International Editions - Spring 2012 - Orion Books

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International Editions JANUARY – JUNE 2012

ISBN: 9781409146063

Orion • Weidenfeld & Nicolson • Swordfish Phoenix • Gollancz • Indigo • Orion Children’s Books

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Not To Be Missed - Paperback Fiction

Please Look After Mother

Cold Vengeance

Kyung-sook Shin

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

January • 9780753829073 A format • £6.99

So-nyo is a wife and mother who has lived a life of sacrifice. Now, travelling from the Korean countryside to Seoul, So-nyo is separated from her husband when the doors close on a packed train. As her children and husband search the streets, they recall So-nyo’s life, and all they have left unsaid. Through their voices, we begin to discover the desires, heartaches and secrets she harboured within. And as the mystery of her disappearance unravels, we uncover a larger mystery, that of all mothers and children: how affection, exasperation, hope and guilt add up to love.

February • 9781409135869 A format • £6.99

Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But as he stalks his wife’s betrayers – a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana – he is also forced to dig further into Helen’s past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder. Everything he’s trusted, everything he’s understood... may be a horrific lie. NOT AVAILABLE IN SE ASIA OR FAR EAST

The Cut

The Accident

George Pelecanos

Linwood Barclay

February • 9781780221328 A format • £6.99 • H

March • 9781409121374 A format • £6.99 • H

Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He’s good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is forty percent. But he’s tangling with a world of men whose amorality and violence leave him reeling. Is any cut worth your family, your lover, your life? The Cut is the first book in a stunning new series from the writer of The Wire.

Glen Barber’s life is spiralling out of control. His wife’s car is found at the scene of a drink-driving accident that took three lives. Not only is she dead, but it appears she was the cause of the accident. Suddenly Glen has to deal with a potent mixture of emotions: grief at the loss of his wife, along with anger at her reckless behaviour that leaves their daughter motherless. If only he could convince himself that Sheila wasn’t responsible. But as more and more secrets begin to surface, Glen may have to face something much, much worse...

‘Lean, stirring, knife-edged’ New York Times NOT AVAILABLE IN SE ASIA OR FAR EAST

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Shelter

The Impossible Dead

Harlan Coben

Ian Rankin

March• 9781409137894 A format • £6.99 • H

April • 9781409136507 A format • £6.99 • H

When tragic events tear him away from his parents, fifteen-year-old Mickey Bolitar is sent to live with his estranged uncle, Myron. For a while, it seems his train wreck of a life is finally improving – until his girlfriend, Ashley, goes missing without a trace. Unwilling to let another person he cares about walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley’s trail into a seedy underworld, revealing a conspiracy so shocking it will leave him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew. Shelter is the first in an exciting new series of thrillers from Harlan Coben.

Malcolm Fox is has been sent to Fife to investigate whether fellow cops covered up for a corrupt colleague, Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct – and the man who reported him was his own uncle. What should be a simple job is soon complicated by conspiracy and cover-up – and a brutal murder, a murder committed with a weapon that should not even exist. The spiralling investigation takes Fox back the mid 1980s. Fox has a duty to get at the truth, while the body count rises, and he fights for his professional and personal life.

H – titles with extra web content on www.orionbooks.co.uk All information, including prices, formats, cover images and publication dates, is subject to change without prior notice.

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The Drop

James Lee Burke

Michael Connelly

April • 9781780220284 A format • £6.99 • H

April • 9781409136491 A format • £7.99 • H

Danny Boy Lorca is used to having apocalyptic visions – but what he saw and heard that night out in the desert was more terrifying than anything even his battered spirit could have conjured. A man tortured to death. When Danny Boy tells his tale to Sheriff Hackberry Holland, Hack knows something evil has arrived in South Texas. What he doesn’t realize is that this brutal slaying is just the beginning of a twisted three-way manhunt that will pit a psychotic killer against a religious maniac in love with death, and a Russian gangster whose name is a byword for fear...

Harry Bosch is near to retirement and he’s anxious for cases. He doesn’t have to wait long. First a cold case gets a DNA hit for a rape and murder which points the finger at a 29-year-old convicted rapist who was only eight at the time of the murder. Then a city councilman’s son is found dead. The cases seem to be unrelated; one leads to the discovery of a killer who has been operating in the city for decades, the other to a political conspiracy that reaches back into the dark history of the police department...

The Devil Colony

Bad Signs

James Rollins

R.J. Ellory

April • 9781409102953 A format • £6.99 • H

May • 9781409121411 A format • £6.99 • H

In the Rocky Mountains, a horrible massacre ensues. Bodies are found purposefully positioned to form two symbols. One man recognises the warning behind the gruesome murders: Painter Crowe, director of SIGMA, has seen these symbols before and knows the deaths were a personal threat.

Half-brothers Clarence Luckman and Elliott Danziger are orphans who have been raised in state institutions. But their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route to death row.

Crowe joins forces with Commander Grayson Pierce to penetrate the heart of a dark cabal that has been manipulating American history. But can he discover the truth before it destroys all he holds dear? The truth lies hidden within the ruins of a cursed lost colony – a place known only as The Devil Colony.

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Earl Sheridan is a psychopath, but he has the potential to change the boys’ lives for ever. As the trio set off on a frenetic escape from the law, the two brothers must come to terms with the ever-growing tide of violence that follows – something that forces them to make a choice about their lives, and their relationship to one another.

The Scottish Prisoner

The House of Silk

Diana Gabaldon

Anthony Horowitz

May • 9781409121688 A format • £6.99 • H

May • 9781409136361 A format • £6.99 • H

Diana Gabaldon brings back one of her most compelling characters: the unforgettable Lord John Grey – soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Set in the eighteenth century, Lord John’s world is one of mystery and menace.

Bestselling novelist and Sherlock Holmes expert Anthony Horowitz brings the great man to life again for a new generation of readers. Having been a lifelong fan of Conan Doyle’s novels, he was the perfect choice to return to the original stories and create a new mystery for Holmes and Watson. Horowitz says: ‘I fell in love with the Sherlock Holmes stories when I was 16 and I’ve read them many times since. My aim is to produce a first-rate mystery for a modern audience while remaining absolutely true to the spirit of the original.’

Diana Gabaldon weaves together the strands of Lord John’s secret and public lives. Capturing the lonely, tormented and courageous career of a man who fights for his crown, his honour, and his own secrets, Diana Gabaldon delivers breathtaking human drama, proving once again that she can bring history to life in a way few novelists ever have.




Not To Be Missed – Paperback Fiction

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Paperback Fiction

Battlefield 3

A Private Affair

Andy McNab and Peter Grimsdale

Lesley Lokko

October 2011 • 9781409137887 A format • £6.99 • H

As bullets whiz by and explosions throw you to the ground, the battlefield feels more alive and interactive than ever before. Autumn 2011 sees the global release of the hotly anticipated Battlefield 3 – the most authentic, vivid, all-action first person shooter ever. Publishing alongside the game, the Battlefield 3 novel is also best in class – the first time that a games publisher has worked so closely with an internationally bestselling author. NOT AVAILABLE IN SE ASIA OR FAR EAST

Meaghan, a true survivor. The teenage runaway who was swept off her feet by a young army officer. Dani, the beautiful misfit desperately seeking a man, and finding one who will teach her everything that is wrong and corrupt about love. And Abby, the model wife, everything her husband and family could want and more, but never being herself. Until a dark secret threatens to pull her life apart.

Killer Move

Matthew Dunn

Michael Marshall

January • 9781409135333 A format • £6.99

January • 9781409136002 A format • £6.99 • H

Featuring super-spy Will Cochrane, Matthew Dunn paints a nerveshredding, stunningly authentic picture of today’s secret world. It’s a place where trust is precious and betrayal is cheap. And where a violent death is the reward for being outplayed by your enemy. Will Cochrane, the Service’s most prized asset and deadliest weapon, has known little else since childhood. And he’s never been outplayed. So far...

Bill Moore has got a lucrative job, a great marriage and a beautiful house. Now he wants to get in tight with the people in power. It’s all going to plan until the day Bill finds a card left on his desk. On it is printed just one word: MODIFIED. From that moment, Bill’s life begins to change in more and more disturbing ways. Bill soon finds out, in the most terrifying fashion, that he has become the subject of a dark and deadly game... and that he has no choice but to fight back.

The Gordian Knot

The Opposite of Mercy

Bernhard Schlink

Tom Winship

January • 9780753828465 B format • £7.99

January • 9781409118244 B format • £6.99

Young lawyer Georg Polger leaves Germany to work as a freelance translator in France. One day he is approached by a certain Mr Bulnakov, who wants Georg to take over a local translation agency. The previous owner has just died in mysterious circumstances. Everything seems to be going perfectly: Georg falls in love with Bulnakov’s secretary, Francoise, and takes on a lucrative project left unfinished by his predecessor. But everything changes when Georg notices Francoise copying his plans...

When soldier Paul Curtis is approached by an old school friend’s father and asked for assistance, he falters only momentarily before agreeing to help. His old friend, Chris is dating Lara, a British Asian woman whose brother, Pasha Durrani, is furious about their relationship. It soon becomes clear that this is no low-level domestic disagreement. Durrani is heavily involved in organised crime, the roots of which lead back to a terrorist network in Pakistan. Suddenly, Paul, Chris and Lara find themselves taking on a force more deadly than they could ever have imagined.

The Gordian Knot is a prizewinning Cold War spy novel from the author of international megaseller The Reader.


