Pan Macmillan Asia Monthly Catalogue - May 2013 UK

MAY 2013 UK & AGENCY

Orders should be received by 2nd April 2013 to receive titles by on-sale-date.

www.panmacmillan.com The first mistake was capturing her.

SUPERLEAD

The second was letting him escape.

Military criminal investigator John Puller is drawn closer to home when his aunt is found dead in her house in Paradise, Florida. The local police have ruled the death as an accident, but Puller finds evidence to suggest that she may well have been murdered.

The Forgotten David Baldacci

A Fort of Nine Towers Qais Akbar Omar

On the surface the town lives up to its name, but as Puller digs deeper he realises that this town and its inhabitants are more akin to Hell than Paradise. His belief is confirmed as evidence of strange and inexplicable events come to light. And when Puller learns the truth about what is happening in this once sleepy town, he knows that his discoveries will impact far wider than Paradise.

9781447231080

A Format

£6.99

9th May

400 PP

Pan

With all the emotional power of The Kite Runner, this is the very SUPERLEAD first true life account of growing up in Afghanistan, by a writer who still lives in Kabul. Qais Akbar Omar’s young life coincided with one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan history: civil war, the rise of the Taliban, and the arrival of international troops in 2001. A Fort of Nine Towers, named for the place his parents first sought shelter from war, is the story of Qais’ family and their remarkable survival. When the fighting came, this group of tenacious and deeply loving people was buffeted from one part of Afghanistan to the next, ‘like kittens in the jaws of a lion’. They set up camp on the plains, in the Buddha caves at Bamiyan, and later with Kuchi nomads, before they were finally able to return to Kabul - where in many senses their trials were just beginning. As he shares this long journey, through terror, loss, heartbreak, and sudden moments of joy, Qais’ spirit never ceases to shine.

This is an extraordinary book about a beautiful and civilized country ravaged by war, and about the power of stories to embolden, console, and bind a family together, in the face of almost unimaginable odds.

9781447229827

Trade Paperback

£13.99

9th May

448 PP

Powerful ideas for how to out-smart the other guy - from one of the true greats of the advertising world.

Picador

SUPERLEAD

Predatory Thinking involves looking at a challenge you can’t solve and getting upstream of it - changing it into a challenge you can solve. Written in the form of engaging, brilliantly lean anecdotes and stories, it is the philosophy that has underpinned Dave Trott’s distinguished career as a copywriter, creative director, and founder of some of London’s most high-profile advertising agencies.

Drawing on Eastern and Western philosophy, and colourful characters that range from Second World War fighter pilots to Picasso, Plutarch and Warren Beatty, this book represents the distilled wisdom of a lifetime at the creative cutting edge.

Predatory Thinking Dave Trott 9780230770669

Hardback

£9.99

23rd May

300 PP

Macmillan

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1961: On a sweltering summer’s day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can’t wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything.

2011: Now a much-loved actress, Laurel finds herself overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories, and the mystery of what she saw that day, she returns to her family home and begins to piece together a secret history. This is a tale of three strangers from vastly different worlds Dorothy, Vivien and Jimmy - who are brought together by chance in wartime London and whose lives become fiercely and fatefully entwined.

The Secret Keeper Shifting between the 1930s, the 1950s and the present, The Secret Keeper is a spellbinding story of mysteries and secrets, theatre and thievery, murder Kate Morton and enduring love.

9781447231073

A Format

£6.99

9th May

608 PP

Mantle

Harriet Lockwood has never really felt that strong mother-daughter bond between herself and her daughter, Florence. Then one day she finds the reason why. The girl she has raised for the last fifteen years is not her biological child. Zoey Sands has a somewhat chaotic lifestyle and is completely the opposite of Harriet Lockwood, but the one constant thing in her life is her daughter Nell. Could it be that Nell isn’t her child. When Harriet turns up on Zoey’s doorstep wanting to see her biological daughter, the two families are instantly thrown together and nothing can ever be the same again.

