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CONTENTSJANUARY – JUNE 2017

P.98-99A Kingdom

Without a KingPaul Lay

P.38-39Vicious Circle

C.J. Box

P.86-87A Hut of One’s Own

Emily Chappell

P.28-29Viper’s Blood

David Gilman

P.78-79Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

P.18-19The Mask

of Command Ian Ross

P.68-69Vindolanda

Adrian Goldsworthy

P.12Erewhon

Samuel Butler

P.58-59Day of the DeadMark Roberts

P.05-07Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

P.48-49The Dog WalkerLesley Thomson

P.100-101Blackbird

James Hamilton-Paterson

P.40-41Laura Lake and the Hipster Weddings

Wendy Holden

P.88-89Calling Us HomeChris Luttichau

P.30-31Dead Girls DancingGraham Masterton

P.80-81Thenford

Michael Heseltine

P.20-21Bourbon Creams and

Tattered DreamsMary Gibson

P.70-71Aurore

Graham Hurley

P.13The GolovlevsM.E. Saltykov-

Shchedrin

P.60-61Silk and Song

Dana Stabenow

P.08A Jest of God

Margaret Laurence

P.50-51Friends Like UsSiân O’Gorman

P.102-103Joyce in Court

Adrian Hardiman

P.42-43The Medici

Matteo Strukul

P.90-91Resolution

David Manners

P.32-33The Wandering Earth

Cixin Liu

P.92-93Swimming With SealsVictoria Whitworth

P.22-23Airborne

Robert Radcliffe

P.72-73Dark Dawn

Over Steep HouseM.R.C. Kasasian

P.14Letty Fox: Her Luck

Christina Stead

P.62-63Alchemist

John & Carole Barrowman

P.09South Wind

Norman Douglas

P.52-53The Summer House PartyCaro Fraser

P.44-45The White Hare

Michael Fishwick

P.94-95Rebel

Douglas Carswell

P.34-35Lizzie’s SecretRosie Clarke

P.24-25Death’s MistressTerry Goodkind

P.74-75The Dark IsleClare Carson

P.15The Ice SaintsFrank Tuohy

P.64-65The Serpent Sword

Matthew Harffy

P.10Ernesto

Umberto Saba

P.54-55Beyond the Ice Limit

Preston & Child

P.46-47Death of a She Devil

Fay Weldon

P.96-97The Earth Gazers

Christopher Potter

P.36-37The Life and Times of

Algernon SwiftBill Jones

P.82-83The Life and Death of

Sherlock HolmesMattias Boström

P.84-85And I’d Do It Again

Aimee Crocker

P.26-27Find Me

J.S. Monroe

P.76-77What Next

Daniel Hannan

P.16-17The Ninth GraveStefan Ahnhem

P.66-67The Mothers

of Lovely LaneNadine Dorries

P.11Fame is the SpurHoward Spring

P.56-57The Married Girls

Diney Costeloe

P.104-105Caesar’s Footprints

Bijan Omrani

P.106-107The Seven Ages

of BritainHywel Williams

The Apollo list continues to give new life to great forgotten works of fiction. Eileen Battersby, chief literary critic of the Irish Times, described Charles Neider’s The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones – out of print in Europe for more than fifty

years – as ‘earthy and chilling... a powerful ballet of menace’.

This season we add eight more titles to the list, including Frank Tuohy’s devastating portrait of life in cold war Poland and

Umberto Saba’s Ernesto, a tender evocation of forbidden love by

one of Italy’s greatest poets.

And Apollo will now be our imprint for new and compelling works of international fiction. We are proud to announce that Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, an epic of family life set against the

terrible 20th century history of Korea and Japan, will be our first Apollo original.

an imprint of HEAD OF ZEUS

‘A deep, broad, addictive history of a Korean family in Japan enduring and prospering through the twentieth century.’

david mitchell

‘Luminous... This story confirms Lee’s place among our finest novelists.’

junot díaz

파친코 PACHINKO

‘Astounding. The sweep of Dickens and Tolstoy applied to a twentieth-century Korean family in Japan.’

gary shteyngart

‘This extraordinary book will prove a revelation of joy and heartbreak. I could not stop turning the pages.’

simon winchester

‘If proof were needed that one family’s story can be the story of the whole world, then Pachinko offers that proof. Min Jin Lee’s

novel is gripping from start to finish, crossing cultures and generations with breathtaking power.’

erica wagner

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‘Gripping... Pachinko is a stunning achievement, full of heart, full of grace, full of truth.’

erica wagner

Busan, Korea 1911: A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old beauty. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja

falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Chris-tian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.

Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja’s salvation is just the beginning of her story. Through eight decades and four generations,

Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.

MIN JIN LEE is an author and journalist. Born in Seoul, her family emigrated to the USA when she was seven. Pachinko is her second novel.

MIN JIN LEE is a Korean-American author and journalist. Her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was one of the Top 10 Novels of the Year for The Times, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today. She has written for the New York Times, The Times, Vogue and the Wall Street Journal, among others. Her essays and literary criticism have been anthologized widely. She served as a columnist for the Chosun Ilbo, the leading paper of South Korea. Min Jin Lee wrote Pachinko whilst living in Tokyo, and now lives in New York with her family.

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‘South Wind is a fascinating book, in the original sense of the adjective – spell-binding, mesmeric, and sometimes

disturbingly prophetic...’

jan morris

An Anglican bishop, on recuperative leave from his African diocese, alights at the Italian island of Nepthene for a short stay on his passage to England. Soon

he is caught up in a wild and exuberant cast of visitors and residents.

Norman Douglas’s infamous novel about Capri is a hedonistic and unforgettable classic.

NORMAN DOUGLAS was a British author who spent most of his life abroad. South Wind, his most highly regarded work, is a thinly disguised portrait of

his beloved island of Capri.

‘A Jest of God holds a special place for me... I found it an almost perfect book... holding within it the essentials of life.’

margaret atwood

Rachel Cameron, thirty-four and unmarried, is trapped. A shy, retiring school-mistress and dependable helpmeet to her overbearing mother, Rachel is

desperate for love and companionship. When she risks all in a passionate affair, Rachel’s life is changed in unforseen ways.

A Jest of God is a powerful exploration of loneliness, desire and the heavy weight of expectation on a life.

MARGARET LAURENCE is widely recognised as one of the greatest Canadian writers. Her masterwork is the Manawaka sequence: five novels of which

A Jest of God is the second.

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‘The leading character is a magnificent piece of portraiture and round him revolves a number of brilliantly observed characters.

Not for a long time have I enjoyed a book so much.’

daily telegraph

Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to become part of the privileged upper classes

he started out by opposing.

This wonderfully perceptive study of a career politician is a telling elegy for the Labour Party.

HOWARD SPRING was born in Cardiff, and had a successful career as a journalist. He is also the author of My Son, My Son, another Apollo classic.

‘Ernesto was Saba’s secret book... [a] loving celebration of freedom, poetry and “the marvellous world”.’

mark thompson

Ernesto is sixteen years old and ready for life to begin. His curiosity leads him into an affair with an older man – the first step on his journey to adulthood.

Full of tenderness, humour and warmth, Ernesto is a beautifully and empathe-tically rendered coming-of-age story set in fin de siècle Trieste. Written in

1953, when the author turned 70, but not published until 1975, Ernesto is the great Italian poet’s most personal and confessional work.

UMBERTO SABA was an Italian poet. Raised by his Jewish mother in the ghetto of Trieste, he became best-known for his great autobiographical

poems, collected in Il Canzoniere.

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‘The whole novel is a picture of a complete dehumanization of human beings, of an absolute victory of matter over spirit. And as

such it is strikingly powerful, convincing, and impressive.’

new york t imes

Anna Petrovna rules the ancestral estate of the Golovlev family with an iron hand. Around her swarm her family; her alcoholic sons, dissipated grand-

children and degenerate husband. But, in his darkened study, her son Porfiry – ‘Judas the Bloodsucker’ – schemes for his turn in power.

In this novel, the great Russian satirist presents a stark portrait of the Russian gentry sapped by generations of idleness and social irrelevance.

MIKHAIL SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN spent most of his life working as a civil servant in various capacities. The Golovlevs appeared in 1876. His satirical

classic, The History of a Town, is also published by Apollo.

‘This dystopian odyssey, darkened by Darwin and the new science of the age, is the most compelling satire of its kind since Gulliver

travelled. Butler’s quiet tone is luminous, now thrilling, now hilarious, and the satire still cuts to the quick.’

michael schmidt

When the traveller Higgs discovers the remote land of Erewhon, he finds himself amongst a strange race who have forbidden the use of machines, who

suppress originality and uphold the study of unreason and hypothetics.

As fresh and original today as when it was first published in 1872, Erewhon, inspired by Darwin’s The Origin of Species, is Samuel Butler’s brilliant satirical

response to religious and social orthodoxy.

SAMUEL BUTLER first published Erewhon anonymously in 1872. Following its success, he went on to publish several more works attacking social ideas.

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‘A masterly novel, at once ferociously funny and compassionately sad in its depiction of the subterfuges and small betrayals by which

people struggle to survive in a Communist state.’

independent

A young English woman arrives in the Polish People’s Republic to visit her older sister, who married a Polish soldier after the war and disappeared

into a life behind the Iron Curtain.

Tuohy’s award-winning novel of the harsh cruelties and day-to-day depriva-tions of life in Communist Poland is a work of truth, wit and understanding.

FRANK TUOHY worked for the British Council in a number of academic posts abroad, including Krakow, Poland. The Ice Saints, his third novel, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize,

but has been out of print for many years.

‘To open a book, any book, by Christina Stead and read a few pages is to be at once aware that one is in the presence of greatness... Letty Fox is a fully-achieved comic novel of a most original kind.’

angela carter

Letty Fox, with brio and relish, describes her picaresque adventures in the New York and London of the 1930s and 1940s. Surrounded by a family notable for its size, eccentricity and marital irregularities, Letty herself has many casual

affairs, but is on the hunt for a husband.

Bizarre, satirical and imaginative, this powerful portrayal of a woman in full flight is one of Christina Stead’s most impressive works.

CHRISTINA STEAD wrote fifteen novels and many volumes of short stories. The Man Who Loved Children is also published by Apollo.

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THRILLER

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THE NINTH GRAVE / STEFAN AHNHEM

STEFAN AHNHEM is a screenwriter, and has worked on adaptations of Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series. He also serves on the board of the Swedish Writers Guild. He lives in Stockholm.

It is one of the worst winters Stockholm has ever seen. So when the Swedish Attorney General fails to arrive for a parliamentary debate, the media assume he got delayed by a blizzard. But then the wife of a Danish TV star is found murdered in her home – and suddenly it seems that the cases are connected.

The Stockholm and Copenhagen police will do anything to avoid working together. But as the investigation starts to spiral out of control, the Danes and Swedes must end their feud and help each other… before more people die.

The new thriller starring detective Fabian Risk, from the Swedish crime writer of the year.

THE NEW SCANDINAVIAN SENSATION

Top selling debut novel of the year ∙ Sweden, 2014Top ten bestseller ∙ Germany, 2015CrimeTime Novel of the Year ∙ Sweden, 2015TV series in production ∙ Sweden, 2016Top ten bestseller ∙ Ireland, 2016 ‘Ahnhem’s debut recalls Mankell at his best in its whip-smart observations, flawed but endearing characters and gruesome appeal.’Sunday Times

‘It’s a better class of murder in Sweden… Epic in scale and ambition, this announces a new arrival in the Swedish crime galaxy.’Daily Mail

‘A sharp and adrenaline-packed thriller that doesn’t shy away from the sensational. Ahnhem is the next great thriller king.’ Crimetime Award Jury, Sweden

‘Finally we have a true heir to Stieg Larsson.’ NDR Radio Germany ‘My God, this grabs. It has hands. Truly.’ Caroline Kepnes

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HISTORICAL

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IAN ROSS has been researching and writing about the later Roman world and its army for over a decade. Visit his website: ianjamesross.com

When a treacherous act of murder throws the western provinces into turmoil, Castus is ordered to take command of the military forces on the Rhine. But he soon discovers that the frontier is a place of peril, where the boundaries between civilisation and barbarism, freedom and slavery, honour and treason become blurred.

