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5 Gill Hornby James Patterson Miss Austen Blindside (Michael Bennett 12)

A wonderfully original, emotionally complex ‘reading- Detective Michael Bennett is New York's public enemy group’ novel that delves into why Cassandra burned a no. 1. But when the Mayor's daughter goes missing, treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane there's only one cop who can bring her home.

January 2020 January 2020 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £20.00 400 pages 400 pages 9781529123760 9781780899343

______Detective Michael Bennett is New York's public enemy no. 1. But ‘So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining – I adored it.' CLAIRE when the Mayor's daughter goes missing, there's only cop who TOMALIN can bring her home.

'This is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me After a mugging gone wrong, Detective Michael Bennett becomes public happy and weepy in equally copious amounts.' enemy no. 1 when the citizens of New York rally around the dead shooter's KAREN JOY FOWLER, author of The Jane Austen Bookclub family. Amidst the controversy and media chaos, Bennett must wait for his ______name to be cleared.

A wonderfully original, emotionally complex novel that delves into Though he is suspended from active duty, the Mayor has a secret mission why Cassandra burned a treasure trove of letters written by her for Bennett with an irresistible incentive. Find the Mayor's missing daughter, sister, Jane Austen – an act of destruction that has troubled and Bennett's beloved son Brian will be released from prison. Desperate to academics for centuries. get back to work and free his son, Bennett sets out to solve the mystery of Natalie's disappearance. 1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her When Natalie's friends start turning up dead around the city, Bennett soon family’s friends, the Fowles. realises that wherever she is, Natalie is in more danger than he could have ever imagined. As links start emerging to a dangerous underground hacking She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a network, Bennett must go beyond his jurisdiction to bring Natalie home. cache of family letters which hold secrets she is desperate should not be revealed. A proud and loving father, Bennett will do whatever it takes to bring his son back to his family. But has Natalie fallen too deep into the dangerous world As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet of the dark web to ever come back? complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane’s history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane’s JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of reputation? Or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He posterity … is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own ______son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young 'Extraordinary and heart-wrenching, Miss Austen transported me from page readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries one. A remarkable novel that is wholly original, deeply moving, and and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to emotionally complex. A gift to all Austen lovers.' independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult LARA PRESCOTT, author of The Secrets We Kept fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. 'Gill Hornby ingeniously imagines what Cassandra Austen's own life might have been like, both before and after Jane’s untimely death, casting a different light on the familiar biographical picture without in any way distorting it.' DEIRDRE LE FAYE, editor of Jane Austen's Letters

'Miss Austen is affecting, thought-provoking, and makes you think about both Jane and Cassandra Austen in a new light.' HELENA KELLY, author of Jane Austen, The Secret Radical

6 Jonathan Kellerman Lisa Gardner The Museum of Desire When You See Me

A gripping new thriller from the Number One New York Bestselling author Lisa Gardner unites three of her Times bestselling master of suspense. most loved characters -Detective D.D. Warren, Flora Dane, and Kimberly Quincy - in a twisty new thriller, as

February 2020 February 2020 Hardback Hardback £14.99 £12.99 336 pages 400 pages 9781780899039 9781529124392

______THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ONE WILD PARTY. FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER. ______A body is found in the hills – but the truth still lies buried... A mansion in Beverly Hills is leased out to host an event wild enough to herald the end of days. In a small town in the Deep South, Flora Dane is part of a task force committed to hunting down every last trace of notorious serial kidnapper The next day there isn’t a living soul to be seen. Jacob Ness. As his last victim, imprisoned by Ness in a small box for over a year, she knew him better than most. Even after his death, his evil still But in the driveway sits a super-stretch limo, unlocked, with four bodies lingers. inside it. Nothing links the victims together. Each has been killed in a different way. But this is the kind of town that doesn’t take kindly to strangers asking questions. Now it’s up to brilliant psychologist Alex Delware and LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis to begin their grisliest and most baffling case yet. The kind of town where dark secrets lurk just beneath the surface.

As they struggle to make sense of the mass slaying, they will be forced to The kind of town she might not leave alive. confront a level of evil that nothing can prepare them for. ______Featuring Detective D.D. Warren and FBI Special Agent Kimberley Jonathan Kellerman is the Number One New York Times bestselling author Quincy of more than forty crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The ______Butcher's Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, True ‘A string of murders, a crack FBI team and a voiceless girl Detectives, and The Murderer's Daughter. desperate for revenge – this twist-a-minute thriller has it all.’ KARIN SLAUGHTER With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. With his son, bestselling novelist Jesse 'A twisty-turny psycho-thriller with a plot and characters that Kellerman, he co-authored Crime Scene, The Golem of Hollywood, and The won't let you go. Lisa Gardner is at the top of her game!' KATHY Golem of Paris. REICHS

He is also the author of two children's books and numerous nonfiction 'When You See Me is another rocket-fuel-propelled thriller from works, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children and With Lisa Gardner. This culmination of her great talents . . . starts out Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars. He has won the chillingly intimate and explodes into a sky-high denouement that Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and the Lifetime Achievement Award will leave you breathless.' GREGG HURWITZ from the American Psychological Association, and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. Lisa Gardner started her writing career aged seventeen. Having caught her hair on fire while working in food service, crafting a novel seemed a safer Jonathan and Faye Kellerman live in California and New Mexico. bet. A mere ten years later she became an overnight success with the publication of her first thriller, The Perfect Husband. For more information please visit: Now an internationally bestselling author and winner of the International http://jonathankellerman.com/ Thriller Writers Award for best suspense novel, Lisa lives in the mountains of https://www.facebook.com/JonathanKellerman New Hampshire with her family.

When not glued to her computer, she can be found hiking the mountains with her dogs and/or researching new and interesting ways to get away with murder.

7 Katie Fforde Rae Carson A Springtime Affair Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker (Expanded Edition)

A wonderfully romantic novel from the Number One bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape.

February 2020 March 2020 Hardback Hardback £14.99 £20.00 400 pages 368 pages 9781780897561 9781529124569

A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling The Skywalker saga reaches its epic conclusion in this expanded novelization author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape. of Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker.

'Modern-day Austen' WOMAN AND HOME ______It’s the season of new beginnings for Helena and Gilly. Rae Carson is the author of the bestselling and award-winning Girl of Fire and Thorns series. Her books tend to contain adventure, magic, and smart Gilly runs her own B&B business from her much-loved family home, which girls who make (mostly) smart choices. Originally from California, she now she doesn’t want to part with – at any price. lives in Arizona with her husband.

But that's before she meets handsome estate agent Leo. Soon he has her wondering whether it's finally time to sell up and try something new in life.

Meanwhile, Gilly's daughter Helena has a budding romance of her own. A talented weaver, she's becoming very close to her new landlord Jago, who's offered to help her at an upcoming craft fair that could give her dream career a major boost.

It’s what friends do, and they are just friends. Aren’t they?

With spring in full bloom, Helena and Gilly begin to ask themselves the same question:

Could their new loves lead to their happily ever after?

Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and is a true country girl at heart. Each of her books explores a different profession or background and her research has helped her bring these to life. She’s been a porter in an auction house, tried her hand at pottery, refurbished furniture, delved behind the scenes of a dating website, and she's even been on a Ray Mears survival course. She loves being a writer; to her there isn’t a more satisfying and pleasing thing to do. She particularly enjoys writing love stories. She believes falling in love is the best thing in the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers to share their stories. To find out more about Katie Fforde step into her world at www.katiefforde.com, visit her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @KatieFforde.

8 James Patterson Sam Lee 20th Victim The Nightingale (Women’s Murder Club 20)

The Women's Murder Club face the fight of their lives An illustrated miscellany of the nightingale, perfect in the latest thriller from the bestselling James for nature and bird lovers Patterson series

March 2020 March 2020 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £14.99 400 pages 208 pages 9781780899541 9781529124835

The Women's Murder Club face the fight of their lives in the latest Each year, as darkness falls upon the woodlands, the nightingale heralds the thriller from the bestselling James Patterson series arrival of spring. Its sweet song has inspired musicians, writers and artists across the centuries and around the world, from Germany, France and Italy Three victims, three bullets, three cities. to Greece, Ukraine and Afghanistan.

Simultaneous murders in LA, Chicago, and San Francisco – SFPD Sergeant Discover the unique and charming biography of an infamous yet elusive Lindsay Boxer's jurisdiction. The shooters are precise, as is their target songbird as naturalist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee tells the selection. Each one of the men and women down excels at an illegal and full story of the nightingale. deadly activity that is dominating public debate. As the casualty list expands, the fear and fascination with this shooting gallery galvanises the With dozens of full-colour commissioned and archival illustrations, this book county. reveals in beautiful detail the ornithology of the bird, exploring its habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the environmental issues Are the shooter villains or heroes? And who will be next? that threaten its livelihood.

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of From Greek mythology to John Keats, and from Russian folk songs to ‘A all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square’, Lee explores the various ways we have is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – celebrated the nightingale: in our traditions, folklore, music, food and the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and literature, and from ancient history to the present day. Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. ______Praise for Sam Lee's Singing with Nightingales: James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young 'A master storyteller' Patrick Barkham, author of Islander and readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries Badgerlands for Guardian and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult 'An unmatched spring experience for folk fans, bird enthusiasts fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida and all those in between' The Times with his wife and son. 'The experience struck me so deeply that I have struggled since to put it into words . . . beautiful and necessary' New Statesman

'Bravely inventive . . . the nightingale has become a symbol of resistance, thanks largely to Sam' Guardian

Sam Lee is a Mercury Prize-nominated folk singer, naturalist and curator.

Before becoming a musician, he was a wilderness survival expert. He is known as a traditional music specialist dedicated to collecting, restoring and sharing ancient music from Britain and Ireland. He has written music for films and TV, including King Arthur and Peaky Blinders.

Sam is a regular guest teacher on the Goldsmiths popular music degree, and previously lectured at at SOAS, Oxford University and Newcastle University. He was the first ever folk singer to teach at the Royal College of Music.

9 Harlan Coben Abbie Greaves The Boy from the Woods The Silent Treatment from the #1 bestselling author

The brilliant new thriller from the international A unique and uplifting love story about a couple who bestselling author, described by Dan Brown as 'the have been married for forty years and haven't spoken modern master of the hook and twist'. for six months. Will be devoured by fans of Jojo

March 2020 April 2020 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £12.99 400 pages 352 pages 9781529123821 9781529123944

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CREATOR OF THE HIT NETFLIX ‘A remarkable debut which doesn’t go where you expect it to go. I DRAMA THE STRANGER very much look forward to seeing what she writes next.’ JOJO MOYES The brilliant new thriller from the international bestselling author ______described by Dan Brown as 'the modern master of the hook and A lifetime together. Six months of silence. One last chance. twist' ______Frank hasn't spoken to his wife Maggie for six months. Thirty years ago, a child was found in the New Jersey backwoods. For weeks they have lived under the same roof, slept in the same bed and He had been living a feral existence, with no memory of how he got there eaten at the same table – all without words. or even who he is. Everyone just calls him Wilde. Maggie has plenty of ideas as to why her husband has gone quiet. Now a former soldier and security expert, he lives off the grid, shunned by the community – until they need him. But it will take another heartbreaking turn of events before Frank finally starts to unravel the secrets that have silenced him. A child has gone missing. With her family suspecting she’s just playing a disappearing game, nobody seems concerned except for criminal attorney Is this where their story ends? Hester Crimstein. She contacts Wilde, asking him to use his unique skills to Or is it where it begins? find the girl. With characters that will capture your heart, THE SILENT But even he can find no trace of her. One day passes, then a second, then a TREATMENT celebrates the phenomenal power of love and the third. importance of leaving nothing unsaid. ______On the fourth, a human finger shows up in the mail. ‘An original and moving debut from a talented new voice.’ SANTA And now Wilde knows this is no game. It’s a race against time to save the MONTEFIORE girl’s life – and expose the town’s dark trove of secrets… ‘This moving debut unpicks the secret selves of Maggie and Frank to reveal With more than seventy million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the tragic miscommunications of their broken family. It’s a pleasure to read the worldwide number 1 bestselling author of numerous thrillers, including such a stylish and confident new voice’ LOUISE CANDLISH, author Don't Let Go, Home, and Fool Me Once, as well as the multi-award-winning of Our House Myron Bolitar series. His books are published in forty-three languages around the globe and are bestsellers in more than a dozen countries. ‘Heart-breaking secrets tenderly evoked with intelligence and depth. Maggie and Frank are unforgettable characters’ RACHEL HORE, author of The Coben is also the creator and executive producer of many television shows, Memory Garden including the forthcoming Netflix Original drama Harlan Coben’s The Stranger starring Richard Armitage, Stephen Rea and Jennifer Saunders and the ‘An unforgettable love story with a mystery that had me captivated until critically acclaimed Netflix Original drama Harlan Coben’s Safe starring the last, heart-wrenching page. It deserves to be huge’ CATHERINE Michael C. Hall. ISAAC, author of You Me Everything

Coben is currently developing 14 projects, including Run Away, with Netflix ‘The premise alone had me, but the book itself is just heartrendingly lovely. in the US and internationally. He lives in New Jersey. It’s beautiful, so moving and clever. I truly adored it.’ JOSIE SILVER, author of One Day in December

'A tender, heartfelt portrayal of a long marriage with all its secrets. Cleverly structured and beautifully written, this novel celebrates love, hope - and the

10 Heidi Perks Max Brooks Three Perfect Liars Devolution

The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of A terrifying cabin in the woods horror story for the NOW YOU SEE HER and COME BACK FOR ME. 21st century, from king of survival horror Max Brooks, bestselling visionary author of World War Z.

