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The Sins of the Father Jeffrey Archer ŸSet during the Second World War and the covering the
period 1939 to 1959, this is a period that is hugely popular and will capture readers' imaginations ŸOnly Time Will Tell was a huge global success – in India the book was number 1 for 12 weeks The master storyteller continues the Clifton saga with this, the second novel New York, 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks, a top Manhattan lawyer, offers his ISBN: 9781447209225 services for nothing, penniless Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a lighter sentence. After Tom Imprint: Macmillan is tried, found guilty and sentenced, Jelks disappears, Category: Contemporary and the only way for him to prove his innocence would be to reveal his true identity – something that he has Fiction sworn never to do in order to protect the woman he Extent: 448pp loves. Format: Paperback Meanwhile, the young woman in question travels to Price: TBC New York, leaving their son behind in England, having decided she’ll do whatever it takes to find the man she was to marry – unwilling to believe that he died at sea. The only proof she has is a letter. A letter that has remained unopened on a mantelpiece in Bristol for over a year. In Jeffrey Archer’s epic novel, family loyalties are stretched to their limits as secrets unravel, and the story moves from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan. Join the great storyteller on a journey where there are no stop signs, no cul-de-sacs and no dead ends. 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 (fifteen times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). The author is married with two sons and lives in London and Cambridge. www.jeffreyarcher.com
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Torn David Baldacci ŸThe second novel in the Trylle trilogy - the series that
has already sold over 1.5 million copies in digital form ŸAcquired through an intense international auction Ÿ2012 will be the year of Amanda Hocking as Macmillan launch her with a global cross-format publication strategy ŸThe Trylle trilogy is to be published in quick succession early 2012 to grow Amanda’s readership before the global publication of her entirely new Watersong series which will publish in the autumn ŸGuaranteed widespread review and feature coverage requests already pouring in.
ISBN: 9781447205708 Imprint: Pan Category: Romance & Fantasy Extent: 356pp Format: Paperback Price: `299
It’s time to make a choice – can she put aside her personal feelings for the sake of her country? Torn between duty and love she must make a choice that could destroy her one chance at true happiness . . . Acknowledging that she was different from everyone else wasn’t difficult for Wendy Everly–she’d always felt like an outsider. But a new world and new family is a little hard for any girl to accept easily.
Leaving behind the mysterious country of her birth, she is determined to fit back into normal life. But the world she’s left behind won’t let her go that easily . . . Kidnapped and imprisoned by her true family’s enemies, Wendy soon learns that the lines between good and evil aren’t as defined as she thought. And those things she’d taken for granted may have been lies all along. With the help of the dangerously attractive Loki, she escapes back to the safety of Förening – only to be confronted by a new threat. Amanda Hocking is twenty-seven years old, lives in Minnesota. Her books have been a self-publishing phenomenon – according to the Observer, Amanda is ‘the most spectacular example of an author striking gold through ebooks’.
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The Bloody Meadow William Ryan ŸThe second novel in the Captain Korolev series ŸSet in Soviet Russia during Stalin’s reign of terror ŸThe first novel, The Holy Thief, was shortlisted for the
Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award; the CWA New Blood Dagger and the Irish Fiction Award Ÿ‘…darkly compelling….razor-sharp plotting’ –Daily Express Captain Alexei Korolev returns . . . Following his investigations in The Holy Thief, which implicated those at the very top of authority in Soviet Russia, Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself decorated and hailed as an example to all Soviet workers. But ISBN: 9780330525596 Korolev lives in an uneasy peace – his new-found knowledge is dangerous, and if it is discovered what his Imprint: Pan Category: Historical Crime real actions were during the case, he will face deportation to the frozen camps of the far north.
Extent: 320pp Format: Paperback Price: `350
But when the knock on the door comes, in the dead of night, it is not Siberia Korolev is destined for. Instead, Colonel Rodinov of the NKVD security service asks the detective to look into the suspected suicide of a young woman: Maria Alexandovna Lenskaya, a model citizen. Korolev is unnerved to learn that Lenskaya had been of interest to Ezhov, the feared Commissar for State Security. Ezhov himself wants to matter looked into. And when the detective arrives on the set for Bloody Meadow, in the bleak, battlescarred Ukraine, he soon discovers that there is more to Lenskaya’s death than meets the eye . . . William Ryan is an Irish writer, living in London - having worked as a lawyer in the City for a number of years. In his spare time, he wrote on an occasional basis for television and film before completing a Masters in Creative Writing at St Andrews University in 2005.
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Wish You Were Here Graham Swift ŸA triumphant return to form from the Booker Prize-
winner. Ÿ‘Serious rural novels such as this one remind us of Thomas Hardy… an extraordinary novel’–Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard ŸFrom the Man Booker-prize winning author comes his most devastatingly brilliant novel in years Ÿ‘The novel expertly explores the poignant contrast between irrepressible human hope and the constraints within which we live our finite lives.’–The Times Ÿ‘Affecting, powerfully sober prose . . . Wish You Were Here is a work of wide, ambitious span’–Sunday Times
ISBN: 9780330535847 Imprint: Picador Category: Fiction General Extent: 368pp Format: Paperback Price: `350
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.
For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey—to receive his brother’s remains, but also into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellie’s past. Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with a sense of the intimate and the local, it is also, inescapably, about a wider, afflicted world. Moving towards an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines—the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war—as heart-wrenching personal truth. Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of eight acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories; his most recent work is Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1983), and with Last Orders the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.
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The Hawks of London The Decipherer’s Chronicles Vol. 2 Grant Sutherland ŸThe second epic historical novel in The Decipherers
Series featuring Alistair Douglas ŸThe follow-up to The Cobras of Calcutta; this time the action has moved from India to London and Paris ŸPerfect for fans of Patrick O'Brien, Bernard Cornwell and Wilbur Smith December 1767. Alistair Douglas has been using the Decipherers, a secret network of contacts in London, to attempt to find two men implicated in a series of political murders in the mutinous American colonies. Rumours fly as anonymously printed attacks on the King and his ministers flow through the city. But, ISBN: 9780330508735 frustratingly, there are few leads.
Imprint: Pan Category: Fiction General Extent: 400pp Format: Paperback Price: `350
Douglas is therefore pleased when he is assigned to a new duty. He must travel to Paris and ensure the outlawed radical writer and politician John Wilkes returns to England – the stipulation being that Wilkes must return of his own volition. It is soon clear there is a serious conspiracy afoot – and John Wilkes is first on the list of suspects.
But the Decipherers have reason to believe there is a highly placed intimate of the present government also involved . . . Grant Sutherland was born in Sydney and grew up in Western Australia. He now lives with his wife and children in Herefordshire, England.
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Stands a Shadow Col Buchanan ŸPaperback of the eagerly anticipated second instalment
in the Heart of the World series ŸHuge commercial appeal; Col is a rising star on the Tor list. Continuing the story which began in Farlander. Still grieving the death of her son, the Holy Matriarch of Mann has ordered her troops to embark on a mission to the Mercian Free Ports. Riding at the head of her army she plans to finally conquer the city of Bar-Khos, whose walls have kept them at bay for ten long years. Ash has other plans for her. The old Rōshun warrior is determined that he will have vengeance for the crimes ISBN: 9780330511896 she has committed. But such a course of retribution is in Imprint: Tor direct opposition to everything he has lived for – this Category: Sci Fic Fantasy isn’t a Rōshun vendetta – it’s personal.
