Pan Macmillan Asia Monthly Catalogue - August 2013 UK

AUGUST 2013 UK & AGENCY

rders should be received by 3rd July 2013 to receive titles by on-sale-date.

www.panmacmillan.com

I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time SUPERLEAD on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my medication. Empty nest syndrome, he tells his friends at the pub, his mother. He’s always said I have a vivid imagination. Marta has been married to Hector for longer than she can remember. She has always tried hard to be a good wife. But now Hector has come home with a secret.

And Marta is beginning to imagine – or revisit – a terrifying truth...

‘A chilling study of paranoia and doubt… Chapman builds the tension, as Marta’s behaviour becomes more erratic and her seemingly benign husband begins to appear in a sinister light.

An unnerving tale, where nothing is as it seems.’

Marie Claire

How To Be a Good Wife Emma Chapman

Killing Kennedy Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard

9781447216193

B Format

9781447236795

B Format

£7.99

29th Aug

256 PP

Picador

More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O’Reilly’s Killing SUPERLEAD Lincoln, the page-turning work of non-fiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now it recounts in gripping detail of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent America into the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath. In January 1961, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Alan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene, only to be caught and shot dead while in police custody. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader.

This may well be the most talked about American book of the year. £8.99

15th Aug

336 PP

Readers won’t want to miss the explosive final book in the Watersong series by New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking.

Pan

SUPERLEAD

Now that Gemma holds the key to breaking the siren curse, the stakes have never been higher. At last, a future with those she loves - and a romance with Alex - is close enough to touch... but not if Penn has anything to say about it. Penn is more determined than ever to have Daniel for her own and to destroy Gemma and Harper along the way, and Penn always gets what she wants. Now a final explosive battle is about to begin, and the winner will take everything Gemma holds dear.

Elegy Amanda Hocking 9781447205753

B Format

£7.99

15th Aug

304 PP

Tor

1

Almost English Charlotte Mendelson

Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there. In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family’s crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider. At Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistake. She is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn’t know how to fit in, flirt or even be. And as a semi-Hungarian Londoner, who is she? In the meantime, her mother Laura, an alien in this strange universe, has her own painful secrets to deal with, especially the return of the last man she’d expect back in her life. She isn’t noticing that, at Combe Abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrong.

9781447229933

Trade Paperback

£12.99

15th Aug

288 PP

Mantle

Jenny Lipkin, former up-and-coming magazine editor and current stressed-out mother of two, is struggling. With two demanding children, she is adjusting to life as an average mother, drinking coffee in the playground and complaining about breastfeeding, sleepless nights and how to get the buggy on the subway. And then, one summer evening, her husband Harry goes out to buy cigarettes and doesn’t return. Jenny reaches breaking point. She is contemplating ending it all, but when she falls off the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River, she finds a surprising ally – and a magical way to rethink her ideas about success, motherhood and relationships. But confronting her inner demons is no easy task...

FICTION

The Mermaid of Brooklyn Amy Shearn

9781447230250

B Format

£7.99

1st Aug

340 PP

Pan

Hello. There are two things you should know about me: 1) My name is Karen Carpenter. 2) Just before Christmas my boyfriend left me. I’m not THE Karen Carpenter. I just have the most embarrassing name in Christendom. Particularly as I’m no skinny minny and don’t play the drums.

I can’t even sing. I’m tone deaf. I work in a school in the East End. (Where I came third in a ‘Teacher we’d most like to sleep with’ competition amongst the Year 11 boys) My Mum’s driving me mad. She’s come to stay and is obsessed with Scandi crime shows and Zumba. Oh yeah. The boyfriend. After eleven ‘happy’ years he left me. No explanation just a post it on the kettle when I got in from work. I think I’m handling it really well. I don’t think I’m confused at all. What was my name again?

The Confusion of Karen Carpenter Jonathan Harvey

9780330544399

B Format

£7.99

15th Aug

420 PP

Pan

If you’re a fan of Jodie Picoult, you’ll love the latest novel by Diane Chamberlain, bestselling author of The Midwife’s Confession...

North Carolina, 1960. Newlywed Jane Forrester, fresh out of university, has sought what most other women have shunned: a career. But life as a social worker is far from what she expected. Out amongst the rural Tobacco fields of Grace County, Jane encounters a world of extreme poverty that is far removed from the middle-class life she has grown up with. But worse is still to come. Working with the Hart family and their fifteen-year-old daughter Ivy, it’s not long before Jane uncovers a shocking secret, and is thrust into a moral dilemma that puts her career on the line, threatens to dissolve her marriage, and ultimately, determines the fate of Ivy and her family forever. Soon Jane is forced to take drastic action, and before long, there is no turning back.