Sam, the ugly duckling who grew into a swan. Now beautiful and wealthy, no one can understand why she’s still on her own.

Spartan

‘Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there done-that authenticity make this one of the year’s best thriller debuts. Highly recommended’ Lee Child

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January • 9781409136484 A format • £6.99 • H


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The Guardians

Christian Cameron

Andrew Pyper

February • 9781409118053 A format • £6.99 • H

February • 9781409120780 B format • £6.99 • H

Arimnestos of Plataea grew up wanting to be a bronze-smith, like his father. Then, in the chaos of war, he was taken to a city in the Persian empire and sold as a slave. To win his freedom he had to show that he could fight and kill. Now, to preserve that freedom, he must kill again. For the Persians are coming.

Don’t all kids think there’s a haunted house in their neighbourhood? Can you remember yours?

In the dust and heat of Marathon, in the clash of shields and the rush of spears, those dreams will undergo their fiercest test – and Arimnestos and his Greek comrades will discover the true price of freedom.

What if, as a child, you knew something bad really had happened in that house? What if you actually saw it? Then you tried to forget it for the next thirty years. And then, one day, you had to go back inside that house? Andrew Pyper’s The Guardians is a ghost story for grown-ups. Prepare to enter the Thurman House on Caledonia Street. You have been warned...

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Marathon

‘A compelling and genuinely creepy read’ Guardian

Attachments

Dark Horizons

Rainbow Rowell

Dan Smith

February • 9781409120537 B format • £6.99


It’s 1999 and for the staff of one newspaper office, the internet is still a novelty. By day, two young women, Beth and Jennifer, spend their hours e-mailing each other, discussing in hilarious detail every aspect of their lives. And by night, Lincoln, a shy, lonely IT guy spends his hours reading every exchange. The more he reads, the more he finds himself falling for one of them. After a series of close encounters, Lincoln decides it’s time to follow his heart... and find out whether there really is such a thing as love before first-sight.

Alex has gone off travelling around the world. Beginning his journey in Indonesia he soon finds himself in real trouble. It starts with a bus crash on a terrifying mountain road. Lucky to escape with his life, Alex loses everything else - even his identity. But then he meets Domino, a beautiful girl who takes Alex under her wing. At first it’s an intoxicating adventure, but as they approach the magnificent Lake Toba, and head to the remote community of free spirits that Domino calls home, it seems there’s trouble in paradise...

A Book for All and None

Double Dexter

Clare Morgan

Jeff Lindsay


March • 9781409137924 A format • £6.99 • H

One day, across an Oxford street, Raymond Greatorex catches sight of Beatrice Kopus. Raymond, a brilliant but ageing don, has withdrawn into a lonely world of scholarship. Beatrice is researching Virginia Woolf, and distancing herself from her husband, Walter.

A witness. Such a simple concept – and yet for Dexter Morgan, a perfectly well-disguised serial killer, the possibility of a witness is terrifying. As an upstanding bloodspatter analyst for the Miami Police, Dexter has always managed to keep the darker side of his life out of the spotlight. He’s an expert at finding truly bad people and giving them his own special attention. But now someone has seen him in the act. Dexter is being mimicked, leading him to realise that no one likes to have a double – especially when his double’s goal is to kill him.

Beatrice and Raymond embark on a love affair, and while Walter faces ruin in his glittering career, Beatrice and Raymond seek refuge in the past. But there are mysteries linking the past to the present, and in their quest to find answers, Beatrice and Raymond stand to uncover a secret that will profoundly change their understanding of who they really are.



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Paperback Fiction

The Real Katie Lavender

Labels

Erica James

H.C. Carlton

March • 9781409135401 A format • £6.99 • H

March • 9781409135159 B format • £6.99

A year after her mother’s death Katie Lavender receives a letter telling her that the man she thought was her father, in fact wasn’t. Her real father has been building a trust fund for her, but Katie’s not interested in the money. She wants to know about the man instead. So she tracks him down to his home on the night he’s hosting a party for his mother. As she’s hovering outside, Katie is mistaken for a waitress - an opportunity too good to miss. And so Katie discovers that the Nightingales are far from your normal family...

Mackenzie Gold – outrageous, racy, shocking, yet desperately yearning for what she can never have. Mia Stanton – gorgeous, refined, but tormented by the most shattering hang-up a passionate woman can possess. Her designs set trends that reap fame and wealth...

The White Devil

Amber Scott is Starting Over

Justin Evans April • 9781780221335 A format • £7.99

Andrew Taylor is sent by his father to spend his final year at the prestigious public school Harrow. Shortly after he arrives, the other pupils notice Andrew’s striking resemblance to Lord Byron, and Andrew is persuaded to play Byron in the forthcoming school play. This is where his troubles begin. Before long Andrew senses a malevolent presence, and when a classmate dies, the haunting becomes all too real. Then Andrew discovers old letters hidden in a bricked-up basement, and he realises he must discover the secret history behind the letters to prevent further deaths...


Coral Stanton – uninhibited, unscrupulous, untrustworthy. She’s Mia’s mother, the hellfire editor of a top fashion magazine. Set against a canvas of free love, passion, ambition and betrayal, Labels draws you into the world of three women determined to stop at nothing to fulfil their dreams of fashion.

Ruth Saberton April • 9781409135500 B format • £6.99 • H

Amber Scott loves her city life – she has a terrific job working on a glossy magazine and a fiancé, Ed, she’s known since Uni. But Ed’s news that he has taken a job in the West Country turns Amber’s world upside down. The new life in Somerset does not get off to the best start. And when a handsome, if surly, man leads the local hunt over her land, it’s more than Amber can stand... ‘This compulsive read is totally hilarious’ Closer

I Am Half Sick of Shadows

Jubilee

Alan Bradley

Shelley Harris

May • 9781409138105 A format • £6.99 • H

May • 9781780220086 B format • £7.99

With the family finances in a parlous state, Colonel de Luce has, with deep misgivings, rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting. Naturally enough, director, crew and stars do nothing to endear themselves to the household until, when a heavy snowfall cuts off Bishop’s Lacey from the rest of the world, the actors are talked into staging a benefit performance in the parish hall. But old jealousies surface, and the leading lady is murdered. Flavia, who has been enlisted to help out behind the scenes, finds herself up to her knees in snow – and murder!

It’s 1977, the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and a photographer captures the happy moment. Right in the centre of the frame, a small Asian boy stares intently into the camera, but the harmonious image conceals a very different reality, and as the street party begins, tensions threaten to erupt. Fast forward to the present and the boy, Satish, has become a successful cardiologist. But when Satish is asked to take part in a reunion of those involved in that Jubilee photograph, he must confront the truth about that day, and the events that changed the course of his life.


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When the Thrill is Gone

Steve Mosby

Walter Mosley

May • 9780752884424 B format • £6.99 • H

May • 9781780220123 B format • £7.99

This is not a story about a girl who disappears. This is the story of a little girl who comes back. As if from nowhere, she appears one day on a seaside promenade, with a black flower and a horrifying story about where she’s been. But telling that story will start a chain reaction of dangerous lies and deadly illusions that will claim many more victims in the years to come... ‘Tense and gripping, this is a fascinating exploration of the often uncomfortable – and in this case lethal – shape-shifting relationship between fiction and reality’ Guardian

The economy has hit the PI business hard, and Leonid McGill isn’t getting many job offers. So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid’s help. Though Leonid knows better than to believe every word, this isn’t a job he can afford to turn away. Meanwhile, Leonid’s personal life grows ever more chequered. If his family’s misadventures don’t kill him first, will sorting out the woman’s crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death’s door?

The Long Weekend

Season of Light

Veronica Henry

Katharine McMahon

June • 9781409135463 B format • £6.99 • H

June • 9781780220130 B format • £7.99 • H

The warm and witty new novel from acclaimed author Veronica Henry will be her best yet. Expect affairs of the heart, lies, scandal and humour – all wrapped up in one perfectly presented Veronica Henry-sized package! This will be a lovely women’s fiction read that Veronica Henry’s fans will not want to miss.

It is 1788, just before the French revolution. Asa Ardleigh, the 19-year-old daughter of a country squire, has travelled to Paris with her sister. Asa falls in love with a dashing intellectual, Didier Paulin, but Asa is soon forced to return to England. The lovers continue to write, but no one at home knows of Asa’s liaison. As the estate falls into bankruptcy, Asa faces marriage as a solution to the family’s financial woes. However Asa’s accomplishments need some polishing and she is tutored by Madame de Rusigneux. But there is more to this woman than meets the eye...

Paperback Fiction

Black Flowers

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Secrets in Burracombe

No Deals, Mr. Bond

The Glass Key

Katie Agnew

Lilian Harry

John Gardner

Dashiell Hammett

January • 9781409135449 B format • £6.99


May • 9781409135678 B Format • £7.99

February • 9781409138044 B Format • £7.99

Amy’s Diary (Quick Read)

Licence Renewed

Maureen Lee

John Gardner

Nobody Lives For Ever

The Continental Op

John Gardner

Dashiell Hammett



May • 9781409135661 B Format • £7.99

April • 9781409138075 B Format • £7.99

Full House (Quick Read)

Icebreaker

Role of Honour

The Big Knockover

John Gardner

Dashiell Hammett


May • 9781409135654 B Format • £7.99

April • 9781409138068 B Format • £7.99

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The Dain Curse

Maeve Binchy

John Gardner


Fighting Dirty June Hampson February • 9781409121046 B format • £6.99 • H

John Gardner February • 9781409135630 B Format • £7.99

Dashiell Hammett February • 9781409138051 B Format • £7.99



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Trade Fiction Highlights

The Devil’s Elixir

Gideon’s Corpse

Raymond Khoury

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

December 2011 • 9781409114062 TPB • £11.99 • H

Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin return in an edge-of-your-seat story that reaches from the present day back to 1800s Mexico – and possibly beyond. In The Devil’s Elixir, Sean and Tess find themselves in a raceagainst-the-clock, against drug kingpins, and even against the DEA – to merge two divergent trails, one several hundred years old, the other as current as a heartbeat, which together may lead humanity to the brink of annihilation.