Extent: 400pp Format: Paperback Price: `350
While Ash battles with his conscience, Ché, the Matriarch’s personal Diplomat and assassin, is questioning his own path. Watching as the Mannian army slaughters their way across the world, he wonders whether he believes any of the doctrine he has been taught to follow. As the battle for Bar-Khos intensifies, more and more lives are affected: Bahn who leaves all he loves in the city to try to protect it from the ravening Mannian empire, Bull the murderer who senses a chance to make things right, and Curl, the young prostitute who is determined to seek her own retribution on the field of battle. When the two armies clash–all looks set to be decided. But it’s not sheer force that will win this battle. But the tormented determination of one man seeking redemption . . . 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.
Farlander was his first novel in the Heart of the World series, he’s currently working on the third.
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Rogue Warrior: Domino Theory Richard Marcinko ŸMarcinko and DeFelice sprinkle the action with
trademark Rogue Warrior humor and non-PC asides in the latest installment of the bestselling series. Ÿthe plot mixes fact with fiction, and incorporates some of the original Seal Team 6 skipper’s recent experiences in India Ÿ‘The most colorful, hell-raising, bomb-throwing exSEAL commander of them all.’—Playboy When the Rogue Warrior travels to India to help supervise security arrangements for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, he and his team find themselves up to their skivvies in terrorists of all types—Pakistanis. But it's not just the Games that are ISBN: 9780765364531 being targeted for disruption—Demo Dick and his young bucks uncover a plot to steal all seventy nuclear Imprint: Tor warheads the Indians have amassed for war against the Category: Adventure Pakistanis.
& Thriller Extent: 480pp Format: Paperback Price: `299
The Rogue Warrior must overcome various obstacles to prevent disaster: a high-tech remote controlled attack helicopter that makes the Apache look like a child's toy, an ominous chemical factory about to go boom, and tea and crumpets with the Queen.
We're just kidding about the Queen. Richard Marcinko is a living, breathing hero—he was honored with the silver star and four bronze stars for valor, along with two Navy Commendation medals. After serving in Vietnam, he started and commanded SEAL Team 6, the Navy’s antiterrorist group, and Red Cell, a high-level anti-terrorist unit whose exploits, fictionalized for security and legal reasons, have formed the basis of his novels. Besides an active speaking and consulting calendar, Marcinko keeps his hand in the field as the president of a private international security company. He lives in Warrington, Virginia. Jim DeFelice is the author of many military based thriller novels and is a frequent collaborator with Stephen Coonts, Larry Bond, and Richard Marcinko, among other New York Times best-selling authors. He lives in New York.
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The Dog who Dances Susan Wilson The Dog Who Danced is a story that will surely dance its way into your heart. ‘My name is Justine Meade and in my forty-three years there have only been a handful of people that I have loved. No, that’s an exaggeration. Two. Two that I lost because of stupidity and selfishness. One was my son. The other was my dog’. If there’s been a theme in Justine Meade’s life, it’s loss. Her mother, her home, even her son. The one bright spot in her loss-filled life, the partner she could always count on, was ISBN: 9781250011800 Mack, her grey and black Sheltie - that is, until she is Imprint: SMP summoned back to her childhood home after more than Category: General Fiction twenty years away. Ed and Alice Parmalee are mourning a Extent: pp loss of their own. Seven years after their daughter was Format: Trade Paperback taken from them, they’re living separate lives together. Dancing around each other, and their unspeakable Price: `550 heartbreak, unable to bridge the chasm left between them. Fiercely loyal, acutely perceptive and guided by a herd dog’s instinct, Mack has a way of bringing out the best in his humans. Whether it’s a canine freestyle competition or just the ebb and flow of a family’s rhythms, it’s as though the little Shetland Sheepdog was born to bring people together. Susan Wilson is the author of best-selling novel One Good Dog as well as five other novels. She lives on Martha’s Vineyard.
Also Available One Good Dog ISBN: 9780312662950 Imprint: St Martin’s Griffin Category: General Fiction Extent: pp Format: Trade Paperback Price: `499
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Secret of the White Rose Stefanie Pintoff Edgar Award–winning author Stefanie Pintoff's combination of a fascinating case and the sometimes-brutal and sometimes-glittering history of turn-of-the-century New York in this stellar historical makes for an utterly compelling read. The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele’s jurisdiction in more ways than one. For one, its high-profile enough to command the attention of the police commissioner. The judge was presiding over the trial of Al Drayson, an anarchist, who set off a bomb at a Carnegie wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. The ISBN: 9781250001665 trial has captured the attention of 1906 New York City.
Imprint: Minotaur Category: Mystery & Historical Extent: 384pp Format: Trade Paperback Price: `499
Furthermore, Simon’s precinct doesn’t include Gramercy Park, which is where the judge is found in his town house with his throat slashed. But his widow insists on calling her husband’s old classmate criminologist, Alistair Sinclair, who in turn enlists Ziele. Together they must steer Sinclair’s methods past a police force that is focused on rounding up Drayson’s supporters and have all but rejected any other possibilities.
Stefanie Pintoff is the author of A Curtain Falls and In the Shadow of Gotham—the winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and the Washington Irving Book Award. She earned nominations for the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She is also a graduate of Columbia University Law School and has a Ph.D. in literature from New York University. She lives with her husband and daughter on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
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Escape from Camp 14 One man’s remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West Blaine Harden ŸIntroducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk -
the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape . . . ŸA gripping, terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place, Escape from Camp 14 will unlock, through Shin, a dark and secret nation, taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go. Ÿ‘This is a story unlike any other . . . More so than any other book on North Korea, including my own, Escape from Camp 14 exposes the cruelty that is the underpinning of Kim Jong Il’s regime . . . The integrity ISBN: 9780230754683 of this book shines through on every page’–Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in Imprint: Macmillan North Korea
Category: Memoir Extent: 256pp Format: Paperback Price: `499
Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a ‘complete control district,’ a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. Inmates work 12 to 15-hour days in the camp – mining coal, building dams, sewing military uniforms–until they are executed, killed in work-related accidents or die of illness that is usually triggered by hunger. No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped. No one except Shin. This is his story. Blaine Harden is a contributor to the Economist, based in Seattle, having completed a tour as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Tokyo. He is the prizewinning, acclaimed author of two books: Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent (Norton, 1990) and A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Norton, 1996).