2

Necessary Lies Diane Chamberlain 9781447211259

B Format

£7.99

1st Aug

400 PP

Pan

The adventures that begin in The Lost Library culminate in a tense and surprising climax, but the intrigue facing Emily Wess and Michael Torrance does not end there.

In The Keystone, new provocations, conspiracies, twists of history and terrifying modern-day realities set the stage for a new test. Emily and Michael, unwittingly thrust into the darker side of humanity’s fascination with the arcane, will find themselves once more at the edge of a chaos that bridges centuries, with countless lives hanging in the balance.

The Keystone A. M. Dean 9781447209522

B Format

£7.99

15th Aug

350 PP

Pan

When a charismatic billionaire asks Ben Webster to investigate his personal affairs it isn’t long before the private spy is convinced that there is something very wrong with his new client. What is Darius Qazai’s real motive for contacting Webster? And what – beneath his generous, honourable image – does he have to hide? Soon Webster will discover that the tycoon’s secret is far bigger and more dangerous than he could have imagined, and that his new enemy will think nothing of destroying him, or his family...

In a heart-pounding journey which will take readers from London to Marrakech, from Italy to Dubai, Chris Morgan Jones once again asserts himself as the spy thriller writer for a new generation.

The Jackal’s Share Chris Morgan Jones

The Last Refuge Ben Coes

£7.99

1st Aug

320 PP

Mantle

Former SEAL and Delta force operator Dewey Andreas owes his life to Kohl Meir and his team of Israeli commandos. So when Meir shows him a photo of what appears to be a nuclear device with the words ‘Goodbye Tel Aviv’ written in Farsi on the side Andreas realizes that repaying his debt to Meir, his team and to Israel is going to take more than a simple ‘thank you’. Meir and Andreas devise a high risk, high stakes plan using leaked information from officials inside Iran and dissidents from groups outside the country to try to find and hijack the device before it is deployed. But from their very first move, they catch the attention of the brilliant and brutally tough Abu Paria, the Iranian intelligence chief, who takes Meir hostage. Andreas must face off against an opponent with equal cunning, skill, and determination while the one man who might be able to help is chained to the wall of an Iranian prison.

Can Andreas prevent the nuclear bomb obliterating Israel’s largest city and thereby avoid a world catastrophe... ?

9781447208808

The Midnight Rose Lucinda Riley

B Format

FICTION

9780330532556

B Format

£7.99

29th Aug

400 PP

Pan

In the heyday of the British Raj, eleven-year-old Anahita, from a noble but impoverished family, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong Princess Indira, the privileged daughter of rich Indian royalty. Becoming the princess’s official companion, Anahita accompanies her friend to England just before the outbreak of the Great War. There, she meets the young Donald Astbury, reluctant heir to the magnificent, remote Astbury Estate, and his scheming mother. Eighty years later, Rebecca Bradley – a young American film star – has the world at her feet. But when her turbulent relationship with her equally famous boyfriend takes an unexpected turn, she’s relieved that her latest role, playing a 1920s debutante, will take her away from the glare of publicity to the wilds of Dartmoor in England. Shortly after filming begins at the now-crumbling Astbury Hall, Ari Malik, Anahita’s great-grandson, arrives unexpectedly, on a quest for his family’s past. What he and Rebecca discover begins to unravel the dark secrets that haunt the Astbury dynasty...

Filled with unforgettable characters, The Midnight Rose is a multi-layered, heart-breaking tale, and marks Lucinda Riley’s most ambitious novel to date.

9781447230984

Trade Paperback

£12.99

29th Aug

440 PP

Pan

3

Relentlessly advancing towards Collegium, the Empire is again seeking to break down its walls. The mighty imperial armies have learnt from their failures, and Empress Seda will brook no weakness in her soldiers. However, Stenwold Maker has earned his title, and the War Master has strategies to save his city. His aviators rule the skies – but the Wasp Kinden Empire has developed a terrifying new aerial weapon. Yet the campaign may be decided far from marching armies and the noise of battle. In an ancient forest, where Mantis clans pursue their own civil war, the Empress Seda is seeking lost magic. Some dangerous shadow of old night is locked up among these trees and she is wants its power. Cheerwell Maker must stop her, at any cost, but will their rivalry awaken something far deadlier? Something that could make even their clash of nations pale into insignificance...