FICTION

The Lying Game Tess Stimson

The Adultery Club Tess Stimson

9780330522038

B Format

The Infidelity Chain Tess Stimson

The Nanny Tess Stimson

£6.99

23rd May

What’s Yours is Mine Tess Stimson

320 PP

Pan

The Wife Who Ran Away Tess Stimson

Tess Stimson reissues Tess Stimson is the author of six previous novels, including most recently The Lying Game, What’s Yours Is Mine and; The Wife Who Ran Away, and one non-fiction, and writes regularly for the Daily Mail as well as for several women’s magazines. Her novel, The Adultery Club, went straight into the Top Ten Bestseller List on publication in the UK in January 2007, and was translated into 15 languages. Born and brought up in Sussex, she graduated from Oxford before spending a number of years as a news producer with ITN. She now lives in the USA with her American husband, their daughter and her two sons.

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The Adultery Club The Infidelity Chain The Nanny What’s Yours is Mine The Wife Who Ran Away

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Vengeance Benjamin Black

Why would suicide need a witness? On the east coast of Ireland, Victor Delahaye, one of the country’s most prominent citizens, takes his business partner’s son out sailing. But once at sea, Davy Clancy is horrified to witness Delahaye take out a gun and shoot himself dead. This strange event captures the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett and his friend Pathologist Doctor Quirke. The Delahayes and Clancys have been rivals for generations and the suicide lays bare the perplexing characters at the heart of the mystery, from Mona, Delahaye’s toxic young widow, to Jonas and James, his strange, enigmatic twin sons; and Jack Clancy, his down-trodden, womanizing partner.

And when a second death occurs, one even more shocking than the first, Quirke begins to realise that terrible secrets lie buried within these entangled families; and that in this world of jealousy, ruthless ambition and pride – nothing is quite as it seems . . .

9780330545822

B Format

£7.99

9th May

326 PP

Mantle

Moscow, 1937. Captain Korolev, a police investigator, is enjoying a longoverdue visit from his young son Yuri when an eminent scientist is shot dead within sight of the Kremlin and Korolev is ordered to find the killer. It soon emerges that the victim, a man who it appears would stop at nothing to fulfil his ambitions, was engaged in research of great interest to those at the very top ranks of Soviet power. When another scientist is brutally murdered, and evidence of the professors’ dark experiments is hastily removed, Korolev begins to realise that, along with having a difficult case to solve, he’s caught in a dangerous battle between two warring factions of the NKVD. And then his son Yuri goes missing . . .

The Foster Husband Pippa Wright

9780230769045

Trade Paperback

£12.99

23rd May

320 PP

FICTION

The Twelfth Department William Ryan

A desperate race against time, set against a city gripped by Stalin’s Great Terror and teeming with spies, street children and thieves, The Twelfth Department confirms William Ryan as one of the most compelling historical crime novelists at work today.

Mantle

Kate left her seaside home town of Lyme Regis for the bright lights of London when she was eighteen, and never looked back. Why would she?

She had it all: the glamorous media career, the gorgeous husband. Until her marriage failed and she found herself with nowhere else to go. Now she’s unemployed, separated, and holed up in her dead granny’s bungalow while she works out what to do with the rest of her life. Worse, she’s forced to share her new home with Ben, the clueless and domestically challenged fiancé of her bossy sister Prue. Ben is a man in need of simple instruction. And Kate is a woman in need of a project. Her own marriage may be beyond saving, but perhaps she can stop her sister’s husband-to-be from making all of the mistakes that doomed her own relationship. Kate decides that she will secretly train Ben, her foster husband, as a selfless pre-wedding gift to her sister.

But Kate may be about to learn a few lessons of her own about what makes a good marriage.

9781447210085

B Format

£7.99

9th May

300 PP

Pan

They were the perfect family unit, Tom, Sherry and their daughter Peggy.

That was until Daniel Faber walked back into Sherry’s life. Never an ex according to Sherry, but Tom is concerned that Daniel wants more from his wife than she realises. The fact that Sherry already has a husband and child doesn’t seem to bother him. So begins a battle for the love of one woman, but some people don’t play fair and in the middle of the fight stands a little girl who just wants her mother and father to stay together.

The Last To Know Mark Gartside 9780230759916

Trade Paperback

£12.99

9th May

420 PP

Macmillan

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The Soldier’s Farewell Alan Monaghan

Dublin, 1921. The Irish War of Independence comes to a head, in a conflict that will pit Irishman against Irishman, brother against brother... Stephen Ryan, an Irishman who fought for the British in the trenches, is sent to London where negotiations are beginning. He leaves behind his brother, Joe, who has been jailed for his actions in the IRA. There are those on both sides who would see the Treaty fail and Stephen soon finds himself beset by problems – a legal dispute, a blackmail attempt, even a plot to assassinate Winston Churchill. This is a story about two brothers, played out against the political and military upheavals that racked Ireland in the 1920s.

