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The Book of Shadows * The Books of Shadows is a stunning, magical debut. Will be supported by our best terms, budget and effort. * Entered for all eligible prizes and individual retailer awards and shortlists. * Having established our horror list, we are delighted to add Witchcraft to the mix - although The Book of Shadows is very much a mainstream novel and suitable as a read for those who love general fiction * In the same vein as Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. ______________________________________ About the book:
About the author:
Paula Brackston runs creative writing classes and workshops, is a script reader for a film company, and sells her short stories. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. Her travel book ‘The Dragon’s Trail’ is a journal of her month long horseback trek around Wales. Her autobiographical writing has been published in anthologies -’Even The Rain Is Different’, ‘Strange Days Indeed’, and ‘In Her Element’. In 2006 she was shortlisted in the Creme de la Crime Search for new writers. She lives half way up a Brecon Beacon with her partner and their two children.
“My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. Each new settlement asks for a new journal, and so this Book of Shadows begins.” In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from 02/02/2009 • £7.99• B Format Pbk • 384 pages suffering the same fate. It is the Warlock, Gideon Masters, who will instruct 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781905005970 her in the Craft and bring her to her immortal state. She could never have foreseen that even now, centuries later, he will be hunting her across time, antasy determined to claim payment for saving her life. Bess continues her mother’s ____________________________________________________________ healing work, but is forced to move frequently to protect the secret of her immortality, and to evade Gideon. As Dr Eliza Hawksmith of the Fitzroy Hospital he pursues her through Victorian London. When she is nurse Elise Hawksmith he dogs her footsteps in the dark chaos of Passchendaele in 1917. In the present day she finds a peace of sorts and begins to beliebve that the danger might at last have passed. She allows herself to befriend Tegan, a lonely teenager in whom Bess sees a scintilla of magic. It is to protect this child that she must finally stand and confront her foe.
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Skarlet *Previous book, Maneater, critically acclaimed and sold brilliantly * Snowbooks love his work so much we have signed up his next 8 books, as reported in the Bookseller * Will be entered for all eligible awards including Richard and Judy - genre and mainstream alike, since Skarlet features universal themes and is as pacey as the best thrillers. * Author is established with short story credits to his name, and has numerous horror books published in Welsh - good local buying and marketing opportunities ______________________________________ About the book: Fear grips London as dozens of clubbers die after taking a sinister new drug.
About the author: Thomas Emson is a writer who lives under another name. Born and raised in North Wales, he has been a singer-songwriter, an author, and a journalist. He has published fiction in the Welsh language, but Maneater is his first English-language novel. He lives in Kent with a wonderful woman, an elderly cat, and two house rabbits. 02/03/2009 • £7.99• B Format Pbk • 448 pages 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781905005987
Horror
But that’s only the beginning.
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48 hours later, the dead clubbers wake up - and it’s open season on the living, who are butchered for their blood. Soon, London gives a name to its terror:VAMPIRES Jake Lawton, bitter and betrayed after the Iraq War, find himself fighting another battle - against the growing army of immortal hunters and their human cohorts. Lawton joins forces with the journalist who brought about his downfall and the dealer tricked into distributing the drug. And together they take on the spineless authorities, the ruthless cohorts, and the hungry dead.
Maneater 9781905005840 B Format Paperback Prey 9781906727284 Library Hardback
But the vampire plague unleashed in London is nothing to what lurks beneath the streets -Waiting to be fed . . . Waiting to be resurrected . . . Waiting to reign again over a city of human slaves . . .
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The Blue Handbag *Featured in The Bookseller Paperback Preview 09 and compared to Joanna Trollope *”Totally, utterly and absolutely enjoy[able]” Caroline Smailes, author of In Search of Adam, *Blog tour of 17 blogs. *Fiona is a regular speaker at literary events and teaches creative writing. *Signed copies available, extensive online marketing drawing on Fiona’s established blogging network and budget for marketing spend. ______________________________________ About the book:
About the author: Fiona Robyn is a writer and a blogger.
