the London Book Award) and a highly acclaimed novel, If This is Home. He lives in London.
Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on famous artist Hugo Rask. The man himself sits in the audience, spellbound, and, when the two meet afterwards, he has the same effect on her. From now on Ester’s existence is intrinsically linked to that conversation, and the chain of events it unravels will change Ester’s life. Arbitrary Conduct is a dark love story, a story of total and desperate devotion about how willingly we betray ourselves in our longing to be loved. Lena Andersson is a journalist and novelist. She writes literary criticism for Svenska Dagbladet and is a columnist for Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest morning paper. She lives in Stockholm where she is considered one of the country’s sharpest contemporary analysts. Arbitrary Conduct is her fifth novel and won Sweden’s prestigious August Prize.
Publication date: 21 May 15 ISBN: 9781447280576 Price: £12.99 Format: Demy Hardback Page extent: 256 Rights: WELXUSCN
Publication date: 04 Jun 15 Page extent: 208 Rights: WEL ISBN: 9781447268918 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447268925 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 28
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 29
The Year of the Runaways
The Not-Dead and the Saved and Other Stories
Sunjeev Sahota
Kate Clanchy
The heart-stopping new book from one of Granta’s Best of British Novelists 2013
A beautifully moving collection of stories about love and loss from the awardwinning writer and poet
The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of four young Indians in desperate search of a new life. Newly and illegally arrived in Sheffield, Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar. Avtar has a secret that compels him to protect Randeep, with whom he has flown to the UK. Randeep, in his turn, has a visa-wife, Narinder, in a flat on the other side of town. Her cupboards are full of her husband’s clothes, in case the immigration men surprise her, but that is far from the greatest of her troubles . . .
None of us are perfect, in the way we love, age, or view the world. The Not-Dead and the Saved offers us an opportunity for reinvention: of ourselves, those we have lost, and the world in which we live. From a man doomed to spend his life trying to find solutions to cancer; to a new mother haunted by a swaddling, tablet-eating, great-aunt; to an intrepid literary agent who travels to the Yorkshire Moors to discover the next big thing, and ends up eating Anne Brontë’s rock cakes, we meet a host of characters who are desperately, creatively, and often hilariously trying to evade the underlying truths of their lives.
Moving between India and England, childhood and adulthood, parents and their children, darkness and light, this generous, unforgettable novel is – as with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance – a story of the ties that bind, and of the strange, fierce resilience of the human spirit.
The Not-Dead and the Saved is a cascade, of warm, wise and insightful stories about human nature, frank, funny, and sometimes desolating, but always underpinned by tenderness, and by a faith in enduring bonds of love.
Sunjeev Sahota was born in 1981 in Derbyshire. His debut novel, Ours are the Streets, was called ‘Nothing short of extraordinary’ by the Observer; and ‘A moral work of real intelligence and power’ by The Times. He is one of Granta’s Best of British Novelists 2013.
Kate Clanchy is the author of Meeting the English, shortlisted for the Costa Prize, and the much acclaimed memoir, Antigona and Me. Her poetry has brought her many literary awards and a wide audience. She was born and grew up in Scotland but now lives in Oxford.
Publication date: 04 Jun 15 Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9781447241645 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £14.99 ISBN: 9781447241669 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
Publication date: 18 Jun 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9780330535250 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £14.99 ISBN: 9781447284468 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Picador 30
The Remains Annie Freud
A powerful new collection from the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poet Annie Freud’s new book The Remains was inspired by a visit to an exhibition of Sung Dynasty works on paper, and their unselfconscious blending of illustration and poetry. However, the book has its imaginative origins in a huge collection of broken household china amassed by the author while digging her garden. Stranger items also came to light: a minute horseshoe, a fossilized scallop shell, a rusted metal silhouette of a hound. These worn shards and talismans soon began work on Freud’s singular imagination, and this extraordinary collection of poetry and art is the result. The Remains is concerned with what is left when everything seems broken or lost – and the new and unexpected things that happen when they are found again. Beautifully illustrated by the poet herself, The Remains is a powerful book of consolation and surprise from one of our most original literary voices. Annie Freud studied English and European Literature at the University of Warwick. Her first collection, The Best Man That Ever Was, received the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. Her second collection, The Mirabelles, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She is a tutor in poetry writing and lives in Dorset with her husband.
Publication date: 18 Jun 15 ISBN: 9781447271161 Price: £9.99 Format: S Format Paperback Page extent: 96 Rights: WOR
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Fiction 34 The Silent Sister 35 The Year of Taking Chances 36 The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! 37 Scarred for Life 38 The Nightingale 39 Total War Rome: Untitled 2 40 Welcome Home 41 Life Deluxe 42 Mightier than the Sword 43 War Babies 44 No Place to Die 45 Secrets of the Singer Girls 46 The Einstein Code 47 Dangerous 48 The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher 49 The Kraken Project 50 Jorgen Brekke Untitled Book 2 51 Untitled Baldacci 15
52 What Doesn’t Kill Her 53 Tiffany Blue 54 The Chosen Queen 55 The Scarlet Gospels 56 The Wrong Girl 57 Renegade 58 The Silence 59 Meet Me at the Pier Head 60 Coming Up Roses 61 The Mourner 62 China Miéville short stories 63 Summer at Shell Cottage 64 Blue Moon 65 You Are Dead
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 34
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 35
The Silent Sister
The Year of Taking Chances
Diane Chamberlain
Lucy Diamond
From the bestselling author of The Midwife’s Confession comes a potent story about family secrets and the ties that bind us
The bestselling author of The Beach Café is back with another warm and witty novel, all about New Year’s Eve and brand new starts . . .
What if everything you believed in turned out to be a lie? Riley MacPherson is returning to her childhood home in North Carolina. A place that holds cherished memories. While clearing out the house she finds a box of old newspaper articles – and a shocking family secret begins to unravel.
In the small Suffolk village of Larkmead, Gemma is throwing a New Year’s Eve party. It was supposed to be a small do but sociable husband Spencer has gone overboard with the invites and now the whole village is there. Including some new residents: Caitlin, who has returned to the village where she spent her teenage years to pack up her much-missed mum’s house and try and figure out what to do with her life; and Saffron, a PR whizz who is hiding a life-altering secret which no amount of spin can change.
Riley has spent her whole life believing that her older sister Lisa died tragically as a teenager. But now she’s starting to uncover the truth: her life has been built on a foundation of lies, told by everyone she loved. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? Diane Chamberlain is the bestselling author of numerous novels. Her storylines are often a combination of family drama, intrigue and suspense. She lives in Northern Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole. Visit www.dianechamberlain.com
At the party, the three women meet over a glass or two of bubbly and pass around fortune cookies as Big Ben counts down to midnight. There’ll be no futile diet vows or promises to hit the gym for these women: they are interested in taking a chance on a brighter future. As the year unfolds the women come to lean on each other more and more as shocks, disappointments and rifts test them to their limits. But those fortune cookie messages start seeming strangely accurate . . . Lucy Diamond lives in Bath with her husband and their three children. When she isn’t slaving away on a new book (ahem) you can find her on Twitter @LDiamondAuthor or on Facebook www.facebook.com/LucyDiamondAuthor
Publication date: 01 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447211303 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUSCN NonExclusive EU & EFTA
Publication date: 01 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447257783 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 350 Rights: WELXUSA Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 36
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 37
The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!
Scarred for Life
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Kerry Wilkinson
You’re never too old to have some fun . . .
The ninth novel in the DS Jessica Daniel series from the number one bestselling author
The little old lady is back! This time, Martha Andersson and her friends – the League of Pensioners – have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and are enjoying the bright lights of Las Vegas. This is their opportunity for a new lease of life and they plan to make the most of it. But before long, they are up to their old tricks. And with ingenious tactics, a pair of false teeth and a wheelchair each, they plot to outwit the security system at one of the casinos. As their antics become more and more daring, Martha and her friends head back to Sweden to continue their money-making schemes. However, they aren’t the only ones planning on stealing bucket loads of cash and soon find themselves pitted against a gang of dangerous criminals. Can the group of elderly friends work together to outsmart the younger robbers and get away with their biggest heist yet? Or will this job be a step too far for the League of Pensioners?
DI Jessica Daniel is not having a good week. Her wallet’s been nicked, the refurbished incident room is already falling apart, and a new football-mad constable is driving her crazy. She also has bigger things on her mind. A student’s body has been dumped in a wheelie bin at the back of a university building, with a vague link to an Olympic medallist and a theory that it could have been an induction that went wrong. There’s the tattooed shop raider who has her team stumped; someone attacking lone women; a chief inspector who seems to have a problem with her; and someone putting letters through her front door insisting that she’s caught ‘the wrong man’. Worlds are colliding for Jessica – and, if she’s not careful, someone close to her might not make it out in one piece.
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg is a Swedish author who has written seventeen books in several genres, including popular science, cartoon, children’s and historical fiction. Her bestselling novel The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules was her first book to be published in English.
Kerry Wilkinson’s debut, Locked In, the first title in the detective Jessica Daniel series, was written as a challenge to himself but became a UK Number One Kindle bestseller within three months of release. Kerry has a degree in journalism, plays cricket badly and complains about the weather a lot. He was born in Somerset but now lives in Lancashire, thus explaining the climate gripes.
Publication date: 15 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447274902 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 450 Rights: WEL
Publication date: 29 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447247890 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 300 Rights: WELXUS
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 38
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 39
The Nightingale
Total War Rome: Untitled 2
Kristin Hannah
David Gibbins
Two sisters. One needs to learn to be brave. One needs to learn to be afraid. Bravery, courage, fear and love in a time of war
The second book in the epic Total War series
Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and Viann finds herself isolated, so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters’ relationship and strength is tested. With life changing in unbelievably horrific ways, Viann and Isabelle will find themselves facing frightening situations and responding in ways they never thought possible as bravery and resistance take different forms in each of their actions. Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with atrocities, but also humanity and strength, Kristin Hannah’s novel will provoke thought and discussion that will have readers talking long after they finish reading.
Inspired by the bestselling game, Total War: Rome II . Through David Gibbins’ powerful storytelling and astonishing historical research, he takes us on a journey to the core of Roman times, through a world of extraordinary military tactics and political intrigue that Rome’s warriors and citizens used to cheat death. David Gibbins is the author of eight previous historical adventure novels that have sold over two million copies and are published in twenty-nine languages. He taught archaeology, ancient history and art history as a university lecturer, before turning to writing fiction full-time. He is a passionate diver and has led numerous expeditions, some that led to extraordinary discoveries of ten-thousand-yearold artefacts. David divides his time between England and a farm and wilderness tract in Canada where he does most of his writing. www.davidgibbins.com
Kristin Hannah is a New York Times bestselling author. She is a former lawyer turned writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle, and Hawaii. Night Road was a 2011 TV Book Club Summer Read selection. Publication date: 29 Jan 15 Page extent: 352 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447283270 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £14.99 ISBN: 9781447283058 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
Publication date: 29 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447237112 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR (US and CAN Sold)
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 40
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 41
Welcome Home
Life Deluxe
Margaret Dickinson
Jens Lapidus
There are some things which even the closest friendship cannot survive . . .
