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FEBRUARY 2014 UK & AGENCY Orders should be received by 30th December 2013 to receive titles by on-sale-date.

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Bartholomew Neil is thirty-eight and lost. He’s lived his whole life, SUPERLEAD up till a few weeks ago, with his devoted mum, but now she has died Bartholomew has no idea how to be on his own. His grief counsellor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded learn how to fly? So Bartholomew turns to Richard Gere, the man his mum adored from afar, in the hope he can offer some answers. In Bartholomew’s letters to Richard Gere he explores philosophy and friendship, alien abduction and the mystery of women. The letters also reveal his heart-breaking need of a family, but when Bartholomew does manage to assemble a motley family of sorts, he seems to have taken on more than he bargained for...

The Good Luck of Right Now Matthew Quick

9781447247500

Trade Paperback

£10.99

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize

13th Feb

256 PP

Picador

SUPERLEAD

As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders – two men and a dangerously magnetic woman – arrives on the woodland borders and puts up a make-shift camp. That same night, the local manor house is set on fire. Over the course of seven days, Walter Thirsk sees his hamlet unmade: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, the new arrivals cruelly punished, and his neighbours held captive on suspicion of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of his story, and he will be the only man left to tell it... Told in Jim Crace’s hypnotic prose, Harvest evokes the tragedy of land pillaged and communities scattered, as England’s fields are irrevocably enclosed. Timeless yet singular, mythical yet deeply personal, this beautiful novel of one man and his unnamed village speaks for a way of life lost for ever. ‘An achievement worthy to stand alongside those of Crace’s great fictional influence, William Golding.’ Sunday Times

Harvest Jim Crace 9780330445672

B Format

£7.99

13th Feb

288 PP

A gripping thriller about a boy targeted by a murderous cult leader. Fast-paced action for fans of Cherub and Gone.

Picador

SUPERLEAD

Born at midnight in London, on the stroke of the new millennium, Adam is the target of a cult that believes boys born on this date must die before the end of their thirteenth year. Twelve boys have been killed so far. Coron, the crazy cult leader, will stop at nothing to bring in his new kingdom. And now he is planning a bombing spectacular across London to celebrate the sacrifice of his final victim: Adam.

Thirteen Tom Hoyle 9781447250449

Paperback

£6.99

13th Feb

336 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

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