With all that he loves in danger, Castus and a handful of loyal men must fight to defend the Roman Empire. But in the heat of battle, can he distinguish friend from enemy?

The latest adventure of Castus – hero of the bestselling Roman

series Twilight of Empire.

THE MASK OF COM

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IAN ROSS has been researching and writing about the later Roman world and its army for over a decade. Visit his website: www.ianjamesross.com

‘Hugely enjoyable... winds up tension into an explosion of fast-paced events.’

Conn Iggulden

‘Thoroughly exhilarating and utterly thrilling… A fascinating period in Roman history, which Ian Ross dramatizes very well indeed, not least because of the enormously likeable tour de force caught slap bang

in the middle of it – Aurelius Castus.’ For Winter Nights

‘A thumping good read… set in a little-known era of the Roman Empire, it throws us head first into a

chaotic world in which emperors rise and fall, fortunes change and a man does not know who to trust.’

Ben Kane

‘Aurelius Castus burst onto the historical fiction scene with a series panache rarely seen this early… Ross should train other authors in how to seamlessly combine research

with momentum; he makes a fine art of it.’ The Bookbag

‘Ian Ross blazes into the world of empire and legions. This is up there with Harry Sidebottom and Ben Kane.’

M.C. Scott

‘Hugely exciting, the first in a gripping sequence of books about a period often overlooked by novelists.’

BBC History

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HISTORICAL

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MARY GIBSON was brought up in Bermondsey, London – the setting for her novels, Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts, Jam and Roses and Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys. Find out more at marygibsonauthor.co.uk.

Frank Rossi promised Matty the world. The Cockney Canary would become a famous movie star. As his wife, she would be one half of a power couple, fêted and adored by all. But the Wall Street Crash puts paid to that and as Frank becomes more violent and unstable, Matty flees in the dead of night.

Once home in Bermondsey, she goes into hiding and starts desperately looking for work. But only the hated biscuit factory, Peek Frean’s, is hiring. Then, as a secret from her past comes back to hurt her, Matty learns that Frank is on the move, determined to find her and get her back.

A new East End drama, from the bestselling author of heartwarming twentieth-

century sagas.

BOURBON CREAMS AND TATTERED DREAM

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Over 300,000 cOpies sOld ∙ 2000 AmAzOn 5* reviews

4 internAtiOnAl tOp tens

‘Loved this book so much that I bought both the sequels and really got into this genre of writing after that. The story is excellent and really well written...

Thoroughly recommend!’

AmAzon 5* Review ∙ Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts

‘Once again this talented author has delivered another fantastic read... A fantastic plot, characters to love,

hate and adore and scenes that will literally transport you back to the 1920’s in London and Kent.’

AmAzon 5* Review ∙ Jam and Roses

‘Another phenomenal book from Mary Gibson, which grabs you on the first page and takes you

for a ride... unputdownable.’

AmAzon 5* Review ∙ Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys

MARY GIBSONBestselling author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts

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17 September 1944: the Allies launch the largest airborne offensive in history, delivering 36,000 troops to the Dutch–German Border. In nine days time, half of them will be casualties of war. Among their number is Theo Trickey, a young paratrooper so dreadfully injured he is not expected to survive.

Under the care of Medical Officer Captain Daniel Garland, Trickey is shipped to Germany as a prisoner of war. As Garland slowly nurses him back to health, he discovers that there’s something unusual about Trickey, who has been fighting since the disastrous Battle of France in 1940, and it all started with a chance meeting Trickey had with Erwin Rommel before the war…

First instalment in a trilogy centered on the WW2 parachute

regiment from a million-copy bestselling author.

AIRBORNE / ROBERT RADCLIFFE

‘A rattlingly good yarn, the literary version of a Hollywood period blockbuster.’ NEW STATESMAN

‘Radcliffe movingly evokes the desperate camaraderie and the permanent threat of death… The tribute to courage

and endurance remains memorable.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Crisply written, elegantly plotted and snappily paced… Each set-piece battle is artfully choreographed using

details from actual events.’ SCOTSMAN

‘Radcliffe is not just a born storyteller, but one of those generous writers who look for the best in human nature…

Will bring a glow to the most jaded cheeks.’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

A NEW NOVEL FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAZARUS CHILD

ROBERT RADCLIFFE is the bestselling author of seven novels, including The Lazarus Child, Under an English Heaven and Dambuster. He lives in Suffolk.

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TERRY GOODKIND has been a wildlife artist, a cabinetmaker, a racing driver and a violin maker. He lives in the desert in Nevada.

One-time lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang, known as ‘Death’s Mistress’ and the ‘Slave Queen’, the deadly Nicci captured Richard Rahl in order to convince him that the Imperial Order stood for the greater good. But it was Richard who converted Nicci, and for years thereafter she served Richard and Kahlan as one of their closest friends – and one of their most lethal defenders.

Now, with the reign of Richard and Kahlan finally stablized, Nicci has set out on her own for new adventures. Her first job being to keep the unworldly prophet Nathan out of trouble...

A new epic, set in the world ruled by Richard Rahl, bearer of the Sword of Truth, following the one-time Sister

of the Dark, Nicci.

DEATH’S MISTRESS / TERRY GOODKIND

A new series centered on one of best-loved characters in the now-concluded SWORD OF TRUTH series

‘Each volume of the Sword of Truth proves more difficult to review than the last.

There are only so many ways of heaping praise on a series that gets better and better.’ SFX

‘Everything one could ask for in an epic fantasy.’ PUBLISHERS’ WEEKLY

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THRILLER

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Five years ago, Rosa walked to Cromer pier in the dead of night. She looked into the swirling water, and she jumped. She was a brilliant young Cambridge student who had just lost her father. Her death was tragic, but not unexpected.

Was that what really happened? The coroner says it was. But Rosa’s boyfriend Jar can’t let go. He is obsessed with proving that she is still alive. And then he gets an email. Find me, Jar. Find me, before they do…

A dazzling, high-concept thriller backed by HoZ super-lead marketing

campaign.

FIND ME / J.S. M

ONROE

FIND ME… BEFORE THEY DO

‘Intricately woven and heart- stoppingly believable, this has bestseller written all over it.’

Clare Mackintosh

1000 bound proofs distributed worldwide

Trade competition: Can you guess the ending?

Digital marketing campaign including book trailer and

pop-up adverts

PR tour on publication

CAN YOU FIND HER FIRST?J.S. MONROE read English at Cambridge, worked as a freelance journalist in London and was a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4. Monroe, the author of five other novels, was also a foreign correspondent in Delhi for the Daily Telegraph and was on its staff in London as Weekend editor.

FACEBOOK.COM/FINDMEBOOK

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DAVID GILMAN enjoyed many careers, including firefighter, soldier and photographer, before turning to writing full time. He is an award-winning author and screenwriter.

Winter 1360: Edward III has invaded France at the head of the greatest English host ever assembled. But his attempt to win the French crown is futile. The Dauphin will no longer meet the English in the field and the great army is mired in costly sieges, scavenging supplies from a land ruined by decades of conflict.

Facing a stalemate – or worse – the English are forced to agree a treaty. But peace comes at a price. The French request that Blackstone escort the Dauphin’s daughter to Italy to see her married to one of the brothers who rule Milan – the same brothers who killed Blackstone’s family. Blackstone, the French are certain, will not leave Milan alive…

Blackstone faces his deadliest mission yet in

the fourth instalment of the grittiest historical fiction

series on the shelves.

VIPER’S BLOOD / DAVID GILMAN

‘I see flashes of brilliance that surpass Bernard Cornwell.’BOOKBAG

‘A thrilling, fast-moving, engaging tale, with unexpected twists, beautiful prose, excellent characterization and dialogue, human

sentiment and motivation, and graphic descriptions of war.’ HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY

‘Gilman does heart-pounding action superlatively.’THE TIMES

‘Page turning... This is a gritty book, sparing nothing in its descriptions of the realities of medieval warfare.’

DAILY MAIL

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CRIME

In the middle of Cork, in the middle of the day, a fire crackles in a local dance studio. Thirteen women, all promising stars of Irish folk, die in the blaze. Their young lives cut short by a tragic accident.

But where others see tragedy, DCI Katie Maguire sees murder. This is not the first fire to sweep through Cork. And in one previous case, the victims were dead before the fire was started. As Katie Maguire investigates the strange, obsessive world of competitive Irish folk dancing, she must face her most chilling killer yet…

The new gripping and gruesome thriller from international bestseller

Graham Masterton.

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GRAHAM MASTERTON was a bestselling horror writer who has now turned his talent to crimewriting. He lived in Cork for five years, an experience that inspired the Katie Maguire series. Visit katiemaguire.co.uk

DEAD GIRLS DANCING / GRAHAM M

ASTERTONHAVE YOU DISCOVERED KATIE MAGUIRE?

‘What marks Masterton’s skill is his assured touch for victims confronted by unspeakable violence and DS Maguire herself, who remains compellingly

human. If you have not read one, read them all now.’ DAILY MAIL

‘A first-class thriller with some juicy horror touches. Readers who don’t know Maguire should change that right now.’ BOOKLIST

‘Katie Maguire deserves to be recognized as standing toe-to-toe with the best detectives in the genre today.’ EXAMINER.COM

‘Graham Masterton is a natural storyteller with a unique gift for turning the mundane into the terrifyingly real… Katie Maguire is someone we

can all cheer for.’ NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS

‘Masterton writes some of the best suspense novels being published today. If you haven’t read his work, do yourself a favour and start.’

FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS

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SCIENCE FICTION

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CIXIN LIU is China’s No. 1 SF writer and author of The Three-Body Problem – the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan.

Cixin Liu is China’s bestselling science fiction author and one of the most important voices in world SF. His novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award.

Here is the first collection of his short fiction: eleven stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, form a blazingly original ode to planet earth, its pasts and its futures.

Eleven stories and five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners take you from Earth to the edge of the

Universe and back again.

THE WANDERING EARTH / CIXIN LIU

ELEVEN SHORT STORIES BY CHINA’S GREATEST SF AUTHORTHE WANDERING EARTH • MOUNTAIN • OF ANTS AND DINOSAURS

SUN OF CHINA • THE WAGES OF HUMANITY • CURSE 5.0THE MICRO-AGE • DEVOURER • TAKING CARE OF GODS

WITH HER EYES • THE LONGEST FALL

ALSO BY CIXIN LIU

‘The best kind of science fiction.’KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

‘Vivid, imaginative and rooted in cutting-edge science... Cixin

stands at the top tier of speculative fiction in any language.’

DAVID BRIN

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HISTORICAL

FEBRUARY 2017Fiction * 228x145 mm * 304 pagesE 9781784977146 * HB 9781786692368Rights: World, English language

A gripping, heart-warming saga of two friends at the dawn of

World War II.

ROSIE CLARKE is the hugely successful author of the Emma trilogy, and Downstairs Maid. Lizzie’s Secret, Book 1 in the Workshop Girls series, was an ebook bestseller in 2016.

London, 1938: Lizzie Larch is a young milliner in London’s East End. She is happy and popular, but she carries a secret. Seven years ago she was viciously attacked, and recovered in a private sanatorium where she miscarried a child. Lizzie has no memory of the night of the attack, but secrets cannot stay secret for long...