War Master’s Gate Adrian Tchaikovsky 9780230757011

Trade Paperback

£12.99

1st Aug

736 PP

Tor

In a world where the undead outnumber the living, Moses Todd roams the post-apocalyptic plains of America. His reprobate brother, Abraham - his only companion - has known little else. Together, they journey because they have to; because they have nowhere to go, and no one to answer to other than themselves. Travelling the bloody wastelands of this ruined world, Moses is looking for a kernel of truth, and a reason to keep going. And a chance encounter presents him with the Vestal Amata, a beguiling and mysterious woman who may hold the key to salvation. But he is not the only one seeking the Vestal. For the Vestal has a gift: a gift that might help save what is left of humanity. And it may take everything he has to free her from the clutches of those who most desire her.

FICTION

Exit Kingdom Alden Bell 9781447219156

B Format

£7.99

1st Aug

320 PP

Tor

MUST HE DIE TO KNOW THE TRUTH? Archivist Luc Gabion is dying, slowly, victim of a forced technology implant while on assignment. He brought down a powerful terrorist, but at great cost, and this new tech brings unexpected dangers. Luc must investigate the Thousand Emperors, rulers of the Tian Di’s stellar empire. One of their number has been murdered and he needs to find the killer. But the technology he now carries supersedes anything he’s encountered, and Luc sees things he knows are forbidden. As the truth emerges, he’s in trouble. Any of these leaders could be guilty – and could execute him on a whim. Worse, the murder victim was brokering the coming Reunification. Two great warring civilisations, separated for centuries, due to unite in a new age of peace. But it becomes clear that someone will do anything to ensure that day never comes.

The Thousand Emperors Gary Gibson

9780330519724

B Format

£8.99

1st Aug

384 PP

Tor

Being put in charge of a werewolf pack might be someone’s dream, but it’s Hedi’s nightmare. Hints that it’s not working out include the Creemore wolves wanting her blood. And the Council of Weres wanting her dead… Then all Hedi’s wishes are granted. Robson Trowbridge, pack leader, returns – and her love isn’t alone. He’s found her missing twin brother, Lexi, among the fae.

With this double helping of wonderful, things should’ve been all sunshine and flowers, but the fae lands have changed both men. Hedi’s brother is dying of an addiction, and her relationship with Robson may not survive the forces pushing them apart. To combat the darkness ahead, Hedi must face her dangerous were/fae heritage – and accept the consequences.

4

The Thing About Wolves Leigh Evans 9781447232544

B Format

£7.99

1st Aug

400 PP

Tor

The first three books in the Inspector Montalbano crime series - now a major BBC4 TV series.

Inspector Montalbano (Bind-Up) Andrea Camilleri

The Shape of Water: On a waste ground in Vigata, the Sicilian town’s dark underbelly flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes plying their trade. But when the body of Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, is discovered there, Inspector Montalbano must investigate; and despite pressure from his commissioner, a local judge and bishop – he is determined to unearth the truth... The Terracotta Dog: When two lovers, dead for over fifty years, are discovered in a mountain cave watched over by a life-size terracotta dog, Inspector Montalbano’s investigation will take him on a journey through Sicily’s past and into a family’s dark heart amid the horrors of World War II. The Snack Thief: When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily’s coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents...

9781447245193

B Format

£9.99

1st Aug

600 PP

Mantle`

Now a major TV series: Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne and written by Andrew Davies.

Quirke’s pathology department, set deep beneath the city, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his control. Until late one evening after a party he stumbles across a body that should not be there – and his brother-in-law falsifying the corpse’s cause of death. This is the first time Quirke has encountered Christine Falls, but the investigation he decides to lead into the way she lived and died uncovers a dark secret at the heart of Dublin’s high Catholic network; one with the power to shake his own family and everything he holds dear.

9781447237310

B Format

£7.99

1st Aug

400 PP

FICTION

Christine Falls TV tie in Benjamin Black

Mantle

Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When an old acquaintance approaches him about his wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke recognizes trouble but, as always, trouble is something he cannot resist.

The Silver Swan TV tie in Benjamin Black

Elegy for April TV tie in Benjamin Black

9781447237327

B Format

£7.99

1st Aug

288 PP

Mantle

As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; Quirke, fresh from drying out in an institution, responds to his daughter’s request for help. But as Phoebe, Quirke and Inspector Hackett speak with those who knew April, they begin to realise that there may have been more behind the young woman’s discretion and secrecy than they could have imagined. Why was April so estranged from her family? What is her close-knit circle of friends hiding? And who is the shadowy figure who seems to be watching Phoebe’s flat at night, through the frozen mists? As Quirke finds himself distracted from his sobriety by a beautiful young actress, Phoebe watches helplessly as April’s family hush up her disappearance, and all possible leads seem to dry up, bar one she cannot bear to contemplate. But when Quirke makes a disturbing discovery, he is finally able to begin unravelling the great, complex web of love, lies, jealousy and dark secrets that April spun her life from...