April 2020 May 2020 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £12.99 400 pages 304 pages 9781529124231 9781529124095

***YOUR NEXT READING OBSESSION*** FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WORLD WAR Z The breathtaking new thriller from the author of the Richard and ______Judy bestseller NOW YOU SEE HER As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and ______finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now. When the harbourside offices of a prestigious advertising agency burn down overnight, the lives of three women are changed for But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody ever. wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing – and too earth-shattering in its implications – to be forgotten. Laura Denning has returned to work following the birth of her first child, only to find that her maternity cover has been kept on indefinitely. She and In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the company's CEO, Harry Wood, have always had a close relationship but the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive Laura can't help feeling sidelined as she struggles to balance the demands of investigations into the massacre and the beasts behind it, once thought work and motherhood. legendary but now known to be terrifyingly real.

Mia Anderson was brought in as temporary cover for Laura's position and Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s has quickly become indispensable. But if people knew the truth about why defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and inevitably, of savagery she was really so desperate to keep her job, they might not welcome her and death. with such open arms... Yet it is also far more than that. Janie Wood gave up everything to support her husband Harry and his business - now she is on trial for attempted murder. But Janie has a secret Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must to protect, and she'll go to any length to keep it safe. accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us – and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. Who started the fire? And what is the terrible secret that connects the three women? Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a ______Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it – and like none you’ve ever read before. Readers love Heidi's thrillers: Max Brooks is an author, public speaker, and non-resident fellow at the 'This is a read not to be missed!!!' Modern War Institute at West Point. His bestselling books include Minecraft: 'Family secrets, mystery and intrigue. This is the perfect book that won't The Island, The Zombie Survival Guide, and World War Z, which was disappoint' adapted into a 2013 movie starring Brad Pitt. Max Brooks’ graphic novels 'A surprising plot and lots of twists with interesting characters. I loved include The Extinction Parade, GI Joe: Hearts & Minds, and the #1 New the writing style and the setting of the story' York Times bestseller The Harlem Hellfighters. 'Easily the best thriller I've read in a long time' 'Lots of twists and turns, guaranteed page-turner that keeps you guessing until the end'

Heidi Perks worked as a marketing director before leaving to become a full- time mother and writer. Her first novel, Now You See Her, was a Sunday Times bestseller and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Heidi is a voracious reader of crime fiction and thrillers and endlessly interested in what makes people tick. She lives in Bournemouth with her family, where she writing her next thriller.

11 Candice Fox Maggie Brookes Gathering Dark The Prisoner's Wife

Candice Fox – hailed by James Patterson as 'A bright A debut novel set in 1944 war-torn Czechoslovakia new star of crime fiction' – returns with a stunning amid the extreme privations of a prisoner of war thriller set in LA's criminal underworld. camp. Based on a true story, passion, heroism and a

May 2020 May 2020 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £12.99 400 pages 368 pages 9781780899633 9781529124286

A captivating LA-set thriller with an unlikely female duo at its In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through heart. From the award-winning co-author of James Patterson's No. abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married 1 bestselling Harriet Blue series. and are on the run, searching for Izabela’s brother and father, who are fighting the Nazis as partisans. They’ve evaded capture in the countryside The first book in a new series set in Los Angeles for a week, but when their luck runs out, they are delivered into the hands of the occupying enemy, the German army. A convicted killer. A gifted thief. A vicious ganglord. A disillusioned cop. Together they’re a missing girl’s only hope. But they have prepared for this moment. Izabela’s hair has been shorn and, Dr. Blair Harbour, once a wealthy, respected pediatric surgeon, is now an ex pretending to be unable to speak, she is assumed to be a mute young -con down on her luck. She’s determined to keep her nose clean and win British soldier. The pair are transported to a POW camp and faced with living back custody of her son. conditions far worse than those experienced by any animal on Izabela’s farm. They will need the help of their fellow POWs to maintain their But when her former cellmate, Sneak Lawlor, begs for help to find her deception, and the gravity of the situation becomes chillingly apparent; if missing daughter, Blair is compelled to put her new hound freedom on the they are discovered, Izabela will have put not just herself and Bill in great line. Joined by LA’s most feared underworld figure, Ada Maverick, the crew danger, but also all the men around them. of criminals brings outlaw tactics to the search for the missing girl. The Prisoner’s Wife tells of an incredible risk, and how our deepest bonds Detective Jessica Sanchez has always had a difficult relationship with the are tested in desperate times. Bill and Izabela’s is a story of love, and LAPD. And her inheritance of a $7 million mansion as a reward for catching a survival, against the darkest odds. killer has just made her police enemy number one. Based on a true story, and researched extensively by the author on location It’s been ten years since Jessica arrested Blair for cold-blooded murder. So in Eastern Europe, this is a story that takes the reader deep into a rarely- when Jessica opens the door to the disgraced doctor late one night she seen side of the Second World War. expects abuse, maybe even violence.

What comes next is a plea for help… Maggie Brookes is an ex-journalist and BBC TV documentary producer, turned poet and novelist. She’s also an associate professor at Middlesex Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney’s University, and an advisory fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. western suburbs. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster- carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of The Prisoner’s Wife is based on a true story told to her in a lift, by a World violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories to her War II prisoner of war. Maggie visited Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany mother and older brothers. as part of her research for the book, uncovering largely forgotten aspects of the war. Although the story can be harrowing at times, it’s also about the Candice won back-to-back Ned Kelly awards for her first two novels – power of friendship and of love. Hades and Eden. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed Fall, Crimson Lake, Redemption and Gone by Midnight. Candice’s first collaboration with James Patterson, Never Never, was a Sunday Times and New York Times no. 1 bestseller. They have co-authored three further novels featuring Harriet Blue – Fifty Fifty, Liar Liar and Hush Hush.

12 Timothy Zahn Dr Ian Goldin and Dr Robert Thrawn: The Ascendency Trilogy Muggah #1 Terra Incognita

'A riveting account of humanity´s most pressing challenges and innovative solutions, fusing mesmerizing maps and compelling analysis to help

May 2020 June 2020 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £25.00 368 pages 320 pages 9781529124583 9781529124194

The first book in a new trilogy set before Thrawn traveled to the Empire and Map-making is an ancient impulse. From the moment homo sapiens learnt became a Grand Admiral. Journey to the Unknown Regions and learn more to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings. But about Thrawn’s origins and his home: The Chiss Ascendency. as Albert Einstein once said, ‘you can’t use old maps to explore a new world.’ And now, when the world is changing faster than ever before, our Timothy Zahn is the author of more than forty novels, nearly ninety short old maps are no longer fit for purpose. stories and novellas, and four short-fiction collections. In 1984, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novella. Zahn is best known for his Star Wars novels Welcome to Terra Incognita. Based on decades of research, and combining (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command, Specter of the mesmerising, state-of-the-art satellite maps with enlightening and Past, Vision for the Future, Survivor's Quest, Outbound Flight, Allegiance, passionately argued analysis, authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah chart Choices of One, and Scoundrels), with more than four million copies of his humanity’s impact on the planet, and the ways in which we can make a real books in print. Other books inlcude the Cobra series, the Quadrail series, and impact to save it, and to thrive as a species. the young adult Dragonback series. Zahn has a B.S. in physics from Michigan State University and an M.S. from the University of Illinois. He lives Learn about: fires in the arctic; the impact of sea level rise on cities around with his family on the Oregon coast. the world; the truth about immigration - and why fears in the West are a myth; the counter-intuitive future of population rise; the miracles of health and education that are waiting around the corner, and the reality about inequality, and how we end it. The book traces the paths of peoples, cities, wars, climates and technologies, all on a global scale. Full of facts that will confound you, inform you, and ultimately empower you, Terra Incognita guides readers to a new place of understanding, rather than to a physical location.

The book will be lavishly produced in full colour.

Ian Goldin (Author) Ian Goldin is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development and the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School, a world -leading research group of over 350 experts from 60 disciplines tackling the most pressing global challenges of the 21st century. He is the presenter of the BBC Series After the Crash and has performed numerous TED talks. He was formerly President Nelson Mandela's Economic Advisor.

Robert Muggah (Author) Robert Muggah is a globally recognized scholar and practitioner of political economy. He co-founded the Igarapé Institute – a leading think and do tank devoted to promoting data-driven and evidenced-based safety and justice across Latin America, Africa and Asia. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and the BBC. He has delivered several TED talks and is a regular speaker at the World Economic Forum Davos summit.

13 S.K. Barnett Anon Safe Anti-Social

A compelling thriller about a six-year old girl who disappears in small town America, only to reappear twelve years later.

June 2020 June 2020 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £16.99 400 pages 304 pages 9781529124668 9781529124774

Your child is missing Has your life become unbearable because the person living above you has a fondness for crack cocaine, the company of strangers and dance music? Or She was only six years old when she disappeared. Posters went up, the maybe you find being racially abused every day by your neighbour rather police investigated. bothersome. Evidence tends to suggest it can grate after a while.

But no one could find her. Or maybe you’re a social worker, mental health nurse, police officer, firefighter, dog warden or vicar and you’ve been landed with someone Now she’s home who’s a pain in the arse. If you’re unable or unwilling to deal with them in a way that’s actually going to help, who are you going to call? That would be And knocking at your door. me, or at least somebody like me: an anti-social behaviour officer.

You’re so happy to see her. But soon you start to wonder why she can’t Anti-Social is the diary of a local authority worker whose job is to keep his answer your questions. community happy, or at least away from each other’s throats. That’s hard enough at the best of times but when government cuts mean that hospitals, Where has she been all this time? social services and police are all at breaking point, the possibility of complete chaos is never far away. This is an urgent, timely but, most of all, How did she find her way home? hysterically funny diary of a life spent working with the people society wants to forget and the problems that nobody else can resolve. This book will Who is she? make you laugh, cry and boil with rage within a single sentence.

Perfect for fans of This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay and The Secret Barrister.

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15 Liz Moore Andrew Hunter Murray Long Bright River The Last Day Read the book everyone will be talking about

Gritty and moving crime thriller, for fans of THE WIRE HALF THE WORLD IS DARK. ONLY SHE CAN SAVE THE and LINE OF DUTY from the critically-acclaimed author LIGHT. A high-concept, utterly original debut thriller of HEFT. which envisages a world on the edge of catastrophe,

January 2020 February 2020 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £12.99 464 pages 416 pages 9781786331625 9781786331915

'An outstanding crime novel.' PAULA HAWKINS ______‘A stunningly original thriller set in the world of tomorrow that will make you think about what’s happening today.’ KENSINGTON AVE, PHILADELPHIA: HARLAN COBEN

THE FIRST PLACE YOU GO FOR DRUGS OR SEX. ‘I read this hungrily ... Its intelligence and bravura characterisation THE LAST PLACE YOU WANT TO LOOK FOR YOUR SISTER. will have you turning page after page. A fabulous achievement.’ STEPHEN FRY Mickey Fitzpatrick has been patrolling the 24th District for years. She knows most of the working women by name. She knows what desperation looks 'Wonderful: boldly imagined and beautifully written - the best future- like and what people will do when they need a fix. She’s become used to shock thriller for years.' finding overdose victims: their numbers are growing every year. But every LEE CHILD time she sees someone sprawled out, slumped over, cold to the touch, she ______has to pray it’s not her sister, Kacey. A WORLD HALF IN DARKNESS. A SECRET SHE MUST BRING TO When the bodies of murdered sex workers start turning up on the Ave, the LIGHT. Chief of Police is keen to bury the news. They’re not the kind of victims that generate a whole lot of press anyway. But Mickey is obsessed, dangerously 2059. The world has stopped turning. so, with finding the perpetrator - before Kacey becomes the next victim. ______One half suffers an endless frozen night; the other, nothing but burning sun. 'A remarkable, profoundly moving novel about the ties that bind and the irrevocable wounds of childhood. It’s also a riveting Only in a slim twilit region can life survive. mystery, perfectly paced. I loved every page of it.' DENNIS LEHANE In an isolationist Britain, Ellen Hopper receives a letter from a dying man. Liz Moore is the author of the acclaimed novels Heft, recently optioned as a feature film, and The Unseen World, which was optioned for television. A It contains a powerful and dangerous secret. winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia. One that those in power will kill to conceal… ______

THE LAST DAY: an utterly original debut thriller, perfect for readers who loved Robert Harris' Fatherland, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station 11, and The Wall by John Lanchester. ______'To say it’s gripping is an understatement - I cancelled all my weekend plans to finish it' SARA PASCOE

‘Dark, believable and brilliantly written’ JENNY COLGAN

‘A thrilling page-turner, and a reminder to treasure our sunsets and sunrises while we still have them. I couldn’t put this book down!’ CHRISTINA DALCHER, author of VOX

16 Anika Scott Carys Bray Finding Clara When the Lights Go Out

Clara Falkenberg was brought up to become The new novel from Carys Bray, author of Costa- Germany’s most illustrious heiress – her father a shortlisted A Song for Issy Bradley. captain of industry; her mother the perfect society

March 2020 May 2020 Hardback Hardback £14.99 £12.99 336 pages 352 pages 9781786331878 9781786332349

1946. Essen, Germany. If you believe the world is going to end, how do you live?

Clara. Once a wartime icon and heiress to the Falkenberg iron works; now And what if, while preparing for disaster, you unwittingly on the run from the Allied authorities, accused of complicity in her father's precipitate it? war crimes. While Emma Abram prepares for Christmas, her husband is stockpiling food Jakob. A charming black marketeer, badly wounded in the war but and setting up a rabbit farm. Chris Abram is preparing for the worst; the determined to help what's left of his family survive the peace. imminent floods, and anything else he can imagine: power cuts, starvation, societal collapse. Emma longs to lower a rope and winch him from the pit of Willy. A teenage boy diligently guarding a mine full of Wehrmacht supplies, his worries. But Chris doesn’t want to be rescued or even reassured; he his only friend a canary named Gertrud. Convinced the war isn’t over, he wants to pull her in after him. refuses to surrender his post. Carys Bray was awarded the Scott Prize for her debut short-story collection, When Clara returns to her hometown expecting to find her best friend, she Sweet Home. Her first novel, A Song for Issy Bradley, was chosen for Radio finds everything she once knew in ruins. But in war-ravaged Germany, it’s 4’s Book at Bedtime and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and not just the buildings that are scarred: everyone is changed, everyone lives winner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2015. She lives in in the wreckage of their own past. Southport with her husband and four children.

