TABLE OF CONTENTS

WOMEN’S FICTION ………………………………………...…………...4

LITERARY…………….………………………………..……...…………..27

HISTORICAL………………………………………..……………………33

CRIME,THRILLER & PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER…………………....40

FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION……….……………………..……..54

ROMANTIC COMEDY….……………………………………...………...56

TOLKIEN & FANTASTIC BEASTS………………………………...……..67

SAGA………………………………………………………..……………75

DIGITAL FIRST PUBLISHING: FEEL GOOD…………………..………...82

DIGITAL FIRST PUBLISHING: CRIME & THRILLER………………….….97

RECENTLY PUBLISHED……………………………………………...…111 WOMEN’S FICTION ABOUT THAT NIGHT

SOMETIMES IT ONLY TAKES ONE NIGHT TO CHANGE EVERYTHING

Elaine Bedell

Sharp, amusing women’s fiction perfect for fans of David Nicholls, Nick Hornby and Holly Bourne 25 Jul 2019 About That Night reveals the dark underworld of the TV industry, £7.99 filled with secrets, scandals and salacious rumours 198x129 Paperback 384pp

Elizabeth Place might have been jilted by her fiancé on her wedding day About the author one year ago, but at least she’s still got her brilliant job producing one of the biggest shows on TV! Elaine Bedell has been Controller of Entertainment at the BBC and But when larger-than-life TV host, Ricky Clough, dies live on air, her life Director of Entertainment & is sent spinning out of control. And with foul play suspected, the spotlight Comedy at ITV, commissioning is turned firmly on his colleagues – especially Hutch, the man desperate and producing most of the UK’s for Ricky’s job, and who Elizabeth is secretly dating. most popular entertainment As her world comes crashing down around her, Elizabeth realises that including X Factor, Strictly Come perhaps the only person she can really trust, is herself. Dancing, Britain’s Got Talent, Top Gear and Saturday Night Takeaway. She has won a BAFTA and a British Comedy award and is currently the Chief Executive of the Southbank centre. She lives in Hackney and is married with two children.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 5 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE NEWCOMER

Another idyllic Cornish escape with warmth, wit and characterful storytelling Fern is a Sunday Times bestseller. Her last hardback, Coming Home, was her biggest selling novel since her debut, leaping into the Sunday Times list at No.5. It has now sold over 100,000K across formats Fern has had an incredible period of sales growth – her hardback sales doubled last year, making it her best year of chart success 7 Mar 2019 £12.99 Fern’s stories are broadening in scope and this book taps into 234x153 modern women’s fiction themes; from feeling like an outsider, to being a mum of a teen, to breast cancer and a community pulling Hardback together 400pp She was #1 women’s fiction hardback author last spring

New beginnings. Old secrets. A summer she’ll never forget… About the author

The sun is shining down on the Cornish village of Pendruggan, and, as the Fern Britton is the highly blossom on the trees begins to flower, a newcomer is causing quite a stir. acclaimed author of seven Sunday Reverend Angela Whitehorn wants to make a difference to the parish. Times bestselling novels. Her From organising running mornings to a new women’s club, Angela finds books are cherished for their herself welcomed into the heart of Pendruggan. warmth, wit and wisdom, and have won Fern legions of loyal readers. Though it seems not everyone is happy for her to shake things up, and, Fern has been a judge for the when Angela starts to receive anonymous poison pen letters, she learns Costa Book of the Year Award that the biggest secrets are closer to home. and is a supporter of the Reading Agency, promoting literacy and Praise for Fern Britton: reading. ‘Incredibly atmospheric’ Sun ‘A heartfelt novel about family secrets and atonement’ Woman & Home ‘A book to truly lose yourself in’ Sunday Times bestseller Milly Johnson Rights sold

Previous rights sold to: Proszynski Media (Polish)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 6 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 HOW TO SAY GOODBYE

A HEART-WRENCHING STORY OF LOVE, LOSS – AND HOW TO SAY GOODBYE TO THOSE WHO AREN’T AROUND TO HEAR IT

Katy Colins

Emotional, topical contemporary women’s fiction for fans of Hannah Beckerman, Rosie Walsh and Jojo Moyes The story of a funeral arranger, it takes an unflinching look at death and dying as well as introducing a damaged and quirky heroine who’s the perfect heir to Eleanor Oliphant. 13 Jun 2019 Katy Colins’ Lonely Hearts Travel series has sold over 50K in eBook £7.99 and paperback. 198x129 Paperback Katy is a former journalist with over 40K Instagram followers 384pp

No-one is ever happy to see Grace Salmon. About the author As a funeral arranger, she’s responsible for steering strangers through Katy sold all she owned, filled a the hardest day of their lives. It’s not a task many would want – but, for backpack and booked a one-way Grace, giving people the chance to say a proper goodbye to the ones ticket to south east Asia and they love is the most important job in the world. never looked back. The acclaimed travel blogger's experiences From the flowers in the church to the drinks served at the wake, Grace inspired her to pen 'The Lonely knows it’s the personal touches that count – and it’s amazing what you Hearts Travel Club' series and saw can find out about someone from their grieving relatives … or their her labelled the 'Backpacking Facebook page. But when she accidentally finds out too much about Bridget Jones' by the global media. someone who’s died, Grace is finally forced to step out of the shadows… www.notwedordead.com and start living. @notwedordead

Praise for Katy Colins: ‘Katy writes with humour and heart. The Lonely Hearts Travel Club is like Bridget Jones goes backpacking.' Holly Martin, author of The White Cliff Bay series Rights sold ‘I cannot recommend this book enough. It is beautifully written with a Previous rights sold to: brilliant plot and fantastic characters. READ IT!!’ Blabbering About Books HarperCollins (Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 7 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 MUMMY NEEDS A BREAK

Susan Edmunds

A hilarious story of the ups and downs of unexpected single motherhood, the perfect laugh-out-loud romance for fans of Why Mummy Drinks, The Unmumsy Mum and The Not So Perfect Mum 25 Jul 2019 Extremely relatable story, with a heroine you can’t help warming to £7.99 – even if her revenge plans do get a bit out of hand! Paperback 400pp

With a devilish toddler and baby number two on the way, Rachel’s big About the author dream is to one day go to the toilet on her own. So, she’s surprised to discover that her husband has found the time to have an exciting affair Susan Edmunds is a journalist and while she’s been bringing up their family. mother, living and working in New Zealand. Suddenly, Rachel is left wrangling with a child who will only eat crackers and a 35-week bump. She knows even Mumsnet isn’t going to solve this. What Rachel needs is a handsome, good-with-children, single man. But she can barely leave the house without a stain on her top and child on her hip. How on earth can she claim her life back, let alone think about dating?

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 8 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE MOVE

Felicity Everett

From the author of The People at Number 9, a new story of nightmare neighbours

Felicity Everett writes dark, sharp contemporary fiction, exploring relationships in the vein of Jane Fallon and Adele Parks

The People at Number 9 has sold over 20K TCM and was a Bookseller 31 Oct 2019 Heatseeker and chosen by Red magazine as a Book of the Year £12.99 234x153 The People at Number 9 is currently in development with Lionsgate as a UK returning series drama Paperback 384pp ‘An exciting, dark novel about friendship; brutally truthful and raw.’ Adele Parks

Karen is driving through a strange landscape into a new life. Always a city About the author girl, now she is on her way to an idyllic country cottage, refurbished for her with impeccable taste by her husband Nick. They’re making a fresh Felicity Everett grew up in start. Manchester and attended Sussex University. After an early career in But something is awry in the new house – it’s not just the fact that Karen children’s publishing and freelance and Nick are ill at ease in one another’s company – that their recent writing, which produced more history is far from picture perfect, it’s the whole vibe. The landscape is than twenty-five works of breathtaking by day, eerie by night. If the countryside is supposed to be a children’s fiction and non-fiction, place of peace, far away from curtain twitchers, who is the person Felicity’s debut adult novel The watching them from the hill? And who are their new neighbours? Story of Us was published in 2011. With Karen only recently emerging from a dark place in her life, can she She has just returned from four find the trust in her husband Nick to let go of events that have followed years in Australia and lives in them to their new house? Gloucestershire.

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Previous rights sold to: Beta (Czech), HarperCollins (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, US English)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 9 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 RULES OF THE ROAD

Ciara Geraghty

Pre-empted in Germany and Italy and sold in US and Holland

Honest and clear-eyed about family, ageing parents, marriage, life 2 May 2019 and loss – a book that grown-up readers will adore, told with £12.99 warmth and affection 234x153 Paperback 400pp When Iris Armstrong goes missing, her best friend Terry, wife, mother and all-round worrier, is convinced something bad has happened. And when she finds her glamorous, feisty friend, she’s right: Iris is setting out on a journey that she plans to make her last. The only way for Terry to stop Iris is to join her, on a road trip that will About the author take her, Iris and Terry’s confused father Eugene onto a ferry, across the Irish sea and into an adventure that will change all of their lives. Ciara Geraghty was born and Somehow, what should be the worst six days of Terry’s life turn into the raised in Dublin. She started best. writing in her thirties and hasn’t looked back. She has three children and one husband and they have recently adopted a dog Reviews who, alongside their youngest ‘A superb writer… the Irish Jojo Moyes. Her books are beautifully daughter, is in charge of pretty written, and infused with warmth, humour and human understanding’ much everything. Irish Examiner ‘A touching, tender, often funny story about love in all its messy, uncertain glory . . . with a hero who will find a place in your heart’ Julie Cohen on Now That I’ve Found You ‘You will feel all the feelings – we can't remember the last time we Rights sold: Meulenhoff Boekerij rooted for two characters quite as much’ Heat (Dutch), Goldmann (German), De Agostini (Italian), Park Row (US English)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 10 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE AFTERNOON TEA CLUB PREVIOUS COVER

Jane Gilley

Jane Gilley’s debut novel, The Woman Who Kept Everything, has sold over 20K e-books in the first three months of publication, and continues to retain a Kindle Top 100 spot 7 Oct 2019 Perfect for fans of quiet-but-quirky, uplifting narratives, in the vein of £8.99 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Lady in the Van – peculiar 198x129 characters that we can’t help but warm to in their eccentricity Paperback 300pp Marjorie, an 82-year-old woman who has survived a very abusive relationship with her husband Oliver. Stacy, 28, who lives alone with eight cats that rule her life in a very disruptive way. Raymond, 76, originally from Jamaica – and he’s grieving his wife Dianne, About the author who has recently passed away. Jane Gilley has previously self- And Dora, 46, who comes from an extremely wealthy, successful family, published five children’s books. but completely lacks self-confidence. The Woman Who Kept Everything was her debut adult novel. These four characters have each struggled to fit in to society for one reason or another, but their lives are about to become entwined and www.janegilley.com changed forever because of an Afternoon Tea club.