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Doctor Chopra Says: Medical Facts and Myths Everyone Should Know
Live Better, Live Longer: The New Studies That Reveal What’s Really Good, and Bad,
Sanjiv Chopra
Sanjiv Chopra
ISBN: 9780312376925 Imprint: Griffin Category: Health & Well Being Extent: 496pp Format: Hardback Price: TBC
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In these groundbreaking book, Dr. Sanjiv Chopra teams up with renowned cardiologist Dr. Alan Lotvin to give you the most cutting-edge medical research available. Doctor Chopra Says explains how you can tell the difference between true medical news and irrelevant media hype. Filled with authoritative advice from many of the top medical experts in their respective fields, these books give you the tools you need to lead a healthier, happier, and longer life
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Gidron’s Spies Gordon Thomas Revised and updated for 2012, this new edition includes: ŸThe story of how Mossad assassinated the Hamas
terror Commander in Dubai in 2010 and the role of MI6 in the assassination class ŸA look inside the modern Mossad training school class ŸThe departure of long-serving Mossad chief Meir Dagan, replaced by Tamir Pardo class ŸHow Mossad failed to provide the intelligence for the infamous “flotilla” attack on ships carrying food to Gaza class ŸThe unresolved murder of a Mossad spy in London
ISBN: 9780312552435 Imprint: Griffin Category: Current Affairs & Espionage Extent: 784pp Format: Trade Paperback Price: TBC
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In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be as surrounded by myth and mystery as the Mossad. Gideob's Spies reveals that all too often the truth exceeds all the fantasies about the Mossad. Gordon Thomas is a best-selling author of forty books published worldwide. He has firmly established himself as a leading expert on the often sinister, but always compelling world of secret intelligence.
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Flat Belly Diet! Diabetes: Lose Weight, Target Belly Fat, and Lower Blood Sugar with This Tested Plan from the Editors of Prevention
Liz Vaccariello Like the instant bestseller Flat Belly Diet!, this new diabetes-focused plan applies the latest research proving that monounsaturated fatty acids (or MUFAs) may target stubborn belly fat—and targeting that belly fat helps treat the underlying cause of type 2 diabetes: insulin resistance. The 5-week program includes a sensible diabetes-friendly diet with no forbidden foods and a delicious ‘MUFA at every meal,’an easy and flexible fitness routine, and simple stress reduction exercises. The book also features 160 satisfying recipes, ISBN: 9781609613808 expert advice, and insights from real people with type 2 diabetes to help readers lose weight and reverse insulin Imprint: Rodale resistance.
Category: Health & Diet Extent: 408pp Liz Vaccariello is the former editor-in-chief of Format: Trade Paperback Prevention, the nation’s #1 healthy lifestyle magazine, and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Flat Price: TBC Belly Diet!
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Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World Dev Aujla & Billy Parish
ISBN: 9781605290782 Imprint: Rodale Category: Business Extent: 304pp Format: Trade Paperback Price: `299
As we emerge from the recession, a generation is searching for practical answers about how to succeed and make positive change in the world. With real-life success stories and practical advice and exercises, Making Good outlines how to find opportunities to effect change and make money. These opportunities are not just for entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies: Making Good shows step-bystep how any person can achieve financial autonomy, capitalize on global changes to infrastructure, and learn from everyday success stories—providing the skills and insights this generation needs to succeed and build careers and lives of consequence.
Charismatic, young, and passionate, Billy Parish and Dev Aujla have been recognized in media outlets like Vanity Fair, Salon, and Rolling Stone as the voices of their generation. They are at the vanguard of figuring out how the next generation will rethink, reimagine, and rebuild the world around us. Making Good culls the knowledge that has allowed Billy and Dev to build thriving, meaningful careers into a book that will be What Color Is Your Parachute? for the Facebook generation. Billy Parish dropped out of Yale University to cofound the Energy Action Coalition and grew it into the largest youth advocacy organization in the world working on the climate crisis. Dev Aujla is the founder and executive director of DreamNow, a charitable organization that works with young people to develop, fund, and implement their social change projects. He lives in Toronto and New York.
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Mummydaddy Jeremy Howe ŸA touching, moving and inspirational memoir of how
one man was both Mummy and Daddy to his two daughters ŸIt’s a story full of tears, but also of love and family and redemption. ŸPerfect for Mother’s Day When your children lose their mother can you even try to take her place? In the summer of 1992, Jeremy Howe and his wife, Lizzie, were tending to last-minute holiday preparations. Lizzie was leaving to teach at a summer school before she could join Jeremy and their two ISBN: 9780330543927 daughters, Jessica, six and Lucy, four, at the seaside. That night, arriving at his mother’s in Suffolk, Jeremy Imprint: Macmillan managed to get the excited girls to go to sleep, irritated Category: Memoir that their mother hadn't called to say goodnight as she Extent: 356pp had promised. Just after midnight the household was woken by a policeman who had come to tell them that Format: Paperback Lizzie was dead. She had been murdered. Price: `350 Twenty years after that terrible night, Jeremy and his girls are not the people they might have been had Lizzie not died. They’re certainly different, but not damaged. This is the candid, heartrending story of how they got there, of how, faced with the worst thing that could possibly happen, they put their lives back together, bit by bit and piece by piece. It's a story of how Daddy became Mummydaddy and of the pitfalls along the way, from how on earth you decide what to tell your children about their mother's violent death to the practicalities of knowing what they like in their packed lunch; from helping your children to grieve when your own grief is so sharp it threatens to overwhelm you to making sure that they brush their teeth and comb their hair. Jeremy Howe is a senior executive at the BBC. He lives in London with his wife, Jennie. His two daughters are now grown-up.
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Foundation The History of England Volume 1 Peter Ackroyd ŸThe first volume in Peter Ackroyd's stunning new six-
part history of England, taking us from Stonehenge to the death of Henry VII ŸThis hugely collectable and beautifully designed set of six books will be the must-have history of the country England and is destined to be a future classic The definitive guide to England's history, covering everything from the everyday man to the people who have made the country what it is today.
ISBN: 9780330544283 Imprint: Pan Category: History Extent: 356pp Format: Paperback Price: `399
Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15,000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII.
In it, Ackroyd takes us from Neolithic England, which we can only see in the most tantalising glimpses – a stirrup found in a grave, some seeds at the bottom of a bowl – to the long period of Roman rule; from the Dark Ages when England was invaded by a ceaseless tide of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, to the twin glories of medieval England – its great churches and monasteries and its common law. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place, he tells the familiar story of king succeeding king in rich prose, with profound insight and some surprising details. The food they ate, the clothes they wore, the punishments they endured, even the jokes they told are all found here, too. Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers, Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.
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Fire Season Field notes from a wilderness lookout Philip Connors ŸAn unforgettable memoir of solitude, wilderness and
wildfires ŸA non-fiction literary star in the making – Philip Connors’s writing has gripped fans on both side of the Atlantic ŸWatch the extraordinary video of Philip’s life in the wilderness at www.youtube.com/panmacmillan
ISBN: 9781447208143 Imprint: Pan Category: Literary Memoir Extent: 300pp Format: Paperback Price: `399
‘I’ve watched deer and elk frolic in the meadow below me, and pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke. If there’s a better job anywhere on the planet, I’d like to know what it is.’ For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires.
Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors’ time up on the peak is filled with drama – there are fires large and small; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers, black bears, and an abandoned, dying fawn. Filled with Connors’ heartfelt reflections on our place in the wild, Fire Season is an instant modern classic: a remarkable memoir that is at once an homage to the beauty of nature, the blessings of solitude, and the freedom of the independent spirit. Advance praise for Fire Season: A masterwork of close observation, deep reflection, and hard-won wisdom . . . an unforgettable reckoning with the American land’–Philip Gourevitch ‘His adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading’–Walter Kirn Philip Connors has worked as a bartender, a baker, a house painter, a janitor, and an editor at the Wall Street Journal. His essays have appeared in Harper’s, the Paris Review, the Dublin Review and the London Review of Books. He lives in New Mexico with his wife and their dog.
