- Penguin Random House UK

Transworld
Fiction
Catalogue
January 2016
- July 2016
Contents
1 Fiction Titles
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Fiona Barton
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The Widow
publication: 14/01/2016
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 416
ISBN: 9780593076217
A loving husband or a heartless killer...she'd know, wouldn't
she?
'The ultimate psychological thriller' Lisa Gardner
We've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the
front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime.
But what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the
courtroom stairs – the wife who stands by him?
Jean Taylor’s life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice
husband. Glen was all she’d ever wanted: her Prince Charming.
Until he became that man accused, that monster on the front page.
Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of
unimaginable evil.
But now Glen is dead and she’s alone for the first time, free to tell
her story on her own terms.
Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows.
Du Maurier's REBECCA meets WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT
KEVIN and GONE GIRL in this intimate tale of a terrible crime.
'My book of the year so far' C. L. Taylor, author of THE LIE
Fiona Barton trains and works with journalists all over the world.
Previously, she was a senior writer at the Daily Mail, news editor
at the Daily Telegraph, and chief reporter at The Mail on Sunday,
where she won Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards.
The Widow is her first novel. Born in Cambridge, she currently
lives in south-west France.
Fiction Titles
Cathy Bramley
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Wickham Hall
publication: 14/01/2016
price: £7.99
size: 198 x 127 mm
pages: 512
ISBN: 9780552172103
Brimming with laughter and romance, Wickham Hall is an utterly
feel-good story from bestseller Cathy Bramley.
Wickham Hall was originally published as a four-part serial. This is
the complete story in one package.
Holly Swift has just landed the job of her dreams: events co-ordinator
at Wickham Hall, the beautiful manor home that sits proudly at the heart
of the village where she grew up. Not only does she get to organise for
a living and work in stunning surroundings, but it will also put a bit of
distance between Holly and her problems at home.
As Holly falls in love with the busy world of Wickham Hall - from
family weddings to summer festivals, firework displays and Christmas
grottos - she also finds a place in her heart for her friendly (if unusual)
colleagues.
But life isn’t as easily organised as an event at Wickham Hall (and even
those have their complications…). Can Holly learn to let go and live in
the moment? After all, that’s when the magic happens…
A charming and romantic story certain to make you smile - perfect for
fans of Carole Matthews, Trisha Ashley and Katie Fforde.
Your favourite authors have loved reading Cathy Bramley:
‘Delightfully warm with plenty of twists and turns’ Trisha Ashley
‘A perfect blend of the two greatest pleasures in life – love and
gardening!’ Fern Britton
'A witty, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy' Miranda Dickinson
Cathy Bramley is the author of the best-selling romantic comedies Ivy
Lane, Appleby Farm and Conditional Love. She lives in a
Nottinghamshire village with her husband, two daughters and a dog.
Cathy loves to hear from her readers. You can get in touch via her
website: www.CathyBramley.co.uk, Facebook page:
www.Facebook.com/CathyBramleyAuthor or on Twitter:
www.twitter.com/CathyBramley
Fiction Titles
John Irving
Leif G W Persson
Avenue of Mysteries
Bäckström 3: The Sword of Justice
publication: 14/01/2016
price: £20
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 480
ISBN: 9780857521149
In his latest novel, John Irving explores - in his inimitable way
- the ways in which our pasts reverberate in our presents and,
indeed, our futures.
As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what
we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly
in the past than in the present.
As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines,
but his dreams and memories will travel with him; he is most
alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. 'An aura
of fate had marked him,' John Irving writes. 'The chain of events,
the links in our lives - what leads us where we’re going, the
courses we follow to our ends, what we don’t see coming, and
what we do - all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even
obvious.'
Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in
the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past - in
Mexico - collides with his future.
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His
first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when
he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years,
and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven.
Mr Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three
times – winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According
to Garp. He received an O Henry Award in 1981 for his short
story ‘Interior Space’. In 2000, Mr Irving won the Oscar for Best
Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won
a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person.
An international writer – his novels have been translated into
more than thirty-five languages – John Irving lives in Toronto. His
all-time best-selling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for
Owen Meany.
Avenue of Mysteries is his fourteenth novel.
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publication: 14/01/2016
price: £18.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 420
ISBN: 9780857522627
The magnificent third installment of the bestselling Backstrom
series
When gangster lawyer Thomas Eriksson, renowned defender of
the guilty, is found brutally murdered in his own home the police
face a rare problem. Finding a suspect isn’t difficult, but
narrowing down the long list of people who wanted Eriksson dead
might be...
High on the list is the celebrated Detective Superintendent Evert
Bäckström, in charge of the investigation. Unfortunately for him a
high profile case really gets in the way of his routine, namely
avoiding the office, keeping work to a minimum and steering well
clear of his inept colleagues – aside from the attractive ones, of
course.
Luckily, by virtue of his questionable contacts, Bäckström has an
unequalled skill for having the guilty handed to him on a plate. All
he has to do is break every rule in the book – and receive a
healthy wad of cash for his trouble. But this time he’s in for a
surprise because even Bäckström couldn’t have predicted where
this trail would lead, or how far from comfortable he might be at
its end.
Leif G.W. Persson is Scandinavia's most renowned criminologist
and a leading psychological profiler. He has also served as an
advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Justice. Since 1991, he has
held the position of Professor at the National Swedish Police
Board and is regularly consulted as the country's foremost expert
on crime.
He is the author of ten bestselling crime novels including three
featuring the irrepressible Evert Bäckström. He is also the
recipient of many prestigious awards including The Piraten
Award, The Glass Key for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel,
The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award (three times),
The Finnish Whodunnit Society's Annual Award for Excellence
in Foreign Crime Writing, The Petrona Award for Best
Scandinavian Crime Novel, and The Danish Academy of Crime
Writers' Palle Rosenkrantz Prize .
Fiction Titles
Julie Cohen
Emily Hauser
The Day Of Second Chances
For The Most Beautiful
publication: 28/01/2016
price: £6.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 400
ISBN: 9781784160630
A moving and surprising story about love, family and
friendship.
Can you imagine keeping a secret so devastating, you couldn’t
even tell the people you love?
Honor’s secret threatens to rob her of the independence she’s
guarded ferociously for eighty years.
Jo’s secret could smash apart the ‘normal’ family life she’s fought
so hard to build.
Lydia’s secret could bring her love - or the loss of everything that
matters to her.
One summer’s day, grandmother, mother and daughter’s secrets
will collide in a single dramatic moment.
Is it too late for second chances?
Readers of Jojo Moyes, Liane Moriarty and Lisa Jewell will
love this surprising, moving story.
Julie Cohen grew up in Maine and studied English at Brown
University and Cambridge University. She moved to the UK to
research fairies in Victorian children’s literature at the University
of Reading and this was followed by a career teaching English at
secondary level. She now writes full time and is a popular
speaker and teacher of creative writing. She lives with her
husband and their son in Berkshire.
Talk with Julie on Twitter: @julie_cohen or visit her website:
www.julie-cohen.com.
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publication: 28/01/2016
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780857523143
In this startlingly original and thrillingly imagined debut, a
brilliant new voice reveals the untold story behind the Trojan
war: the princess and the slave who undid Achilles and fought
to save Troy . . .
Perfect for fans of Tracy Chevalier's The Girl with the Pearl
Earring and Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist
Three thousand years ago a war took place that gave birth to
legends - to Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector,
prince of Troy. It was a war that made - and destroyed - both men,
a war that shook the very foundations of the world. But what if
there was more to this epic conflict? What if there was another,
hidden tale of the Trojan War that had yet to be told?
Now is that time - time for the women of Troy to tell their story.