From father to daughter. From sister to brother. The legacy is passed on
Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil Horton have been friends for over twenty years, sharing the joys and sorrows of a tough life as the wives of fishermen in Grimsby. So it was no surprise that their children were close and that Edie’s son, Frank, and Lil’s daughter, Irene, would fall in love and marry at a young age. But the declaration of war in 1939 changed everything. Frank went off to fight, and Irene and baby Tommy, along with Edie’s youngest son, are sent to the countryside for safety. With Edie’s husband, Archie, fishing the dangerous waters in the North Sea and daughter Beth in London doing ‘important war work’, Edie’s family is torn apart. Friendship sustains Edie and Lil, but tragedy follows and there’s also concern that Beth seems to have disappeared. But it is Irene’s return, during the VE day celebrations, that sends shock waves through the family and threatens to tear Edie and Lil’s friendship apart forever. 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. Her 2012 and 2013 novels, Jenny’s War and The Clippie Girls, were both top twenty best sellers and her 2014 novel, Fairfield Hall, featured on the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list. Publication date: 29 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447237259 Price: £6.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 300 Rights: WELXUS
Drug dealer Jorge is just out of prison but already bored with his new existence selling lattes and cappuccinos at a cafe. Who wouldn’t be? But big money looms, if he can pull off an audacious last heist. What he doesn’t know is that the police are already closing in: an undercover investigator has wormed his way deep into Stockholm’s criminal circles, close to Jorge. And also close to JW, the part-time student, part-time cab driver who turned to crime – and got in over his head – in order to keep himself in with a rich party crowd. At the same time, someone is trying to take down the Godfather himself, Radovan Kranjic. What would Stockholm be like with Radovan gone? Who would be Stockholm’s new king – or queen – of crime? As the novel unfurls, answers will be found amid the voracious hunt for money, power and a carefree life. The goal is easy – and the life deluxe. Jens Lapidus is the man behind the most talked about Swedish – first novel in a decade: Easy Money – the first title in the internationally bestselling Stockholm Noir Trilogy. A young and highly successful criminal defense lawyer, Lapidus’ professional experience of representing some of the most notorious criminals in the country has given him unique insights into a world that most people would rather not acknowledge. Jens Lapidus lives in Stockholm with his wife.
Publication date: 29 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447237303 Price: £20.00 Format: Royal Hardback Page extent: 300 Rights: WELXUS
Publication date: 12 Feb 15 ISBN: 9781447256434 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUS Non-Exclusive Rest of Europe
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 42
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 43
Mightier than the Sword
War Babies
Jeffrey Archer
Annie Murray
The fifth gripping novel in the epic Clifton Chronicles series
From the bestselling author of Chocolate Girls comes a brand new novel set in Birmingham during World War II
When the bomb goes off, how many passengers on the Buckingham lose their lives? You will only find out if you read the opening chapter of Mightier than the Sword. When Harry visits his publisher in New York, he’s told that he’s been elected the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who’s imprisoned in a Russian gulag in Siberia. Babakov’s crime? Writing a book called Uncle Joe, an insight into what it was like to work for Josef Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book published, that he puts his own life in danger. Emma Clifton, now the chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of the IRA attack on the Buckingham. Some board members feel she should resign, but her son Sebastian Clifton, newly elected to the board, is determined that she’ll remain Chairman. Once again, Giles’s political career is thrown off balance by none other than his old adversary, Major Alex Fisher. Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories include Kane and Abel, A Prisoner of Birth and Cat O’ Nine Tales, has topped the bestseller lists around the world, with sales of over 270 million copies. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction. He is married and lives in London and Cambridge.
Rachel Booker has had a difficult start in life. When her father dies, deep in gambling debt, her mother must harden herself to make ends meet, but becomes so hardened she has little room left for affection or warmth. Mother and daughter work at the open market in Birmingham, selling whatever they can find just to put a little food on the table. But the market has a silver lining: it’s there that Rachel makes her first childhood friend, Danny. As they grow older, the friendship turns into something more and their innocent romance gives Rachel the care and comfort she’s always craved. But at just sixteen, as World War II breaks out, Rachel falls pregnant. They marry in haste but it isn’t long before Danny is called up. Left on the homefront with a new baby and little else, Rachel must scrape by with the other residents of Sparkbrook. But if Danny ever makes it home, will he be the same boy she loved so fiercely? And if Rachel can sustain the family until then, will she end up as hardhearted as her own mother? Annie Murray was born in Berkshire and read English at St John’s College, Oxford. Annie has four children and lives near Reading.
Publication date: 26 Feb 15 ISBN: 9781447234012 Price: £20.00 Format: Royal Hardback Page extent: 340 Rights: WELXUS Publication date: 26 Feb 15 ISBN: 9780230748262 Price: £20.00 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUSCN
Publication date: 9 Apr 15 ISBN: 9781447234029 Price: £6.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 340 Rights: WELXUS
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 44
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 45
No Place to Die
Secrets of the Singer Girls
Clare Donoghue
Kate Thompson
The second book in the DI Lockyer series Imagine your worst nightmare . . .
A heart-warming and moving novel about the brave, hardworking women who kept the homefires burning in the East End of London during World War Two
DS Jane Bennett takes charge of South London’s Lewisham murder squad following the temporary suspension of her boss, DI Mike Lockyer. His involvement with a female witness resulted in her murder. Jane is sent to a site in Elmstead Woods where she stumbles upon a sinister murder scene. It seems that the body is that of missing university student, Maggie Hungerford. Her killer recorded her last moments, until the game lost its thrill . . . Two men admit to having had a sexual relationship with Maggie. Both deny murder. Someone is lying. Lockyer returns to work and is shocked into supporting Bennett in a case where it is evident that their hunt is for a killer with a mind so twisted that he, or she, is likely to stop at nothing. After ten years in London, working for a City law firm, Clare Donoghue moved back to her home town in Somerset to undertake an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University. Never Look Back was her first novel and in 2011, whilst still an unpublished manuscript under the title of Chasing Shadows, was long-listed for the CWA Debut Dagger.
1942. Sixteen-year-old Poppy Percival turns up at the gates of Trout’s clothing factory in Bethnal Green with no idea what her new life might have in store. There to start work as a seamstress and struggling to get to grips with the noise, dirt and devastation of East London, she can’t help but miss the quiet countryside of home. But Poppy harbours a dark secret – one that wrenched her away from all she knew and from which she is still suffering . . . And Poppy’s not the only one with a secret. Each of her new friends at the factory is hiding something painful. Vera Shadwell, the forelady, has had a hard life with scars both visible and concealed; her sister Daisy has romantic notions that could get her in trouble; and Sal Fowler, a hardworking mother, worries about her two evacuated boys for good reason. Bound by ties of friendship, loyalty and family, the devastating events of the war will throw each of their lives into turmoil but also bring these women closer to each other than they could ever have imagined. Kate Thompson is a journalist with over fifteen 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 a seasoned ghostwriter. Secrets of the Singer Girls is her first novel.
Publication date: 12 Mar 15 ISBN: 9781447239345 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 300 Rights: World
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 46
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 47
The Einstein Code
Dangerous
Tom West
Jessie Keane
An action-packed thriller by the Sunday Times bestselling author
Whatever the price, she is willing to pay it . . .
A lost cipher. A race against time to decode it.
Coronation year: 1953. Fifteen-year-old Clara Dolan’s world is turned upside down following the shock death of her mother. Battling to keep what remains of her family together, Clara vows to keep her younger siblings, Bernadette and Harry, safe whatever the cost.
Marine archaeologists Kate Wetherall and Lou Bates are diving off Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, when a torpedo-shaped object hurtles through the water towards them; the fuselage of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane. In the cockpit, they find a corroded metal cylinder the size of a baton. Landing back on US soil, Kate and Lou are arrested and interrogated by special forces, and the cylinder confiscated. Behind the arrests is Glena Buckingham, CEO of the powerful energy conglomerate Eurenergy, as she too has discovered that the wrecked plane may have held precious secret cargo. Meanwhile, an extraordinary piece of footage has come to light – of Einstein talking about a radical new defence technology he had been working on. Whoever can decrypt the lost cipher, which holds the key to Einstein’s secret defence technology, could hold the key to global power. Tom West is the pseudonym for an internationally bestselling author of nine novels. Private Down Under, which he co-wrote with James Patterson under the name Michael White, is the latest in the Private series. Tom West lives in Perth, Australia.
With the arrival of the swinging sixties, Clara finds herself swept up in London’s dark underworld where the glamour of Soho’s dazzling nightclubs sit in stark contrast to the terrifying gangland violence that threatens the new life she has worked so hard to build. Sinking further into an existence defined by murder and betrayal, Clara soon realizes that success often comes at a very high price . . . Jessie Keane was born rich. Then the family business went bust and she was left poor and struggling in dead end jobs, so she knows both ends of the spectrum and tells it straight. Her fascination with London and the underworld led her to write the number one Heatseeker Dirty Game, followed by bestsellers Black Widow, Scarlet Women, Jail Bird, The Make and Playing Dead. She now lives in Hampshire. You can reach Jessie on her website www.jessiekeane.com
Publication date: 26 Mar 15 ISBN: 9781447210344 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 48
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 49
The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher
The Kraken Project
Ahn Do-hyun
Douglas Preston
A life-affirming, inspirational modern fable about love, life and daring to be different
A new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Impact
The life of the salmon is a predictable one: swimming upstream to the place of its birth to spawn, and then dying. This is the story of one salmon who dared to be different – to leap beyond its fate. It’s a story about growing up, and about aching and ardent love. For swimming upstream means pursuing something the salmon cannot see: a dream. Ahn Do-hyun is a multi-million bestselling, award-winning Korean poet. He was born in 1961 in Yeocheon, Korea, and graduated from Wonkwang University where he studied Korean literature. His writing career took off when he won the Daegu Maeil Shinmun Annual Literary Contest with his poem ‘Nakdong River’ in 1981 and the Dong-A Ilbo Annual Literary Contest with his poem ‘Jeon Bong-jun Goes to Seoul’ in 1984. Ahn also received the 1996 Young Poet´s Award and the 1998 Kim So-wol Literature Prize. This is his first work to be translated into English.
NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn’s great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unstable and dangerous, requiring the probe to be outfitted with artificial intelligence software. Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed ‘Dorothy’, a powerful, self-modifying AI whose potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing, Dorothy flees into the Internet. Former CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to help track down the rogue AI. As Ford and Shepherd search for Dorothy, they realize that her horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her in ways they can barely imagine. Traumatized, angry, and relentlessly hunted, Dorothy devises a plan. Is the AI bent on saving the world . . . or on wiping out the cancer that is humankind? Douglas Preston is the author of The Monster of Florence and the New York Times bestsellers Impact, Tyrannosaur Canyon, and Blasphemy. He is the co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the famed Pendergast series of novels, including such bestselling titles as The Book of the Dead and The Wheel of Darkness, as well as The Relic, which was made into a number one box office hit movie.