Set at the dawn of World War II, Lizzie’s Secret is about how ordinary people learn to survive – and triumph – through hardship and tragedy.

LIZZIE’S SECRET / ROSIE CLARKE

Over 40,000 eBOOks sOld ∙ tOp 20 AmAzOn Bestseller

‘I loved this book so much I am reading it again. This is one of the best novels I have read in a while

and I can’t wait for the sequel.’ LoveReading

‘Beautifully written and a thoroughly enjoyable read.’ GoodReads

‘A great piece of writing.’ The Book Club

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GRAPHIC NOVEL

BILL JONES is a writer, illustrator and performer. Since 2009 he has written a regular blog of jokes and cartoons. He also performs stand-up as Miserable Malcolm, a depressed poet. He lives in Gloucestershire. Visit hawkerspot.com

Young and earnest, Algernon Swift is perplexed by life and all the ambiguities that language throw at him. By contrast, his elderly uncle, Reverend Hawker, revels in them.

Through a series of original hand-drawn illustrations, we follow Algernon as he navigates the troubles of life, love and language. Eventually, Algernon learns to feel joy amidst all the confusion. Wickedly clever and original, The Life and Times of Algernon Swift contains some of the best – or indeed worst – puns and jokes you will ever read.

A brilliant and hilarious graphic novel of puns, illustrated with

original drawings.

FEBRUARY 2017Fiction * 170x234 mm * 144 pagesE 9781784979881 * TPB 9781784979898 £14.99 Rights: World, English language

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALGERNON SW

IFT / BILL JONES

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CRIME

MARCH 2017Fiction/Crime * 228x145 mm * 384 pagesE 9781784973124 * HB 9781784973131 £18.99 * XTPB 9781784973148 £14.99Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

C.J. BOX is the winner of the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre .38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award, and is an Edgar Award and L.A. Times Book Prize finalist. He lives in Wyoming.

‘The plane circled in the dark. Down below, Joe Pickett could just make out a figure in the snow and timber, and then three other figures closing in. There was nothing he could do about it. Joe knew that he might be their next target.’

The Cates clan’s history with the Picketts is about to come full circle. Viciously. Game warden Joe Pickett struck a fierce blow against them when the life of his daughter April was endangered. But it wasn’t a killing blow, and he’d always wondered if there’d be a day of reckoning.

The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett in this

thrilling new novel from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author.

VICIOUS CIRCLE / C.J. BOX

‘With each book, Box just gets better.’ Library Journal

CHARLES JAMES BOX was born in Wyoming in 1958 and still lives there, just outside Cheyenne, with his wife and three daughters. Before he turned to writing full time, he worked as a ranch hand, surveyor and fishing guide,

as well as a small town newspaper reporter.

While working on ranches and exploration survey crews, Box learned first-hand about the beauty, cruelty, and balance of the natural world.

These qualities are reflected in his writing – the land itself plays a major role in all the Joe Pickett novels, dominating his characters’ day-to-day existence

and sparking the conflicts that animate each instalment. The peaks of the Mountain West are a landscape that is every bit as iconically American

as the Manhattan skyline or the Hollywood sign.

It took him five years to complete his debut novel, Open Season. When it was published in 2001, it won four of the five major debut crime novel literary prizes in the US. Writing one Pickett novel a year, Box has steadily worked his way up the New York Times bestseller list, won the

respect of his peers, sold over 4 million of his books in the United States, and been translated in 27 other languages.

A breath of fresh air in the otherwise largely urban world of crime writing, Box is a writer no crime reader can afford to miss.

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WOMEN’S CONTEMPORARY

MARCH 2017Fiction * 210x130 mm * 400 pagesE 9781784977535 * HB 9781784977542 £14.99 * XTPB 9781784977559 £12.99Rights: World, English language

WENDY HOLDEN was a journalist on Tatler, the Sunday Times, and the Mail on Sunday before becoming an author. She has since written ten consecutive Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers. She lives in Derbyshire.

Laura Lake longs to be a journalist. Now she’s an unpaid intern at a glossy magazine – sleeping in the fashion cupboard and living on canapés. And she’s just got her first big break: infiltrate three society weddings and write a juicy exposé.

Security will be tighter than a Kardashian pencil skirt, but how hard can it be? She’ll don a ball-gown for the aristocrats, a festival headdress for the artisan jewellery makers, and a glitter moustache for the Shoreditch hipsters. But Laura hasn’t prepared for disappearing brides and secret royal orgies. Or the fact that her jealous office enemy will do anything to bring her down...

A delicious new series from one of Britain’s funniest novelists, starring a hapless journalist

going undercover during wedding season.

LAURA LAKE AND THE HIPSTER WEDDINGS / W

ENDY HOLDEN

‘Super sharp and hugely entertaining.’

Closer

‘An author guaranteed to lift your spirits.’

Grazia

‘One of the country’s greatest comic authors.’

Mail On Sunday

She’ll need a triple-barrelled name for the castle one.

She’ll need a gallon of glitter for the woodland one.

She’ll need to find a pet lobster for the Shoreditch one.

It must be wedding season. And reporter Laura Lake is going undercover…

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HISTORICAL

MARCH 2017Fiction/Historical * 228x145 mm * XXX pagesE 9781786692085 * HB 9781786692092 £18.99 * XTPB 9781786692108 £14.99Rights: World, English language

Intrigue, power and murder in fifteenth-century Italy inspired

by a major TV series.

Florence, 1429: Giovanni de Medici has transformed his family bank into an unprecedented economic force. But when Giovanni is mysteriously murdered, his sons, Cosimo and Lorenzo, are forced to face a range of enemies plotting to oust the Medici from power.

Published to coincide with a major new TV series starring Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man, The Graduate) and Richard Madden (Game of Thrones). Filming has taken two years, involving 5000 extras, 400 horses, 119 actors and 7000 costumes. The second series has already been commissioned.

THE MEDICI / M

ATTEO STRUKUL

‘Strukul has a brilliant style and a rare imagination.’

tim willOcks

‘Matteo Strukul is one of the most important new

voices in Italian crime fiction.’ JOe r. lAnsdAle

3 BOOKS

8-PART TELEVISION SERIES

1 STORY

A gripping trilogy about the

rise and fall of the House of Medici

THE MEDICIONE FAMILY ’S RISE

FROM SIMPLE MERCHANTS TO MASTERS OF FLORENCE

MATTEO STRUKUL is an Italian crime writer. His novels are published in twenty countries. He writes for the cultural section of La Repubblica and lives with his wife in Padua, Berlin and Transylvania.

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LITERARY

MARCH 2017Fiction * 210x130 mm * 192 pagesE 9781786690500 * HB 9781786690517 £14.99 Rights: World, All anguages

MICHAEL FISHWICK is a publisher and novelist. He has written two other acclaimed novels, Smashing People and Sacrifices.

When Robbie’s mum died, everything changed. Suddenly upped and moved to Somerset to play happy families with his dad’s new girlfriend, Robbie can’t settle. He doesn’t want a new life, he wants his old one back.

When he first sees the white hare, Robbie’s entranced. It’s like magic. But soon he’s seeing her everywhere, and with her come dreams and visions he’d rather not see. What does the white hare want? And why does she think Robbie can make it happen?

A beautifully written coming-of-age novel from an acclaimed

literary voice.

THE WHITE HARE / M

ICHAEL FISHWICK

‘A masterclass in fiction.’ Independent on Sacrifices

‘Not only brilliant but also different.’ Evening Standard on Smashing People

‘The pleasure lies in savouring Fishwick’s prose. He has a real gift.’ The Times on Sacrifices

When he was allowed to yank his face clear of the mud and scrape it out of his eyes, Robbie saw, about twenty yards away, something that at first seemed to him to be like a star fallen to earth, dazzling and indistinct. Then his eyes focussed. ‘What’s that?’ he asked, eventually. ‘I’ve never seen anything like it.’ ‘A hare. She’s a hare.’ The hare turned her head, and she seemed even closer than before. Her big dark eyes were set high up below her sloping forehead and she seemed to be looking straight at him, straight into him even.

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LITERARY

APRIL 2017Fiction * 210x130 mm * 352 pagesE 9781784979584 * HB 9781784979591 £16.99 * XTPB 9781784979607 £12.99Rights: World, English language

A modern twist on the battle of the sexes – the provocative sequel to literary lioness Fay Weldon’s most famous novel.

FAY WELDON’S work includes more than twenty novels, five collections of short stories, several children’s books, nonfiction books, magazine articles, and a number of plays. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.

In 1983, Fay Weldon published her most famous book, The Life and Loves of a She Devil. Written in the fever of the feminist revolution, it is a wickedly funny revenge fantasy about a woman seizing power in a male-dominated world.

But these days, it’s women who have the power. They seem to enjoy an easier life than men. So what would the She Devil be up to now? The answer lies in this brilliant sequel. Tyler Patchett is a new kind of ‘heroine’. He’s an ultra-confident, twenty-something, fit and gorgeous guy. But he won’t be satisfied with his life until he can transition into the ultimate symbol of power and status: a woman!

DEATH OF A SHE DEVIL / FAY WELDON

‘Queen of words – she’s a tribal elder.’ Caitlin Moran

‘Sharp, witty, incisive.’ The Times

‘One of the great lionesses of modern English literature.’ Harper’s Bazaar

‘Outrageously funny.’ Daily Express

‘Wise, knowing, forthright.’ Independent

‘Sparkling, delicious.’ The Australian

‘If you want to know about the man-woman thing, read Fay Weldon.’ New York Times

Everyone’s talking about feminism and gender. But to make up your own mind, you need to

discover the She Devil in yourself...

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CRIME

APRIL 2017Fiction/Crime * 228x145 mm * 400 pagesE 9781784972240 * HB 9781784972257 £18.99 * XTPB 9781784972264 £14.99Rights: World, English language

A chilling new case for the detective’s daughter,

from No. 1 bestseller Lesley Thomson.

LESLEY THOMSON grew up in west London. Her first novel, A Kind of Vanishing, won the People’s Book Prize in 2010. Her second novel, The Detective’s Daughter, was a No. 1 bestseller and sold over 500,000 copies. Visit lesleythomson.co.uk

An underground mansion in Hammersmith lies empty. It is lit by artificial bulbs that mimic different times of day. A swimming pool of dark water ripples in silence. But in one room, a computer glows. On the screensaver floats the words: Who am I and what have I done?

Stella Darnell, the detective’s daughter, is convinced that this is a crime scene. But what was the crime? And who was the victim? As she follows the faintest of clues back into the past, she comes to a week in 1977 when the nation was obsessed with catching the Yorkshire Ripper. A week when nobody would notice a lonely dog walker, strangled in Richmond park…

THE DOG WALKER / LESLEY THOM

SON

‘Lesley Thomson is a class above.’ IAN RANKIN

‘A haunting novel about loss and reconciliation, driven by a simple but clever plot.’

SUNDAY TIMES

‘A wonderfully eerie London setting, unique characters and a chilling plot... Lesley Thomson

is one of our leading crime writers.’ ELLY GRIFFITHS

‘Thomson’s richly depicted world and layered, complex characters will spool through your

mind long after you’ve closed the book. This is a beautifully crafted, thoughtful murder mystery...

Yet another unsettling, accomplished book by a writer at the top of her game.’

SARAH HIGBEE

‘This book has a clever mystery plot – but its excellence is in the characters, all credible and

memorable, and in its setting in a real west London street, exactly described.’