Thrillingly imagined and startlingly original, For the Most
Beautiful reveals the true story of true for the first time. The story
of Krisayis, daughter of the Trojans' High Priest, and of Briseis,
princess of Pedasus, who fight to determine the fate of a city and
its people in this ancient time of mischievous gods and mythic
heroes.
In a novel full of passion and revenge, loyalty and betrayal,
bravery and sacrifice, Emily Hauser breathes exhilarating new life
into one of the greatest legends of all - in a story that has waited
millennia to be told.
Born in Brighton and brought up in Suffolk, EMILY HAUSER
studied Classics at Cambridge where she was taught by Mary
Beard. She then went to Harvard as a Fulbright Scholar and now
studies and teaches at Yale, where she is completing her PhD. For
the Most Beautiful - the first book in the Golden Apple trilogy - is
her debut novel.
Fiction Titles
Marita Conlon-McKenna
Anna Hope
Rebel Sisters
The Ballroom
publication: 01/02/2016
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 368
ISBN: 9781848271999
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publication: 11/02/2016
price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 352
ISBN: 9780857521965
A moving story about one real-life family at the heart of the
Dublin 1916 Easter Rising.
The new novel from the acclaimed author of WAKE - a story
of love and madness at the brink of the Great War
With the threat of the First World War looming, tension simmers
under the surface of Ireland.
By the acclaimed author of WAKE:
Where love is your only escape ....
Growing up in the privileged confines of Dublin’s leafy
Rathmines, the bright, beautiful Gifford sisters Grace, Muriel and
Nellie kick against the conventions of their wealthy Anglo-Irish
background and their mother Isabella’s expectations. Soon, as war
erupts across Europe, the spirited sisters find themselves caught
up in their country’s struggle for freedom.
Muriel falls deeply in love with writer Thomas MacDonagh, artist
Grace meets the enigmatic Joe Plunkett – both leaders of 'The
Rising' – while Nellie joins the Citizen Army and bravely takes up
arms, fighting alongside Countess Constance Markievicz in the
rebellion.
On Easter Monday, 1916, the biggest uprising in Ireland for two
centuries begins. The world of the Gifford sisters and everyone
they hold dear will be torn apart in a fight that is destined for
tragedy.
Marita Conlon-McKenna is a hugely successful Irish children's
writer. Her first novel, UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE , sold
over 250,000 copies in the Irish market alone.
Her debut adult novel, THE MAGDALEN, was a number one
bestseller in Ireland.
Marita lives in Dublin with her husband
1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors,
where men and women are kept apart
by high walls and barred windows,
there is a ballroom vast and beautiful.
For one bright evening every week
they come together
and dance.
When John and Ella meet
It is a dance that will change
two lives forever.
Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian
era, THE BALLROOM is a tale of unlikely love and dangerous
obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which
is which.
ANNA HOPE was born in Manchester and educated at Oxford
University and RADA. She is the author of the acclaimed debut
WAKE.THE BALLROOM is her second novel, and is inspired by
the true story of her great grand-father. Follow her on Twitter
@Anna_Hope
Fiction Titles
Ian C. Esslemont
Jenny Holmes
Dancer's Lament: Path to Ascendancy Book 1
The Shop Girls of Chapel Street
publication: 25/02/2016
price: £20
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 700
ISBN: 9780593074343
Taking Malazan fans back to that troubled continent's
turbulent early history, this is the opening chapter in Ian C.
Esslemont's awesome new epic fantasy sequence, the Path to
Ascendancy.
It was once a land ravaged by war, minor city states, baronies and
principates fight for supremacy, and then the rival cities of Tali
and Quon formed an alliance and so Quon Tali came into being.
However that was generations ago, that dynasty has collapsed and
the regional powers are now clawing at each others throats once
more. But at the heart of Quon Tali lies the powerful city state of
Li Heng which has for centuries enjoyed relative stability under
the guidance of the powerful sorceress known as the
“Protectress”. She is not someone likely to tolerate the arrival of
two particular young men in her domain: one is determined to
prove he is the most skilled assassin of his age; the other is his
quarry - a Dal Hon mage who is proving annoyingly difficult to
kill. The sorceress and her cabal of five mage servants were
enough to repel the Quon Tali Iron Legions, so how could two
such trouble-makers upset her iron-fisted rule?
And now, under a new and ambitious king, the forces of Itko Kan
are marching on Li Heng from the south. His own assassins, the
Nightblades, have been sent ahead into the city, and rumours
abound that he has inhuman, nightmarish forces at his command.
So as shadows and mistrust swirl and monstrous beasts that
people say appear from nowhere, run rampage through Li Heng's
streets, it seems chaos is come - but in chaos, as a certain young
Dal Hon mage would say, there is opportunity . . .
Born in Winnipeg in 1962, IAN CAMERON ESSLEMONT has
studied and worked as an archaeologist, travelled extensively in
South East Asia and lived in Thailand and Japan for several years.
He now lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, with his wife and children. He
has a creative writing degree and his novels Night of Knives,
Return of the Crimson Guard, Stonewielder, Orb Sceptre
Throne, Blood and Bone and Assail are all set in the fantasy
world of Malaz that he co-created with Steven Erikson. His latest
novel, Dancer's Lament, begins an exciting new series that is set
in the same extraordinarily imagined world.
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publication: 25/02/2016
price: £6.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 400
ISBN: 9780552171502
The second novel from the author of THE MILL GIRLS OF
ALBION LANE
Orphaned young, Violet Wheeler has been brought up by her aunt but after Winnie's death, she feels like she’s lost everything. With
no-one to turn to, she has to rely on the goodwill of the community
to help her out.
At the Jubilee drapers, amongst the spools of ribbon, skeins of silk
and latest thirties fashions, Violet finds a refuge. She’s offered a
chance to get back on her feet, and with that an unexpected chance
to discover love. It’s only when a forgotten piece of jewellery
with a mysterious note surfaces that Violet is thrown back in to the
past again, and starts to wonder what secrets there might be in her
family’s history.
As Violet becomes desperate to find answers about her mother
and father, long-buried secrets threaten the stable life she’s been
building. Can her new friends steer Violet towards a happy ending
against all the odds?
Jenny Holmes lives in a beautiful part of Yorkshire and sets her
sagas in the industrial heartland nearby. She enjoys horse riding,
gardening and walking her dog in the dales. She also writes
children’s books as Jenny Oldfield.
Fiction Titles
Hallie Rubenhold
Danielle Steel
The French Lesson
Blue
publication: 25/02/2016
price: £14.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780385618892
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publication: 25/02/2016
price: £18.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 310
ISBN: 9780593069042
Danger and liaisons in the age of the French Revolution - for
fans of Sarah Waters, Jessie Burton's THE MINIATURIST
and Jo Baker's LONGBOURN.
An emotionally gripping story of dark secrets revealed, second
chances, and the power of love and courage to overcome life’s
greatest challenges.
'Compelling and operatic...Reads like a modern thriller’
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of Catherine the
Great & Potemkin
Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married, with a
three-year-old son and a full and happy life – until her whole
world dissolved on a freeway in a single instant. In the aftermath,
she somehow pieces her life back together, but struggles to truly
find meaning in her existence.
'Dark and irresistible' LUCY WORSLEY
Paris: 1792
Henrietta: An Englishwoman alone amidst the French Revolution.
Grace: Former mistress to the highest rulers in France.
Agnes: The current mistress, who will stop at nothing to keep her
place in the palace.
A deadly triangle of rivalry and power play. Who will win, who
will lose, and who will keep their head?