Publication date: 09 Apr 15 ISBN: 9781447269991 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 176 Rights: WEL
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 50
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 51
Jørgen Brekke Untitled Book 2
Untitled Baldacci 15
Jørgen Brekke
David Baldacci
Jørgen Brekke returns at the top of his game in this nonstop thrill ride through place – and time
New standalone thriller from the Sunday Times number one bestseller
A promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered – her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully atop her body, playing a mysterious lullaby that sounds familiar, but that no one can quite place. Chief Inspector Odd Singsaker, of the Trondheim Police Department, still recovering from a serious illness, is called in to investigate. Another young girl, also known for her melodic singing voice, suddenly goes missing. As the Trondheim police follow the trail of this deadly killer, it becomes clear that both cases are somehow connected to a centuries-old ballad called ‘The Golden Peace,’. This lullaby promises the soundest, sweetest sleep to the listener – and as time ticks by, the elusive killer seems as if he will stop at nothing to get his hands on this perfect lullaby. Jørgen Brekke lives in Trondheim with his wife and three children. His first novel, Where Evil Lies, was on the Norwegian bestseller lists for four months and has been sold in twelve countries.
Amos Decker is a former professional football player whose career was ended by a terrible injury. Now a police detective, Amos is still haunted by a side effect from the accident he can never forget. One night Decker comes home from a stakeout to find his wife, young daughter and brother-in-law horrifically murdered. Obviously scarred and nearly broken, Decker has to use his skills as a detective and his unusual brain capacity to try and catch the monster who killed his family. David Baldacci is a worldwide bestselling novelist. With his books published in over 45 different languages and in more than 80 countries, and with over 110 million copies in print, he is one of the world’s favourite storytellers. David is also the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating illiteracy across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit him at www.DavidBaldacci.com
Publication date: 16 Apr 15 ISBN: 9781447222743 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 432 Rights: WELXUSCN NonExclusive EU & EFTA
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 52
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 53
What Doesn’t Kill Her
Tiffany Blue
Carla Norton
Karen Swan
‘Brilliant. A perfect blend of literary style, psychological insight and edge-of-seat thriller’ Jeffery Deaver
A return to the characters from the bestselling Christmas at Tiffany’s
In this sequel to Norton’s debut novel, The Edge of Normal, Reeve is moving closer to the normal life she so craves, no longer defined by the kidnapping that changed her life. But when her abductor, Daryl Wayne Flint, escapes from a hospital for the criminally insane, Reeve’s new-found strength and tranquility are about to be tested in ways neither she nor Flint could have imagined. Carla Norton is the co-author of the number one New York Times bestselling Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box. She covered that true case of abduction, captivity and abuse as a reporter and became an authority on how women survive the misery of captivity and re-build their lives. Carla lives in Florida.
Everyone knows Cassie and Henry are meant to be together. She’s got a smile on her face and a Tiffany’s ring on her finger and all that’s needed is a date to get to the ‘I do’s.’ Only, Cassie’s Vintage Catering business is booked for every Ascot for the next five years, she won’t commit to a mortgage on a place together and she’s spending more time helping her friend Suzy plan other people’s weddings than her own. Suzy and Henry’s wild and younger cousin Gem has no such hesitations. She’s heading to the aisle at a sprint. But Cassie notices fault-lines in the relationship no one else appears to see, and her friendly advice to think twice spectacularly backfires. As Henry departs for a jade mine hunt in Africa, Cassie commits to a summer in Cornwall to try to make amends with Gem. She tells herself everyone has to be allowed to make their own mistakes, but when news comes that Henry’s disappeared, she realizes she’s made one of her own – and that a happy ending and Happy Ever After aren’t necessarily one and the same. Karen Swan was previously a fashion editor and lives in East Sussex with her husband and three children. Her first novel, Players, was published in 2010, followed by Prima Donna. In 2011 Karen’s third novel, Christmas at Tiffany’s, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.
Publication date: 07 May 15 Page extent: 360 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447230724 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447284451 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
Publication date: 07 May 15 ISBN: 9781447280194 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 352 Rights: WELXUS
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 54
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 55
The Chosen Queen
The Scarlet Gospels
Joanna Courtney
Clive Barker
1066: A date that changed the course of history; a date that changed her life forever
The long-anticipated new novel from bestselling author Clive Barker
Love should be free – that is what Edyth Alfgarsdottir has always believed. As a young girl she witnessed Earl Harold standing barefoot to handfast himself to the beautiful Lady Svana and has yearned for her own lovematch ever since. Amongst England’s royal court, political matches are rife, while King Edward is still without an heir. When her family are exiled to the wild Welsh court, Edyth unexpectedly finds herself falling for the charismatic Griffin – first King of all of Wales. Becoming his Queen catapults Edyth onto the opposing side of a bitter feud between England and Wales. Years later, Edyth is in line to take the crown of England. This time the lines of love and duty are far more blurred. As 1066 dawns, Edyth will be asked to make a sacrifice, perhaps the greatest of all. In the midst of war, can love – and freedom – survive? Joanna Courtney has wanted to be a writer ever since she could read. So it was no surprise when Joanna pursued her passion for books at Cambridge University. Joanna is fascinated by defining moments in history and has loved being able to immerse herself in the world of the Anglo-Saxons, Normans and Vikings whilst writing The Queen’s of the Conquest trilogy.
The last of Earth’s magicians are living in fear. A Cenobite Hell Priest known as Pinhead is killing them off, gorging on their knowledge to enhance his own magical powers as part of a quest to takeover Hell. Meanwhile, Private Investigator Harry D’Amour is fulfilling the final wishes of the dead, who communicate with his business associate, the blind medium Norma Paine. But while investigating one such case, Harry inadvertently opens up a rift between Hell and the real world. When nemesis Pinhead emerges through the portal, a vicious battle ensues. After failing to enlist Harry as one of his Scarlet Gospels – an elite group of messengers who will witness his takeover of the underworld – Pinhead captures Norma and Harry realizes he must go through hell – literally – to save her. Clive Barker is a legendary author, film-maker and visual artist. His accumen as a horror writer has been praised as some of the most influential to pop culture in recent times. Stephen King hailed Barker as ‘the future of horror’. His Books of Blood series, films, comic books, art, and his novella The Hellbound Heart, which first introduced the world to Pinhead and inspired the Hellraiser movies, have amassed a global cult following and cemented their place in pop culture history. The Scarlet Gospels marks Barker’s highly anticipated return to horror fiction.
Publication date: 07 May 15 ISBN: 9781447281900 Price: £12.99 Format: Royal Hardback Page extent: 352 Rights: WELXUSCN
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 56
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 57
The Wrong Girl
Renegade
David Hewson
Kerry Wilkinson
The second book in the thrilling new Amsterdam-set series
The second book in a page-turning new trilogy by Kindle bestselling author Kerry Wilkinson
Amsterdam is bursting at the seams with children trying to get a glimpse of their hero and families enjoying the occasion. The police are out in force, struggling to manage the crowds on one of the busiest days of the year. Brigadier Pieter Vos is on duty with his young assistant, Laura Bakker, when the first grenade hits. In the chaos a young girl wearing a pink jacket is kidnapped. But the abducted child isn’t the daughter of an Amsterdam aristocrat as the terrorists first thought. She’s the daughter of an impoverished Georgian prostitute, friendless and trapped in the web of vice that is Amsterdam’s Red Light District. As the security forces and the police clash over the ensuing investigation, Vos and Laura Bakker struggle to uncover the shocking truth behind the girl’s abduction. What is the life of one immigrant child worth in the greater political game emerging around them? David Hewson is the author of ten novels in the highly acclaimed Detective Nic Costa series, and is the author to bring the Danish TV crime drama The Killing to the literary market place. David’s new detective crime series started with The House of Dolls, which published in 2014. Formerly a journalist working for the Sunday Times,The Times and the Independent, he lives in Kent.
Silver Blackthorn is on the run. All she really wants is to be reunited with her family and friends but the time for thinking about herself has passed. Now the fates of eleven other teenagers are in her hands – and they are all looking to her for a plan. With an entire country searching for the escaped Offerings, Silver is under pressure to keep them all from the clutches of the Minister Prime, King Victor and the Kingsmen. As expectations are piled upon the girl with the silver streak in her hair, she realises that life will never be the same again. Huge changes are on the horizon and Silver is in the thick of them . . . Kerry Wilkinson’s debut, Locked In, the first title in the detective Jessica Daniel series, was written as a challenge to himself but became a UK Number One Kindle bestseller within three months of release. Kerry has a degree in journalism, plays cricket badly and complains about the weather a lot. He was born in Somerset but now lives in Lancashire, thus explaining the climate gripes.
Publication date: 07 May 15 Page extent: 460 Rights: WELXUS ISBN: 9781447246183 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447249504 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 58
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 59
The Silence
Meet Me at the Pier Head
F. R. Tallis
Ruth Hamilton
In the depths of the ocean, no one will hear you scream
Together they could take on the world . . .
1941. German submarine U-471 patrols the stormy inhospitable waters of the north Atlantic. It is commanded by Siegfried Lorenz, a maverick SS officer who does not believe in the war he is bound by duty and honour to fight in. U-471 receives a triple-encoded message with instructions to collect two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic coast and transport them to the base at Brest, and British submarine commander, Sutherland, and an Austrian academic, Klein, are taken on board. Contact between the prisoners and Lorenz has been forbidden, and it transpires that this special mission has been ordered by an unknown source, high up in the SS. It is rumoured that Klein is working on a secret weapon that could change the course of the war . . . Then, Sutherland goes rogue, and a series of shocking, brutal events occur. In the aftermath, disturbing things start happening on the boat. It seems that a lethal, supernatural force is stalking the crew, wrestling with Lorenz for control. A thousand feet under the dark, icy waves, it doesn’t matter how loud you scream . . .
Headmaster Theodore Quinn has lived in Liverpool since coming over from America to fight for Britain in the 1940s. Over ten years later he is harbouring two secrets and scars that are both physical and emotional. Where women are concerned, he and his secrets are a closed shop, until Tia Bellamy walks into his life. A nuisance, and a Kentish daughter to an ageing dynasty, Tia Bellamy cuts through Theo’s reserve, and the first of his secrets is shared with her. The pair grow close to the residents of the Lady Streets, a tight community that looks after its own, and in particular to Maggie Stone and her little granddaughter Rosie. Then Theo reveals his second secret, and everything in their life begins to change . . . Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including Mulligan’s Yard, The Bells of Scotland Road, Lights of Liverpool and A Liverpool Song. She is one of the north-west of England’s most popular writers. She was born in Bolton, and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She now lives in Liverpool.
F. R. Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has received or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the New London Writers’ Award, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Elle Prix de Letrice, and two Edgars. His latest novels include The Forbidden, The Sleep Room and The Voices.
Publication date: 21 May 15 ISBN: 9781447236047 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 60
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 61
Coming Up Roses
The Mourner
Rachael Lucas
Susan Wilkins
A charming novel from the bestselling author of Sealed with a Kiss, blooming with humour and romance!