9781447237334

B Format

£7.99

1st Aug

320 PP

Mantle

5

Burial Rites Hannah Kent

In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover. Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district office Jón Jónsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst, the family avoid contact with Agnes. Only Tóti, the young assistant priest appointed Agnes’s spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her.

As the year progresses and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes’s story begins to emerge and with it the family’s terrible realization that all is not as they had assumed. Based on actual events, Burial Rites is an astonishing and moving novel about the truths we claim to know and the ways in which we interpret what we’re told. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland’s formidable landscape, in which every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?

9781447235651

PICADOR

Hallucinations Oliver Sacks

6

£12.99

29th Aug

304 PP

Picador

Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. In some conditions, hallucinations can lead to religious epiphanies or even the feeling of leaving one’s own body. Humans have always sought such life-changing visions, and for thousands of years have used hallucinogenic compounds to achieve them. In this book, with his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all, a vital part of the human condition.

9781447208266

The City of Abraham Edward Platt

Trade Paperback

B Format

£9.99

29th Aug

256 PP

Picador

The City of Abraham is a journey through one of the world’s most divided cities – Hebron, the only place in the West Bank where Palestinians and Israelis live side by side. It begins with a hill called Tel Rumeida, the site of ancient Hebron, where the patriarch Abraham – father of the Jews and the Arabs – was supposed to have lived when he arrived in the Promised Land.

Through a mixture of travel writing, reportage and interviews, Platt tells the history of the hill and the city in which it stands, and explores the mythic roots of the struggle to control the land. He meets the Palestinian residents of Tel Rumeida, and the messianic settlers who have made their homes in a block of flats that stands on stilts on an excavated corner of the site. He meets the archaeologists who have attempted to reconstruct the history of the hill. He meets the soldiers who serve in Hebron, and the intermediaries who try to keep the peace in the divided city. The City of Abraham explores the ways in which Hebron’s past continues to inform its tumultuous present, and illuminates the lives of the people at the heart of the most intractable conflict in the world.

9780330420266

B Format

£9.99

15th Aug

384 PP

Picador

In life and, indeed, in liff, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. On the other hand, the world is littered with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places. Douglas Adams and John Lloyd saw it as their job to get these words down off the signposts and into the mouths of babes and sucklings and so on, where they could start earning their keep in everyday conversation and make a more positive contribution to society.

The Meaning of Liff was the bestselling humour book that resulted. It sold hundreds of thousands of copies and remains to this day, nearly thirty years later, a much-loved classic of its kind. And, indeed, Liff.

The Meaning of Liff Douglas Adams & John Lloyd

9780752227597

Hardback

£9.99

15th Aug

192 PP

Boxtree

Paul Cartledge, one of the world’s foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and founder of a new world order.

Alexander’s legacy has had a major impact on military tacticians, scholars, statesmen, adventurers, authors, and filmmakers.

Cartledge brilliantly evokes Alexander’s remarkable political and military accomplishments, cutting through the myths to show why he was such a great leader. He explores our endless fascination with Alexander and gives us insight into his charismatic leadership, his capacity for brutality, and his sophisticated grasp of international politics.

9781447237198

B Format

£10.99

29th Aug

352 PP

NON-FICTION

Alexander the Great Alexander the Great is an engaging portrait of a fascinating man and a welcome balance to the myths, legends, and skewed history that have Paul Cartledge obscured the real Alexander.

Pan

A compelling account of the extraordinary people of Sparta, destined to become the definitive book on Spartan history, from the world’s leading expert.

The Spartans Paul Cartledge

The Spartan legend has inspired and captivated subsequent generations with evidence of its legacy found in both the Roman and British Empires. The Spartans are our ancestors, every bit as much as the Athenians. But while Athens promoted democracy, individualism, culture and society, their great rivals Sparta embodied militarism, totalitarianism, segregation and brutal repression. As ruthless as they were self-sacrificing, their devastatingly successful war rituals made the Spartans the ultimate fighting force, epitomized by Thermopylae. While slave masters to the Helots for over three centuries, Spartan women, such as Helen of Troy, were free to indulge in education, dance and sport. Interspersed with the personal biographies of leading figures, and based on 30 years’ research, The Spartans tracks the people from 480 to 360 BC charting Sparta’s progression from the Great Power of the Aegean Greek world to its ultimate demise.

