Harpercollins UK International Highlights April – October 2016 Contents J.R.R

HarperCollins UK international highlights April – october 2016 Contents J.R.R. Tolkien

Cameron Diaz

BestSellers p.4

Fiction P.12 Popular Fiction P.13 Annie Proulx Amy Schumer Literary Fiction P.18 Crime & Thrillers P.21 Science Fiction & Fantasy P.26 Bernard Cornwell Lauren Weisberger Young Adult p.30

Children’s books p.36 Children’s Fiction P.37 Picture Books P.42

Non-Fiction p.46

Jonas Jonasson Curtis Sittenfeld Kate Hudson Sebastian Junger David Walliams

Lionel Shriver Sabaa Tahir

Matt Ridley Judith Kerr Holly Smale Wilbur Smith Lauren weisberger BESTSELLERS

The Singles Game

When Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Silver yachts in the Med, The Singles makes a pact with the devil, Game is a brilliantly entertaining Jonathan Franzen Wilbur Smith infamously brutal tennis coach romp through a world where Todd Feltner, she finds herself the stakes are high - and no-one catapulted into a world of plays by the rules. stylists, private parties and secret dates with Hollywood • From the author of The Devil royalty. Under Todd it’s no more Wears Prada and Revenge good-girl attitude. After all, no- Wears Prada, both of which Lauren Weisberger one ever won by being nice. are massive international bestsellers. BEST But as the warrior princess’s star rises, both on and off the court, • The Devil Wears Prada spent it comes at a high price. Is the more than a year on the real Charlie Silver still inside? New York Times bestseller export Sweeping from Wimbledon to list, and became a hugely price £6.50 the Caribbean, from LA to mega successful film.

SELLERS £6.99 / PB A OM / 30 June 2016 / 9780008105488 / HarperFiction Cecelia Ahern Patricia Cornwell Jonathan Franzen

Purity

The much-awaited paperback hued comedy of youthful of Jonathan Franzen’s idealism, extreme fidelity, acclaimed novel Purity. Pip and murder – Franzen’s most Tyler doesn’t know who she searching book yet. David Walliams is. She knows her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with • The publication of Purity student debt, and that her in hardback was a hugely relationship with her mother anticipated publishing event. is hazardous. But she doesn’t have a clue who her father is • The Corrections and or how she can ever have a Freedom have both been normal life. Set in America, enormous international Bolivia, and Germany, with bestsellers.

export a cast of vividly original price £6.50 characters, Purity is a dark-

Daniel Silva £6.99 / PB A OM / 02 AUGUST 2016 / 9780008192518 / Fourth Estate

INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 5 Sophie Hannah BESTSELLERS t f in a l TWilburhe master of epic storytelling Smith is back ver n o o

with 3 thrilling novels c

Predator

export price £16.99 Two men are responsible for the bull pit once more, he will not stop death of Hector Cross’s wife and until he has snared his prey. only one is left alive: Johnny Congo – psychopath, extortionist, murderer, • Hector Cross is back. Wilbur and the bane of Cross’s life. He Smiths’s most cut-throat and caught him before and let him go. exciting protagonist. Now, as Hector is thrown into the

£20 / HB / 24 March 2016 / 9780007535767 / HarperFiction £6.99 / PB A OM / 22 September 2016 / 9780008168902 / HarperFiction Sophie Hannah S.K. Tremayne

Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery The Fire Child Golden Lion

Following the phenomenal commercial and When Rachel marries dark, handsome David, critical success of The Monogram Murders, Sophie everything seems to fall into place. Swept from A thrilling blend of drama and Hal discovers his mortal enemy still Hannah returns with another brilliant Hercule single life in London to the beautiful Carnhallow epic storytelling, Golden Lion lives and is hell-bent on revenge. Poirot murder mystery, which can only be solved House in Cornwall, she gains wealth, love, and sees Wilbur Smith return to the by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little a stepson, Jamie. But then Jamie makes a early adventures of his beloved and • The sequel to Birds of Prey, and release grey cells’. chilling prediction, and Rachel’s perfect life for bestselling Courtney family. a return to 17th century Africa. export begins to unravel. • Written by an international best-selling crime When Captain Henry ‘Hal’ Courtney’s • Wilbur Smith is a global writer, this is Sophie Hannah’s second fully- As Rachel starts digging into the past, she begins ship is boarded, his crew must go bestselling author. His books authorised Poirot novel. to grow suspicious of her husband. Why is he so hand to hand to defend themselves. are now translated into reluctant to discuss Jamie’s behaviour? And what But soon a graver danger surfaces, as twenty-six languages. • Published to mark the centenary of the creation exactly happened to cause his ex-wife’s untimely of Agatha Christie’s world-famous detective suicide three years earlier? Hercule Poirot. £6.99 / PB A OM / 26 April 2016 / 9780008132804 / HarperFiction • S.K. Tremayne’s chilling follow-up to The Ice Twins, an international bestseller.

Pharaoh

In this highly anticipated sequel to on the adventures of Taita, the the bestselling Desert God, Wilbur erstwhile slave who now controls Smith returns to his favourite Pharaoh’s armies. setting, Ancient Egypt, focusing

£20 / HB / 22 September 2016 / 9780007535811 / HarperFiction £12.99 / TPB OM / 06 September 2016 / 9780008134105 / HarperFiction £12.99 / TPB OM / 16 June 2016 / 9780008105846 / HarperFiction

6 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 7 BESTSELLERS Patricia Cornwell non-fiction

Depraved Heart The international bestselling author is back with more fantastic fiction than ever before Patricia Cornwell delivers the latest mogul’s daughter to aircraft wreckage engrossing thriller in her high-stakes on the bottom of the sea in the series starring medical examiner Bermuda Triangle. Dr. Kay Scarpetta. In this new novel, Kay embarks on an intensely • A Scarpetta feature film series is in The Marble Collector psychological odyssey from the development, produced by Elizabeth mysterious death of a Hollywood Gabler (Life of Pi, Marley & Me). A thought-provoking novel about suddenly a stranger to her. Now how the most ordinary decisions Sabrina has just one day to unlock £6.99 / PB A OM / 28 June 2016 / 9780008144135 / HarperFiction we make can have the most the secrets of the man she thought extraordinary consequences. she knew.

When Sabrina stumbles upon a • Ahern’s novels have sold over 15 mysterious collection of her father’s million copies, capturing the hearts possessions, she discovers that the of readers in 46 countries. Bernard Cornwell familiar man she grew up with is

The Last Kingdom Series (9) — Warriors of the Storm £6.99 / PB A OM / 05 May 2016 / 9780007501854 / HarperFiction

In this thrilling new novel in Bernard • The series has been adapted into a Cornwell’s bestselling series. Uhtred of major BBC series, The Last Kingdom. Lyrebird Bebbanburg is about to find out that in the struggle between family and • Bernard Cornwell is the author of 50 Cecelia Ahern tells the story of the has the amazing ability to mimic her loyalty, between personal ambition novels published in 28 languages; relationship between a young man surroundings. The novel follows their and political commitment, there is no he is the most successful historical and a mysterious woman living in the relationship as she learns to cope easy path. novelist writing today. mountains, nicknamed ‘Lyrebird’, who with living in the modern world.

£6.99 / PB A OM / 21 April 2016 / 9780007504107 / HarperFiction £12.99 / TPB OM / 03 November 2016 / 9780007501878 / HarperFiction

Available now: The first YA novel from Cecelia Ahern

Daniel Silva Flawed

The Black Widow In a powerfully realised society where and emotionally resonant YA debut perfection is valued above humanity, from an already-loved author. good-girl Celestine has always Featuring a character who will seize ‘Gabriel Allon is the 21st century international intrigue featuring the agreed with the system, but she finds the hearts of readers, this is the ideal Bond - elegantly paced, subtle and inimitable Gabriel Allon. herself fighting for survival—and book for anyone who has ever felt well-informed.’ - Daily Mail love—after showing kindness to one the pressure to be perfect. • Daniel Silva’s novels are consistently of the Flawed. Global sensation Daniel Silva delivers no. 1 New York Times bestsellers. • The first YA novel from the another stunning thriller in his latest • ‘A world class practitioner of spy With an intense love story at its bestselling author of P.S. I Love You export centre, Flawed is a hugely accessible and Love Rosie. price action-packed tale of high stakes fiction’ - Washington Post £10.99 £12.99 / TPB OM / 12 July 2016 / 9780007552368 / HarperFiction £12.99 / TPB OM / 24 March 2016 / 9780008126360 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

8 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 9 Curtis Sittenfeld David Walliams BESTSELLERS

Eligible The World’s Worst Children

Recommended by Pauline, find husbands now they’re A wickedly funny and wonderfully Blubbering Bertha – a girl who International Sales Director almost 40. But what about surreal collection of ten stories bawls and tells terrible tales! her little sisters, unemployed about ten delightfully dreadful The most eligible bachelors and obsessed with working children from Number One A unique take on the classic in Cincinnati must be Chip out? Whilst Lizzie tries to sort bestselling author, David Walliams. cautionary tale, featuring a special Bingley and his friend Dr out her family she can’t help appearance from fan-favourite Fitzwilliam Darcy. But whilst noticing Darcy IS attractive… Meet Sofia Sofa – a TV super-fan Raj and illustrated in glorious her sister Jane is smitten with so stuck to the sofa that she’s technicolour by the artistic genius Chip, Lizzie Bennet, back • Surprising, witty and turning into one! Tony Ross. from New York to help care engrossing, this is a real for her father, is impervious to twist on a true classic, Pride Dribbling Drew – a boy whose their charms as she pines for and Prejudice, from the drool gets him into trouble on a her married boyfriend Jasper bestselling author of Prep school trip! export team favourite Wick. Her mother has given and American Wife. read! up hope that they will ever

£12.99 / TPB OM / 21 April 2016 / 9780007486328 / Borough Press £12.99 / TPB OM / 19 May 2016 / 9780008197049 / HARPERCOLLINSCHILDREN’SBOOKS

HarperCollins David is proud to be the global adult publisher of the film tie-in books for Walliams

New David Walliams novel – coming soon!