To survive, Clara must hide who she is. But to live, she must face up to the truth of what she’s done.

Anika Scott lives with her husband and two daughters in Essen, Germany, where her debut novel is set. She grew up in Michigan, USA and has degrees in International Politics and Journalism. She began her career wanting to be a CIA agent and had security clearance from an internship at the State Department in Washington, but CIA applications included never being able to write stories or keep a diary. Anika loves stories too much for that, and so became a journalist instead. She was staff on the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune before becoming a freelance journalist in Germany: her work has appeared widely in the US and European media. She runs an online resource about post-war German history at www.postwargermany.com

17 Neil Blackmore The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle

1764: Two brothers are sent off on a Grand Tour of Europe to meet People of Quality. Instead they meet the man who will destroy everything.

June 2020 Hardback £12.99 320 pages 9781786332028

'Your brother takes me for a barbarian, Mr Bowen. But I assure you, I’m quite well trained.'

When Benjamin and Edgar Bowen embark on a Grand Tour of Europe, they are ready to meet People of Quality. They have trunks full of powdered silver wigs and matching suits, a hunger to experience the architectural wonders of Ancient Rome and an ability to quote Voltaire (at length). They will make connections and establish themselves in high society, just as their mother has planned.

But it soon becomes apparent that their outfits are not quite the right shade of grey, their smiles are too ready, their appreciation of the arts ridiculous. Class, they learn, is not something that can be studied.

Benjamin’s true education begins when he meets Horace Lavelle. Beautiful, charismatic, seductive, Lavelle delights in skewering the pretensions and prejudices of their milieu. He consumes Benjamin’s every thought.

Love can transform a person. Can it save them?

Neil Blackmore never had any intention of becoming a writer. He wrote his first novel at work to fill time at a boring job. He published his first novel in his twenties but then spent most of his thirties travelling the world. THE INTOXICATING MR LAVELLE is his third novel. He lives in London.

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19 Sarah Frier Tom Bergin No Filter Free Lunch Thinking How Instagram Shaped Our Culture, Redefined How Economics Ruins the Economy

The extraordinary inside story of how Instagram took Why most economic assumptions made by over the world governments are wrong

May 2020 June 2020 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £20.00 320 pages 320 pages 9781847942524 9781847942739

In April 2012, Facebook spent $715 million buying out a photo app that was Over the past few decades, certain economic theories have achieved the less than two years old. status of fundamental economic truths among many of the world's governments: that high spending is always dangerous, for example; that Everyone in Silicon Valley thought it was crazy. In a market crowded with taxing corporations less makes them more productive; that the way to stop new social media platforms, why would Facebook spend so much cash on people doing things you don't want them to do (drinking, smoking and so) just another photo website – let alone one with a name as weird as on is to make them pay more for the privilege. Instagram? In Free Lunch Thinking economist and journalist Tom Bergin takes ten of the Ten years later, and Instagram has a value of over $100 billion. With over a most prevalent economic mantras and assesses how they play out in billion active users, it is second in size only to Facebook. practice in the real world. He studies the Irish experience with free trade to establish whether open markets are always desirable. He scrutinises the US In No Filter, Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier tells the remarkable inside story of how belief that high tax rates lead to lower tax revenue (the 'Laffer curve'). He Instagram became the hottest website on Earth. With astonishing access to looks at Italy's flirtation with the view that employment must be wholly all the key players, she recounts the fateful meeting of the Instagram flexible if jobs are to be created. And he considers the realities of the 'big' vs founders in 2010. She explores the company’s unlikely acquisition by 'small' government debate in countries that range from Brazil to Sweden to Facebook, and the internal clashes over whether it could retain its Japan. Again and again, he shows how common assumptions are rarely autonomy. And she reveals how, when Facebook entered a tailspin brought rooted in observed outcomes, and how countries frequently pursue about by data misuse and fake news, it was Instagram that came to the economic courses that have more to do with faith than facts. His book both rescue. challenges lazy thinking and sets out a path for more considered future.

But this is not just a Silicon Valley story. No Filter reveals how Instagram has Tom Bergin has reported on the energy industry for over twelve years, transformed global society – creating a new kind of celebrity, the having previously worked as an oil broker. He is in charge of Reuters's ‘influencer’, with unprecedented control over how we all buy; becoming coverage of the oil industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and his home not only to photos of pets and holidays, but also to bullies, racists, work has been published in The New York Times, The Times, The Wall and conspiracy theorists; and helping create a world in which a handful of Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Globe and Mail and the tech companies have unprecedented control over how we all shop and Shanghai Daily, as well as in dozens of newspapers and magazines around think. the world. He is a regular television and radio commentator, appearing on CNBC, ITV, the BBC and other outlets as far away as New Zealand. In 2013, The result is a book that raises profound questions about how he was named Business Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. technology is changing the world. Is Instagram really just another photo website? Or might it represent the future of every business Apart from the oil industry, Tom has reported on financial scandals, including on Earth? the rise and fall of Enron, environmental issues, EU politics and terrorist attacks. He lives in London with his wife, a former Reuters reporter turned Sarah Frier is a technology reporter at Bloomberg, based in San Francisco. investment banker, and two young sons. She has appeared on BBC News, MSNBC, NPR and CBS, and has been ranked by TalkingBizNews as one of the 20 most influential women in business journalism. @sarahfrier

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21 Ani Katz Donna Leon A Good Man Trace Elements

In her shocking and utterly compelling debut novel, A The twenty-ninth novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling Good Man, Ani Katz tackles the fragile world of toxic crime series. masculinity.

January 2020 March 2020 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £20.00 224 pages 272 pages 9781785152214 9781785152436

'Our lives were good – great, even. We were happy and secure. We A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido had everything we needed. There was no way for anyone to know – Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s least of all me – that it would all end the way it did.’ haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel. When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at Thomas Martin is everything a man is supposed to be. He has a beautiful the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario wife and a loving daughter, a good house on Long Island, a flourishing Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in career at a prestigious Manhattan advertising firm. He’s a good son and responding. brother, taking it upon himself to support his ailing mother and adult sisters. ‘They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no’, Benedetta Toso gasps He knows it’s his God-given duty to shield them, his girls, from the the words about her recently-deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even everyday horrors of the world. though he is not sure she can hear him Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni will look into what initially appears to be a private family tragedy. But he has failed, and unspeakable tragedy has befallen his family. They discover that Fadalto worked in the field collecting samples of contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice’s Now, Thomas struggles to come to terms with what has become of his life. water supply and that he had died in a mysterious motorcycle accident. If only he can tell the story as he saw it, he believes he might find out how Distracted briefly by Vice Questore Patta’s obsession with youth crime in and why things unravelled so horribly; how he failed so disastrously. Venice, Brunetti is bolstered once more by the remarkable research skills of Patta’s secretary, Signora Elettra Zorzi. Piecing together the tangled threads, Because Thomas Martin is a good man. in time Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the woman’s accusation and the threat it reveals to the health of the entire region. But A Good Man is a dark and gripping novel of psychological suspense about a justice in this case proves to be ambiguous, as Brunetti is reminded it can be family man, in the wake of a horrifying act, trying to work out where he when, seeking solace, he reads Aeschylus’s classic play The Eumenides. went wrong. It is the debut of a bold and brilliant new talent. As she has done so often through her memorable characters and storytelling skill, Donna Leon once again engages our sensibilities as to the differences Ani Katz is a writer, photographer, and teacher. She was born and raised on between guilt and responsibility. the south shore of Long Island, and holds an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and a BA from Yale. She lives in Brooklyn. Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist, celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Donna’s books have been translated into 35 languages and have been published around the world.

Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Fatal Remedies, Doctored Evidence, A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things.

22 Chris Heath Chris Heath Pet Shop Boys versus America Pet Shop Boys, Literally

The cult classic, rediscovered and restored

March 2020 March 2020 Hardback Hardback £16.99 £16.99 256 pages 400 pages 9781785152351 9781785152368

Pet Shop Boys versus America tells the story of how how one pioneering The Pet Shop Boys are one of the most influential pop groups of all time. British pop group broke America and established themsleves as global stars. Told through interviews and conversations between the innovative, Literally gives unprecedented access to a band who are frequently seen as enigmatic duo Neil Tennant and Chris Heath, observed during their obsessively reserved and secretive. "Pet Shops Boys Literally", written with legendary debut tour of the United States, this book offers an access all their co-operation, shadows them around Hong Kong, Japan and Britain on areas pass to the intimate workings of one of the greatest creative their 1989 tour, revealling two pop stars in unusally intimate detail as they partnerships in music history. work, relax, gossip, argue and, every now and then, try to make sense of what they do.

Updated edition featuring new material from The Pet Shop Boys and Chris Pet Shops Boys Literally describes the inspirations, the rows, the frustrations, Heath the confrontations with obsessive fans and the earning and expenditure of vast sums of money. In this book Chris Heath presents more than the Chris, an investigative news writer, has written for Rolling Stone, Details, document of a tour. He traces the Pet Shop Boys' wider history and tells the Telegraph and Sunday Times, amongst many others. His subjects have extraordinary story of what it is to be a pop star today. varied from Madonna and Lisa Marie Presley to politicians, murderers and artists. Chris, an investigative news writer, has written for Rolling Stone, Details, Telegraph and Sunday Times, amongst many others. His subjects have varied from Madonna and Lisa Marie Presley to politicians, murderers and artists.

23 John Niven Jenni Fagan The F*ck-it List Luckenbooth

Part political satire, part compulsive thriller, The F*ck- The hugely-anticipated third novel - ambitious, it List is John Niven at his coruscating best. ferocious and gripping - from the prize-winning author of The Panopticon.

March 2020 June 2020 Hardback Hardback £16.99 £16.99 320 pages Demy Octavo 9780434023264 352 pages 9780434023318

You are dying. Who do you kill? The devil’s daughter rows to Edinburgh in a coffin, to work as maid for the Minister of Culture, a man who lives a dual life. But the real reason she’s Set in a near-future America, an America that has borne two terms of a there is to bear him and his barren wife a child, the consequences of Trump Presidency and is now in the first term of Donald’s daughter as whichcurse the tenement building that is their home for a hundred years. president, Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, lives in a world where the populist policies Trump is currently so keen to pursue have been As we travel through the nine floors of the building and the next eight a reality for some years and are getting even more extreme – an erosion of decades, the resident’s lives entwine over the ages and in unpredictable abortion rights, less and less gun control, xenophobic immigration policies. ways. Along the way we encounter the city’s most infamous Madam, a seance, a civil rights lawyer, a bone mermaid, a famous Beat poet, a Frank, a good man, has just been given a terminal diagnosis. Rather than notorious Edinburgh gang, a spy, the literati, artists, thinkers, strippers, the compile a bucket list of all the things he’s ever wanted to do in his life, he spirit world – until a cosmic agent finally exposes the true horror of the instead has at the ready his ‘fuck-it list’. Because Frank has had to endure building’s longest kept secret. more than his fair share of personal misfortune. And he has the names of those who are to blame for all of the tragedies that have befallen him. No. 10 Luckenbooth Close hurtles the reader through personal and global history — eerily reflecting modern life today. But eventually, as he becomes more accustomed to dishing out cold revenge and the stakes get higher and higher, and with a rogue county Jenni Fagan was born in Scotland, and lives in Edinburgh. She graduated sheriff on his tail, there only remains one name left at the bottom of his from Greenwich University with the highest possible mark for a student of fuck-it list. Creative Writing, and won a scholarship to the Royal Holloway MFA. A published poet, she has won awards from Creative Scotland, Dewar Arts and Part political satire, part compulsive thriller, The F*ck-it List is John Niven at Scottish Screen among others. She has twice been nominated for the his coruscating best. Pushcart Prize and was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. Jenni was selected John Niven was born in Irvine, Ayrshire. He is the author of the novella as one of the Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013 after the Music from Big Pink and the novels Kill Your Friends, The Amateurs, The publication of her highly acclaimed debut novel, The Panopticon. Her most Second Coming, Cold Hands, Straight White Male, The Sunshine Cruise recent novel, The Sunlight Pilgrims, was shortlisted for The Royal Society of Company and No Good Deed. Literature’s Encore Award.