Hallie Rubenhold is a historian and broadcaster and an authority
on womens' lives in the 18th century. She has worked as a curator
for the National Portrait Gallery and as a university lecturer. Her
first novel, Mistress of My Fate was received with great acclaim
and her biography, Lady Worsley's Whim, was made into the BBC
drama The Scandalous Lady W. She lives in London with her
husband. Chat with her on Twitter @HallieRubenhold
Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident, she meets a boy
who will cause her life to change forever yet again. Thirteen-yearold Blue Williams has been living on the streets, rarely attending
school, and utterly alone. Ginny reaches out to him, and slowly,
their friendship grows. The two form an unusual bond and become
the family they each lost.
But just as he is truly beginning to trust her, she learns he has been
hiding a shocking secret. Ginny wonders if she can help Blue to
feel whole again, and at the same time heal herself.
Blue is an emotionally gripping story of dark secrets revealed,
second chances, and the power of love and courage to
overcome life’s greatest challenges.
Danielle Steel is one of the world’s most popular and highly
acclaimed authors, with over ninety international bestselling
novels in print and more than 600 million copies of her novels
sold. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her
son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her
work with the homeless; and Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her
family have loved.
To discover more about Danielle Steel and her books visit her
website at www.daniellesteel.com
You can also connect with Danielle on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/DanielleSteelOfficial or on Twitter:
@daniellesteel
Fiction Titles
Caroline Wallace
Christopher Fowler
The Finding of Martha Lost
Bryant & May - Strange Tide: (Bryant & May Book
13)
publication: 10/03/2016
price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780857523341
A peculiar tale of lost and found,perfect for fans of Amelie.
Martha is lost.
She’s been lost since she was a baby, abandoned in a suitcase on
the train from Paris. Ever since, she’s waited in station lost
property for someone to claim her. It’s been sixteen years, but
she’s still hopeful.
In the meantime, there are mysteries to solve: secret tunnels under
the station, a suitcase that may have belonged to the Beatles, the
roman soldier who appears at the same time every day with his
packed lunch. Not to mention the stuffed monkey that someone
keeps misplacing.
But there is one mystery Martha cannot solve. And now the
authorities have found out about the girl in lost property. Time is
running out - if Martha can’t discover who she really is, she will
lose everything…
Caroline Wallace worked as a lecturer for several years before
turning her hand to fiction. She lives in Liverpool with her
husband and their many children.
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publication: 24/03/2016
price: £16.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780857523426
Eccentric, octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John
May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit return in mystery No.13
from the multi-award-winning Christopher Fowler: lucky for
all Bryant & May fans!
The river Thames is London’s most important yet neglected artery.
When a young woman is found chained to a post in the tide, no-one
can understand how she came to be drowned there. At the Peculiar
Crimes Unit, Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves dealing
with an impossible crime committed in a very public place.
Soon they discover that the river is giving up other victims, but as
the investigation extends from the coast of Libya to the nightclubs
of North London, it proves as murkily sinister as the Thames
itself. That’s only part of the problem; Bryant’s rapidly
deteriorating condition prevents him from handling the case, and
he is confined to home. To make matters worse, May makes a fatal
error of judgement that knocks him out of action and places
everyone at risk.
With the PCU staff baffled as much by their own detectives as the
case, the only people who can help now are the battery of
eccentrics Bryant keeps listed in his diary, but will their arcane
knowledge save the day or make matters even worse? Soon
there’s a clear suspect in everyone’s sights – the only thing that’s
missing is any scrap of evidence.
As the detectives’ disastrous investigation comes unstuck, the
whole team gets involved in some serious messing about on the
river. In an adventure that’s as twisting as the river upon which
it’s set, will there be anything left of the Peculiar Crimes Unit
when it’s over?
Christopher Fowler is a Londoner born (in Greenwich) and bred.
For many years he jointly owned and ran one of the UK's top film
marketing companies.
He is the author of many novels and short story collections, from
the urban unease of cult fictions such as Roofworld and Spanky,
the horror-pastiche of Hell Train to the much-praised and awardwinning Bryant and May series of detective novels - and his two
critically acclaimed autobiographies, Paperboy and Film Freak.
He lives in King's Cross.
Fiction Titles
Stella Gemmell
Laura Tait and Jimmy Rice
The Immortal Throne
The Night That Changed Everything
publication: 24/03/2016
price: £18.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 700
ISBN: 9780593071489
Epic, involving and thrillingly imagined - the powerful new
fantasy novel by the acclaimed author of the bestselling THE
CITY.
The emperor is dead…long live the emperor!
The fervent hope of the victorious rebels and the survivors of the
uprising that liberated the City from tyranny is that the accession
of Archange to the imperial throne will usher in a new era of
freedom, peace and stability. If only that were so...
As the the City struggles to return to something resembling normal
life after the devastation brought on by the rebellion, word arises
of a massive army gathering to the north. No one knows where it
has come from or who leads it, but it soon becomes apparent that
its sole purpose is to destroy the City and annihilate all - man,
woman and child - who live within its battered walls. And while
warriors go forth to fight and die on the battlefield in defence of
their homeland and all that they believe in, bitter family feuds and
ancient rivalries, political and personal betrayals, and mindless
murder surface within the palaces and corridors of power: it
seems the City is under siege - from both without and within . . .
With this new novel, Stella Gemmell brings the astonishing story
of the City to a spectacular climax and confirms her place as a
master of the genre.
Stella Gemmell was married to the internationally acclaimed and
bestselling fantasy novelist, David Gemmell.
She worked with him on his three Troy novels, completing the
final book - Troy: Fall of Kings - following his death in 2006.
Her first solo novel, The City was published in 2013 to critical
acclaim and commercial success and confirmed her as major name
in fantasy fiction in her own right. Stella Gemmell lives and
writes in East Sussex.
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publication: 24/03/2016
price: £6.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780552170826
An utterly charming and hilarious romantic comedy about one
raw break-up from the talented author duo.
Ever since Rebecca mistook Ben for a bartender in a busy bar and
asked him for a drink, everyone has known they're a perfect match.
Rebecca is the only girl she knows who didn't cry at the end of
Titanic. Ben is the only man he knows who did. Rebecca’s untidy
but Ben doesn’t mind picking up her pieces. Ben is laid back by
Rebecca keeps him on his toes. They fit.
Nothing can come between them. Or so they think.
When a throwaway comment reveals a secret from the past, their
love story is rewritten.
Can they recover from the night that changed everything? And how
do you forgive when you can’t forget?
The Night That Changed Everything is a funny, feel-good and
bittersweet story, told in alternate chapters by Laura Tait and
Jimmy Rice.
Jimmy and Laura became mates while studying journalism at
Sheffield University, so sitting in pubs talking about life and love
is something they've been doing for the last ten years. Now they're
writing books together they just take their laptops and write it all
down, but little else has changed. Jimmy still tells Laura off for
always being late, and Laura can still drink Jimmy under the table.
Their friendship survives because Laura makes tea exactly how
Jimmy likes it (he once took a picture of his perfect brew on
Laura's phone so she can colour match it for strength) and because
Jimmy noted Laura's weakness for custard creams and stocks up
accordingly.
Follow them on Twitter at @LauraAndJimmy. Jimmy also tweets
@JimmyRiceWriter.
Fiction Titles
Tammy Cohen
Peter Gardos
Deep Down Dark
Fever at Dawn
publication: 07/04/2016
price: £6.99
size: 198 x 127 mm
pages: 366
ISBN: 9781784160197
There's a psychopath in your office. Can you spot who it is
before it's too late? A page-turning creepy workplace thriller
for fans of GIRL ON A TRAIN and I LET YOU GO.
You think you know them inside out
After all, you sit next to them for more than seven hours every day
But how close are you to your work colleagues?
If one of them had a dark and dangerous secret, would you even
know?