She writes to help herself and other people to pay attention, and because she loves to. She writes a daily blog at www.asmallstone.com and a blog about being a writer at www.plantingwords.blogspot.com. She collects other people’s small stones at http://ahandfulofstones.blogspot.com. She lives happily in rural Hampshire in the UK with her partner, her cats Silver and Fatty, and her vegetable patch.
After forty years of happy marriage, Leonard thought he knew his wife Rose as well as he knew himself. It’s only after her sudden death that he finds her old handbag, which contains a mystery he can’t ignore. Accompanied 01/08/2009 • £7.99• B Format Pbk • 320 pages by Lily, his wife’s childhood friend, Leonard becomes a reluctant detective 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781905005994 as his whole life starts to unravel ‘The Blue Handbag’ is steeped in a quiet poetry which reminds us to take pleasure from the ordinary details of life iction - reading stories to our children, sharing silence with our friend over a beer, ____________________________________________________________ enjoying the plants Leonard tends for a living - and never to take anything for granted.
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Fiona Robyn is a new young author we’re delighted to have unearthed. Caroline Smailes, author of In Search of Adam, said that she “totally, utterly and absolutely enjoyed” Fiona’s recent work of poetry, and Snowbooks will be publishing all three of Fiona’s full-length novels. Fiona teaches creative writing and has a firm following amongst the blogosphere including guest spots on Steve Stack’s blog, Ian Hocking’s This Writing Life, Aliya Whiteley and Neil Ayres’s blog (both Macmillan authors), and 17 other blogs. Sarah Salway called her recent ‘Small Stones’ project “a brilliant idea” and Fiona is a regular speaker at literary events. Fiona’s novels are in the same vein as Anita Shreve - rooted in exquisite observation, delicately written and pacey as the best thriller. There will be signed copies available, extensive online marketing drawing on Fiona’s established blogging network and budget for marketing spend.
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Paris Immortal: Absolutions Selling points ______________________________________ About the book: Trey is getting used to his life. Vampires? Not a problem. Voices of the dead? Par for the course. It’s his own tumultuous past and the painful memories it contains that cause the most grief. When Trey’s friend Scott returns to his life, he can start trying to overcome even those problems.
Meanwhile,Trey’s immortal boss, the stunning Michel, has assumed his rightful position in Paris and is dealing with his own issues. The captivating Elise requires his aid, but her presence threatens to force a rift between his partner Gabriel and him, just as it had in their past.
Trey will learn the full extent of the mysterious powers that come with being a bridge between the living and the dead. But not all power is good, and even the best intentions can have disastrous consequences.
* The vampire/horror genre has a growing female market, which this series will appeal to greatly. *Genre readers are quick to latch on to series, and Roit is planning more books involving the same cast of characters. *Roit is active in the genre community; she knows her audience and how to connect with them.*Horror is a growing genre for Snowbooks, and a lot of our energy will be spent making these books a success. *Roit is active in soliciting phone and print interviews. We have engaged and briefed a PR firm to manage a campaign about the rise of interest in horror books and stories * Key characyers are gay, so some relevance for G&L ranges * Fundamentally, this is a sexy, charged, brilliant novel with appeal beyond its genre boundaries * Will be entered into all eligible prizes and proof copies available well in advance.
About the author: In love with books upon reading the first printed word as a child, S. Roit also loved “invisible friends” and the other world of her mind. Constantly told to stop talking to herself, and when not reading, in her room playing all the parts in her own skits, she had no trouble entertaining herself. She wrote a few poems, sang in a band and wrote lyrics, and enjoyed role-playing for hours on end. Often told she should publish, she began writing novels. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington with one husband, two cats, and the twenty or so people in her head she insists are real enough, with stories to tell. 05/04/2009 • £19.99• Library HB • pages 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727000
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Skarlet *Previous book, Maneater, critically acclaimed and sold brilliantly * Snowbooks love his work so much we have signed up his next 8 books, as reported in the Bookseller * Will be entered for all eligible awards including Richard and Judy - genre and mainstream alike, since Skarlet features universal themes and is as pacey as the best thrillers. * Author is established with short story credits to his name, and has numerous horror books published in Welsh - good local buying and marketing opportunities ______________________________________ About the book: Fear grips London as dozens of clubbers die after taking a sinister new drug.