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Abu Dhabi Days, Dubai Nights Jillian Schedneck ŸAn intriguing memoir – beautifully nuanced, and
perceptive view of the culture clash of East meets West. ŸA great literary hook for the indies is the teaching of Woolf in classrooms, and the way these ideas, such as feminism, we take for granted are seen through the eyes of women who have fewer freedoms. Reminiscent of Nine Parts of Desire and Reading Lolita in Tehran, this compelling memoir announces the arrival of an exciting new writer. When Jillian Schedneck takes up a position teaching English to a classroom of UAE students in Abu Dhabi, ISBN: 9781742610849 she is young, idealistic, in love, and ready to take on the world. But it is not exactly what she anticipated: her Imprint: Macmillan mostly female students are only attending university as Category: Memoir a token distraction from what will become a life spent Extent: 352pp attending to domestic duties, and Jillian struggles with Format: Trade Paperback the limitations to their futures that they seem to so readily accept. Price: `TBC Facing the contradicting culture of extreme wealth and luxury, but little real opportunity, Jillian finds herself deeply intrigued by the women of the UAE. As she negotiates her way around classrooms of unlikely students, they start to come alive as Jillian introduces them to writers such as Virginia Woolf, and poses questions about feminism. But she is not only opening up a new world to them. She also finds her own cultural assumptions being challenged, and begins to realise how much her time in these desert cities have shaped the woman she will become. Jillian Schedneck was born in the United States and moved to Australia in 2010. She received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from West Virginia University in 2006, and then moved to the United Arab Emirates. She lived in Abu Dhabi and Dubai for two years, where she taught English and Literature at Abu Dhabi University and the American University in Dubai. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Gender Studies at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Her research focuses on Emirati women's creative expressions of national identity. Abu Dhabi Days, Dubai Nights is her first book.
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Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China David J. Silbey The year is 1900, and Western empires—both old and new—are locked in regional entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific while the upstart imperialist Japan begins to make clear to neighboring Russia its territorial ambition. In China, a perennial pawn in the Great Game, a mysterious group of superstitious peasants is launching attacks on the Western powers they fear are corrupting their country. These ordinary Chinese—called Boxers by the West because of their martial arts showmanship—rise up, seemingly out of nowhere. Foreshadowing the ISBN: 9780809094776 insurgencies of the more recent past, they lack a centralized leadership and instead tap into latent Imprint: FSG nationalism and deep economic frustration to build Category: History their army. Their battle cry: “Support the Qing, Extent: 304pp exterminate the foreigners.”
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Many scholars brush off the Boxers as an ill-conceived and easily defeated revolt, but the military historian David J. Silbey shows just how close they came to beating back the combined might of all the imperial powers. Drawing on the diaries and letters of allied soldiers and diplomats, Silbey paints a vivid portrait of the short-lived war. Even though their cause ended just as quickly as it began, the bravery and patriotism of the Boxers would inspire Chinese nationalists—including a young Mao Zedong—for decades to come. David J. Silbey teaches at Cornell University’s Washington, D.C., campus. He is the author of A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902.
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Outlaws Inc. Flying With the World’s Most Matt Potter ŸAn extraordinary first-hand account of travelling with
the world’s most extreme smugglers ŸThese ‘outlaws’ are delivery men with a difference: they will carry anything, anywhere, for anyone, and their client base rages from drug dealers to government agencies ŸThis incredible true story is both an action-packed thrill-ride and a fascinating account of a hidden society – one which has never been written about before ŸWill appeal to anyone who loved Killing Pablo, Mr Nice, or God of War Ÿ‘Outlaws Inc. is an explosive read, full of heartthumping excitement and brilliant detective work which ISBN: 9780330531665 shines a light into the darkest corners of the world’ Sean Rayment, author of Bomb Hunters Imprint: Pan
Category: True Crime Extent: 320pp Format: Paperback Price: `399
An extraordinary journey into the biggest, most impenetrable trafficking network the world has ever seen.
In the world’s most dangerous trouble spots, a small band of men risk their lives to fly in desperately needed aid. But they are not heroes. Their giant ex-Soviet cargo planes are also riddled with secret compartments, which they fill with drugs, guns, money or people. They deliver anywhere, and they rtake their cut. But they pay a heavy price, many losing their lives to gun-toting pirates, terrorists, hostile state forces, jealous competitors and alcohol. In Outlaws Inc. Matt Potter follows their incredible story around the world. He discovers a secret society of mercenaries, dictators, agents, gangsters, businessmen and real-life Bond villains. Updated for the paperback edition, this story is the stuff of spy thrillers and action movies, but all the more terrifying for being true. Matt Potter is a journalist, editor and broadcaster. He has reported for BBC Radio from Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Southeast Asia and his writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Maxim, Esquire, the Irish Examiner and Q. He lives in London.
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Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights James Peck A gripping and elegant work of analysis, Ideal Illusions argues that the movement must break free from Washington if it is to develop a truly uncompromising critique of power in all its forms. ‘Devastating and deeply disturbing, this book lays bare any lingering illusions that human rights concerns seriously influence U.S. policy.’—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Washington Rules The United States has long been hailed as a powerful force for global human rights. Now, drawing on ISBN: 9780805094664 thousands of documents from the CIA, the National Imprint: Holt Security Council, the Pentagon, and development Category: Current Affairs agencies, James Peck shows in blunt detail how Washington has shaped human rights into a potent Extent: 384pp ideological weapon for purposes having little to do with Format: Trade Paperback rights—and everything to do with furthering America's global reach. Price: `599 Using the words of Washington’s leaders when they are speaking among themselves, Peck tracks the rise of human rights from its dismissal in the cold war years as “fuzzy minded” to its calculated adoption, after the Vietnam War, as a rationale for American foreign engagement. He considers such milestones as the fight for Soviet dissidents, Tiananmen Square, and today’s war on terror, exposing in the process how the human rights movement has too often failed to challenge Washington’s strategies. James Peck is the author of Washington’s China. The founder of the Culture and Civilization of China project at Yale University Press and the China International Publishing Group in Beijing, he has written for The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He lives in New York City.
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UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities John B. Alexander, Ph.D. A never-before-heard firsthand account of a government insider’s experience on the cutting edge of UFO exploration ‘Forget everything you think you know about UFOs this insider’s account exposes the reality... Packed with top grade information, insightful analysis and fascinating anecdotes, Alexander’s interesting and controversial book sets the gold standard for titles on this subject.’–Nick Pope, author of Open Skies, Closed Minds ‘Changes the playing field for both true believers and skeptics alike. Alexander strongly warns, be careful ISBN: 9781250002013 what you wish for when asking for presidential intervention. Success could set the field of ufology back Imprint: Griffin decades.’–George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM
Category: Science Extent: 352pp While still on active duty in the U.S. Army during the Format: Trade Paperback 1980s, Colonel John B. Alexander, Ph.D. created an interagency group to explore the controversial topic of Price: `599
UFOs. All members held Top Secret clearance. What they discovered was not at all what was expected. UFOs covers the numerous cases they saw, and answers questions like: ŸWhat was really in Hanger 18? • Did a UFO land at Holloman Air Force Base? • What happened at Roswell? • What is Majestic 12? • What is the Aviary? • What does the government know about UFOs? • What has happened with disclosure in other countries? • Has the U.S. reverse engineered a UFO? • Why don’t presidents get access to UFO info?