The Anglo–Irish Treaty brings the war with the British to a close, but a new war is emerging and Stephen finds himself once more called upon as a soldier. Assassinations and guerrilla warfare are the backdrop to the call to arms, as both sides attempt to force a new order.

9780330505819

FICTION

Four to Score Janet Evanovich

B Format

£7.99

9th May

High Five Janet Evanovich

208 PP

Pan

Hot Six Janet Evanovich

Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich Janet Evanovich is an American writer and gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a barely competent female bounty hunter from Trenton, New Jersey. Stephanie is single and living with her hamster, Rex, in an apartment building with predominantly elderly neighbors. Her financial situation is still rather perilous, partially due to her poor financial skills. This series consistently top the New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists.

One for the Money was sold and released as a movie in 2012. The film stars Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum, Sherri Shepherd as Lula, Debbie Reynolds as Grandma Mazur, Jason O’Mara as Joe Morelli, and Daniel Sunjata as Ranger.

9781447240587 9781447240600 9781447240655 B Format

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£7.99

Four to Score High Five Hot Six 9th May

Pan

320 PP 352 PP 336 PP

The official film edition including an exclusive interview with Baz Luhrmann.

Now a major film by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.

Jay Gatsby’s parties are legendary. Night and day, the rich and beautiful descend upon his mansion to drink and to dance. For Nick Carraway, newly arrived on Long Island, the handsome, wealthy Gatsby seems to lead the perfect life. But beneath that shimmering facade Gatsby harbours an obsessive desire for the only thing he truly wants, but can never have.

The Great Gatsby (film tie-in) F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece; a tragic love story played out in a world of dangerous illusion amidst the famous decadence of the roaring twenties.

9781447225928

B Format

£5.99

11th Apr

240 PP

Picador

Now a major film starring Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Redford.

When journalist Benjamin Schulberg discovers a link between lawyer Jim Grant and a notorious Vietnam-era fugitive, the world that Jim has carefully built for himself and his daughter collapses.

Still wanted for murder in a bank robbery gone wrong in 1974, Jim is back on the run after decades living under a false identity, and he must travel deep into his past to clear his name and save his daughter.

9781447221807

B Format

£7.99

9th May

448 PP

Picador

From the bestselling author of Room and The Sealed Letter comes a series of fourteen fact-inspired fictions about travels to, in and from North America.

With the turn of each page, the protagonists of these stories go astray in various senses. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito.

Astray transports the reader from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, from antebellum Louisiana to a 1960s Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present.

The book offers a past in scattered pieces, a moving history for restless times.

‘Superb . . . read this book. It is a gem.’

Sunday Times

Astray Emma Donoghue 9781447209508

B Format

£7.99

23rd May

288 PP

Picador

In 1989, the year of news, as London bakes through the hottest summer anyone can remember, one family is embroiled in its own private cataclysm.

Phillip Prys has been silenced by a sudden, massive stroke. As his girlish third wife, Shirin, pads through their faded rooms, dignified in the face of bustling Myfanwy, back to manage her former husband’s care, their adolescent children, Jake and Celia, seek refuge in drugs and food.

Enter Struan. Built like a heron, fresh from Scotland, he is thrust – quite literally – into the bosom of the family, as Phillip’s seventeen-year-old nurse.

He’s had experience of death, but not of London. Hampstead is a foreign country, with foreign food and foreign customs. But he finds that it also has a strange kind of magic. Under the influence of each Prys in turn, his Meeting the English life begins to alter in ways he could never have imagined. And so, in the meantime, do theirs . . .

Kate Clanchy 9781447229735

Trade Paperback

£12.99

9th May

400 PP

Picador 5

PICADOR

The Company You Keep (film tie-in) Neil Gordon

Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, The Company You Keep is an intelligent thriller about political ideals, family loyalties, and the shadowy world of the radical anti-war group the Weather Underground.