NetGalley reviews of The Woman Who Kept Everything: ‘I loved this book. It’s an easy read, and the characters are relatable, but the message – essentially carpe diem – is deep. Highly recommended.’ ‘If you enjoyed reading A Man Called Ove and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, you will definitely like this book. It touches on a huge spectrum of topics, not just focusing on what you would imagine by its title.’ ‘An endearing "coming out of hibernation" story – as opposed to a coming-of-age story!’ ‘I grew to love the characters like they were real people and I’ll miss reading about them.’

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 11 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 TEN YEARS PREVIOUS COVER

Emma Heatherington

For fans of Jojo Moyes

Sliding Doors meets One Day in December in this is a heart-warming 17 Oct 2019 and unforgettable romance – perfect for cosying up with on a cold £7.99 Christmas day 198x129 Paperback 416pp Ten years. It’s never too late to say I love you. Charlotte is seriously injured in her car on the side of a mountain. For the next few days she lies in a coma as someone stays by her side, About the author praying for her to come around – but who is it? Is it Tom, the handsome but reckless musician who held her heart so Emma Heatherington is a top ten tightly or is it Jack, the steady and safe doctor who promised her, and Kindle bestseller and has sold over gave her, his whole world? 80K copies of The Legacy of Lucy Harte in both the UK and US. It can only be one of them, because the other she never really knew as From Northern Ireland, she has her whole life path was dictated by a decision she made on the same ghost-written the Irish Times night, at the same time, ten years ago, over the flick of a lighter on bestseller I Am Nathan Carter, Christmas Eve in 2009. nominated at the 2018 Irish Book Awards, and she has featured on both radio and television, recently appearing alongside Kate Atkinson on BBC Radio’s Cover to Cover series.

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Previous rights sold to HarperCollins (Dutch, German)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 12 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE FALL AND RISE OF THE AMIR SISTERS

Nadiya Hussain

Heart-warming storytelling with strong themes of sisterhood from the nation’s favourite Nadiya Hussain, this is Little Women meets Marian Keyes’ Walsh family series for a new generation of readers

Nadiya has TCM sales of over 77K, and The Secret Lives of The Amir Sisters sold over 4K copies in HB and almost 8K across all formats 24 Jan 2019 Nadiya has a phenomenal social media following: 185K Twitter £7.99 followers, 132K Instagram followers, 71K Facebook page likes 198x129 Paperback Perfect for fans of Lindsey Kelk and Jo Thomas 384pp

The four Amir Sisters – Fatima, Farah, Bubblee and Mae – are back, and About the author this time they are facing the ups and downs of motherhood. Over 14m people tuned in to see Becoming a mother has always been Farah’s dream so when older sister Nadiya win 2015's Great British Fatima struggles with a tough pregnancy whilst Farah has trouble Bake Off. Since then she has conceiving she can’t help but be jealous. captured the heart of the nation. A plan to break a huge cultural taboo in her family and use a surrogate A columnist for the Times and gives her a renewed hope. But nothing is ever that easy in this warm, Essentials, Nadiya is also a regular witty look at a modern British family. reporter for The One Show and presented a two-part series, The Chronicles of Nadiya, on BBC One. She is the author of Nadiya’s Kitchen (Michael Joseph), Bake me a Story (Hodder) and has been named as one of the top five most influential Asians in the UK.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 13 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 A RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS

IT ONLY TAKES A LITTLE, TO CHANGE A LIFE FOR EVER

Sophie Jenkins

With themes of loneliness, friendship and kindness, this gorgeous rom-com debut ties in perfectly with the growing up-lit trend

Smart, socially awkward and acerbically funny, Fern Banks will remind readers of Eleanor Oliphant 13 Jun 2019 For fans of Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and £7.99 Eva Wood’s How to Be Happy 198x129 Paperback Sophie Jenkins draws on her expertise in vintage and haute couture 400pp to create the colourful world of Fern’s market stall

Fern is too busy making sure other people feel good about themselves to About the author give much thought to her own happiness. But somehow, without her noticing, life has run away from her. Sophie Jenkins is a serial joiner of writing groups and workshops and Suddenly, Fern realises her vintage clothes business is struggling, and the a prolific short story writer. To casual relationship she’d always thought she was happy in doesn’t look so encourage her creativity she appealing. regularly enters half-marathons But sometimes, karma really does come through. And when Fern goes and trains by running from her out of her way to help 85-year-old Dinah, little does she realise their new home in North London to friendship will change her life. breakfast in the centre of town with a notepad. Dinah may have troubles in her past, but she’s lived and loved to the full. Can Dinah show Fern that even the smallest acts of kindness can make the world a better place?

Reviews: ‘A very compelling and wonderfully uplifting mix of romance, comedy, Rights sold kindness and the friendship between the generations’ Trisha Ashley Previous rights sold: Fortuna Libri (Czech and Slovak), City Éditions (French)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 14 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 A WEDDING AT THE COMFORT FOOD CAFE

Debbie Johnson

Return to the Comfort Food Cafe for the wedding of the year! 21 March 2019 Her Comfort Food Café series has now sold nearly 400,000 copies £7.99 worldwide 198x129 Paperback 400pp

Wedding bells ring out in Budbury as the Comfort Food Café and its cosy community of regulars are gearing up for a big celebration… But Auburn Longville doesn’t have time for that! Between caring for her poorly mum, moving in with her sister and running the local pharmacy, About the author life is busy enough – and it’s about to get busier. Chaos arrives in the form of a figure from her past putting her quaint village life and new Debbie Johnson is a best-selling relationship with gorgeous Finn Jensen in jeopardy. It’s time for Auburn author who lives and works in to face up to some life changing decisions. Liverpool. She worked as a journalist for many years, until she Settle in for a slice of wedding cake at the Comfort Food Café – a place decided it would be more fun to where friendships are made for life and nobody ever wants to leave. make up her own stories than to tell other people’s. She now writes women’s fiction that seems Reviews to make people laugh and make people cry, often at the same ‘Oh how I wish the Comfort Food Cafe was real!’ Annie’s Book Corner time. ‘I felt like I was returning home to friends who I hadn’t seen in a long Her books include The Birthday while…warm hearted and just plain lovely’ Lisa Talks About That Changed Everything, Pippa’s ‘Perfect to enjoy on a crisp afternoon with a delicious hot chocolate Cornish Dream, and Summer at the (with marshmallows!). I'm sure you'll fall in love with the cafe and all its Comfort Food Cafe, all published by regulars too’ Alba in Bookland HarperCollins. ‘A true festive book with a lovely heartwarming story’ The Reading Shed

‘What a wonderful return to the Comfort Food Cafe…had me smiling Previous rights sold to: Heyne from start to finish’ Rachel’s Random Reads (German) ‘A sheer delight’ Sunday Express

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 15 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE AGE OF MISADVENTURE

Judy Leigh

Quirky, fun story perfect for the silver pound generation 21 Feb 2019 Perfect for fans of Cathy Hopkins, The 100 Year Old Man and The £7.99 Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 198x129 Paperback 368pp

When 55-year-old divorcée Georgie Jones discovers that her sister About the author Bonnie’s husband is involved in dodgy business, she sees an opportunity to get Bonnie away from a nefarious man, and bring their estranged Judy Leigh completed an MA in family back together. Professional Writing at Falmouth University in 2015, leaving her Along with her 21-year-old daughter and 80-year-old nan, she packs career of 20 years as an Advanced Bonnie into the back of her car and they leave Liverpool to hide out in Skills teacher of Theatre Studies. rural Sussex – for an adventure they’ll never forget. She has had several stories But could the right man find Georgie while she’s stopping the wrong man published in magazines, including finding her sister The Feminist Wire, The Purple Breakfast Review and You is for University. She has also trained as a Reiki healer, written a vegan Praise for Judy Leigh: recipe blog and set up a series of ‘Brilliantly funny, emotional and uplifting’ Miranda Dickinson Shakespeare Festivals to enable young people to perform the 'Lovely . . . a book that assures that life is far from over at 70' – Cathy Bard's work on stage. Hopkins, bestselling author of The Kicking the Bucket List ’Brimming with warmth, humour and a love of life… a wonderful escapade’ Fiona Gibson, bestselling author of The Woman Who Upped and Left Rights sold: HarperCollins (Italian) Previous rights sold to Metafora (Czech), HarperCollins (German, Italian, Japanese, Swedish)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 16 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 LARA THE RUNAWAY CAT

Dion Leonard

Dion retains a faithful following on social media channels, with the Finding Gobi Facebook page hitting over 35K ‘likes’ 7 Feb 2019 Gobi and Dion’s story has been sold to 21st Century Fox for a £9.99 movie, which indicates Gobi’s potential to be the next biggest animal 198x129 feel-good phenomenon since A Street Cat Named Bob Hardback 288pp

Lara doesn’t realise how good she has it in her home in Edinburgh with About the author her owners, Dion and Lucja, and of course her sister, Gobi. If she’s being honest, she’s jealous of Gobi’s fame and the international attention she Dion Leonard is a 43-year-old has received ever since Dion found her. Okay, Gobi may have survived Australian/British runner who an ultra-marathon across the Gobi Desert, but it’s not as if Lara doesn’t currently lives in Edinburgh, earn her fresh prawns! She dreams about the day when she can go Scotland. Dion started running in outdoors and see the world, discover new friends and be free to make 2013 and has already achieved her own name. numerous Top 10 finishes in ultra races around the world in the But Lara’s wishful thinking gets the better of her as she takes a leap into most extreme conditions. Dion the unknown and is forced to decide between her loyalties to her family has appeared on live television; and need to experience an adventure to rival Gobi’s. Join Lara in her CNN, Good Morning Britain, eventful travels from Edinburgh to France, Beijing to Australia, where she CBS, ABC America, ESPN, CCTV, is faced with challenges that will change her life forever. BBC Breakfast and BBC World; Following on from the astounding real-life story of Dion Leonard, this live radio interviews with BBC fictionalised tale is a must-read for animal lovers everywhere. Radio 5 Live, BBC Outlook, Talk Sport UK, NPR America, ABC Radio Australia, Eric Zane Show and many others; Dion has also been interviewed by China Daily, the Times, Washington Post, UK Independent, USA Today, and the Canadian Post, to name a few.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 17 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 ONE MINUTE LATER

BEHIND EVERY SECRET LIES A STORY

Susan Lewis

Susan Lewis is the bestselling author of 42 novels delivering family drama with big secrets at the heart

Debuted at #10 in the UK chart 21 Feb 2019 Susan’s much-loved novels have sold over 2.8m copies TCM in the £12.99 UK alone 234x153 Hardback Susan Lewis is a huge name in women’s fiction and a regular Sunday 416pp Times bestselling author

Your life can change in a heartbeat. About the author

Vivienne Shager has everything going for her, but on the afternoon of her Susan Lewis is the bestselling 35th birthday, Vivi has a heart attack. Unbeknownst to her, Vivi has been author of over 40 books across living with a rare heart condition and now her life shrinks back to how it the genres of family drama, began, as she moves back to the small seaside town she grew up in. And thriller, suspense and crime. She is with her time running out, there is one thing she wants to know the also the author of Just One More truth about. Day and One Day at a Time. One secret can unravel the lives of many. Following periods of living in Los Angeles and the South of France, 30 years earlier, Shelley’s family home, Deerwood farm, bursts full of she currently lives in the UK. love and happiness. Until her husband dies in mysterious circumstances. So many secrets were buried with him, family loyalties, and things best left to history. It takes one minute to change everything.