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25 Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi Jeremiah Emmanuel Taking Up Space Dreaming in a Nightmare The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change

A groundbreaking exploration of the problems of A moving and powerful account of the problems faced diversity in education. and overcome by a new generation of people of colour, from an extraordinarily accomplished young

February 2020 May 2020 Paperback Hardback £7.99 £12.99 256 pages 384 pages 9781529118544 9781529118612

THE FLAGSHIP 2019 RELEASE OF #MERKY BOOKS Jeremiah Emmanuel is a nineteen-year-old who lives in two different ______worlds. He was born and raised in south London, in an area plagued by ‘Brilliant’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS crime, poverty and a lack of opportunities. ‘Hugely important’ PAULA AKPAN ‘Essential’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO This was the world that he knew when he was growing up. It was a world ______where violence was accepted and prison was expected. A world in which As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act your best friend could vanish overnight. A nightmare. of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for But as he got older, Jeremiah got to know another world. This was a world change. where people were kind to you, where opinions were heard, where doors were opened, where opportunities were everywhere. A dream. FOR BLACK GIRLS: Dreaming in a Nightmare is the story of those two worlds, and how it is Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish possible to move from one to the other. It is both a powerful and urgent for you is that you read this and feel empowered, comforted and validated exploration of a growing national crisis, and an inspirational guide to in every emotion you experience, or decision that you make. success. It is the first work by an exceptionally talented young activist and thinker, and a book that will change your world. FOR EVERYONE ELSE: Jeremiah Emmanuel is a youth activist, public speaker and entrepreneur. He We can only hope that reading this helps you to be a better friend, parent, started working within his local community at the age of four, campaigning sibling or teacher to black girls living through what we did. It's time we around several issues that affected young people with the Nelson Mandela stepped away from seeing this as a problem that black people are charged School Foundation. In 2011 he was elected into the UK Youth Parliament with solving on their own. becoming an MYP, and later became a young mayor within London. Aged fifteen, he founded the BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra Youth council, and created a It's a collective effort. youth consultancy enterprise, EMNL, which has recently worked with And everyone has a role to play. organisations including Rolls-Royce, Nike and the Queens Commonwealth Trust. He is also a member of the Gates Foundation, a youth ambassador Featuring honest conversations with students past and present, Taking Up for the Big Change Charitable Trust, a Founding Member of the Conduit Space goes beyond the buzzwords of diversity and inclusion and explores London. In 2017, he was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM). what those words truly mean for young black girls today. ______#Merky Books was set up by publishers Penguin Random House and Stormzy in June 2018 to find and publish the best writers of a new generation and to publish the stories that are not being heard. #Merky Books aims to open up the world of publishing, and this year has launched a New Writer’s Prize and will soon be launching a #Merky Books traineeship.

‘I know too many talented writers that don’t always have an outlet or a means to get their work seen, and hopefully #Merky Books can now be a reference point for them to say “I can be an author”, and for that to be a realistic and achievable goal… Reading and writing as a kid were integral to where I am today and I, from the bottom of my heart, cannot wait to hear your stories and get them out into the big wide world.’ STORMZY

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27 Mike Parker Jennifer Eberhardt On the Red Hill Biased Where Four Lives Fell Into Place

A multi-layered memoir of love, acceptance, finding From one of the world’s leading experts on home and the redemptive power of nature. unconscious racial bias comes a landmark examination of one of the central controversies and culturally

February 2020 March 2020 Paperback Paperback £9.99 £9.99 416 pages 352 pages 9781786090492 9781786090195

______'Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, 'A moving, multilayered memoir… extraordinary, ambitious... its and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all scope is immense. A book that is deep in riches.' Simon Callow, levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you.' BENJAMIN Guardian ZEPHANIAH

‘A marvellous book... an uplifting tale of tranquillity sought and ‘Poignant... striking... important and illuminating.’ NEW YORK TIMES found in the nearest Britain gets to paradise.’ Simon Jenkins ______No matter how fair-minded we think we are, we still don't treat ‘There are worlds on worlds within this lyrical and profoundly people equally. cultured book. In an age of toxic artifice, this is the most Why not? necessary medicine: the tenderness of reality and the living, elemental, world.’ Jay Griffiths Every day, unconscious biases affect our visual perception, attention, memory and behaviour in ways that are subtle and very difficult to ______recognise without in-depth scientific studies. In a single interaction, they A multi-layered memoir of love, acceptance, finding home and the might slip by unnoticed. Over thousands of interactions, they become a redemptive power of nature. huge and powerful force.

In early 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the Jennifer Eberhardt is a pioneering social psychologist one of the world's first civil partnership ceremony in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth. The leading experts on unconscious bias. In this landmark book, she lays out celebrants were their friends Reg and George, who had moved to deepest how these biases affect every sector of society, leading to enormous rural Wales in 1972, not long after the decriminalisation of homosexuality. disparities from the classroom to the courtroom to the boardroom. When Reg and George died within a few weeks of each other in 2011, Mike and Peredur discovered that they had been left their home: a whitewashed But unconscious bias is not a sin to be condemned. It's a universal human ‘house from the children’s stories’, buried deep within the hills. They had condition, and as Eberhardt shows, one that can – and must – be overcome. also been left a lifetime’s collection of diaries, photographs, letters and ______books, all revealing an extraordinary history. 'A critically important book.' DAVID OLUSOGA, author of Black and British On the Red Hill is the story of Rhiw Goch, ‘the Red Hill’, and its inhabitants, but also the story of a remarkable rural community and a legacy that ‘Groundbreaking... essential reading for anyone interested in how extends far beyond bricks and mortar. On The Red Hill celebrates the turn of we become a more just society.’ BRYAN STEVENSON, author of Just the year’s wheel, of ever-changing landscapes, and of the family to be Mercy found in the unlikeliest of places. Taking the four seasons, the four elements and these four lives as his structure, Mike Parker creates a lyrical but clear- 'Jennifer Eberhardt’s ground-breaking work has the power to shift eyed exploration of the natural world, the challenges of accepting one’s the debate and help shape a fairer society.' DAVID LAMMY MP place in it, and what it can mean to find home. ______‘Jennifer Eberhardt gives us the opportunity to talk about race in new ways, ultimately transforming our thinking about ourselves ‘A delightful book about beauty, joy, love and home... to be and the world we want to create.’ MICHELLE ALEXANDER, author of The celebrated and read.’ Sara Maitland New Jim Crow

‘A great queer rural triumph of a book – wonderfully passionate, ‘An illuminating and readable account of how racial stereotypes funny and insightful. It overflows with love.’ Tom Bullough and assumptions can cause social devastation and keep huge inequalities in place.’ DR PRIYAMVADA GOPAL, University of Cambridge Mike Parker is a writer and broadcaster. His books to date include Map Addict and the Rough Guide to Wales. He writes for publications including 'This books should be required reading for everyone.' ROBIN the Guardian and the Sunday Times, and presents on radio and television. DIANGELO, author of White Fragility

28 James Ellroy Lara Prescott This Storm The Secrets We Kept

The second novel in Ellroy's second 'L.A. Quartet', A wonderful, revelatory, unforgettable read about which began with the publication of Perfidia in 2014. passion, friendship, hidden heroes, and the power of the written word to change the world.

March 2020 March 2020 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £8.99 608 pages 480 pages 9780099537779 9781786090744

______The September pick for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book 'Ellroy writes with raw power … undeniably one of the most Club influential crime writers of our time' THE TIMES ______'A thrilling, seductive and utterly compelling novel. I absolutely 'a tangled fever-dream … Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian loved it!' SARAH WINMAN vision of wartime LA' SUNDAY TIMES ______TWO FEMALE SPIES. A BANNED MASTERPIECE. A BOOK THAT A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico CHANGED HISTORY. during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive January, ’42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese power, ban it. are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. But in the rest of the world it’s fast becoming a sensation.

The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They’re wrong. It’s an early- In Washington DC, the CIA is planning to use the book to tip the Cold War in warning signal of Chaos. its favour.

There’s a murderous fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. There’s Their agents are not the usual spies, however. Two typists – the charming, Fifth Column treason – at this moment, on American soil. There are experienced Sally and the talented novice Irina – are charged with the homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. There’s two dead cops in a mission of a lifetime: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago back into Russia by any dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date means necessary. with History. It will not be easy. There are people prepared to die for this book – and Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He’s a flesh peddler and a bagman for agents willing to kill for it. But they cannot fail – as this book has the power the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti- to change history. Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He’s gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born Sold in twenty-five countries and poised to become a global rogue. She’s a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. literary sensation, Lara Prescott's dazzling first novel is a sweeping page turner and the most hotly anticipated debut of the L.A., ’42. Homefront madness ascendant. Early-wartime inferno – This year. Storm is James Ellroy’s most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, ______tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes. ______‘A riveting story of secrets, forbidden passions and the dark arts of ‘Epic crime writing from a master’ DAILY MAIL espionage. I couldn’t put it down!’ LISA JEWELL

‘Ellroy is unique. There is nobody writing this way … Nobody has 'Enthralling... This is a rare page-turner with prose that's as wily done or is doing what he is doing’ BOOKMUNCH as its plot.' VOGUE

Date: 2003-05-13 'A proto-feminist Mad Men transposed to the world of James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the international espionage – mid-century style and intrigue set ‘Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy’ – American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and against real, indelible history.' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Blood’s a Rover – and the ‘L.A. Quartet’ novels, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere,L.A. Confidential andWhite Jazz. He lives in Colorado. ‘I loved this book. So vivid and engaging. A joy to read a story about spies that has lots of women in active roles.’ CATHY RENTZENBRINK

29 Casey Cep Charles Handy Furious Hours 21 Letters on Life and Its Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Challenges

The stunning true story of an Alabama serial killer, and One of our leading thinkers considers the challenges the trial that obsessed the author of To Kill a that life and the future hold for us Mockingbird in the years after the publication of her

May 2020 June 2020 Paperback Paperback £9.99 £9.99 356 pages 176 pages 9780099510598 9781786090973

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON- Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on FICTION management – including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management – have changed the way we view business. His work on ‘A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper broader issues and trends – such as Beyond Certainty and The Second Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she’d spent years Curve – has changed the way we view society. researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth.’ In his new book, Handy builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and DAVID GRANN, author of Killers of the Flower Moon see what challenges and opportunities the next generation faces. How will ______people cope with change in a world where the old certainties no longer The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime apply? What goals will and should they set themselves? How will they find book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To purpose and fulfilment in their lives? Clear-eyed and optimistic by turns, he Kill a Mockingbird sets out the questions that everyone needs to ask themselves, and points us in the direction of the answers. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a Charles Handy is an independent writer, broadcaster and teacher. He has savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at been an oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s School, the Warden of St. George's House in Windsor Castle and the murderer was acquitted – thanks to the same attorney who had previously chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture defended the Reverend. and Commerce. He was born in Co. Kildare in Ireland, the son of an archdeacon, and educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the As Alabama is consumed by these gripping events, it’s not long until news of USA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His many books include The the case reaches Alabama’s – and America’s – most famous writer. Intrigued Empty Raincoat, Understanding Organizations, Gods of Management, The by the story, Harper Lee makes a journey back to her home state to Future of Work and Waiting for the Mountain to Move. witness the Reverend’s killer face trial. Harper had the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research. Lee spent a year in town reporting on the Maxwell case and many more years trying to finish the book she called The Reverend.

Now Casey Cep brings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country’s most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity.

This is the story Harper Lee wanted to write. This is the story of why she couldn’t. ______'Fascinating ... Cep has spliced together a Southern-gothic tale of multiple murder and the unhappy story of Lee’s literary career, to produce a tale that is engrossing in its detail and deeply poignant... [Cep] spends the first third of Furious Hours following the jaw-dropping trail of murders ... Engrossing ... Cep writes about all this with great skill, sensitivity and attention to detail.' SUNDAY TIMES

‘It’s been a long time since I picked up a book so impossible to

30 Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring Chaos The Truth Behind the Manson Murders

CHAOS UNEARTHS LONG-KEPT SECRETS THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING READERS THOUGHT THEY KNEW ABOUT THE CRIME THAT ENDED THE SIXTIES

June 2020 Paperback £8.99 356 pages 9781786090621

______A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI’s involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous cases in American history.

In 1999, when Tom O’Neill was assigned a magazine piece about the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Weren’t the facts indisputable? Charles Manson had ordered his teenage followers to commit seven brutal murders, and in his thrall, they’d gladly complied. But when O’Neill began reporting the story, he kept finding holes in the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s narrative, long enshrined in the bestselling Helter Skelter. Before long, O’Neill had questions about everything from the motive to the manhunt. Though he’d never considered himself a conspiracy theorist, the Manson murders swallowed the next two decades of his career. He was obsessed.

Searching but never speculative, CHAOS follows O’Neill's twenty-year effort to rebut the ‘official’ story behind Manson. Who were his real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn’t law enforcement act on their many chances to stop him? And how did he turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O’Neill's hunt for answers leads him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from the Summer of Love to the shadowy sites of the CIA’s mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with cover-ups and coincidences.