Having lost virtually everything in the fearsome storm - home, family, first love - Robert Chatham embarks on an odyssey that takes him through the deep South, from the desperation of a refugee camp to the fiery and raucous brothel Hotel Beau-Miel and into the Mississippi hinterland, where he joins a crew hired to clear the swamp and build a dam.

Along his journey he encounters piano-playing hustlers, ne’er-do-well Klansmen, well-intentioned whores, and a family of fur trappers, the L’Etangs, whose very existence is threatened by the swamp-clearing around them. The L’Etang brothers are fierce and wild but there is something soft about their cousin Frankie, possibly the only woman capable of penetrating Robert’s darkest places and overturning his conviction that he’s marked by the devil.

Southern Cross the Dog Bill Cheng

PICADOR

Tigers in Red Weather Liza Klaussmann

Teeming with language that renders both the savage beauty and complex humanity of our shared past, Southern Cross the Dog is a tour de force that heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.

9781447225003

Trade Paperback

£12.99

9th May

336 PP

Picador

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summers at Tiger House, the glorious old family estate on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. As World War II ends they are on the cusp of adulthood, the world seeming to offer itself up to them. Helena is leaving for Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is to be reunited with her young husband Hughes, due to return from London and the war. Everything is about to change. Neither quite finds the life she had imagined, and as the years pass, the trips to Tiger House take on a new complexity. Then, on the brink of the 1960s, Nick’s daughter Daisy and Helena’s son Ed make a sinister discovery. It plunges the island’s bright heat into private shadow and sends a depth-charge to the heart of the family. Summer seemed to arrive at that moment, with its mysterious mixture of salt, cold flesh and fuel. Magnificently told from five perspectives, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut: a simmering novel of passion, betrayal and secret violence beneath a polished and fragile facade.

9781447231066

A Format

£6.99

9th May

256 PP

Picador

Beth and me wedged tight, jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sound of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado, or anything, could touch us, ever. Addy Hanlon and Beth Cassidy are tough, inseparable, invincible. No pair more charismatic or sophisticated. No pair more dangerous.

But with the fall term, their new coach arrives and things begin to change. She has plans for the cheer squad: all sleek poise and cool command, the girls are soon entirely in her thrall. Faster, harder, higher, thinner, the stakes raised, their world contracting, they compete to risk – everything.

She, meantime, has been crossing a line of her own.

Dare Me Megan Abbott

From the brilliant author of The End of Everything, Dare Me is a searing novel about the allure of adulthood and the dark heart of adolescence: the fierce bonds between girls, their bitter rivalries, and their power to transform one another.

9780330518345

B Format

£7.99

23rd May

320 PP

Picador

Have you ever embarrassed yourself so badly you thought you’d never get over it? Have you ever wished your family could be just like everyone else’s?

Have you ever been followed to school by your father’s herd of turkeys, mistaken a marriage proposal for an attempted murder or got your arm stuck inside a cow? OK, maybe that’s just Jenny Lawson . . . The bestselling memoir from one of America’s most outlandishly hilarious writers.

‘You shouldn’t be laughing and probably you’ll go to hell for laughing, so maybe you shouldn’t read it. That would be safer and wiser’ Neil Gaiman ‘Hilarious . . . totally inappropriate’ Marie Claire

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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson

‘A skewering but deeply affectionate portrait of her family, in the vein of David Sedaris . . . blends surprising honesty with acerbic wit’ New York Times 9781447223474

B Format

£7.99

9th May

352 PP

Picador

Mark Wilkinson has three names. He left his own behind in the rainy north of England. U.S. immigration know him as Joe Novak. And at the Valhalla, the mysterious complex in Vegas where he sells lofty ambition and dark desires, he goes by Mr Jones. Since the age of eighteen, Mark has been running away, and hard. Away from everything that is flat and dull and ordinary: his market town. Away from disappointment: his vanished mother, his broken father. And away from heartbreak. Bethany Wilder, beautiful goth, carnival queen, partner in dreams, tragic ghost, never made it with him to America. He’s thirty now and again it’s time to flee – in the opposite direction, towards home. With shades of JG Ballard, Murakami, and Joseph O’Neill, this is an inventive and emotional novel about the power of dreams to destroy, of memory to distort, and of courage, ultimately, to heal.