‘A thundering new talent – read it and be gripped’ Jessie Keane, author of Lawless
Would-be gardening journalist Daisy can’t believe her luck when her parents announce they’re off on a midlife crisis gap year, leaving her in charge of their gorgeous garden, much in need of her expert TLC. And coming after a bad break-up, some peace and quiet in the countryside is just what she needs. Only, village life turns out to be anything but – with nosey neighbours and greedy developers instantly stirring up trouble. What Daisy really needs is a good friend, or three. So when she comes across Elaine, Coral and Lauren, she’s relieved to have multiple shoulders to cry on. But each of the new friends is dealing with a drama of their own – a marriage in crisis, a family secret and juggling a hectic business. As Daisy wrestles the garden into something like beautiful order, can she get a grip on her new feelings for handsome Irish rogue Garret and stop her parents selling up to a developer? Rachael Lucas is a mother, outgoing introvert, reader, bed lover, early morning riser, night owl and a sleep deprived mass of contradictions. Rachael lives by the seaside in the North West of England with her partner, their blended family of six children, a very hairy dog and two and a half cats. For more about Rachael, visit her blog at www.talesfromthevillage.com or say hello to her on Twitter, @karamina.
Kaz Phelps has escaped her brother and her criminal past to become an anonymous art student in Glasgow. But can life under the witness protection scheme ever give her the freedom she craves? Banged up and brooding, Joey Phelps faces thirty years behind bars. Still, with cash and connections on the outside, can an overstretched prison system really contain him? Helen Warner, once Kaz’s lawyer and lover, is a rising star in Parliament. But has she made the kind of enemies who have no regard for the democratic process, or even the law? Ousted from the police and paralysed by tragic personal loss, Nicci Armstrong is in danger of going under. Can a job she doesn’t want with a private security firm help her to put her life back on track? A murder dressed up as suicide and corruption that goes to the heart of government unite ex-cop and ex-con in a deadly quest to learn the truth. What they discover proves what both have always known – villainy is rife on both sides of the law. 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. The Informant was her first novel.
Publication date: 21 May 15 ISBN: 9781447265481 Price: £6.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 300 Rights: WELXUS
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 62
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 63
China Miéville short stories
Summer at Shell Cottage
China Miéville
Lucy Diamond
A new collection of short stories from this critically acclaimed and multiple awardwinning author
The new must-pack beach read from bestselling author Lucy Diamond
A short story collection comprising seven previously published short stories and multiple brand new, neverbefore-seen short stories. China Miéville is a three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. He has written numerous novels and been published to dazzling critical acclaim.
The Tarrant family have been holidaying in a large seaside house in Devon every summer for years. Though children Freya and Robert are now grown up, and have families of their own, the tradition has continued. But this year things are heartbreakingly different: patriarch Alec has died suddenly after forty happy years of marriage to Olivia. Now retired and widowed, Olivia is persuaded that going back to Devon is just the distraction she needs. It will also give her the peace and quiet to work through a confusing clause in Alec’s will: he’s left a sum of money to a mysterious Leo Browne, someone she’s never heard of before . . . Freya also needs to get away from it all. She’s struggling with her work, her marriage and the loss of her beloved dad and it doesn’t help that her husband is so distant. Her brother Robert seems to have a better handle on things, with a new family and exciting career to boast of. But the truth is far from rosy. Over one last summer at Shell Cottage, the Tarrants may just find that family life is rarely postcard-perfect, but are they strong enough to weather the storms? Lucy Diamond lives in Bath with her husband and their three children. When she isn’t slaving away on a new book (ahem) you can find her on Twitter @LDiamondAuthor or Facebook www.facebook.com/LucyDiamondAuthor
Publication date: 04 Jun 15 Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9780230770171 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £18.99 ISBN: 9780230770188 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 64
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 65
Blue Moon
You Are Dead
Pam Weaver
Peter James
A fantastic new saga novel from bestselling author Pam Weaver, her first with Pan Macmillan
Brighton’s finest detective is back . . . the latest Roy Grace novel by the multi-million copy bestselling author Peter James
Worthing, 1931. Money is still tight following The Great Depression, and the Bateman family must all pull their weight to make ends meet. But this happy, hardworking family is shocked to their core when father Cecil dies tragically in a fishing accident. As they all handle their heart-breaking grief in different ways, brother Percy turns to the Black Shirts who have recently started making trouble in the town. As the troubles escalate to violence, will he see right from wrong?
The last words Nick Walton hears from his fiancée, Logan Somervile, are in a terrified mobile phone call from her. She has driven into the underground car park beneath a block of flats in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished.
It falls to Polly, the daughter of the family, to hold them all together. But she has her own dreams for a life outside the seaside town and a long-buried family secret may just upturn all her hard work . . . Pam Weaver’s saga novels, There’s Always Tomorrow, Better Days Will Come, Pack Up Your Troubles and For Better For Worse, 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.
That same afternoon, workmen digging in a park elsewhere in the city unearth the remains of a young woman who has been dead for thirty years. At first, to Roy Grace and his team, these two events seem unconnected. But then another young woman goes missing and another body from the past surfaces. Meanwhile, an eminent psychiatrist meets with a man who claims to know a piece of information about Logan. Later, Roy Grace makes the chilling realization that this man may hold the key to both the past and the present . . . Brighton has its first serial killer in over eighty years. Peter James is one of Britain’s bestselling crime writers. His novels, including the Sunday Times number one bestselling Roy Grace series, have been translated into thirty-six languages, with worldwide sales of fifteen million copies. He divides his time between his homes in Notting Hill, London, and near Brighton in Sussex.
Publication date: 21 May 15 ISBN: 9781447275886 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 350 Rights: WEL
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Mantle 68 The Liar’s Chair 69 Satellite People 70 Early Warning 71 Hausfrau 72 The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot 73 Death in the Rainy Season 74 The Living and the Dead in Winsford 75 Game of Mirrors 76 The Watercolourist 77 The Last Post 78 The Reader on the 6:27
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 68
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 69
The Liar’s Chair
Satellite People
Rebecca Whitney
Hans Olav Lahlum
A startling psychological crime debut set in Brighton
The second novel in a hugely compelling series, from the Norwegian Agatha Christie
Rachel Teller and her husband David appear happy, prosperous and fulfilled. The big house, the successful business . . . They have everything. However, control, not love, fuels their relationship and David has no idea his wife indulges in drunken indiscretions. When Rachel kills a man in a hit and run, the meticulously maintained veneer over their life begins to crack. Destroying all evidence of the accident, David insists they continue as normal. Rachel though is racked with guilt and as her behaviour becomes increasingly self-destructive she not only inflames David’s darker side, but also uncovers her own long-suppressed memories of shame. Can Rachel confront her past and atone for her terrible crime? Not if her husband has anything to do with it . . . Rebecca Whitney studied Creative Arts at Nottingham Trent University. After working for a record company she switched to film production, moving up from tea girl to producer, and making music videos and documentaries. Since relocating to Brighton, she has completed the Creative Writing Certificate at Sussex University, and now lives and writes by the sea with her husband and two children.
Oslo, 1969. When a wealthy man collapses and dies during a dinner party, Norwegian Police Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen, known as K2, is left shaken. For the victim, Magdalon Schelderup, a multimillionaire businessman and former resistance fighter, had contacted him only the day before, fearing for his life. It soon becomes clear that every one of Schelderup’s ten dinner guests is a suspect in the case. The businessman was disliked, even despised, by many of those close to him; and his recently revised will may have set events in motion. But which of the guests – from his current and former wives and three children to his attractive secretary and old cohorts in the resistance – had the greatest motive for murder? Hans Olav Lahlum is a Norwegian crime author, historian, chess player and politician. The books that make up his crime series, featuring Criminal Investigator Kolbjørn Kristiansen (known as K2) and his precocious young assistant Patricia, are bestsellers in Norway. The third book in the series, The Catalyst Killing, is out soon . . .
Publication date: 15 Jan 15 Page extent: 224 Rights: WOR ISBN: 9781447265818 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447265825 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 70
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 71
Early Warning
Hausfrau
Jane Smiley
Jill Alexander Essbaum
The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize
An extraordinary debut literary pageturner with echoes of Madame Bovary
1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna’s sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. But though some members of the family remain mired in the past, others will finally attempt to move beyond the lives they have always known and some will push forward as never before. The dark shadow of the Vietnam War hangs over every one . . . In sickness and health, through their best and darkest times, the Langdon family will live and love and suffer against the broad, merciless sweep of American history. Moving from the 1950s to the 1980s, Early Warning is epic storytelling at its most wise and compelling from a writer at the height of her powers. Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, as well as five works of non-fiction and a series of books for young adults. In 2006 she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature.
Anna Benz, an American woman in her late thirties, married Bruno, a Swiss banker, and made a new life with him in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zürich, where they live in comfort and affluence with their three young children. But despite the tranquility and order of her domestic life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift in life and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or his family, or even, increasingly, with her own thoughts and emotions, Anna attempts to assert her agency in life in the only way that makes sense to her: by engaging in short-lived but intense sexual affairs with men who proposition her. But crossing a line like this one has consequences; just when Anna tries to extract herself from the mess she’s in, she is caught, setting off a chain of events that ends in unspeakable tragedy. As her life crashes down around her, Anna must now find out where one must go when there is no going back . . . Jill Alexander Essbaum is a poet distinguished as the author of the 1999 Bakeless Prize winner in poetry, Heaven. She is associate editor for the online journal Anti-, and blogger for the Best American Poetry blog. She lived in Zürich, Switzerland, 2005-2008 and currently resides in Austin, Texas. Hausfrau is her first novel.
Publication date: 26 Feb 15 Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447275640 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £18.99 ISBN: 9781447275633 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
Publication date: 12 Mar 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9781447280798 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £18.99 ISBN: 9781447280804 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 72
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 73
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot
Death in the Rainy Season
Blaine Harden
Anna Jaquiery
The bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 tells one man’s astonishing story, set against the world’s longest-lasting totalitarian state: North Korea
The second stunning novel in the Commandant Serge Morel series from the author of The Lying-Down Room
A non-fiction thriller by international bestselling author Blaine Harden (Escape from Camp 14) that explores the world’s most repressive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obscure: Kim Il Sung, the former North Korean leader and No Kum Sok, once the state’s youngest jet fighter pilot. Shortly before the Korean War ended, No Kum Sok met Kim Il Sung, who congratulated him for his flying skill and his courage. A few months later, No Kum Sok stole a Soviet-made MiG15 and flew it to a US airfield in South Korea. Beginning with the arbitrary division of Korea in 1945 and ending two months after the shaky armistice that halted combat in the Korean War, The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot is an ambitious and gripping book which digs deeply into the character of the Kim family dictatorship. At once an irresistible adventure story and an authoritative guide to the notorious state, it explains why North Korea remains so isolated, why it created and maintains a vast gulag of concentration camps, and why it is still so angry at the western world.
When a French man is found brutally murdered in the Cambodian city of Phnom Penh, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. The victim – Hugo Quercy – was the dynamic head of a humanitarian organization which looked after the area’s troubled local teenagers. But what was Quercy doing in a hotel room under a false name? What is the significance of his recent investigations into land grabs in the area? And who broke into his house the night of the murder? A deeply atmospheric, moving crime novel bristling with truth and deception, secrets and lies; in Death in the Rainy Season, a haunting and compelling mystery unravels an exquisitely wrought human tragedy. Anna Jaquiery is of French-Malaysian descent and grew up in Europe and Asia. She has worked as a journalist in several countries, starting out as a freelance reporter in Russia. She is currently based in Melbourne with her husband and two sons. The Lying-Down Room, her muchlauded debut novel, was the first in a series to feature Commandant Serge Morel. This is her second novel.