9781447237204

B Format

£10.99

29th Aug

288 PP

Pan

‘Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie’ Thus did the poet Simonides remember the three hundred elite Spartan warriors who, led by their king, Leonidas, faced the vast, inrushing Persian army at the ‘hot gates’ of Thermopylae and fought to the death for an ideal dearer to them than life itself – the ideal of freedom.

Paul Cartledge’s offers a compelling re-examination of this crucial moment in history, a epic clash of civilizations that helped shape the identity of Classical Greece and our own cultural heritage.

Thermopylae Paul Cartledge 9781447237211

B Format

£10.99

29th Aug

300 PP

Pan

7

Jackson Meyer has thrown himself into his role as an agent for Tempest, the shadowy division of the CIA that handles all time-travel-related threats.

Despite his heartbreak at losing the love of his life, Jackson has proved himself to be an excellent agent. However, all that changes when Holly the girl he altered history to save - re-enters his life. And when Eyewall, an opposing division of the CIA, emerges, Jackson and his fellow agents find themselves under attack and on the run. Jackson must decide between saving the love of his life and the entire world...

Tempest 2: Vortex Julie Cross 9780330545808

Paperback

£7.99

29th Aug

9781447205951

Paperback

£6.99

1st Aug

448 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

It’s 1924. Leaving their beloved Beech Grove Manor to go to London for the season, Poppy and Daisy Derrington know that they must shine as debutantes. Since a girl cannot inherit her father’s estate, the sisters have to marry well or face being left penniless. But it’s not money or marriage that interests them. It’s music, cinema, literature, fashion, parties, love – everything that is shiny and new. Trapped by the dusty traditions of their class, Daisy and Poppy must choose between family duty and the bright lights of the roaring twenties...

Debutantes: In Love Cora Harrison 320 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

It is 1940. As the war escalates and London becomes a target for German bombs, Dodo and her little brother Wolfie are evacuated to the country, away from everything they know. After weeks of homesick loneliness, they come across an orphaned foal. They name him Hero for surviving against the odds and together they raise him, train him, and learn to ride. Their days are suddenly full of life and excitement again, but the shadow of war looms over their peaceful existence, and soon Hero must live up to his name...

Hero Sam Angus 9781447235774

Paperback

£6.99

29th Aug

288 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

An earthquake has rumbled through the twisted city of Degringolade, stopping the town Kronometer and the infamous Phenomenals in their tracks. Legend has it that if the ancient clock stops ticking a terrible fate will befall the people of Degringolade, and there’s no denying that the super-mundane entities of the tar-pits are behaving strangely. They know something that the townspeople don’t: deep below the city, something has woken up.

And it’s hungry...

8

The Phenomenals: A Game of Ghouls F. E. Higgins

9780330507561

Paperback

£5.99

1st Aug

224 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

Titch the chicken is trapped. She arrived at Wilf’s house by mistake when one of Mum’s Internet orders went wrong (again). Now she is desperate to GET OUT OF THERE! There’s a dopey dog to deal with and a very snooty cat - and, worse, Wilf has made her share a room with Brian, an EXTREMELY fussy guinea pig. Titch is no birdbrain and plots to escape. But when the other pets are put in danger, Titch realizes she has to stay and help her new friends...

I’m a Chicken, Get Me Out Of Here!

Anna Wilson

9781447236634

Paperback

£5.99

1st Aug

224 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

Let’s Read!

Let’s Read! books help make reading easy. The complete story and original illustrations of bestselling picture books Room on the Broom, What the Ladybird Heard, Cats Ahoy!, The Emperor of Absurdia, Hamilton’s Hats and Wendel’s Workshop have been specially designed into an early reader format. Created with expert advice from a literacy consultant, this new version is intended to help and encourage children who are growing in reading confidence.

What the Ladybird Heard Julia Donaldson & Lydia Monks

Cats Ahoy!

Peter Bently & Jim Field

The Emperor of Absurdia Chris Riddell

Football Fever Alan Durant & Kate Leake

The Princess and the Pig Jonathan Emmett & Poly Bernatene

9781447235262 9781447235286 9781447235279 9781447235354 9781447235347 9781447235330

Room on the Broom What the Ladybird Heard Cats Ahoy!

The Emperor of Absurdia Football Fever The Princess and the Pig

Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback

£3.99 £3.99 £3.99 £3.99 £3.99 £3.99

1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st

Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug

32 32 32 32 32 32

PP PP PP PP PP PP

Macmillan Macmillan Macmillan Macmillan Macmillan Macmillan

Children’s Children’s Children’s Children’s Children’s Children’s

Books Books Books Books Books Books

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

Room on the Broom Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

9

Little Mouse has found a new book, and this time it’s full of scary creatures. Undaunted, he bravely sets about removing or altering all the scariest bits: cosy mittens to cover the lion’s claws, ruby lips to replace the shark’s teeth - and he even pole vaults out of the way of the bear! Full of flaps, jokes and Emily Gravett’s trademark wit, with a brilliantly satisfying ending, this is a worthy successor to Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears.