David Walliams is back with another heart-warming, jaw-achingly funny, rollicking read, with illustrations by artistic genius Tony Ross. Published to huge The World of David Walliams: critical acclaim, Walliams is often compared to Super-Tastic Box Set Roald Dahl in the press, and is the winner of several book awards in the UK and internationally.

SEVEN hilarious and moving novels from • David Walliams’s children’s books have now bestselling, critically acclaimed author, sold over 7 million copies! David Walliams, in one MEGA box-set! • Tony Ross is one of the world’s best-known • Finally, all in one place! Contains: The Boy in the author-illustrators. He has written over 100 Dress, Mr Stink, Billionaire Boy, Gangsta Granny, books and illustrated over 2000 – including Ratburger, Demon Dentist and Awful Auntie. the bestselling Horrid Henry series.

Visit our new website to learn more! £10.99 / TPB OM / 22 September 2016 / 9780008188573 £48.93 / PB & SC / 02 June 2016 / 9780008182670 HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks www.HarperReach.com

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM characters, names and related indicia are © & TM Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter Publishing Rights © JKR. (s16) INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 11 P op u lar fi c tion non-fi c tion Imbolo Mbue Jonas Jonasson

Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All

Recommended by Shan, A dramatic fast-paced adventure, South East Sales Manager and one that you will not put down. With a cast of likeable Recently out of prison, characters, Jonas packs them all Hitman Anders’s life takes into this funny, fast paced book, an unexpected turn when he written in his easy-to-read style. meets a female Protestant This is one enjoyable read. vicar (who also happens to be an atheist), and a homeless • A madcap novel from a global receptionist at a former brothel bestselling author, beloved for which is now a 1-star hotel. The his unique take on the world three join forces and concoct and distinctly entertaining an unusual business plan based style. The 100-Year-Old Man export team favourite on Anders’s skills and his has now sold over five million Jonas Jonasson Neal Stephenson read! fearsome reputation. copies worldwide.

£8.99 / PB B / 21 April 2016 / 9780008152079 / Fourth Estate

export team Homer favourite Phaedra Hickman read! Patrick Carrying Albert Home: The Curious Charms of The Somewhat True Story of a Arthur Pepper Man, his Wife and her Alligator

Recommended by Jacqui, European Sales Manager When Arthur Pepper’s wife dies, he is left alone with only his routines to keep him going. But the Simon Toyne In 1930s America, Elsie is back in the coalfields, surprise discovery of a mysterious and beautiful married to Homer and with just one memento charm bracelet amongst his wife’s possessions of her halcyon days, her alligator Albert. When leads him on a journey to find out about her life Homer’s patience snaps, he gives Elsie an before they met, and teaches him a thing or two Robin Hobb Nell Zink ultimatum – it’s him or the alligator. Elsie agrees about enjoying his own on the way. to give Albert up, as long as she can release him back into the wild Floridian swamps. But first A gorgeously heart-warming and charming book they have to get there... On a journey like no about embracing whatever life throws at you! Barbara other, they encounter everything from movie stars Taylor and revolutionaries to Ernest Hemingway and • Rights already sold in Italy, Brazil, the hurricanes. A quirky, adventure in which everything Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany. Bradford is true, except the bits that are made up.

Stuart Macbride £7.99 / PB B / 30 June 2016 / 9780008154240 / HarperFiction £7.99 / PB B / 22 September 2016 / 9781848455016 / MIRA

INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 13 Hazel Gaynor Anne O’Brien P op u lar fi c tion early release for The Girl From The Savoy The Queen’s Choice export

Dolly Lane is a dreamer; a thrust into the heady atmosphere of France, 1399. The Duke of union between Joanna and downtrodden maid who longs to London’s glittering theatre scene. Brittany is dead and his Henry would bring the chance dance on the London stage, but the widow, Joanna of Navarre, of a vital alliance between two outbreak of war takes everything from • The new rich and compelling novel has inherited control of their proud states – if they will allow her. Her fortunes take an unexpected from the author of The Girl Who turn when she responds to a Came Home. Perfect for fans of land – a testament to her it. One question. Two paths. A newspaper advert and finds herself Kate Morton and Rachel Hore. intellect, integrity and political choice that will make history. prowess. Then comes an

£12.99 / TPB OM / 17 May 2016 / 9780008162290 / HarperFiction unprecedented proposal from • Anne O’Brien is a Sunday Henry IV, King of England. The Times top 10 bestseller in price of becoming his Queen? hardback, and has sold Abandoning her homeland, over 250,000 books in the leaving her children and UK alone. Kathleen sacrificing her independence. Tessaro Crossing the channel is a early release dangerous prospect. But the for Rare Objects export

£7.99 / PB B / 19 May 2016 / 9781848454422 / MIRA

When Mae secures a job at a Boston York to Boston during the Great antiques shop, it opens a window to Depression, Rare Objects is a rich a new world peopled with characters story of what it means to reach for as rare and rich as the artefacts a braver, bolder life. around her. But when enigmatic Rosie Thomas socialite Diana walks in, Mae’s hidden • From the bestselling author of past returns. From Jazz-Age New The Perfume Collector. Daughter of the House

£7.99 / PB B / 12 April 2016 / 9780007419876 / HarperFiction

London, 1919. Born into a way in which she might use it down-at-heel family, Nancy for her own ends. Wix is more than her past dictates. The Great War has As Nancy struggles to break Barbara Taylor Bradford left London on the brink of free from the rigid bonds of

export an uncertain future, and with society and find her place in price The Cavendon Luck their hard-won freedoms now the world, the only thing that £12.99 in doubt Nancy and her fellow could hold her back is her love suffragettes must strive all for an unattainable man… After the ravages of the Great to pre-war Berlin, from Dunkirk to over again for the right to War and the Great Depression, the the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, control their destinies. Nancy • A stunning novel from the future looks assured for the first this gripping family saga weaves discovers she has a gift that Sunday Times bestselling time in a decade for Cavendon Hall. together the personal and political offers hope to the loved ones author of The Kashmir Shawl. But over Europe the storm clouds for the daughters of the Earl – and of the lost generation, and a of war are gathering. Tracing the for their children, who must join the families of the house from Yorkshire front line. chance encounter reveals a

£14.99 / TPB OM / 16 June 2016 / 9780007503315 / HarperFiction £7.99 / PB B / 19 May 2016 / 9780007512089 / HarperFiction

14 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 15 Freya North P op u lar fi c tion

The Turning Point

Two single parents, Frankie For two families, life is about to and Scott, meet unexpectedly. change. But no-one could have Their homes are far apart: anticipated how. Frankie lives with her children on the North Norfolk coast, • Extraordinary reader response Scott in the mountains of with over 150 5-star reviews British Columbia. Yet though on Amazon. thousands of miles divide them, a million little things • ‘A deeply moving tale about connect them. A spark ignites, never taking life for granted’ a recognition so strong that - Stylist it dares them to take a risk.

export price £6.99 Tilly Bagshawe Rosie Nixon

The Bachelor The Stylist £7.99 / PB B / 24 March 2016 / 9780007462308 / HarperFiction

Self-made millionaire Henry Saxton-Brae has it all, When fashion boutique worker Amber Green is and his fiancée just happens to be a supermodel mistakenly offered a job as assistant to infamous, who is as kind and loyal as she is beautiful. To jet-setting ‘stylist to the stars’ Mona Armstrong, Sarah Morgan top it all, he’s just bought Hanborough Castle, the she hits the ground running, helping to style jewel in the crown of the Swell Valley. But could some of Hollywood’s hottest (and craziest) Sunset in Central Park he really be the only man in the world not in love starlets. But when she catches the attention of with his future wife? two very different suitors, how will Amber keep her head? Which boy will she chose? And what Flora Fitzwilliam has been summoned by a the hell will everyone wear? The addictive new summer • The second novel in Sarah legendary designer to restore Hanborough to love read from phenomenal Morgan’s addictive Made in its former glory. But she soon discovers that it’s • Rosie Nixon is the editor of Hello! Magazine. bestselling author Sarah New York trilogy. not just the house that needs fixing, Between Morgan. Love has never been her boss’s waning talents and Henry’s roving eye, a priority for garden designer • Fans of Trisha Ashley, Flora is being torn apart. Can she pull off the job, Frankie Fisher. Until she begins Miranda Dickinson and Julia and make Henry see that his bachelor days are working on a beautiful Park Williams will fall head over behind him? Avenue roof garden with old heels for Sarah Morgan. • The third book in the Swell Valley series by friend Matt. As they learn to bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe. work together, the seeds of friendship could grow into something deeper.

£7.99 / PB B / 14 July 2016 / 9781848454729 / MIRA £7.99 / PB B / 16 June 2016 / 9780008132811 / HarperFiction £7.99 / PB B / 11 August 2016 / 9781848454989 / MIRA

16 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 17 Lionel Shriver literary fi c tion export export price team export .99 favourite team The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 £12 read! favourite read!

Recommended by Lauren, Each family member must contend International Sales Assistant with disappointment, but also, the challenge of sheer survival. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting on inheriting a sizable fortune • The brilliant new novel from when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. the author of We Need To Talk However, the dollar is in meltdown. About Kevin.