Blaine Harden is a reporter for PBS Frontline and a contributor to The Economist, based in Seattle, having completed a tour as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Tokyo. He is the prize-winning, acclaimed author of Escape From Camp 14. Publication date: 26 Mar 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447253341 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447253372 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £14.99
Publication date: 9 Apr 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WOR ISBN: 9781447244455 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447244479 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 74
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 75
The Living and the Dead in Winsford
Game of Mirrors
Håkan Nesser
Andrea Camilleri
From the bestselling, award-winning Swedish author, a standalone thriller set in Exmoor
The intoxicating new bestselling mystery featuring Inspector Montalbano
One evening in November, a mysterious woman arrives at the village of Winsford on Exmoor, before moving into a secluded house nearby. As the story unravels, it emerges that she is guarding terrible secrets. What happened to her husband thirty years ago? And who now is trying to find her? A deeply atmospheric and gripping novel which moves between the past and the present, The Living and the Dead in Winsford is the award-winning, bestselling Swedish crime writer’s first standalone novel set in the UK.
While Inspector Montalbano is assisting his beautiful new neighbour, Liliana Lombardo, after her car breaks down, a bomb explodes in Vigata. While no one is hurt, it is likely the explosion was perpetrated by one of the local mafia families as some kind of warning . . . As Montalbano investigates, he finds himself drawn ever closer to Liliana. But is she trying to seduce the Inspector simply because she is attracted to him or are her motives more sinister?
Håkan Nesser is one of Sweden’s most popular crime writers, receiving numerous awards for his novels. His Van Veeteren series is published in over twenty-five countries and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Håkan Nesser lives in Gotland with his wife, and spends part of each year in the UK.
Andrea Camilleri is one of Italy’s most famous contemporary writers. The Inspector Montalbano series has been translated into thirty-two languages and was adapted for Italian television, screened on BBC4. The Potter’s Field, the thirteenth book in the series, was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association’s International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English. He lives in Rome.
Publication date: 23 Apr 15 ISBN: 9781447271925 Price: £16.99 Format: Demy Hardback Page extent: 320 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9781447271918 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
Publication date: 07 May 15 Page extent: 288 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447249191 Format: Demy Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447249504 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 76
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 77
The Watercolourist
The Last Post
Beatrice Masini
M. R. Hall
A compelling love story set in a grand house in nineteenth-century Italy – Kate Morton meets Jane Eyre
From the bestselling author of the Coroner Jenny Cooper series, M. R. Hall’s most gripping, moving and timely thriller to date
Bianca, a gifted young watercolor artist, moves to a magnificent villa near Milan following the death of her father. She has been invited by the owner, a famous poet who practices experimental horticulture, to illustrate all of his exceptional plants. Bianca enjoys becoming part of the poet’s large family, but before long her naïve curiosity will take her far into the territory of hidden secrets, of untold truth and of love . . . Beatrice Masini was born in Milan. She is a well-known and successful writer of books for children and teens, translated into over twenty languages, from Finnish to Thai. She works as an editor in an Italian publishing group and has translated books such as the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. In 2004 she received the prestigious Andersen Prize as best children’s author of the year.
The garrison town of Highcliff is on tenterhooks waiting for the return of the last British soldiers from war-torn Helmand. Meanwhile, as one of the last remaining platoons prepares to leave its isolated post for the final time, nineteen-yearold Private Pete Lyons is taken hostage during the night. A patrol sent to rescue him finds itself in a bloody and disastrous fire-fight. How was Private Lyons abducted from a heavily fortified command post? And why does the army close ranks to disguise what happened during the mission to save him? Left craving answers, the hopes of the families of the dead lie with Coroner Jenny Cooper, who takes on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried with the boy soldiers. But in a town filled with secrets and rumours, it’s not only the army that has something to hide. M. R. Hall is a screenwriter, producer and former criminal barrister. He lives in the Wye Valley in Monmouthshire with his wife, journalist Patricia Carswell, and two sons. The Coroner Jenny Cooper series has been twice shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger award.
Publication date: 07 May 15 Page extent: 288 Rights: WEL ISBN: 9781447257707 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447257714 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
Publication date: 21 May 15 Page extent: 288 Rights: WEL ISBN: 9780230752382 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447288008 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Mantle 78
The Reader on the 6.27 Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
The irresistible French bestseller about the redemptive power of books – Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore meets Amélie Guylain Vignolles leads a dull and solitary life. He hates his job and his only company at home is a goldfish. Every morning he takes the 6.27 to his tedious job at a book pulping factory. He hates his boss and his assistant but he finds companionship with the factory’s guard, an eccentric aficionado of classical literature. On the train each morning on the way to work, Guylain reads aloud to his fellow commuters the disparate pages that he rescues from the jaws of the monstrous pulping machine. One morning on the train, he finds a USB stick which contains the diary of a young woman. As Guylain reads the diary, he finds himself falling love with its author . . . This enchanting novel is a warm and funny fable about literature’s power to uplift even the most monotonous of lives; and how there can be dignity and poetry for even the most misunderstood. Jean-Paul Didierlaurent lives in the Vosges region of France. His short stories have twice won the International Hemingway Award. The Reader on the 6.27 is his first novel. A bestseller in France, it has been sold in over twenty-five territories.
Publication date: 04 Jun 15 Page extent: 256 Rights: WEL ISBN: 9781447276463 Format: B Format Hardback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447276470 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
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Tor 82 The Providence of Fire 83 The Invisible Library 84 Trylle: The Complete Trilogy 85 Frostfire 86 Dark Intelligence 87 Guns of the Dawn 88 The Rithmatist 89 The Danger of Destiny 90 The Black Dream 91 Ruin 92 Ice Kissed 93 Starborn 94 The Stars Askew 95 The Masked City
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 82
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 83
The Providence of Fire Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne: Book Two
The Invisible Library Genevieve Cogman
Brian Staveley Book two in a fast-moving epic trilogy of betrayal, conspiracy and empire The Empire’s ruling family must be vigilant, as the conspiracy against them deepens. Having discovered her father’s assassin, Adare flees the Dawn Palace in search of allies. But few trust her, until she seems marked by the people’s goddess in an ordeal of flame. As Adare struggles to unite Annur, unrest breeds rival armies – then barbarian hordes threaten to invade. And unknown to Adare, her brother Valyn has fallen in with forces mustering at the empire’s borders. The terrible choices facing each of them could make war between them inevitable. Fighting his own battles is their brother Kaden, rightful heir to the throne, who has infiltrated the Annurian capital with two strange companions. While imperial forces prepare to defend a far distant front, Kaden’s actions could save the empire, or destroy it. After more than a decade teaching history, religion and philosophy, Brian Staveley decided to write books. He now lives in southern Vermont, where he divides his time between fathering, writing, husbanding, splitting wood, skiing and exploring old trails. To his family’s dismay, he also sometimes tries to play the banjo.
The first instalment of an adventure featuring stolen books, secret agents and forbidden societies – think Doctor Who with librarian spies! The redoubtable Irene is a spy for the secretive Library. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she’s posted to an alternative London. Their mission: to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it’s already been stolen. And London’s underground factions seem prepared to fight to the death to find her book. Adding to the jeopardy, this world is also chaos-infested – so the laws of nature have been bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. As Irene juggles a heady mix of danger and clues, she finds out her assistant is hiding secrets of his own. While she’s up to her eyebrows in thieves and murderers, the stakes rise. For this assignment could endanger the Library and the nature of reality itself. Genevieve Cogman started on Tolkien and Sherlock Holmes at an early age, and never looked back. She has a Statistics with Medical Applications MSC and has wielded this as a clinical coder, data analyst and classifications specialist. She’s also freelanced as a roleplaying game writer and lives in northern England.
Publication date: 15 Jan 15 Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9780230770430 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447288015 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99
Publication date: 15 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447256236 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 84
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 85
Trylle: The Complete Trilogy
Frostfire The Kanin Chronicles: Book One
Amanda Hocking
Amanda Hocking Discover the magical world of the Trylle with the complete New York Times bestselling Trylle trilogy together in one volume for the first time When Wendy Everly was six years old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. Eleven years later, Wendy discovers her mother might have been right. She’s not the person she’s always believed herself to be, and her whole life begins to unravel, all because of Finn Holmes. Finn is a mysterious guy who always seems to be watching her. Every encounter leaves her deeply shaken . . . though it has more to do with her fierce attraction to him than she’d ever admit. But it isn’t long before he reveals the truth: Wendy is a changeling who was switched at birth – and he’s come to take her home. Now Wendy’s about to journey to a magical world she never knew existed, one that’s both beautiful and frightening. And she must leave her old life behind to discover who she’s meant to become . . . Amanda Hocking is in her twenties, 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’ – Observer. www.worldofamandahocking.com
Hocking returns to the world of her internationally bestselling Trylle books with a new heroine, a new page-turning adventure and a new reason to love her writing Nineteen-year-old Bryn Aven is an outcast and yearns for a world where she’s not only accepted, but loved. Especially given her dawning feelings for her sort-of-boss, Ridley Dresden. She’s prepared to fight to get those things, but she’s a half-blood amongst the Kanin, so gaining status is tough. Her almost-human people distrust strangers, living in small communities to escape human attention – and those from other tribes are almost as suspect. Bryn is determined to join the elite King’s Guard, to protect the Kanin royal family. Surely then she’ll find acceptance? However, her plans are put on hold when fallen hero Konstantin starts acting dangerously. He starts by going after their changelings, deliberately hidden within human families. And he escalates to kidnapping the Skojare’s Queen. With her half-Skojare blood, Bryn is sent in to help resolve the crisis, but she’s soon up against her nemesis, Konstantin himself. 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’ – Observer. www.worldofamandahocking.com
Publication date: 01 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447283713 Price: £9.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 1056 Rights: WELXUSCN NonExclusive EU & EFTA
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 86
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 87
Dark Intelligence Transformation: Book One
Guns of the Dawn Adrian Tchaikovsky
Neal Asher This is the first book in a high-octane SF trilogy set in Asher’s popular Polity universe
A new standalone novel from the author of the Shadows of the Apt series
One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. One woman will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed . . .
Denland and Lascanne have been allies for generations, but now the Denlanders have assassinated their king, overthrown the monarchy and marched on their northern neighbour. At the border, the war rages, Lascanne’s brave redcoats against the revolutionaries of Denland.
Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, where he’s been brought back from the dead. What’s more, he died in a human vs. alien war that ended a whole century ago. But when he relives his traumatic final moments, he finds the spark to keep on living. That spark is vengeance.
Emily Marshwic has watched the war take her brother-inlaw and now her young brother. Then comes the call for female soldiers. Emily has no choice but to join the ranks of young women marching to the front.
Spear was killed by an artificial intelligence turned rogue, which annihilated him along with friendly forces. And this AI, known as Penny Royal, is still free. Spear vows to do whatever it takes to find and destroy it. Including cheating another of its victims, crime lord Isobel Satomi. Penny Royal had triggered a transformation in Satomi, turning her into something far from human. And, as she evolves into the ultimate predator, will Spear turn from hunter to hunted?