About the author: Thomas Emson is a writer who lives under another name. Born and raised in North Wales, he has been a singer-songwriter, an author, and a journalist. He has published fiction in the Welsh language, but Maneater is his first English-language novel. He lives in Kent with a wonderful woman, an elderly cat, and two house rabbits. 05/01/2009 • £19.99• Library HB • 448 pages 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727017
Horror
But that’s only the beginning.
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48 hours later, the dead clubbers wake up - and it’s open season on the living, who are butchered for their blood. Soon, London gives a name to its terror:VAMPIRES Jake Lawton, bitter and betrayed after the Iraq War, find himself fighting another battle - against the growing army of immortal hunters and their human cohorts. Lawton joins forces with the journalist who brought about his downfall and the dealer tricked into distributing the drug. And together they take on the spineless authorities, the ruthless cohorts, and the hungry dead.
Maneater 9781905005840 B Format Paperback Prey 9781906727284 Library Hardback
But the vampire plague unleashed in London is nothing to what lurks beneath the streets -Waiting to be fed . . . Waiting to be resurrected . . . Waiting to reign again over a city of human slaves . . .
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Family Cycling One of the fastest growing areas of interest in cycling * Carlton Reid is an acknowledged expert with outstanding connections * edited by Richard Ballantine, legendary bike guru * Full colour with illustrations and photos on every page
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About the author: Carlton Reid is the editor of Bike Biz, the leading magazine for the cycling business, and an expert journalist and practitioner of family cycling.
06/04/2009 • £11.99• Colour pbk • 216 pages Family cycling is the latest aspect of cycling to enjoy a boom. More and more 186mm x 136mm • ISBN 9781906727024 families are using cycling as a way to spend time together, to relax, exercise, stay fit and bond. Sample chapters include: 1. Why cycle? Green and lean. Fast ycling and fun.* 2. Tots awheel: carting babies and toddlers * 3. Wobble and scoot: ____________________________________________________________ learning to ride, fail-safe techniques for budding bikers * 4. Fine Balancing Act: children with special needs * 5. Girl power: getting more girls on bikes * 6. Cotton wool cycling: when is protective gear necessary? * 7. Safety first: ride on the road. Bikeability basics. (Cycle paths aren’t always as safe as you’d think...) * 8. Happy families: cycling, it’s a group-hug thing, social glue * 9. Have bike, will travel: the how to and why to of cycle touring for juniors * 10. Fast sprogs: racing and competing, BMX, MTB, road and track * 11. Trick pix: photo technique guides on how to pull a bunny hop, ride no-handed, solo on a unicycle, pop wheelies, and jump Ollies * 12. Swiss Army Biking: utility cycling. To school. For life. * 13. Cycling in schools: putting bikes on the curriculum * 14. Not just for Christmas: buying the perfect bike for your child and how much to spend. PLUS: bike fit for kids, no more ‘he’ll grow into it.’ * 15. Dirty hands: basic cycle maintenance tricks every kid should know * 16. City Cycling 9781905005604 TBC Further reading: from Miffy’s Bicycle to Mike on a Bike, get kids hooked on Bike Buyer’s Guide 9781905005857 Full Colour paperback Bicycle Design 9781905005680 Full Colour paperback bike books
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The Osiris Ritual *The second novel in this steampunk series, hot on the heels of the acclaimed bestseller The Affinity Bridge. * The Newbury and Hobbes Investigations series is inspired in equal parts by Doctor Who, The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes and The Mummy, as well as classic Victorian novels such as Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. * Will be accompanied by a special edition after the rapid sell out of the Affinity Bridge’s slipcase edition.
______________________________________ About the book: Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, imagines life can be a little quieter from now on after his dual success in solving The Affinity Bridge affair. But he hasn’t banked on his villainous predecessor, Knox, hell bent on achieving immortality, not to mention a secret agent who isn’t quite as he seems.... So continues an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the second in the series of Newbury & Hobbes investigations.