Featuring hundreds of new interviews and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI and the CIA, CHAOS mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. In those two dark nights in Los Angeles, O’Neill finds the story of California in the sixties: when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia-or dystopia-was just an acid trip away. ______‘Riveting … Sensational revelations … True crime fans will be enthralled.’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

'[Full of] scandalous findings … to me it seems only too plausible. O’Neill's intricately sinister ‘secret history’ often sounds incredible; that doesn't mean that it's not all true.' OBSERVER

Tom O’Neill (Author) Tom O’Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Premiere, New York, The Village Voice and Details.

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32 William Henry Searle Taylor Jenkins Reid Threads Daisy Jones and The Six The most rock n roll novel of 2019

A lyrical journey through life, love and nature. ‘I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band.’ Reese Witherspoon

January 2020 January 2020 Paperback Paperback £9.99 £8.99 320 pages UK C/Wealth ex Can 9781787462397 416 pages 9781787462144

------THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Touching and on occasion profoundly moving ... The connections 'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember the last time I read a book that was and affinities that fill this book enliven, enlighten and delight.' so fun' DOLLY ALDERTON STEPHEN FRY ______They were the new icons of rock and roll, fated to burn bright and 'Beautifully written and insightful.' RAYNOR WINN not fade away. But on 12 July 1979, it all came crashing down. 'Searle creates a powerful sense of place. You can sniff the air and touch the trees.' MICHAEL PALIN There was Daisy, rock and roll force of nature, brilliant songwriter and unapologetic drug addict, the half-feral child who rose to superstardom. ------There was Camila, the frontman’s wife, too strong-willed to let the band A lyrical journey through life, love and nature implode – and all too aware of the electric connection between her husband and Daisy. Weaving together personal stories, Threads deals with the meanings of intimacy, vulnerability and our affinities with people There was Karen, ice-cool keyboardist, a ferociously independent woman in and places, both wild and tame. It is a deep exploration of the a world that wasn’t ready for her. encounters that lend quiet networks of grace to our busy lives. And there were the men surrounding them: the feuding, egotistical Dunne William Henry Searle casts an eye back to episodes spent in close brothers, the angry guitarist chafing on the sidelines, the drummer binge- and tender relationships with members of his family, childhood drinking on his boat, the bassist trying to start a family amid a hedonistic friends, animals and loved ones, in places that range from his world tour. They were creative minds striking sparks from each other, ready father’s scrap metal yards, to the jungles of Borneo, an Oregon to go up in flames. river and the Swiss Alps. It’s never just about the music… In thoughtful, elegant prose, Searle celebrates the quiet ______conversations that nourish us, and the everyday patterns of connection that give meaning to our human existence. ‘Brace for 2019’s first pop-culture sensation . . . we’re not exaggerating . . . new obsession, incoming’ TELEGRAPH ------‘Utterly believable . . . fantastically enjoyable’ THE TIMES 'An exceptionally rich celebration of the natural world, by turns rapturous and melancholy, and often – in strikingly original ways 'Pitch perfect' SUNDAY TIMES – both at the same time.' SIR ANDREW MOTION ‘Reads like an addictive Netflix documentary meets A Star Is Born – despite being utterly fictional. It’s also a call-to-arms that when William Henry Searle, PhD, is a poet and writer whose work draws on you find your niche, don’t doubt, embrace it.’ EMERALD STREET personal lived experience, seeking to interweave the natural world with the human. He holds a doctorate in creative writing and environmental 'The verdict: Daisy Jones steals the limelight… A zeitgeist book for philosophy, for which he was awarded a three-year studentship to study at 2019' STYLIST the Royal Holloway University of London. His first book, Lungs of my Earth, was published in the USA in 2015 by Hiraeth Press. He divides his time 'Well observed, sensitively told . . . a great read.' WILL GOMPERTZ, between Snowdonia and the New Forest, exploring, writing and wood BBC carving. ‘A tremendously engaging, and completely believable tale of rock

33 Evie Grace Heidi Perks The Lace Maiden Come Back For Me Your next obsession from the author of Richard

A brand new saga series set against the backdrop of The breathtaking new thriller from the author of the the Napoleonic Wars on the Kentish Coast. Perfect for Richard and Judy bestseller NOW YOU SEE HER fans of Dilly Court and Poldark.

January 2020 January 2020 Paperback Paperback £6.99 £7.99 400 pages 432 pages 9781787464407 9781787460782

Deal, Kent 1817 The breathtaking new thriller from the author of the Richard and Judy bestseller NOW YOU SEE HER The Lennickers live in a cottage in one of the narrow alleyways off Middle ______Street, among the counting houses, shops and inns, where the smugglers plot and the seamen drink rum. When Pa Lennicker – a Deal boatman, A DEADLY DISCOVERY. fisherman and smuggler - is murdered by a rival gang over the AN ISLAND WRAPPED IN SECRETS. disappearance of some contraband, the sisters are forced to carve out a living from the ‘honourable trade’ in spirits, French lace, gold and jewellery. A tiny community is rocked by the discovery of a long-buried body. But most of all, they must find a way of wreaking their revenge. For Stella Harvey the news is doubly shocking. The body has been found in The sisters – Louisa, Winnie and Grace – find themselves involved in the garden of her childhood home - the home her family fled without carrying and hiding contraband. They prepare the goods for sale – diluting explanation twenty-five years ago. brandy and cutting tea with rose leaves – while at risk of being discovered by revenue officers and rival smugglers. They receive goods from ships Now, questioning her past and desperate to unearth the truth, Stella returns wrecked on the treacherous Goodwin Sands a few miles off the coast, and to the isolated island. But she quickly finds that the community she left isn’t become involved with transferring prisoners of war and gold on the guinea as welcoming as she remembers – and that people in it will go to any length boats to France. to protect their secrets.

If they are caught, they risk imprisonment, transportation or death by One thing rings true… hanging, something that can be avoided by turning in King’s evidence. But You can’t bury the truth forever. they will have to mind their backs to avoid being tarred and feathered - or ______worse - for their betrayal. Early readers love Heidi's latest five-star thriller: Evie Grace was born in Kent, and one of her earliest memories is of picking cherries with her grandfather who managed a fruit farm near Selling. 'This is a read not to be missed!!!' Holidays spent in the Kent countryside and the stories passed down through 'Family secrets, mystery and intrigue. This is the perfect book that won't her family inspired her to write her Maids of Kent trilogy. disappoint' 'A surprising plot and lots of twists with interesting characters. I loved Evie now lives in Devon with her partner and dog. She has a grown-up the writing style and the setting of the story' daughter and son. 'Come Back For Me is easily the best thriller I've read in a long time' 'Lots of twists and turns, guaranteed page-turner that keeps you She loves researching the history of the nineteenth century and is very guessing until the end' grateful for the invention of the washing machine, having discovered how 'Come Back For Me was a really engaging and addictive read, about the Victorians struggled to do their laundry. family secrets, a tight-knit community and family ties' 'Fascinating family drama with more than a hint of psychological thriller' 'A fantastic thriller that grabbed me from the start' 'Full of twists and turns, this book will have you riveted to every surprise event' 'I literally finished this book in a few hours - I couldn't tell myself to put it down.' 'Perks has a real knack for throwing red herrings at the readers - I had a long list of suspects and theories, but she still managed to pull it out of the bag and surprise me' 'If you're looking for a thriller with plenty of mystery and intrigue, you've got the perfect book here'

34 Anna Merlan Ellie Dean Republic of Lies Homecoming American Conspiracy Theorists and Their

From UFOs to the New World Order, this is the inside THE EIGHTEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY story of how conspiracy theorists won over America TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN

January 2020 January 2020 Paperback Paperback £9.99 £7.99 288 pages Wrld Eng Lan(US+CA 9781787460201 Pend) 400 pages 9781787462793

______************** ‘Timely and troubling’ Evening Standard PRE-ORDER NOW: ‘A necessary book’ David Aaronovitch THE EIGHTEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING ‘Frequently jaw-dropping’ Huffington Post AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East, but for those living at Beach From UFOs to the New World Order, the inside story of how View Boarding House, the news brings mixed emotions. conspiracy theories won over America. Peggy Reilly is devastated that her husband Jim will not be coming home In November 2017, a serial climate change denier and anti-vaxxer was for Christmas. And Sarah and Jane, who have lived at Beach View elected President of the United States. The rise of Donald Trump marked the throughout much of the conflict, dread what they will find when they go beginning of a new American epoch: the age of the conspiracy theorist. back to Singapore.

Now, Anna Merlan goes undercover in America’s sprawling network of Life in Cliffehaven is in a whirlwind of change as the men return from the conspiracy theorists and uncovers their secrets. She meets the UFOlogist war and Peggy’s evacuee chicks begin to spread their wings and start new who claims to have travelled to Mars with a young Barack Obama. She lives in different corners of the world. chats with the ‘pizzagate’ truthers who think Washington D.C.’s favourite pizzeria is run by a satanic paedophile ring. And she bumps into Alex Jones, Peggy and Jim have longed to be together after so many years apart, but the YouTube impresario who thinks the state is using chemical warfare to war has left them profoundly changed. Can they rekindle the loving, close turn the population gay – and who happens to be on first-name terms with relationship they’d shared before? the leader of the free world. Ellie Dean lives in a tiny hamlet set deep in the heart of the South Downs Merlan reveals a world of innuendo and propaganda lying just beneath the in Sussex, which has been her home for many years and where she raised surface of US culture. It might just help explain the political turmoil of our her three children. She is the author of the The Cliffehaven Series. time. ______To find out more visit www.ellie-dean.co.uk

‘Through exhaustive research, personal interviews, and a critical yet at times appropriately empathetic approach, writer Anna Merlan has written a captivating book that illuminates the landscape of conspiracy theories.’ New York Magazine

‘An entertaining taxonomy of toxic ideas’ Herald

‘A rock-steady narrator with a ready command of history, nerves of steel, and incisive social insights . . . We need a thousand of her, or a million.’ The Nation

Anna Merlan is a journalist specialising in politics, crime, religion, subcultures, and women’s lives. She is a reporter at the Special Projects Desk, the investigative division of Gizmodo Media Group. She was previously a senior reporter at Jezebel and staff writer at the Village Voice and the Dallas Observer. She lives in New York.

35 James Patterson Emma Kennedy Hush Hush The Things We Left Unsaid (Harriet Blue 4) An unforgettable story of love and family

The fourth novel in the no. 1 bestselling series Imbued with warmth, All of Us is a life-affirming read featuring Detective Harriet Blue which explores the ways in which it is the people we love the most who truly shape us. Fans of Ruth Hogan,

January 2020 February 2020 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £7.99 400 pages 416 pages 9781787462182 9781787463288

Harriet Blue used to be a detective. Now she's inmate 3329. A HOPEFUL AND HEARTBREAKING TALE OF A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WITH AN UNFORGETTABLE SECRET AT ITS CORE Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop – as Harriet Blue is learning on ______a daily basis. "So tender and thoughtful. I loved it" MARIAN KEYES So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person "A gorgeous, rich treat" JANE FALLON she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who "Warm, intriguing, brimming with tenderness... A joyous book" put her inside. RUTH JONES ______But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her two-year-old child have gone missing. Rachel’s relationship with her mother, Eleanor, has always been far from perfect. Eleanor is a renowned artist forged in the swinging sixties, and He's ready to offer Harriet a deal: find his family to buy her freedom... Rachel has forever lived in the shadow of her success.

James Patterson (Author) When Rachel is left by her fiancé on the morning of their wedding, she has JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of no choice but to move back into her family home and spend an unbearably all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He hot summer with a mother she feels distant from – in the presence of many is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – painful memories. the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers It will take another turn of events before Rachel realises that sometimes the including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. past holds exactly the comfort we need. And that behind the words left unsaid are untold stories that have the power to define us. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries "This book is incredibly special… I cared so deeply for all of the and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to characters" GABY ROSLIN independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida "Involving and emotional" JANET ELLIS with his wife and son. ______Early readers absolutely love The Things We Left Unsaid: Candice Fox (Author) Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney’s ‘A really enjoyable book.’ western suburbs. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster- ‘Truly beautiful. I adored this book. I cried and know that when I read carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of this again and again I’ll cry each time.’ violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories to her ‘A real and full story that was completely relatable.’ mother and older brothers. ‘An excellent read and I would certainly recommend it.’ ‘The sense of time and place was very authentic.’ Candice won back-to-back Ned Kelly awards for her first two novels – ‘I loved the characters and both them and London felt so alive. The story Hades and Eden. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed Fall, unfolded at a good pace with lots of treasured moments and the story Crimson Lake, Redemption and Gone by Midnight. Candice’s first felt new.’ collaboration with James Patterson, Never Never, was a Sunday Times and ‘The little details portraying the different time periods really make this New York Times no. 1 bestseller. They have co-authored three further book special. This is definitely one I’ll be recommending.’ novels featuring Harriet Blue – Fifty Fifty, Liar Liar and Hush Hush. ‘A beautiful story of relationships and their complications.’ ‘Would recommend without hesitation.’ ‘I absolutely loved it.’ ‘Set in two time periods, present day and the sixties, this is a compelling

36 Katie Fforde Fiona Ford A Rose Petal Summer Wartime at Liberty's It’s never too late to fall in love

The brand new heart-warming romance from the ***THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE LIBERTY GIRLS SERIES. Sunday Times bestselling author of A Country Escape Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell, Elaine Everest, and A Secret Garden. Nadine Dorries and Mr Selfridge.***

February 2020 February 2020 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £6.99 400 pages 384 pages 9781784758257 9781787464247

______London, 1942 The brand new heart-warming romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Country Escape and A Secret Garden. Flo Canning’s heart is beyond repair following the news that she has been ______dreading since the outbreak of war. As Flo throws herself into the role of IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE... fabric manager at Liberty’s, old and new friends alike help pull her from a whirl of despair. Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland. Between work and home life there’s plenty to keep Flo occupied. Not least She’s answered an ad in The Lady: being a companion to an elderly new deputy store manager, Henry Masters, whose arrival has consequences gentleman who lives in a country estate could be perfect! Surely it's time to that Flo and her workmates could never have foreseen. make a change and do something different for a while? But there is more tragedy still to come, and Flo and her friends will need The fact that she may also see Alec, the young man who she met some each other more than ever if they are to survive the uncertainty ahead. years previously and who she has always thought of as her ‘one who got away’, is of course purely incidental. Fiona Ford is the author of the Liberty Girls series, which is set in London during the Second World War. Soon Caro is falling in love - not only with Alec but with the stunning country house she's now living in. But the estate is in financial difficulties, and Caro Fiona spent many years as a journalist writing for women’s weekly and soon realises there's only one way to rescue it. monthly magazines. She has written two novels under the pseudonym, Fiona Harrison, as well as two sagas in her own name in the Spark Girls So begins a magical romantic summer, one that will take Caro from series. Scotland to London and the south of France, in search of a classic lost perfume that might just restore all their fortunes. Fiona lives in Berkshire with her partner.