In the midst of warfare, Emily comes face to face with the reality: the senseless slaughter; the weary cynicism of the Survivor’s Club; the swamp’s own natives hiding from the conflict. As the war worsens, and she begins to have doubts about the justice of Lascanne’s cause, Emily finds herself in a position where her choices will make or destroy both her own future and that of her nation.
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, Brass Man, Polity Agent, Prador Moon, Line War.
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage-fighting, 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.
Publication date: 29 Jan 15 Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR ISBN: 9780230750722 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £20.00 ISBN: 9781447260028 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 88
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 89
The Rithmatist
The Danger of Destiny The Mystwalker series: Book Four
Brandon Sanderson
Leigh Evans Brandon Sanderson is the internationally bestselling author of the Stormlight Archive series and many other top fantasy titles. He is also the co-author of the recent Wheel of Time novels Young student Joel is fascinated by the magic of Rithmatics, but few have the gift and he is not one of them. Undaunted, Joel persuades Professor Fitch to teach him about this geometric magic. For although Joel can’t infuse his protective lines and circles with power, or bring his chalk-drawn creatures to life, he can really understand how it works. However, a daunting test lies ahead, when someone starts kidnapping top Rithmatic students at his school, Armedius Academy. Since he’s not a magic user, Joel appears to be safe and he’s desperate to investigate and prove himself. Then people start dying – but can Joel really stop a killer alone? He’ll need the help of Rithmatist apprentice Melody, as even more students disappear. Together, they must race to find clues before the killer notices them – and takes them out too.
Patricia Briggs has said ‘If you pick up a Leigh Evans book, you won’t put it down until the last page’, so don’t miss this fourth book in the Mystwalker series Hedi Peacock’s to-do list is fraught with danger and unattainable goals. Luckily, this half-fae isn’t fazed by the impossible – or prefers to ignore it. Hedi’s found her way from our world to the fae lands, to save her brother’s soul. But can she remove the sorcerer that’s possessed Lexi’s body? And saving her brother is meaningless unless she destroys the mage’s spellbook, a volume so dark that it threatens human and fae realms. Hedi and her Alpha werewolf, Trowbridge, have a straightforward plan. However, planning has never quite worked for Hedi. Especially when Trowbridge risks meeting his feral former pack – now out for blood. Then, as Hedi nears her destination, she witnesses a scene of inexpressible grief. It forces her to re-evaluate loyalty and loss – but if Hedi changes her quest, can she still achieve her dreams?
Brandon Sanderson is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling fantasy author, who writes for both adults and younger readers. He’s also completed the final books in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Sanderson lives in Utah.
Leigh Evans has raised two kids, mothered three dogs, herded a few cats and now lives in Southern Ontario. The Mystwalker series is her first adventure into fiction. You can follow her on twitter @LeighEvans001 or find her website at www.leighevans.wordpress.com.
Publication date: 26 Feb 15 ISBN: 9781447266150 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 384 Rights: WELXUSCN NonExclusive EU & EFTA
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 90
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 91
The Black Dream
Ruin
Col Buchanan
John Gwynne
The third novel from the author of Farlander
In the vein of George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones comes the third novel in John Gwynne’s epic fantasy series, The Faithful and the Fallen, continuing from Malice and Valour
Continuing the Farlander Ash’s story, the aged Roshun assassin travels to the fabled Isles of the Sky in a desperate attempt to bring his dead apprentice back to life. Meanwhile, the Dreamer Shard is desperately trying to control the powers of farsight that she has let loose upon her own body in an attempt to aid the people of Bar-Khos and to defeat the lover who tried to kill her. But the walls of Bar-Khos are falling against the combined might of the Mannian Empire, and if their tasks fail, the Empire of Mann will finally destroy the only hope left to the people of Bar-Khos . . . Colin Buchanan was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1973. From an early age he turned to reading and writing fantastical works to escape his troubles. In school he was the quiet dreamer who always sought out the back of the classroom. Later, in his stretches of work as a copywriter, he would be the quiet dreamer who always sought out the back of the office. In recent years he has mostly settled down, and loves nothing more than a late-night gathering around a fire with good friends.
The Banished Lands are engulfed in war. Queen Rhin has conquered the west and High King Nathair has the cauldron, the most powerful of the seven treasures. At his back stands the scheming Calidus and a warband of the Kadoshim, dread demons of the Otherworld. They plan to bring Asroth and his host of the Fallen into the world of flesh, but to do so they need the seven treasures. Corban has been swept along by the tide of war. He has seen the face of evil and he has set his will to fight it. The question is, how? With a disparate band gathered about him – his family, friends, giants, fanatical warriors, an angel and a talking crow, he begins the journey to Drassil, the fabled fortress in the heart of Forn Forest. For in Drassil lies the spear of Skald, one of the seven treasures, and here it is prophesied that the Bright Star will stand against the Black Sun. John Gwynne studied and lectured at Brighton University. He’s been in a rock ‘n’ roll band, playing the double bass, travelled the USA and lived in Canada for a time. He is married with four children and lives in Eastbourne running a small family business rejuvenating vintage furniture. His series, The Faithful and the Fallen, begins with Malice and continues with Valour.
Publication date: 12 Mar 15 ISBN: 9781447211181 Price: £8.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 92
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 93
Ice Kissed The Kanin Chronicles: Book Two
Starborn The Worldmaker trilogy: Book One
Amanda Hocking
Lucy Hounsom
The second novel in the Kanin trilogy, from the international bestseller Amanda Hocking
Starborn is a tale of heroism and lost powers, where one person’s choices will shape the fate of thousands. This is for readers who love Trudi Canavan, David Eddings and Karen Miller
In this series, we return to the world of Hocking’s millioncopy bestselling Trylle trilogy. Bryn Aven is still struggling with her burgeoning relationship with Ridley. She’s also set on completing her mission to find the missing Skojare Queen. But when they do finally discover what happened, Bryn finds out that things are much more complicated than she’d originally thought. And as she gets closer to the truth, Bryn is framed for the murder of the Kanin King himself. She ends up on the run, as home holds too few answers and no solutions. 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’ – Observer. Amanda is an ‘Obsessive Tweeter. John Hughes mourner. Batman devotee. Muppets activist. Unicorn enthusiast.’ Please see more at worldofamandahocking.com
When Kyndra accidentally breaks a sacred artifact at her village’s coming-of-age ceremony, she finds all hands turned against her. Then, following too swiftly for coincidence, a madness sweeps her home, along with unnatural storms. An angry mob blame her and she fears for her life – until two strangers, wielding a power not seen for centuries, take her to safety. They flee to the sunken citadel of Naris, but worse dangers will lie ahead, amongst the underground city’s politicians, fanatics and rebels. But in its subterranean chambers, she will find her true path – facing betrayal and madness along the way. Kyndra, like every reluctant hero, has a choice. She can seize her destiny with both hands or walk away, perhaps dooming a whole world to fall. Starborn is about a girl coming of age, but it’s also about heroism. Its strengths, burdens and – not least – its consequences. Lucy Hounsom works for Waterstones and has a BA in English & Creative Writing from Royal Holloway. She went on to complete an MA in Creative Writing under Andrew Motion in 2010. Lucy lives in Devon.
Publication date: 07 May 15 ISBN: 9781447256823 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 300 Rights: WELXUSCN NonExclusive EU & EFTA
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 94
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Tor 95
The Stars Askew
The Masked City
Rjurik Davidson
Genevieve Cogman
The second novel set in Caeli Amur, continuing from Unwrapped Sky
The second instalment of an adventure featuring stolen books, secret agents and forbidden societies – think Doctor Who but with librarian spies!
Caeli-Amur has begun a new age. The House system has been overthrown and the citizens are in power. But not all is well. The people are starving and the hard liners argue for violence against their enemies. When the seditionist leader Aceline is murdered, the trail leads to a conspiracy moving in the shadows. Meanwhile, in the vast Imperial metropolis of Varenis, another power begins to muster its forces against Caeli-Amur. Will the citizens survive these threats, or will the city descend into the darkness of blood and violence? Rjurik Davidson is a winner of the Ditmar Award as Best New Talent and the Aurealis Award for his short fiction. His first book was a collection, The Library of Forgotten Books. A columnist, and a literary and film critic, he lives in Melbourne, Australia. The Stars Askew is his second novel, following Unwrapped Sky.
Librarian-spy Irene is working undercover in an alternative London when her assistant Kai goes missing. She discovers he’s been kidnapped by the fae faction there and the repercussions could be fatal. Not just for Kai, but for whole worlds. Kai’s dragon heritage means he has powerful allies, but also powerful enemies in the form of the fae. And with this act of aggression, they are determined to trigger a war between their people – and the forces of order and chaos themselves. Irene’s mission to save Kai and avert Armageddon will take her to a dark, alternate Venice where it’s always Carnival. Here Irene will be forced to blackmail, fast talk, and fight. Or death awaits. Genevieve Cogman started on Tolkien and Sherlock Holmes at an early age, and never looked back. She has a Statistics with Medical Applications MSC and has wielded this as a clinical coder, data analyst and classifications specialist. She’s also freelanced as a roleplaying game writer and lives in northern England.
Publication date: 04 Jun 15 Page extent: 480 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447252405 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £18.99 ISBN: 9781447252412 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
Publication date: 10 Sept 15 ISBN: 9781447256250 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR (US and CAN Sold)
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Non-Fiction 98 Final Solution 99 The Mindfulness Colouring Book 100 You Can’t Have My Daughter 101 The Birth of the Pill 102 The Diary of Lena Mukhina 103 King John 104 The Midwife’s Sister 105 A Curious Friendship
106 I Woke Up in the Future 107 The Longest Kill 108 The Kamikaze Hunters 109 The Universe in Your Hand 110 The Disappearing Dictionary 111 The Angel and the Cad 112 The Barefoot Lawyer
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 98
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 99
Final Solution The Fate of the Jews 1933–49
The Mindfulness Colouring Book Anti-stress art therapy for busy people
David Cesarani
Emma Farrarons
A brilliant re-examination of the Holocaust, from one of our leading historians
A pocket-sized anti-stress colouring book
The Holocaust has never been so widely commemorated, but the ritualized narrative has never been so at odds with historical research. David Cesarani’s sweeping reappraisal challenges accepted explanations for Nazi Germany’s anti-Jewish politics and the inevitability of the ‘Final Solution’. He argues that it was global war that triggered genocide not anti-Semitism. He disputes the iconic role of railways, deportation trains and even Auschwitz. But Cesarani also reveals the courage and ingenuity of those who struggled to evade capture and fought back wherever they could. And, unlike previous histories, he follows the Jews’ journey to the Displaced Persons’ camps where they languished behind barbed wire for years after ‘liberation’.
Working with your hands is one of the best ways to soothe anxiety and eliminate stress. This stunning, pocket-sized colouring book offers a practical exercise in mindfulness that draws on your creativity and hones your focus. Beautifully illustrated, The Mindfulness Colouring Book is filled with templates for exquisite scenes and intricate, sophisticated patterns, prompting you to meditate on your artwork as you mindfully and creatively fill these pages with colour. Take a few minutes out of your day, wherever you are, and colour your way to peace and calm. Emma Farrarons is a French illustrator and graphic designer based in London.