Gideon Crew’s second adventure in this high-octane thriller series from the New York Times bestsellers. A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage. Gideon Crew, a colleague of his at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. When the authorities discover the scientist’s body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose. Gideon finds himself charged with a desperate assignment to track down a rogue nuclear device... or something even worse. NOT AVAILABLE IN SE ASIA OR FAR EAST

American Dervish

The Crown

Ayad Akhtar

Nancy Bilyeau

January • 9780297865452 TPB • £12.99 • H

February • 9781409133070 TPB • £11.99 • H

12-year-old Hayat Shah’s life is transformed when his mother’s brilliant, beautiful friend Mina flees Pakistan to live with his family in America. Mina shows Hayat the beauty of the Quran and the experience utterly transforms him. But when Mina catches the eye of a Jewish doctor, Hayat’s jealousy is enflamed by his community’s anti-semitism, and he acts with catastrophic consequences for those he loves most. American Dervish is a masterful debut novel about an American Muslim family’s struggling with faith and belonging.

For secrets this deadly, blood will dye the throne of a nation.

Jasmine Nights

Defending Jacob

Julia Gregson

William Landay

February • 9781409108108 TPB • £11.99 • H

March • 9781409115380 TPB • £11.99 • H

In a burns hospital in Sussex, a beautiful singer performs to a ward full of maimed soldiers. Saba is captivating but Dom can’t bear her to see his scars, and he resolves to write to her once they have healed. When Dom tracks Saba down they spend a heady few days together. Then Saba is posted to Egypt – but their paths will cross again...

How well do you really know your own child?

Jasmine Nights is an extraordinary love story set during World War II from the bestselling author of East of the Sun.

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January • 9781409133162 TPB • £11.99 • H

London, May 1537: when Joanna Stafford, a young novice, learns her cousin is about to be burned at the stake for rebelling against Henry VIII, she makes a decision that will change not only her life but, quite possibly, the fate of a nation. Joanna must finally determine who to trust and how far she is willing to go to protect her life, her family and everything she holds dear.

When a teenaged boy is discovered stabbed to death in the woods adjoining the local high school, a wave of shock ripples through the suburban community of Newton. District attorney Andy Barber is used to dealing with murder and its aftereffects, but when evidence emerges that ties his son Jacob to the crime, suddenly Andy faces a very different challenge: preventing his son from being convicted of murder.


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Stay Close

Hannah Richell

Harlan Coben

March • 9781409142966 TPB • £12.99

April • 9781409112563 TPB • £12.99 • H

Haunted by the events of one tragic day ten years ago, the Tide family are struggling to move forward with their lives. Slowly, Dora realises that the path to redemption rests with her troubled sister, Cassie, and that she may just have a shot at salvation if only she can unlock the truth, which Cassie swore she would take to the grave. But can long-held secrets ever really be forgiven?

On an unremarkable suburban street a seemingly ordinary woman quietly despairs of the fantasy she has woven around herself, and wonders why we must choose just one life. Close by, a paparazzo looks though some photographs and sees something he shouldn’t. And a cop investigating the mysterious disappearance – on the same day each year – of a number of men begins to see a pattern... In Stay Close, Harlan Coben, the No. 1 bestselling author, reveals a dark and terrifying side of the American dream.

The Watcher in the Shadows

Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Robert Ludlum

May • 9780297856269 HB • £10.99 • H

May • 9781409116486 TPB • £12.99 • H

Let the author of The Shadow of the Wind transport you to a world of intrigue, danger and romance...

The first book in an exciting new series featuring Paul Janson, the hero of The Janson Directive.

A mysterious toymaker lives in an old mansion, surrounded by his magical creations. His sickly wife is locked away in a hidden room. A shadowy creature lurks deep in the woods. Strange lights shine through the mists. These are the elements of a mystery that will bind fourteenyear-old Irene to Ismael during one magical summer spent in Blue Bay...

Reformed from his days of assassination and international conspiracy, Paul Janson has a new mission and a new partner. Working with kickass sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he helps rehabilitate other disenchanted covert operatives. Now, Janson takes the job to rescue a doctor who has been kidnapped by West African rebels. But when his plans go haywire, Janson realises he may have been fighting for the wrong side the whole time.


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Secrets of the Tides


A Dark and Broken Heart

New Denise Mina

R.J. Ellory

Denise Mina

May • 9781409124153 TPB • £12.99 • H

June • 9781409140696 TPB • £11.99 • H

Madigan is a good cop – the only problem is he’s heavily in hock to drugs kingpin Sandia. He concocts a plot to repay Sandia – with his own money – but when he is forced to kill his co-conspirators, and a child gets caught in the crossfire, Madigan is in even further over his head. But the one piece of luck he gets is the person assigned to investigate the whole mess. Himself.

It’s the week before Christmas when a lone robber, armed with an AK-47, bursts into a busy Glasgow post office. He is aided by one of the customers, who, as if by prior arrangement, he then guns down. Searching for a connection between the two men, Detective Alex Morrow discovers that no corner of the city is safe, and her involvement will go deeper than she could ever have imagined... This a stunning and accomplished piece of crime fiction from an award-winning writer.



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Trade Fiction

God of War

Taken

Christian Cameron

Robert Crais

January • 9781409132684 TPB • £14.99

January • 9781409116042 TPB • £11.99 • H

This is the ultimate historical adventure novel; the epic story of how Alexander the Great conquered the world – first crushing Greek resistance to Macedonian rule, then destroying the Persian Empire in three monumental battles before marching into the unknown and final victory in India. The combination of Alexander’s life story and Christian Cameron’s unrivalled skills as a historian and storyteller, will ensure that this will not only be the definitive version for many years to come, but also one of the most exciting historical epics ever written.

Joe Pike is back with a vengeance in the new thriller from the international bestseller. When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe who find out the boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken. When Cole goes undercover to try to return them, he himself is taken, and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole’s steps, burning through the murderous world of human traffickers... before it’s too late.

The Secret Children

Alys, Always

Alison McQueen

Harriet Lane

January • 9781409131151 TPB • £12.99

February • 9780297865025 TPB • £11.99

In 1920s India, where do two little girls belong? Born of two cultures, belonging to neither...

Frances is a desk editor at The Questioner. Her job is unchallenging and her personal life is dull. What does life have in store for her, if anything? Until one night, she witnesses a car crash and the death of the driver, Alys Kyte. Alys’s family get in touch with Frances, the last person to talk to Alys, in an attempt to achieve closure. The relationships Frances builds with the family will have an impact on her own life. Gradually, Frances begins to wonder whether she at last might become a player in her own right...

So starts the story of Mary and Serafina. Born of two worlds, accepted by neither. Growing up beloved but hidden away, their childhood is one of contradiction. It is only as the shadow of war falls and the turmoil of Indian partition begins that the girls must face the truth about their parents and begin the search for somewhere to belong.

Raylan Elmore Leonard February • 9780297867548 TPB • £12.99

US Marshal Raylan Givens is back in action, this time with a federal warrant to serve on a dope dealer named Angel Arenas, a man ‘born in the US but 100% of him Hispanic’. The state troopers are impressed when the marshal struts into the convict’s hotel room without drawing his gun, but Raylan soon finds that Angel’s already been the victim of another crime, one that’s way bigger than a few pot plants, and clearly the work of a professional...


The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder J. W. Ironmonger March • 9780297866107 TPB • £11.99

Maximilian Ponder shut himself away for thirty years in an attempt to record every memory he ever had. Now he lies dead, surrounded by his magnum opus – The Catalogue – an exhaustive set of notebooks that he hopes will map the human mind. But before his friend Adam Last can call the police and inform them of Max’s death, one rather gruesome task remains... The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder is a delightfully original debut about friendship, memory, and what creates a life.


27/09/2011 09:27

The Incident

Charlotte Link

Kenneth Macleod

March • 9781409123385 TPB • £12.99

April • 9780297866954 TPB • £11.99

In the tranquil northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found murdered. For months, the investigators are in the dark, until they are faced with a copy-cat crime. Detective Valerie Almond clings to the obvious, but there is far more to the case than first appears and she is led towards a dark secret. Horrified at her discovery, Valerie realises that she may be too late...

Three lives; three turning points. Craig was a lifeguard when two children died on his watch. His grandfather, Gordon, was on board a ship torpedoed during the WWII. Gerd is a refugee of the Cold War. Their interconnected lives provide a searingly powerful meditation on fate, history, and the way incidents long past can reverberate across the generations.

The Other Child is an exciting new voice in crime from one of Germany’s most popular authors.

The Candle Man

Where We Belong

Alex Scarrow

Emily Giffin

April • 9781409108191 TPB • £11.99 • H

April • 9781409114482 TPB • £9.99 • H

Locked in an eerily quiet room on the sinking Titanic, a dying man tells a young girl his life story as the ship begins to sink. It all starts in Whitechapel, London in 1888, as the Ripper murders begin...