Romance, humour, a cast of warm and totally believable characters and the tantalising possibility of happily-ever-after? It must be a Katie Fforde novel. ______

The whole world loves Katie Fforde's work:

"Modern-day Austen. Great fun" Red

"Top-drawer romantic escapism" Daily Mail

"Warm, brilliant and full of love" Heat

"Effortlessly lovable, warm and fun" Closer

"Deliciously enjoyable" Woman and Home

"Delicious - gorgeous humour and the lightest of touches" Sunday Times

Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and is a true country girl at heart. Each of her books explores a different

37 Leah Hazard Adam Christopher Hard Pushed Stranger Things: Darkness on the A Midwife’s Story Edge of Town

A midwife memoir for today: HUTCHINSON'S LEAD Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to NON-FICTION DEBUT FOR 2019 Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of

February 2020 February 2020 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £8.99 304 pages 432 pages 9781787464216 9781787462465

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his ______old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things. No sleep for twenty hours. No food for ten. And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers… Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter has other plans. Midwives are there for us at some of the most challenging, empowering and Over Hopper’s protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked “New York” out defining moments of our lives. From heart-wrenching grief to the pure joy of the basement—and the tough questions begin. Why did Hopper leave of a new-born baby, midwife Leah Hazard has seen it all. Hawkins all those years ago? What does “Vietnam” mean? And why has he never talked about New York? But life on the NHS front line, working within a system at breaking point, is more extreme than you could ever imagine. Although he’d rather face a horde of demogorgons than talk about his own past, Hopper knows that he can’t deny the truth any longer. And so begins Moving and compassionate, funny and unexpected, Leah shares her the story of the incident in New York—the last big case before everything experiences in this extraordinary love letter to new mothers and changed… fellow midwives everywhere. ______Summer, New York City, 1977. Hopper is starting over after returning home from Vietnam. A young daughter, a caring wife, and a new beat as an 'The stories in Hard Pushed highlight the bravery of our midwives, NYPD detective make it easy to slip back into life as a civilian. But after and the women they care for.' CHRISTIE WATSON, author of The shadowy federal agents suddenly show and seize the files about a series of Language of Kindness brutal, unsolved murders, Hopper takes matters into his own hands, risking everything to discover the truth. 'Heart-rending, inspiring and funny, Hard Pushed brings alive the world of midwifery in all its complexity and radiates love and Soon Hopper is undercover among New York’s notorious street gangs. But respect for women.' PROFESSOR LESLEY PAGE CBE, former president of just as he's about to crack the case, a blackout rolls across the boroughs, the Royal College of Midwives plunging Hopper into a darkness deeper than any he’s faced before.

'It is Leah Hazard's capacity to love and give so personally to the Adam Christopher’s debut novel, Empire State, was SciFiNow’s Book of many thousands of women she has worked with which imbues this the Year and a Financial Times Book of the Year. He is also the author of book with its power.' JULIA SAMUEL, author of Grief Works Seven Wonders, Hang Wire, and The Burning Dark, as well as these nonfiction books: Made to Kill, Standard Hollywood Depravity, and Killing Is 'Not only powerful but well written too . . . a worthwhile addition My Business. A contributor to the internationally bestselling Star Wars: From to a genre fast becoming as crowded as a busy maternity unit.' a Certain Point of View fortieth-anniversary anthology, Christopher has also DAILY EXPRESS written the official tie-in novels for the hit CBS television show Elementary and the award-winning Dishonored videogame franchise, and, with Chuck 'A riveting read: heartwarming and heartbreaking' SHEENA BYROM Wendig, wrote The Shield for Dark Circle/Archie Comics. Born in New OBE, midwifery consultant and author of Catching Babies Zealand, Adam has lived in Great Britain since 2006.

'A beautifully written, intimate portrait of the extraordinary work that midwives carry out each and every day.' CAROLINE ELTON, author of Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

Leah Hazard is a serving NHS midwife. Having studied at Harvard, she left a career in television to pursue her lifelong interest in women’s health after the birth of her first daughter. She soon began working as a doula, supporting women in pregnancy and attending numerous births in homes

38 James Patterson Katie Flynn Unsolved Liverpool Daughter A heart-warming wartime story

FBI analyst Emmy Dockery will stop at nothing to link A brand new novel from the bestselling author Katie a series of horrific crimes in this thrilling sequel to Flynn. This is book one in her first ever series about a Invisible young girl trying to make her way in war-torn

February 2020 March 2020 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £7.99 496 pages 400 pages 9781787461772 9781787463028

The chilling sequel to no. 1 bestseller Invisible THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MOTHER'S DAY: THE FIRST IN A HEART- WARMING NEW SERIES BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, KATIE FBI analyst Emmy Dockery's unique ability to uncover the patterns that FLYNN others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests. But a new case ______– unfolding across the country – has left her looking for something which ‘Home is where the heart is, and my heart belongs to Liverpool. We may not exist. wouldn’t dream of leavin’ our beloved city…’

The victims all appear to have died by accident, and seemingly have August 1940: As the Luftwaffe swarm over Liverpool, Shane Quinn decides nothing in common. But this many deaths can't be a coincidence. Can they? to move his family back to the safety of Ireland. But his only child, the beautiful Dana, would rather stay and serve her country than flee to a Emmy's instincts tell her this is the work of a terrifyingly intelligent serial foreign land. killer – and she's determined to prove it. When her obsession with the crimes raises flags within the FBI, she's in danger of becoming a suspect Determined to make it on her own, she joins the WAAF with newfound pals herself. Patty and Lucy. There’s plenty of excitement to be had on a RAF station, even a chance or two at love… But someone else is watching Dockery. Studying, learning, waiting. Until it's the perfect time to strike. But the stark reality of war begins to take its toll and the three girls soon discover they need their friendship more than ever. And when shocking JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of news arrives from Ireland, Dana will realise the true importance of family. all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He ______is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – Praise for Katie Flynn the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers 'If you pick up a Katie Flynn book it's going to be a wrench to put it down including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. again' Holyhead and Anglesey Mail James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young ‘Packed with romance and poignancy’ readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries Woman and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult ‘One of the best Liverpool writers’ fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida Liverpool Echo with his wife and son. ‘Heart-warming’ Take a Break

Katie Flynn is the pen name of the much-loved writer, Judy Turner, who published over ninety novels in her lifetime. Judy’s unique stories were inspired by hearing family recollections of life in Liverpool during the early twentieth century, and her books went on to sell more than eight million copies. Judy passed away in January 2019, aged 82.

The legacy of Katie Flynn lives on through her daughter, Holly Flynn, who continues to write under the Katie Flynn name. Holly worked as an assistant to her mother for many years and together they co-authored a number of Katie Flynn novels, including Christmas at Tuppenny Corner.

39 Douglas Adams and Mark Maeve Binchy Carwardine Circle Of Friends Last Chance To See

Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine lead us on an An enchanting novel of fierce loyalty and love in unforgettable journey in search of the world's most changing times, from the bestselling author of Light a endangered species. Penny Candle

March 2020 March 2020 Paperback Paperback £9.99 £9.99 224 pages 736 pages 9780099536796 9780099498599

Douglas Adams' genius was in using comedy to make serious points about Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best the world' Independent friends growing up in sleepy Knockglen. Their one thought is to get to Dublin, to university and to freedom... After years of reflecting on the absurdities of life on other planets, Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine to find out what was On their first day at University College, Dublin, the inseparable pair are happening to life on this one. Together they lead us on an unforgettable thrown together with fellow students Nan Mahon, beautiful but selfish, and journey across the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures - animals handsome Jack Foley. But trouble is brewing for Benny and Eve's new circle that they may never get another chance to see. They encounter the animal of friends, and before long, they find passion, tragedy - and the kingdom in its stunning beauty, astonishing variety, and imminent peril: the independence they yearned for. giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the helpless but lovable Kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, the white rhinos of Zaire, the rare Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin, and went to school at the Holy Child birds of Mauritius island in the Indian Ocean. Both funny and poignant, Last Convent in Killiney. She took a history degree at UCD and taught in various Chance to See is the tale of an unforgettable wildlife odyssey - and a timely girls' schools, writing travel articles in the long summer holidays. In 1969 she reminder of all that we must protect. joined the Irish Times and for many years she was based in London writing humorous columns from all over the world. She is the author of five DOUGLAS ADAMS was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He is best collections of short stories as well as twelve novels including Circle of known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started Friends, The Copper Beech, Tara Road, Evening Class and The Glass Lake. life as a BBC Radio 4 series. The book went on to be a No. 1 bestseller. He Maeve Binchy died on 30 July 2012. She is survived by her husband, the followed this success with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe writer Gordon Snell. (1980); Life, The Universe and Everything (1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); Mostly Harmless (1992) and many more. He sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia. Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 at the age of 49.

Zoologist MARK CARWARDINE is an active and outspoken conservationist, award-winning writer, TV- and radio - presenter, widely published photographer, magazine columnist and consultant. He presented the weekly programme Nature on BBC Radio 4 for many years and is co-presenter, with Stephen Fry, of the BBC-TV series Last Chance to See. The author of more than 50 books, including several bestsellers, he has been Chairman of prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition since 2005.

40 Nancy Revell James Patterson Triumph of the Shipyard Girls The Inn

The eighth novel in the brilliant Shipyard Girls series A former detective is starting over in a small town, but from Sunday Times bestselling author, Nancy Revell. his past won't let him go in this gripping new stand- alone from the world's bestselling thriller writer.

March 2020 March 2020 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £7.99 512 pages 384 pages 9781787464261 9781787462441

***ORDER YOUR COPY NOW*** THE EIGHTH NOVEL IN THE A former detective is starting over in a small town, but his past BESTSELLING SHIPYARD GIRLS SERIES! won't let him go in this gripping new stand-alone from the world's bestselling thriller writer. ‘Emotional and gripping’ Take a Break ______The Inn at Gloucester stands alone on the rocky New England shoreline. Its Sunderland, 1943: With the future of Britain so uncertain, the seclusion suits former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, novice owner women are trying to keep their lives at home on an even keel. and innkeeper. As long as the dozen residents pay their rent, Robinson doesn’t ask any questions. Head-welder Rosie is just about managing to keep her double life hidden from little sister Charlotte’s prying eyes. But Charlotte is nothing if not Yet all too soon Robinson discovers that leaving the city is no escape from determined and, with a secret this big, something is bound to leak. dangers he left behind. A new crew of deadly criminals move into the small town, bringing drugs and violence to the front door of the inn. And there is something odd about yard manager Helen’s newest recruit Bel. But in resolving to uncover the truth, Helen might discover more than Robinson feels the weight of responsibility on his shoulders. His sense of she bargained for… duty compels him to fight off the threat to his town. But he can’t do it alone. Before time runs out, the residents of the inn will face a choice. Only by rallying together will the shipyard girls finally triumph. ______Stand together? Or die alone.

Praise for Nancy Revell James Patterson (Author) JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of ‘Nancy Revell knows how to stir the passions and soothe the heart!' all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He Northern Echo is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and ‘Stirring and heartfelt storytelling’ Peterborough Evening Telegraph Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. 'the author is one to watch' Sun James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own ‘Well-drawn, believable characters combined with a storyline to keep you son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young turning the pages’ Woman readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to Nancy Revell is the author of the Shipyard Girls series, which is set in the independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult north-east of England during World War II. fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. She is a former journalist who worked for all the national newspapers, providing them with hard-hitting news stories and in-depth features. Nancy Candice Fox (Author) also wrote amazing and inspirational true life stories for just about every Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney’s woman’s magazine in the country. western suburbs. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster- carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of When she first started writing the Shipyard Girls series, Nancy relocated back violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories to her to her hometown of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, along with her husband, mother and older brothers. Paul, and their English bull mastiff, Rosie. They now live just a short walk away from the beautiful award-winning beaches of Roker and Seaburn, Candice won back-to-back Ned Kelly awards for her first two novels – within a mile of where the books are set. Hades and Eden. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed Fall, Crimson Lake, Redemption and Gone by Midnight. Candice’s first The subject is particularly close to Nancy’s heart as she comes from a long collaboration with James Patterson, Never Never, was a Sunday Times and

41 John Grisham Gilly Macmillan The Rainmaker The Nanny Can you trust her with your child?

AN AMERICAN CLASSIC FROM THE NO.1 BESTSELLING A new psychological thriller by New York Times MASTER THRILLER WRITER bestselling author Gilly MacMillan for readers who loved THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and THE CHILD.