This moving and dramatic account captures the fate of the Jews, the horror and the heroism, in their own words. Resting on decades of scholarship, it is compelling, authoritative and profoundly disturbing. David Cesarani is one of Britain’s leading Jewish and Holocaust scholars and is research professor in History at Royal Holloway. In 2005 he was awarded an OBE for his work in the establishment of Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK and is a trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
Publication date: 15 Jan 15 Page extent: 464 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9780230754560 Price: Format: Royal Hardback £25.00 ISBN: 9780230768918 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £14.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 100
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 101
You Can’t Have My Daughter
The Birth of the Pill How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Elizabeth McDonnell
Jonathan Eig One woman’s desperate battle to save her daughter from sex traffickers As a single 51-year-old woman, Elizabeth had given up hope of ever becoming a mother. When she was approved to adopt ten-year-old Lara, it was a dream come true. Elizabeth knew that her daughter had been shuffled round the care system, but was shocked to discover Lara had been abused. Emotionally damaged, by the age of twelve Lara was out of control, hanging round with drug dealers in Oxford, disappearing for days at a time. Elizabeth repeatedly rescued her from dangerous situations, while battling the authorities who failed to give Lara the help she desperately needed. Failed by the system, she was Lara’s only hope. She had no idea her daughter was being trafficked by a sex ring. Because she refused to give up on Lara, today Elizabeth and Lara have a close and loving relationship. Deeply moving, You Can’t Have My Daughter is the story of a mother determined to keep her promise: ‘I will always be there for you, whether you want me to or not.’ Elizabeth McDonnell has worked for many years in the charity sector, most recently in a freelance capacity. She lives with Lara and her two grandchildren. This is her first book.
A remarkable true story of radical feminism, scientific ingenuity and the tiny pill that sparked a cultural revolution In the winter of 1950, a seventy-one-year-old woman named Margaret Sanger arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. Having campaigned for five decades for the right of women to control their own fertility, Sanger had come to meet a visionary scientist more than twenty years her junior, with a dubious reputation. His name was Gregory Pincus. In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig tells the extraordinary story of how, prompted by Sanger and funded by the wealthy widow and philanthropist Katharine McCormick, Pincus invented a drug that would stop women ovulating. With the support of John Rock, a charismatic Catholic doctor who battled his own church to win public approval for the controversial new drug, Pincus succeeded. Together, these four determined men and women changed the world. Jonathan Eig, a former senior special reporter at the Wall Street Journal, is the author of three highly acclaimed books, two of which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. He lives in Chicago with his family
Publication date: 12 Feb 15 ISBN: 9781447270850 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 288 Rights: WOR
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 102
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 103
The Diary of Lena Mukhina A Girl’s Life in the Siege of Leningrad
King John England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant
Lena Mukhina Translated by Amanda Love Darragh The heartbreaking wartime diary of a Russian schoolgirl In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether the boy she liked, liked her. She was also keeping a diary, in which she recorded her hopes and dreams. Then, on 22 June 1941, Hitler declared war on the Soviet Union. All too soon, Leningrad was besieged and life became a living hell. Lena and her family fought to stay alive; their city was starving and its citizens were dying in their hundreds of thousands. From day to dreadful day, Lena records her experiences: the desperate hunt for food, the bitter cold of the Russian winter, the cruel deaths of those she loved. The Diary of Lena Mukhina is a truly remarkable account of this most terrible era. It offers readers the vivid testimony of a courageous young woman struggling simply to survive. Lena Mukhina was a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl when the German army invaded the USSR in 1941 and besieged her home city of Leningrad. She survived the siege and returned to Leningrad after the war. She died in 1991.
Stephen Church A definitive new biography, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta No English king has suffered a worse press than King John: but how to disentangle legend and reality? The youngest of the five sons of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the empire builders of the Angevin dynasty, John had small hope of securing any significant inheritance. Then, in 1199, on the death of his older brother Richard, John took possession of the vast Angevin lands in England and on the continent. But by his death in 1216, he had lost almost all that he inherited, and had come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too. Drawing on thousands of contemporary sources, Stephen Church tells John’s story – from boyhood and the succession crises of his early adulthood, to accession, rebellion and civil war. In doing so, he reveals exactly why John’s reign went so disastrously wrong and how John’s failure led to the great cornerstone of Britain’s constitution: Magna Carta. Vivid and authoritative, this is history at its visceral best. Professor of medieval history at the University of East Anglia, Stephen Church is also a member of the council of the Society of Antiquaries and as such is involved in the national commemoration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta in 2015. He lives in Norwich.
Publication date: 12 Feb 15 Page extent: 224 Rights: WEL ISBN: 9781447269878 Format: 216mm x 138mm Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447284352 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 104
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 105
The Midwife’s Sister
A Curious Friendship The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing
Christine Lee
Anna Thomasson The story of Jennifer Worth, of Call the Midwife, and her sister Christine Lee ‘Our childhood came to an end when our parents parted and from then on Jennifer was placed in the impossible position of having to be a parent to me, her sister. I shall always be grateful for her protection . . .’ Millions have fallen in love with Jennifer Worth and her experiences in the East End, as chronicled in Call the Midwife, but little is known about her life outside this period. Now, in this moving and evocative memoir, Jennifer’s sister, Christine, takes us from their idyllic early years to the cruelty and neglect they suffered after their parents divorced, from Jennifer being forced to leave home at fourteen to their training as nurses. After leaving nursing Jennifer took up a career in music, her first love, and Christine became a sculptor, but through marriages and children, joy and heartbreak, their lives remained intertwined. Absorbing and emotional, The Midwife’s Sister is testimony to an enduring bond between two extraordinary women. Christine Lee was born in Watford in 1938. Now a renowned figurative sculptor, among her best-known works is the remarkable Commemorative Fountain outside the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
A compelling account of the unlikely and fascinating relationship between the writer Edith Oliver and the artist Rex Whistler The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of fifty-one, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a nineteen-year-old art student, life was just beginning. Together, they embarked on an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith’s world opened up and she became a writer, while her home became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton and Cecil Beaton – for whom she was ‘all the muses’. Edith and Rex’s story is set against a backdrop of the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of the Second World War. In telling it, Anna Thomasson vividly brings to life the distinctly curious friendship between a bluestocking and a bright young thing. Anna Thomasson grew up on a heady diet of sightseeing, historical novels and biographies. She studied for an MPhil in Biography at the University of Buckingham and her thesis was shortlisted for the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club Prize. She lives in London and this is her first book.
Publication date: 12 Mar 15 ISBN: 9781447282648 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 320 Rights: WOR
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 106
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 107
I Woke Up in the Future
The Longest Kill The Story of Maverick 41, The World’s Greatest Sniper
Naomi Jacobs
Craig Harrison One woman’s shocking true story of overnight amnesia
A gripping insight into military life that pulls no punches
Naomi Jacobs went to sleep one night in 2008 as a 32-year-old mother and woke up the next morning believing she was a 15-year-old schoolgirl. She did not recognize the house she was in, though it was hers, nor her 10-year-old son Leo. As far as she was concerned, she was in 1992, when John Major was Prime Minister, before the world had been blessed with mobile phones, DVDs or reality TV. She didn’t know it, but she had dissociative amnesia.
It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in Afghanistan, under intense pressure, he saved the lives of his comrades with the longest confirmed sniper kill – 2,475 metres, the length of 25 football pitches.
With the help of her journals, and those close to her, Naomi set about piecing together as much as she could of her missing years. What she discovered shocked her. As she dug deeper, she began to experience disturbing flashbacks of traumatic events. Would Naomi ever find her way back to the person she once was? Did she even want to? Funny and moving, I Woke Up in the Future is ultimately an inspiring story of loss and redemption, and the power of second chances. Naomi Jacobs was born in Liverpool, raised in the West Midlands and now resides in Manchester with her teenage son, Leo and cat, Sophia. She has a BSc in psychology and this is her first book.
In this action-packed, vivid memoir Craig takes us from a rough childhood to joining the army at 16, from serving in Bosnia through two tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. He describes the numerous campaigns he’s taken part in and his special ops missions. He also reveals how injury forced him to leave the army and how, after his identity was revealed, Al Qaeda threatened him and his family. For Craig, the price of heroism has been devastatingly high. Craig Harrison joined the Household Cavalry at 16, later moving to the Blues and Royals, where he trained to be a sniper. He holds the world record for the longest recorded sniper kill, and was mentioned in dispatches for his bravery.
Publication date: 23 Apr 15 ISBN: 9781447282723 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 320 Rights: WOR
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 108
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 109
The Kamikaze Hunters Fighting for the Pacific, 1945
The Universe in Your Hand A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond
Oliver Walker
Christophe Galfard
The extraordinary story of the young British airmen who fought the Japanese suicide pilots
An instant classic of popular science that explains the wonders of astrophysics to readers of all ages
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze.
Internationally renowned astrophysicist Christophe Galfard takes us on a wonder-filled journey through the past, present and future of the universe – a journey into science fact.
Drawing on meticulous research and unique personal access to the remaining survivors, Oliver Walker follows a group of young Royal Navy pilots from the moment they joined up through their initial training to the terrifying reality of fighting against pilots who, in the cruel last summer of the war, chose death rather than risk their country’s dishonourable defeat and deliberately flew their planes into Allied aircraft carriers. A story of courage, valour and dogged determination, The Kamikaze Hunters is a gripping account of how a few brave young men helped to ensure lasting peace.
The Universe in Your Hand is a popular science book that aims to explain Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity and String Theory using storytelling instead of graphs and equations. It transports us to the surface of our dying Sun, flies us to distant galaxies and puts us in the deathly grip of a Black Hole. An instant classic that does for physics what Sophie’s World did for philosophy, this is a popular science book that will make readers understand, for the very first time, the mind-bending truths that underpin modern science; and along the way look deep into questions about the existence of God, the beginning of time and the future of humanity.
Oliver Walker joined The Sunday Times in 1999, working first on the foreign news desk and subsequently the home news desk, where he specialized in undercover investigations. Since 2007 he has worked in media communications and currently advises businesses and individuals on their relationship with Fleet Street and the wider media. He lives in London.
Christophe Galfard holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cambridge University, where he was Professor Stephen Hawking’s graduate student from 2000 to 2006, researching the so-called black hole information paradox. He is the author of three novels and was co-author with Stephen Hawking and his daughter of their first YA novel, which has now been sold in more than 45 territories.
Publication date: 07 May 15 Page extent: 456 Rights: WXUSCN ISBN: 9780230768192 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £20.00 ISBN: 9781447284710 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £14.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 110
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 111
The Disappearing Dictionary A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words
The Angel and the Cad Love and Loss in Regency England
David Crystal
Geraldine Roberts
A beautiful gift book that collects together brilliantly quirky English dialect words, before they disappear for ever
A high-society scandal that gripped Regency England
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dialect words that either provide an insight into an older way of life, or simply have an irresistible phonetic appeal. Like a mirror image of The Meaning of Liff that just happens to be true, this book unearths some lovely old gems of the English language, dusts them down and makes them live again for a new generation. dabberlick [noun, Scotland] A mildly insulting way of talking about someone who is tall and skinny. ‘Where’s that dabberlick of a child?’ fubsy [adjective, Lancashire] Plump, in a nice sort of way. squinch [noun, Devon] A narrow crack in a wall or a space between floorboards. ‘I lost sixpence through a squinch in the floor’. David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster. He has published extensively on the history and development of English, including The Stories of English, Evolving English and Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling.