Praise for Susan Lewis’ bestselling novels: Rights sold

‘A master storyteller’ Diane Chamberlain Previous rights sold information available on request. ‘Utterly compelling’ Sun

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 18 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 IN A KINGDOM BY THE SEA

Sara MacDonald

Sweeping from Cornwall to Karachi, this is a compelling and heartwrenching tale of love, secrets and betrayal across generations 18 Apr 2019 £7.99 Perfect for readers who love Santa Montefiore, Rosanna Ley and 198x129 Dinah Jefferies Paperback 400pp When Gabby looks back at her childhood in Cornwall, she has a kaleidoscope of happy memories. An old house surrounded by wildflower fields, a sea of the deepest blue and hidden coves where she and her sister Dominique roamed wild. But one defining memory colours everything – the day that Dominique was silently and inexplicably sent away, shattering the close family forever. About the author Years later, Gabby is working as a translator in London. When her husband Mike is offered a transfer to Pakistan, Gabby wonders if Sara MacDonald is the Kindle swapping the grey London streets for the buzz and vibrancy of Karachi bestselling author of Another Life. might be the change that she – and her marriage – needs. She has written all of her life. She has been an army wife, living all But the reality of Karachi isn’t the escape that Gabby hoped for. Her life over the world, and now lives in begins to unwind with alarming speed and changes the direction of her Cornwall. life. When she returns with Dominique to the old house in Cornwall, the sisters are caught in the slipstream of the past. So begins a journey into the heart of their childhood, which will unearth a secret buried many years ago.

Praise for Sara MacDonald: ‘A beautifully crafted novel of family ties and wartime secrets with delicate layers of emotion’ Inside Cornwall 'Intriguing themes are cleverly woven together…I found myself swept along by the sheer interest of every page…it grips to the end' Country Life ‘A great read, a moving story of family history, love, deception, passion and heartbreak’ Cornwall Today ‘A compelling story from a talented writer’ Belfast Telegraph

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 19 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 SO LUCKY

PREVIOUS ION

COVER T FIC

Dawn O’Porter

The Cows was a #6 Sunday Times bestseller, selling over 185K books across all formats 31 Oct 2019 From themes of body image and motherhood to female shame and £14.99 solidarity, this is a conversation-starting story at the zeitgeist 221x153 frontline Hardback 400pp She’s #SoLucky

Everyone is fighting a private battle we know nothing about. The new novel from Dawn O’Porter questions just what a ‘lucky’ life looks like – breaking through the filters we all apply with brilliant humour and irreverence, while celebrating what can be achieved when women look AboutAbout the aauthoruthor out for one another. Reviews of The Cows: Dawn O’Porter is a novelist, columnist and broadcaster who ‘Funny and excruciating. You'll think about it for weeks!’ Kristen Wiig lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of the criticaly acclaimed ‘We’ve had Bridget Jones now The Cows setting the agenda for a new Paper Aeroplanes and Goose. She is generation of readers’ No 1 Magazine also the host of Get It On, a weekly ‘O’Porter’s wise and witty narrative has many thought-provoking podcast where she interviews situations and concepts. Different, poignant and smart – I loved it’ Sara interesting people about why they Lawrence, Daily Mail wear what they wear.

‘A funny, smart, kind, incredibly truthful book about women . . . all the shame, judgement, envy and love that being alive and female entails’ Polly Vernon

‘Smart and insightful’ RED RightsRights ssoldold ‘Compulsive… I can't wait for the next one’ Shappi Khorsandi Previous rights sold to: ‘Sometimes hilarious and sometimes poignant, but always rollicking and Flamingo (Danish), S. Fischer fast-paced . . . A feel-good read which will resonate with any woman’ (German), Arkadia (Russian), Daily Express HarperCollins (Brazilian Portuguese) ‘An amazing book about choices and being yourself’ Prima

‘I loved it. Funny, moving, twisty . . . Wow! I couldn’t stop reading it’ Jill Mansell HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 20 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 A WALK IN WILDFLOWER PARK

Bella Osborne

Another heart-warming, funny read with a trademark cast of quirky characters. This story is set in Birmingham Bella Osborne has a large fan base and lots of publishing 27 Jun 2019 connections, with fans including bestselling Katie Fforde and Phillipa £7.99 Ashley 198x129 Paperback 400pp

Life’s not always a walk in the park. About the author

Anna thought she’d found ‘The One’… until he broke off their Bella has been jotting down engagement exactly one year before their wedding day. Now faced with a stories as far back as she can different type of countdown, Anna moves into her own place on the edge remember. Somehow life took of the gorgeous Wildflower Park, hoping that a bit of greenery and a over, and she got a sensible job in fresh start will do her the world of good. project management and the With a little help from her good friend Sophie, a no-nonsense rescue cat writing remained a passionate and an attractive new work colleague, Anna is doing well moving on with hobby. In 2013 she entered the her life… until her ex fiancé is hired into her team at work. But that RNA’s New Writer Scheme and proves to be the least of her worries, because she’s been swept off her by 2014 had signed her first feet by someone she really shouldn't be falling for. publishing deal.

Previous rights sold to: HarperCollins (German)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 21 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 Not LIES LIES LIES Final Cover

Adele Parks

A brand new, gripping tale on marriage and the secrets we keep from the Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks

Adele Parks has TCM in the UK of over 3m copies 19 Sep 2019 Adele’s last book, I Invited Her In, reached Number 2 on the Sunday £7.99 Times Bestseller list 198x129 Paperback I Invited her In sold over 100K TCM in the first three months 448pp

Daisy and Simon’s marriage is great, isn’t it? About the author

After years together, the arrival of longed-for daughter Millie sealed Adele Parks was born in Teeside, everything in place. A happy little family of three. North-East England. Her first And so what if Simon drinks a bit too much sometimes – Daisy’s used to novel, Playing Away, was published it, she knows he’s letting off steam. Until one night at a party when things in 2000 and since then she’s had spiral horribly out of control. And that happy little family of three will 17 international bestsellers, never be the same again. translated into 26 languages. She’s been an Ambassador for The In Lies Lies Lies, Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks explores the darkest Reading Agency and a judge for corners of a relationship in freefall, in a mesmerising tale of marriage and the Costa prize and is a keen secrets. supporter of The National Literary Trust. She’s lived in Italy, Praise for I Invited Her In: Botswana and London, and is now ‘Really REALLY good’ Marian Keyes settled in Guildford, Surrey, with her husband, teenage son and cat. ‘Packed with secrets, scandal and suspense, this is Adele Parks at her absolute best.’ Heat Rights sold ‘Wow! What a read. Intense, clever and masterful.’ Lisa Jewell Previous rights sold to: HarperCollins (Danish, Finnish, German and Swedish), Harlequin (US English)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 22 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 MY SISTER’S LIES

S.D. Robertson

Perfect for fans of Kerry Fisher and Adele Parks

A heart-breaking novel that questions our very understanding of sisterhood, family and love 21 Mar 2019 £8.99 198x129 Time to Say Goodbye was a Kindle bestseller and sold 80K copies Paperback 400pp

For a decade, Hannah’s life has been pretty close to perfect – she has a great job, she’s married to Mark, and her child-free existence means she’s free as a bird. The only sadness in her life is a fall-out with her sister Diane, who hasn’t spoken to her in over ten years. But now Diane is on About the author her doorstep – and this time, she’s got her teenage daughter Mia in tow. Former journalist S.D. Robertson When Diane asks if Mia can stay with Hannah and Mark for a few days, quit his role as a local newspaper Hannah is glad of the chance to get to know her niece. But as the days editor to pursue a lifelong turn into weeks and Diane doesn’t return, Hannah begins to worry. Why ambition of becoming a novelist. hasn’t her sister been in touch? Diane is carrying a devastating secret that will destroy Hannah’s carefully constructed life. But how much is she willing to reveal – and when will she pick her moment? An emotional story that delves into the true meaning of family, sisterhood and secrets. Praise for S.D. Robertson ‘Stand By Me is a thoughtful story about the power of friendship and of the importance of keeping those we love always in our hearts.’ Jaffareadstoo Rights sold ‘A heartbreaking tale’ Sun Previous rights sold: Beijing ‘Exceptionally beautiful’ Miranda Dickinson, Sunday Times bestseller United Creation Culture Media (Chinese simplified), Pegasus ‘A wonderful tale of devastation and ultimately hope’ Kathryn Hughes (Turkish), HarperCollins (Danish, ‘When I wasn't actually reading this book, I found myself thinking Finnish, German, Japanese, constantly about it. Real. Emotional. Powerful. A must-read for anyone Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish) who loves to lose themselves completely in a book.’ Claudia Carroll

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 23 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 WHY MUMMY DOESN’T GIVE…

Gill Sims

From the Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Author

The hilarious sequel to bestsellers Why Mummy Drinks and Why Mummy Swears, Gill Sims’ novels inspired by her parenting 27 Jun 2019 experiences £12.99 198x129 Mummy is single and ready to mingle Hardback 352pp

Shocked and shaken from her divorce from Simon, but determined to make the best of it, Ellen moves to pursue her rural dream of a quirky cottage with roses around the door and chickens in the garden. However, Paxo, Oxo and Bisto turn out to be highly obstreperous and About the author the roses have jaggy thorns. The world of internet dating beckons, with mixed results, and Ellen clashes with Jane’s difficult teenage years at every Gill Sims is the author and turn, but the one thing they can both agree on is that rescued Barry the illustrator of the hugely successful Wolfdog is indeed The Ugliest Dog in the World, but is also the loveliest. parenting blog and Facebook site Peter and Jane. She lives in Scotland with her husband, two children and a recalcitrant rescue Reviews border terrier, who rules the ‘God, she’s funny’ Jilly Cooper house. ‘Honest and very funny – it’s a tale that mums will identify with’ Sun ‘Sim’s latest offering is a hilarious follow-up to her bestselling debut… you’d be forgiven for thinking the blogger behind Peter and Jane couldn’t pull it off twice – but she has’ Sunday Post