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Skin Rules: Trade Secrets from a Top New York Dermatologist Debra Jaliman, MD In Skin Rules readers will learn: Ÿ About the one ingredient that should NEVER be in
sunscreens, but often is Ÿhow to use inexpensive Aquaphor to heal wounds and
prevent scarring Ÿwhich drugstore products really work for acne and
wrinkles Skin Rules is a concise and practical instruction manual from a renowned Fifth Avenue dermatologist on how to attain beautiful skin, a taut and sculpted body, and a much younger appearance. Actors, models, and newscasters go to Dr. Jaliman for her cutting-edge ISBN: 9781250000958 technology and the latest in skin care, as well as for her Imprint: St. Martin’s Press reputation for being the “last stop” doctor, the one who fixes what others can’t.
Category: Health & Diet Extent: 208pp Format: Hardback Price: `799
Skin Rules has something for everyone, no matter where they live or how much money they have to spend. This small, invaluable guide supplies the same advice Dr. Jaliman gives to her celebrity patients, from lasers to remove sun damage and turn back the clock to suggestions for simple products and habits anyone can adopt for a small outlay of time and money. Debra Jaliman, M.D., has practiced dermatology in New York City for over twenty-five years, and also teaches dermatology at Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she is an attending physician. Her own best advertisement for her advice, Jaliman has appeared on a variety of local and national television shows, including Good Morning America and Nightline, to discuss her work. She lives in New York City. Visit the book’s website at www.skinrules.org
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The Blue Door Lise Kristensen ŸA little girl's incredible story of survival in the
Japanese POW camps of Java– there is nothing quite like this on the market Ÿ2012 marks the 70th anniversary of Lise and her family’s imprisonment A unique and heartbreaking memoir of a child's imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp during World War II. ‘1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends started disappearing...’
ISBN: 9780230760271 Imprint: Macmillan Category: True Story Extent: 272pp Format: Hardback Price: `699
On the island of Java, the stirrings of the Second World War in Europe and the angry-looking man called Hitler seem a million miles away from Norwegian-born Lise and her siblings. Then one day, her friends and neighbours start to disappear, and she begins to realise that they are not safe after all.
Through ten-year-old eyes, Lise tells of her family’s twoyear imprisonment in POW camps and the brutal treatment received at the hands of their Japanese captors. For respite from the ratinfested floor of their shelter they adopt a blue door, which sits on concrete posts in the ground. They live on it during the day as young Lise plots ways to protect her family from disease, starvation and the desperate behaviour of fellow prisoners. This is a little girl’s heartbreaking tale of survival. Lise Kristensen was born Lise Gronn-Nielsen in Java, Indonesia 1934, of Norwegian parents. During the Second World War, she and her family were held for over two years in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. After the war they moved to Norway. She was educated in Norway and Germany before qualifying and working as a secretary and then a gymnastics teacher. She went on to study art and became a painter, exhibiting and selling her work in Europe, the USA and Japan. She now lives in Spain with her husband.
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Between Parentheses Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 Roberto Bolano ŸThe collected non-fiction of Roberto Bolaño, published
in English for the first time Ÿ‘Every time I read Bolaño I feel so inspired, I just want to write...He’s a genius’–Patti Smith ŸPublished in the bold Bolaño brand look Ÿ‘Bolaño’s judgments are a joy to read. Between Parentheses is a treasure chest: filled with odd glittering jewels and fistfuls of gold. In these essays we hear Bolaño’s real voice’–Nation Roberto Bolaño is most widely known for his groundbreaking novels and irreverent poetry, but as he became increasingly famous he found himself in great ISBN: 9780330510684 demand as a writer of non-fiction. Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Imprint: Picador Bolaño wrote during the last five years of his life, as well Category: Commentary as the texts of some of his speeches and talks, and a few & Memoir scattered prologues.
Extent: 400pp Format: Paperback Price: `599
Cantankerous and insufferably opinionated, Bolaño’s subjects range from literary criticism to tender pieces about his family and favourite places; works of passionate disparagement sit alongside fierce advocation of his heroes and favourite contemporaries; he argues for courage and bravery in the face of failure and vehemently demands ‘creativity in all levels’. Furthermore, Between Parentheses offers an opportunity to discover the man behind the international phenomena: it is, as the book’s editor Ignacio Echevarría remarks in his introduction, ‘a personal cartography of the writer: the closest thing, among all his writings, to a kind of fragmented “autobiography.” ’ Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His novel The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times Book Review. His posthumous masterpiece, 2666, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Soonchild Russell Hoban Ÿ‘Hoban is the best sort of genius.’ –Patrick Ness, The
Guardian ŸLegendary storyteller, Russell Hoban whisks his readers across frozen landscapes, to the edges of cliffs, into tiny rocky crannies, and down into the belly of a great swallowing demon-and has them laughing and weeping by turns along the way. ŸLyrical illustrator, Alexis Deacon meets the spirit of Hoban’s vision head-on, and brilliantly captures the dark magic that lies at the heart of this fable. ŸFor age 14 and above
ISBN: 9781406329919 Imprint: Walker Category: Fiction Extent: 144pp Format: Hardback Price: `450
Somewhere in the Arctic Circle, Sixteen-Face John, a shaman, learns that his first child, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother’s womb. The World Songs are what inspire all newborns to come out into the world, and John must find them for her. But how? The answer takes him through many lifetimes and many shape-shifts, as well as encounters with beasts, demons and a mysterious benevolent owl spirit, Ukpika, who is linked to John’s past...
Russell Hoban is the renowned author of many famous novels, including (which was made into a film starring Ben Kingsley and Glenda Jackson) and Riddley Walker, which won the John W. Campbell Award for science fiction. He has also written over 50 children’s books, including such classics as The Mouse and His Child, Bedtime for Frances, How Tom Beat Captain Najork and The Sea-Thing Child. Born in Pennsylvania in 1925, he has lived in London since 1969. Alexis Deacon was born in London in 1978. His first picture book, Slow Loris (2002) was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award. His second, Beegu (2003), was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award and selected by the New York Times as one of the year’s best illustrated children’s books. In 2008, he was chosen as one of the ten Best New Illustrators as part of the Booktrust’s Big Picture Campaign. He lives in London.
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The Demon Trappers: Forgiven Jana Oliver Riley Blackthorne. Kicking hell’s ass one demon at a time . . . Riley has made a bargain with Heaven, and now they've come to collect. Lucifer's finest are ruling the streets and it seems that Armageddon might be even closer than Riley imagined. But with her soul and her heart in play it's all she can do to keep herself alive, let alone save the world. Riley's not afraid of kicking some major demon butt, but when it comes to a battle between Heaven and Hell, she might need a little help . . .
ISBN: 9780330519496 Imprint: MCB Category: Fiction Extent: 416pp Format: Paperback Price: `299
Jana Oliver’s imagination has always had the upper hand despite her attempts to house-train it. When she’s not on the road tromping around old cemeteries, she can be found in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and far too many books.