If This Is Home Stuart Evers 9781447207634

B Format

£7.99

9th May

256 PP

Picador

Coming of age in early 1960s suburban California, Rebecca Madden and her beautiful, reckless best friend Alex dream of lives beyond their mothers’ narrow expectations. As teenagers they are inseparable. But then, one sweltering evening the summer before their college graduation, a single act of betrayal changes everything. Decades later, Rebecca’s haunting confession reveals the truth about that night, the years that followed, and the friendship that defined her. Gorgeous, captivating and compelling, Autobiography of Us is the story of two women caught between repression and rebellion, and the sacrifices, struggles and triumphs of a generation.

9781447233343

Hardback

£14.99

9th May

304 PP

PICADOR

Autobiography of Us Aria Beth Sloss

Picador

In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life.

These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.

‘Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time’ Guardian ‘Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself’ Scotsman

Mean Time Carol Ann Duffy 9780330516778

B Format

£9.99

23rd May

56 PP

Picador

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Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived.

Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signal led another cataclysmic world change. It focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation’s spirit. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Although they danced the Charleston, wore fashionable clothes and partied with the rest of their peers, they made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age. Talented, reckless and willful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world.

Flappers Judith Mackrell

9780230768901

NON-FICTION

Counting One’s Blessings William Shawcross

Former People Douglas Smith

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£14.99

23rd May

464 PP

Macmillan

9780330535779

B Format

£9.99

9th May

524 PP

Pan

Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin’s Russia. It is a book filled with chilling tales of looted palaces, burning estates, of desperate flights from marauding thugs and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution.

It is the story of how a centuries’-old elite famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the Tsar and Empire, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia. Drawing on the private archives of two great families – the Sheremetovs and the Golitsyns – Former People is also a story of survival, of how many of the tsarist ruling class, so-called “former people” and “class enemies,” abandoned, displaced, and repressed, overcame the loss of their world and struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile world of the Soviet Union. It reveals how even at the darkest depths of the terror, daily life went on - men and women fell in love, children were born and educated, friends gathered, simple pleasures were cherished.

Ultimately, Former People is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

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Confessions of a Sociopath M. E. Thomas

Trade Paperback

One of the revelations of William Shawcross’s official biography of the Queen Mother was her private correspondence. Indeed the Sunday Times described her letters as ‘wonderful ... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.’ Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face. They reveal - in her own words - the little girl writing to her family; the young woman who, eventually, accepted Prince Albert’s proposal; the Duchess of York, embracing the public role demanded of her, on royal tours both at home and abroad. They reveal, too, her shock when she and her husband realized that he would become King, the dreadful toll exacted by the Second World War, culminating in the King’s tragically early death, and her determination to find a role for herself during her long widowhood. Full of wit, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, Queen Elizabeth’s letters offer a chronicle not only of her long life, but of the twentieth century.

B Format

£8.99

9th May

424 PP

Pan

M. E. Thomas is a high-functioning non-criminal sociopath. She is charismatic, ambitious and successful. You would be charmed by her if you met her, might even be seduced by her. You would not realise that she is studying you to find your flaws, that she is ruthlessly manipulative, has no empathy and does not feel guilt or remorse. But she does like people - she likes to touch them, mould them and ruin them. She could be your friend or your boss. She could be you . . . Now she writes with breathtaking honesty about her life, from the confusion of trying to fit in as a child to her growing need for power over others, from her successful stratagems at work and in love to the disasters that brought her greater understanding of herself and the motivation to control her behaviour - most of the time. She also draws on the latest research to explain why at least one in twenty-five of us are sociopaths and shows why that’s not a bad thing. By turns fascinating, shocking and funny, Confessions of a Sociopath is a gripping insight into the mind of a self-confessed predator.

9780283071898

Trade Paperback

£12.99

23rd May

288 PP

Sidgwick & Jackson

After experiencing terrifying visions, Daire Santos goes to live with her grandmother in the dusty New Mexico town of Enchantment. There she discovers that she’s a Soul Seeker - a person who can navigate between the living and the dead. Guided by her grandmother, Daire has learned how to harness her powers - just in time. Enchantment is controlled by the evil Richter family, who are determined to rule over the Lowerworld, Middleworld and Upperworld - upsetting the natural balance and causing chaos. Daire is the only person who can stop the Richters, but there’s one problem: she’s in love with Dace, whose twin brother Cade is a shape-shifter, out to steal Daire’s powers. And both boys belong to the Richter clan. Can Daire fulfil her destiny without destroying her one true love?