April 2020 April 2020 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £7.99 720 pages UK C/Wealth + EU 9780099537175 ex Can 400 pages 9781787462328

One case. One chance. One man against the world. The tension is simmering. The lies are piling up. Who do you trust?

Rudy Baylor is a newly qualified lawyer, forced into ambulance-chasing by 'Pulses with tension until its shocking conclusion' SHARI LAPENA bad luck and poor job prospects. Unexpectedly, he winds up on a case 'White-knuckled suspense' TESS GERRITSEN representing a family whose son was denied insurance cover for his ______leukemia treatment. Instead, the company delayed until it was too late to Jocelyn loves her nanny more than her own mother – until the night that ensure they wouldn't have to pay out. the nanny disappears. Jo is seven years old when it happens and never gets over the loss. The case could change it all. Rudy's deeply in debt, and a settlement from the insurance company could save his legal practice. But he's never argued Now, thirty years later, Jo is returning to her family home with her daughter a case in court before, and the company isn't going down without a fight. In in tow – just as human remains are pulled out of the house's lake. fact, he'll be up against an army of the best lawyers money can buy... Then there’s a knock on the door. And a woman claiming to be her nanny John Grisham is the author of twenty-two novels, one work of non-fiction, stands outside. a collection of short stories, and a novel for young readers. He is on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project in New York and is the Chairman Is she who she says she is? of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the Can she be trusted? University of Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virgina and Mississippi. And what really happened on that fateful night all those years ago?

His website is www.johngrisham.co.uk Sometimes the truth hurts so much you’d rather hear the lie. ______Why readers love THE NANNY:

"A gripping read with an original premise... I very much enjoyed all the characters" "Meaty and twisty ... armchair detectives will have a lot of fun with this" "A compelling read ... I read it with a sense of fear and dread" "Dare you get engrossed in this book? ... this is a book that should do really well" "A spellbinding read" "A lot of twists and turns ... it definitely grabbed my attention from the outset" ______‘From the first page I wanted to know all the dark secrets this family were hiding. It’s a seriously addictive read and I never knew who to trust’ AMY LLOYD, author of THE INNOCENT WIFE and ONE MORE LIE

‘A brilliant blend of missing person drama with some seriously spooky Gothic overtones.’ GLAMOUR MAGAZINE

‘Secrets, lies, jealousy and betrayal… Elegantly structured and infused with a creeping sense of dread’ SARAH VAUGHAN

‘The plot sucked me in and the insidious build had me turning the pages rapidly’ JANE SHEMILT

42 Libby Ashworth Tony Parsons The Cotton Spinner #taken Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong girl.

A Victorian saga set in Lancashire during From the Sunday Times no.1 bestselling author, a industrialisation about a family coming to terms with brilliant page-turning new Max Wolfe thriller that will the rise of the mills. Perfect for fans of Val Wood and keep you gripped and guessing until the very last

April 2020 April 2020 Paperback Paperback £6.99 £7.99 400 pages 384 pages 9781787463578 9781784755362

Lancashire, 1830 ‘Tense and human’ LEE CHILD ‘Brilliant stuff’ PETER JAMES When Jennet and Titus Eastwood are forced to move from their idyllic ‘A must-read’ JEFFERY DEAVER cottage into the centre of Blackburn to find work in the cotton mills, their ______lives are changed in ways they could never have imagined and their new #taken in the night home on Paradise Lane is anything but… They thought they were kidnapping the mistress of one of London’s most When Titus is arrested and sent to prison for attending a reform meeting, powerful gangsters. But they’ve taken the wrong woman. And crossed the Jennet is left to fend for herself and things go from bad to worse as Jennet wrong detective. finds herself pregnant and alone – with another man’s child... #taken underground Libby Ashworth was born and raised in Lancashire, where she can trace her family back to the Middle Ages. It was while researching her family history Detective Max Wolfe's hunt for the missing woman takes him from New that she realised there were so many stories about ordinary working people Scotland Yard’s legendary Black Museum to the glittering mansions of career that she wanted to tell. She has previously written historical novels - The de criminals, from sleazy strip joints to secret sex dungeons – and to Lacy Inheritance and By Loyalty Bound – as well as local history books. The unspeakably dark deeds committed decades ago. Cotton Spinner is her first saga novel. #taken to the limit Libby currently lives in Lancashire with her son. It’s a world of family secrets, sexual jealousy, and a lust for revenge – which might also become Wolfe’s grave… ______

‘Eye-widening twists’ SOPHIE HANNAH

'Whip-fast, twisting like a moped in a traffic jam.' THE SUN

'Pages that stick to the fingers' SHOTS MAGAZINE

'Fast-paced, twisty ... will have you hooked from start to end.' CULTUREFLY

Tony Parsons left school at sixteen and his first job in journalism was at the New Musical Express. His first journalism after leaving the NME was when he was embedded with the Vice Squad at 27 Savile Row, West End Central. The roots of the DC Max Wolfe series started here.

Since then he has become an award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist whose books have been translated into more than forty languages. The Murder Bag, the first novel in the DC Max Wolfe series, went to number one on first publication in the UK. All of the DC Max Wolfe novels have been Sunday Times top five bestsellers.

Tony lives in London with his wife, his daughter and their dog, Stan.

43 James Patterson Thomas Harris The River Murders Cari Mora from the creator of Hannibal Lecter

A collection of three thrilling, pulse-pounding stories about a private investigator in a small town on the Hudson River in upstate New York

April 2020 April 2020 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £7.99 448 pages 480 pages 9781787464605 9781787463240

Sometimes figuring out the truth means going to the point of no return. For Mitchum, returning isn't something he concerns himself with. Thomas Harris is the author of five novels and is perhaps best known for his character Hannibal Lecter. All of his books have been made into films, HIDDEN: Rejected by the Navy SEALs, Mitchum is content to be his small including most notably the multiple Oscar winner, The Silence of the Lambs. town's unofficial private eye, until his beloved 14-year-old cousin is Harris began his writing career covering crime in the United States and abducted. Now he'll call on every lethal skill to track her down – but nothing Mexico, and was a reporter and editor at the Associated Press in New York. is what it seems...

MALICIOUS: Mitchum's brother has been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife. Now, Navy SEAL dropout Mitchum will break every rule to expose the truth – even if it destroys the people he loves.

MALEVOLENT: Mitchum has never been more desperate. One by one his loved ones have become victims of carefully staged attacks. There's only one way to stop the ruthless mastermind intent on destroying everyone around him – to go on the most dangerous hunt of his life.

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

44 Esther Wojcicki Peter Caddick-Adams How to Raise Successful People Sand and Steel Simple Lessons for Radical Results A New History of D-Day

The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, Peter Caddick-Adams is one of the leading military and mother of three superstar daughters, shares her historians of his generation. This is the second volume tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, of his definitive account of the liberation of Europe in

May 2020 May 2020 Paperback Paperback £9.99 £12.99 288 pages 900 pages 9781787462168 9781784753481

______The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published 'Esther Wojcicki is leading a revolution . . . [She] shows us how to be our best so our children can be their best.' Arianna Huffington ‘Extraordinary’ Andrew Roberts ‘Fascinating’ Daily Mail Being a parent is complicated – but the trick to succeed is simpler ‘Magisterial’ James Holland than you think. ______

Known as the Godmother of Silicon Valley, Esther Wojcicki’s three daughters 6 June 1944, 4 a.m. are all hugely successful in both their professional and personal lives. What’s her parenting secret? Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of Normandy. By nightfall, thousands of the men they carry will be dead. As we face an epidemic of parental and childhood anxiety, Woj has the advice every parent wants to hear: climb out of that helicopter and relax. Through their sacrifice, the Allies will gain a foothold in Europe that will ultimately lead to the downfall of the Third Reich. Her tried and tested TRICK approach will help you: This was D-Day, the most important day of the twentieth century. · Let your child discover their own passions ______· Move on from past parenting mistakes · Build rock-solid foundations for a lifelong relationship In Sand and Steel, one of Britain’s leading military historians · Be brave enough to give your child freedom draws on a decade of archival research and thousands of · Work with your children, not against them interviews to offer a panoramic new account of the Allied invasion · Set healthy relationships with technology of France.

Your children are the future. If you change your parenting, you can Peter Caddick-Adams masterfully recreates what it was like to wade out change the world. onto the carnage of Omaha Beach, facing the machine-gun fire that wiped out whole battalions of troops. He delves into how the Allied generals came 'A brilliant book. It should be on the bookshelf of every parent.' to choose Normandy in June 1944, and describes the extraordinary FROST MAGAZINE subterfuge that went into keeping the decision secret. And he recounts how the operation transformed the lives of Britons back home, transforming Esther Wojcicki is a leading American educator, journalist and mother. A sleepy villages in the Home Counties into bustling military outposts. leader in blended learning and the integration of technology into education, she is the founder of the Media Arts programs at Palo Alto High School. His findings offer revelatory new insights into our understanding of D-Day. Wojcicki serves as Vice Chair of Creative Commons and was instrumental in Sand and Steel is the only book to discuss the experiences of every major the launch of the Google Teachers Academy. She blogs regularly for military force: not just the infantrymen on the beaches, but also the Huffington Post and is co-author of Moonshots in Education. paratroopers, sailors and aircrew, resistance fighters in France, women on the Home Front, and even the German Wehrmacht. It offers the first full analysis of the year-long invasion preparations, revealing that more men died in training exercises than during the landing itself. Above all, it pays tribute to soldiers of all nationalities, demonstrating that the often- overlooked UK and Canadian troops were just as crucial to victory as the American forces were.

The result is an authoritative and compulsively readable exploration of the most important battle in history. It will be the definitive work on D-Day for years to come.

45 Annie Clarke James Patterson Wedding Bells on the Home Front Sophia, Princess Among Beasts A heart-warming story of courage, community

The third novel in the wonderfully uplifting Factory In a kingdom besieged by poverty, war and despair, Girls series. Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell, Daisy Princess Sophia must do whatever it takes to restore Styles and Donna Douglas. peace, and protect the people she loves

May 2020 May 2020 Paperback Paperback £6.99 £6.99 400 pages 400 pages 9781787462595 9781787462311

THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE WONDERFUL FACTORY GIRLS SERIES! A princess who has lost her mother and father finds herself in a terrifying world that urgently needs a queen. Three best friends from a County Durham pit village join the ranks of brave women working at a munitions factory. Join them as they journey through Sophia is smart, beautiful, accomplished, a beloved princess devoted to the the hardships of love, life and war. people and to reading books. The kingdom is hers, until a series of tragedies ends with her imprisonment in a nightmarish realm populated by the awful Annie Clarke’s roots are dug deep into the North East. She draws inspiration beasts she read about as a child. from her mother, who was born in a County Durham pit village during the First World War, and went on to became a military nurse during World War The beasts are real. And so is the great army marching on her castle. The Two. Annie and her husband now live a stone’s throw from the pit village people look to Sophia for protection. They will all perish unless she can where her mother was born. She has written frequently about the North unlock an ancient secret as profound as life and death itself. East in novels which she hopes reflect her love and respect for the region’s lost mining communities. JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He Annie has four adult children and four granddaughters, who fill her and her is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – husband’s days with laughter, endlessly leading these two elders astray. the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

46 Amy Lawrence Gary Lineker and Danny Baker 89 Behind Closed Doors Arsenal’s Greatest Moment, Told in Our Own Life, Laughs and Football

The closest title decider in footballing history. A goal The ultimate insider’s guide to the beautiful game, that changed everything. written by two of Britain’s most popular sporting figures. Inspired by the #1 podcast.

May 2020 May 2020 Paperback Paperback £9.99 £8.99 350 pages 336 pages 9781787460041 9781787464230

FOREWORD BY THIERRY HENRY PRE-ORDER NOW ______'This is Lineker unleashed. As a non-football nut I didn’t expect to Anfield, May 26th 1989. enjoy it, but between laddish anecdotes are passages of sudden tenderness. . . Lineker opens up, dislodging memories and The final day of the Division One season. The rest of football stopped to reflections, not just about football but his whole life.' watch as perennial champions Liverpool took on rank outsiders Arsenal in a THE TIMES head-to-head contest for the title. With the Gunners leading 1-0 but desperately needing another goal to take the title, it was, in the immortal ______words of commentator Brian Moore, ‘up for grabs now…’ ‘Football is a simple game. 22 players chase a ball for 90 minutes, Set against the backdrop of Hillsborough disaster, and during an emotional and at the end the Germans always win.’ era in football long before the Premier League as we now know it, 89 is an oral history of a sporting moment so unusual it felt instantly historic. This book is inspired by the stories Danny and I have shared with each other about what life in football is really like: in the dressing room, in the Drawing on years of research, writer Amy Lawrence brings together commentary box, on the pitch and – with the appropriate pixellation – in the fascinating and never-before seen testimony from the voices who were showers afterwards. there, on the pitch, off it, and beyond. What’s it really like to play with Messi? I wouldn’t know, but I have starred 89 creates a definitive and kaleidoscopic portrait of a match, and an iconic alongside him in an advert for Walkers crisps. And, well, his performance moment in English football that changed the sport forever. was world-class.