LITERARY REVIEW

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WOMEN’S CONTEMPORARY

APRIL 2017Fiction * 228x145 mm * 336 pagesE 9781784979560 * HB 9781786692382 £18.99 * XTPB 9781786692399 £12.99Rights: World, All Languages

A light-hearted and emotional novel about family, friendship

and coming to terms with your past.

SIÂN O’GORMAN was born in Ireland, is an RTÉ radio producer and lives in the seaside suburb of Dalkey, Dublin with her seven-nearly-eight-year-old daughter, Ruby.

Life in Dublin hasn’t worked out quite as planned for school friends Melissa, Steph and Eilis. Melissa has a successful career, but inside she’s a mess of inse-curities. Steph is lonely and lost, walking on eggshells around her philandering husband and angry teenage daughter. And Eilis, a hardworking A&E doctor, is just going through the motions with her long-term partner Rob.

Is it ever too late to take charge and live your life on your terms?

FRIENDS LIKE US / SIÂN O’GORMAN

‘Touching and emotional... A heart-warming summer read.’

NetGalley

‘A great read.’ The Obsessive Bookseller

‘It is in turn heart-warming and heart-breaking.’ Bookworms and Shutterbugs

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HISTORICAL

APRIL 2017Fiction * 228x145 mm * 320 pagesE 9781786691477 * HB 9781786691484 £18.99 * XTPB 9781786691491 £14.99Rights: World, All languages

CARO FRASER is the author of the Caper Court novels, based on her own experiences as a lawyer. She is the daughter of bestselling Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser and lives in London.

In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people meet at a country house party. Within three years, the country will be engulfed in war, but for now time stands still as they sip champagne on the lawn, engaging in casual flirta-tions and carefree conversation. Then a shocking death puts an end to their revelry, changing everything in an instant.

For all of them, that summer house party will be a turning point. The mistakes made during that fateful weekend will change their lives for ever.

Affairs, lusts and a sudden death thread through this hugely evocative multi-

generational tale set in a grand country house in 1936.

THE SUMM

ER HOUSE PARTY / CARO FRASER

Caro Fraser has long been admired and loved by readers of her Caper Court novels, set in a prestigious London barristers’ chambers. But The Summer House Party marks a breakthrough in terms of scope and ambition. This is tremendous drama, reminiscent of The Shooting

Party and Gosford Park in its focus on a tightly knit group of people, standing on the brink of a watershed moment in history.

‘Fraser writes with fluent flair. Her irony is light but merciless, benefiting from a good ear for

dialogue and a keen eye for masculine vanity.’

daily telegraph

‘Fraser handles the emotional twists and turns with aplomb.’

choice

‘Fraser engages her readers quickly and never lets go.’

tatler

‘Smart, complex, and deliciously racy… the thinking woman’s

chicklit.’ daily record

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THRILLER

APRIL 2017Fiction/Thriller * 228x145 mm * 384 pagesE 9781786692047 * HB 9781786692054 £18.99 * XTPB 9781786692061 £14.99Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

DOUGLAS PRESTON & LINCOLN CHILD are the authors of international No. 1 bestselling thrillers, including the Agent Pendergast adventures. Douglas lives in New Mexico, Lincoln in New Jersey. Visit prestonchild.com

Gideon Crew faces his most dangerous assignment yet. Five years ago, a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite – the largest ever discovered – ended in disaster. The tragedy revealed that the meteorite was, in fact, a complex organism from the deep reaches of space. Now, the alien organism has implanted itself in the sea bed – and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet is doomed.

But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the ‘meteorite’ has a mind of its own – and it has no intention of going quietly...

Preston and Child’s new Gideon Crew novel resolves the cliffhanger at the end of

their bestselling thriller, The Ice Limit.

BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT / PRESTON & CHILD

NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS

‘White hot bestselling suspense. Simply brilliant!’lisa gardner

‘Sit back, crack open the book and get readyfor the ride of your life.’

david baldacci

‘Preston & Child have created a terrific mixof mystery and the unexpected that will keep you reading into the late hours of the night.’

clive cussler

‘A collision between past and present thatwill leave you breathless.’

lee child

‘Highly entertaining and genuinely thrilling.Through myriad shocks, surprises, twists and

turns, the suspense never lets up.’anne rice

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HISTORICAL

MAY 2017Fiction * 228x145 mm * 416 pagesE 9781784976118 * HB 9781784976125 £18.99 * XTPB 9781784976132 £14.99Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

The gripping sequel to Diney Costeloe’s bestselling drama,

The Girl With No Name. The war is over, but trouble is brewing...

DINEY COSTELOE is the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children, The Runaway Family, The Lost Soldier, The Sisters of St Croix and The Girl With No Name. She divides her time between Somerset and West Cork. Visit dineycosteloe.co.uk

Squire’s son Felix has married a girl who is hiding several secrets – one of them in particular could undo her new life.

Charlotte, who arrived from Germany on the Kindertransport during the war, is now happily married to farmer Billy. But for her too, the dangerous past is coming back, in the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry.

The war may have ended, but for some people, troubles are only just beginning.

THE MARRIED GIRLS / DINEY COSTELOE

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR

DINEY COSTELOENUMBER ONE IN UK, US, CANADA

AND AUSTRALIA

‘From the minute I started this book, I couldn’t put it down, reading until the early hours! I just loved it.’

Amazon 5* review, The Girl With No Name

‘What a story! I couldn’t stop reading. It just flows. What an excellent writer. I’m working my way

quickly through all Diney’s novels... wonderful.’ Amazon 5* review, The Girl With No Name

‘What a fantastic read, I could not put this book down! I cried, I laughed, I think I felt every emotion.

Can’t wait for her next book!’ Amazon 5* review, The Throwaway Children

HB of The New Neighbours released March 2017

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CRIME

MAY 2017Fiction/Crime * 228x145 mm * 352 pagesE 9781784082956 * HB 9781784082963 £18.99 * XTPB 9781784082970 £14.99Rights: World, English language

A vigilante killer spreads terror in Merseyside in the

third chilling thriller starring Liverpool DCI Eve Clay.

MARK ROBERTS has lived in Liverpool all his life. He was a teacher for 20 years and now works with children with learning difficulties. He is the author of What She Saw, longlisted for a CWA Gold Dagger, and two Eve Clay novels, Blood Mist and Dead Silent. Visit markrobertscrimewriter.com

The man who calls himself Vindici broke out of prison last year. Now he’s kill-ing paedophiles in Liverpool’s affluent suburbs. Half the city is celebrating: after all, the streets are safer for their children. But for DCI Eve Clay and her team at the Merseyside Police, it’s a nightmare. Their job is to lock up killers – hard enough without being despised by the public they are trying to protect.

And now, just when they think they’ve cracked the case, they discover Vindici has an unshakeable alibi... so who are they hunting in Liverpool? Eve Clay must draw on all her cunning to unmask a killer who is always one step ahead.

DAY OF THE DEAD / MARK ROBERTS

‘A fast-paced, chilling novel that is a genuine one-sitting read... Short chapters, crackling dialogue and action that never lets up for a

single moment. I’m sure smoke was coming from the pages at one point… Mark Roberts is what

British crime fiction has been looking for.’ CRIME SQUAD

‘Murders inspired by the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and a twisted academic research project cast an evil pall over Liverpool as DCI Eve Clay

forgoes sleep and family life until she can unravel the mystery. Strong stuff.’

SUNDAY TIMES

‘A genuinely innovative crime writer with a taste for the macabre and unexpected.’

DAILY MAIL

‘Brilliant storytelling.’ JIMMY MCGOVERN

‘Dark, gripping and believable. Liverpool becomes a sinister character.’

GRAHAM MASTERTON

‘The book is fantastic! It grips hold of you right away. DCI Eve Clay is a feisty, interesting

and likeable character and Blood Mist is a hard-hitting and disturbing tale. It leaves you chilled,

exhausted and uncomfortable. Mark Roberts is a talent of the future.’

EUROCRIME

‘This is one of the most thought-provoking, powerful serial killing murders I’ve ever read. It’s brutal, but I found that the plot was so deep, so

twisted, intense and clever that there was no way I could put the book down. The characters are so real, so vivid, without any of the usual flaws that some police characters have. This is the first book I’ve read by Mark Roberts, but it won’t be the last.’

BESTSELLING CRIME THRILLERS

MARK ROBERTS WHAT BRITISH CRIME FICTION HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR

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HISTORICAL

MAY 2017Fiction/Historical * 228x145 mm * 800 pagesE 9781784979515 * HB 9781784979522 £20.00 * XTPB 9781784979539 £14.99Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

DANA STABENOW born in Alaska and raised on a 75-foot fishing trawler, is the author of the award-winning, bestselling Kate Shugak series. Visit stabenow.com

Beijing, 1322. Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father’s death, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan. Johanna’s destiny – if she has one – lies with her grandfather, in Venice.

So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road – the Silk Road – that storied collection of routes that link the silks of Cathay, the spices of the Indies and the jewels of the Indus to the markets of the west. But first she must survive treachery and betrayal on a road beset by thieves, fanatics and warlords...

The gripping historical adventure of a young woman who flees China, crossing the known world in search of her

grandfather, Marco Polo.

SILK AND SONG / DANA STABENOW

In 1993 I read The Travels of Marco Polo. By his own admission he loved the ladies and he was in China

for twenty years so he had to have scattered some seed around. I wondered what would have happened to

those children. Silk and Song is the story of one of his grandchildren, Johanna.

The Middle Ages have fascinated me ever since I found out that people didn’t stay home quite as much as I had been led to believe in World History I in high school. People were constantly on pilgrimage or crusade, and of course there were the traders who crisscrossed Asia pretty much nonstop, bringing the goods to market.

Before it’s a romance, before it’s an historical novel, above all else Silk and Song is a road trip, using Johanna and her friends to give the reader a coast-to-coast AAA TripTik of Eurasia. I admit, too, that researching the book gave me an excuse to visit many of the places

I wrote about, including China.

DANA STABENOW

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YOUNG ADULT

MAY 2017Fiction * 210x130 mm * 320 pagesE 9781781856406 * HB 9781781856413 £14.99 Rights: World, All Languages

Gripping YA fantasy thriller from siblings John Barrowman,

entertainer and TV star, and Carole Barrowman, English

professor and writer.

JOHN BARROWMAN stars as Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood and Doctor Who and Malcolm Merlyn in Arrow. His sister, CAROLE BARROWMAN, is an English professor and the Director of Creative Studies in Writing at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Visit barrowmanbooks.com

Seventeen-year-old Rémy is a Conjuror – someone who can alter reality with his music. But such a talent comes with a price. He and his super-powered friends, Matt and Em Calder, are engaged in a dangerous battle to save humanity as we know it.

If they are to succeed, they must first decipher a coded message in Rémy’s dead mother’s journal. A message which will lead them to an ancient scroll buried deep in the Vatican – and towards dark forces which have risen from the depths of time...

ALCHEMIST / JOHN & CAROLE BARROW

MAN

‘Clever, fast, interesting.’ Guardian (Children’s books)

‘Captivating fantasy adventure.’ Sunday Express

‘Characters so realistic they could jump off the page.’

The Bookbag

STEP INTO THE BARROWMANS’ WORLD, AND MEET THE THREE TEENAGERS WHO CAN SAVE THE WORLD WITH ART AND MUSIC…

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HISTORICAL

MAY 2017Fiction/Historical * 228x145 mm * 672 pagesE 9781784978822 * HB 9781786692405 £18.99 * XTPB 9781786692412 £14.99Rights: World, All Languages

MATTHEW HARFFY grew up in Northumberland where the rugged terrain, ruined castles and rocky coastline had a huge impact on him. He now lives in Wiltshire, with his wife and their two daughters.