£12.99 / TPB OM / 12 May 2016 / 9780007560752 / Borough Press

Nell Zink Annie Proulx C.E. Morgan Nicotine Barkskins The Sport of Kings

Penny Baker has rebelled against her becomes enmeshed in their political family her whole life—by being the fervour, until a reckless confrontation In the late seventeenth century two illiterate Recommended by Malissa, conventional one. But all that changes between her old family and her new woodsmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, make International Sales Executive when her father dies. Upon visiting one changes everything. their way from Northern France to New France his property, she finds it occupied by to seek a living. Proulx tells the stories of the A majestic story of hunger, family, racism and a group of squatters whom she finds • From the acclaimed author of children, grandchildren, and descendants of these justice set deep in Kentucky and following one of unexpectedly charming. Penny soon Mislaid and The Wallcreeper. two lineages, the Sels and the Duquets, as well as the proudest families living there – the Forges. As the descendants of their allies and foes, as they Henry tries to turn his family’s crop farm into one £12.99 / TPB OM / 04 October 2016 / 9780008179199 / Fourth Estate travel back to Europe, to China, to New England, for horse breeders, his daughter Henrietta has always in quest of a livelihood or a fortune, or different ideas. And when Allmon Shaughnessy fleeing stunningly brutal conditions—accidents, comes to work at the stables, the ugliness of the pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals. farm’s history rears its head. Beautifully written and gripping from beginning to end, this is sure • The magnum opus from one of America’s to be one of the best literary books you will read Jessica Winter greatest living writers. in a long time.

Break In Case of Emergency • From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain.

Jen, a married thirty-something, has This hilarious and heartwarming been made redundant. Out of financial story combines a satirical contempt desperation, she has taken a job at a for modernity, with warmth and an charitable foundation run by a wealthy enduring faith in humanity. celebrity. Amid the absurd day-today operations of the foundation, Jen • Jessica Winter is a senior editor feels increasingly futile and anxious. at Slate.

£12.99 / TPB OM / 12 July 2016 / 9780008132125 / Borough Press £14.99 / TPB OM / 14 June 2016 / 9780007579327 / Fourth Estate £12.99 / TPB OM / 03 May 2016 / 9780007313273 / Fourth Estate

18 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 19 Imbolo Mbue Bonnie MacBird Crime & t h riller

Behold the Dreamers Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian banker, Clark, he can hardly believe In this brilliantly original novel set iconic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle immigrant living in Harlem has his luck. But Clark is a senior in 1888, Sherlock races to the aid of novels, plus the millions of Sherlock brought his wife and their six-year- executive at Lehman brothers and an alluring French damsel in distress fans around the world. old son to join him in the land of the year is 2008, and a tsunami of in the hunt for a missing child and opportunity. When Jende lands trouble is about to come crashing to uncover the theft of a priceless a job as chauffeur to a wealthy down on them all. statue. Hilarious and action-packed, this is a great read for fans of the

£12.99 / TPB OM / 23 August 2016 / 9780008158149 / Fourth Estate £7.99 / PB B / 05 May 2016 / 9780008129699 / HarperFiction

Michela Wrong Simon Toyne

Borderlines Solomon Creed

British lawyer Paula Shackleton courtroom drama and a gritty, When Solomon Creed flees the Coronado. Somehow, Solomon knows flies to the capital of North Darrar, aromatic evocation of place, inspired burning wreckage of a plane in the he must save this man. But how do determined to lose herself in work, by recent events. Arizona desert, he is acting on instinct you save a man who is already dead? but soon discovers that even jobs alone. He has no memory of his past taken with the purest intentions • From the author of It’s Our Turn and no idea what his future holds. • The first in an electrifying new series can involve moral compromise. to Eat and In The Footsteps of Running towards a nearby town, from the bestselling author of The This debut novel is a compelling Mr Kurtz. one name fires in his mind – James Tower, The Key and Sanctus.

export price £8.99 / PB B / 30 June 2016 / 9780008123017 / Fourth Estate £6.99 / PB A OM / 19 May 2016 / 9780008135263 / HarperFiction £6.50

Nada Awar Jarrar Simon Tolkien

An Unsafe Haven No Man’s Land

Imagine trying to live a normal life and affected daily by the war A debut literary novel set in the • Written by the grandson of in a world which changes daily in Syria. early 20th-century England torn J.R.R. Tolkien, and includes and where nothing is certain. Set apart by the First World War, as detail based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s in contemporary Beirut, An Unsafe • Nada’s first novel, Somewhere, seen through the eyes of a working own experience serving in the Haven is a rich, illuminating and Home, won the Commonwealth class boy whose turbulent life is Battle of the Somme. deeply moving novel about a group Writers’ Prize (Best First Book), finally coming together when he is of friends whose lives are shaped South East Asia and South Pacific. posted to the Somme in 1916.

£12.99 / TPB OM / 25 August 2016 / 9780008165024 / HarperFiction £14.99 / TPB OM / 30 June 2016 / 9780008164454 / HarperFiction

20 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 21 C.L. Taylor Crime & t h riller

The Missing New titles from the biggest names in crime

When fifteen-year-old Billy disappearance. A mother’s instinct Wilkinson goes missing in the is never wrong. Or is it? middle of the night, Claire is sure Stuart MacBride of two things – that Billy is still • The Lie and The Accident have alive and that her friends and sold over half a million copies and Logan McRae (10) — In the Cold Dark Ground family had nothing to do with his were Sunday Times bestsellers.

A body just turned up in the Aberdeen’s criminal underbelly, £7.99 / PB B / 07 April 2016 / 9780008118051 / Avon woods – naked, hands tied is dying – leaving rival gangs behind its back, and a bin bag from all over the UK eying his duct-taped over its head. But territory. There’s a war brewing it’s not going to be easy to and Logan’s trapped right in the solve: a new Superintendent middle, whether he likes it or not. Annabel Kantaria is on her way, hell-bent on making Logan’s life miserable; • MacBride’s books have The Disappearance Professional Standards are sold over 2.5 million copies gunning for Steel; and Wee worldwide, translated into Hamish Mowat, head of 18 languages. On the night of her 70th birthday, dark clues emerging about Audrey’s Audrey goes missing on an once-in-a- early life, the twins begin to question £6.99 / PB A OM / 11 August 2016 / 9780008171353 / HarperFiction lifetime cruise around the Greek isles, if they can even trust one another. hours after she breaks the news that her twins stand to inherit a fortune • Gripping psychological suspense after her death. As the search widens, for fans of Liane Moriarty, Jodi so does the list of suspects – and with Picoult and Diane Chamberlain. Faye export kellerman team £7.99 / PB B / 21 April 2016 / 9781848454408 / MIRA favourite read! The Theory of Death

Recommended by Sharon, Identifying the body takes Heather Gudenkauf Marketing Assistant for China Decker and McAdams into the cryptic world of mathematics at Missing Pieces The case in this thrilling novel – Kneed Loft College – a sphere of the deaths of a professor and a scheming academics, a beguiling student – might appear simple student who sets her sights on Sarah dives deep into the rabbit • New York Times bestselling at first, but solving it will push McAdams, and a dangerous hole of her husband’s past, but the author Heather Gudenkauf detective Peter Decker and his underworld. farther she climbs, the harder it is returns with a chilling page-turner former partner Tyler McAdams for her to get out… about a woman chasing clues into to their limits. • The gripping new crime novel a decades-old mystery that could in the Peter Decker and Rina have shattering repercussions. Lazarus series.

£7.99 / PB B / 08 SEPTEMBER 2016 / 9781848454972 / MIRA £7.99 / PB B / 07 April 2016 / 9780007517718 / HarperFiction

22 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 23 non-fiction Alex Barclay Mary Robert Crime & t h riller

The Drowning Child Kubica Thorogood Don’t You Cry The Killing of Polly Carter

The heart-stopping new thriller • Alex Barclay emerges from the in the Ren Bryce series by Alex same stable that gave the world Barclay, bestselling author of such best-selling authors as Lee Darkhouse and Blood Loss. Child, Martina Cole, Lesley Pearse In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Supermodel Polly Carter was famed for her looks and John Connolly. Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment and party-girl lifestyle. Now she’s dead, apparently without a trace. Meanwhile, in a small Michigan having thrown herself from the clifftop near her harbor town an hour outside Chicago, a home on the island of Saint-Marie. Those who knew mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee her say Polly would never have killed herself, and shop where eighteen-year-old Alex Gallo works when he is called in to investigate, DI Richard Poole £12.99 / TPB OM / 18 AUGUST 2016 / 9780007494576 / HarperFiction as a dishwasher. He is immediately drawn to her is inclined to agree there is more to Polly’s death charm and beauty, but what starts as an innocent than meets the eye. crush quickly spirals into something far more dark and sinister than he ever expected. • From from the creator and writer of the hit TV series, Death in Paradise. Lars Kepler

export price £10.99 Stalker £7.99 / PB B / 25 August 2016 / 9781848454736 / MIRA £7.99 / PB B / 16 June 2016 / 9781848454439 / MIRA

Someone has secretly filmed a Psychiatrist Erik Maria Bark is called in woman through her window. The next to hypnotise him - but what the man day she is found dead. The police tells him under hypnosis leads Erik to receive a second film of another start lying to the police. woman, and when her husband finds Jilliane Scott her he is in such a state of shock that • The fifth thriller in Lars Kepler’s the police are unable to question him. bestselling series. Hoffman Mariani

£12.99 / TPB OM / 05 May 2016 / 9780007467839 / HarperFiction All the Little Pieces Ben Hope (13) — Star of Africa

She could have stopped an awful crime. She Ben Hope is trained to identify danger. So when he could have saved a life. She tried to forget about finds out that someone very important to him is Camilla Way it. But now, the truth is out. As she drives home working on a US container ship in the treacherous in the pouring rain, a dishevelled young woman seas off the East African coast, he fears the worst. Watching Edie appears out of nowhere, pleading for help. The Within days the ship is hijacked by pirates. Taking isolated stretch of road is dark, and with her matters into his own hands, Ben embarks upon the daughter Maggie asleep in the backseat, Faith most daring rescue mission of his career, because Beautiful, creative, a little wild - Edie But someone’s been watching her, refuses to let the stranger in. What she sees next this is no ordinary hostage situation. caused a stir when she walked into waiting for the chance to prove will haunt her forever. Heather’s life. Back when they both what a perfect friend she can be... • A Sunday Times bestselling author, translated into had dreams for the future. Before over 20 languages. it all went horribly, terrifyingly • Perfect for fans of Gone Girl and wrong. Years later Edie is pregnant The Girl on The Train. and alone, trying to rebuild her life.