Drawing on years of research and interviews, writer Amy Lawrence And what is a life in football really like? You won’t learn much from the dull- brings together fascinating and never-before heard testimonies as-dishwater post-match interviews – it’s a world of secrets, superstitions, from the voices who were there on the pitch, including Captain laughs and personalities, and let me tell you, half of it you won’t believe. Tony Adams, winning goal scorers Alan Smith and Mickey Thomas, Manager George Graham and many more. I’ve looked back at my playing days, from England to Leicester, Everton to Barcelona, Tottenham to, er, Nagoya Grampus Eight, and shared the chaotic Also featured are accounts from those off the pitch, including behind-the-scenes secrets of Match of the Day – and Danny has chipped in Arsenal legend Ian Wright, super fans Nick Hornby, Alan Davies with stories from a lifetime following the game as a fan. and Dermot O’Leary, and Gunners from across the globe recounting where and how they watched, and the lasting effect From Italia ’90 to Leicester’s Premier League fairytale, from yellow cards to this seminal games has had on their lives. World Cup trophies (I’ve never been awarded either), you’ll find it all here – everything you always wanted to know about football, but didn’t realise that Amy Lawrence has been writing about football ever since she faced the you did. dilemma of going to the 1994 World Cup or forsaking the trip to take her first job on the editorial team of Four Four Two magazine. She has mostly Inspired by the No.1 podcast Behind Closed Doors covered the beautiful game for the Guardian and the Observer, and broadcasts for BBC on Radio 5 Live and Match of the Day 2 Extra. Her books Gary Lineker (Author) include three works on Arsenal, whose beat she has followed for many Gary Lineker OBE is a broadcaster and a former professional footballer. He years - Proud To Say That Name, Invincible, and The Wenger Revolution. holds England's record for goals in FIFA World Cup finals, with 10 scored. He She has ghostwritten autobiographies for David Ginola (From St Tropez to St has presented the flagship BBC football programme Match of the Day since James's) and Ray Parlour (The Romford Pele), and composed the text for the late 1990s. He also hosts BT Sport's coverage of the UEFA Champions the photographic work David Beckham VII. Amy was voted the FSA Football League. Follow Gary on Twitter @GaryLineker and on Instagram. Writer of the Year in 2014, and the Words By Women Sports Journalist of the Year and Women In Football Journalist of the Year in 2016. Danny Baker (Author)

47 Maisie Thomas James Patterson The Railway Girls Criss Cross (Alex Cross 27)

A WW2 saga series based on women that worked on Alex Cross must confront a criminal from his past the railways. Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Ellie before his master plan to frame him succeeds, in the Dean. latest instalment to the bestselling series by James

May 2020 June 2020 Paperback Paperback £6.99 £8.99 400 pages 400 pages 9781787463967 9781787461857

The first novel in the utterly brilliant Railway Girls series. Perfect ______for fans of Nancy Revell and Ellie Dean. 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' In February, 1922, at the western-most entrance to Victoria Station in LEE CHILD, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series Manchester, a massive plaque was unveiled. Beneath a vast tiled map showing the lines of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway network, a series From the author of Sunday Times #1 bestseller The President is of seven bronze panels recorded the names of the men of the Lancashire Missing and Yorkshire Railway who gave their lives for King and Country in the ______Great War – a total of 1,460 names. Could a ghost from his past take everything away from Alex Cross?

In March, 1940, a group of women of varying ages and backgrounds, stand Mere hours after witnessing the execution of a killer he helped put behind in front of the memorial, ready to do their bit in this new World War... bars, Alex Cross is called to the scene of a copycat murder. A note signed ______'M' rests on the corpse: 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.'

Mabel is determined to make a fresh start as a railway girl where no one Was an innocent man just put to death? As the executed convict's family will know the terrible thing she did and she can put her guilt behind her... Or launch a vicious campaign against Cross, his abilities as a detective are is she just running away? called into question.

Meanwhile Joan will never be as good as her sister, or so her Gran keeps The enigmatic 'M' lures Cross out of Washington, DC to the sites of multiple telling her. A new job as a station clerk could be just the thing she needs to homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details that conjure up forget her troubles at home. decades-old cases and Cross family secrets.

And Dot is further into her forties than she cares to admit. Her beloved sons Details that make it clear M is after a prize so dear that – were the killer to are away fighting and her husband – well, the less said about him the attain it – Cross's life would be destroyed. better. Ratty old sod. She is anxious to become a railway girl just like her ______dear mam – anything to feel she is supporting the sons she prays for every 'Alex Cross is a legend.' HARLAN COBEN night. Early readers say it's one of the best Alex Cross books yet: The three women start off as strangers, but soon form an unbreakable bond that will get them through the toughest of ‘I have to say that this is one of my favourite Alex Cross books in a times... long time!’ ‘I read this book in one sitting and highly recommend it. I've read every Maisie Thomas was born and brought up in Manchester, which provides the single Alex Cross book and this one didn't disappoint. It has a great mix of location for her Railway Girls novels. She loves writing stories with strong new cases linked to old cases for Cross.’ female characters, set in times when women needed determination and ‘Romped through the latest Alex Cross book! Great read that I just vision to make their mark. The Railway Girls series is inspired by her great couldn’t put down.’ aunt Jessie, who worked as a railway clerk during the First World War. ‘An intriguing storyline involving the Cross family and enemies from his past. A must read for Patterson fans.’ Maisie now lives on the beautiful North Wales coast with her railway ‘As always with James Patterson, he had me from the first page, enthusiast husband, Kevin, and their two rescue cats. They often enjoy and kept the pace up to the last.’ holidays chugging up and down the UK’s heritage steam railways. ‘Roll on the next instalment.’ ‘I absolutely loved this book and once I started reading I just couldn’t put it down. It’s a fast-paced read, no time to take a break or breathe out as the situations and mysteries are on a roll and unstoppable.’ ‘A great addition to the Cross series by the most known author in the world

48 Tim Peake & the European Space Robert Harris Agency The Second Sleep The Astronaut Selection Test Book the Sunday Times #1 bestselling novel

The puzzle book of 2018! The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of Munich, An Officer and A Spy and Fatherland

June 2020 June 2020 Paperback Paperback £9.99 £8.99 208 pages 544 pages 9781787465176 9781787460966

______THE LATEST NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS *The* puzzle book of 2018, as featured in the Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Breakfast, and a Guardian Book of 'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative in which the author pulls us the Year pick. ever deeper into the imaginative world he has created.' SUNDAY TIMES

Have YOU got what it takes to be an astronaut? 'Harris is rightly praised as the master of the intelligent thriller. Genuinely thrilling, wonderfully conceived and entirely without preaching, it probes the This book will help readers of all ages find out. Featuring 100 real astronaut nature of history, of collective memory and forgetting, and exposes the tests and exercises from the European Space Agency’s rigorous selection fragility of modern civilisation.' DAILY TELEGRAPH process, ranging from easy to fiendishly hard, The Astronaut Selection ______Test Book goes where no puzzle book has gone before. All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. Including puzzles and tests on: 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor · visual perception and logic village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn · mental arithmetic and concentration with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones – which the · psychological readiness old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? · teamwork and leadership · survival, physical and medical skills As Fairfax is drawn more deeply into the isolated community, everything he · foreign languages (every astronaut has to know Russian!) believes – about himself, his faith and the history of his world – is tested to destruction. and much more, this richly illustrated book draws on Tim Peake's first-hand ______experience of applying to be an astronaut in 2008, when he and five others '[Harris] takes us on a thrilling ride while serving up serious food for were chosen – out of over 8,000 applications! thought . . . I doubt there is a living writer who is better at simultaneously making readers’ adrenaline pump while their brains whirr.' SUNDAY We’ve all dreamed of being an astronaut, though of the estimated 100 EXPRESS billion people who have ever lived, only 557 people have travelled to space. But with this unprecedented look into real astronaut selection, you might 'A truly surprising future-history thriller. Fabulous, really.' EVENING just find out your dreams can become reality… STANDARD ______HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM SOLVER... ‘The book’s real power lies in its between-the-lines warning that our embrace of the internet represents some kind of sleepwalk into oblivion. It’s Tim Peake and the ESA will receive no royalties from this book; instead, a provocative, tub-thumping sci-fi of which H. G. Wells might have been they will be donated to the Prince's Trust charity. proud.’ DAILY MAIL ______‘Engrossing... a brain buster of a book... You’ll learn plenty about space ‘Harris’ latest work intelligently warps historical fiction and tackles issues of and what it takes to be an astronaut, but you’ll also sharpen up your religion, science and the apocalypse in the process. As he flexes his broader knowledge. For anyone interested in the space race and the imagination, you will be left pondering as often as you are page-turning.’ imminent journey to Mars, here’s the perfect stocking filler.’ – HERALD STARBURST 'A brilliantly imaginative thriller’ READER'S DIGEST ‘It’s a brain work-out on steroids, stuffed with authentic selection tests… Entertaining and engaging… innovative, earnest, soulful and Robert Harris is the author of thirteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - exhilarating’ – BBC SKY AT NIGHT MAGAZINE (5 STARS, Book of the Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Month) The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich and

49 Olivia Manning Maeve Binchy The Great Fortune Echoes The Balkan Trilogy 1

A wonderful love story from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends

June 2020 June 2020 Paperback Paperback £6.99 £8.99 9781787465084 752 pages 9780099498650

Growing up in a small seaside town in the 1950s, Clare O'Brien and David Power shout their hearts' desired into the echo cave, praying that their Olivia Manning, OBE, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. The daughter of a destiny will lead them faraway from the town in which they live. naval officer, she produced her first novel, The Wind Changes, in 1937. She Years later they meet again in Dublin, where DAvid is studying medicine and married just before the War and went abroad with her husband, R. D. Clare has won a scholarship to University College. But eventurally Castlebay Smith, a British Council lecturer in Bucharest. Her experiences there formed will draw them back and it is against a backdrop of empty grey skies, sea- the basis of the work which makes up The Balkan Trilogy. As the Germans spray and wind that this drama of ambition, betrayal and love finally approached Athens, she and her husband evacuated to Egypt and ended up reaches it turbulent conclusion. in charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980. Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin, and went to school at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney. She took a history degree at UCD and taught in various girls' schools, writing travel articles in the long summer holidays. In 1969 she joined the Irish Times and for many years she was based in London writing humorous columns from all over the world. She is the author of five collections of short stories as well as twelve novels including Circle of Friends, The Copper Beech, Tara Road, Evening Class and The Glass Lake. Maeve Binchy died on 30 July 2012. She is survived by her husband, the writer Gordon Snell.

50 Simon Kernick James Patterson Die Alone Miracle at St Andrews

The new high-octane thriller from Sunday Times The follow-up to Miracle at Augusta, this is an bestselling author Simon Kernick inspirational story about hope, friendship, and defeating the odds

June 2020 June 2020 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £8.99 400 pages 240 pages 9781784752309 9781787462434

______Travis McKinley's golfing career is over.

"Simon Kernick is an absolute master of the adrenaline-fuelled After a string of poor performances he crashes out of the US Senior Tour and ride" - PETER JAMES faces a future of watching the game he loves from the sidelines.

The new high-octane thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author In a bid to escape, Travis decides to take his family on a long-awaited trip Simon Kernick to the UK – a pilgrimage to the world-renowned golf courses of Scotland. ______Travis dreams of treading the hallowed fairways of St Andrews, where the game began. Alastair Sheridan has it all. Wealth, good looks, a beautiful wife and children and, in the chaotic world of British politics, a real chance of becoming Prime But when an opportunity to play in the Scottish Open unexpectedly presents Minister. itself, Travis can't believe his luck.

But Alastair also has a secret. He’s a serial killer with a taste for young Could he have one last shot at the big time on the most famous women. course of all?

Only a handful of people know what kind of monster he is, and disgraced JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of detective Ray Mason is one of them. all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – Awaiting trial for murder, Ray is unexpectedly broken free by armed men the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and and given an offer: assassinate Alastair Sheridan and begin a new life Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers abroad with a new identity. The men claim to be from MI6. They say that including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. Sheridan is a threat to national security and needs to be neutralised. Ray knows they are not who they say they are, and that their real motives are James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own far darker. son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young The only person Ray trusts is ex-cop and former lover Tina Boyd who’s keen readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries to settle her own scores with Sheridan. and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult With enemies on every side, only one thing is certain. fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. No one wants them to get out alive.

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"Simon Kernick is one of the most reliable purveyors of the edge-of -your-seat thriller... a more powerful adrenaline rush than an EpiPen" - JAKE KERRIDGE, SUNDAY EXPRESS

"An emotionally punchy domestic noir blended with the pace and action of a high-octane thriller, WE CAN SEE YOU will keep you breathlessly on the edge of your seat, wondering which character you can trust, if any at all, until the final brilliant twist! A #WTFthatending indeed!" - SARAH PINBOROUGH, author of BEHIND HER EYES and CROSS HER HEART

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