Tammy Cohen (who previously wrote under her formal name
Tamar Cohen) has written several acclaimed novels about family
fall-out:The Mistress's Revenge, The War of the Wives, and
Someone Else's Wedding. The Broken was her first pyschological
thriller, followed by Dying for Christmas. Her brand new
hardback novel, First One Missing is out now.
She lives in North London with her partner and three (nearly)
grown children, plus one badly behaved dog. Chat with her on
Twitter @MsTamarCohen
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publication: 07/04/2016
price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 196
ISBN: 9780857523785
Based on the real letters from the author's father to his
mother, this is a remarkable post-war love story of how a
young man given six months to live decides to find a wife.
'Dramatic, compassionate and deeply moving.' Jennifer
Clement, author of award-winning novel PRAYERS FOR THE
STOLEN
'A magnificent novel, tonally flawless, its humour defiant in
the face of vast tragedy.' Joan London, author of
GILGAMESH, THE GOOD PARENTS and THE GOLDEN
AGE
It's 1945, and Miklos is looking for love...
He whistles up a list if 117 Hungarian women from his village,
and in his beautiful handwriting, he writes to each of them.
But what's the catch?
Miklos has just emerged from Belsen, and is recovering in a
refugee camp in Sweden. He is so weak that he has only six
months to live.
But Miklos is not going to allow a small thing like that stand in the
way of love...
Spoiler Alert: FEVER AT DAWN is inspired by the true story of
the author's parents, which may give you an idea of how Miklos'
plan unfolds...
PETER GARDOS is an award-winning Hungarian film director.
FEVER AT DAWN is his first novel and is based on the true story
of his parents.
Fiction Titles
Steven Erikson
Fall of Light: The Second Book in the Kharkanas Trilogy
publication: 21/04/2016
price: £20
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 760
ISBN: 9780593062197
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and savage, the power that is the lifeblood of the Azathanai, K’rul, runs
loose and wild - and following its scent, seeking the places of wounding
and hurt where the sorcery rushes forth, entities both new and ancient
are gathering . . . and they are eager to feed.
Understanding at last what his gift of blood has unleashed, a weakened
K’rul sets out, in the company of a lone guardian, to bring order to this
newborn sorcery and in the name of order seeks its greatest avowed
enemy…
Steven Erikson is a qualified archaeologist and anthropologist. His
debut fantasy novel, Gardens of the Moon, was shortlisted for the
World Fantasy Award and introduced readers to his epic, ten book
'Malazan Book of the Fallen' sequence, which has been hailed 'a
masterwork of the imagination'. He followed this with Forge of
Darkness, the first volume in a new epic fantasy trilogy which takes
readers back to the origins of the Malazan world. Steve lives in
Victoria, Canada.
To find out more, visit www.malazanempire.com and www.stevenerikson.com
The international bestselling author of The Malazan Book of the
Fallen continues his new epic fantasy, The Kharkanas Trilogy, in
this dark, enthralling, all-embracing new novel of war and betrayal,
dark sorcery and ancient gods set in the world before the Malazan
Empire.
It is a bitter winter and civil war is ravaging Kurald Galain.
Urusander’s Legion prepares to march on the city of Kharkanas. The
rebels’ only opposition lies scattered and weakened - bereft of a leader
since Anomander’s departure in search of his estranged brother. The
remaining brother, Silchas Ruin, rules in his stead. He seeks to gather
the Houseblades of the Highborn families to him and resurrect the Hust
Legion in the southlands, but he is fast running out of time.
The officers and leaders of Urusander’s Legion, led by the ruthless
Hunn Raal, want the Consort, Draconus, cast aside and their commander
to marry Mother Dark and take his place at the side of the Living
Goddess. But this union will be far more than simply political. A
sorcerous power has claimed those opposing Mother Dark: gven form
by the exiled High Priestess Syntara, the Cult of Light rises in answer to
Mother Dark and her Children.
Far to the west, an unlikely army has gathered, seeking an enemy
without form, in a place none can find, and commanded by a Jaghut
driven mad with grief. It seems Hood’s call has been heard, and the
long-abandoned city of Omtose Phellack is now home to a rabble of
new arrivals: Dog-Runners from the south, and Jheck warriors. From
the Western Sea strange ships have grounded upon the harsh shore
bearing blue-skinned strangers to offer Hood their swords. And from
mountain fastnesses and isolated valleys of the North, Toblakai arrive
to pledge themselves to Hood’s seemingly impossible war. Soon, they
will set forth – or not at all – under the banners of the living. Soon,
weapons will be drawn, with Death itself the enemy.
Beneath the chaos of such events, and spanning the realm and those
countless other realms hidden behind its veil, magic now bleeds into the
world. Unconstrained, mysterious
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Giles Kristian
Winter's Fire: (The Rise of Sigurd 2)
publication: 07/04/2016
price: £14.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 420
ISBN: 9780593074534
The Vikings return in Giles Kristian's thrilling, heart-in-mouth
sequel to God of Vengeance, which Conn Iggulden called 'a
masterwork’ and Wilbur Smith declared that it 'stirs the blood and
thrills the soul'...
Sigurd Haraldarson has proved himself a great Viking warrior and a
dangerous enemy.
He has gone a long way towards avenging the murder of his family. And
yet his vengeance is not complete. The oath-breaker King Gorm - who
betrayed Sigurd’s father - still lives and, so long as the king draws
breath, the scales remain unbalanced.
But Sigurd and his wolfpack of warriors are not at full strength and to
confront the king now would mean death. And so they sail west, to
Sweden, where a local warlord employs them as mercenaries, but in a
brutal siege, Sigurd, Floki and Valgerd are taken by the enemy, their fate
to be sacrificed in return for the gods’ favour.
Escaping the priest’s knife at the last moment, they steal a sacred
treasure: Gungnir, the legendary spear of Odin. The journey Sigurd and
his colleagues are destined to take is punctuated by blood and betrayal.
Uneasy alliances are made, silver, fame-lust and the Odin spear draw
men to Sigurd’s banner, until he commands a war host of his own. It is
time to return to Norway to face the Oath-Breaker.
When storms rip the sky, men say that it is Odin the Wild Huntsman,
summoning the souls of the dead. And Sigurd’s course is set. His return
to his homeland foretells death. He will lead his warriors against King
Gorm in an epic fight to the death, and the clash of axe and sword and
shield will shake the timbers of Valhalla itself, for Sigurd’s bloodlust is
like the Spear God’s passing, and his revenge will be the Wings of the
Storm . .
Family history (he is half Norwegian) and his storytelling hero, Bernard
Cornwell, inspired Giles Kristian to write his first historical novels,
the acclaimed and bestselling Raven
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Viking trilogy - Blood Eye, Sons of Thunder and Odin's Wolves. For
his next series, he drew on a long-held fascination with the English
Civil War.The Bleeding Land and Brothers' Fury follow the fortunes
of a divided family against the complex and brutal backcloth of the
conflict that tore this country apart and ended with the killing of a king.
In his new novels - God of Vengeance and now Wings of the Storm Giles returns to the world of the Vikings to tell the enthralling story of
Sigurd and his celebrated fictional fellowship.
Giles lives in Leicestershire. To find out more, visit
www.gileskristian.com
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Joanne Harris
Barney Norris
Different Class
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
publication: 21/04/2016
price: £18.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 400
ISBN: 9780385619233
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publication: 21/04/2016
price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780857523723
The awesomely versatile Joanne Harris in her psychological
thriller mode, at her darkest and most unsettling.
A moving literary debut from a prizewinning young writer - a
story of the small tragedies in everyday lives.
After thirty years at St Oswald’s Grammar in North Yorkshire,
Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go.