The Soul Seekers: Mystic Alyson Noel

9781447206835

Paperback

£6.99

9th May

352 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

During the summer of her GCSEs Kite’s world falls apart. Her best friend, Dawn, commits suicide after a long struggle with feeling under pressure to achieve. Kite’s dad takes her to the Lake District, to give her time and space to grieve. In London Kite is a confident girl, at home in the noisy, bustling city, but in the countryside she feels vulnerable and disorientated. Kite senses Dawn’s spirit around her and is consumed by powerful, confusing emotions - anger, guilt, sadness and frustration, all of which are locked inside. It’s not until she meets local boy, Garth, that Kite begins to open up - talking to a stranger is easier somehow. Kite deeply misses her friend and would do anything to speak to Dawn just once more, to understand why... Otherwise how can she ever say goodbye? A potent story about grief, friendship, acceptance and making your heart whole again.

Kite Spirit Sita Brahmachari 9780330517928

Paperback

£6.99

9th May

336 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

She must rise, or they will fall . . .

Helen’s powers are increasing - and so is the distance between her and her mortal friends. To make matters worse, the Oracle reveals that a dangerous traitor is lurking among them, and all fingers point to Orion.

Still unsure whether she loves him or Lucas, Helen is forced to make a terrifying decision, or risk all-out war.

The final book in this heart-stopping trilogy.

Goddess (Starcrossed 3) Josephine Angelini

9780330529761

Paperback

£6.99

23th May

480 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

Laugh out loud at the boy who is a bigger trouble magnet than Bart Simpson and Just William stuck together. The second instalment of Dougal Trump’s ridiculous life has arrived.

“Mum,” I yelled. “Sybil the Goliath birdeater spider is no longer in my room.”

Somebody has stolen Dougal’s tarantula, Sybil (named after his sister - they both have very hairy legs), and she is being held to ransom. Dougal must fulfil the kidnapper’s demands before poor Sybil is tortured - one leg at a time.

I’m Dougal Trump...

Where’s My Tarantula?

D. Trump

9781447220220

Paperback

£5.99

25th Apr

256 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

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Join Tink, Clott and all your favourite Secret Weevil Service Agents as they hunt for the deadly members of the Weevil Extermination Bureau!

But be warned: there’s so much hidden in the busy scenes that you might not be able to find the villains - only the most observant SWS Agents will succeed! You’ll need to look very closely at the bright, detailed pictures to track down Octeelia, Weevil X and their band of Thuggs in this search-and-find book! Plus, keep your eyes peeled for some top-secret codes hidden inside to unlock exclusive nest items online!

Bin Weevils: Where’s Octeelia?

Macmillan

9781447225737

Paperback

£4.99

9th May

24 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

The start of a brilliant new series of board books featuring the adorable Zoe and Beans and all of their friends. With its gentle rhyming text, beautiful artwork and familiar and funny animals, this book is perfect for sharing with toddlers and young children.

Zoe and Beans: Look at Me! Chloe Inkpen & Mick Inkpen

Zoe and Beans and their best friend Oscar have found a dressing-up box. But what will they be today?

Join them as they become robots, doctors, bumble bees – even pirates! How many pets can you see?

Zoe and Beans: How Join Zoe and Beans and their new friend Oscar as Many Pets? they count the animals, from one to ten. There’s a Chloe Inkpen & hungry rabbit, a kitten, a duck a puppy and even a Mick Inkpen cow! But will there be enough room for them all?

9780230766549 Look at Me! | 9780230766532 How Many Pets?

Board Book £5.99 9th May 12 PP Macmillan Children’s Books

A playful exchange between an uninformed young donkey and a book-loving young ape brings Lane Smith’s bestselling It’s A Little Book to an even younger audience. This fun and satisfying board book is perfect for small hands, so now the message about the joy of reading can be shared with toddlers too.

It’s a Little Book Lane Smith

9780230768758

Board Book

£5.99

9th May

24 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

Come on in and meet all the animals! From the large grey elephant and the stripy zebra, to the bouncy kangaroo and the big friendly hippo, this great-value board book contains sixteen popular zoo animals. You can learn their names and then discover their different shapes and sizes as you turn the chunky die-cut pages. A classic theme in a satisfying new format by the creator of the worldwide bestselling lift-the-flap book Dear Zoo. The perfect way to introduce your children to the wonder and variety of wild animals!