About the author: George Mann is the Consultant Editor of Solaris Books, the major SF/Fantasy imprint of BL Publishing/Games Workshop. He is the editor of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction and The Solaris Book of New Fantasy and the author of The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Constable Robinson), The Human Abstract (Telos), The Severed Man (Telos) and The Child of Time (Telos, with David J. Howe). His short stories have appeared in venues such as Black Sails, Apex Digest, Triquorum and an anthology of Doctor Who stories. He regularly attends the major science fiction and fantasy conventions in both the UK and the US. He lives near Grantham with his wife, son and daughter. 06/07/2009 • £19.99• Library HB • 350 pages 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727031
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The Affinity Bridge 9781905005888 B Format Paperback The Affinity Bridge 9781905005895 Library Hardback The Affinity Bridge 9781905005932 TBC Ghosts of Manhattan 9781906727154 Library Hardback Sexton Blake: Detective 9781906727413 Jacketed Hardback
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The Blue Handbag *Featured in The Bookseller Paperback Preview 09 and compared to Joanna Trollope *”Totally, utterly and absolutely enjoy[able]” Caroline Smailes, author of In Search of Adam, *Blog tour of 17 blogs. *Fiona is a regular speaker at literary events and teaches creative writing. *Signed copies available, extensive online marketing drawing on Fiona’s established blogging network and budget for marketing spend. ______________________________________ About the book:
About the author: Fiona Robyn is a writer and a blogger.
She writes to help herself and other people to pay attention, and because she loves to. She writes a daily blog at www.asmallstone.com and a blog about being a writer at www.plantingwords.blogspot.com. She collects other people’s small stones at http://ahandfulofstones.blogspot.com. She lives happily in rural Hampshire in the UK with her partner, her cats Silver and Fatty, and her vegetable patch.
After forty years of happy marriage, Leonard thought he knew his wife Rose as well as he knew himself. It’s only after her sudden death that he finds her old handbag, which contains a mystery he can’t ignore. Accompanied 02/03/2009 • £19.99• Library HB • 320 pages by Lily, his wife’s childhood friend, Leonard becomes a reluctant detective 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727055 as his whole life starts to unravel ‘The Blue Handbag’ is steeped in a quiet poetry which reminds us to take pleasure from the ordinary details of life iction - reading stories to our children, sharing silence with our friend over a beer, ____________________________________________________________ enjoying the plants Leonard tends for a living - and never to take anything for granted.
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Fiona Robyn is a new young author we’re delighted to have unearthed. Caroline Smailes, author of In Search of Adam, said that she “totally, utterly and absolutely enjoyed” Fiona’s recent work of poetry, and Snowbooks will be publishing all three of Fiona’s full-length novels. Fiona teaches creative writing and has a firm following amongst the blogosphere including guest spots on Steve Stack’s blog, Ian Hocking’s This Writing Life, Aliya Whiteley and Neil Ayres’s blog (both Macmillan authors), and 17 other blogs. Sarah Salway called her recent ‘Small Stones’ project “a brilliant idea” and Fiona is a regular speaker at literary events. Fiona’s novels are in the same vein as Anita Shreve - rooted in exquisite observation, delicately written and pacey as the best thriller. There will be signed copies available, extensive online marketing drawing on Fiona’s established blogging network and budget for marketing spend.