Each class has its clowns, its rebels, its underdogs, its ‘Brodie’
boys who, whilst of course he doesn’t have favourites, hold a
special place in an old teacher’s heart. But every so often there’s
a boy who doesn’t fit the mould. A troublemaker. A boy with
hidden shadows inside.
'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as
heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral.
That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into
the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where
lives intertwine.'
With insolvency and academic failure looming, a new broom has
arrived at the venerable school, bringing Powerpoint, sharp suits
and even sixth form girls to the dusty corridors. But while
Straitley does his sardonic best to resist this march to the future, a
shadow from his past is stirring. A boy who even twenty years on
haunts his teacher’s dreams. A boy capable of bad things.
Joanne Harris is one of our best loved and most versatile
novelists. She first sprung on the scene with the bestselling
Chocolat (made into an Oscar-nominated film with Juliette
Binoche and Johnny Depp), which turned into the sensuous,
magical Lansquenet trilogy (Lollipop Shoes, Peaches for
Monsieur le Curé). She has since written acclaimed novels in
diverse genres including historical fiction, fantasy based on Norse
myth, and the Malbry cycle of psychological suspense (Gentlemen
& Players, Blueeyedboy, and now, Different Class). She is an
honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and was
awarded an MBE by the Queen.
Born in Barnsley, of a French mother and an English father, she
spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly)
becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Yorkshire with her
family, plays bass in a band first formed when she was sixteen,
works in a shed in her garden, likes musical theatre and old sci-fi,
drinks rather too much caffeine, spends far too much time online
and occasionally dreams of faking her own death and going to live
in Hawaii.
One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious
car crash. At that moment, five lives collide – a flower seller, a
schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower – all facing
their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the
balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by
connection and coincidence into a web of love, grief,
disenchantment and hope that perfectly represents the joys and
tragedies of small town life.
Barney Norris was born in Sussex in 1987, and grew up in
Salisbury. Upon leaving university he founded the theatre company
Up In Arms. He won the Critics' Circle and Offwestend Awards
for Most Promising Playwright for his debut full-length play
Visitors. He is the Martin Esslin Playwright in Residence at
Keble College, Oxford. This is his first novel.
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Camille Perri
Jo Baker
The Assistants
A Country Road, A Tree
publication: 21/04/2016
price: £6.99
size: 198 x 127 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780552173087
The Devil Wears Prada for the Lena Dunham generation from
a fresh new voice.
What would you do if you thought you’d get away with it?
I folded the cheque and shoved it deep into the black hole
darkness of my bag. At the time it seemed innocent enough. I
would just, you know, bring the cheque home and then tear it to
shreds.
For six years Tina has served drinks and collected dry-cleaning
for a boss who spends more on lunch than Tina does on rent, and
her debts are piling up. Then a blip in the expenses system offers
her the opportunity to change her life, a big fat cheque that
shouldn’t have her name on it. She’s a good person but the
temptation is too much and Tina’s moral compass temporarily
malfunctions.
But with wealth comes trouble. It doesn’t take long for one of
Tina’s fellow assistants to notice – and she wants in. Tina may
have an unlimited expense account but is she about to discover the
limit to her luck?
Camille Perri is the books editor-at-large for Comsopolitan
magazine and formerly for Esquire magazine. She has worked as a
librarian, freelancer, editor, ghostwriter and, of course, as an
assistant.
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publication: 05/05/2016
price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 400
ISBN: 9780857522085
The brand new novel inspired by the life of legendary
playwright Samuel Beckett from the author of the
international bestselling LONGBOURN.
This is the story of Samuel Beckett’s life amongst the literary
establishment in Paris, his fight against the Nazi onslaught, and his
awakening as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.
It is summer in Paris, and the pavement rumbles with the footfall
of marching soldiers along the Champs-Elysees. The city has
fallen to the Nazis, and the dwindling Parisian hope lies with a
small group of brave revolutionaries: the French Resistance.
Amongst this group of insurgents, is the young, struggling writer,
Samuel Beckett, for whom life is about to change drastically. He
finds himself embroiled in the rebel effort and in love with a leftwing revolutionary. Beckett begins to work as a courier for the
Resistance, and spends the next few years in constant danger, and
narrowly avoiding capture by the Gestapo. Later in life, Beckett
rarely spoke about his time during the war, but his experiences
provided much of the inspiration for his iconic work of absurdist
drama, Waiting for Godot.
Jo Baker was educated at Oxford and The Queen's University,
Belfast. She lives in Lancaster with her husband, the playwright
Daragh Carville, and their two children. She is the author of the
bestselling LONGBOURN, which is due to be made into a film.
Her latest novel is inspired by the life of Samuel Beckett.
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Danielle Steel
Andrew Bannister
Property of a Noble Woman
Creation Machine: (The Spin Trilogy 1)
publication: 05/05/2016
price: £18.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 310
ISBN: 9780593069066
A sweeping, romantic mystery: her most precious possessions
are the clues to a secret that could change many people's lives.
An abandoned safe-box in a New York City bank is opened to
reveal a treasure trove - a bundle of old letters, photographs and a
collection of priceless jewellery. Among the stunning jewels are a
wedding ring and a locket with a baby photograph in it. But there
is no will in the box, nor anything that refers to a next of kin.
Charged with discovering more, court clerk Jane Willoughby is
caught up in the mystery of the box's owner. She discovers that she
was Marguerite Wallace Pearson di San Pignelli, who married an
Italian count and lived in a chateau in Naples until he died, when
she returned permanently to the States. She is no longer living, and
Jane is sad to think that these most precious possessions are to be
sold off. Why did Marguerite never claim them? Had she no one to
leave them to?
Jane arranges for the jewellery to be valued by Christie's
auctioneer Philip Lawton, in preparation for a sale. Thrown
together, Jane and Philip's curiosity about Marguerite's story
grows. But neither of them could imagine where the contents of the
box could lead them . . . or how it will change their lives forever.
Danielle Steel is one of the world’s most popular and highly
acclaimed authors, with over ninety international bestselling
novels in print and more than 600 million copies of her novels
sold. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her
son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her
work with the homeless; and Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her
family have loved.
To discover more about Danielle Steel and her books visit her
website at www.daniellesteel.com
You can also connect with Danielle on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/DanielleSteelOfficial or on Twitter:
@daniellesteel
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publication: 19/05/2016
price: £14.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780593076484
For readers of Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds and Iain
M. Banks, CREATION MACHINE is the stunning first
instalment in an SF sequence - The Spin trilogy - within an
artificial planetary cluster with a turbulent past and an even
more violent present . . .
It is the aftermath of civil war in the vast pageant of planets and
stars known as The Spin. Three years since he crushed the
rebellion, Viklun Haas, industrialist and leader of the Hegemony,
is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his own
daughter.
But Fleare Haas, fighter for Society Otherwise has had a long time
to plan her next move. Sprung from her remote monastery prison
and reuniting with a team of loyal friends, Fleare’s journey will
take her across The Spin to the cluster of fallen planets known as
the The Catastrophy Curve - and from exile, to the very frontiers
of war.
Meanwhile, in the brutal and despotic empire of The Fortunate,
word is reaching viceroy Alameche of a most unusual piece of
plunder from their latest invasion. For hundreds of millions of
years, the bizarre planets and stars of The Spin itself have been
the only testament to the god-like engineers that created it. Now,
buried in the earth of a ruined planet, one of their machines has
been found . . .
Born in 1965, Andrew Bannister grew up in Cornwall. He studied
Geology at Imperial College and went to work in the North Sea
before becoming an Environmental Consultant. For the day job, he
specialises in green transport and corporate sustainability, but he
has always written – initially for student newspapers and fanzines
before moving on, encouraged by creative writing courses, to
fiction. He’s always been a reader and has loved science fiction
since childhood. From the classics of the 50s and 60s to the
present day, he’s wanted it all: space, stars, astonishment and
adventure - and now he’s discovered that writing it is even better.