Little Mouse’s Big Book of Beasts Emily Gravett

9780230745384

Hardback

£11.99

1st Aug

32 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

Twin sisters Witch Rose and Witch Rita are relaxing at home when the king arrives at Rita’s front door looking terribly worried. The princess is refusing to smile! Will Witch Rita be able to solve the problem by conjuring up exquisite tiaras, fabulous frocks and boxes of chocs?

Or will Witch Rose save the day with a very different approach?

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

A fantastically funny fairytale from the winners of the 2011 Roald Dahl Funny Prize.

Rich Witch, Poor Witch Peter Bently & Jim Field

9781447220183

Paperback

Bin Weevils: The Official Annual 2014 Macmillan

9781447225799

Hardback

£6.99

1st Aug

32 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

1st Aug

64 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

The OFFICIAL Bin Weevils Annual 2014 contains all the latest news from the Bin, plus stories, activities, games and puzzles!

£7.99

Lab’s Monster, Frankenweevil, has escaped from Lab’s Lab, and the inhabitants of the Bin are very afraid! But perhaps he just needs a friend. Will Tink and Clott succeed in recapturing the monster, and what kind of tricks will they use to earn the monster’s trust?

10

Bin Weevils: Choose Your Own Path 4 Mandy Archer 9781447225805

Paperback

£4.99

1st Aug

96 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

I’m a busy train, chug, chug, chugging on my way, picking up my carriages and working hard all day!

Join a train, a truck and a speedy car as they go about their busy days.

I’m a yellow digger and I dig down deep, Then I pile up the earth in a great big heap. Join a digger, a tipper truck and a giant crane as they go about their busy days.

Peekabooks: Around Town Emily Bolam

Peekabooks: Building Site Emily Bolam

Lift the fun, scene-changing flap to find out what they do next! With shiny foiled covers, colourful artwork and large flaps that are easy for small hands to lift, these delightfully chunky board books are perfect for reading over and over again.

9780230767157 Around Town | 9780230767164 Building Site Board Book £4.99 1st Aug 8 PP Campbell Books

Full of brilliant interactive pull tabs and pops.

Guaranteed to delight small children everywhere!

Follow Little Chick as he hatches out of his egg, takes his first, wobbly, steps... and even has a little accident.

Meet the tiny T-Rex with a big appetite! But will he ever catch his dragonfly lunch?

Stomp! Little Dinosaur Jo Lodge

9780230767034 Oops! Little Chick | 9780230767041 Stomp! Little Dinosaur Board Book £5.99 1st Aug 10 PP Campbell Books

Babies and toddlers will love this beautifully soft, shaped cloth book with strokable felt ears. Read the story, then use the book as a puppet to bring the farmyard to life. Comes packaged in a high quality bag - an ideal gift!

Join in the noisy fun on the farm with Cow and friends. What noise do cows make? Baa? Cluck?

Neigh? No! Everyone knows that cows go... MOO!

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

Oops! Little Chick Jo Lodge

Cuddle up at bedtime with Sleepy Sheep! It’s getting late on the farm and it’s time Sheep was Cuddly Cloth Puppets: Cuddly Cloth Puppets: asleep - help him snuggle down, close his eyes Cows Go Moo! Sleepy Sheep! and say goodnight to all his friends.

Zoe Bennett Zoe Bennett 9780230767003 Cows Go Moo! | 9780230767010 Sleepy Sheep!

Cloth Book £5.99 1st Aug 6 PP Campbell Books

A fascinating (and very funny) look at the five senses from the acclaimed Glenn Murphy.

Glenn Murphy, author of the best-selling Why is Snot Green? tells you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the five senses. Find out which animal has the biggest eyes, what’s inside your ear-holes, why sweaty socks smell so stinky, why sprouts and ice cream taste so different, why we can touch and feel things, and lots more!

Poo! What Is That Smell?

Glenn Murphy & Lorna Murphy

9780330538527

Paperback

£5.99

15th Aug

192 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

11

Axel Scheffler Buggy Buddy Axel Scheffler

Katie the Kitten Axel Scheffler

Freddy the Frog Axel Scheffler Pip the Puppy Axel Scheffler

Lizzy the Lamb Axel Scheffler

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

Katie’s a kitten with sleek, shiny fur, She has sparkly eyes and a lovely, deep purr.