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Previous rights sold in 13 territories, information available on request.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 24 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 HELLO, MY NAME IS MAY

Rosalind Stopps

Elizabeth Is Missing meets Joanna Cannon Tense and emotional debut with a dual narrative – moves between protagonist’s captive, lonely present and her marriage in the 18 Apr 2019 seventies to a charming yet frightening man £12.99 Ideal book club fiction: deals with themes of loneliness in the elderly, 234x153 escaping an abusive marriage, as well as the high-concept idea of Hardback being inside the head of the non-verbal protagonist 384pp

They wrote it on the wall above my bed head. Hello, it said, my name is About the author May. Please talk to me. Rosalind Stopps worked for many May has been moved to a care home after her stroke. She can’t years with children with disabilities communicate, all her words are kept inside. If she tries to point, her arms and their families, and has heard swing in wild directions, if she tries to talk, strange noises come out of many sad (and happy) stories. She her mouth. keeps a list on her at all times of May is sharp, quick, and funny, but only her daughter Jenny sees this, and things she sees or hears that Jackie, a new friend at the home who cares enough to look and listen absolutely have to be written closely. about and at the moment the list includes, amongst other things, a When May discovers that someone very familiar, from long ago, is living recipe book of fatal recipes. in the room opposite hers she is haunted by scenes from her earlier life, Rosalind's short stories have been when she was a prisoner of her husband’s unpredictable behaviour. Bill, published in five anthologies and the man in the opposite room seems so much like her husband, though read at live literature events in almost a lifetime has passed, and May’s eyesight isn’t what it was. London, Leeds, Hong Kong and New York. Rosalind lives in As Bill charms his way through the nursing home, he focuses his romantic London and works as a host at the attention on Jackie, while all May can do is watch. She is determined to Southbank. Hello, My Name is May protect Jackie and keep herself safe, but what can she do in her is her debut novel. vulnerable, silent state?

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 25 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE HAPPY GLAMPERS

Daisy Tate

Cold Feet meets Carry on Camping in this camp-tastic debut novel, perfect for anyone who has ever had to put up their tent in a gale E-book series in 4 Quirky, irreverent and laugh-out-loud; a new voice in Romance instalments 1 Aug 2019 Bind-up – 400pp

Charlotte Mayfield books a glamping party for her 40th birthday and top About the author of the invite list are her BFF’s from university: Freya, Emma and Izzy. Daisy Tate loves telling stories. Freya feels like getting back to nature will chill her the hell out – her Telling them in books is even useless husband has been driving her crazy. better. When not writing, she Emma is hiding her own life crisis from her mates. Can a weekend under raises Scottish cows, performs in canvas get her to open up? amateur dramatics, pretends her life is a musical and bakes cakes Izzy is back after a decade abroad but has got more than one surprise in that will never win her a place on store. a television baking show. She was born in the USA but has never And after fifteen years of playing the perfect wife, Charlotte isn’t entirely met Bruce Springsteen. She now sure who the hell she is anymore. calls East Sussex home. Over the course of a year, as they re-connect with each other and their love of the outdoors their bonds may not be as rock-solid as they once thought. Maybe a year of yurts will mend two decades of hurts – or are some things, like shower blocks and no wi-fi signal, best left in the past.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 26 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 LITERARY Anna Burns

2018 Man Booker Prize-winning author Anna Burns’ first two novels.

Anna Burns was born in Belfast in 1962. She moved to London in 1987.

NO BONES

Every single night and every single day Amelia goes upstairs to look at her treasure: a miniature plastic sheep, a Black Queen chess piece, a penny prayer for serenity, a tube of glitter – and thirty-seven black rubber bullets she’s collected ever since the British Army started firing them… Praise: 'Scarily well written, too… No Bones tears chunks out of our Peace Process comfort blankets. For it questions how a peaceful, mundane existence can be superimposed on a society inured over decades to violence.' Martina Devlin, Irish Independent ‘Not only hilarious but also terribly tragic and awful and human and wonderful … No Bones is absolutely fantastic, quite different from anything I’ve read before’ Julia Darling, author of Crocodile Tears Imprint: 4th Estate Publication: 18 Jun 2001 Extent: 336pp

LITTLE CONSTRUCTIONS

An irate woman bursts into the best gun shop in the town of Tiptoe Floorboard, helps herself to a Kalashnikov rifle and sets off in a taxi on her mission of retribution. So begins this kaleidoscopic, surreal and enigmatic tale of dark deeds in a small town. At the centre of the novel lies the Doe clan, a closely knit family of criminals and victims whose internal conflicts and convoluted relationships propel this simultaneously funny and terrifying story. In a voice that is by turns chilling and wickedly funny, the narrator documents their struggle to make and maintain connections with each other, and, weaving back and forth in time, examines what transpires when unspeakable realities, long pushed from consciousness, begin to break through. Praise: ‘The writing is energetic, convoluted and courageous. It has a gutsy nervousness Imprint: 4th Estate that matches the subject matter, as if there is no way to write about violence Publication: 4 Jun 2007 and violation other than with comedy, digression, wordplay and other Extent: 304pp peculiarities..’ Guardian 'A brilliant second novel…I can't remember the last time I read prose so profound and so punchy, at once scattergun and forensic. It's like the ink's been made from gunpowder.' Daily Telegraph ‘(...) supremely gritty and clever, and draws the reader relentlessly into the story.' Telegraph ‘[A] powerful second novel (…)' Irish Mail on Sunday 'Bold, funny and unrelenting.' Sunday Business Post

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • FBF 2018 • 28 MR DOUBLER BEGINS AGAIN

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN

Seni Glaister

Mr Doubler Begins Again is an optimistic and warm modern fable for fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Lido, with a touch of Jonas Jonasson. Mr Doubler is potato grower who distils his own gin, and his story is a nostalgic celebration of friendship, kindness and second chances. 24 Jan 2019 £12.99 This is pure up-lit, gentle yet thought-provoking and ultimately life- 234x153 affirming, and exactly where the book club market is right now Hardback 384pp

Not every journey takes you far from home. About the author

Baked, mashed, boiled or fried, Mr Doubler knows his potatoes. But the Seni Glaister worked as a same can’t be said for people. Since he lost his wife, he’s been on his own bookseller for much of her career at Mirth Farm – and that suits Doubler just fine. Crowds are for other before founding WeFiFo in 2016. people; the only company he needs are his potato plants and his Her first novel, The Museum of housekeeper, Mrs Millwood, who visits every day. Things Left Behind was published in Until the day she doesn’t. 2015. With Mrs Millwood missing, Doubler’s routine is plunged into chaos – and, more alone than ever, he begins to worry that he might have lost his way. But could the kindness of strangers be enough to bring him down from the hill?

Praise for Mr Doubler Begins Again: ’Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’ Hello! Rights sold ‘Extremely charming’ Marian Keyes HarperCollins (Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 29 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE FAMILY TREE

Sairish Hussain

Bleak yet redemptive, honest and entirely captivating, The Family Tree is the story of a Pakistani family in Bradford between 1992- 2017. Timely and profoundly important, it is a moving and unflinching novel which reveals how global events trickle down into 20 Feb 2020 communities £12.99 It’s also a book about family, and the faults, mistakes and stubborn 234x153 loyalties which make us human. Paperback 384pp

Saahil and Zahra Sharif have been raised by their dad, Amjad– but while About the author their household is small, it’s bursting with love. They live in Bradford – the only home they’ve ever known – and are surrounded by aunties, Sairish Hussain has a Creative uncles and friends. But, like every teenager, Saahil has big plans: to escape Writing PhD from Huddersfield his hometown and go to university; to see the world; and, more than University. She is an exceptional anything, to make his father proud. talent and has the potential to become the voice of her But growing up in the shadow of 9/11 is complicated in ways that Saahil is generation: she’s a Zadie Smith or only just beginning to realise. As a young British Muslim, trouble is never a Monica Ali in the making. far away. And, the night of his final A level exam, when the future looks at its brightest, something happens that will send Saahil veering off the course he’s chosen, and onto the course society has chosen for him.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 30 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE GHOST FACTORY

Jenny McCartney

An exciting new voice from Northern Ireland, that blends humour and gut-wrenching violence in a way reminiscent of Roddy Doyle, 21 March 2019 Patrick McCabe, and Robert McLiam Wilson’s Eureka Street £12.99 A story about the echoes of the troubles, and the terror that 216x135 continues to echo through Belfast. Like Jez Butterworth’s The Hardback Ferryman it depicts the politics of the conflict as existential and inescapable 272pp

Set in Belfast and London, this is a powerful novel about the Troubles About the author and their aftermath, centred on a young man, Jacky, who gets caught up with a loyalist bully who destroys his best friend, Titch. The Troubles Jenny McCartney grew up in made Northern Ireland a ghost factory: as the manufacturing Northern Ireland and read English industry withered the death business boomed. Literature at Oxford University, after which she lived in Prague In trying to come to terms with his father’s sudden death and the attack before doing an MA in newspaper on his harmless best friend, Titch, Jacky is forced to face the bullies who journalism at City University, still menace a city scarred by conflict. After Jacky himself is attacked he London. She lives with her family is forced to flee to London to build a new life. Even away from Belfast in London where she has worked and having found love, Jacky is still always haunted by the ghosts of his for more than 20 years as a past forever pulling him back to Belfast. feature-writer, columnist, book This is a political novel leavened with great humour and pathos, from a reviewer, interviewer and film wonderful new talent. critic for national media including the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Spectator and BBC Front Row.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 31 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE HEART BEATS IN SECRET

Katie Munnik

Evocative, intricate and powerful story of three generations of women, that explores the wilderness of the heart, the secrets 4 Apr 2019 concealed with every beat, and the strength of maternal desire £12.99 221x153 Set between Scotland and Canada Hardback 400pp Jane, 1940 In a small rented house on the east coast of Scotland, a cold winter drags on and Jane faces motherhood alone. But with her husband away at war, she fears small town suspicions. She keeps secrets. Who will they protect and who will they hurt? In times of war and separation, so much is left unsaid.