£12.99 / TPB OM / 28 July 2016 / 9780008159023 / HarperFiction £6.99 / PB A OM / 28 July 2016 / 9780007311712 / HarperFiction £7.99 / PB B / 05 May 2016 / 9780007486205 / Avon

24 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 25 Dean Koontz Peter Newman s c i-fi & fantasy

Ashley Bell The Malice

When Bibi Blair is miraculously • A new standalone thriller In the south, the Breach stirs. • Following Peter Newman’s cured of an inoperable brain from the master of suspense, Gamma’s sword, the Malice, brilliant debut, The Vagrant tumour, it’s only the beginning who has sold over 500 wakes, calling to be taken comes this is the much- of a strange and terrifying million books worldwide. to battle once more. But the anticipated sequel. journey. For Bibi believes that Vagrant has found a home in exchange for being saved • Dean Koontz is a multiple now, made a life and so he • Perfect for fans of Joe herself, she in turn must save New York Times bestselling turns his back, ignoring its Abercrombie and Mark the mysterious Ashley Bell. author and is published in call. But the sword cries Lawrence. But first, she has to find her. over 38 languages. out, frustrated, until another Brilliantly paced, with an answers. Her name is Vesper. exhilarating heroine and a twisting, ingenious storyline, Ashley Bell is a new milestone in literary suspense from the long acclaimed master.

£6.99 / PB A OM / 02 June 2016 / 9780007520367 / HarperFiction £12.99 / TPB OM / 19 May 2016 / 9780007593170 / HarperVoyager

Mark lawrence Neal Stephenson Red Queen’s War (2) — The Liar’s Key Seveneves Red Queen’s War (3) — The Wheel of Osheim

Follow the tale of Prince Jalan But the Wheel of Osheim is ‘He makes reading so much • A magnificent, visionary Kendeth and the warrior Snorri turning ever faster and it will fun it feels like a deadly sin.’ work of speculative fiction ver Snagason as they try to crack the world unless it’s - New York Times from a true visionary that regain their former lives with the stopped. When the end of will dazzle you with its help of Loki’s key in The Liar’s all things looms, and there’s The earth was a ticking time depth, psychology and Key and The Wheel of Osheim. nowhere to run, even the worst bomb. To ensure the survival awesome imagination. coward must find new answers. they had to look beyond its All the horrors of Hell stand atmosphere. So they became • His novel Snow Crash was between Snorri and the rescue • From the critically-acclaimed pioneers. Five thousand years a TIME Magazine 100 best of his family, if indeed the dead author of Prince of Fools later and their progeny form English-language novels can be rescued. For Jalan comes the second and third seven distinct races and they published since 1923. getting back out alive and with volumes of the brilliant new must journey to an alien: Earth. Loki’s Key is all that matters. epic fantasy series.

export Red Queen’s War (2) — THE LIAR’S KEY price £8.99 / PB B / 07 April 2016 / 9780007531608 / HarperVoyager £8.99 Red Queen’s War (3) — THE WHEEL OF OSHEIM £12.99 / TPB OM / 02 June 2016 / 9780007531622 / HarperVoyager £9.99 / PB B / 02 June 2016 / 9780008132545 / Borough Press

26 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 27 Jay Kristoff s c i-fi & fantasy

Nevernight

Mia has many names: The Pale deepens and a darkness joins Mia. Daughter, The Crow, or Kingmaker; A darkness that takes the shape of a she is the killer of killers and destroyer cat and helps her to escape the men of empires; but her story begins when tasked with her disposal. she is only ten years old and forced to watch her father hang as a traitor. • A dark, vivid epic fantasy set in a At the time of his death, her shadow school for assassins.

£12.99 / TPB OM / 11 August 2016 / 9780008180003 / HarperVoyager

A.G. Riddle Robin Hobb Blake Charlton Departure Fitz and the Fool (2) — Fool’s Quest The Spellwright Trilogy (3) — Spellbreaker

En route from London to New York, one they left. But where are they? Flight 305 suddenly loses power Why are they here? And how will Years ago, they freed a dragon from the glaciers While hunting neodemons in her role as Warden and crash-lands, plunging a group they get back home? on Aslevjal. Then they parted, the Fool returning of Ixos, Leandra obtains a prophetic spell that of strangers into a mysterious to far-off Clerres, while Fitz started a family and provides a glimpse one day into her future. She adventure. The survivors soon • From the author of The Origin found a home of his own. discovers that she is doomed to murder someone realize that the world they’ve Mystery – the trilogy with over she loves, soon, but not who. crashed in is very different from the 1 million copies sold. Now, betrayed and broken, the Fool has returned. But as Fitz attempts to heal his old friend, his Leandra’s quest to unravel the mystery becomes daughter Bee is abducted by mysterious raiders more urgent when her chronic disease flares up £7.99 / PB B / 19 May 2016 / 9780008156893 / HarperVoyager who leave ruin and confusion in their wake. Fitz and the Ixonian Archipelago is plagued by natural must take up his assassin’s tools once more in disasters, demon worshiping cults, and fierce order to rescue Bee, whilst helping the Fool in political infighting. As chaos spreads, Leandra his quest for vengeance. But will he be forced to and her troubled family must race to uncover the choose between his child and his dearest friend? truth – if they don’t kill each other first. Emmi Itäranta • Continuing the new Fitz and the Fool trilogy, • The long awaited sequel to Spellbound. this is the long-awaited return to Hobb’s The City of Woven Streets most-loved world. • ‘An absorbing read’ - Robin Hobb

• ‘Fantasy as it ought to be written’ - George R.R. Martin In the City of Woven Streets, human a prison for those whose very life has little value. Eliana is a young existence is considered a curse. weaver in the House of Webs, but secretly knows she doesn’t When an unknown woman arrives, really belong there. She is hiding a Eliana discovers an invisible network shameful birth defect that would of power behind the city’s facade. land her in the House of the Tainted,

£6.99 / PB A OM / 14 July 2016 / 9780008195977 / HarperVoyager £8.99 / PB B / 16 June 2016 / 9780007368914 / HarperVoyager £8.99 / PB B / 02 June 2016 / 9780007536061 / HarperVoyager

28 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 29 yo u ng ad lt James Frey non-fiction

Endgame (3)

Our world is populated by twelve • The thrilling conclusion ancient bloodlines. In each line a to the New York Times player comes of age and trains bestseller and international for a catastrophic event that has multimedia phenomenon, not yet happened. Each Player is Endgame series. steeped in tradition and skilled in ways to kill. But no one has had • ‘A unique dystopian adventure to fight yet – until the Calling. with anchors to the real world… set to become a Kimberly McCreight Sabaa Tahir Now the Players must set off cultural phenomenon.’ on a scavenger hunt that will - ALA Booklist span the globe, all in search of three ancient keys that will save not only their bloodline but the James Frey world… and only one can win.

£ 12.99 / TPB / 06 October 2016 / 9780007586462 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks t f in a l

Also available: ver n o o c The Zero Line Chronicles — Endgame (2) — Sky Key The Complete Zero Line Chronicles

Endgame is here. Earth Key has been found. Two Several decades before the Players of Endgame keys and nine Players remain. The meet at the Calling, an earlier generation of keys must be found, and only one Player can Players is learning the rules. But not everyone win. Sky Key – wherever it is, whatever it is – is wants to see Endgame take place. One group has next. And the nine remaining Players will stop at other ideas. They call themselves the Zero Line. nothing to get it… Their mission is to kill the Players. Stop Endgame. Kiera Cass Veronica Roth Derek Landy Prevent the end of the world. • The film has been optioned by the team behind The Twilight Saga and The Fault in our Stars, • Originally published as three Eric Lindstrom plus 2 TV series including a reality show version individual ebook novellas, the of Endgame. Zero Line Chronicles are now together in one print volume. export price £6.50