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The Demon Trappers: Forsaken
The Demon Trappers: Forbidden
ISBN: 9780330519472 Imprint: MCB Category: Fiction Format: Paperback Price: `299
ISBN: 9780330519489 Imprint: MCB Category: Fiction Format: Paperback Price: `299
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Twilight Robbery Frances Hardinge ŸLong-awaited follow-up to Fly by Night, Frances Hardinge's incredible debut ŸPart of a longlist of only 8 titles for the 2011 Guardian Prize ŸBrilliantly realised fantasy world peopled with unforgettable characters, including old favourites from Fly by Night ŸA thoroughly unpredictable plot with more twists than a spiral staircase ŸCombines lyrical writing with wicked humour and a talent for heart-stopping action
The city at night is a dangerous place . . .
ISBN: 9780330441926 Imprint: MCB Category: Fiction Extent: 528pp Format: Paperback Price: `299
Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are in trouble again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, the strange gateway town where visitors may neither enter nor leave without paying a price. By day, the city is well-mannered and orderly; by night, it’s the haunt of rogues and villains. Wherever there’s a plot, there’s sure to be treachery, and wherever there’s treachery, there’s sure to be trouble – and where there’s trouble, Clent, Mosca and the web-footed apocalypse Saracen can’t be far behind. But as past deeds catch up with them and old enemies appear, it looks as if this time there’s no way out . . . Frances Hardinge spent her childhood in a huge old house that inspired her to write strange stories from an early age. She read English at Oxford University, then got a job at a software company. However, by this time a persistent friend had finally managed to bully Frances into sending a few chapters of Fly by Night, her first children’s novel, to a publisher. Macmillan made her an immediate offer. The book went on to publish to huge critical acclaim and win the Branford Boase First Novel Award. This sequel is Frances's fourth novel.
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Danny Baker’s Silly Olympics: Steve Hartley ŸGreat value for money–celebrating the success of the
hilarious Danny Baker series for young readers, this bumper bind-up includes the first four brilliantly bonkers Danny Baker stories – plus a sensational new story–The Silly Olympics! ŸWill appeal to boys (and girls) who are fans of Horrid Henry, Captain Underpants, Spy Dog and Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder. ŸBrightly coloured, laugh-out-loud cover illustrated by the wonderful Nick Sharratt. ŸBlack-and-white illustrations and quirky text design featuring Danny’s handwritten letters throughout. ŸHighly promotable author available for recordbreakingly brilliant events. ISBN: 9781447208129 Ÿ‘I love these books!’–Jeremy Strong ŸFor age 8 and above Imprint: MCB
Category: Age 8+ Fiction Extent: 384pp Format: Paperback Price: `250
The world’s naughtiest record breaker is back with this timely Olympic-sized round-up of revolting records!
A bumper bind-up of the first two hilarious Danny Baker stories (The World’s Biggest Bogey and The World’s Awesomest Air-barf)–plus a sensational new story – The Silly Olympics! (100% Unofficial!). Cheer Danny and his friends on as they bravely attempt to break the World record for jelly belly flopping, custard pie flinging and picking up baked beans while wearing boxing gloves! The competition is tough, but Danny is determined to hop, skip and boing his way to a gold medal (and a new World Record!). Steve Hartley is a sensible man. He has a sensible job, a sensible family, lives in a sensible house and drives a sensible car. But underneath it all, he longs to be silly. There have been occasional forays into silliness: Steve has been a football mascot called Desmond Dragon and has tasted World Record success himself - in both a mass yodel and a mass yo-yo! But he wanted more, and so his alter ego Danny Baker Record Breaker was created. Steve lives in Lancashire with his wife and daughter.
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The Great & Dangerous Chris Westwood ŸFor age 10 and above
The brilliant follow-up to the highly acclaimed Ministry of Pandemonium by Chris Westwood takes readers on a thrilling journey through the streets of London and to the gates of Abhorra. Fantastically gripping until the very last page. ŸWe have a list too and your name is on it...
ISBN: Imprint: Frances Lincoln Category: Mystery & Adventure
Extent: 448pp Format: Paperback Price: `299
Ben Harvester and Becky Sanborne are clocking off after a normal shift at the Ministry of Pandemonium, guiding the souls of the newly-dead to the afterlife. But the enemy are still smarting after their catastrophic defeat at Halloween and are keen for revenge. A freak tornado that destroys Becky’s house is only the start. When thirteen souls are stolen following a bomb explosion on Bad Saturday, the Ministry staff know that it heralds an all-out war with the Lords of Sundown. But little does Ben suspect how far their influence spreads.
Who is the mysterious whisperer at his school? And why does Ben feel so uneasy about his mother’s new boyfriend? Chris Westwood’s first published writing was for the London music paper Record Mirror, where he worked as a staff reporter for three years. His first children’s book, A Light In The Black, was a runner-up for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. His second, Calling All Monsters, was optioned for film three times by Steven Spielberg. After a break from writing, spending seven years caring full-time for his father, Chris returned with Ministry of Pandemonium, the first in a series of novels set in a secret, alternative London. He now lives part of the time in East London, and the rest of the time in a world of his own.
Also Available Ministry of Pandemonium ISBN: 9781847801906 Imprint: Frances Lincoln Category: Mystery & Adventure Format: Paperback Price: `299
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Body Blow Peter Cocks ŸFor age 14 and above
Once you’re in the business, there’s no going back... Eddie Savage is hiding out in the West Midlands after his near-fatal shooting during the Kelly affair. But while the physical wounds are fading, the emotional scars are taking longer to heal. And when Eddie finds himself heading for the south of Spain with an unlikely travelling companion, it is as if, by some magnetic force, he is being drawn back into the criminal underworld. Tommy Kelly may be safely locked up back at home, but on the Costa del Sol the Kelly organization is still alive, ISBN: 9781406327281 and kicking.
Imprint: Walker Category: Crime & Thriller Extent: 400pp Format: Paperback Price: `299
Peter Cocks was born in Gravesend, Kent and studied History of Art at UEA. He worked in interior design, antiques, fashion and performance art in London, New York and Japan before becoming a TV writer and performer in the 1990s. Peter has since performed in and written many BAFTA-nominated shows, such as Globo Loco, Basil Brush, Ministry of Mayhem and The Legend of Dick and Dom. Peter lives on the Kent coast with his wife, two children and three dachshunds.