Felicity, 1969 Jane’s daughter chooses to emigrate to Montreal, leaving About the author behind uncomfortable questions about her background and discovering a new political world of social unrest and undreamt-of freedoms. She Katie Munnik is a Canadian writer settles in a commune in rural Quebec, where her own child is born just living in Cardiff. Her collection of as the Apollo Mission lands on the moon. short fiction, The Pieces We Keep Pidge, 2006 Inheriting her grandmother’s house is a surprise. As is the was published by Wild Goose wild goose who stalks into the kitchen and makes herself at home. But Publications and her prose, somewhere between the flying feathers and her own gathered poetry, and creative non-fiction confusions, Pidge pieces together fragments of her family’s history, finding have appeared in a number of surprising answers amongst the stories – and the silences – of the past. magazines and anthologies, such as The Cardiff Review, The Dangerous Women Project, Echoes of the City, and Geez Magazine. She is a Reviews: graduate of the Humber School ‘Textured and beautiful. Katie Munnik has a voice full of quiet passion and for Writers in Toronto, Canada. poetry’ Kate Hamer The Heart Beats in Secret is her first novel.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 32 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 HISTORICAL IN THE LION’S DEN

THE HOUSE OF FALCONER

Barbara Taylor Bradford

A gripping new Victorian-Edwardian historical series, The House of Falconer quartet will trace the rise and fall of the Falconers, a merchant family who rise to build a trading empire, with settings in 28 Nov 2019 the UK, France and Russia £16.99 Secrets of Cavendon has grown Barbara Taylor Bradford’s hardback 234x153 and e-book sales by 50% Hardback 512pp

Young James Falconer is thrust into a new world when he accepts a job at Henry Malvern’s trading company. Brought up among the market traders of Camden, he has always dreamed of creating a store like Fortnum & Mason’s and this is his first step. But Henry’s daughter and heir, Alexis, whom James falls deeply in love with, will have nothing to do with the company. The weight of saving it when fraud rocks the business About the author falls to James. Barbara Taylor Bradford’s first His dream to expand takes him to the glittering city of Hull but an old novel, A Woman of Substance, enemy there puts everything he’s worked towards in danger. Even his became an enduring worldwide attempt to open his own first shop is thwarted. And then a woman from bestseller. Her novels have sold his past, someone he thought never to see again, springs a surprise that over 90m copies worldwide, and will change his life. ten mini-series and television movies have been made of her Weaving together the wealthy merchants and their grand houses in books. London and Kent with the aspiring new professional classes in Hull and James’s own family in service, this vibrant and gripping drama brings Victorian times vividly to life. Praise for the Cavendon series: ‘A classic saga of loyalty, secrets, passion and intrigue…if you’ve been suffering withdrawal symptoms from Downton, this is for you.’ Daily Mail

‘Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping Rights sold the reader turning the page. She is one of the world’s best at spinning yarns.’ Guardian Rights sold to: Place des Éditeurs (French), HarperCollins (Swedish) ‘As romantic and thrilling as the rest.’ Independent on Sunday Previous rights sold in 24 ‘A stately home, a dangerous secret and two families whose fates have languages, information available on been intertwined for generations…a gripping period piece set on the request brink of the Great War. Exquisite escapism of the highest order’ The Lady

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 34 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE MURDER PIT

AN ARROWOOD MYSTERY

Mick Finlay

British-set historical crime that taps into the huge appetite there currently is for Sherlock TV rights for the first book have been acquired by Cave Bear Productions (Bad Education and Decline and Fall) with Kathy Burke 10 Jan 2019 joining as executive producer £8.99 ‘Strongly reminiscent of Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike 198x129 novels…a memorable detective who can stand among the best’ Paperback Harrow Times 448pp

London Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else About the author goes to Arrowood. Before becoming an academic, 1896: A missing daughter. Three dead children. A sinister connection Mick ran a market stall on between a farm and an asylum. Portobello Road, and has worked Arrowood must catch the killer before he strikes again – and before as a tent-hand in a travelling Sherlock Holmes or the police take the credit. circus, a butcher’s boy, a hotel porter, and in various jobs in the NHS and social services. He teaches in a Psychology Department, Reviews: and has published research on ‘Arrowood is a flawed but engaging hero and the plot spins from peril to political violence and persuasion, twist and back with real panache’ Times disability and verbal and non- verbal communication. ‘A fantastic creation’ Spectator Richly inventive’ Daily Telegraph ‘Compelling’ Seattle Times Rights sold

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 35 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE FAMILY SECRET

WILL SHE FIND TRUTH?

Terry Lynn Thomas

The second book in the Cat Carlisle historical mystery series

The first book in the series, The Silent Woman, was a USA Today bestseller, selling over 55,000 copies 1 Mar 2019 E-book This book currently has over 1,600 pre-orders 300pp

England, 1940 About the author

After a sudden unexplained disappearance, Thomas Charles comes back Terry Lynn Thomas grew up in into Cat Carlisle’s life with the suggestion she leave London – and the the San Francisco Bay Area, which threat of bombs – to move back to her childhood village in Cumberland. explains her love of foggy beaches Back in her hometown Cat discovers her childhood friend, Beth and Gothic mysteries. When her Hargreaves, is suspected of murder. As Cat tries to prove Beth’s husband promised to buy Terry a innocence, she discovers a scheme of deception that affects the whole horse and the time to write if she village. Can she uncover the family truths behind the murder and expose moved to Mississippi with him, she the enemy hiding in plain sight? jumped at the chance. Although she had written several novels and screenplays prior to 2006, after she relocated to the South she set Readers LOVE Terry Lynn Thomas: out to write in earnest and has ‘Intriguing and page-turning’ never looked back. ‘I really enjoyed this fascinating historical thriller’ Now Terry Lynn writes the Sarah Bennett Mysteries, set on the ‘An absorbing novel’ California coast during the 1940s, as well as the Cat Carlisle ‘A marvellous historical suspense that had me engrossed from the start’ Mysteries, set in Britain during ‘I read it in just one sitting’ World War II. When she’s not writing, you can find Terry Lynn riding her horse, walking in the woods with her dogs, or visiting old cemeteries in search of story ideas.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 36 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE DEVIL’S DUE

A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE

Bonnie MacBird

The author has worked in Hollywood for many years as a scriptwriter and editor, winning three Emmy Awards, and is a respected speaker at Sherlockian conventions 10 Oct 2019 £14.99 The third book in a trilogy of authentic Conan Doyle-style Sherlock Holmes novels 234x153 Hardback 320pp

It’s 1890 and the newly famous Sherlock Holmes faces his worst About the author adversary to date – a diabolical villain bent on destroying some of London’s most admired public figures in particularly gruesome ways. A Bonnie MacBird is a producer, further puzzle is that suicide closely attends each of the murders. As he screenwriter (TRON), playwright tracks the killer through vast and seething London, Holmes finds himself as well as an accomplished stage battling both an envious Scotland Yard and a critical press as he follows a actor and writing teacher at complex trail from performers to princes, anarchists to aesthetes. But UCLA. Her long Hollywood when his brother Mycroft disappears, apparently the victim of murder, career includes stints as a feature even those loyal to Holmes begin to wonder how close to the flames he film development executive, and has travelled. Has Sherlock Holmes himself made a deal with the devil? multiple Emmy- winning producer. Bonnie is a member of the London Sherlock Holmes Society and was Reviews: invested as a member of The Baker Street Irregulars and The ‘MacBird’s outstanding sequel to 2015’s Art in the Blood melds a twisty, Adventuresses of Sherlock multi-layered plot with a plausible exploration of Sherlock Holmes’s life Holmes. before Watson…Will make Sherlockians eager for more from her.’ Publishers Weekly Starred Review Rights sold ‘Haunting, vivid and beautifully plotted, Unquiet Spirits is both an elegant tribute and a cunning update of everything we love about Sherlock Previous rights sold: United Sky Holmes and his world. Bonnie MacBird has done it again!’ Daniel Media (Chinese Simple), Mlada Stashower, Edgar, Agatha, and Anthony award-winning author of Teller of Fronta (Czech), Pegasus (Estonian), Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle City Éditions (French), PT Gramedia (Indonesian), Indigo (Turkish), HarperCollins (Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Nordic, Portuguese, Spanish)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 37 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 A TAPESTRY OF TREASON

Anne O’Brien

Giving voice to the forgotten women of history, this is the next brilliant historical novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anne O’Brien

Perfect for fans of Alison Weir and Philippa Gregory 22 Aug 2019 ‘O’Brien is a terrific storyteller,’ Daily Telegraph £14.99 234x153 Hardback Sunday Times bestselling author, Anne O’Brien stormed into the 384pp charts at #8 with The Shadow Queen

Her actions could make history – but at what price? About the author

1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a Sunday Times bestselling author mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional Anne O’Brien was born in West family, The House of York. Yorkshire. After gaining a BA Surrounded by power-hungry men, including her aggressively selfcentred Honours degree in History at husband Thomas and ruthless siblings Edward and Richard, Constance Manchester University and a places herself at the heart of two treasonous plots against King Henry Master’s in Education at Hull, she IV. Will it be possible for this Plantagenet family to safeguard its own lived in East Yorkshire for many political power by restoring either King Richard II to the throne, or the years as a teacher of history. precarious Mortimer claimant? Today she has sold over 425,000 copies across formats of her Although the execution of these conspiracies will place them all in books. jeopardy, Constance is not deterred, even when the cost of her ambition threatens to overwhelm her. Even when it endangers her new-found www.anneobrien.co.uk happiness. Twitter @anne_obrien With treason, tragedy, heartbreak and betrayal, this is the story of a woman ahead of her time, fighting for herself and what she believes to be Rights sold right in a world of men. Previous rights sold: HarperCollins (Italian) Rights available: WAL excl Bulgarian, Croatian, Romanian, Hungarian, Serbian, and Czech. For those languages please contact the Jane Judd Agency.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 38 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 A WOMAN OF WAR

Mandy Robotham

A sweeping historical drama set in Hitler’s summer residence The Berghof, high in the Bavarian Alps 2 May 2019 For readers of historical romance such as The Secret Wife, The £8.99 Tattooist of Auschwitz and Kate Furnivall’s novels 198x129 Paperback 400pp

Germany, 1944. Taken from the camps to serve the Fuhrer himself, Anke Hoff has been assigned as midwife to one of Hitler’s inner circle. If she refuses, her family will die. About the author Torn between her duty as a caregiver and her hatred for the regime she’s now a part of, Anke is quickly swept into a life unlike anything she’s Mandy Robotham is a practising ever known – and she discovers that many of those at the Berghof are midwife, who writes about birth, just as trapped as she is. Soon, she’s falling for a man who will make her death, love and anything else in world more complicated still. between. She graduated with an Before long, the couple is faced with an impossible choice – for which the MA in Creative Writing from consequences could be deadly. Can their forbidden love survive the Oxford Brookes University, and horrors of war – and, more importantly, will they? recently acted as midwife consultant on a Katie Fforde Reviews romance, A Summer at Sea. This is her first novel. ‘Incredibly powerful, harrowing but ultimately uplifting. I couldn’t put this down.’ Katie Fforde ‘A fascinating story which had me forgetting it’s fiction! So well written, I was left pondering if the events could actually be true. Enthralling!’ Kitty Neale ‘Absorbing and totally believable – a wonderful WWII novel.’ Molly Green City Editions (French), Planeta Manuscrito (Portuguese), Motyl (Slovak)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 39 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 CRIME, THRILLER & PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER TAKE IT BACK