Beobrand is compelled by his brother’s almost-certain murder to embark on a quest for revenge in the war-ravaged kingdoms of Northumbria. The land is rife with danger, as warlords vie for supremacy and dominion. In the battles for control of the region, new oaths are made and broken, and loyalties are tested to the limits.

As he closes in on his kin’s slayer, can Beobrand mete out the vengeance he craves without sacrificing his honour… or even his soul?

An action-packed historical thriller set in Anglo-Saxon

Britain in AD 633. The first book in The Bernicia Chronicles.

THE SERPENT SWORD / M

ATTHEW HARFFY

‘The Serpent Sword is a stunning debut.’

Manda scOTT

‘Historical fiction doesn’t get much better than this.’

ANGUS DONALD

‘The Serpent Sword is historical fiction at its brutal best.’ PAUL FRASER COLLARD

‘A storming debut novel fans of Bernard Cornwell should not miss!’

STEVEN A. MCKAY

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HISTORICAL

Noleen Delaney is one of an army of night cleaners at St Angelus hospital in Liverpool. Since her husband was injured in the war, she has supported her five children. With help from her eldest, Bryan – a porter’s lad – the family just about get by.

When Finn, her youngest, passes the eleven plus exam, Noleen feels faint. Allow-ing Finn to attend the grammar will stretch her purse too far. When Bryan steps in to help, the results rock the St Angelus community. As the nurses of Lovely Lane near their final exams, Noleen will find herself tested, and her heart bro-ken. Just how far can a mother’s love stretch?

JUNE 2017Fiction * 228x145 mm * 336 pagesE 9781784975081 * HB 9781784975098 £18.99 * XTPB 9781784975104 £14.99Rights: World, All Languages

Bestseller Nadine Dorries draws on her Liverpool roots and her early experiences as a student

nurse in the third novel starring the Angels of Lovely Lane.

NADINE DORRIES grew up in a working-class family in Liverpool and spent a great deal of time in Mayo with her Irish grandmother. She trained as a nurse and has been the MP for Mid-Bedfordshire since 2005. Visit nadinedorries.co.uk

THE MOTHERS OF LOVELY LANE / NADINE DORRIES

MILLION-COPY BEST SELLING AUTHOR

three times nO. 1 Bestseller in the uk nO. 1 Bestseller in AustrAliA

tOp 10 us Bestseller

‘As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking... unputdownable.’ Sunday expreSS

‘A funny and sometimes shocking saga. I couldn’t put it down.’ CRistinA odone

‘The characters are engaging, the street scenes cinematic and the themes of the novel powerful. One night I found myself reading it in the bath. You don’t do that for work.’

Ann tRenemAn, the timeS

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

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HISTORICAL

JUNE 2017Fiction/Historical * 228x145 mm * 400 pagesE 9781784974671 * HB 9781784974688 £18.99 * XTPB 9781784974695 £14.99Rights: World, English language

ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY studied at Oxford and became an acclaimed historian of Ancient Rome. He is the author of several books, including Anthony and Cleopatra, Caesar and The Fall of the West. Visit adriangoldsworthy.com

AD 98: The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. In twenty years’ time, the Emperor Hadrian will build his famous wall, but for now defences are weak, as tribes rebel against Roman rule, and local druids preach the fiery destruction of the invaders.

Flavius Ferox is a Briton and a Roman centurion, given the task of keeping the peace on this wild frontier. But it will take more than just courage to survive life in Roman Britain...

Hugely authentic historical fiction series set near Hadrian’s

Wall, from leading British historian Adrian Goldsworthy.

VINDOLANDA / ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY

Claudia Severa to her Lepidina greetings. On 11 September, sister, for the day of the celebration of my birthday, I give you a warm invitation to make sure that you come to us. Give my greetings

to your Cerialis. Farewell, sister, my dearest soul, as I hope to prosper, and hail. vindolAndA tAblets ii. 291.

This text excavated at the fort of Vindolanda – a glimpse of something as routine as a birthday party in a frontier zone on the edge of the Roman Empire – was the

spark that first inspired my story.

It was written around the turn of the first to second centuries AD, and this makes it the first surviving piece of writing by a woman in the history of Britain. The original text,

written in ink on a thin wooden writing tablet, can be seen today in the British Museum.

Vindolanda is one of the most remarkable Roman sites in Britain. Unusual conditions there have allowed the preservation of wood, leather, textiles and other material usually

lost. Over five and half thousand shoes have already been found at Vindolanda, more than from anywhere else in the Roman empire.

ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY

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Continuing Graham Hurley’s trilogy charting the shadowy and often lethal pas de deux

between rival Allied and German intelligence services during

World War II.

HISTORICAL

JUNE 2017Fiction/Historical * 228x145 mm * 400 pagesE 9781784977849 * HB 9781784977856 £18.99 * XTPB 9781784977863 £14.99Rights: World, English language

Aurore connects Billy Angel, an RAF wireless operator selected for a covert mission to occupied France, with Helene Lafosse, a French woman keeping unusual company in her small family chateau in the depths of the Touraine. Helene has begun an affair with senior Abwehr Intelligence officer and in return he has turned a blind eye to the succession of Jews, refugees, resistance fighters and downed Allied airmen to whom she offers shelter. MI6 want to exploit their relationship and plant a false lead about the D-Day landings. It falls to Billy Angel to find his way to the Chateau de Neune where he must win Helene’s confidence and share the tiny piece of the intelligence jigsaw that will only make sense to her German lover.

GRAHAM HURLEY is the author of the critically acclaimed series of crime novels featuring DI Joe Faraday and DC Paul Winter. He lives in Devon.

AURORE / GRAHAM HURLEY

‘So well-written you can smell the sweat and taste the fear.’

PETER MAY

A BOLD NEW DIRECTION FOR ONE OF BRITAIN’S FINEST CRIME WRITERS

‘Hurley is now firmly at the top, with few rivals in this genre.’

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘One of the UK’s finest crime novelists.’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

‘Britain’s finest and hardest-hitting series of police procedural novels.’

GUARDIAN

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CRIME

JUNE 2017Fiction/Crime * 210x130 mm * 432 pagesE 9781784978082 * HB 9781784978099 £18.99 * XTPB 9781784978105 £14.99Rights: World, All Languages

M.R.C. KASASIAN is the author of The Mangle Street Murders, The Curse of the House of Foskett, Death Descends on Saturn Villa and The Secrets of Gaslight Lane.

London, 1884: 125 Gower Street, the residence of Sidney Grice, London’s foremost personal detective, and his ward March Middleton, is at peace. Midnight discussions between the great man and his charge have led to a harmony unseen in these hallowed halls since the great frog disaster of 1878.

But harmony cannot last for long. A knock on the door brings mystery and murder once more to their home. A mystery that involves a Prussian Count, two damsels in distress, a Chinaman from Wales, a gangster looking for love and the shadowy ruin of a once-loved family home, Steep House…

The final puzzling case for Sidney Grice and March Middleton – the Gower

Street Detectives.

DARK DAWN OVER STEEP HOUSE / M

.R.C. KASASIAN

Sidney Grice, born 26 September 1841, attended Trinity College, Cambridge. Following

a mysterious personal tragedy he disappeared for a number of years. After losing his right

eye foiling an assassination attempt on Crown Prince Wilhelm, Grice returned

to London to establish himself as its foremost Personal Detective.

March Middleton, born 5 November 1862, was raised by her widowed father,

a doctor, in Lancashire. She accompanied him on postings to India and Afghanistan,

working as a nurse. Following his death she went to live with her godfather, Sidney Grice, at 125 Gower Street.

‘Delightful and original... A series that could well become a cult.’

DAILY MAIL

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THRILLER

JUNE 2017Fiction/Thriller * 228x145 mm * 416 pagesE 9781786690531 * HB 9781786690548 £18.99 * XTPB 9781786690555 £14.99Rights: World, English language

A haunting spy thriller set on the remote island of Hoy, from the author of The Salt Marsh.

CLARE CARSON is an anthropologist and works in international development, specializing in human rights. Her father was an undercover policeman in the 1970s, and inspired her to create Sam Coyle, the daughter of a spy.

Sam grew up in the shadow of the secret state. Her father was an undercover agent, full of tall stories about tradecraft and traitors. Then he died, killed in the line of duty. Now Sam has travelled to Hoy, in Orkney, to piece together the puzzle of his past.

What she finds is a tiny island of dramatic skies, swooping birds, rugged sea stacks and just four hundred people. An island remote enough to shelter someone who doesn’t want to be found. An island small enough to keep a secret…

THE DARK ISLE / CLARE CARSON

c l a r e c a r s O n‘Very well-written… an original and absorbing read.’

Literary Review

‘The writing, whether about people or places, is excellent.’ Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express

‘A bold and compelling first novel… an interesting, explosive and successful mix.’

Crime Review

‘A meaty, beautifully written and original thriller.’ Irish Times

‘If you want to get stuck into a thriller this summer, make it Orkney Twilight. Trust me. You will not regret it.’

Huffington Post

‘An original, haunting thriller about fathers, daughters and the ghosts of the past… a clever take on crime fiction.’

Aberdeen Press & Journal

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AGENDA SETTING

OCTOBER 2016Non Fiction/Politics * 210x130 mm * 240 pagesE 9781786691927 * HB 9781786691934 £9.99 Rights: World, All Languages

DANIEL HANNAN has been Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999. He is the author of How We Invented Freedom and his previous book Why Vote Leave was a Sunday Times bestseller. Visit hannan.co.uk.

On 23 June 2016, against all forecasts, Britain voted to leave the EU. Drawing on his experiences at the heart of the campaign, Daniel Hannan dissects the result and our reaction. He outlines why Vote Leave won, exploring what people were voting for and what they weren’t.

Hannan then asks what the options are now and proposes the ideal architecture for a new relationship with the EU. What Next is a constructive antidote to Project Fear and shows that a successful Brexit will be mutually beneficial for Britain and for Europe.

Daniel Hannan’s Sunday Times bestseller Why Vote Leave made a considered, up-beat case for

leaving the EU. Here, he outlines the plan for a successful Brexit.

WHAT NEXT / DANIEL HANNAN

The Remain campaign could not have wished for more propitious circumstances in which to launch a referendum and, yet, when polling day came, Britons voted to leave the EU in greater numbers than they had ever voted for anything.

The result was a very close one: a 52-48 result is a mandate to recover jurisdiction, not to cut all ties with the EU. We must now try to find a status that both sides can at least live with. Quite apart from the narrowness of the overall vote, we Leavers can’t forget that the UK works as a partnership of four nations, two of which preferred the status quo.

We need to find a new relationship with the EU, which may go too far for some and not far enough for others, but around which we can build a consensus. Is it possible to accommodate the chief aims of both sides? I think so. The top concern for Leavers was very clearly sovereignty. We promised to take back control of our money, our laws, our borders, our democracy. Whatever else happens when we leave, Britain must repeal the 1972 European Communities Act – the legal instrument which gives EU laws precedence over British statutes.

What of the other side? As far as I could tell, the top concerns of those who wanted to stay were, first, the maintenance of our economic and commercial ties to the EU; and, second, the maintenance of various joint programmes in education and research. It is surely not beyond the wit of man to form a negotiating position that incorporates the chief aims of both sides.

DANIEL HANNAN

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BIOGRAPHY

OCTOBER 2016Non Fiction/Biography * 234x153 mm * 832 pagesE 9781786690012 * TPB 9781786690029 £16.99Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

The first UK edition of the bestselling life of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for

the hugely successful Broadway show Hamilton, opening in

London and Sydney in 2017.

RON CHERNOW is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Washington: A Life, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and The Warburgs: A Family Saga. He lives in New York.