Also Available Long Reach ISBN: 9781406324754 Imprint: Walker Category: Crime & Thriller Format: Paperback Price: `299
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Under a Silver Moon Anne Fine Ÿ‘A short, brilliant book-infact, a true gem’–Carousel
Will Prince Haroun find the key to good health? In a hot, faraway land, two baby boys are born under the same silver moon: Haroun, the son of the sultan, and Akil, the son of the gardener. As children they play together until one day Haroun has to learn princely ways. He is waited on hand and foot and all he can do for himself is eat, so every day he eats more and more and grows bigger and bigger. No doctors can offer a cure. But one day a hooded stranger tells Haroun that if he digs the garden he will find a key that will give him good health. After weeks of hard toil, Haroun doesn't ISBN: 9781406319248 find the key, but he does lose weight, and finds health and happiness once more. Imprint: Walker
Category: Fiction Extent: 64pp Format: Paperback Price: `199
Anne Fine has won the Smarties Book Prize, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal (twice), and has twice been voted Children's Author of the Year. Her books include The Haunting of Pip Parker, How to Cross the Road and Not Turn Into a Pizza, Care of Henry and Nag Club. She lives in County Durham
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It’s A Book! Lane Smith ŸA New York Times Bestseller Ÿ‘A work of genius’–Sunday Telegraph Ÿ‘A charming defence of the book as we know it... funny,
with entertaining repetitions and surprises, and a punch line’–Sunday Times ŸVery funny look at a highly topical subject by an awardwinning author/illustrator ŸWitty and intuitive design ŸPerfectly pitched for young children, but also full of jokes for grown-up bibliophiles and bloggers alike. Genuine cross-over appeal. ŸCatch the YouTube trailer!
ISBN: 9780330544023 Imprint: MCB Category: Humour Extent: 32pp Format: Paperback Price: `250
“Can it text?” “No.” “Tweet?” “No.” “Wi-Fi?” . . . “No, it’s a book!” A wry exchange between an IT-savvy donkey, a bookloving ape and a mouse forms this playful and lighthearted look at the role of books in our digital age. With a subversive and signature Lane Smith twist, this satisfying and perfectly executed picture book has something to say to children and adults alike about the importance and joy of reading.
Lane Smith is a best-selling author and illustrator. He is best known in the UK for his brilliantly quirky and silly collaborations with Jon Scieszka. Lane lives in a small town in rural Connecticut with his wife Molly, a picture book designer.
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S.T.I.N.K.B.O.M.B: Deep Trouble Rob Stevens ŸBook two in this laugh-out-loud, action-packed new
series. ŸStandout package featuring the oh-so-slick (and spoofy) S.T.I.N.K.B.O.M.B. logo. ŸBy the author of The Mapmaker’s Monsters (Shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize) ŸAustin Powers meets Cherub! Fighter planes, evil masterminds and brilliant gadgets - Agents Yankee, Zulu and X-ray are back to save the day (and make it in to school on Monday morning).
ISBN: 9780330530262 Imprint: MCB Category: Fiction Extent: 256pp Format: Paperback Price: `250
The Secret Team of Intrepid-Natured Kids Battling Odious Masterminds, Basically (phew!) is BACK! And this time they’re in deep . . . As London prepares to host the annual Student Games, MI6’s team of child agents has a new mission: to protect the Prime Minister’s son - who is competing in the games - from the vengeful and villainous Evelyn Tension (say it slowly). With her face-mapping-quickdrying-liquid-latex-mask gun she has the power to change her appearance with a squeeze of the trigger. Will S.T.I.N.K.B.O.M.B. be able to keep her at (bionic)
arm’s length? According to his file Rob Stevens lives in Dorset with his wife and two young sons. He studied at Cambridge University – a notorious MI6 recruiting ground. Government documents list his occupation as 'Airline Pilot', which would be the perfect cover for a Secret Agent.
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Hop, Skip and Jump, Maisy! Lucy Cousins ŸYou can move the interactive tabs and wheels in the
pages. ŸFor age 3 and above When Maisy wakes up in the morning, she has so much energy! How can you help her move through her active day - bending and stretching, skipping, kicking, jumping and somersaulting?
ISBN: 9781406333725 Imprint: Walker Category: Picture Book Extent: 16pp Format: Hardback Price: `399
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Lucy Cousins had her first Maisy book published by Walker soon after leaving college. Now Maisy has become one of the best-loved characters in children's books, recognized the world over. Lucy won the BolognaRagazzi Prize for Maisy’s House in 1997 and the Smarties Book Prize in 2002 for Jazzy in the Jungle. Lucy has over 21 million books in print, including picture books, sticker books, cloth books, colouring books, board books, pull-the-tab and liftthe-flap books. She lives in Hampshire with her partner and four teenage children.
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The Magic Dress Shop: The Butterfly Tiara Gwyneth Rees ŸThe third book in this magical new series from the
wonderful Gwyneth Rees about the power of wishes and imagination ŸBook 1, The Magic Princess Dress, was picked for the Richard and Judy children's book club, ŸFrom the award-winning and bestselling author of The Faries series comes this exciting new series that no little girl will be able to resist What could be better than a magic dress shop, where each gorgeous outfit takes you on an adventure through time and imagination?
ISBN: 9780330461184 Imprint: MCB Category: Fiction Extent: 256pp Format: Paperback Price: `199
In this third book in the series, Ava puts on a beautiful trapeze outfit with an amazing butterfly tiara and is transported to a travelling circus. Ava loves the bright lights and the beautiful costumes, but she’s worried about a baby elephant that is being trained to perform tricks. Can Ava reunite the baby with its mother before the ringmaster finds out?
Gwyneth Rees was brought up in Scotland. She is a qualified child psychiatrist. The author of Mermaid Magic, The Fairies series, The Mum Hunt (winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award), The Mum Detective, The Mum Mystery, My Mum’s From Planet Pluto, The Making of May and many others, Gwyneth is now writing full-time. She lives near London with her husband, two daughters and two cats.
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My Big Book of Monsters Jenny Arthur, Maggie Bateson ŸWonderful paper-engineering from the highly
talented and successful Maggie Bateson, creator of the Macmillan bestselling My Fairy carousel series ŸLarge hardback picture book format makes this an ideal gift purchase ŸA monstrously good gift book packed with interactive surprises!
ISBN: 9780230753969 Imprint: Campbell Category: Picture Book Extent: 14pp Format: Hardback Price: `450
‘Sometimes when you’re sleeping, As you rest your tired head, There’s a magic monster party Going on . . . under your bed!’ This hardback gift book is packed full of friendly, funny and downright hilarious monsters! The magical story is brought to life by fabulous moving mechanisms from the talented Maggie Bateson, including tabs to pull, dials to spin and flaps to lift. Every page is literally bursting with surprises!
Maggie Bateson is a talented paper engineer and the creator of a series of highly successful and amazingly intricate fairy carousel books for Macmillan Children's Books. Maggie loves gardening and occasionally opens her spectacular garden to the public for charity. She lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband and children. Jenny Arthur has illustrated many books for children. When not painting, she enjoys wildlife spotting, walking, crocheting and playing the ukelele! Jenny lives in London.
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The Bear and the Bees Ella Richardson, Illustrated by: Lydia Monks ŸAn original story with an endearing central character and a positive anti-bullying message
It takes a brave bear to be different!
ISBN: 9780230763692 Imprint: MCB Category: Picture Book Extent: 24pp Format: Paperback Price: `250
On Gruzzle the bear’s first day at Bee School, the other pupils are none too friendly. They look the same as each other, sound the same as each other and even all have the same name! It’s just poor old Gruzzle who is different, and he sticks out like a sore thumb. But Gruzzle is not a bear who is easily deterred. He hatches a plan to show those beastly bees that there’s nothing wrong with being yourself . . . whatever that may be! Lydia Monks is one of the most original picture book artists working today. Her distinctive use of colour and collage has won her critical acclaim and several awards, including the Smarties Prize. Lydia has illustrated a number of books by Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson, including the hugely successful What The Ladybird Heard. She lives in Sheffield with her husband and their two little girls.