Andrew lives in Leicestershire.
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Belinda Bauer
Conor O'Callaghan
The Beautiful Dead
Nothing On Earth
publication: 19/05/2016
price: £14.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 318
ISBN: 9780593075517
The new crime novel from Belinda Bauer, twice winner of
Crime Novelist of the Year, author of Rubbernecker and
Blacklands.
'One of the most individual of crime writers . . . Bauer is
streets ahead of most of her rivals' Independent
'One of the most individual of crime writers . . . Bauer is
streets ahead of most of her rivals' Independent
An obsessed killer craves an audience for his crimes - even
advertising them beforehand.
As London is gripped by the fear that there is no safety in
numbers, ambitious TV reporter Eve Singer is keen to be first with
the news from every gory scene - until she starts to suspect that the
killer has two obsessions.
One is public murder.
And the other one is her . . .
Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa and now
lives in Wales. She worked as a journalist and a screenwriter
before finally writing a book to appease her nagging mother. With
her debut, Blacklands, Belinda was awarded the CWA Gold
Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year. She went on to win the CWA
Dagger in the Library for her body of work in 2013. Her fourth
novel Rubbernecker was voted 2014 Theakston Old Peculier
Crime Novel of the Year. Her books have been translated into 21
languages.
For more information visit www.belindabauer.co.uk
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publication: 19/05/2016
price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 176
ISBN: 9781781620342
A haunting, enigmatic first novel from an acclaimed Irish poet.
A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. It is the hottest
summer in living memory, in a country that sounds like Ireland:
post-boom, in ruins, depopulated. The girl has words scrawled in
blue on her burned flesh.
Nothing on Earth is a true story, isn’t it?
The girl stays with the man. She tells him about her mother, her
mother’s identical twin, her father, and their strange shared life in
the showhouse of an unfinished development on the outskirts of a
desolate town.
What does the town remember about the twins? Where has
everybody gone? When nobody remains to tell the story of the
girl's family, the man repeats it to a world that doubts his every
word. Beautiful and terrifying, his disturbing testimony reaches
toward those frayed edges of reality where each of us, if only
once, glimpses something nobody will ever explain.
Conor O'Callaghan is from Newry in County Down, and now lives
in Manchester. He has published four acclaimed poetry
collections: The History of Rain(1993); Seatown (1999); Fiction
(2005); and The Sun King (2013). He also wrote the non-fiction
bookRed Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil War(2004). He
lectures at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK and at Wake
Forest University in North Carolina. Nothing on Earth is his first
novel.
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Sharon Bolton
Laura Madeleine
Daisy in Chains
Untitled 2
publication: 02/06/2016
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 400
ISBN: 9780593076316
Just what is it that attracts some women to the most evil of
men?
The seductive, twisty, exhilarating new thriller from Sharon
Bolton is one to watch!
He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in
brutal attacks.
But despite his conviction, he's always stuck to his story - he's
innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants
someone to investigate, and more importantly, to write his story.
At first Maggie is reluctant to even acknowledge his requests,
ignoring his letters. But this is a very charismatic and persuasive
man, good-looking and intelligent.
Eventually even she can't resist his lure . . .
Sharon Bolton is the critically acclaimed author of some of the
most bone-chilling crime books ever written. She has been
shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year
and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. In
2014 she won the CWA Dagger in the Library for her whole body
of work.
Sharon lives near Oxford with her husband and young son.
For more information about the author and her books, visit
www.sharonbolton.com. You can also join her at
www.facebook.com/SJBoltonCrime or on Twitter
@authorsjbolton
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publication: 02/06/2016
price: £6.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 368
ISBN: 9781784160739
A tale of heartbreak, war and the French café with a
bittersweet love story . . . The mouthwatering new novel from
the author of The Confectioner's Tale.
I closed my eyes as I tried to pick apart every flavour, because
nothing had ever tasted so good before. It was like tasting for
the first time. Like discovering colour . . .
In 1919, the cold sweep of the Norfolk fens only holds for
Emeline Vane memories of her family, all killed in the war.
Whispers in the village say she’s lost her mind as well as her
family - and in a moment's madness she boards a train to France
and runs from it all.
She keeps running until she reaches a tiny fishing village so far
from home it might as well be the end of the world. Transfixed by
the endless Mediterranean, Emeline is taken in by Maman and her
nineteen-year-old son, and there she is offered a glimpse of a life
so different to the one she used to know: golden-green olive oil
drizzled over roasted tomatoes, mouth-wateringly smoky red
spices, and hot, caramel sweetness.
But it's not just the intense, rich flavours that draw her to the
village, and soon a forbidden love affair begins. One that is
threatened by the whispers from home that blow in on the winds
from the mountains . . .
After a childhood spent acting professionally and training at a
theatre school, Laura Madeleine changed her mind, and went to
study English Literature at Newnham College, Cambridge. She
now writes fiction, as well as recipes, and was formerly the
resident cake baker for Domestic Sluttery. She lives in Bristol, but
can often be found visiting her family in Devon, eating cheese and
getting up to mischief with her sister, fantasy author Lucy
Hounsom. You can find her on Twitter @esthercrumpet.
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Liza Marklund
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The Final Word
publication: 02/06/2016
price: £7.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 576
ISBN: 9780552170970
Scandinavia's Queen of Crime returns with the final Annika
Bengtzon novel, perfect for fans of Camilla Lackberg, Jo
Nesbo and Karin Slaughter.
Annika Bengtzon has spent her career telling stories that need
to be heard.
As a journalist, she’s always been at the front line of criminal
reporting, side by side with the investigating officers. And now a
court case that she’s been reporting on – the savage murder of a
homeless man – has begun to attract a lot of attention. With the
stakes rising by the day, Annika is once again flung to the heart of
a complex case.
But nagging at the back of her mind is her sister’s mysterious
absence. After a series of anxious text messages, she’s not heard
another word. In the midst of a tense public situation, Annika’s
own complicated past looks set to rear its head.
Some voices refuse to be silenced.
Liza Marklund is an author, publisher, journalist, columnist, and
goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. Her crime novels featuring the
relentless reporter Annika Bengtzon instantly became an
international hit, and Marklund's books have sold 12 million
copies in 30 languages to date.
http://www.lizamarklund.com/
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Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
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The Long Cosmos
publication:02/06/2016
price: £18.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 354
ISBN: 9780857521781
have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the win
of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being
awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 20
www.terrypratchett.co.uk
@terryandrob
Stephen Baxter (Author)
Stephen Baxteris one of the UK's most acclaimed writers of science
fiction and a multi-award winner. His many books include the classic
Xeeleesequence, the
Time's Odyssey
novels (written with Arthur C.
Clarke) andTime Ships
, a sequel to H. G. Wells’sThe Time Machine
,
a Doctor Who novel,
The Wheel of Ice
, and most recently the epic, farfuture novels
ProximaandUltima. He lives in Northumberland.
Completed by the authors some eighteen months before Terry
Pratchett's untimely death,
The Long Cosmosis the grand climax of
the Long Earth series. Terry had always wanted to explore the
question ‘what’s it all for?’ - and in this novel, we find an answer . . .
2070-71.Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the
new Next post-human society continues to evolve.
For Joshua Valienté, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last
solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a
disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a
group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth
receives a signal from the stars. A signal that is picked up by radio
astronomers but also in more abstract ways – by the trolls and by the
Great Traversers. Its message is simple but ts implications are
enormous:
JOIN US.
The super-smart Next realise that the Message contains instructions on
how to develop an immense artificial intelligence but to build it they
have to seek help from throughout the industrious worlds of mankind.