An illegitimate orphan from the Caribbean, Alexander Hamilton seemed to come from nowhere to take America by storm. Rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, Hamilton co-authored The Federalist Papers, founded the Bank of New York and became the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.

His vision of a united nation with a strong central government, a formidable army and a vigorous capitalist economy, pitted him against many of his fellow revolutionaries. He was also an ardent abolitionist, while most other Founding Fathers owned slaves. Hamilton was years ahead of his time in so many ways and lived a life of inconceivable achievement, upward mobility and scandal.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON / RON CHERNOW

A New York Times bestseller – although originally published in 2004, it has been on the bestseller

list for over 40 weeks in 2016.

Winner of the inaugural George Washington Book Prize for early American history and nominated

for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

The book was the inspiration for the musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, winner of 11 Tony Awards and the Grammy Award for

Best Musical Theatre in 2016. It is projected to make over $100 million at the box office

in its first year and will premiere in London’s West End in September 2017.

‘Moving and masterly... by far the best biography ever written about the man.’ New York Times

‘A timely reminder that the era of the Founding Fathers was full of venomous vituperation.’

Financial Times

‘A vivid and compelling portrait of a remarkable man.’ Robert Caro, author of The Power Broker

‘This is grand-scale biography at its best – thorough, insightful, superbly written.’

David McCullough

‘Impressively thorough, superbly written and carefully researched.’ Wall Street Journal

‘As Ron Chernow points out in this magnificent biography, Hamilton was the boy wonder of

American politics.’ The Economist

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GARDENING

OCTOBER 2016Non Fiction/Gardening * 290x245 mm * 320 pagesE 9781784979720* HB 9781784979737 £40.00 Rights: World, All Languages

MICHAEL HESELTINE was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1995 to 1997. ANNE HESELTINE has served as a trustee of four of Britain’s major museums, including the National Gallery.

This book is the story of one garden, and one family, over forty years. When Michael and Anne Heseltine bought Thenford House in 1977 they took on a large estate and a wild, overgrown woodland. They set about transforming it into the garden of their dreams.

Beautifully illustrated with both professional photographs and private family images, this personal story of the creation of an extraordinary garden will delight horticultural experts and novices alike.

One of the country’s most beautiful private gardens is revealed for the first time.

THENFFORD / MICHAEL AND ANNE HESELTINE

‘This is the story of a big adventure, a search, and an arrival. A story of experimentation, disaster and – after mistake upon mistake – success!’

MICHAEL AND ANNE HESELTINE

Michael and Anne Heseltine have been married since 1962 and their joint passion has been

creating the garden at Thenford.

Along the way, they have received advice and guidance from some of the country’s most distinguished horticulturalists and garden

designers, such as Roy Hillier OBE, Lanning Roper and George Carter.

Today, their arboretum holds more than 3,000 different varieties of trees and shrubs, including rare plants collected from the wild by such well-known plantsmen as Roy Lancaster OBE, Allen Coombes,

Keith Rushforth and Chris Chadwell.

The garden also now includes an ambitious and scenic series of water features, including medieval fish ponds and a rill. They have lovingly restored

the walled garden and borders, and have created a unique sculpture garden, which displays work by

Elisabeth Frink, Michael Ayrton, Ronald Rae and, more unusually, an enormous statue of Lenin.

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The triumph – and tragedy – of the most famous detective

in the world.

JANUARY 2017Non Fiction/Biography * 234x153 mm * 352 pagesE 9781784977726 * HB 9781784977733 £20.00Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

MATTIAS BOSTRÖM is a Swedish writer and Sherlock Holmes expert. He was elected into the exclusive Sherlock Holmes association Baker Street Irregulars in 2007.

Everybody knows about Sherlock Holmes, the unique literary character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor back in the 1880s, such a great success?

This is the fascinating tale of the man and people who created the Holmes legend, charting the unexpected fortune of the actors, writers and readers who have recreated and renewed the idea of this most-famous of all detectives: from the gentleman amateur of the 1890s to the odd genius of Sherlock today.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES / M

ATTIAS BOSTRÖM

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories about Sherlock Holmes. More than 60 million copies have been

sold of the collected short stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, alone, and they have been

translated into more than 60 languages.

Holmes has been on screen for over a century and been played by more than 100 actors, including John Gielgud, Basil Rathbone, Christopher Plummer, Peter O’Toole, Michael Caine, Christopher Lee, Rupert

Everett, Ian McKellen and Benedict Cumberbatch.

This book describes the people who have made Sherlock Holmes a success, and the tragic story of

how Conan Doyle tried to escape his own creation and the legacy that destroyed the lives of an entire family.

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FEBRUARY 2017Non Fiction/Biography * 234x153 mm * 208 pagesE 9781784979843 * HB 9781784979850 £16.99 Rights: World, English language

AIMÉE CROCKER was an American heiress, Bohemian, world traveller and author, best known for her adventures in the Far East, her extravagant parties and her collections of husbands and lovers, adopted children, Buddhas, tattoos and snakes.

With the world at her feet, and Californian railroad fortunes in her purse, Aimée Crocker had a tale or two to tell. Here, she boldly delivers her hilarious memoirs of escaping head-hunters in Borneo, avoiding poisoning in Hong Kong and outwitting murder in Shanghai.

Aimée was a woman of means, not always a lady and never what you might call ‘proper’. She was married five times, including to a Russian prince almost forty years her junior and Kin Kalakaua of Hawaii. In this laugh-out-loud story of her life, she recounts her adventures with flair, invincibility and unapologetic gusto.

Moonlit seances in Honolulu. Exotic cobra dances. Drinking games with Oscar Wilde. The

most sought after out-of-print biography in America.

AND I’D DO IT AGAIN / AIMÉE CROCKER

Let the Mrs Grundys arch their eyebrows and reach for their smelling salts.

If I have lived fully and richly I thank God for it. My only regrets are for the things that I have not done and for the experiences I have not had. Also for the people I have

not known.

I believe absolutely that living, in the completest sense of the word… discovering the full beauty of living and plunging one’s

self utterly into the human beings that swarm through this life… is a pure art. It is, I honestly think, the highest artistic

accomplishment we can hope for…

I have been accused of living adventurously. Let us admit that word. But I have never been an ‘adventuress’… I

was not immoral, but un-moral. If I have often loved, I have at least loved well and fully. I have nothing

to be ashamed of, in spite of the scandalous press reports that hopeful reporters managed to use to amuse a scandal-loving

public. And if I have dared to stick my nose into trouble just because the game was fun, does this make me a brazen hussy?

No, this is not an apology.

It is the recollections of a woman who is no longer young and who has crowded a great deal of movement and fun and

action and adventure into a lifetime now drawing to its close.

And if I could live it again, this very long life of mine, I would love to do so. And the only difference would be that I would try to crowd in still more… more places, more things, more women, more men, more love, more excitement.

Aimée Crocker

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GARDENING

MARCH 2017Non Fiction/Gardening * 200x130 mm * 128 pagesE 9781784979683 * HB 9781784979690 £12.00Rights: World, All Languages

A book about the joys of the allotment shed,

illustrated with charming hand-drawn images.

EMILY CHAPPELL is an illustrator and graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. She has been a plotholder of an allotment in Glasgow for over eight years. Visit emilychappell.com

Allotments are places to grow food – but they are so much more than that. They are also places that encourage spontaneity, exploration, learning, sharing, restful activity and camaraderie.

This book is a celebration of the allotment hut and the wonderful invention and resourcefulness that makes each one unique. The original illustrations offer inspiration for how to create your own, very special shed. This is the ideal gift book for allotment folk, gardeners or those curious about the quirkier side of life.

A HUT OF ONE’S OWN / EM

ILY CHAPPELL

I have a confession to make. I am a magpie, a scavenger, a cheapskate. Whatever you want to call it, I love

skip-diving, salvaging and getting stuff for free. I like to claim other people’s junk and make something either

useful or beautiful out of it. And I’m not alone.

It’s some sort of unwritten code for allotment gardeners – you must get materials for free, and if not for free, then dirt

cheap. People new to allotmenting soon adopt the code. No piece of junk can be underestimated.

So here’s to the self-build – the inventions, the recycling, the follies... Let’s champion the individual, their ingenuity,

and the community spirit that greases the wheel.

Emily Chappell

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IDEAS AND CULTURE

MARCH 2017Non Fiction * 210x130 mm * 320 pagesE 9781784979744 * HB 9781784979751 £16.99 Rights: World, All Languages

CHRIS LUTTICHAU was born in Denmark and is the author of Animal Spirit Guides: Discover Your Power Animal. He shares teachings on Shamanism and earth-based spirituality in workshops at the Northern Drum Shamanic Training Centre.

Alongside consciousness, meditation and mindfulness, Shamanism, with its vision of the interconnectedness of all life, is undergoing an unprecedented revival in the western world.

With personal stories from the author’s 35-year study of Shamanism and the earth-wisdom teachings, this book offers a path leading to the transformation of ourselves, of our reality and consequently the course of our lives. The most important book of its kind since The Road Less Travelled.

From one of our most respected shamanic teachers,

a blueprint for happiness which interweaves practical teachings, history, anecdote

and ancestral wisdom.

CALLING US HOME / CHRIS LUTTICHAU

Native people have been trying to tell the rest of the western world that we need to shift our perspective and

include the heart’s cognition before it is too late. We need to meet everything heart to heart, soul to soul. The time has come to awaken. The children have become lost

and now the Earth is calling her children home.

CHRIS LUTTICHAU

The shaman as an intermediary between this world and the world of the spirits.•

The Inner and Outer Minds: the Outer Mind is analytical and rational thinking; the Inner Mind denotes the spiritual self, the soul and higher consciousness.

• Focusing on qualities of the heart: courage, integrity and love.

•The importance and power of meditation and of stillness.

•The Earth as sacred, not just as a resource.

INCLUDES KEY TEACHINGS SUCH AS:

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Two Brothers.A Nation in Crisis.

A World at War.

APRIL 2017Non-Fiction/Biography * 234x153 mm * 512 pagesE 9781784979904 * HB 9781784979911 £25.00Rights: World, All Languages

DAVID MANNERS is the 11th Duke of Rutland. He lives at Belvoir Castle, ancestral home of the dukes of Rutland in Leicestershire.

John Manners, Marquis of Granby and hero of the Seven Years War, predeceased his father, the 3rd Duke of Rutland, and never inherited his title. But he left two sons whose short but remarkable lives are the subject of this richly illustrated family history. Charles, who would inherit his grandfather’s title, allied himself with those Whigs who sought reconciliation with the American colonies and eventually became Viceroy of Ireland; his younger brother Robert embarked on a naval career, became flag captain of the Resolution but died of injuries sustained at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean.

Based upon the detailed archives held at Belvoir Castle, Resolution is an enthralling saga of of two generations of the Manners family.

RESOLUTION / DAVID MANNERS

At Christmas 1764, Charles and Robert Manners travelled with their father to the family seat of Belvoir Castle. It was the six-year-old Robert’s first visit to the splendid estate and the impact on him must have been considerable. Charles, too, must have been impressed, for he

had not been there for some time and he was now aware that he would one day inherit it.

The castle stood high above the surrounding countryside, the site of a fortification since 1066 when the boys’ Norman ancestor Robert de Todeni, a standard-bearer to William the Conqueror, had been granted vast tracts of land across seven counties. The views from the

window were magnificent, hence the name Belvoir, meaning ‘beautiful view’.

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MEMOIR

APRIL 2017Non Fiction/Biography * 210x130 mm * 208 pagesE 9781784978365 * HB 9781784978372 £12.00 Rights: World, All Languages

VICTORIA WHITWORTH is a historian and best-selling author of The Bone Thief, The Traitor’s Pit and Daughter of the Wolf. Having worked as a lecturer, tour guide, artist’s model and teacher, she now lives on a smallholding in Orkney, where she writes full time.

Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of temporary escape from a failing marriage, motherhood, a stifling religious environment and a series of health problems. Over four years, her encounters with the sea and all its weathers, the friendships she made, the wild creatures she encountered, combined to transform her life.

This book is a love letter, to the beach where she swims regularly and its micro-cosmic world, to the ever-changing cold waters where the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean meet, and to the seals, her constant companions.

A memoir of intense physical and personal experience,

in the vein of Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun.

SWIM

MING W

ITH SEALS / VICTORIA WHITW

ORTH

This sea and these islands, the wind pimpling my skin, the spray on my right cheek, these are palpable presences in the here and now, transforming me physically. They also reach far back in human and pre-human time. But more than that, they extend sideways into parallel universes, counterfactuals: making me ask how things might have been different… They make me question everything I have known, in the face of time, danger, loss and death. The quest to find the right words to encapsulate this place is taking me on a long and winding journey.

VICTORIA WHITWORTH

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AGENDA SETTING

APRIL 2017Non Fiction/Politics * 000x000 mm * XXX pagesE 9781786691545 * HB 9781786691552 £12.99Rights: World, English language

A radical manifesto calling for a fundamental change in politics and capitalism

from outspoken MP Douglas Carswell.

DOUGLAS CARSWELL grew up in Uganda. He worked in television and the City before standing against Tony Blair in the 2001 elections. Elected to parliament in 2005, he is currently the MP for Clacton in Essex.

Everyone is sick of the oligarchy being locked into our political system. They see a connivance of cartels – the media, big business, politics – as holding the real power. As a result anti-establishment figures such as Jeremy Corbyn and Donald Trump are experiencing a surge in popularity.

Douglas Carswell is just such a man. This is his proposal for how we can change the status quo. Rebel is an incendiary book about what’s gone wrong, and how we can put it right.

REBEL / DOUGLAS CARSWELL

I HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT FOUR TIMES, TWICE AS A CONSERVATIVE AND TWICE FOR UKIP. BUT I HAVE NOT MERELY CHANGED PARTIES. I HAVE SWITCHED MANY OF MY VIEWS FUNDAMENTALLY. WESTMINSTER, I HAVE COME TO REALISE, IS A CARTEL – LIKE MUCH OF THE ECONOMY. THINGS ARE RIGGED IN THE INTERESTS OF A FEW. OUR DEMOCRACY AND THE MARKET SYSTEM HAVE BEEN SUBVERTED. THE ECONOMY IS RUN IN THE INTERESTS OF A NEW OLIGARCHY.

NOW I BELIEVE WE NEED A REVOLUTION.

DOUGLAS CARSWELL

‘AS A REVOLUTIONARY TEXT, CARSWELL’S IS RIGHT UP THERE WITH THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO.’SUNDAY TIMES

‘A PASSIONATELY EXPRESSED SET OF ARGUMENTS ABOUT WHY OUR CURRENT POLITICAL ARRANGEMENTS DO NOT WORK.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

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SCIENCE

MAY 2017Non Fiction * 210x130 mm * 352 pages E 9781784974244 * HB 9781784974329 £20.00Rights: UK, Commonwealth

CHRISTOPHER POTTER worked for 17 years at Fourth Estate, where he became publisher and managing director. He is the author of You Are Here, A Portable History of the Universe and How to Make a Human Being.

The images of the planet earth seen from space are the most beautiful photographs ever made. The astronauts who took them were profoundly affected by what they saw. They inspired a generation of scientists and environmentalists, including Stewart Brand and James Lovelock, to think seriously about our responsibility for this tiny oasis, the ‘blue marble’ falling through empty darkness.

This is an extraordinary book about the dreams of imperfect visionaries like Robert Goddard, Charles Lindbergh and Wernher von Braun who made it possible to put humans into space, and about the men who made those first dangerous escapes from earth’s orbit in tiny capsules driven by huge rockets.

The fascinating story of how we came to see the whole

earth from space.

THE EARTH GAZERS / CHRISTOPHER POTTER

REVIEWS FOR HOW TO MAKE A HUMAN BEING

‘Beautiful and profound… Not only unlike any work of literature I’ve read, it comes closer than any new work I’ve read to doing full justice to the

impossible complexity of living a life… It concerns matters of mortality, and of grocery shopping.

It is – I’ll just say it – a significant book.’ MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, AUTHOR OF THE HOURS

‘A clever, subtle, enjoyable book – and a deeply English one, full of idiosyncrasy

and resistance to easy answers.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Well-travelled imaginations will enjoy a jaunt with fiery polymath Christopher Potter;

How to Make a Human Being is a quirky investigation into our deepest nature’

HILARY MANTEL, GUARDIAN

‘Rich and wonderful… A clever, subtle, enjoyable book. If we are a parliament of selves, this book is

a parliament of explanations.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Potter always has something interesting to say, even if you disagree… this is a wonderful and unique book.’

LISA RANDALL, PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

REVIEWS FOR YOU ARE HERE

‘One of the most entertaining and thoughtful pop-science books to be published for years.’

SUNDAY TIMES

‘A wonderful, miraculous book... The whole universe bottled for your delight.’ STEPHEN FRY

‘One of the best popular science books I have ever read.’ GUARDIAN

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HISTORY

MAY 2017Non Fiction/History * 234x153 mm * 352 pagesE 9781781852576 * HB 9781781852569 £20.00Rights: World, All Languages

PAUL LAY is the editor of History Today. He sits on the advisory boards of the Institute of Historical Research and the History and Policy unit at King’s College London.

Dismissed as a puritanical aberration in England’s history, the Interregnum isoften ignored in favour of the conflicts of the Civil War and the turmoil and flamboyance of the Restoration. However, in this vividly evoked narrative of the events of the year 1657, Paul Lay reveals the Protectorate to be an era of remark-able intellectual and political ferment, a time when new religious and political ideas were tested and the foundations of modern British democracy were laid.

A Kingdom Without a King traces the happenings of a remarkable year, from the Levellers’ Plot to assassinate the Lord Protector to Cromwell’s rejection ofthe offer of the crown, offering a compelling account of a governmental experiment on the brink of collapse.

A fascinating portrait of life in Britain in 1657, as Cromwell’s

Protectorate stutters towards its inevitable end.

KINGDOM W

ITHOUT A KING / PAUL LAY

I rise up to acquaint you with the discovery of a late heinous plot, which is in part discovered, and we are in pursuit of the rest. The place where that design was hatched is Flanders, a place fit for such designs of assassination,

at the Spanish court there.Two parties are in it, the old malignant, and the leveling party. It is carried on by one Sexby there.

John Thurloe, Cromwell’s spymaster, informs Parliament of Edward Sexby’s and

Miles Sindercombe’s plot to assassinate the Lord Protector, 19 January 1657.

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JUNE 2017Non Fiction * 234x170 mm * 192 pagesE 9781786691194* HB 9781786691200 £16.99 Rights: World, All Languages

JAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON is the author of many books, including Gerontius, winner of the Whitbread Prize; Empire of the Clouds, his book about British aviation, was a major bestseller. Head of Zeus publishes his acclaimed history of the first war in the air, Marked For Death.

The SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ was conceived in the late 1950s by Lockheed Martin’s highly secret Skunk Works, led by Clarence ‘Kelly’ Johnson. It was the apogee of jet-powered flight: the fastest, highest-flying aircraft ever built, invulnerable to other aircraft or the missiles of its time.

The Blackbird was America’s great spy plane for over 30 years. Flying over the Soviet Union, China and the battlefields of Vietnam and the Middle East, none was ever shot down. It is also the most beautiful aircraft in the history of avia-tion. James Hamilton-Paterson brings excitement, incandescent literary skill and narrative drive to the experience of flying and the making of flying machines.

The compelling story of the SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ spy plane

by one of Britain’s most celebrated writers.

BLACKBIRD / JAMES HAM

ILTON-PATERSON

REVIEWS FOR MARKED FOR DEATH

‘A terrific story, which Hamilton-Paterson tells with tremendous relish, elegance, and attention to detail. An acclaimed poet and novelist, he is excellent at capturing the sheer courage of the

pilots who ran risks that almost defy credibility.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Hamilton-Paterson’s superb book, not only meticulously researched but also supremely readable, tells the tales of many heroes. He

unearths fascinating information, but the book is just as good on the nuts and bolts of flying, and what it was like to engage in a dog fight.’

DAILY MAIL

‘For its mix of clear-eyed history, myth-busting and gobsmacking derring-do it’s hard to beat James Hamilton-Paterson’s Marked for Death

which charts the way nascent flying technology was pressed into military usage in the First World War.’ EVENING STANDARD

REVIEWS FOR EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS

An exhilarating book. Empire of the Clouds is by turns, thrilling, joyful, wistful and

provocative. Bravery and beauty somehow escape the incompetence and capriciousness

of officialdom in what is a very British version of The Right Stuff. I loved it.’

ROWLAND WHITE

‘A book of aerial wonder, sonic booms, exquisite aircraft and British heroes, beautifully told.’ JONATHAN GLANCEY,

AUTHOR OF SPITFIRE

‘The golden post-war age of British flying innovation and derring-do is beautifully

evoked in a superbly written history.’ SUNDAY TIMES

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BIOGRAPHY

JUNE 2017Non Fiction/Biography * 234x153 mm * 352pagesE 9781786691576 * HB 9781786691583 £20.00Rights: World, All Languages

ADRIAN HARDIMAN was a judge of the Irish Supreme Court. He died suddenly in 2016, a few months after completing this book.

James Joyce was obsessed with the legal system, and there are myriad references to notorious trials in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. He felt passionately about miscarriages of justice, and brooded over the potential for cruel verdicts when agents of the state are granted too much power or credibility.

Adrian Hardiman recreates the extraordinary trials in Dublin and London that captured Joyce’s imagination, and the atmosphere of the Victorian and Edward-ian courtrooms in which the death penalty often loomed terrifyingly large.

An accessible and original book about James Joyce and the law,

by the most brilliant lawyer of his generation.

JOYCE IN COURT / ADRIAN HARDIMAN

Justice Adrian Hardiman was a judge of the Irish Supreme Court, and generally

acknowledged as the most brilliant lawyer of his generation. He was an iconoclast, and lived life to the full. Promoted straight from the Irish

Bar to the country’s highest court, he was a fierce advocate of citizens’ rights against the overweening power of the state, attempts to

legislate new collective rights and a consistent critic of police behaviour. A controversial,

brilliant and opinionated man, he was hugely respected in Ireland. When he died suddenly in March 2016, his early and sudden death

provoked a widespread sense of loss and he was mourned by thousands of people

from across the political spectrum.

Books about the work of James Joyce are a forbidding academic

industry, a slew of the unreadable and the esoteric. Adrian Hardiman’s

book is both highly readable and strikingly original. It is a remarkable

evocation of a not-quite vanished world by a great lawyer, who was himself haunted by the dangers

of unjust legal procedures.

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HISTORY

JUNE 2017Non Fiction/History * 234x153 mm * 416 pagesE 9781784970642 * HB 9781784970659 £25.00Rights: World, All Languages

BIJAN OMRANI is an Oxford-educated classicist who specializes in narrating ancient history through travel. He is the author of Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide, and Asia Overland: Tales of Travel on the Trans-Siberian and Silk Road.

Julius Caesar’s conquests in Gaul in the 50s BC were bloody, but the cultural revolution they brought in their wake transformed forever the ancient Celtic culture of that country. After Caesar, the Gauls exchanged their tribal quarrels for togas and acquired the paraphernalia of civilized Roman life. The Romans also left a legacy of language, literature, law, government, religion and industry.