Kia Abdullah

A bold and startling new voice that is sure to make waves within the crime thriller community

Take It Back is a thrilling courtroom drama that’s perfect for fans of Anatomy of a Scandal, He Said/She Said and Apple Tree Yard 3 Oct 2019 Zara is a strong, intelligent, and fearless heroine who is sure to win £12.99 over readers 234x153 Recommended by The Asian Writer as ‘One to Read in 2019’, they Hardback call Kia ‘one of the most imaginative unapologetic voices of her 384pp generation

The victim: a sixteen-year-old girl with facial deformities, neglected by an About the author alcoholic mother, who accuses the boys of something unthinkable. Kia Abdullah is an author, The defendants: four handsome teenage boys from hardworking journalist and travel writer. She immigrant families, all with corroborating stories. has contributed to The Guardian, Whose side would you take? BBC, and Channel 4 News, and most recently the New York Times Zara Kaleel, one of London’s brightest young legal minds, shattered the commenting on a variety of issues expectations placed on her by her family and forged a glittering career at affecting the Muslim community. the Bar. All before hanging up her barrister's wig to help the victims who Kia currently travels the world as needed her most. one half of the travel blog atlasandboots.com, which receives Victims like Jodie Wolfe. over 100K views per month. Jodie’s own best friend doesn’t even believe her claims that their classmates carried out such a crime. But Zara does. And Zara is determined to fight for her. Jodie and Zara become the centre of the most explosive criminal trial of the year, in which ugly divisions within British society are exposed. As everything around Zara begins to unravel she becomes even more determined to get Jodie the justice she’s looking for. But at what price?

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 41 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 DOMINO ISLAND

Desmond Bagley

The unpublished thriller by the master of the genre 16 May 2019 Discovered after more than 40 years, a vintage action-adventure £14.99 novel by one of the world’s most successful thriller writers, 234x153 involving murder, corruption and a daring hijack in the Caribbean Hardback 400pp ‘Like a dream come true – an undiscovered Desmond Bagley novel … and it’s a great one!’ Lee Child Bill Kemp, an ex-serviceman working in London as an insurance investigator, is sent to the Caribbean to determine the legitimacy of an expensive life insurance claim following the inexplicable death of businessman David Salton. His rapidly inflated premiums immediately About the author before his death stand to make his young widow a very rich lady! Once there, Kemp discovers that Salton’s political ambitions had made him a Desmond Bagley was a multi- lot of enemies, and local tensions around a forthcoming election are million-copy selling author of 16 already spilling over into protest and violence on the streets. adventure thrillers, all of which are still in print. His transition Salton also had friends in unexpected places, including the impossibly from unskilled printer’s beautiful Leotta Tomsson, to whom there is much more than meets the apprentice, aircraft engineer, eye. Kemp realises that Salton’s death and the local unrest are a miner, nightclub photographer and deliberate smokescreen for an altogether more ambitious plot by an radio scriptwriter to one of the enemy in their midst, and as the island comes under siege, even Kemp’s world’s most respected thriller army training seems feeble in the face of such a determined foe. writers is legendary. Travelling to Unseen for more than 40 years and believed lost, Domino Island was almost every continent to accepted for publication in 1972 but then replaced by a different novel to research his exotic storylines, he coincide with the release of The Mackintosh Man, the Paul Newman film was described by the Times as a based on Bagley’s earlier novel The Freedom Trap. It is a classic Bagley tour ‘craftsmanlike thriller novelist’, de force with an all-action finale. whose stories are as exciting today as when they were first published.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 42 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 FORGET ME NOT PREVIOUS COVER

Claire Allan

Claire’s first book, Her Name Was Rose, was a USA Today bestseller 30 May 2019 The author has previously written women’s fiction, published by £7.99 Poolbeg Press 198x129 Paperback 400pp I disappeared on a Tuesday afternoon. I was there one minute and the next I was gone. They’ve never found my body… It’s six in the morning during the hottest summer on record when Elizabeth O’Loughlin, out walking her dog, comes across Clare, a victim of a horrific knife attack, clinging onto life at the side of the road. About the author Clare dies minutes later, but not before whispering her haunting last words to Elizabeth. Claire Allan is an Irish author who When it becomes clear that Clare’s killer has more than one murder on has previously written women’s his mind, Elizabeth has to take drastic action or face losing everything. fiction. Forget Me Not is her third psychological thriller following But what if she can’t stop a killer determined never to be forgotten? Apple of My Eye and Her Name Was Rose. Reviews: ‘AMAZING. I read it in one go. I was totally hooked.’ Marian Keyes ‘A brilliantly paced, intriguingly plotted and thoroughly enjoyable story. One of the best psych thrillers I've read this year.’ Liz Nugent 'A powerful and emotional psychological thriller that will keep you guessing and leave you breathless.' C. L. Taylor, author of The Fear ‘Utterly addictive! Literally couldn’t put it down all day! Compulsive, twisty, tense. And LOVED the ending.’ Claire Douglas, author of Local Girl Missing ‘SUCH a good read! It made me feel so uncomfortable, but I still kept gobbling up the pages.’ LISA HALL Previous rights sold to: ‘A superior psychological thriller with an intriguing set-up, a flawed L'Archipel (French), heroine and some great twists. Recommended!’ Mark Edwards HarperCollins (Italian) ‘A psychological thriller with a heart: taut, emotionally challenging and unlike so many thrillers, each twist and turn is here because it deserves to be and not for the sake of it.’ John Marrs

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 43 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 AT YOUR DOOR

J.P. Carter

An addictive new thriller from J. P. Carter, perfect for fans of Katerina Diamond and M.J. Arlidge. 8 Aug 2019 This is a gripping police procedural with a brand-new female £7.99 detective who must investigate a traumatising new case alongside 198x129 dealing with her own past: her daughter who has been missing for Paperback ten years 384pp

What happens when the past comes back to kill you? About the author

When DCI Anna Tate is called to the gruesome discovery of a dead J.P. Carter is an experienced crime woman found on Barnes Common, she is plunged into a high‐profile author and an award-winning investigation involving a prominent MP. London is baying for blood – but journalist, who previously worked is there more to Holly’s death than at first meets the eye? for publications such as the Sun Meanwhile, the hunt is on for Anna’s missing daughter Chloe, who and the Daily Mail. He now works vanished ten years ago when her ex‐husband kidnapped her. The case has as a TV producer. been cold for what feels like forever – but a phone call brings a brand new lead. Can Anna solve the murder case whilst dealing with her own personal demons? Or is someone from the past planning to get in her way?

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 44 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE DEAD WIFE

Sue Fortin

Sue Fortin is a UK Kindle #1 bestseller, USA Today bestseller and has sold nearly a million copies of her books worldwide

Gripping, suspenseful thriller 5 Sep 2019 £7.99 Sue Fortin’s Girl Who Lied sold 430,000 copies and Sister, Sister sold Paperback 267,000 copies across all formats 416pp

SINCLAIR WIFE DEAD! HUSBAND CLEARED! About the author

Police have ruled out suspicious circumstances in the investigation into Sue Fortin was born in the death of Elizabeth Sinclair, wife of charismatic entrepreneur Harry Hertfordshire but had a nomadic Sinclair, found drowned in the lake of the family’s holiday park. childhood, moving often with her It’s been two years since the Sinclair case closed but when reporter family, before eventually settling in Steph Durham receives a tipoff that could give her the scoop of the year, West Sussex. Sue is a member of she’s drawn deeper and deeper into the secretive Sinclair family. the Crime Writers’ Association. Elizabeth’s death wasn’t a tragic accident. And the truth will come at a deadly price.

Reviews: ‘A gripping portrayal of a family caught on the wrong side of the law’ Jane Corry

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 45 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE KILLER INSIDE PREVIOUS COVER

CASS GREEN

Dark and twisty psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Claire Mackintosh

In a Cottage in a Wood has now sold over 100K copies across all editions 31 Oct 2019 Cass Green is a USA Today and Sunday Times top-10 bestselling £7.99 author B 198x129 Paperback From a well-connected, prize-winning YA author, who’s admired by 400pp writers such as Ruth Ware, Erin Kelly and Eva Dolan

You love me. But do you really know me? Elliott Little knows he’s a very lucky man. He has a rewarding career as a teacher, he’s smitten with his wife, Anya, and he even likes his in-laws. About the author But when Irene Copeland turns up on his doorstep, everything changes. Gradually, Elliott realizes that Anya is not at all who she seems, and may Cass Green is a bestselling author in fact be guilty of a terrible crime – which her adoring parents are of psychological thrillers and an complicit in covering up. award-winning writer of fiction for young people under the name In fact, his wife’s parents are so adoring they will get rid of anyone who Caroline Green. Her first novel might be a threat to their precious daughter – including her husband… for adults, The Woman Next Door, was a No.1 e-book bestseller, while the follow-up, In a Cottage in Praise for Cass Green: a Wood, was a USA Today bestseller and a Sunday Times top- ‘A gripping page-turner with a twisted ending. Brilliant!’ Psychologies 10 bestseller. ‘Dark, gripping and totally compelling. A genuine page-turner’ Alex Lake, bestselling author of After Anna ‘A beguiling thriller, beautifully written and suffused with a delicately rising sense of menace which builds to a nerve-shredding climax. Once again Cass Green has written a book which you’ll happily be held captive Rights sold by’ Eva Dolan Euromedia (Czech), 2020 ‘A creepy, atmospheric and suspenseful read with a complex, believable (Portuguese), Ikar (Slovak) protagonist. The plot was cleverly constructed with a twist that gave a wonderful ‘I didn’t see THAT coming’ moment. Thoroughly enjoyable! Sam Carrington, author of Saving Sophie ‘I loved it; a dark, disturbing thriller that kept me guessing to the end’ am Hepburn, author of Her Perfect Life

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 46 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 HAVE YOU SEEN HER

Lisa Hall

Perfect for fans of Louise Jensen, BA Paris and Katerina Diamond

Lisa Hall is the bestselling author of Between You and Me, which sold over a quarter of a million copies and was the fifth top selling title on Amazon in 2016 2 May 2019 £7.99 ‘Brilliantly plotted…a gripping read’ Alice Feeney 198x126 Paperback ‘Compelling, addictive… brilliant!’ B A Paris 384pp

Bonfire Night. A missing girl. About the author

Anna only takes her eyes off Laurel for a second. She thought Laurel was Lisa Hall loves words, reading and following her mum through the crowds. But in a heartbeat, Laurel is everything there is to love about gone. books. Laurel’s parents are frantic. As is Anna, their nanny. But as the hours Twitter @LisaHallAuthor pass, and Laurel isn’t found, suspicion grows. Someone knows what happened to Laurel. And they’re not telling.