£7.99 / PB B / 14 July 2016 / 9780007585236 / £7.99 / PB B / 28 July 2016 / 9780007585359 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 31 young adult

l a in f t o n ver o c s s s The fifth and final novel in Kiera in Kiera novel fifth and final The Times York 1 New no. Cass’s Selection series. bestselling First in an imaginative trilogy. Film / trilogy. in an imaginative First Universal. TV rights optioned by Gossip behind the team by Created Liars. TV rights Little Girl and Pretty Bros. ABC, and Warner by acquired she’ll lose not just the crown, it will be crown, the she’ll lose not just off with her head! • lower levels. As the story unfolds, it unfolds, As the story levels. lower at not everything clear that becomes as it seems. is as perfect the top • She must dangers of Wonderland. ahead of her enemies or one step stay has a way of surprising you… and of surprising you… has a way more a choice make she must now expected. ever difficult than she • Ghee c ildren’sBook llinsCh / HarperCo / 9780008179977 t 2016 ildren’sBook llinsCh rperCo / Ha / 9780008175399 y 2016 ildren’sBook llinsCh / HarperCo / 9780007580248 y 2016 kes olleen Oa M atherine Page-turning fantasy YA you just can’t put down put can’t just you YA fantasy Page-turning kingdom; she longs only for herkingdom; she longs only for with the reign and to approval father’s But when a betrayal she loves. boy her her heart and threatens breaks the Dinah is launched into throne, / PB B / 05 Ma £7.99 Cass Kiera Crown Heir (2) — The The the Selection. entered suitors 35 Eadlyn’s Only one will win Princess to princess heart. She is the first and hold a Selection of her own real find a didn’t think she would let alone partner among the suitors, But sometimes the heart true love. / PB B / 19 Ma £7.99 K Floor Thousandth The has skyscraper A thousand-story in of Manhattan most over taken trilogy set 100 new this captivating luxury and Every in the future. years to imaginable belongs technology top in the tower’s housed the wealthy, in the dark live floors while the poor gus / PB B / 30 Au £7.99 C Queen of Hearts of Hearts. Queen Dinah is the future dark depths of her of the Unaware 2016 - october | april highlights INTERNATIONAL

team team read! export export rite rite u favo orr s s er ag y Vo 2016 - october | april highlights INTERNATIONAL part yet? part Darkly magical YA debut. Darkly magical YA and romance. From the author of From and romance. Amelia. Reconstructing The first book in a breathtaking book in a first The with tension packed trilogy, new was aAn Ember in the Ashes was Film s bestseller. Time York New in development currently adaptation with Paramount. ruthless Commandant of Blackcliff, the Blackcliff, of Commandant ruthless military academy. greatest Empire’s • be… Imagine how much danger you’d danger you’d much Imagine how be… an Outlier. be in… Imagine being • only problem is that he is periodically is that only problem centuries- a destructive by possessed her heart, has lost Meredith old curse. Or can but will she also lose her life? the day? save kiss true love’s •

Creight c h at t C orr & Elizabeth er 2016 / 9780008160340 / Harper / 9780008160340 tember 2016 ildren’sBook llinsCh / HarperCo / 9780008115067 y 2016

ate C into her life and she falls for him. The for and she falls her life into ildren’sBook llinsCh / HarperCo / 9780008182984 / PB B / 30 June 2016 £7.99 K Kiss Witch’s The is fed-up Meredith Sixteeen-year-old and feeling family with her feuding mention school – not to at invisible shoots out of magic that the witch stressed. her fingernails when she’s Jack comes sensitive sweet, Then hir Sabaa Ta the Night Against An Ember in the Ashes (2) — A Torch defiance Under the Martial Empire, Laia’s When is met with death. and her murdered are grandparents only the treason, for arrested brother the are turn to people she has left to their help, for But in exchange rebels. on the Laia spy demand that they / HB / 08 Sep £12.99 Outliers Julie, by Recommended Sales Manager Senior European see inside the could Imagine if you – your you around minds of everyone your boyfriend, friend, your best you’d valuable enemies… Imagine how Ma / PB B / 03 £7.99 imberly M Kimberly

32 Have you got to got you Have l a in f t o n ver o c Eric Lindstrom Derek Landy yo u ng ad lt Demon Road (2) — Desolation Not if I See You First Demon Road (3) — American Monsters

Parker doesn’t need perfect proves impossible and she starts The epic thriller continues in And coming soon - the epic vision to see right through you. to question if things are always Desolation, book two in the conclusion to Derek Landy’s That’s why she created the Rules: as they seem… mind-blowing supernatural mind-blowing supernatural Don’t treat her any differently thriller series Demon Road. thriller series. because she’s blind. When Scott • Perfect for fans of John Green. Reeling from their bloody the boy who broke her heart, encounter in New York City at • From bestselling author reappears at school, Parker • ‘An unflinching exploration of the end of book one, Amber Derek Landy, creator of shuns him. She has enough to trust, friendship, and grief.’ and Milo flee north. On their the hugely successful deal with since her dad’s death. - Kirkus, starred review, trail are the Hounds of Hell – Skulduggery Pleasant series. But avoiding her past quickly ‘Best Teen Book of 2015’. five demonic bikers who will stop at nothing to drag them back to their unholy master.

Demon Road 2: £12.99 / TPB OM / 07 April 2016 / 9780008156978 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks £7.99 / PB B / 28 July 2016 / 9780008156992 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks Demon Road 3: £7.99 / PB B / 05 May 2016 / 9780008146313 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks £12.99 / TPB OM / 25 August 2016 / 9780008157098 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

Jennifer L. Vivi Veronica Roth

Armentrout Greene Divergent (3) — Allegiant [Film tie-in edition]

The Problem with Forever Sing One choice will define you. • Features distinctive cover What if your whole world artwork from the major was a lie? What if a single motion picture. When Mallory was a kid, she was bounced from America’s most famous pop star flees the revelation – like a single choice one horrible foster home to another. At thirteen, a spotlight to recover from her latest break-up in terrible accident got her removed from the group Maine, America – only to fall for a local boy and – changed everything? What if • This special edition also home where she was living to a hospital where she be faced with an impossible choice at the end of love and loyalty made you do contains never-before-seen met the parents who would adopt her. But when the summer: her new guy, or her music. things you never expected? bonus content. she starts a new school and encounters an old friend from the foster system sparks start to fly. • Commercial, compelling YA, and perfect The explosive conclusion to summer reading. Veronica Roth’s bestselling • Jennifer L. Armentrout is a New York Times Divergent trilogy reveals the bestselling author, with over 50k Twitter followers and 100k followers on Facebook. secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers and film fans alike.

£7.99 / PB B / 02 June 2016 / 9780008173920 £7.99 / PB B / 16 June 2016 / 9781848454576 / MIRA Ink HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks £7.99 / PB B / AVAILABLE NOW / 9780008167165 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

34 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 35 non-fiction ch ildren’s fi c tion Judith Kerr Holly Smale Geek Girl (5) — Head Over Heels Geek Girl Special (2) — Sunny Side Up

Harriet Manners knows almost • The fifth book in the every fact there is. She knows bestselling, award-winning duck-billed platypuses don’t Geek Girl series. Rights for Minecraft have stomachs. She knows that the series have been sold in fourteen squirrels were once over 25 countries. detained as spies. And for once, Harriet knows exactly how her • Geek Girl has a fantastic life should go. She’s got it ALL following on Facebook – planned out. If only everyone with more than 14,000 likes. else would stick to the script… But is following the rules going • Also available: The hilarious new to break hearts for Geek Girl? Geek Girl summer adventure.

£6.99 / PB B / 28 July 2016 / 9780007574650 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks Special: £9.99 / HB / 30 June 2016 / 9780008163457 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

David Walliams Lauren Child

Ruby Redfort (5) — Pick Your Poison

Michael Morpurgo Meet Ruby Redfort: undercover Ruby make it out in one piece? agent, code-cracker and Well, happy endings are for thirteen-year-old genius – you fairy tales, bozo. can count on her when you’re Holly Smale between a rock and a hard • The fifth book in the nail- place. There’s a lot to lose sleep biting series created by over in Twinford: there’s the the award-winning author snakes and the bivalves, but Lauren Child. they aren’t half as poisonous as the rumours. With so many • ‘The new Ruby Redfort book twists and turns it’s hard to is utterly, extraordinarily know who to trust, particularly brilliant’ – Clarice Bean. when no one trusts you. Will

Oliver Jeffers £6.99 / PB B / 05 May 2016 / 9780007334278 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 37 Chris Columbus, ch ildren’s fi c tion Soman Chainani Justin Ned Vizzini & The School for Good and Evil — Ever Never Handbook Fisher Chris Rylander House of Secrets (3) — Ned’s Circus of Marvels Clash of the Worlds Soman Chainani’s bestselling series brand new short stories and much, comes to life in this handbook full of much more. everything students at the School need to learn in order to survive • The bestselling School for Ned Waddlesworth is about to discover that, The Walker kids may have saved the world, but they their own fairy tale. With full-colour Good and Evil series has been without him, our world will be engulfed in magical can’t save their home. When it turns out the Wind illustrations the handbook includes translated into 23 languages. beasts – both good and bad. With the help of a Witch is still alive and planning an invasion, they character interviews, diary excerpts, robot mouse and a flying circus, it’s up to Ned set out to defeat her, returning to the book world to do battle with a deadly pirate-magician, save and embark on a dangerous quest – facing aliens, magic, his dad and the world… all in one week. dinosaurs and monstrous creatures from the deep. £7.99 / PB B / 28 July 2016 / 9780008181796 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks • From an exciting debut author with • The third and final book in the epic filmmaking credentials, this is perfect House of Secrets series. for fans of House of Secrets. • ‘A breakneck, jam- packed, roller coaster export early price release Sophie Cleverly .99 for of an adventure’ £7 export - J.K. Rowling. Scarlet and Ivy (3) — The Dance in the Dark £6.99 / PB B / 30 June 2016 / 9780008124526 £10.99 / TPB OM / 03 May 2016 / 9780007490189 HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

With their evil headmaster, Mr Zelda takes her place, freakish things Bartholomew, safely out of the start happening. Is someone out for picture and kindly Mrs Knightin the ultimate revenge? charge, it looks like life at Rookwood School is looking up. But after their • Gorgeous paperback original Sean Fay Wolfe beloved ballet teacher suddenly package, aimed at tween girl export price disappears and strange Madame readers. £6.50 The Elementia Chronicles (3) — Book Three: Part 1 The Dusk of Hope £6.99 / PB B / 02 June 2016 / 9780007589227 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks Book Three: Part 2 Herobrine’s Message

The stunning, two-part • Written by a 17-year-old conclusion to the Minecraft super fan. Elementia Chronicles: Shane Hegarty an unofficial Minecraft-fan • Boys and girls alike will find adventure series, inspired this fast-paced, humorous Darkmouth (3) — Chaos Descends by the bestselling game. read appealing.