The Letters 9781906727062 Library Hardback The Letters 9781906727079 B Format Paperback Thaw 9781906727086 Library Hardback Thaw 9781906727093 B Format Paperback
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The Letters *Featured in The Bookseller Paperback Preview 09 and compared to Joanna Trollope *”Totally, utterly and absolutely enjoy[able]” Caroline Smailes, author of In Search of Adam, *Blog tour of 17 blogs. *Fiona is a regular speaker at literary events and teaches creative writing. *Signed copies available, extensive online marketing drawing on Fiona’s established blogging network and budget for marketing spend. ______________________________________ About the book: Violet Ackerman has drifted through a career, four children and a divorce without ever knowing who she is or what she wants. After moving to the coast, she starts receiving a series of mysterious letters sent from a mother and baby home in 1959, written by a pregnant twenty-year-old Elizabeth to her best friend. These letters intersperse Violet’s turbulent relationships with her lover, her infuriating son and the eccentric fellow members of the Village Committee. Who is sending Violet these letters, and why? What will happen to Elizabeth’s baby? ‘The Letters’ invites us see what happens when we don’t run away. Will love be enough to encourage Violet to stay? Fiona Robyn is a new young author we’re delighted to have unearthed. Caroline Smailes, author of In Search of Adam, said that she “totally, utterly and absolutely enjoyed” Fiona’s recent work of poetry, and Snowbooks will be publishing all three of Fiona’s full-length novels. Fiona teaches creative writing and has a firm following amongst the blogosphere including guest spots on Steve Stack’s blog, Ian Hocking’s This Writing Life, Aliya Whiteley and Neil Ayres’s blog (both Macmillan authors), and 17 other blogs. Sarah Salway called her recent ‘Small Stones’ project “a brilliant idea” and Fiona is a regular speaker at literary events. Fiona’s novels are in the same vein as Anita Shreve - rooted in exquisite observation, delicately written and pacey as the best thriller. There will be signed copies available, extensive online marketing drawing on Fiona’s established blogging network and budget for marketing spend.
About the author: Fiona Robyn is a writer and a blogger.
She writes to help herself and other people to pay attention, and because she loves to. She writes a daily blog at www.asmallstone.com and a blog about being a writer at www.plantingwords.blogspot.com. She collects other people’s small stones at http://ahandfulofstones.blogspot.com. She lives happily in rural Hampshire in the UK with her partner, her cats Silver and Fatty, and her vegetable patch.
01/12/2008 • £19.99• Library HB • 320 pages 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727062
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Toughen Up Ian Oliver is the author of our bestselling Boxing Fitness * Boxing Fitness recently appeared as giveaway in Mens Health (225,000 copies) so strong awareness of the brand * Full colour with illustrations and photos throughout * Photocopiable training programmes * Guaranteed results! ______________________________________
About the author: Ian Oliver is a renowned North London boxing trainer with over thirty years experience training people from all walks of life. He is the bestselling author of Boxing Fitness. His other books include Punch your way to Fitness, and Fifty Plus Fitness.
About the book: From the author of our bestselling fitness book, ‘Boxing Fitness’, comes this fresh challenge. If you know the time has come for you to get into shape; if you want a no-nonsense, sure-fire guide to getting into shape - here’s your chance. Toughen Up does exactly what it says on the tin - you’ll be fighting fit, healthy and proud of yourself in no time.
01/05/2009 • £9.99• Colour pbk • 220 pages 186mm x 136mm • ISBN 9781906727130
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From the author of the bestselling ‘Boxing Fitness’.
Boxing Fitness 9780954575984 Full Colour paperback Fifty Plus Fitness 9781905005161 Full Colour paperback Punch Your Way To Fitness 9781905005314 Full Colour paperback
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Ghosts of Manhattan * From the bestselling author of The Affinity Bridge and The Osiris Ritual * Author has been heralded as a Steampunk master * “Mann is leading the charge” The Guardian ______________________________________ About the book: 1926. New York. The Roaring Twenties. Jazz. Flappers. Prohibition. Coalpowered cars. A cold war with a British Empire that still covers half of the globe. Yet things have developed differently to established history. America is in the midst of a cold war with a British Empire that has only just buried Queen Victoria, her life artificially preserved to the age of 107. Coal-powered cars roar along roads thick with pedestrians, biplanes take off from standing with primitive rocket boosters and monsters lurk behind closed doors and around every corner. This is a time in need of heroes. It is a time for The Ghost.