New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin delivers another unputdownable read for all those in search of intelligent, grown-up women’s fiction with a page-turning story. Readers will instantly recognise themselves in her wonderful, warm characters and identify with the dilemmas they face and the choices they ultimately make.

The Candle Man is a stunning new historical thriller from the author of October Skies.

Dark Room

The Heart Whisperer

Steve Mosby

Ella Griffin

May • 9781409141907 TPB • £11.99 • H

May • 9781409122425 TPB • £12.99 • H

The Dark Room... It’s the place where fear comes from...

On her thirty-third birthday, Claire Dillon decides that it’s finally time to grow up. She will give herself twelve months to try to sort out her life. With her trademark warmth and humour, Ella Griffin shows why she’s one of the most widely praised rising stars in fiction.

DI Andrew Hicks thinks he knows all about murder. For Hicks, however horrific the act is, the reasons for one human being to kill another are ultimately all too explicable. But soon he realises that he is dealing with a type of killer he has never faced before, and he must confront the truth about himself – and the fact that some murders begin in much darker rooms than he ever imagined.

‘Ella Griffin can make you laugh and then cry in the turn of a page’ Marian Keyes



Trade Fiction

The Other Child

11 27/09/2011 09:27

Trade Fiction

New Lesley Lokko

Gone Girl

Lesley Lokko

Gillian Flynn

June • 9781409101758 TPB • £11.99 • H

May • 9780297859390 TPB • £12.99

Sometimes you can’t escape your past...

Charlie Maguire, a good-looking, laid back 30-something, arrives home one day to find his pretty wife, Amy, missing and the house in shambles. The first thing that’s clear: The “mess” in the house is staged. Soon police discover that Charlie upped his wife’s life insurance policy dramatically six months ago and as police talk to Amy’s friends, they uncover more unsettling details. Amy was pregnant, and Charlie was demanding she get an abortion. Did Charlie kill his wife or is this a twisted game of cat and mouse?

On a beautiful beach in Mustique, one of the world’s leading fashion designers wades into the azure waters to drown herself. What could make such an admired, powerful woman undertake such a desperate act? Bestseller Lesley Lokko unravels the secrets of a woman who has everything but the one thing she wants, in this glorious, spellbinding tale of escape, ambition and power.

‘Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre’ Stephen King

The Spies of Paris

Where’d You Go, Bernadette?

Alan Furst

Maria Semple

June • 9780297863939 TPB • £12.99 • H

June • 9780297867296 TPB • £12.99

Paris, 1939. Europe is in the clutches of the ‘Phony War’. Behind closed doors, operatives are engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Frederick Stahl, an American matinee idol, arrives in Paris to shoot a film. His celebrity allows him to cross Europe’s closed borders, and as the continent teeters on the verge of destruction, he becomes a man very much in demand...

This is the story of 15-year-old Bee and her troubled parents – frustrated architect Bernadette, and Elgie, a Microsoft wunderkind. Bee adores her mother, but when Bernadette disappears, last seen on a cruise ship heading to Antarctica, she must unravel the mystery using her mother’s correspondence. What follows is hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.

Also Available Harlan Coben: Three Great Novels

Flesh and Blood

The Cornish House

Steve Hamilton

Mark Peterson

Liz Fenwick

January • 9780752897127 • TPB • £11.99

Harlan Coben

March • 9781409132530 • TPB • £12.99

May • 9781409142744 • TPB • £12.99

Eleanor & Park

The Followers

Rainbow Rowell

Michael Marshall

April • 9781409116325 • TPB • £11.99

June • 9781409133285 • TPB • £11.99

The Child Thief

Talking to the Dead

Dan Smith

Harry Bingham

May • 9781409142621 • TPB • £12.99

June • 9781409140870 • TPB • £12.99

My Big Fat Boot Camp

Too Hot to Handle

Kate Harrison

Katie Agnew

May • 9781409115519 • TPB • £12.99

June • 9781409124887 • TPB • £12.99

Misery Bay

February • 9780752847337 TPB • £16.99

Happy Days Graham Hurley February • 9781409101260 TPB • £11.99

Distant Thunder Tim Griggs January • 9781409101918 • TPB • £11.99

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Blue-Eyed Girl

Nathan Englander

Tara Moore

February • 9780297867708 TPB • £12.99

March • 9781409104667 • TPB • £11.99

All I Did was Shoot My Man Walter Mosley March • 9780297866787 • TPB • £11.99



27/09/2011 09:27

Blue Remembered Earth

Transmission

Paul McAuley

Alastair Reynolds

January • 9780575100749 TPB • £12.99 • H

January • 9780575088283 TPB • £12.99 • H

January • 9780575085367 TPB • £12.99 • H

John Meaney

A war between human and posthuman civilisations is about to erupt...

The beginning of mankind’s epic voyage out into the galaxy.

Ragnarok – Volume Two. Return to the universe of Ragnarok in this epic space opera.

... and it will determine not only the future of the human species, but also its past.

Alastair Reynolds burst onto the science fiction scene with Revelation Space, and since then, he has not looked back. His new novel kicks off an epic tale 10,000 years in the making; the unsuspected beginnings in Africa, 150 years from now, of mankind’s odyssey into deep space.

The dark matter in the universe is alive and is seeking to pervert human history to its own ends. Its influence has reached back into the dark ages, to the centre of the Third Reich, and 600 years into the future.

From one of Britain’s best writers of hard SF, In the Mouth of the Whale is a brilliant novel that shares and extends the same future history as The Quiet War and the critically acclaimed Gardens of the Sun.

‘It’s rare to find a writer with sufficient nerve and stamina to write novels that are big enough to justify using words like “revelation” and “redemption”. Reynolds pulls it off’ Publishers Weekly

Transmission and the Ragnarok series is Meaney doing what he does best – high concept space opera. ‘The first important new SF writer of the 21st century’ The Times

Elves: Rise of the TaiGethen

Trinity Moon

Black Heart

Elspeth Cooper

Holly Black

James Barclay

March • 9780575096196 TPB • £11.99 • H

April • 9780575096806 TPB • £12.99 • H

February • 9780575085213 TPB • £12.99 • H

The second part of the Elves trilogy from the Sergio Leone of the genre.

The Wild Hunt Trilogy: Book 2

The Curse Workers 3

The extraordinary new fantasy series continues.

James Barclay’s Elves are lethal warriors, facing their sternest test: mankind. The elves are few, besieged and up against an invading army that not only outnumbers them but also wields one of the deadliest weapons of all: magic.

Songs of the Earth is Gollancz’s second-biggest selling fantasy debut, following The Name of the Wind, and Trinity Moon is ideal for fans of Patrick Rothfuss, Joe Abercrombie and Robin Hobb – as well as any reader who enjoys a brilliant, character-driven story.

Holly Black’s sensational new fantasy series reaches its climax.

An entertaining take on one of the main staple races of fantasy, James Barclay’s Elves trilogy is perfect for fans of Tolkien and high fantasy, and is set to emulate the success of the Orcs series.

Deadlocked Charlaine Harris May • 9780575096585 TPB • £11.99 • H

The brand-new True Blood novel, starring the irrepressible Sookie Stackhouse! Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Now the vampires and the shapeshifters are ‘out’, you’d think the supernaturals would get on with each other. But nothing is that simple in Bon Temps!

A dark and twisting contemporary fantasy set in a beautifully rendered, subtly different world, this is at once melancholy, ironic and terrifying. It is perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman.

‘A true storyteller’ Alexander Kent

The Night of the Swarm

Bitterblue

Robert V.S. Redick

May • 9780575097186 TPB • £11.99

May • 9780575097780 TPB • £12.99 • H

The final part of the Chathrand saga. The struggle to prevent the sorcerer Arunis from destroying the world with the Nilstone reaches its thunderous conclusion. Robert V.S. Redick’s stunning and original fantasy series combines the invention of Scott Lynch with the power of Philip Pullman.

Kristin Cashore

The stunning new novel, set in the same world as Graceling and Fire. The latest novel from the pen of gifted author Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue is the tale of an intrepid princess and the murder mystery that no one wants her to investigate. Engaging from the first word, this is an exceptionally enjoyable story and a phenomenal new heroine from a bestselling author.



Gollancz Trade Highlights

In the Mouth of the Whale

13 27/09/2011 09:27

Gollancz PAPERBACK HIGHLIGHTs

Blackveil

Songs of the Earth

Kristen Britain

Elspeth Cooper



Karigan G’ladheon was a regular girl until she stumbled across a dying man. He gave Karigan his ‘Green Rider’ brooch and with it his mission to deliver a message to the King. Now, her first mission is long complete and Karigan has learnt to wield the magic her Green Rider brooch allows her to access. When her King asks her to join a mission to the forest of Blackveil to save the remnants of a dying race, it seems she has little choice but to follow it.

Dead Reckoning Charlaine Harris March • 9780575096547 B format • £7.99

Gair is under a death sentence. He can hear music – music with power – and in the Holy City that means only one thing: he’s a witch, and he’s going to be burnt at the stake. There is no hope... except from a secretive order, themselves persecuted almost to destruction. If Gair can escape, if he can master his own growing, dangerous abilities, if he can find the Guardians of the Veil, then maybe he will be safe. Or maybe he’ll discover that his fight has only just begun.