• Minecraft is a gaming The adventures of the most appearing where they shouldn’t and sensation. The game has unfortunate Legend Hunter ever an attack is coming. Finn has the broken 12 Guinness World to don fighting armour continue. weight of the world on his shoulders. Whether he likes it or not, Finn is The weight of two worlds actually… Records and sold nearly going to be made a proper Legend 60 million copies worldwide. Hunter. But then suddenly people • For 9+ readers, Darkmouth is a start disappearing, Legends are fast-paced and funny series.

Part 1: £6.99 / PB B / available now / 9780008152802 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks £6.99 / PB B / 28 July 2016 / 9780007545636 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks Part 2: £6.99 / PB B / 07 April 2016 / 9780008173586 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

38 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 39 Laura Martin Judith Michael ch ildren’s fi c tion

Edge of Extinction Kerr Morpurgo Mister Cleghorn’s Seal An Eagle in the Snow

Two hundred years ago, the taught has been a lie, and that first dinosaur was successfully dinosaurs might not be the cloned. Soon after, the human most dangerous predators What do you do if you find an abandoned seal 1940. A train is under attacks from German race realized they’d made out there. pup on a rock in the middle of the sea? Well, fighters. Sheltering in a railway tunnel, a stranger a colossal mistake. Thirteen take it home with you to your flat, of course. At in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells year old Sky Mundy’s father • This thrilling new series least that’s what Mr Albert Cleghorn thought, them a story to pass the time. And what a story: a mysteriously disappeared is Jurassic Park meets though perhaps he hadn’t considered all the young soldier in the trenches of World War I who, five years ago. Now the time Indiana Jones! complications. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, on the spur of the moment, had done what he Mister Cleghorn’s Seal is a classic in the making. thought was the right thing. It turned out to have has come for her to try and been the worst mistake he ever could have made track him down. Stepping out • Featuring a trio of lead • An exquisite story to delight readers young – a mistake he must put right before it is too late… into a world of rampaging characters, this series should and old, from much-loved writer and illustrator dinosaurs, Sky learns that just appeal to both boys and girls. Judith Kerr. • Inspired by the true story of one man who about everything she’s been might have stopped World War II. • Michael Morpurgo’s English Language sales exceed 34 million copies.

£9.99 / TPB with CD / 25 August 2016 / 9780008183028 £6.99 / PB B / 25 August 2016 / 9780008134174 £6.99 / PB B / 19 May 2016 / 9780008152895 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

Paul s 1 + 2 Jacob Lincoln Clara Durham Grey Peirce Vulliamy Dotty Detective The Luck Uglies (3) — r boo k ver s fo Ferals (3) — Big Nate: Puzzlemania Dotty Detective and the The Last Reckoning Co The White Widow Great Pawprint Puzzle

Rye feared her father, Harmless, might be lost Orphan boy Caw has done battle with the Big Nate is back! This companion activity book Dot loves puzzles – especially if they’re fiendishly forever after he was driven into the forest most terrifying villains ever to stalk the city of to the bestselling Big Nate series is packed with tricky. With the help of trusty sidekick, Beans and Beyond the Shale by his deadly enemy Slinister Blackstone. But now he must face his toughest laughs, activities and fun. top dog, McClusky, she is always ready to sniff Varlet. Now Slinister is making moves to claim adversary yet – his friend Selina, bitten by the out a mystery. So when mean girl Laura seems leadership over the Luck Uglies. Can Rye find Spinning Man’s spider and transformed into the • 224 pages of Big Nate fun, including word set on sabotaging the school talent show, Dot is her father, save her village and put an end to White Widow. puzzles, drawing games, brain-bending determined to find out how, and save the day… the fighting for good? quizzes and lots of hilarity! • The third book in this gripping, high-impact, • Clara Vulliamy is the daughter of Shirley • Enter a world of secrets, impossible choices high-energy new series. Hughes, one of the best-known and loved and adventure in this immersive adventure- figures in children’s literature. filled story. • Film/TV rights optioned by FOX. early release • The exhilarating conclusion to the critically for export Book 1: acclaimed Luck Uglies series. £5.99 / PB / 05 May 2016 / 9780008132491 HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks Book 2: £7.99 / PB B / 07 April 2016 / 9780007526949 £6.99 / PB B / 28 July 2016 / 9780007578566 £6.99 / PB / 17 May 2016 / 9780008113407 £5.99 / PB B / 28 July 2016 / 9780008132453 HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

40 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 41 Rob Biddulph pi c t u re boo k t f in a l Odd Dog Out ver n o o c

For busy dogs, a busy day • A gloriously illustrated s Of busy work, and busy play… story about leaving home and finding yourself, from But one dog doesn’t quite fit the bestselling and award- in. It’s lonely being the odd winning Rob Biddulph, dog out, when all she wants author of Blown Away and to do is find her place in the GRRRRR! world. She’s willing to go to the other side of the world to look for it… but it might take a different kind of journey for her to discover that maybe where she’s meant to be is right back where she started…

£12.99 / HB / 25 August 2016 / 9780007594153 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

Eoin Colfer Drew Daywalt Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers Dr. Seuss Imaginary Fred The Day the Crayons Came Home Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories What Pet Should I Get? Sometimes, with a little electricity, or luck, or The hilarious sequel to the prize-winning, even magic, an imaginary friend might appear international bestseller The Day the Crayons Quit! Experience the magic of book about making up one’s when you need one. An imaginary friend like Fred… The perfect chemistry between Colfer’s Dr. Seuss with these newly mind, and is the literary text and Jeffer’s artwork make for a dazzlingly discovered gems featuring old equivalent of buried treasure! original book. friends and new faces! • 600 million Dr. Seuss titles £7.99 / PB / 06 October 2016 / 9780008126162 now in £6.99 / PB / 28 July 2016 / 9780008124441 now in HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks paperback HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks paperback Horton and the Kuggerbug is have been sold worldwide, a collection of four wonderful translated into 17 languages new stories that will delight and distributed in 95 countries. Also available: his fans of all ages. What Pet Should I Get is a never-ever- The Hueys — What’s the Opposite? An Alphabet before-seen rhyming picture

In the 4th title in the series, the Hueys explore The letters of our alphabet work tirelessly to make the concept of opposites in their characteristically words that in turn make stories, but what if there quirky way, guaranteed to raise a smile. was a story for each of the letters instead? Turn the pages of this exquisite book to find out… Horton and the Kwuggerburg: £12.99 / HB / Available Now / 9780008131272 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks now in What Pet Should I Get: £6.99 / PB / 28 July 2016 / 9780007420728 paperback £12.99 / Brd / 06 October 2016 / 9780008182519 £12.99 / HB / Available Now / 9780008170783 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

42 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 43 David Walliams pi c t u re boo k The Bear Who Went Boo The First Hippo on the Moon e x p l o r e

At the top of the world lives Recommended by Helen, s Middle East Sales Manager Narnia, Middle Eart h a cheeky polar bear cub who loves to go… BOO! This is the tale of two very

different hippos who decide they a n d Wonderland The Bear Who Went Boo is both want to be the first hippo on a mischievous new picture the moon, no matter what cost! in these Fantastical Colouring Books! book packed with snow Soon a race ensues. A laugh out and surprises! loud adventure with stunning Featuring beautiful images taken from the world’s best loved stories illustrations by Tony Ross.

• David Walliams children’s books have sold over 6 million copies.

• Illustrated by bestselling, award-winning Tony Ross.

export team favourite read! £8.99 / PB & CD / 07 April 2016 / 9780008174880 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks £6.99 / PB / 05 May 2016 / 9780008131814 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

Judith Kerr C.S. Lewis J.R.R. TOlkien Lewis Carroll Mog Time: 6 Stories About Mog & Warner Brothers Illustrated by Laura Tolton Mog and Me and Other Stories and Fabrizio Di Baldo

The Chronicles of Narnia The Lord of the Rings Movie Colour Your Own The perfect gift for Mog fans, • Judith Kerr is one of the Colouring Book Trilogy Colouring Book Alice in Wonderland The Mog Time brings six best-loved children’s authors timeless stories together of the twentieth century. Step through the wardrobe Experience your favourite Join Alice and her rabble of one Volume. and enter the magical world characters and enchanting lovable characters, including • Mog has entertained of Narnia. This beautifully scenes from one of the most the Mad Hatter, Queen of Aimed at younger readers, countless children for more designed colouring book famous fantasy worlds ever Hearts, Humpty Dumpty and Mog and Me and Other Stories than thirty years and sold contains iconic, original created — Middle Earth — in more, as they navigate the brings together four classic over three million copies artwork from all seven stories a brilliant new way with this world of Wonderland and life in The Chronicles of Narnia. first authorised colouring through the looking glass. Mog titles in one bumper worldwide. It also includes intricate book based on Academy With 96 pages of beautiful board book. patterns, delightful maps Award-winning director Peter illustrations to colour in and and inspirational quotes for Jackson’s epic motion picture keep, Colour Your Own Alice in anyone, of any age, who enjoys trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Wonderland is a lovely work of colouring in. art, as well as hours and hours of fun!