Lizzy’s a lamb who loves to have fun, She plays in the fields and skips in the sun.

Pip is a pup with a very loud bark, She scares all the cats when she strolls through the park!

Freddy’s a frog with goggly eyes, He’s small and fat and loves catching flies.

Beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Axel Scheffler, this buggy buddy has a fun rhyming story and a noisy baa-baa sound button to press! The handy buggy book strap means that you can take this wonderful little book with you wherever you go - perfect for babies on the move!

9780230756151 9780230756175

Katie the Kitten Pip the Puppy Board Book £4.99

| | 1st Aug

12 PP

9780230756168 9780230756144 Campbell Books

Lizzy the Lamb Freddy the Frog

Find out what the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts have been up to in the last twelve months. Make the most of every day to do something fun, memorable and exciting! A fantastic annual packed with ideas on camping, cooking, outdoor games, pond dipping, getting that next badge, and lots more fun facts, puzzles, activities and things to make and do.

Cubs Annual 2014 Amanda Li 9781447227700

Hardback

£7.99

1st Aug

64 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

A gorgeous children’s activity series that explores a wide range of artists’ work while encouraging children to develop their own skills and techniques, Get into Art! is perfect for active young artists of all abilities.

Art projects are varied, intriguing and clearly explained and will act as a springboard for plenty of artistic experiments. Readers can combine their practical activity and creativity with discovering a wealth of fine art and finding out about a range of artists and art styles.

Get into Art! People explores a fascinating array of portraiture artworks from artists as diverse as Leonardo, Suerat and Munch. Each is paired with an art activity for children to do themselves.

12

Get Into Art: People Susie Brooks 9780753435779

Hardback

£9.99

1st Aug

32 PP

Kingfisher

Numbers and maths are all around us. They can explain where electricity comes from, why we look like our parents, why moons revolve around planets, and why it’s so hard to win the lottery. We’ve Got Your Number investigates all aspects of mathematics and numbers and is arranged in a number of thematic chapters. Within each chapter is a series of self-contained spreads, each of which investigates all aspects of a specific subject, such as the different counting bases or the evolution of money. Each spread comprises concise and accessible running text with boxes, which belong to four main types: Good at Sums provides brief biographies of great mathematicians; Try This at Home is a series of entertaining number games and puzzles; What’s Your Problem? presents real-life challenges such as calculating the size of the Earth and shows how maths has solved them; while What’s In a Number?

We’ve Got Your Number provides a fact-file ‘biography’ of iconic numbers, such as zero, 1, 3, ‘unlucky’ 13 and 1 million.

Mukul Patel 9780753436400

Hardback

£9.99

1st Aug

96 PP

Kingfisher

Ever wondered how far away space is? Or why stars twinkle? And if the Earth is spinning, why don’t we fall off?

Ever wondered how many animals there are in the world? Or which fish can fly? And why aren’t plants animals?

9780753436448 Space | 9780753436431 Animals Paperback £4.99 1st Aug 64 PP Kingfisher

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

The Book of... Space Kingfisher

This series answers a wide range of questions that children ask about space and animals, and The Book of... Animals provides supporting, fun-filled facts. Appealing artworks help explain the answers, allowing Kingfisher children to build up their knowledge in a fun and gentle way.

13

After Toast Kate Gibbs

Toast is the entrée into the kitchen for many of us. It’s the dish we first learn not to burn, or what we make when there is nobody around to cook for us. It’s a reliable culinary introduction. But what comes next? After Toast takes aspiring cooks into the kitchen fray. Kate Gibbs’ grandmother, Australian cooking legend Margaret Fulton, had her making pizza from scratch before she could see over the kitchen bench. Now Kate passes on her knowledge, showing young adults what to eat and how to cook. Distilling culinary advice from her own upbringing, Kate offers must-know tricks for the new-to-cooking, modernises classics and inspires an interest in healthy cooking. Basically, this is a guide to real, really awesome, food. Recipes for crunchy, fried mozzarella-stuffed croquettes, French roast chicken, mini cheeseburgers and proper salads meet ideas for sprawling weekend feasts. After Toast raises the bar for the packed lunch, serves up new ideas on snacks, shows teens and twenty-somethings what to cook for mates or Mum, and puts an end to endless fridge searches by answering the perpetual question, ‘What can I eat?’

9781743369777

Paperback

£14.99

1st Aug

232 PP

Murdoch Books

MURDOCH BOOKS

A beautiful collection of recipes from top chefs such as Stephanie Alexander, Peter Gilmore, Steven Snow, Christine Manfield and Luke Mangan covering a range of dishes and meal types all delicious, nutritious and suitable for diabetics.