Bit by bit, byte by byte, they assemble a computer the size of a continent
– a device that will alter the Long Earth’s place within the cosmos and
reveal the ultimate, life-affirming goal of those who sent the Message.
Its impact will be felt by and resonate with all – mankind and other
species, young and old, communities and individuals – who inhabit the
Long Earths…
Terry Pratchett (Author)
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling
Discworld series, the first of which,
The Colour of Magic
, was
published in 1983. His fortieth Discworld novel,
Raising Steam
, was
published in 2013. His books
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Sara Crowe
A.A. Dhand
Martini Henry
Streets of Rage
publication: 16/06/2016
price: £14.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 304
ISBN: 9780857523129
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publication: 16/06/2016
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 368
ISBN: 9780593076644
The hilarious, quirky and utterly charming second novel from
the author of CAMPARI FOR BREAKFAST.
This is the first Detective Harry Virdee novel - set to do for
Bradford what Rebus has done for Edinburgh
Life isn’t an exact science. Things can be troublesome. Like
pregnant step-mothers, the ins-and-outs of French
existentialism . . . having an unexceptional name.
The sky over Bradford is heavy with foreboding. It always is. But
this morning it has reason to be – this morning a body has been
found. And it’s not just any body.
Detective Harry Virdee should be at home with his wife.
Impending fatherhood should be all he can think about but he’s
been suspended from work just as the biggest case of the year
lands on what would have been his desk. He can’t keep himself
away.
Determined to restore his reputation, Harry is obliged to take to
the shadows in search of notorious ex-convict and prime suspect,
Lucas Dwight. But as the racist motivations of the murder threaten
to tip an already unstable city into riotous anarchy, Harry finds his
preconceptions turned on their head as he discovers what it’s like
to be on the other side of the law…
Eighteen-year-old Sue Bowl is no stranger to life’s wobbles.
When she rushes home from her creative writing course in Greece
to meet her new-born baby half-brother, she wonders if she’ll
ever get the chance to make it big in the world of literature. Still,
she has lovely boyfriend Joe and new sibling Pierre – and who
else will help Aunt Coral keep the damp at bay at crumbling home
Green Place?
But when the bright lights of the big city start sparkling, and Sue
Bowl catches the eye of a literary wunderkind, life begins to take
an unexpected turn . . .
A witty and enchanting novel about what happens after you think
you’ve grown up and fallen in love, perfect for fans of I Capture
the Castle, Love, Nina and Where’d You Go Bernadette.
Sara Crowe is best known as an actress. She has appeared on
television, stage and film, including the iconic Four Weddings
and a Funeral. She has won the Olivier Award for Best
Supporting Actress, the Variety Club Best Actress Award and the
London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising
Newcomer. Sara’s West End appearances include Private Lives,
Calendar Girls and Hay Fever. She has also toured with Acorn
Antiques: the Musical, and appeared in The City Madam for the
Royal Shakespeare Company.
Campari for Breakfast is Sara’s first novel, inspired by a
crumbling old house and a love of English eccentricity. She began
writing as a child and has also written comedy sketches for
television and stand-up. But in the tradition of late developers‚
she recently re-opened the notebooks of yesteryear and some of
the characters
climbed out.
A.A. Dhand grew up in Bradford. He also chose to attend
university there. During that time he was able to observe the city
and its people from behind the counter of the small off-license he
worked in. He's seen it all.
Fiction Titles
Frank Gardner
Erika Johansen
Crisis
The Fate of the Tearling
publication: 16/06/2016
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780593075784
The first novel in an explosive, action-packed series of modern
espionage thrillers from acclaimed broadcaster Frank Gardner
- someone with a unique insight into the murky world of
counter-terrorism.
CRISIS introduces us to Luke Carlton, ex-Special Boat Service
commando, fluent Spanish speaker and now under contract to MI6
for some of its most dangerous missions.
Sent into the steaming Colombian jungle to investigate the murder
of a British intelligence officer, Luke finds himself caught up in
the sinuous coils of a plot that has terrifying international
dimensions. London is the target, the weapon is diabolical and the
means of delivery is ingenious. Luke is soon fighting against the
clock to stave off disaster while being hunted down himself by a
sadistic cartel.
Bringing his years of security reporting on security to bear, Frank
Gardner’s debut novel combines insider detail, up-to-the-minute
hardware, fly on the wall insights with heart in mouth excitement,
CRISIS boasts an irresistible, chilling, thrilling frisson of
authenticity. Fast-paced, smart and furiously entertaining, here is a
thriller for the 21st century.
Born in 1961, Frank Gardner is the BBC's full-time Security
Correspondent, reporting for television and radio on issues of
domestic and international security, notably on Islamist extremist
related terrorism. A fluent Arabist, with a degree in Arabic and
Islamic Studies, he was previously the BBC's Middle East
Correspondent based in Cairo, and before that in Dubai. In June
2004, while reporting in Riyadh, Frank and his cameraman, Simon
Cumbers, were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed
outright, Frank was shot multiple times and left for dead. Against
all expectations, he survived and, in 2006, published his
acclaimed and bestselling memoir, Blood and Sand. In 2009 he
published Far Horizons, a much praised account of his life as an
inveterate traveller and explorer. He has written for the
Economist, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Time Out and
has been published in The Best of Sunday Times Travel Writing.
Awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to journalism, Frank
Gardner was profiled in the BBC’s television series, Who Do You
Think You Are? in September 2015. Frank is married with two
children and lives in London.
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publication: 30/06/2016
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 380
ISBN: 9780593073131
The breathtaking concluding volume in Erika Johansen's
thrilling, acclaimed and internationally bestselling 'Tearling'
trilogy.
In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky
teenager into a powerful monarch.
As she has come into her own as the Queen of the Tearling, the
headstrong, visionary leader has also transformed her realm. In
her quest to end corruption and restore justice, she has made many
enemies - including the evil Red Queen, her fiercest rival, who
has set her armies against the Tear.
To protect her people from a devastating invasion, Kelsea did the
unthinkable - she surrendered herself and her magical sapphires to
her enemy, and named the Mace, the trusted head of her personal
guards, Regent in her place. But the Mace will not rest until he and
his men rescue their sovereign from her prison in Mortmesne.
Now the endgame begins and the fate of Queen Kelsea - and the
Tearling itself - will finally be revealed . . .
ERIKA JOHANSEN grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She
went to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania before attending the
celebrated Iowa Writers Workshop, where she earned a Master of
Fine Arts degree. She eventually became an attorney but she never
stopped writing. Her debut was the international bestseller, The
Queen of the Tearling - the first novel in a remarkable trilogy.
This was followed by the acclaimed The Invasion of the Tearling
and the concluding volume, The Fate of the Tearling, is published
in June 2016. Erika now lives in England.
Author photo (c) Victoria Webb
Fiction Titles
Leif G.W. Persson
Marcia Willett
The Dying Detective
Swansong
publication: 30/06/2016
price: £18.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 352
ISBN: 9780857520883
Winner of both the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers'
Award for Best Crime Novel of 2010 and The Glass Key for
Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of 2010.
Retired Chief of the National Crime Police and Swedish Security
Service Lars Martin Johansson has just suffered a stroke. He is
paying the price for a life of excess - stress, good food and fine
wine. With his dangerously high blood pressure, his heart could
fail at the slightest excitement.
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publication: 30/06/2016
price: £16.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 368
ISBN: 9780593074855
The delightfully warm and elegant new novel from the muchloved author Marcia Willett.
If you like books by Santa Montefiore, Joanna Trollope and
Erica James, you'll love Marcia Willett's gloriously warm
novels set in the West Country.