From the amphitheatres of Arles and Nîmes to the battlefield of Châlons, where Flavius Aetius defeated Attila the Hun, Bijan Omrani uses archaeological sites, artefacts and landscapes to reveal how the imprint of Rome has shaped France – and thereby helped to create modern Europe.

A journey across France in the footsteps of Julius Caesar by

an exciting new voice in Roman history.

CAESAR’S FOOTPRINTS / BIJAN OMRANI

The Romans changed the face of Europe forever.

They introduced the notions of cities and civic

life. Triumphal arches, forums, amphitheatres,

temples, stadiums, and later cathedrals sprang up in the new

great urban centres. Roads and inns made long-distance travel a simple

matter. Across the countryside, elegant villas with columns and fine mosaics

replaced the simple Gallic huts and farmsteads. The vine and the olive spread across the land…

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HISTORY

JUNE 2017Non Fiction/History * 234x153 mm * 512 pagesE 9781784080822 * HB 9781784080839 £25.00Rights: World, All Languages

HYWEL WILLIAMS is a historian, commentator and broadcaster and a senior adviser at the Legatum Institute. His books include Cassell’s Chronology of World History, Fifty Days that Changed the World and Britain’s Power Elites.

Hywel Williams tells the story of Great Britain in its chronological, political and geographical entirety: from the Roman invasion of Britannia in the first century AD to the fast-changing, multi-ethnic and possibly fragmenting Britain of the second decade of the third millennium.

Narrated in lucid and informative prose and amplified by ‘capsule biographies’ of Great Britons from Bede to Brunel and from Dickens to Darwin, The Seven Ages of Britain is an enthralling journey across two millennia of British history. It is the perfect introduction to the key events of our nation’s past. As such it belongs on the bookshelf of any reader with a curiosity about our island’s story.

A magisterial narrative history of Britain from the

Roman conquest to the twenty-first century.

THE SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN / HYWEL W

ILLIAMS

It can be argued that empire came at a cost and that Britain itself was the loser. The administrators, soldiers, clergy and educators who went to serve, teach, govern and to maintain a civil peace in the colonies were possessed of energies and talents that could have ministered to Britain’s domestic needs. On good days, as well as many that were not so good, they displayed at their best gifts of wit, resilience, patience, self-deprecation, compromise, pragmatism, charity, tolerance, optimism, subtlety and humour that are dear to the British self-definition. These are also the qualities that will be needed as Britain, that society which is so persistently ancient and yet so bouncingly modern, navigates its way along the high seas of the twenty-first century.

HYWEL WILLIAMS

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A diverting and instructive philosophical miscellany, centred on an eclectic sequence of themes, ranging from advice to ageing, and from freedom to friendship.

Silver Wheel/GENRE * 198x129mm * 256pp E 9781784972684 PB 9781784972707 £8.99 Rights: World, All Languages

‘This evocative, timely and visionary book has a deep ring of truth and an empowering message for today’s world, which will resonate with readers on so many levels.’ Faith Nolton

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‘It is highly-impressive writing from a first-time novelist, a story that moves from humour to poignancy with ease.’ Irish Times

‘Completely original, emotionally satisfying, expertly twisted. The thriller to read this year.’ Lisa Gardner

‘A beautiful, rich tale... the deep joy of this book is in its portrayal of everyday life in a harsh time. Gripping and highly recommended.’ The Times

FICTION/FANTASY * 198x129mm * 592pp E 9781781853931 PB 9781781853948 £8.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada, ANZ)

‘Complex, fascinating and funny. I love this book.’ Charlaine Harris

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NON FICTION/SOCIOLOGY * 198x129mm * 304pp E 9781784974251 PB 9781784974282 £7.99 Rights: World, All Languages

‘His views are as consistently intelligent as they are surprising... An impassioned battle-cry.’ Daily Telegraph

NON FICTION/BIOGRAPHY * 198x129mm * 336pp E 9781781859865 PB 9781781859872 £9.99 Rights: World, All Languages

‘Lauren Johnson’s social history-cum-biography as she focuses on the pivotal year is a more than welcome, thoroughly deserving addition to anybody’s bookshelf.’ The Bookbag

FICTION/HISTORICAL * 198x129mm * 304pp E 9781784978563 PB 9781784978631 £7.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

‘It’s a lively, lifelike adventure that just happens to feature some of the most famous people in the history of drama.’ Booklist

FICTION * 198x129mm * 352pp E 9781784978013 PB 9781784977788 £7.99 Rights: World, All Languages

‘Prowse handles her explosive subject with delicate skill... Deeply moving and inspiring.’ Daily Mail

FICTION/FANTASY * 198x129mm * 496pp E 9781784080891 PB 9781784080921 £8.99 Rights: World, English language

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‘Like Martin crossed with Lovecraft.’ SciFiNow

‘Gilman does heart-pounding action superlatively.’ The Times

FICTION/CRIME * 198x129mm * 448pp E 9781784081409 PB 9781784081430 £7.99 Rights: World, English language

‘One of this country’s most exciting crime novelists... if you have not read one, read them all now.’ Daily Mail

Powerful drama set in the East End of London. A washed-up boxer takes a troubled youngster under his wing attracting the attention of the criminal underworld.

FICTION * 198x129mm * 368pp E 9781784082352 PB 9781784082529 £7.99Rights: World, All Languages

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FEBRUARY PAPERBACKS

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NON FICTION/ HISTORY * 198x129mm * 416pp E 9781781859810 PB 9781781859803 £7.99 Rights: World, English language

‘Compelling and important… it is a powerful account.’ Daily Telegraph

NON FICTION/HISTORY * 198x129mm * 320pp E 9781784080129 PB 9781784080150 £8.99 Rights: World, All Languages

The story of the assassination squad that changed the course of Irish history.

NON FICTION/HISTORY * 198x129mm * 304pp E 9781781852668 PB 9781781852651 £9.99 Rights: World, All Languages

‘An accessible snapshot, which manages to give labourers and royalty equal billing.’ Observer

FICTION * 198x129mm * 416pp E 9781784972998 PB 9781784973025 £7.99 Rights: World, All Languages

A bittersweet, gorgeously written novel about a young girl with an abusive past growing up in the majestic landscape of South Africa.

FICTION * 198x129mm * 352pp E 9781784975777 PB 9781784975807 £7.99 Rights: World, English language

‘A perceptive and moving study of remorse and resilience.’ John Banville

FICTION/HISTORICAL * 198x129mm * 352pp E 9781784976057 PB 9781784976088 £7.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth

A brilliant and moving novel set in the world of Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth – 13th Century Cathar France.

‘Action and suspense blended to perfection by a master.’ Lee Child

FICTION/THRILLER * 198x129mm * 368pp E 9781784972066 PB 9781784972097 £7.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

‘A compelling tale beautifully written.’ George Baker

FICTION * 198x129mm * 416pp E 9781784972592 PB 9781784972615 £7.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth

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MARCH PAPERBACKS

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NON FICTION/BIOGRAPHY * 198x129mm * 272pp E 9781784975623 PB 9781784975647 £8.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth

‘He is a natural storyteller, and his impeccable scholarship never weighs down his lively narra-tive.’ Independent

NON FICTION/BIOGRAPHY * 198x129mm * 432pp E 9781784082017 PB 9781784082048 £9.99 Rights: World, All Languages

‘Lucid and dextrous... exposes the connection between the man and the poet like nothing I have ever read.’ Lisa Hilton

FICTION/HISTORICAL * 198x129mm * 304pp E 9781784978570 PB 9781784978716 £7.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

An Elizabethan romp through roguish courtiers, rival gangs, rustling, treason, and high ambition.

FICTION * 198x129mm * 336pp E 9781784974978 PB 9781784974961 £7.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth

‘The prose carries the momentum of the novel. It is driven, virtuoso... a formidable, demanding achievement.’ Irish Times

FICTION * 198x129mm * 416pp E 9781784972486 PB 9781784972516 £7.99 Rights: World, All Languages

‘Burstall has created a little sanctuary... a heart-warming, “feel-good” novel that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.’ The Bookbag

An impeccably structured literary crime novel, told through six interlocking murder cases set over fifty years in the Hong Kong Police Force.

FICTION * 198x129mm * 496pp E 9781784971502 PB 9781784971533 £8.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

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FICTION/CHILDREN’S 9-12 YRS * 198x129mm * 320pp E 9781784974374 PB 9781784974404 £6.99 Rights: World, All Languages

The moving and powerful sequel to These Dark Wings, set in war-torn London.

FICTION/CRIME * 198x129mm * 352pp E 9781781851500 PB 9781781851494 £7.99 Rights: World, English language

‘A gripping plot with unmistakable undertones of the legends of this genre, Chandler, Ellroy, Rankin.’ Red Magazine

NON FICTION/HISTORY * 198x129mm * 384pp E 9781784977030 PB 9781784977054 £9.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

‘Bascomb’s research and storytelling skills are first-rate… a fine work.’ Wall Street Journal

NON FICTION/HISTORY 198x129mm * 416pp E 9781784081744 PB 9781784081768 £9.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth

‘Brilliantly structured and beautifully crafted... Essential reading for Tudor fans and scholars alike! I could not put it down.’ Alison Weir

FICTION/SCIENCE FICTION * 198x129mm * 608pp E 9781784971625 PB 9781784971656 £8.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

‘A breakthrough book… a unique blend of scien-tific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology.’ George R.R. Martin

Matty Gilbie flees home from New York to Ber-mondsey, her acting dreams in tatters and her life in danger from the mob.

FICTION * 198x129mm * 464pp E 9781784973322 PB 9781784973353 £7.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth

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MAY PAPERBACKS

FICTION/FANTASY * 198x129mm * 512pp E 9781784973247 PB9781784973278 £8.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

‘Epic fantasy fans will enjoy this large-scale story of political strategy and skullduggery.’ Publishers Weekly

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NON FICTION * 198x129mm * 224pp E 9781784970840 PB 9781786691286 £7.99 Rights: World, English language

A vivid, witty and caustic view of the dying days of the golden age of rail, from a British Railways insider.

NON FICTION/SPORT * 198x129mm * 384pp E 9781784082727 PB 9781784082758 £9.99 Rights: World, All Languages

‘Well-written narrative... an efficiently put-together chronology of English football’s transformation into what it is today.’ All About History

FICTION/CRIME * 198x129mm * 336pp E 9781784971267 PB 9781784971298 £7.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

‘Beautifully written... a novel that demonstrates how capacious the crime fiction genre can be.’ Independent

FICTION/CRIME * 198x129mm * 336pp E 9781784971076 PB 9781784971366 £7.99 Rights: World, English language

DCI Hanlon faces the toughest decision of her career as a string of political murders lead to a deadly confrontation.

FICTION/FANTASY * 198x129mm * 480pp E 9781781851623 PB 9781781851616 £8.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

‘Extraordinary, bold and brilliant. A stellar exam-ple of what the genre has to offer today.’ tor.com

FICTION/HISTORICAL * 198x129mm * 400pp E 9781784977801 PB 9781784977832 £7.99 Rights: World, English language

‘Hurley is now firmly at the top, with few rivals in this genre.’ Sunday Telegraph

Bestselling Nadine Dorries’s second novel about the Angels of Lovely Lane, which draws on her roots in Liverpool and early experiences as a student nurse.

FICTION * 198x129mm * 336pp E 9781784975043 PB 9781784975074 £7.99 Rights: World, All Languages

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FICTION * 198x129mm * 416pp E 9781786691941 PB 9781786691972 £7.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada)

‘A terrific mix of mystery and the unexpected... will keep you reading into the late hours of the night.’ Clive Cussler

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