The Order of the Scales Stephen Deas February • 9780575083820 B format • £7.99 • H

As the various factions fight for control of the Adamantine Palace, mankind’s nemesis approaches. The realm’s dragons are awakening and returning to their native fury. They can remember why they were created and they now know what mankind has done to them. Their revenge will be brutal. As hundreds of dragons threaten a fiery apocalypse only the Adamantine Guard stand between humanity and extinction. Can Prince Jehal fight off the people who want him dead and unite their armies in one final battle for survival?

The Wise Man’s Fear

The River of Shadows

Patrick Rothfuss

Robert V.S. Redick

March • 9780575081437 B format • £8.99 • H

March • 9780575081857 B format • £8.99

March • 9780575117938 A format • £7.99 • H

There’s a reckoning on the way, and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble’s way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured, suspicion immediately falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but before she can investigate, something else – something even more dangerous – comes up. And with her work and her love life under threat, Sookie can’t sit on the sidelines...

Blackout Connie Willis March • 9780575099289 B format • £8.99

Blackout opens in Oxford in 2060. A trio of time travelling scholars prepares to depart for various corners of the Second World War. Their mission: to observe, from a safe vantage point, the day-today nature of life during this critical historical moment. Cut off from the safety net of the future and caught up in the chaotic events of the war, they are forced to participate in the defining events of the era. Blackout is an ingeniously constructed time travel novel and a grand entertainment.


The Kingkiller Chronicle: Book 2 Picking up the tale of Kvothe Kingkiller once again, we follow him into exile, into political intrigue, courtship, adventure, love and magic... and further along the path that has turned Kvothe, the mightiest magician of his age, into Kote, the unassuming pub landlord. Packed with as much magic and adventure as The Name of the Wind, this is a sequel in every way the equal to its predecessor and a must-read for all fantasy fans.

The latest novel in Robert V.S Redick’s stunning and original fantasy epic is a taut race against time that takes the great ship Chathrand across the seas in a desperate bid to stop the sorcerer Arunis unleashing the Swarm of Night. From the mysterious River of Shadows to the Infernal Forest, to the Island Wilderness, Pazel and his companions face a phantasmagorical journey through altered realities. Will Arunis use the cursed Nilstone to end the world?

The Dark and Hollow Places

Red Glove

Carrie Ryan

April • 9780575096776 B format • £7.99 • H

Holly Black

March • 9780575094857 B format • £7.99 • H

The Forest of Hands and Teeth introduced us to Mary and took us into her world – a world where decades after The Return, mankind is hanging on to survival, surrounded by the endless hordes of the undead; the Unconsecrated. A companion novel, The Dead-Tossed Waves, followed in 2010 and this novel will continue Ryan’s superb story. Perfect for readers looking for their next injection of supernatural thrills and dread, the series has already proved to be a wordof-mouth sensation, powered by extraordinary Internet activity.

The Curse Workers 2 Cassel’s family are one of the big five crime families in America. Ever since magic was prohibited in 1929, magic workers have been driven underground and into crime. And while people still need their magical touches, times have been hard. His granddad has been driven to drink, his mother is in prison and his brothers detest him as he can’t do magic. But now Cassel has discovered the dark secret of his past, and he must take his new knowledge and powers out into the world.


27/09/2011 09:27

Eve: Templar One

War in Heaven

M.D. Lachlan

Tony Gonzales

Gavin G. Smith

April • 9780575089655 B format • £8.99

May • 9780575090224 B format • £7.99 • H

May • 9780575094727 B format • £7.99 • H

The Vikings are laying siege to Paris. They want the Count’s sister, and in return they will spare the rest of the city. Can the Count really have ambitions to be Emperor of the Franks if he doesn’t do everything he can to save his people, and his sister, too? The Count relies on the living saint, Jehan of St Germain, to enlist God’s help. Meanwhile outside the Viking’s camp a terrifying brother and sister, priests of Odin, have their own agenda of darkness. And in the shadows a wolfman lurks.

The technology to download the consciousnesses of pilots into multiple clones, the Capsuleers, has finally delivered the dream of immortal soldiers. Train a soldier just once and then however many times he dies he will keep on getting more experienced, more battle toughened, as his brain is downloaded into a ready supply of cloned bodies. But no-one anticipated the effects of the multiple traumas, the multiple stresses of multiple lives and deaths on the battlefield. War is hell. And now it can last forever for everyone.

The Iron Jackal Chris Wooding May • 9780575098084 B format • £7.99 • H

Things are finally looking good for Captain Frey and his crew. They’ve got their first taste of fortune and fame, and, just for once, nobody is trying to kill them. Even Trinica Dracken, Frey’s ex-fiancée and long-time nemesis, has given up her quest for revenge. In fact, she’s offered them a job – one that will take them deep into the desert heart of Samarla, the land of their ancient enemies. Secrets of the past lie in wait for the unwary – secrets that might very well cost Frey everything.

An unlikely hero returns to take the reader back into a vividly rendered bleak future. But it’s a bleak future where there are still wonders: man travelling out into the universe, Blade Runneresque cities hanging from the ceilings of vast caverns, aliens that we can barely comprehend. Gavin Smith writes fast-moving, incredibly violent SF thrillers but behind the violence and the thrills lies a carefully thought-out story, and characters who have far more to them than first meets the eye.

The Stranger’s Woes

The Warlock’s Shadow

Max Frei

Stephen Deas

June • 9780575089808 B format • £8.99 • H

June • 9780575094536 B Format • £7.99

The Labyrinths of Echo: Book Two A self-described ‘classic loser’, an insomniac, hardened smoker and a loafer, there’s nothing much going for Max Frei... at least not until he arrives in the magical city of Echo. Summoned by the head of the Department of Absolute Order, Max’s dreams are becoming a reality. But it’s not quite the reality Max expected; he’s about to become a secret agent, tasked to solve impossible crimes with nothing but his wits and a handful of unexplained magical abilities to recommend him...

Berren is not enjoying himself. Trapped in a temple and forced to learn how to recall the histories of the saints, all he wants is to be given a sword. As a thief-taker’s apprentice he imagined a world of daring night-time chases, glorious victories and a life of excitement. So when a prince hires the thief-taker as a bodyguard, Berren is thrilled, but soon he finds himself plunged into a world of danger, intrigue and terror. He may discover that being trained with a sword isn’t enough. Sometimes, you have to know who to fight.

A mystery series from the 1.5 millionselling author of the True Blood novels. ‘You are in for a treat... Harris is a first-rate writer, and the tongue-in-cheek humour, together with the heroine’s captivating personality, make these stories very, very enjoyable’ Pen & Dagger

Real Murders

A Bone to Pick

Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris

March • 9780575103702 B format • £5.99

April • 9780575103740 B format • £5.99

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse

The Julius House

Charlaine Harris

June • 9780575103788 B format • £5.99

May • 9780575103764 B format • £5.99

Charlaine Harris



AURORA TEAGARDEN

Lawrenceton, Georgia, may be a growing suburb of Atlanta, but it’s still a small town at heart. Librarian Aurora Teagarden grew up there, and she reckons she knows everything about her fellow townsfolk, including which ones share her interest in the darker side of human nature. Aurora loves reading about famous murderers – until she finds herself investigating a real-life killing spree!

Gollancz Paperback Highlights

Fenrir

15 27/09/2011 09:27

trade non-fiction highlights

The Great Divide

The Deadly Sisterhood

Peter Watson

Leonie Frieda

January • 9780297845584 HB • £25.00

April • 9780297852087 HB • £25.00 • H

Distinguished historian, Peter Watson, tells the story of the clash of the great civilisations, and what this meant for mankind.

The No. 1 bestselling author of Catherine de Medici now tells the story of eight princesses of the Italian Renaissance.

The book compares and contrasts the development of humankind in the ‘Old World’ and the ‘New’ between 15,000 B.C. and A.D. 1500 This unprecedented comparison of early peoples means that, when these factors are taken together, they offer a uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human. The Great Divide offers a masterly and totally original synthesis of archaeology, anthropology, geology, meteorology, cosmology and mythology, to give a new shape – and a new understanding – to human history.

These eight women, joined by birth, marriage and friendship, played central roles in an epic drama involving the finest thinkers, the most brilliant artists, and the greatest beauties in Christendom. They experienced great riches, power and the warm smile of fortune, but they also knew banishment, poverty, the death of a husband or the loss of one or more of their children. Leonie Frieda recounts the role each woman played in the hundred-year drama that is The Deadly Sisterhood.

No Empty Chairs

What, When, How and Why

Ian Mackersey

Bernard Lewis, with Buntzie Ellis Churchill

May • 9780297859949 HB • £20.00

In the spring of 1917, when the world’s first great air war was at its height, the British squadrons were losing 200 pilots a month, and British pilot life expectancy was eleven days. The title, No Empty Chairs refers to the chairs left in the Officer’s Mess for the pilots who never returned. This book tells the story of that first great air war, illustrating its devastating emotional impact on the participants and their families in a narrative enriched by the private correspondence that flowed between them, and diaries, reports and interviews.

May • 9780297867029 HB • £20.00

This is a great historian’s vivid and insightful episodic reflections on his life, from his childhood as a confident, clever little boy to his energetic old age in the present day. Coming from a relatively secular anglicised Jewish family, Bernard Lewis’s interest in the Middle East seemed to be innate rather than a reflection of his own personal history. What, When, How and Why is not only a fascinating memoir but addresses the uniquely difficult recent history of the Middle East from a wise and superbly wellinformed perspective – that of the region’s finest historian.