My Zoo Rod Campbell

10

9780230770928

Board Book

£8.99

9th May

32 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

Have you ever wondered what goes on when the zoo is closed? Now you can peek behind the gates and find out! From sliding around with the penguins, to playing hide-and-seek, the zoo creatures are having lots of fun. But when the party’s over, don’t forget to tuck them up safely in their beds to get plenty of rest before another day of visitors. With activities on every page and plenty of room to use their imagination this book is the perfect way for young children to play with all of their favourite zoo animals. Contains 16 magnets and 4 fun play scenes, plus a handy storage pocket to keep the magnets safely tucked away in when they’re not being used.

Muddle Zoo: A magnetic playbook Jannie Ho 9780230767911

Hardback

£9.99

9th May

8 PP

Campbell Books

This cased board book is a perfect first introduction to telling the time for toddlers. The simple text allows Tor Freeman’s wonderful, humorous and detailed artwork to tell the story. Each page is richly detailed with tons to spot and flaps to lift throughout as well as questions to start discussions with your child. And as if that wasn’t enough, the interactive moving clock hands are both sturdy and easy to turn. Learning to tell the time has never been such fun!

9780230761049

Board Book

£9.99

9th May

16 PP

Campbell Books

Every day, the bus driver finishes his cup of tea, puts on his jacket and sets off on his route. Every day , the man with the big red tie gets on at the roundabout, the lady with the pram gets on at the library and the noisy children get on at Clover Drive. But what if one day the driver turned down a new and exciting road, and picked up new and exciting people? So many people that the bus simply wouldn’t be big enough?

Well, they would only be one solution... A bright, bold and funny book with a surprise GIANT fold-out ending.

The Hundred Decker Bus Mike Smith

9780230754584

Paperback

£6.99

9th May

32 PP

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

Benji Bear’s Busy Day Tor Freeman

Macmillan Children’s Books

In this collection, Julia Donaldson has chosen poems with performance by children in mind, and in the notes section at the end of the book are her notes and ideas on performing them. Julia’s passionate belief that performance can help children enjoy reading and grow in confidence is informed by her own experience both as a child and now, working with groups of children to bring stories, poems and songs to life. The poems range from classics by Edward Lear, W H Auden and Eleanor Farjeon to contemporary work by Michael Rosen, John Agard and Clare Bevan.

Illustrated throughout with exquisite, expressive lino-cuts, this is a book for teachers, parents, children: anyone who loves great poetry.

Poems to Perform Julia Donaldson & Clare Melinksy 9780230757431

Hardback

£9.99

9th May

160 PP

Macmillan Children’s Books

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Cooking is science, and this book is packed with exciting recipes for scientists of all ages! Make cupcakes and find out why beating the eggs and using baking powder makes them rise. Cook a Bolognese sauce and discover why onions make you cry and what happens to the molecules in the meat when you cook it. Reveal the insulating power of meringue when you make a baked Alaska – the oven’s hot but the ice cream stays frozen. You’ll also find out about the amazing scientific powers of ingredients such as gelatine, yeast and eggs. Plus there are several food-related science experiments inside. And if that isn’t enough this book will show you some really healthy ways of preparing the food too!

Yum!

Do Try This At Home: Cook It! Punk Science 9781447205531

Hardback

£9.99

9th May

96 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.

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

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: Animals Susie Brooks 9780753435762

Get into Art! Animals explores a fascinating array of animal artworks from artists as diverse as Degas, Matisse and Braque. Each is paired with an art activity for children to do themselves.

Hardback

£9.99

9th May

Explorers series

32 PP

Kingfisher

A perfect series to a journey of exploration!

Bursting with colour and drama, lively artwork scenes draw children into favourite subjects and provide a wealth of information. Written in a clear, friendly style and full of fascinating facts, Explorers is a fresh and fun first reference series for inquisitive young readers.

Explorers: Reptiles Claire Llewellyn

Explorers: Stars and Planets Carole Stott

9780753436530 Reptiles Paperback £4.99

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9780753436523 Stars and Planets 9th May 32 PP Kingfisher

Life Cycles series Each book in this essential series reveals the life cycles of ten animals in a particular habitat.