The delightfully warm and elegant new novel from the muchloved author Marcia Willett.
In the hospital, a chance encounter with a neurologist provides an
important piece of information about a 25-year-old murder
investigation and alerts Lars Martin Johansson's irepressible
police instincts. The period for prosecution expired just weeks
earlier but that isn't the only limitation. Lars Martin Johansson is
determined to solve the atrocious crime – from his deathbed.
When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family
cottages on the edge of Dartmoor, she senses there is something he
is not telling her. Having left his job in a rush, Tim, usually
cheerful, is now quiet and reserved, as if holding on to a painful
secret.
The inimitable style, distinct voice and dark humor of Leif GW
Persson, along with the fascinating exploration of a long-cold
murder case, serves to make The Dying Detective a true
masterpiece of the genre.
But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the
moor, Tim begins to relax again and he discovers that everyone
there has their own secrets. There is Kat, a retired ballet dancer
who longs for the stage again; Charlotte, a young navy wife
struggling to bring up her son while her husband is at sea;
William, who guards a dark past he cannot share with the others;
and Mattie, who has loved Tim in silence for years.
Leif G,W. Persson is Scandinavia's most renowned criminologist
and a leading psychological profiler. He has also served as an
advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Justice. Since 1991, he has
been Professor at the National Swedish Police Board and is
regularly consulted by media as the country's foremost expert on
crime. He is the author of nine bestselling novels including most
recently The Dying Detective which won both the Swedish
Academy of Crime Writers' Award for Best Crime Novel of 2010
and The Glass Key for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of 2010.
As Tim begins to open up, Mattie falls deeper in love. And as
summer warms the wild Dartmoor landscape, new hopes begin to
bloom . . .
If you like books by Santa Montefiore, Joanna Trollope and
Erica James, you'll love Marcia Willett's gloriously warm
novels set in the West Country.
Marcia Willett was born in Somerset and lives in deepest Devon
with her husband .
A former ballet dancer and teacher, she is the author of many
bestselling novels.
Fiction Titles
Gavin Chait
Manda Scott
Lament for the Fallen
Accidental Gods
publication: 14/07/2016
price: £14.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780857523693
Reminiscent of the fiction of David Mitchell, Michel Faber and
J G Ballard, this darkly compelling literary science fiction
debut tells a story that is bleak and brutal and yet also shot
through with hope and a transcendent sense of wonder.
'Father, tell me a story?' asks Isaiah, moments before a strange
alien craft falls from the sky and smashes into the jungle near his
isolated Nigerian community. Inside the ruined vessel the
villagers find the shattered body of a man. He is called Samara
and he is a man unlike any they have seen before - a man who is
perhaps something more than human.
With his orbital city home of Achenia hiding in the rubble left by a
devastating war, Samara has fallen 35,000 km to earth in order to
escape from the automated hell of the space-based prison called
Tartarus. As he struggles to heal himself, he helps transform the
lives of his rescuers but in so doing attracts the attention of the
brutal warlord who rules over this benighted, ravaged post-21st
century land, threatening the very existence of the villagers
themselves and the one, slim chance Samara has of finding his
way home and to the woman he loves.
And all the while - in the darkness above - waits the simmering
fury that lies at the heart of Tartarus . . .
Born in Cape Town in 1974, Gavin Chait emigrated to the UK
eight years ago. He has degrees in Microbiology & Biochemistry,
and Electrical Engineering. He is an economic development
strategist and data scientist, and has travelled extensively in
Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia and is now based in
Oxford. Lament for the Fallen - his first novel - has its origins in
a story he attempted to write when he was a science fictionobsessed twelve year old.
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publication: 14/07/2016
price: £14.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 400
ISBN: 9780593072288
The second in Manda Scott's thrilling new series fusing thriller
and historical in the spirit of Kate Mosse
Capitaine Ines Picaut has only just begun working again.
Physically, she has recovered but the fire left invisible scars that
are still healing.
When a woman is assassinated in the middle of Orleans, Picaut's
team are called in. But something isn't adding up. The woman is
carrying a fake identity and even Picaut's tech expert Patrice is
struggling to unearth the truth.
As the mystery deepens, Picaut begins to suspect that her Jane Doe
may have links to her team. To one member in particular. But she
can't be right, perhaps she has come back to work too early.
Manda Scott weaves an immaculate thriller in present day Orleans
with an immersive past in the secret service in both France and
England. As the connections between the two plots emerge and
identities are revealed, you won't be able to tear yourself away.
Manda Scott is one of the great storytellers of our time. Over the
past two decades she has brought iconic historical figures back to
life, re-imagined and re-booted for the 21st Century, in the
tradition of Kate Mosse and Rosemary Sutcliff. Her novels have
been shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar
Award and translated into over twenty languages.
Manda’s bestelling Boudica series has recently been optioned for
television.
For more information on the author and her novels, please visit
her website: www.mandascott.co.uk
Fiction Titles
Cristina Caboni
James Wilde
The Secret Ways of Perfume
Hereward: The Bloody Crown: (Hereward 6)
publication: 28/07/2016
price: £7.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 368
ISBN: 9781784160500
A huge Italian bestseller, The Secret Ways of Perfume is an
evocative, poignant read set between the cobbled streets of
Florence and the lavender fields of Provence - perfect for fans
of The Secret Language of Flowers, Victoria Hislop and Santa
Montefiore
From Florence to Paris, a scent like no other can take you
unexpected places . . .
Elena has a gift unlike any other: the ability to decipher the
ingredients of a perfume from its scent alone. Perfume is a part of
who she is, and where she comes from. Only wrapped in essences
of flowers, herbs and spices does she feel truly at home.
But when Elena's gift leads her to Paris to learn about the ancient
arts of the craft, she also discovers a secret recipe designed by her
great-grandmother that no other perfumer has been able to
replicate.
As Elena immerses herself in the task, travelling from Paris to
Florence, she encounters Cail: a kind, shy man who has his own
gift for cultivating unique roses. Together they will follow a path
of secret scents, distant memories, and the hope of finding a love
neither will ever forget . . .
Cristina Caboni lives in the province of Cagliari with her husband
and their three children. In addition to devoting herself full time to
writing, Cristina also works for the family beekeeping business,
dealing with the care of queen bees, and also enjoys cultivating a
variety of roses. The world of perfumes and natural essences has
been a passion of Cristina's for a long time. Her debut novel, The
Secret Ways of Perfume, is a tribute to the connection between
scent, memory and emotion, and was a highly acclaimed bestseller
in Italy before its publication in English.
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publication: 28/07/2016
price: £14.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780593071878
The concluding novel in James Wilde's bestselling historical
series chronicling the life and adventures of that nearforgotten English hero, the warrior Hereward the Wake.
1081. And so the bloody battle for the crown of the Holy Roman
Empire begins.
In Constantinople, three factions will go to any length...will kill
any number...to seize the throne.
Outside the city's walls, twin powers threaten a siege that will
crush the once-mighty empire forever.
To the west, the bloody forces of the most feared Norman warlord
are gathering.In the east, the Ottoman hordes are massing and lust
for slaughter.
And in the middle of it all, as the sands of time run out, Hereward
and his English spear-brothers prepare to make what could be
their final stand . . .
James Wilde is a Man of Mercia. Raised in a world of books, the
author studied economic history at university before travelling the
world in search of adventure. Unable to forget a childhood
encounter - in the pages of a comic - with the great English
warrior, Hereward, Wilde returned to the haunted fenlands of
Eastern England, Hereward's ancestral home, where he became
convinced that this legendary hero should be the subject of his first
novel. Wilde indulges his love of history and the high life in the
home his family have owned for several generations in the heart of
a Mercian forest.