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 47 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 DON’T TELL TEACHER

Suzy K. Quinn

A chilling psychological thriller for anyone who loved Behind Closed Doors, Sometimes I Lie and The Couple Next Door

Literally blown away! Just when you think nothing can surprise you, 25 Jul 2019 I’m still in shock from the twist!’ Netgalley reviewer, 5 stars £7.99 Suzy K. Quinn is a self-publishing mega-star and the author of three 198x129 bestselling series. She’s sold over half a million books worldwide and Paperback has been a bestseller in the UK, US and Germany. Her books have 384pp reached the top 5 in the UK Kindle charts, and have been translated into seven languages

School should have been the safest place… About the author

For Lizzie Riley, switching her six-year-old son Tom to the local academy Suzy K Quinn is an internationally school marks a fresh start, post-divorce. With its excellent reputation bestselling author. Before her and delightful red-brick building, Lizzie knows it’ll be a safe space away writing dreams came true she from home. worked as a Guardian journalist, But there's something strange happening at school. Parents are forbidden corporate tarot reader, dance from entering the grounds and inside, there are bars across the floor filler, fruit picker, call-centre classroom windows. monkey and ghost-writer. Why is Tom coming home exhausted, unable to remember anything about his day? What are the strange marks on his arm? And when Lizzie tries to question the other children, why do they seem afraid to talk? Tom’s new school might seem picture-perfect. But sometimes appearances can be deceiving.

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 48 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019

ALL THAT’S DEAD

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Stuart MacBride

The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author returns with the much anticipated new Logan McRae thriller, the 12th in the series 30 May 2019 Stuart MacBride’s books have sold over 3.5m copies £16.99 worldwide and been translated into 20 languages 234x153 Hardback 400pp Inspector Logan McRae was looking forward to a nice simple case – something to ease him back into work after a year off on the sick. But the powers-that-be have other ideas.

The high-profile anti-independence campaigner, Professor Wilson, has gone missing, leaving nothing but bloodstains behind. There’s a war AboutAbout the aauthoruthor brewing between the factions for and against Scottish Nationalism. Infighting in the police ranks. And it’s all playing out in the merciless glare Stuart MacBride is the Sunday of the media. Logan’s superiors want results, and they want them now. Times #1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson Someone out there is trying to make a point, and they’re making it in novels. His work has won several blood. If Logan can’t stop them, it won’t just be his career that dies. prizes and in 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dundee University.

Praise for Stuart MacBride: ‘Dark and gripping. A riveting page-turner’ Independent on Sunday ‘A satisfyingly compelling thriller’ Sunday Mirror ‘Skilful storytelling…strong characterisation…both Intriguing and engrossing’ Guardian MacBride’s thrillers just keep getting better’ Express RightsRights ssoldold ‘Unmissable…Superb storytelling’ Sun Previous rights sold in 20 territories, information available ‘A terrific writer…Logan McRae is a delight’ The Times on request ‘MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter James ‘A satisfyingly compelling thriller’ Sunday Mirror ‘Exciting … a guaranteed bestseller’ Literary Review

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 49 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 VALLEY OF DEATH

THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL

Scott Mariani

The Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller returns with a gripping new Ben Hope thriller, the 19th in the series 16 May 2019 £7.99 1.7m copies of the Ben Hope books sold worldwide 198x129 Paperback 400pp

People going missing in the remote wilds of India is not unusual. But when the son of a wealthy Delhi businessman is kidnapped just weeks after his brother fell victim to an alleged bandit attack in the mountains of Haryana, it raises eyebrows. About the author With the local police doing close to nothing, there’s only one man for the job: ex-SAS major Ben Hope. But for Ben, this is no ordinary rescue Scott Mariani is the author of the case. Because this plea for help is coming from a special person from his worldwide acclaimed action past, who now has nobody else to turn to. adventure thriller series featuring ex-SAS hero Ben Hope. His novels Ben’s mission will take him into the heart of the arid Indian wilderness, have topped the bestseller charts pitting him against ruthless gangs and desperate men. But Ben is in his native Britain and are determined to save the day. Whatever it takes. translated into over 20 languages worldwide.

Praise for Scott Mariani: ‘A romp of a read, each page like a tasty treat. Enjoy’ Steve Berry ‘Scott Mariani is an awesome writer’ Chris Kuzneski ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart…Scott Mariani packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott Rights sold ‘If you like your conspiracies twisty, your action bone-jarring, and your heroes impossibly dashing, then look no farther’ Mark Dawson Previous rights sold in 20 ‘If you’ve got a pulse, you’ll love Scott Mariani; if you haven’t, then maybe territories, information available you crossed Ben Hope.’ Simon Toyne on request.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 50 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 ENVY

SHE WANTS YOUR LIFE AND SHE’LL DO ANYTHING TO GET IT

Amanda Robson

Amanda’s first novel, Obsession, was a #1 e-book bestseller and has sold 50K e-books and 25K paperbacks Amanda’s writing has been praised by key bestselling crime authors including B A Paris, Emma Flint, Fiona Cummins, Wendy Walker, Colette McBeth, Holly Seddon and Katerina Diamond 4 Apr 2019 The Daily Mail called Obsession ‘one of the most compelling debuts £7.99 of the year’ 198x129 Paperback An unsettling, claustrophobic thriller about jealousy, greed and 432pp desire

Erica has always wanted to be exactly like her neighbour, Faye: beautiful, thin, and a mother. But Faye’s life isn’t as perfect as it seems – she has a terrible secret, and slowly but surely, it is threatening to destroy her and everything she holds dear. About the author When Faye’s daughter Tamsin goes missing after school, the police turn After graduating, Amanda Robson to Erica. But is Erica the only one who has been enviously watching Faye? worked in medical research at the Or is there another threat hiding in the shadows…? London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and at the Poisons Unit at Guy’s Hospital, Praise for Amanda Robson: where she became a co-author of a book on cyanide poisoning. ‘Gripping, tragic, and sometimes insane, Guilt is an intense exploration of Amanda attended the Faber novel- love, sibling relationships, obsession, drug abuse, secrets, and rape’ writing course, and is now a full- Seattle Book Review time author. ‘Fast moving. Compulsive reading’ Jane Corry ‘An addictive, compelling read, full of tension’ Karen Hamilton ‘Absolutely powered through Guilt.Totally addictive and unputdownable’ Roz Watkins ‘I read Guilt over one weekend, completely enthralled. This twisty and complex tale of twin sisters and the dangerous, damaged man who comes between them kept me guessing’ Emma Curtis ‘Robson’s writing is sharp and emotive; the plot so tense and engaging. A fantastic read’ Elisabeth Carpenter ‘I absolutely loved it and raced through it. Thrilling, unputdownable, a fabulous rollercoaster of a read – I was obsessed by this book’ B A Paris

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 51 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE VICTIM

G.D. Sanders

Police procedural with a brand-new female detective and a brilliantly thought-out plot 5 Sep 2019 Clever and wonderfully chilling with dark secrets, mystery and £8.99 intrigue 198x129 Paperback 400pp

Someone is lying… and someone is dead. When a young woman is found dead in her own bedroom, the Canterbury police are baffled. There’s no sign of a break in, and no About the author evidence. It’s as though the killer has vanished overnight. DI Edina Ogborne is determined to uncover the truth, and when a brutal G.D. Sanders has previously new case comes to light, she’s convinced the two incidents are worked in academia. He is now connected. But the new victim, Gina, has her own ideas of how to bring retired and enjoys writing her attacker to justice. contemporary crime fiction, as it allows much more creativity than As Ed investigates, she soon realises not everything is quite what it seems writing scientific research articles. – and that someone close to the case is lying. But will she find out who He is based in London. The Taken before it’s too late? Girls is his first novel.

Praise for G.D. Sanders: ‘The Taken Girls is a tense thriller. A missing girl comes back pregnant & when the investigation ensues, there are so many questions, and so many twists and turns. A really well written thriller – looking forward to more books from this author’ Netgalley reviewer ‘A great police procedural’ Netgalley reviewer ‘A fast paced thriller about dark secrets. I enjoyed reading this and think the plot and characters were well developed.’ Netgalley reviewer

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 52 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE DOCTOR

Lisa Stone

How much do you know about the couple next door? 25 Jul 2019 A gripping, sinister thriller with a twist you won’t see coming from £7.99 the international bestseller Lisa Stone 198x129 Paperback 390pp When Emily and Ben move in next door to Dr Burman and his wife Anita, they are keen to make friends. Outgoing and sociable, Emily tries to befriend the doctor’s wife, but Anita is strangely subdued, barely leaving the house, and terrified of answering the phone. When Emily goes missing a few weeks later, her husband Ben is plunged About the author into a panic. His wife has left him a note, but can she really have abandoned him for another man? Or has Emily’s curiosity led her straight This is Lisa Stone’s third crime into danger? novel. She previously took the non-fiction world by storm with her bestselling books on fostering, Praise for Lisa Stone: written under the pseudonym Cathy Glass. ‘This is a cracking good read that had me hooked from the beginning until the end. Full of murders, spiritualistic intrigue and just a hint of romance. It is quick paced, extremely thought provoking and full of twists and turns. I didn't want to put this book down.’ Amazon reviewer ‘A well-written and extremely addictive novel that will stick in your head long after putting it down.’ Amazon reviewer ‘A unique plot and storyline – I enjoyed the book immensely. It really makes you think.’ Goodreads reviewer ‘What a powerful novel. I have read all of most of Cathy Glass’s books and here she is writing under a new name Lisa Stone. I love the fact she has branched into crime thriller and I think she has done it really well.’ Lisa Stone previous rights sold: Goodreads reviewer City Éditions (French) Cathy Glass’ books have been sold in 18 territories, details available on request

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 53 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION NOTES FROM SMALL PLANETS

Nate Crowley

A writer for War Hammer’s Black Library and a master of video game platform, Twitch, Nate has the nerd-credentials to take you on a journey into the worlds of Fantasy and Sci-Fi like no other 31 Oct 2019 A Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy for the modern fan Hardback 400pp

Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and About the author up into space without missing any must-see sights – or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether you’re Lord of the Shoe (st)Ring-budget Nate Crowley lives in South East or Luxe Skywalker – Notes from Small Planets is your pastiche passport London, and knows too much through the best worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy. about the history of public aquaria. Once, he accidentally Your ultimate travel guide to all the must-see locations in the worlds of punched a wrasse while wearing a Science Fiction and Fantasy. diving suit from the 1800s. He The perfect gift for self-professed geeks and fans of all things genre – keeps a List of Animals. from classic genre readers to new young disciples of Doctor Who. From Twittter: @frogcroakley pulp aficionados to fans of Game of Thrones and Marvel movies. Visit your favourite worlds and discover new ones – all without ever missing a single landmark or traditional dish. What’s orc for ‘bon voyage’?