About the author: George Mann is the Consultant Editor of Solaris Books, the major SF/Fantasy imprint of BL Publishing/Games Workshop. He is the editor of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction and The Solaris Book of New Fantasy and the author of The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Constable Robinson), The Human Abstract (Telos), The Severed Man (Telos) and The Child of Time (Telos, with David J. Howe). His short stories have appeared or are due to appear in venues such as Black Sails, Apex Digest, Triquorum and an anthology of Doctor Who stories. He regularly attends the major science fiction and fantasy conventions in both the UK and the US. He lives near Grantham with his wife, son and daughter.
A series of targeted murders are occurring all over the city, the victims found with ancient Roman coins placed on their eyelids after death. The trail appears to lead to a group of Italian-American gangsters and their boss, who the mobsters have dubbed ‘The Roman’. However, as The Ghost soon discovers, there is more to The Roman than at first appears, and more bizarre happenings that he soon links to the man, including moss-golems posing as 01/02/2010 • £19.99• Library HB • 350 pages mobsters and a plot to bring an ancient pagan god into the physical world 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727154 in a cavern beneath the city. As The Ghost draws nearer to The Roman and the centre of his dangerous web, he must battle with foes both physical and antasy supernatural and call on help from the most unexpected of quarters if he is ____________________________________________________________ to stop The Roman and halt the imminent destruction of the city.
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Nutters * A comedic novel about mental illness * Appeal to people who enjoyed films such as ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’, ‘As Good As It Gets’, ‘Girl, Interrupted’ and ‘Shine’ and books such as ‘Engleby’ and ‘Human Traces’ by Sebatian Faulks, ‘Notes From An Exhibition’ by Patrick Galeand ‘Affliction’ by Fay Weldon *MIND, Stephen Fry (bi-polar comedian) and Pamela Stephenson (psychiatrist comedian) approached for endorsements
______________________________________ About the book: Rufus Waters has had enough of being labelled a loon. Enough of medication and therapy. Enough of pitying looks and nervous changes of subject. Enough of being stood up and turned down. Enough, in short, of being a nutter. ‘I choose sanity,’ he informs his erstwhile girlfriend bi-polar Kate.
About the author:
Paula Brackston runs creative writing classes and workshops, is a script reader for a film company, and sells her short stories. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. Her travel book ‘The Dragon’s Trail’ is a journal of her month long horseback trek around Wales. Her autobiographical writing has been published in anthologies -’Even The Rain Is Different’, ‘Strange Days Indeed’, and ‘In Her Element’. In 2006 she was shortlisted in the Creme de la Crime Search for new writers. She lives half way up a Brecon Beacon with her partner and their two children.
01/08/2009 • £7.99• B Format Pbk • 350 pages Rufus shrugs off Kate’s misgivings and forges ahead with his plans for the 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727215 New Improved Rufus Waters. He bins his medication, sacks his glamorous psychiatrist, and quickly acquires both job and new girlfriend in a matter of iction days. This promising start is, however, a false dawn. Soon his re-invented self, ____________________________________________________________ in his freshly-picked sane world, is falling apart and it takes the wisdom of a drug-addled Latin professor to bring some sense to his world once more.
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The Unbelievers * Historical crime, in the same vein as CJ Samson * Set in Victorian Edinburgh, thus adding to the strong Scottish crime-writing tradition * Author signing sessions available * Extensive online coverage planned * Our lead genre summer title with the focus, attention and budget to fit. * “A ripping yarn: a page-turning, entertaining whodunnit and very satisying read. ‘The Unbelievers’ sings with Victorian Edinburgh’s hypocrisy and corruption. We have in Alastair Sim a wonderful new Scottish crime fiction voice.” Laura Marney
About the author: Alastair Sim has published stories and playscripts in magazines, anthologies and on the web. ‘The Unbelievers’ is one of two books which he wrote while on the University of Glasgow’s prestigious MPhil Creative Writing course, which has produced awardwinning and bestselling authors including Louise Welsh, Laura Marney and Zoe Strachan.