The Second World War

Pathfinder

Antony Beevor

David Blakeley

June • 9780297844976 HB • £25.00

May • 9780857820587 TPB • £13.99

Antony Beevor transformed the reputation of military history with his multi-award-winning books Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall. Combining the insight of a great novelist, a masterly ability to synthesise complicated material and an eye for the telling human detail, a history of the Second World War is the book Beevor was born to write. This will become the definitive work on a vast, complex, tragic and endlessly fascinating subject.

The inside story of Pathfinder Platoon – Britain’s most elite unit – and their most extraordinary mission. David Blakeley, the army’s second in command, gives a first-hand account of how he led an audacious twelve-man patrol deep behind enemy lines in Iraq. It is complete with all the tradecraft, rough and ready humour and against-all-odds determination that characterises this unique outfit.

‘Nobody knows better than Beevor how to translate the dry stuff of military history into human drama of the most vivid and moving kind’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times



27/09/2011 09:27

Young Henry

Christopher Robbins

Robert Hutchinson

January • 9781908059017 B format • £7.99

January • 9780753827710 B format • £9.99

The Body Language of Love Allan Pease and Barbara Pease January • 9781409121015 B format • £6.99 • H

Air America – a secret airline run by the CIA – flew missions no one else would touch, from General Claire Chennault’s legendary Flying Tigers in WWII to two brutal decades cruising over the bomb-savaged jungles of Southeast Asia. Their pilots were a high-rolling, fastplaying bunch of has-beens and hellraisers whose motto was ‘Anything, Anywhere, Anytime’. Whether it was delivering food and weapons or spooks and opium, to fly for Air America you needed a hell of a lot of courage and a willingness to fly to the bitter end.

Area 51 Annie Jacobsen February • 9781409136866 B format • £8.99

It is the most famous military base in the world. And no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside of it. Until now. This is the first book based on interviews with scientists, pilots, and engineers – 58 in total – who provide an unprecedented look into the mysterious activities of the top-secret US base, from the Cold War to today. With a jaw-dropping ending, it proves that facts are often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.

Henry VIII became the unexpected heir to the precarious Tudor throne in 1502. After the early glory days of feasting, fun and frolic, the continuing lack of a male Tudor heir runs like a thin line of poison through Henry’s reign. After he fell in love with Anne Boleyn, he gambled everything on her providing him with a son and heir. Young Henry provides a compelling vision of the splendours, intrigues and tragedies of the royal court, presided over by the ruthless and insecure Henry VIII.

The authors of multi-million-copy selling The Definitive Book of Body Language reveal all you need to know about the body language of love. From first impressions to long-term relationships, The Body Language of Love will help you to identify and correct the body language which could be letting you down. • Understanding the opposite sex • The art of flirtation and courtship signals • Does body language mean the same thing for him and for her?

Treasures from the Attic

Arthur Miller: Volume 2

Mirjam Pressler

Christopher Bigsby


February • 9780753828472 PB • £16.99

The story of Anne Frank, her family and the famous diaries, told with the help of thousands of letters, documents and photographs recently discovered in an attic.

The first volume of Christopher Bigsby’s biography of Arthur Miller was hailed as a masterpiece. This is the second half of Miller’s captivating story, from 1962 to his death in 2005.

Mirjam Pressler, the editor of the definitive edition of the Diary, recounts the story of Anne’s family both before, during and after the war. It contrasts the normality of family life with the horrors of persecution, deportation and the concentration camps and through it we gain new insight into Anne and her iconic diary.

In 1962, Miller’s legacy was incomplete. Ahead lay eighteen plays, five films, a novella and a handful of stories. That year also saw the death of his wife, Marilyn Monroe, and his marriage to Inge Morath. Shedding new light on Miller’s complexities, and revealing unknown facts about his life, this is the definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest playwrights.

Paperback non-Fiction Highlights

Air America


Jerusalem

James Joyce

Wicked Company

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Gordon Bowker

Philipp Blom

March • 9780753828601 B format • £12.99

March • 9781780220109 B format • £14.99

March • 9781780220253 B format • £10.99 • H

How did this remote town become the Holy City, the ‘centre of the world’ and now the key to peace in the Middle East? Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the kings, empresses, prophets, saints and conquerors who created, destroyed and chronicled Jerusalem, as well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who left their mark on the city.

In almost every recent poll, Ulysses has been acclaimed the greatest novel of the twentieth century. It is generally regarded as one of the outstanding landmarks of literary modernism. Of all the modernists, James Joyce has had probably the most lasting effect on serious fiction. In this long-awaited and comprehensive biography Gordon Bowker gets beyond Joyce’s exterior life to explore the inner landscape of a writer who continues to influence and fascinate, well over a century after his birth.

‘Dazzling ... utterly compelling from start to finish’ Sunday Times

‘A scrupulously researched, entertainingly readable biography’ Independent

The decade-long flourishing, in the 1760s, of friendship and radical philosophy in Baron Holbach’s Paris salon was a seminal moment in Western history, a moment of astonishing radicalism in European thought. Frequented by a group of men and women who were united by their love of intellectual freedom, Holbach’s house was unique in eighteenth-century Europe. Wicked Company focuses on the early life of four men, two philosophers (Hume and Rousseau) and two philosophes (Didenot and Holbach), combining biography with the history of ideas and the birth of modernism.



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That Woman Anne Sebba March • 9780753827390 B format • £9.99

Wallis Simpson was one of the most talked about woman of her generation – an American divorcée who nearly became Queen of England. She inspired such deep love in Edward VIII that even giving up a throne for her was not enough to prove his total devotion. Based on archives recently made available, Anne Sebba reevaluates the role of politicians in the 1930s, sheds new light on the character and motivations of this powerful, charismatic and complex woman, and questions was this really the romantic love story of the century?

Alice Walker

A.A. Gill

April • 9781780220062 B format • £7.99 • H

April • 9780753829295 B format • £8.99

When Alice Walker grew up in the deep south of America, her family always kept chickens. In later life, when she settled in Mexico, she decided to get a brood of her own. The experience made her think about her own life - her occasional eating of meat, meditating on the interdependence of humans and animals, and brought back severed memories of her childhood. This is a warm memoir chronicling Alice Walker’s journey and the way in which keeping chickens led her to a fuller understanding of herself.

From the moment he joined the Sunday Times, A.A. Gill has wanted to interview places – to discover the personality of a place as if it were a person, to listen and talk to it. A selection of the very best pieces that Gill has written over the past five years, A.A. Gill is Further Away is a wonderfully insightful and funny compendium of travel writing taken mostly from the Sunday Times, but also from GQ, Tatler and Condé Nast Traveller.

Rome

Stolen Childhoods

Julia Fox

Robert Hughes

Nicola Tyrer

April • 9780753826829 B format • £9.99

May • 9780753823057 B format • £10.99

May • 9780753829318 B format • £8.99

Julia Fox portrays the harsh realities of being a queen within a world dominated by men, and illustrates the sisters’ characters and interior worlds by setting them within their family and Spanish contexts.

For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. In this magisterial biography Robert Hughes recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar and Marcus Aurelius, moving on to cast a critical eye over the works of the great Renaissance painters. Loving, iconoclastic, enraged and wise, peopled with colourful figures and rich in unexpected details, Rome is an exhilarating story of one of the world’s most fascinating cities. ‘A tour of the great city with a great guide: who could do this better?’ Evening Standard

Stolen Childhoods tells the extraordinary stories of the children interned by the Japanese in the Second World War. When the Japanese entered the war in 1941, some 20,000 British civilians in the European colonies in Asia were rounded up and marched off to concentration camps where they were to remain for three long years. Over 3,000 of them were children. This is the first time their extraordinary experiences of suffering, endurance and bravery have been collected together.

Racing Through the Dark

Stranded at the Drive-in

The Horror of Love

David Miller

Garry Mulholland

June • 9781409120384 B format • £8.99 • H

June • 9781409120759 PB • £9.99

June • 9780753827734 B format • £9.99 • H

By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and bicycle racing in France, tipped to be the next English-speaking winner of the Tour de France. But he broke his heel in a fall, and before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here, in a full and frank autobiography, David Millar tells the story of the doping, the peer pressure and the desire for glory. Five years on from his arrest, Millar is clean and reflective, and holds nothing back in this account of his dark years.


A.A. Gill is Further Away

Sister Queens

Daughters of Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, Katherine and Juana were born in to a world of privilege and luxury that came at a devastating personal price. Katherine’s unhappy marriage to King Henry VIII did not result in the vital heir, and Juana fared no better with Philip of Burgundy, a man of naked ambition and cruelty.

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The Chicken Chronicles

Everyone undergoes some kind of teenage trauma, and a fundamental way of coping is wallowing in the teen movie. Yet until now there has been no book that explores this movie genre with any depth. Now Garry Mulholland, who, taking his cue from his previous, acclaimed pop culture list books (This is Uncool and Fear of Music), seeks to create a pantheon of the very finest teen movies. From Kes to Fame, Badlands to The Breakfast Club, he re-evaluates a much maligned genre, and brings it all back again: the good, the bad and the traumatic.

Lisa Hilton

Nancy Mitford and the Free French commander Gaston Palewski conducted a less than ideal love affair in post-war France. She was one of the twentieth century’s most glamorous authors, he was one of the most significant European politicians of the period. He inspired her to write one of the best-loved novels of its time, The Pursuit of Love, and she supported him through a tumultuous political career. This biography is a feast for Mitford fans and will generate a fascinating debate about how far we all might go in pursuit of love.