£9.99 / PB / 24 March 2016 £9.99 / PB / 02 June 2016 £9.99 / PB / Available Now £19.99 / HB / 25 August 2016 / 9780008183318 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks 9780008181123 9780008185176 9780007954810 £8.99 / Brd / 07 April 2016 / 9780008171179 / HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks HarperFiction HarperNonFiction

44 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 45 non-fi c tion Kate Hudson Amy Schumer Amy Schumer t f in a l The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo ver n o o c

Amy Schumer is riding high. • Amy Schumer an award- Over the last couple of years, winning comedian, writer, she has cemented herself as actress and producer. Her the hilarious heroine of a whole self-penned movie Trainwreck generation; if she feels strongly and sketch show Inside Amy about an issue, she’ll let you Schumer have gained her know about it, on stage or off, international acclaim. and her brilliant, hysterical and candid memoir is no different. Peppered with socially aware satire and ranging from the raunchy to the romantic, the heartfelt to the harrowing, her memoir will be read and loved by millions across the world.

£14.99 / TPB OM / 16 August 2016 / 9780008172398 / HarperNonFiction

Sebastian Junger Sean Smith

Kim Kardashian

Bestselling biographer Sean • This is the only full length Smith takes on the world’s proper biography of the number one reality star, Kim most famous woman in Max Hastings Kardashian West. This is the the world, delving into ultimate insight into the reality her amazing childhood, behind the woman who has Armenian heritage, Gael Lindenfield defined fame in our modern previous marriages and her culture – her childhood, her astonishing family. family, her turbulent love life and the multi-millionaire lifestyle.

£7.99 / PB B / 21 April 2016 / 9780008104542 / HarperNonFiction

INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 47 Matt Ridley Bruce Robinson non-fiction A-list women’s non-fiction Dr Nerina Ramlakhan inspirationaland Fast Asleep, Wide Awake: Discover the secrets of empowering restorative sleep and vibrant energy In this ground breaking book, Dr • A clear methodology using Nerina Ramlakhan goes beyond tools and techniques which are traditional sleep methods to examine based on a unique combination the true causes of sleep problems. of Western science and Eastern Cameron Diaz This book shares a unique and highly practice. practical process for accessing deep The Longevity Book: Live stronger. Live better. and restorative sleep. The art of ageing well.

£12.99 / TPB / 14 July 2016 / 9780008179861 / HarperNonFiction From superstar Cameron Diaz, body ages, and offers women the bestselling author of The a compassionate, informative Body Book, comes a fresh, and intimate tour through the personal, and authoritative next volume of life. examination of the art and Gael Lindenfield science of growing older, and a • Bestselling series: The Body roadmap for abundant health Book has sold more than Skip the Guilt Trap: Simple steps to build your confidence and resilience as we age. 300k copies to date.

The Longevity Book provides a This easy-to-read guide, written and advice for how to manage this holistic look at how the female by one of the UK’s most respected emotion more effectively. psychotherapists explains how guilt £16.99 / TPB / Available Now / 9780008139612 / HarperNonFiction damages our health, relationships • Gael Lindenfield is a bestselling and career prospects. It explores personal development author the many different types of guilt who is loved for her informal, and provides practical exercises down-to-earth style.

Kate Hudson £8.99 / PB B / 16 June 2016 / 9780008144364 / HarperNonFiction

Pretty Happy: The Healthy Way to Love Your Body

A smart, beautiful book from making exercise enjoyable and Dr Kelly Brogan

a smart, inspirational actress for clearing the mind to leave early A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women release and fitness icon. Kate Hudson space for positive thinking. for Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives export will share her insights into how every woman can live healthy, • Highly illustrated with strong and beautiful – from beautiful photos, Hudson’s The book explores the truth about with compelling scientific proof, this the inside out. For Kate the health, beauty and wellness depression, including the latest ground breaking book proves that science and how our genes express symptoms of depression are often key to living healthfully is advice is relevant for women themselves through the food markers of an underlying problem simplicity and positivity. The of all ages. choices we make, as well as Dr originating outside the brain which book includes lots of real- Brogan’s four-week plan with menus. can be effectively treated without world ideas for eating better, Written in a lively style and laced pharmaceuticals.

£16.99 / TPB / Available Now / 9780008171995 / HarperNonFiction £12.99 / TPB / 24 March 2016 / 9780008128005 / HarperNonFiction

48 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 49 non-fiction

Jonathan Bate export Bruce Robinson price £9.99 Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper

Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was and memorandum books that make For over a hundred years, This is a totally new take on one of the greatest writers of the up an almost complete record ‘the mystery of Jack the Jack the Ripper, demolishing twentieth century. Hughes left of Hughes’s inner life. Renowned Ripper’ has been a source of the theories of generations of behind a more complete archive of scholar Sir Jonathan Bates’ book unparalleled fascination, horror self-appointed ‘Ripperologists’ notes and journals than any other offers for the first time the full story major poet, including thousands of of Ted Hughes’s life as it was lived, and obsessive theorists. But to make clear, at last, who really pages of drafts, unpublished poems remembered and reshaped in his art. what if there was never really did it; and more importantly, any ‘mystery’ at all? What if the how he managed to get away

£10.99 / PB B / 07 April 2016 / 9780008118211 / William Collins Ripper was always hiding in with it for so long. plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for • Written by the creator of anyone who cared to look, while Withnail and I, one of the cynically mocking those who most-loved British films of Joyce Carol were supposedly attempting to all time. Oates bring him to justice?

The Lost Landscape

£9.99 / PB B / 05 May 2016 / 9780007548903 / Fourth Estate

In this candid, moving, and reflective emotions with exquisite precision recounting of her early years, Oates to transport the reader to a bygone explores the world through the eyes place and time. of her younger self and reveals her J. R. R. Tolkien nascent experiences of wanting • A memoir from a writer frequently Edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins to tell stories about the world. acclaimed as ‘The Greatest Living Oates renders her memories and Novelist’. A Secret Vice

£8.99 / PB B / 25 August 2016 / 9780008146610 / Fourth Estate

The first ever critical study of to give his languages a home Tolkien’s little-known essay, and peoples to speak them. which reveals how language As Tolkien puts it in A Secret invention shaped the creation Vice, ‘the making of language Anna Pasternak of Middle-earth and beyond. and mythology are related

t f in a l functions’. Lara: The Untold Love Story J.R.R. Tolkien’s linguistic ver n o invention was a fundamental • This new critical edition, o c part of his artistic output, to includes previously The heart-breaking story of the loyalty, suffering, drama and loss. the extent that later on in life unpublished notes and love affair between Boris Pasternak he attributed the existence of drafts by Tolkien. and Olga Ivinskaya – the true-life • This astonishing true history his mythology to the desire tragedy behind Dr Zhivago. Drawing of Boris Pasternak’s love affair on devastating and revelatory throws fascinating new light on family sources, Lara unearths a love his standing, and his masterwork, story of unimaginable courage, Doctor Zhivago.

£14.99 / TPB OM / 25 August 2016 / 9780008184919 / William Collins £16.99 / HB / 07 April 2016 / 9780008131395 / HarperFiction

50 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 51 Max Hastings non-fiction export price £8.99 The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945

In The Secret War, Max Hastings secret war on a global basis, presents a worldwide cast of bringing together the British, characters and extraordinary American, German, Russian and tales of intelligence and Japanese histories. resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest • Max Hastings returns to the conflict in history. Packed with subject that has made him one insight and terrific spy stories, of the world’s most respected this masterly book looks at the and popular historians.

Justine Tom Burgis van der Leun

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, We Are Not Such Things: A South African £9.99 / PB B / 19 May 2016 / 9780007503902 / William Collins Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Township, the Murder of a Young American Africa’s Wealth and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation

A shocking investigative journey into the way In 1993, in the final days of apartheid, a white Sebastian David the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, American activist was murdered by a group The Looting Machine explores the dark underbelly of young black men in a township near Cape Junger Talbot of the global economy. Town. Four men were convicted of the murder and sentenced to eighteen years in prison. A The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Tribe: On Homecoming • The fullest ever exposé of the resource curse few years later, two of the men had been freed, Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of and Belonging that is tearing at the fabric of African society, publicly forgiven by the victim’s parents, and then America’s Secret Government drawn from extensive investigations into the employed by them. But to Justine van der Leun, secret corners of the trade. an American journalist, something was wrong. Who were the other men there on that day? Why From the author of War and A Perfect Storm Based on explosive new evidence, David Talbot • A shocking alternative to the comfortable don’t the eye-witness reports agree? And why comes a timely look at post-traumatic stress tells America’s greatest untold story: the United- assumptions that African troubles are of did the newspapers ignore another violent crime, disorder and the challenges veterans face States’ rise to world dominance under the guile its own making and little to do with western committed in the same area on the same day? returning to society. Using his background in of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving interests. anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the director of the CIA. The Devil’s Chessboard offers • A lucid, eye-opening account of life in a society problem lies not with vets or with the trauma shocking new evidence in the killings of both still fractured and haunted by apartheid. they’ve suffered, but with the society to which President Kennedy and his brother, Robert F. they are trying to return. Kennedy. This is an exposé of American power • Perfect for fans of Making a Murderer and Serial. that is as disturbing as it is timely, a provocative • The Perfect Storm sold over 3 million copies and gripping story of the rise of the national worldwide and was made into an enormously security state - and the battle for successful film starring George Clooney. America’s soul. export price £9.99

£11.99 / TPB OM / 09 June 2016 / 9780008168216 / Fourth Estate £10.99 / PB B / 16 June 2016 / 9780008159689 / William Collins £9.99 / PB B / 07 April 2016 / 9780007523108 / William Collins £14.99 / TPB / 30 June 2016 / 9780008191078 / Fourth Estate

52 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 53 Simon Morrison Rosemary Sullivan non-fiction t f in a l Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet - Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life From the Rule of the Tsars to the Age of Putin of Svetlana Alliluyeva ver n o o c In January 2013, the artistic director Bolshoi came with such risks. This A painstakingly researched, • Sullivan has access to a formidable of the Bolshoi Ballet Theatre, Sergei book cuts through to the core of revelatory biography of Svetlana amount of never-before-seen Filin, was attacked with battery acid the crime and tells the story of the Stalin, a woman fated to live her life material and sources who have, by a hooded assailant outside his Bolshoi, showcasing the glamor, in the shadow of one of history’s until now, refused to speak on

house. News of the attack circled beauty, prestige, and cruelty of life most monstrous dictators – her the record. export the globe. He had known he was a in the spotlight - and of Russia itself. father, Josef Stalin. price £9.99 target; high-profile positions at the

£14.99 / TPB OM / 08 September 2016 / 9780007576616 / Fourth Estate £10.99 / PB B / 30 June 2016 / 9780007491131 / Fourth Estate

Hyeonseo Lee Simon Winchester with David John

Pacific: The Ocean of the Future The Girl With Seven Names: Escape From North Korea

Travelling the circumference of • As with the bestselling Atlantic, An extraordinary insight into life • Hyeonseo Lee is the first female the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon this book is narrative-led and under one of the world’s most refugee from North Korea to tell Winchester tells the story of the highly illustrated. ruthless and secretive dictatorships her story. world’s largest body of water, and – and the story of one woman’s – in matters economic, political and terrifying struggle to avoid capture military – the ocean of the future. and guide her family to freedom.