01/06/2009 • £7.99• B Format Pbk • 350 pages 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727383
* Endorsements requested from Zoe Strachan and Louise Welsh
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______________________________________ About the book: Scotland’s richest man has been shot dead and dumped down a well. Was the Duke of Dornoch murdered by one of the miners whose wages he cut because of ‘market forces’? Was he killed in return for his part in clearing the Highlands of their people? Did a discarded lover take their final revenge? Inspector Allerdyce and Sergeant McGillivray VC must find out before the killer strikes again. But their search, from the material heights of Victorian society to its moral dregs, threatens to overturn everything Allerdyce believes and loves.
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Burning Out * Like The Time Travellor’s Wife, a combination of holiday reading with a mildly supernatural twist *A classic summer reading novel * Author signing sessions available * Online review coverage planned * Our lead general fiction summer title with the focus, attention and budget to fit. * A reinvention of the classic ghost story: the main character is haunted by her past self *Entered into every eligible prize including Richard and Judy
About the author: Katherine May’s work stems from a fascination with ghost stories, and in her 2006 collection of short stories, Ghost & their Uses, she reimagined ghosts into new settings, often playing with the idea of a haunting in all its ambiguity and construction. Burning Out takes this idea one step further - the central character is haunted by a past self, an experience that offers her the same mirror on her life that a more traditional ghost might have done. 01/07/2009 • £7.99• B Format Pbk • 350 pages 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727390
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About the book: Violet has a good job, a luxury apartment, a success life. But she feels drained and pressurised and, on the verge of snapping, retreats to her home town. There, she meets a girl: carefree, sassy, vivacious and everything Violet wishes she was. Slowly, though, comes the realisation that this girl is living Violet’s own past. Haunted by her past self,Violet knows that history will repeat itself - and knows that it will have catastrophic consequences.
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Enemy of Chaos * Tailored perfectly to those who enjoyed Fighting Fantasy in their youth * Perfect for the Christmas nostalgia market * Not just a spoof: a real working Fighting Fantasy gamebook - but updated * Supported by a fully functional online version ______________________________________ About the book: There is now a generation of people in their late twenties and thirties who grew up utterly transfixed by a series of books capable of transporting you into other worlds. These were worlds full of possibilities, where mysterious About the author: In addition to her work as an up-and-coming doors lined fortress corridors and monsters took the time to make witty humour writer, Leila offers a mouthpiece for the socially challenged as remarks before biting your head off. Fighting Fantasy offered deeply engaging editor of the PDF magazine ‘for people with something a bit wrong with stories - entertaining and frightening in equal parts - alongside the delicious them’ - All The Rage. Contributors to the magazine come from all walks promise that you, a spotty kid on a council estate in the West Midlands (for of life, but generally feature on the autism spectrum. In October 2008 example) could have the prestige, grace and abilities of a powerful sorcerer. they were media partner to the London Games Festival Fringe. Leila has The books appealed to kids who felt out of control, trapped and bored by also encountered endless nerds during my stint working as a professional their routine lives. Powerfully imaginative kids with time on their hands and an blogger, and in the last year has been enchanted by the literary pedantry OCD-like need to keep rolling those dice, filling in those score cards. These of a different strain of autism sufferer while writing for The Now Show and children have now grown up, gone to work like everyone else, and come to The News Quiz on Radio 4 as well as several pilots. She’s currently developterms with the fact that it’s not their job to save the world, after all. It’s Barack ing a short film with David Schneider (The Day Today, Alan Partridge etc), Obama’s. But they are generally smart with a fine sense of humour about the and as a child she was addicted to Choose Your Own Adventure books, way things have turned out. Enduring the cycle of work, takeaways, computer the girlie version of Fighting Fantasy. games and Buffy reruns, these grown-up game-book fans look back with nostalgia on those magical nights in when they were the author of their own 01/09/2009 • £7.99• B Format Pbk • 250 pages destiny. When the only variables that mattered could be worked out with 198mm x 129mm • ISBN 9781906727420 a couple of dice. Science fiction and fantasy is enjoying a renaissance in the umour wake of Harry Potter and Doctor Who. A generation of geeks are coming of ____________________________________________________________ age in a world more accustomed than ever to interactive media. It is surely time for a gamebook revival.
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