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Lauren St John February • 9780753829233 B format • £8.99 • H

A Spectacle of Dust

Fatal Colours

Pete Postlethwaite



Rainbow’s End is a haunting memoir by children’s author Lauren St John about her childhood spent in rural Rhodesia. Lauren’s childhood reads like a girl’s own adventure story as she rides through the wilderness on her horse, encountering lions, crocodiles and vicious ostriches. Yet the greatest threat is the ruthless guerrillas who prowl the land, making each day more dangerous than the last.

Steven Spielberg called Pete Postlethwaite ‘the best actor in the world’. From his work in Hollywood blockbusters like Jurassic Park and Inception to home-grown intimate dramas like In the Name of the Father and Brassed Off, there is no doubt that Pete Postlethwaite’s talent was extraordinary. This is the story of the diverse and multi-talented actor’s eventful life, told in his own candid and vibrant words.

‘Even as the Smith regime crumbles, as Mugabe waits to exact revenge and you know disillusionment is going to follow, you are irresistibly drawn into this personal story’ Daily Mail

‘It is an extrovert, tender, charming and unselfconscious book, with some extraordinary, hell-raising and hairraising anecdotes’ Guardian

Norman Foster Deyan Sudjic March • 9780753828571 B format • £12.99

The Right Instrument for your Child Atarah Ben-Tovim and Douglas Boyd April • 9781409138129 B format • £12.99

Norman Foster is a phenomenon – as an architect, but also as an individual. He is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognisable buildings of the last thirty years. Deyan Sudjic explores the nature of the impact that he has had on architecture, and on the contemporary city. It traces his remarkable journey from the backstreets of Manchester, the determination with which he has built a global architectural practice, and his huge creative impact on what we see around us.

This unique book offers a simple and practical method of selecting the right instrument for the individual child. Starting with the physical and emotional make-up of the child and using questionnaires and charts, the authors systematically explain the pros and cons of various instruments. As well as examining each individual instrument, the authors give advice on how some of the pitfalls can be avoided and provide information on buying and practising. Based on years of research, this is a comprehensive and inspirational book that will help unlock every child’s potential.

George Goodwin

The Battle of Towton 1461 was unique in its ferocity and brutality, as the armies of two kings of England engaged with murderous weaponry and in appalling conditions to conclude the first War of the Roses. Yet the battle itself and the turbulent reign of Henry VI were neglected by historians for centuries. George Goodwin now expertly creates the backdrop of fifteenth-century England, and includes a cast of strong and compelling characters: a warrior Queen, a ruthless king-making Earl, even a Papal Legate who excommunicates an entire army.

Suicide of the Empires: The Eastern Front 1914-18 Alan Clark May • 9781780221014 B format • £8.99

Although we tend to think of the 1914–18 war primarily in terms of ‘the Western Front’ – and rightly, for the social and economic after-effects of the slaughter in Flanders are with us to this day – its origins, and the strategy which governed all but its closing months, lay in the East. This book describes in clear terms the campaigns which provoked the downfall of the three Eastern powers – Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary – and left the world changed forever.

Fate is the Hunter

Low Level Hell

Scream of Eagles

Ernest K. Gann

Hugh Mills

Robert K. Wilcox

September 2011 9781908059024 B format • £8.99



Fate is the Hunter is a fascinating and thrilling account of Ernest K. Gann’s experiences in the air. He has flown in both peace and war and come close to death many times. Here he reveals the characters he’s known and the dramas he’s experienced, portraying fate (or death) as a hunter constantly in pursuit of pilots. ‘Few writers have ever drawn their readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and it is here that Mr Gann is truly the artist’ New York Times Book Review

This is the story of Hugh Mills’ experiences in the Vietnam war as an aeroscout pilot. He was shot down sixteen times, wounded three times and earned numerous decorations for valour. ‘The best “bird’s eye view” of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission’ R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation Museum

In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, the US Navy’s kill ratio had fallen to 2:1 – a deadly decline in pilot combat effectiveness. To improve the odds, a corps of hardened fighter pilots founded the Fighter Weapons School, a.k.a. Top Gun, going on to dominate the skies over Vietnam. This gripping account takes you inside the cockpit for an adventure more explosive than any fiction, in the dramatic true story of the legendary military school that created the most dangerous fighter pilots the world had ever seen.




Rainbow’s End

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INDIGO

The Double-Edged Sword

The Traitor’s Gate

The London Stone

Sarah Silverwood

Sarah Silverwood

Sarah Silverwood

March • 9781780620657 B format • £6.99

June • 9781780620671 TPB • £9.99

January • 9781780620596 B format • £6.99

The Nowhere Chronicles Book One

The Nowhere Chronicles Book Two

The Nowhere Chronicles Book Three

When orphan Finmere Tingewick Smith reaches his sixteenth birthday, everything changes. His guardian is murdered and when Fin investigates he is catapulted into an extraordinary adventure. For there is another London that exists alongside his own – and now both are in danger.

Finmere’s friends Joe and Christopher have saved the Storyholder, whose work keep the worlds in balance. But the story is far from over: Fin must come to terms with his own past – and do it as someone steps out of the shadows with a plan for domination of all the Worlds.

Fin may think the Story is over – but there’s one last chapter to tell...

‘A rich and magical tale that is utterly compelling... This is a book that will remain etched in your memory long after you’ve finished it’ LOVEREADING.COM

An engaging hero, a fast-moving narrative and a vividly realised alternate London make this a gripping read, perfect for fans of Philip Pullman.

Crossing Over

Dark Mist Rising

Anna Kendall

Anna Kendall

January • 9781780620572 B format • £6.99


Finmere’s friends Joe and Christopher are lost. Their allies are gone and Fin, now knowing the terrible truth about his past, is about to be executed. Their enemy has won... but the story has one last chapter left. If Fin can draw on his past, then perhaps they still have a chance...

A Bright and Terrible Sword Anna Kendall April • 9781780620725 TPB • £9.99

The Soulvine Moor Chronicles: Book One

The Soulvine Moor Chronicles: Book Two

The Soulvine Moor Chronicles: Book Three

They would hang Roger for witchcraft if they ever caught him ‘crossing over’ to the Land of the Dead. But in his way of life – an illegal fairground attraction – refusing to isn’t an option. It’s a miserable way to live so when Roger sees a chance to escape, he fights for it... little realising the dangers that lie ahead.

Roger thought his adventure was over, but it’s only just begun.

It’s a question of life, death... or something even worse.

Roger is finally living the peaceful life he dreamed of. That life is about to be destroyed. The civil war is not over, and the savage barbarians who invaded his land are searching for him – determined to learn his art of travelling to the Land of the Dead...

Roger has faced down queens, barbarians, dangerous ghostly dogs and even armies. There is one challenge left: to stand against the mysterious Soulviners and their dangerous plans to dominate the Land of the Dead. His friends held captive, his true powers still undiscovered, it’s possible only the legendary bright and terrible sword can save them now...

A fast-paced, character- and story-driven tale, Crossing Over is packed with action, emotion and excitement.

Charmfall

Firespell

Hexbound

Chloe Neill

Chloe Neill

Chloe Neill

February • 9781780620626 TPB • £9.99 • H

March • 9781780620701 B format • £6.99 • H

May • 9781780620602 B format • £6.99 • H

High school can be a battlefield, but for Lily Parker it’s become a case of life or death...

Forget the House of Night, it’s time to join the Dark Elite...

Magic can be your best friend... or your worst enemy.

Lily Parker’s magical abilities have gone, and it turns out she’s not alone. A magical blackout has slammed through Chicago, and no one knows what – or who – caused it. But Lily knows getting back her magic is worth the risk of going behind enemy lines.

As the new girl at an elite boarding school, Lily Parker thinks her classmates are the most monstrous things she’ll have to face. But when a prank traps her in the catacombs beneath the school, she finds her roommate Scout running from a real monster.

A perfect combination of adventure, romance and magic with a fabulous heroine, Charmfall is the unmissable new Dark Elite novel.

With a fabulous new heroine, Firespell is a perfect combination of adventure, romance and magic.

Lily Parker hasn’t been at St Sophia’s School for Girls long, but she has to learn how to control her newly discovered abilities, and quickly, while nursing a crush, and fighting the good fight with her best friend Scout as they take on Chicago’s nastiest nightlife: the tainted magic users called Reapers. Only a handsome Reaper is about to make her a tempting offer...



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Retribution Falls

Cliff McNish

January • 9781780620565 B format • £6.99 • H


When Elliott and his brother, Ben, move into the old and crumbling Glebe House they don’t expect to find themselves sharing it with ghosts. An old diary reveals glimpses of a terrible tragedy. A mysterious woman talks to the dead. And evil lurks in the East Wing. Can Elliott and his family escape the mansion, or will they be trapped in its maze of corridors, forever hunted by the dead?

Chris Wooding

The Black Lung Captain Chris Wooding June • 9781780620756 B format • £6.99 • H

Tales of the Ketty Jay Book One

Tales of the Ketty Jay Book Two

Retribution Falls is a brilliant, fast-paced heist novel from an award winning writer.

Captain Darian Frey is captain of the Ketty Jay and leader of a small, dysfunctional team of smugglers and opportunists. They’re always ready to make a quick profit so when they hear rumours about a lost treasure haul, deep in the jungle, it sounds like an easy mark. Several double-crosses later, they’re about to discover nothing is as easy as it seemed...