Ella Richardson’s unique and imaginative story for ITV Daybreak’s What’s the Story? competition beat over 7,000 other entries from children around the UK to take first prize. Ella is 12 years old and lives in Suffolk with her mum, dad and brother.
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Solomon Crocodile
New in Paperback!
Catherine Rayner
ISBN: 9780230750227 Imprint: MCB Category: Picture Book Extent: 32pp Format: Paperback Price: `250
Ÿ‘Sure to make toddlers chortle with glee’ –Books For Keeps ŸBy the winner of the 2009 Kate Greenaway Medal ŸWritten and illustrated by a rising star in children’s picture books ŸIntroducing an irresistible, and irrepressible, central character ŸFeatures a beautiful foiled cover Ÿ‘Catherine Rayner’s illustrations are, as always, simply brilliant’–Literacy Time Plus
A snappy, happy, stunning new book from the award-winning Catherine Rayner. Uh oh. Here comes trouble . . .
Poor Solomon is looking for some fun but no one wants to play. The dragonflies tell him to buzz off, the storks get in a flap, and the hippo? Well, the less said about the hippo, the better! But then somebody else starts causing trouble . . . and for once it is Not Solomon. Could it be the perfect pal for a lonely crocodile? Catherine Rayner studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. She fell in love with the city and still lives there with a small menagerie of creatures including Shannon the horse, Ena the cat and a goldfish called Sheila, all of whom inspire her work. In 2006 Catherine won the Best New Illustrator Award at the Booktrust Early Years Awards and in 2009 was awarded the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. Solomon Crocodile is Catherine’s second book.
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Does Farting Make You Faster? Glenn Murphy ŸNew from the author of the bestselling Why is Snot Green? and How Loud Can You Burp? ŸPublished in association with the Science Museum. ŸIncludes quizes, puzzles and activities. ŸGlenn is well-known to children and adults and we have sold over 300,000 copies of his books in the past 3 years. ŸGood science effectively communicated. ŸHighly illustrated with photos and artwork.
Why don’t hammer-throwers get dizzy? Could the world’s fastest swimmer catch a jet-ski? How far can a human being run or cycle before they drop? Which nutter invented the ski jump?
ISBN: 9781447212522 Imprint: MCB Category: Children’s Extent: 224pp Format: Paperback Price: `250
Glenn Murphy, author of Why Is Snot Green?, answers these and other brilliant questions in this fascinating book about the science of sport.
From running a marathon to beating your friends at basketball, from karate-kicking through concrete to pulling a backflip on a BMX. Find out everything you ever wanted to know about sports and games. Become a whizz in science AND trounce your friends at your school sports day. It's like being in the Olympics with none of the boring bits! Glenn Murphy received his masters in science communication from London's Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. He wrote his first popular science book, Why Is Snot Green?, while managing the Explainer team at the Science Museum in London. In 2007 he moved to the United States. He now lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Heather,and two unusually large and ill-tempered cats.
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Readalong Book: Princess Stories
Favourite Princess Stories
Roger Priddy
Roger Priddy
ISBN: 9781849156172 Imprint: Priddy Category: Early Learning Format: Slipcase Price: `550
ISBN: 9781849157124 Imprint: Priddy Category: Early Learning Format: Slipcase + CD Price: `339
Ÿ Compact collection of three illustrated, hardback books, each re–telling a classic
princess story: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Ÿ Comes complete with an Audio CD which features spoken versions of each
charaming tale for children to listen to.
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Children’s Non-fiction
Bright Baby: First 100 Numbers
Nursery Rhymes: Sticker Activity Book
The Scouting Puzzle Book
Roger Priddy
Anon
Amanda Li
ISBN: 9781849156141 Imprint: Priddy Category: Early Learning Extent: 14pp Format: Board Book Price: `250
ISBN: 9781849156189 Imprint: Priddy Category: Early Learning Extent: 80pp Format: Paperback Price: `350
ISBN: 9781447205586 Imprint: MCB Category: Games &
ŸFantastic New addition
to one of Priddy’s all time best-selling series First 100 Board Book. ŸFeatures over 100 clear, sharp images and accompanying text-lables to help develop children’s counting skills and build their vocabulary.
ŸPacked with pictures of nursery rhymes characters to colour in and themed early learning Puzzles to complete ŸOver 200 stickers to have fun with and place on the book pages to complete the nursery rhyme scenes.
Puzzles Extent: 96pp Format: Paperback Price: `199 ŸThis book is jam-packed
with Scouting-themed puzzles and activities! Ÿ2nd includes a selection of crossword, mazes, dotto-dot, quizzes, colouring, picture and word matching, odd-one out games, spot the differences activities and lots more.
Children’s Non-fiction
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CodeQuest: Titanic Anita Croy, Mick Posen ŸPublishing to coincide with the centenary of the
Titanic’s catastrophic maiden voyage ŸHighly atmospheric artworks and narrative text involve the reader as an historical detective ŸEncourages problem-solving by providing many different levels of clues and information ŸFold-out panels help the reader to translate the symbols and solve the puzzles ŸSpecially-created code wheel, inside, allows children to create and decode secret messages
ISBN: 9780753432204 Imprint: Kingfisher Category: Novelty Extent: 48pp Format: Hardback Price: `550
An interactive mystery story, where the clues are hidden in codes and symbols
Code Quest is a narrative non-fiction series that challenges the reader to solve historical mysteries. Each title presents a unique, interactive story in which the reader learns about historical codes, pictograms and symbols by completing various code-breaking tasks. While looking through documents connected with the Titanic’s maiden voyage, a journalist discovers that he might be related to a pair of fugitives, who disappeared from his home town and perished in the disaster. He follows a trail of evidence, along the route of a memorial cruise, in order to discover the identity of the runaways and the reasons for their flight. Anita Croy studied languages at the University of London, where she was awarded a PhD in Spanish studies. She has written numerous books for young readers, mainly on historical and cultural subjects, including studies of ancient civilizations for the National Geographic Society. She has travelled widely, but currently lives in London with her young family. Mick Posen studied at Ravensbourne and Brighton Art college in the 1970s. He spent many years illustrating fantasy and sci-fi book covers using traditional airbrush and painting techniques. He now works digitally using 3D and 2D software and is also venturing into animation. He lives in the depths of Suffolk with his wife and cat.
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Children’s Non-fiction
Life Cycles: Forest
Life Cycles: River
Sean Callery
Sean Callery
Imprint: Kingfisher Category: Educational & Science Extent: 32pp Format: Hardback Price: `350 ISBN: 9780753433249
ISBN: 9780753433409
ŸFollow each life cycle, and learn how they link to create a simple food chain Ÿ Six-book series covers Earth’s key habitats ŸA high-quality series on two core curriculum topics – life cycles and food chains ŸHigh-impact photographs impart key information directly and clearly
An ingenious yet simple series that introduces children to food chains and life cycles 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. With clear text and punchy photographs, this is a captivating introduction to habitats and ecosystems. Sean Callery is a writer and primary-school teacher. He has written a number of information books as well as musicals and educational articles.
Children’s Non-fiction
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