The life cycles link together to create three food chains. At the end of the book is a simple overview of how the three food chains interact to create a food web.

Life Cycles: Forest Sean Callery 12

Paperback

Life Cycles: River Sean Callery

With clear text and punchy photographs, this is a captivating introduction to habitats and ecosystems.

9780753436547 Forest | 9780753436554 River £4.99 9th May 32 PP

Kingfisher

• Large-size board book with an interactive play bar for busy, interested babies • Introduces key times in a baby’s day, from playtime to bathtime to bedtime • With pictures of toys, clothes, food and more to look at, plus striking spots, stripes, stars and other high-contrast patterns • Includes a shiny mirror to look into, and a fun activity bar with three moving, noisy novelties for babies to reach out for and play with

Hello Baby Play & Learn: Playtime 9781849158503

Board Book

£9.99

1st May

12 PP

Priddy Books

• Shaped, interactive board books introducing two key first learning concepts • Numbers from 1-10, and black, white, blue, red and more are represented by high-contrast images of toys, food and other familiar objects

Hello Baby Play & Learn: Colours

Hello Baby Play & Learn: Numbers

• Each book has a play bar - a noisy ratchet to play with in Colours and a bar with five fun beads to spin in Numbers - to engage babies, stimulate their interest and senses, and encourage hand-eye coordination

9781849158527 Colours | 9781849158510 Numbers £6.99 1st May 12 PP

Board Book

Priddy Books

Hello Baby Board Books

Hello Baby Animals

Hello Baby Faces

Hello Baby On the Go

PRIDDY BOOKS

• Simple word labels help language development and build vocabulary

Hello Baby Words

• Four chunky board books for babies in the Hello Baby brand • With simply illustrated images of very first animals, different faces to look at, busy things on the go and first objects • Pictures are set against alternating black-and-white backgrounds and are designed with bold colours to stimulate baby’s vision • Clear text labels introduce key first words

9781849158305 Words 9781849158787 On the Go Board Book £4.99

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9781849158770 Faces 9781849158312 Words 16 PP Priddy Books

13

• Wipe-clean, water-resistant PVA books for wet bathtimes and messy mealtimes • Babies will love to touch, hold and squeeze the tactile, foam-padded pages • High-contrast images introduce first mealtime objects, including food and cutlery, while there are pictures of bath toys, fish and more to look at when splashing in the bath

Hello Baby Bathtime Bath Book

PRIDDY BOOKS

PVA

14

• Each picture has a clear word label Hello Baby Mealtime High Chair Book • Packaged in a high-quality bag

9781849158480 Bathtime | 9781849158497 £4.99 1st May 8 PP

Mealtime

Priddy Books

Contemporary Indian food has never looked better than in this beautiful and fascinating cookbook, From India. Chef Kumar Mahadevan and his wife Suba marry food and flavours with family tradition and personal stories, to give readers amazing insight into the cultural background and history of their meals. With recipes ranging from simple, rustic vegetarian dishes from the author’s southern Indian childhood to extremely modern dishes, From India is a unique blend of tradition, international technique and produce.

Beautifully styled with rich photography throughout, From India is perfect for lovers of Indian food and culture alike.

From India Kumar & Suba Mahadevan

9781741969283

Hardback

£25.00

9th May

256 PP

Murdoch Books

Most Australians live in cities, clinging to the coast and looking outwards towards the ocean. Yet almost all feel closely connected to the country, even if they hardly ever visit it. Many dream of moving to rural areas there’s a harshness to much of the Australian landscape and yet they still feel a sense of romance about it.

9781742663470

Hardback

£40.00

9th May

288 PP

Murdoch Books

MURDOCH BOOKS

Rural Australian Homes Leta Keens

For Rural Australian Homes, Leta Keens travelled around Australia to find the 18 homes featured in the book a wide-ranging and appealing selection that includes a sheep station that has been in the same family for 100 years, a converted general store, an adapted shed, and award-winning architect-designed contemporary houses. Covering every state and the Northern Territory, Rural Australian Homes gives a compelling insight into contemporary life in rural Australia, and offers a glimpse into some of the history that has defined it.

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