Captain Darian Frey is captain of the Ketty Jay and leader of a small, dysfunctional team of rouges and layabouts. Smugglers and opportunists, they’re always ready to make a quick profit... but when an easy job goes catastrophically wrong they have to work together, and use all their criminal talents to prove that – this time – they’ve been framed...

‘Imaginative, action-stuffed and an enormous amount of fun’ SFX

White Cat

Hollow Pike

An Act of Love

Holly Black

James Dawson

Alan Gibbons


February • 9781780620039 TPB • £8.99 • H

February • 9781780620183

The Curse-Workers: Book 1 An extraordinary new fantasy series from the co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Cassel is cursed. Cursed by the memory of the 14-year-old girl he murdered. No-one at home is ever going to forget he’s a killer or, worse, that he isn’t a magic worker. But there is a terrifying secret at the centre of Cassel’s family and he’s about to inherit it. The question is: when he does, what will he do with it?

She thought she’d be safe in the country, but you can’t escape your own nightmares, and Lis London dreams repeatedly that someone is trying to kill her. But who’d want to murder her? She doesn’t believe the local legends of witchcraft. She doesn’t believe that anything bad will really happen to her. You never do, do you? Not until you’re alone in the woods, after dark – and a twig snaps...

B format • £6.99 • H

Chris and Imran celebrate the Millennium as inseparable blood brothers. They are both seven years old. But by 2011 their lives have taken very different paths. One has joined the Army and served in Afghanistan, the other is a potential jihad recruit. They are no longer friends, and there are bitter wounds between them. Will their childhood bond be strong enough to overcome an extremist plot? In a highly-charged, honest and life affirming story, Alan Gibbons cleverly explores the very real issue of terrorism that affects everyone today.

Darkness Falls

Soul Beach

Midwinterblood

Mia James

Kate Harrison

Marcus Sedgwick

March • 9781780620435 B format • £6.99 • H

May • 9781780620336 B format • £6.99 • H

June • 9781780620206 B format • £6.99 • H

A Ravenwood Mystery: 2 April Dunne is having a tough time. Her school is full of vampires and now her sort-of boyfriend Gabriel is going to die unless April finds a cure. It’s a race against time, and if April’s enemies find out how lethal she really is, being boyfriendless will be the very least of her problems. Time is short, the stakes are high, and surviving school has never been so tough...

Alice Forster talks with her dead sister, Meggie, in the virtual world of Soul Beach – an online paradise where dead teenagers are in limbo. Alice has learned that if she solves the mystery of someone’s death, that person is released from the Beach. Meggie needs Alice to solve her murder so she can be free, but as Alice gets closer to discovering the murderer, the murderer gets closer to Alice...

In 2073 on the remote island of Blessed, where rumour has it that no one ages and no children are born, a ritual sacrifice takes place. It echoes a moment ten centuries before, when a king was slain, tragically torn from his queen. Their souls search to be reunited, and as mother and son, artist and child, forbidden lovers, victims of a vampire they come close to finding what they’ve lost. But can love last forever?



INDIGO

The Hunting Ground

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EARLY READERS

Charming, funny tales with short, accessible text and full colour illustrations on every page. Perfect for beginner readers or for reading aloud. These are delightful stories that newly confident readers will return to time and time again.

Yum Yum

Horrid Henry’s Rainy Day

The Topsy-Turvies

Rampage in Prince’s Garden

Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon





Horrid Henry’s Author Visit

Jogger’s Big Adventure

Down in the Jungle

Perfect Pet Shop

Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon

Vivian French

Vivian French

March • 9781444001143 B format • £4.99 • H

April • 9781444002027 B format • £4.99 • H

April • 9781444005134 B format • £4.99 • H

May • 9781444005141 B format • £4.99 • H

Creepy Crawly Adventures

Horrid Henry Meets the Queen

Poppy the Pirate Dog

Mr P’s Naughty Book

Liz Kessler

Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon

June • 9781444003758 B format • £4.99 • H

June • 9781444002683 B format • £4.99 • H

Vivian French June • 9781444005158 B format • £4.99 • H

May • 9781444005516 B format • £4.99 • H

A full list of Early Readers is available from your rep. 22 INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS.indd 22


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Talina in the Tower

Maudie Smith

Michelle Lovric

January • 9781444004786 B format • £6.99

February • 9781444003383 HB • £9.99

A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry’s Sports Francesca Simon February • 9781444001648 B format • £4.99 • H

Martha’s decided friends are stupid. Especially if they’re anything like Colette and Chloe. But it’s the first day of the summer holidays, and there’s not that much to do... until she spots a strange little furry creature who leads her to Opal Moonbaby. Opal’s been sent down from her planet on a mission: to work out what on earth people are, and to make a friend. Sparkling, original and fun, this is the start of a brilliant new series for 7+ girls.

Savage hyena-like creatures threaten Venice – the Ravageurs are seizing men, women and children. One night in 1846 Talina’s parents disappear and she and her cat, Drusilla, are forced to go and live with her guardian. Here she discovers that she has the ability to change herself into a cat. She learns about the Ravageurs and how over the centuries they have become semi magical creatures, visible only to children in the human world, and that they are intent on destroying Venice. She is determined to save the city – her adventures are about to begin.

Did you know that the Olympic gold medals are made mostly of silver? What is the world’s most popular sport? Did the Romans really do athletics in the nude? Packed with freaky facts and random trivia, this is the perfect guide to everything you ever wanted to know (and lots of things you might never have wanted to know) about the world of sport – Horrid Henry style!

Horrid Henry’s All Time Favourite Joke Book

The One Dollar Horse

Chomp

Lauren St John

Francesca Simon

March • 9781444002690 HB • £9.99 • H

April • 9781444005066 HB • £9.99 • H

March • 9781444004458 B format • £4.99 • H

More hilarious jokes from the irrepressible Horrid Henry – his most totally brilliant, fiendishly funny, utterly wicked joke book yet. Laugh your head off with Horrid Henry, his family, friends and enemies as they present more hilarious, ridiculously rib-tickling jokes.

Casey Blue loves horses but as she lives in the inner city, her dreams of becoming an event rider seem out of reach. Until one day she rescues a horse from the knacker’s yard and nurses him back to health. When Casey is talent-spotted and sponsored she moves into a different riding league and suddenly her dream of competing at Badminton is within her grasp. But dreams can turn into nightmares, and Casey is just about to come face to face with the worst nightmare ever.

Carl Hiaasen

When Wahoo Cray’s dad takes a job with a reality TV show called Expedition Survival, Wahoo figures he’ll have to do a bit of wrangling to keep his dad from killing the show’s inept star Derek Badger, who insists on using real wild animals for his stunts. Sure enough, Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties promptly get lost themselves. It’s anyone’s guess who will actually survive Expedition Survival!

Raven Mysteries 5: Magic and Mayhem

Elf Girl and Raven Boy 1

Horrid Henry 21

Marcus Sedgwick

Marcus Sedgwick

April • 9781444003406 B format • £6.99 • H

May • 9781444004854 B format • £6.99 • H

June • 9781444000153 B format • £4.99 • H

A trip to the circus has far-reaching consequences for the Otherhand family when Fellah goes missing. Before long their Castle is plagued by a duck, a suspect fortune teller, and several cartloads of lethal cabbages. Meanwhile Valevine is busy inventing a cabbage-counting machine; Minty is waiting to hear the secrets of the universe; and Solstice has discovered that Cudweed is concealing 342 rabbits in his bedroom. When chaos strikes and thieves infiltrate the Castle, it falls to Edgar the raven to extract his family from a very fluffy predicament.

Raven-boy has short black spiky hair. Elf-girl is light of foot and sharp of mind and, well... elfish all over. She hadn’t expected to meet Raven-boy, nor he her. And before they know it they are plunged into some very strange, gothic, creepy, altogether spooky and hilarious adventures as the two most unlikely heroes to save their world. This is the start of a six book series for younger readers.

Francesca Simon

The latest storybook in this multi-million-copyselling series, containing four brand new Horrid Henry stories about everybody’s favourite horrid boy. ‘Forget Harry Potter, it’s a wicked, spiteful boy who’s really firing kids’ imaginations’ Guardian

Don’t forget to check the online Orion Children’s Catalogue for more details



Children’s Highlights

Opal Moonbaby

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Mark

Michael

Kim

Suzy

Stefanie

Ian Rankin has produced another enigmatic character in Malcolm Fox to match John Rebus. This is a compulsive thriller set against a political background that couldn’t be more topical. For Rankin fans around the world, this is a must, and if you haven’t read him before now is the time; you won’t be disappointed. (see Page 2)

A spy thriller written by an ex-M16 officer was an exciting prospect. Matthew Dunn’s first novel ticks all the boxes. It is a real treat. A thoroughly gripping and exciting story set within a scenario that feels so genuine and authentic. Not to be missed !

After reading the first page of this novel, I could not put it down. It is a totally absorbing story about a tragedy that strikes the Tide family. Reading this was an emotional journey which was so engrossing I didn’t want the last page to be the end!

Finally, a true contender to the Patrick Rothfuss throne. Songs of the Earth has everything a good fantasy novel needs: magic, swords, a hero to die for and a completely enthralling plot. I can’t wait for part two!

This is such an imaginative and powerful story of love and sacrifice across time. It’s gothic and spooky and will remain in your mind long after you finished it.

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Contents Paperback Fiction 2-7


Trade Fiction 8 - 12

Gollancz 13 - 15

Non-Fiction 16 - 19

Indigo 20 - 21

Early Readers 22

Children’s 23

ISBN: 9781409146063

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