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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 L A IN F T TWILBURHE MASTER OF EPIC STORYTELLING SMITH IS BACK O VER N 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.
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