The day she turned 16, Catherine Tylney Long became the wealthiest heiress in England and the public found their ‘angel’. Witty, wealthy and beautiful, Catherine was the most eligible of young ladies and was courted by royalty but, ignoring the warnings of her closest confidantes, she married for love. Her choice of husband was the charming but feckless dandy William Wellesley Pole, nephew of the Duke of Wellington. The pair excited the public’s interest on an unprecedented scale with gossip columns reporting every detail of their honeymoon of royal fetes, dinners and parties. But their happiness was short-lived and just a decade later William had frittered away Catherine’s inheritance, even selling off her beloved Wanstead House brick-by-brick, and their marriage ended in a cruel and dramatic divorce with a landmark custody battle. Meticulously researched and rich with dazzling detail, The Angel and the Cad is a gripping and tragic tale that twists and turns until the final page. Geraldine Roberts attained an MA in History at Queen Mary, University of London. The Angel and the Cad is her first book. She lives in East London with her husband and two daughters.
Publication date: 21 May 15 ISBN: 9781447282808 Price: £12.99 Format: B Format Hardback Page extent: 320 Rights: WOR
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Non-Fiction 112
The Barefoot Lawyer The Remarkable Memoir of China’s Bravest Political Activist Chen Guangcheng
An electrifying memoir by the blind Chinese activist who inspired millions with his fight for justice and freedom In April 2012, China’s most famous political activist climbed over the wall of his heavily guarded home and escaped. For days, his whereabouts remained unknown; but after he turned up at the American embassy in Beijing, high-level negotiations finally led to his release and a new life in the United States. But Chen Guangcheng’s story is even more astonishing than we knew. The blind son of an impoverished farmer, Chen was fortunate to survive a difficult childhood. Yet despite his disability, he became a lawyer and campaigned tirelessly for the rights of his country’s poor. As a result he was harassed, beaten, and ultimately imprisoned by the Chinese authorities before he fled to freedom. Both a riveting memoir and a revealing portrait of modern China, this passionate book is Chen’s story, the story of a man who has always believed in the power of the human spirit to overcome any obstacle. Chen Guangcheng is a Chinese civil rights activist now living in the US. In 2007 he was named one of Time magazine’s ‘Time 100’, a list of ‘100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world’.
Publication date: 19 Mar 15 Page extent: 320 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447243847 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £20.00 ISBN: 9781447243861 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £14.99
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Paperback 116
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Paperback 117
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Paperback 118
Spring Catalogue 2015 / Paperback 119
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Spring Catalogue 2015 / Paperback 120
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The Roadside MBA
1946 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 $100 Startup, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 Abbott, Megan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Ackroyd, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Acolyte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Adam, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Airth, Rennie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Alexander, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Alexander Essbaum, Jill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Alighieri, Dante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 All Involved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 American Psycho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Andersson, Lena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Angel and the Cad, The . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 Angelica’s Smile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Arbitrary Conduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Archer, Jeffrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Asher, Neal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Ashworth, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, An . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 Atom Bomb Angel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Axeman’s Jazz, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Baldacci, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51, 118 Banville, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Barefoot Lawyer, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Barker, Clive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Beautiful Librarians, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Before the Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Birth of the Pill, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Black, Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Black, Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118 Black Dream, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Black Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Black-Eyed Blonde, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Blue Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Bolano, Roberto . . . . . . . . . . . .15, 116, 117 Bone Seeker, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Book of Evidence, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Boy, Snow, Bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Brekke, Jorgen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Brook, Kelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Buchanan, Col . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90, 120 Burning,The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Burton, Jessie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Butcher Boy, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Butler, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Butler, Nickolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Byron, Tanya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Camilleri, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 119 Carey, Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Castillo, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Celestin, Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Cesarani, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Chamberlain, Diane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 China Miéville short stories . . . . . . . . . . 62 Chosen Queen, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Church, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Clanchy, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Close Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Cloudstreet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Coes, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Cogman, Genevieve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83, 94
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Comanche Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Coming Up Roses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir . . . . . . . 121 Cornell, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Coronation Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Courtney, Joanna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Crace, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Crystal, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110, 121 Crystal, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Curious Friendship, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Danger of Destiny, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Dangerous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Dark Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Davidson, Rjurik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94, 120 Day to Kill, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 de Botton, Alain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Dead Man’s Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Dead Will Tell, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Death in the Rainy Season . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Debt to Pleasure, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Diamond, Lucy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 63 Diary of Lena Mukhina, The . . . . . . . . . 102 Dickinson, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Didierlaurent, Jean-Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Disappearing Dictionary, The . . . . . . . . 110 Disinformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Dispatches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Divine Comedy, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Do-hy, Ahn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Donoghue, Clare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Donoghue, Emma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight . . . . . . 6 Duffy, Carol Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Early Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Easton Ellis, Bret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Edge of Dark, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Edwards, Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Eggers, Dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Egremont, Max . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Eig, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Einstein Code, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Empire’s Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Escape, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Essays in Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Evans, Dylan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Evans, Leigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Evers, Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Extinction Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Eyrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Farrarons, Emma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Fever, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Fiennes, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Final Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Foldman, Ellen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 116 Followers, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Forbidden, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Four Letters Of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses . . . . . . . . . 121 Freud, Annie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Frog Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Frostfire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Fuller, Alexandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Furiously Happy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
G File, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Galfard, Christophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Game of Mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Gattis, Ryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Gibbins, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Gibson, Gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Gibson, Carrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Godless, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120 Good Luck of Right Now, The . . . . . . . .116 Gospel According to Drew Barrymore, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Gourevitch, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Green, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Greenwood, Kirsty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119 Guangcheng, Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Guillebeau, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Guns of the Dawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Gwynne, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Hadfield, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Haider Rahman, Zia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Hall, M. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77, 118 Hamilton, Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Hannah, Kristin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Harden, Blaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Harrison, Craig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Hartshorne, Pamela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118 Hausfrau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Herr, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Hewson, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56, 118 Hocking, Amanda . . . . . . . . . . . . 84, 85, 92 Hollinghurst, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Hong Kingston, Maxine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Hounsom, Lucy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 How We Learn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Human Flies, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Hunting Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 I Woke Up in the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Ice Kissed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 In the Light of What We Know . . . . . . . 116 Ingelman-Sundberg, Catharina . . . . . . . . 36 Insufferable Gaucho, The . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Investigation, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118 Invisible Library, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Jacobs, Naomi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 James, Clive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 21, 116 James, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65, 118, 119 Jaquiery, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73, 119 Jorgen Brekke Untitled Book 2 . . . . . . . . 50 Kamikaze Hunters, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Keane, Jessie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Killing III, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 King John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 King’s Ransom, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Klaussmann, Liza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Kraken Project, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Ladies of the House, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Lamentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Lanchester, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Lapidus, Jens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Last Kind Words Saloon, The . . . . . . . . . 12
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Last Post, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Lawson, Jenny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Lee, Christine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Lee, Jung-myung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Leviston, Frances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Liar’s Chair, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Lick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Life Deluxe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Life Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Line of Beauty, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Living and the Dead in Winsford, The . . 74 Londoners, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Longest Kill, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Lost for Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Lovely Bones, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Lucas, Rachael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Lying Down Room, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Magnolia Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118 Man Who Couldn’t Stop, The . . . . . . . 116 Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat . . . 6 Masini, Beatrice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Masked City, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Mason, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Mazzeo, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 McCabe, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 McDonnell, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 McGrann, Molly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 McGrath, M. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 McKeon, Belinda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 McMurtry, Larry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12, 13 Meet Me at the Pier Head . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Midwife’s Sister, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Mieville, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Mightier than the Sword . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 Mindfulness Colouring Book, The . . . . . . 99 Miniaturist, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Missiroli, Marco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Mobile Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Mourner, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Mrs. Hemingway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Mukhina, Lena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Murray, Annie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Naming Jack the Ripper . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Nesser, Hakan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74, 118 Night School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Nightingale, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 No Place to Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Norton, Carla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Not-Dead and the Saved, The . . . . . . . . .29 O’Brien, Sean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Olav Lahlum, Hans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69, 118 Once in a House on Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Owen, Amanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Oyer, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Oyeyemi, Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Patrick, Seth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Patrick Melrose Novels, The . . . . . . . . 116 Payton, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Peek, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120 Pemberton, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Penman, Sharon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Piano Tuner, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Picador Classics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 PIRATE: Privateer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Preston, Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Providence of Fire, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Quarantine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Quick, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Rappaport, Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Reader on the 6:27, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Reckoning, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Redfield Jamison, Kay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Remains, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Renegade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Riley, Lucinda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Rithmatist, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Roadside MBA, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Roberts, Geraldine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Ronson, Jon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6, 18 Ruin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Sacks, Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sahota, Sunjeev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Salinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Sanderson, Brandon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Sansom, C. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Satellite People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Saving Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Scarlet Gospels, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Scarred for Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Schaefer, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Scott, Kylie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Scottsboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Sebestyen, Victor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Sebold, Alice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Secret of Evil, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Secrets of the Singer Girls . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Sense of an Elephant, The . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Sentenced to Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Seven Sisters, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Severed Streets, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Severin, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118 Shotgun Lovesongs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Silence, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Silence, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Silent Sister, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Skeleton Cupboard, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Smiley, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70, 116 Snow Geese, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed . . . . . . 18 Some Desperate Glory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Some Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 South, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 St Aubyn, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 116 Stands a Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Starborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Stars Askew, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Staveley, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Stone, Biz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Streets of Laredo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Summer at Shell Cottage . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Swan, Karen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Swift, Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Tallis, F. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 119
Taseer, Aatish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Tchaikovsky, Adrian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Tender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Things A Little Bird Told Me . . . . . . . . . 121 Thomasson, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Thompson, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Tiffany Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Toibin, Colm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Total War Rome: Untitled 2 . . . . . . . . . . 39 Trumpington, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Trylle: The Complete Trilogy . . . . . . . . . . 84 Twist of the Knife, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Universe in Your Hand, The . . . . . . . . . .109 Unknown University, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Unquiet Mind, An . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Unreliable Memoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Untitled Baldacci 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Unwitting, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Unwrapped Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Utopia Experiment, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Vanishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Villa America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Vintage Guide to Love and Romance, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119 Wait, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Walker, Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 War Babies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Watercolourist, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Waterland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Way Things Were, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families . . . . 7 Weaver, Pam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Welcome Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 West, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 What Doesn’t Kill Her . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Whitehouse, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Whitney, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Wilkins, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Wilkinson, Kerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 57 Williams, Niall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Williams, Charlotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Wind Is Not a River, The . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Winton, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 116 Wiseman, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Woman Warrior, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Wood, Naomi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Woodward, Gerard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 World’s Wife, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Wright, Pippa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Wrong Girl, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Year of Taking Chances, The . . . . . . . . . . 35 Year of the Runaways, The . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Yorkshire Shepherdess, The . . . . . . . . .121 You Are Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 You Can’t Have My Daughter . . . . . . . . 100 You Say Potato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Your Father Sends His Love . . . . . . . . . . 26