£9.99 / PB B / 13 September 2016 / 9780007550777 / William Collins £8.99 / PB B / 19 May 2016 / 9780007554850 / William Collins

Nujeen Mustafa Paula Byrne With Christina Lamb Kick: The True Story of JFK’s Forgotten Sister Nujeen’s Incredible Journey: and the Heir to Chatsworth From War-Torn Aleppo to Suburban Germany in a Wheelchair

The remarkable life of the vivacious, effervescence and ease of manner Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy. it’s really like to be a refugee, to clever – and forgotten – Kennedy she became a star amongst friends, This did not stop her travelling, with have grown up through war and sister, who charmed the English family and the press. her sister, 4000 miles from Syria to left a beloved homeland to become aristocracy and was almost erased Hungary in a wheelchair. She has dependent on others. It is the story from her family history. Spirited, • This biography will be revelatory: now told her story, with Christina of our times told through one vivacious and quick-witted, her The true circumstances of Kick’s Lamb – bestselling co-author of remarkable girl. charm was legendary and with her death were buried by the Kennedys. I Am Malala. She shows us what

£14.99 / TPB OM / 19 May 2016 / 9780008174910 / William Collins £12.99 / TPB OM / 22 September 2016 / 9780008192822 / William Collins

54 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 55 Matt Ridley Tom Cabot non-fiction The Evolution of Everything: Eureka!: An Infographic Guide To Science How Small Changes Transform Our World

We are taught that the world is In this opinionated book, Discover how the world really works • Uses beautiful visual content to a top-down place. Acclaimed Ridley draws on anecdotes in this spectacular journey through communicate complex scientific space and time that shows the concepts in an accessible and author Matt Ridley shows from science, economics, fundamentals of science in ground compelling way. just how wrong this is in his history, politics and philosophy, breaking visuals, from the Big Bang compelling book. He argues as well as examples drawn to Artificial Intelligence. • Broad appeal across gift market, that ‘top-downery’ is actually from scientific literature, reference and popular science. the source of most of our historical narratives and

worst problems (e.g. why personal anecdotes. £20 / PLC / 30 June 2016 / 9780008129361 / William Collins Africa lingered in poverty when Asia did not, and why the euro • From the bestselling author is a disaster) whereas bottom- of The Red Queen, The up trends shape the world. Origins of Virtue, Genome and Nature via Nurture. Frank Ryan export price .99 export £8 price The Mysterious World of the Human Genome £8.99

£9.99 / PB B / 19 May 2016 / 9780007542475 / Fourth Estate

How could a relatively simple acclaimed science writer Frank chemical code give rise to the Ryan leads us through the most complexity of a human being? exciting scientific discoveries of How could our human genome the last 50 years. Marcus du Sautoy have evolved? And how does it actually work? In The Mysterious World of the Human Genome What We Cannot Know

£10.99 / PB B / 07 April 2016 / 9780007549085 / William Collins

Recommended by Jamie, But, are there limits to what we Marketing and Communications can discover about our universe? Manager, Open Markets In What We Cannot Know Marcus Du Sautoy explores the Science is giving us limits of human knowledge, to Alanna Collen unprecedented insight into probe whether there is anything 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key some of the big questions that we truly cannot know. to Health and Happiness have challenged humanity ever since we’ve been able • Britain’s most famous to formulate those questions. mathematician takes us to the You are 10% human. For every • Illuminating many of the Where did we come from? edge of our knowledge. one of your cells, there are nine questions still unanswered, What is the ultimate destiny impostors hitching a ride. You are 10% Human completely changes not just flesh and bone, but also our understanding of diet, of the universe? What is • Music of the Primes, which has bacteria and fungi. And you are modern disease and medicine. consciousness? sold 40,000 copies, was a TV more ‘them’ than you are ‘you’. series on BBC4.

£14.99 / TPB OM / 19 May 2016 / 9780007576586 / Fourth Estate £8.99 / PB B / 05 May 2016 / 9780007584055 / William Collins

56 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 INTERNATIONAL highlights | april - october 2016 57 non-fiction 59

TE A T

son y Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Sonnets: Shakespearean Pop Songs Favourite Spins on Your Shakespeare: The World World The Shakespeare: as a Stage Eric Didriksen Bill Br H ES URT / FO / 9780008137199 ABLE NOW AIL V of Shakespeare’s death in 2016. death of Shakespeare’s A new edition to mark the 400th anniversary anniversary mark the 400th edition to A new From ABBA, The Beatles and Michael Jackson to and Michael Jackson to Beatles ABBA, The From this witty Swift, and Taylor Cyrus Miley Beyoncé, has a sonnet mash-up collection and wonderful life. in your pop fan every for / HB / A £9.99 Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and of myths, centuries Examining the sense of makes lies, Bill Bryson downright As he leads us man behind the masterpieces. of Elizabethan streets the crowded through and the places life England, he brings to work, Shakespeare’s inspired that characters accessibility. wit and with his trademark • llins am Co / Willi / 9780007197903 March 2016 £8.99 / PB B / 24

dward dward teve Join us in celebrating his incredible legacy legacy his incredible Join us in celebrating E Wilson-lee in Swahililand: Shakespeare with the Adventures Poet Ever-Living S King Little Book Shakespeare’s of Wisdom llins / William Co / 9780008146191 able Now ail with these wonderful and enduring works of literature. and enduring with these wonderful 2016 marks 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare. death of William since the 400 years 2016 marks Will appeal to fans and to first-time readers first-time and to fans appeal to Will of Shakespeare. This handy and comprehensive book is broken book is broken handy and comprehensive This thematically. down £20.00 / HB / Av £20.00 Published to commemorate the 400th anniversary the 400th anniversary commemorate Published to this is a breathtaking death, of Shakespeare’s as a global poet. Shakespeare into exploration Also available: • Celebrate Shakespeare more offers Wisdom Little Book of Shakespeare’s and nuggets of inspiration than 250 bite-size in the English writer the greatest wisdom from across popular playwright language and the most the globe. • llins / William Co / 9780007954858 April 2016 £8.99 / PB / 07 2016 - october | april highlights INTERNATIONAL ber 2016 s | april - octo bestselling author of bestselling memoirs, 11 inspirational an and is fast-growing profile. international genre. Her books have books have Her genre. 1 million copies sold over and has a in the UK alone, profile, international large particularly in Asia. is the Watson Casey Cathy Glass is a superstar a superstar is Glass Cathy memoir of the inspirational INTERNATIONAL highlight INTERNATIONAL because there’s something because there’s her want makes that about Leo to and get corner, fight his to it is of whatever the bottom keep to this boy compels that running away. • Is it possible Faye could learn could Faye Is it possible her child? parent enough to it is, and Faye’s believes Cathy give is obliged to social worker the chance. Faye • ass l er 2016 / 9780008153748 / HarperNonFiction / 9780008153748 tember 2016 on / HarperNonFicti / 9780007595143 y 2016 But Casey’s determined, determined, But Casey’s / PB B / 19 Ma £7.99 bad lad – in fact, he’s generally generally he’s bad lad – in fact, in and helpful, but he’s polite class from danger of exclusion and absconding repeatedly for unauthorised absences. has her hands Casey Though for to intervene full, she offers engaged try get Leo to a while, in learning again and remaining is head teacher in school. The her that and warns sceptical chance. last very this is Leo’s £7.99 / PB B / 08 Sep £7.99 WatsonCasey mum. child. An absent Little Soldier: A troubled Mummy’s A shocking secret. isn’t a old Leo year Thirteen gentle, childlike and vulnerable; and vulnerable; childlike gentle, and her children Cathy their home into Faye welcome for plan is care and hearts. The until with Cathy stay to Faye she will the birth when after will home and the baby return Faye adoption. However, go for much how just soon realizes and eventually she will lose, she changes her mind, saying her baby. keep to wants G Cathy Decision An Impossible and has pregnant is 24, Faye She is learning difficulties.

o n ver o c l a in f t Please contact your International Sales Manager at our London office:

HarperCollins Publishers The News Building | 1 London Bridge Street | London | SE1 9GF Switchboard: +44 20 8741 7070 Fax: +44 20 8307 4629 View our catalogues on Edelweiss: edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com

Harper Reach is our brand new website and social media platform for international customers. Visit us for updates on new titles, exclusive author content, events, resources and much more. www.HarperReach.com Facebook.com/HarperReach | Twitter.com/HarperReach