14

At My Table Amanda Bilson & Janni Kyritsis

Both of the authors have worked with and around food their whole lives and both have personal experience of diabetes: Amanda Bilson was diagnosed with Type 1 when she was 15 years old and Sydney chef Janni Kyritsis with Type 2 as an adult. Independently they both made the decision that they would embrace the condition and focus on all the wonderful things they could eat and do and the fact that eating well and exercising to control the condition has had many knock-on benefits! Between them they gathered recipes from all of the leading chefs in Australia to make this book which will find a happy home with food-lovers, whether diabetic or not.

9781743369753

Paperback

£16.99

1st Aug

280 PP

Murdoch Books

INTERNATIONAL SALES CONTACT DETAILS GENERAL ENQUIRIES c/o International Sales Department Pan Macmillan, 20 New Wharf Road, London N19RR Tel: +44 207 014 6221 panmacinternational@macmillan.co.uk

SENIOR SALES MANAGER Middle East, Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia & Thailand Sarah McLean Tel: +44 207 014 6215 sarah.mclean@macmillan.co.uk

REGIONAL SALES MANAGER Greater China (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan) Janet Chan Tel: +852 2811 7192 janet.chan@macmillan.com.hk

INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR Jonathan Atkins Tel: +44 207 014 6080 j.atkins@macmillan.co.uk

AREA SALES MANAGER The Nordic Countries, Central & Eastern Europe, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Cyprus, Italy & Malta Natalie Pougher TEL: +44 20 7014 6130 Natalie.Pougher@macmillan.com

AREA SALES MANAGER Korea, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam & Cambodia Andrew Mackinnon Tel: +852 2811 7120 andrew.mackinnon@macmillan.com.hk

INTERNATIONAL SALES DIRECTOR Aimee Roche Tel: +44 207 014 6082 a.roche@macmillan.co.uk SENIOR SALES MANAGER Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India Stacey Hamilton s.hamilton@macmillan.co.uk SENIOR SALES MANAGER US & Canada Daniel Jenkins Tel: +44 207 014 6211 daniel.jenkins@macmillan.co.uk

ASIA Pan Macmillan Asia Suite 811, 8/F, Exchange Tower, 33 Wang Chiu Road, Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong Tel: + 852 2811 8781 Fax: + 852 2811 0743 panmacasia@macmillan.com.hk

INDIA Pan Macmillan India 3A, 4th Floor, DLF Corporate Park, Gurgaon 12002 Tel: + 91-11-43074431-33 Fax: +91-11-43512957 v.sharma@macmillan.co.in INTERNATIONAL SALES MANAGER Latin America, Caribbean, The Bahamas & Bermuda James Papworth Tel: +44 1256 302716 j.papworth@macmillan.com

SENIOR SALES MANAGER Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, France, Spain, Portugal & Gibraltar Megan Lea Tel/fax: +44 161 794 8095 m.lea@macmillan.co.uk

IMPRINTS AND PUBLISHERS We handle the following imprints / publishers from the UK. For more information about individual imprints / publishers, please visit: www.macmillan.com.hk/pma/english/usefullinks.htm Pan Macmillan www.panmacmillan.com Macmillan New Writing www.macmillannewwriting.com Rodale UK www.rodale.co.uk Priddy Books www.priddybooks.com Gill & Macmillan www.gillmacmillan.ie Murdoch Books www.murdochbooks.com.au Guinness World Records www.guinnessworldrecords.com

We handle the following imprints / publishers from the US. For more information about individual imprints / publishers, please visit: http://us.macmillan.com/ Macmillan US us.macmillan.com St. Martin's Press www.stmartins.com St. Martin's Minotaur www.minotaurbooks.com Picador USA www.picarodusa.com Henry Holt www.henryholt.com Henry Holt (Books for Young Readers) www.henryholtchildrensbooks.com Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishers www.fsgbooks.com Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Books for Young Readers) www.fsgkidsbooks.com Roaring Brook http://us.macmillan.com/RoaringBrook.aspx Square Fish www.squarefishbooks.com Feiwel and Friends www.feiwelandfriends.com Drawn & Quarterly (Graphic Novels) www.drawnandquarterly.com Macmillan Audio http://us.macmillan.com/Audio.aspx First Second Books (Graphic Novels) www.firstsecondbooks.com Papercutz (Graphic Novels) www.papercutz.com Rodale www.rodale.com

Whilst every effort is made to keep prices low, it is sometimes necessary to increase prices at short notice.

Pan Macmillan reserves the right to show on covers new retail prices which may differ from those advertised in this catalogue, in the final pages of some books and elsewhere.

15