Praise for Nate Crowley: 'Weird and hilarious' Buzzfeed 'Surreal and occasionally horrifying' The Daily Dot

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 55 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 ROMANTIC COMEDY THE NORTHERN LIGHTS LODGE

Julie Caplin

The fourth book in the bestselling ‘Romantic Escapes’ series 16 May 2019 First three titles were sold to German publisher Rowohlt with a £7.99 high pre-empt 198x129 Paperback 400pp

Escape to the cosiest little lodge in Iceland for love, log fires and the Northern Lights… With a shattered heart and her career completely in tatters, Lucy needs to get away from her life in the UK. But, when she takes a job as hotel About the author manager of the Northern Lights Lodge, she doesn’t quite expect to find herself in a land of bubbling hot springs and snowflake-dusted glaciers – Julie Caplin is addicted to travel and in the company of gorgeous Scottish barman, Alex. and good food. Formerly a PR director, for many years she Determined to turn her life around, Lucy sets about making the lodge the swanned around Europe taking number one romantic destination in Iceland – even though romance is top food and drink writers on the last thing she wants. However, as Alex and Lucy grow closer under press trips (junkets) sampling the the dancing lights of the aurora, Lucy might just learn how to fall in love gastronomic delights of various again… cities in Italy, France, Belgium, Spain, Denmark and Switzerland. It was a tough job but someone Readers love Julie Caplin: had to do it. These trips have provided the inspiration and ‘The crème de la crème of rom-com confection’ Mrs W Reviews settings for the trilogy, The Little ‘I have found a little piece of myself in the story…a joy to read’ Kate Cafe in Copenhagen, The Little McLaughlin Reviewer Brooklyn Bakery and The Little Paris Patisserie. ‘I loved this book…the slow building romance, the descriptions of the shop as it comes to life. When I finished it, I had an incredible urge to go bake something’ Sharon Redfern, Librarian ‘Simply brilliant’ Nicola, Goodreads Soft Press (Bulgarian), Grada (Czech), J’ai Lu (French), Rowohlt (German), ‘Another gem in this series’ Rachel’s Random Reads Libri Konyvkiado Kft (Hungarian), HarperCollins (Italian), Mona Kitap (Turkish)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 57 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 SECRET THINGS AND HIGHLAND FLINGS

Tracy Corbett

Set in the beautiful Scottish Highlands

Tracy Corbett is an exciting women’s fiction author, perfect for fans 20 May 2019 of Debbie Johnson, Lucy Diamond and Sarah Morgan E-book 300pp

Lexi Ryan’s ex-husband has squandered their money and run away to About the author Spain with his PA, leaving Lexi to deal with the fallout. Determined to keep her beloved art gallery afloat, Lexi doesn’t tell anyone about the bag Tracy has been writing for a of cash she found in their basement. But when Martin returns demanding number of years and has had a few his money, she doesn’t know who to turn to. short stories published in My Weekly magazine. As well as Olly Wentworth seems to have it all. He’s carefree and travelling the belonging to a local writing group, world – but he’s running from an old family secret. And, when his father she enjoys amateur dramatics and dies and he suddenly finds himself the Earl of Horsley, his life is turned can regularly be found dressing up upside down. Now he has to find the money to fund his family estate – in strange costumes and prancing and fast. about the stage pretending to be When their two paths cross in the Scottish highlands, Lexi and Olly are all manner of odd characters. instantly drawn to one another. But how long can it last, when they both have secrets to hide?

Reviews: ‘Enchanting and captivating, I was hooked! An utterly gorgeous story!’ Christie Barlow, bestselling author of The Cosy Canal Boat of Dreams ‘Sunshine in a book!’ The Book Trail ‘This book was hard to put down. It grabs you in instantly’ Netgalley Reviewer

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 58 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 Not WE MET IN DECEMBER Final Cover

Rosie Curtis

Rosie Curtis is a pseudonym for bestselling women’s fiction and YA author Rachael Lucas, whose debut Sealed With a Kiss was a Kindle sensation in 2012 3 Oct 201 Set in picturesque and romantic North West London, the story £7.99 takes place in some of the most quintessential London sights, 198x129 including Notting Hill, Little Venice and Portobello Road Paperback 400pp

What if you couldn’t get away from the one who got away? About the author

Unlucky in love Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It’s Rosie grew up in the Scottish December, and she’s taking a room in a crumbling Notting Hill Highlands before moving to house‐share with four strangers. On her first night Jess meets Alex, the Melbourne, and now lives with her guy sharing her floor. They don’t kiss under the mistletoe, but as far as family in Southport, North West Jess is concerned, the connection is instant. She lets herself imagine how England. Writing as Rachael Lucas, their relationship will grow over the following year. she is the author of four women’s But when Jess returns from a Christmas holiday, she finds Alex has fiction novels, published by Pan started dating someone else – beautiful Emma, who lives on the floor Macmillan, as well as two YA above them. Now Jess faces a year of bumping into (hell, sharing a novels, published by Macmillan bathroom with) the man of her dreams – and the woman of his. Children’s Books. Jess is determined to move on and survive the next twelve months, but love has a way of hampering even the best laid plans.

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 59 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 ALL ABOUT US

Tom Ellen

A heart-warming and gorgeously romantic love story perfect for anyone who loved Josie Silver’s One Day in December, Beth O’Leary’s The Flatshare or Jojo Moyes’ Me Before You 15 Oct 2020 £7.99 As well as being a love story, this also touches on the deep 198x129 emotional themes of grief, depression, male mental-health and how Paperback important it is to ultimately find self-acceptance 400pp

Ben Bravin is facing an (early) mid-life crisis aged 34: his marriage to About the author Daphne is on the rocks, his career is circling the drain and he’s still grieving the unexpected death of his mum. Ben’s on the verge of Tom Ellen is a journalist and has throwing it all away when the discovery of a box of keepsakes on written for ShortList, Time Christmas Eve sends him on an unexpected journey. Out, Vice, talkSPORT, ESPN and Viz. He has previously written YA Ben falls asleep, and when he wakes up, it’s December 2005: the day that novels. This is his debut adult he and Daphne first met. As Ben travels through his Christmases past, fiction book. present and future – each one connected to a keepsake from the box in the attic – turning the clock back (and forwards) offers him the chance to reflect on the decisions he’s taken and not taken throughout his life. But will Ben do things differently this time around? And if he does, what will his future look like…?

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 60 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 I HEART HAWAII

Lindsey Kelk

A heart-warming and funny novel for fans of Jenny Colgan and Sophie Kinsella

Join Angela and Jenny in the series finale of the bestselling I Heart books, on the balmy beaches of Hawaii 30 May 2019 I Heart Christmas and A Girl’s Best Friend were both Sunday Times top- £7.99 10 bestsellers 198x129 Paperback One of the biggest voices in young women’s fiction, with over a 400pp million copies of her ‘I Heart’ and ‘Girl’ series sold across all formats

When Angela Clark’s best friend Jenny invites her to join a press trip to Hawaii, three days of sun, sea and sleep sounds like the perfect antidote to her crazed life.

At work in New York, she’s supposed to be the face of Having It All. But About the author the only thing Angela feels she excels at is hiding in the printer cupboard, eating Mini Cheddars and watching Netflix on her phone and if this is Lindsey Kelk is an author, living the dream, she's more than ready to wake up. journalist and prolific tweeter. Previously a children’s book editor A few days away with Jenny sounds like exactly what she needs but and columnist for Marie Claire, Angela’s talent for getting into a scrape guarantees nothing goes to plan – Lindsey is now a full-time writer and not even the most beautiful beaches, blue skies and daiquiris will get and lives in Los Angeles. She is her off the hook. published in 22 countries and her Praise for Lindsey Kelk: novels, include the ‘I Heart’ series, the Tess Brookes About a Girl ‘A perfect mix of my two favourite things – Lindsey's writing and social series and standalones. media… I LOVE IT!’ Louise Pentland ‘The perfect fix for lovers of romantic comedy’ RED ‘Beautiful, funny, warm and gorgeous’ Lucy Vine ‘Witty, funny, warm and wise’ Marian Keyes Rights sold ‘Hilarious, sexy, pacy… a smart, laugh-out-loud triumph. Just brilliant!’ HEAT Previous rights sold in 22 ‘Lindsey is the queen of cracking one-liners … hilarious and energetic’ territories. Details available on Alex Brown request. ‘Outrageous, witty, exciting and romantic’ Closer ‘Kelk has a hilarious turn of phrase and a sparkling writing style’ Daily Express

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 61 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME

THE QUEEN OF ROM COMS!

Mhairi McFarlane

The queen of Rom Com is back with her funniest, sharpest and most emotional novel to date

Mhairi has now sold over 1m copies across her four titles in the UK and US, plus sold in 24 international territories and sales of nearly 1m copies in Germany alone 7 Mar 2019 £7.99 For fans of Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella, Paige Toon and Giovanna Fletcher 198x129 Paperback 432pp ’I loved it! So funny and warm. A delicious read’ Marian Keyes

You always remember your first love. Don’t you…? It began with four words. ‘I love your laugh. x’ About the author But that was twelve years ago. It really began the day Georgina was fired Sunday Times bestselling author from The Worst Restaurant in Sheffield (© Tripadvisor) and found The Mhairi McFarlane was born in Worst Boyfriend in the World (© Georgina’s best friends) in bed with Scotland. After some efforts at someone else. journalism, she started writing novels and her first book, You Had So when her new boss, Lucas McCarthy, turns out to be the boy who Me At Hello, was an instant wrote those words to her all that time ago, it feels like the start of success. She’s now written 6 something. books and she lives in The only problem? He doesn’t seem to remember Georgina – at all… Nottingham.

Praise for Mhairi McFarlane: ‘I loved it! So funny and warm – a delicious read’ Marian Keyes ‘Wildly funny and wildly romantic… Another wonderful novel from an author at the top of her game’ Louise O’Neill Rights sold

‘Beautiful, funny and heartbreaking’ Giovanna Fletcher HarperCollins (Danish, Dutch, ‘Funny and heartfelt, full of humour and wisdom, I absolutely loved it’ Finnish, French, Italian, Swedish), Katie Fforde Droemer Knaur (German), Cappelen Damm (Norwegian) ‘The perfect mix of comedy, whip smart dialogue and all the feels’ Fabulous

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 62 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 WHAT HAPPENS NOW PREVIOUS COVER

Sophia Money-Coutts

Sophia worked as Features Director at Tatler for five years. She writes a weekly column called ‘Modern Manners’ for the Sunday Telegraph She also writes for other national and international publications including the Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, the Evening Standard, the 8 Aug 2019 New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Grazia, Glamour and Marie Claire. £12.99 234x153 Perfect for readers looking for the next Bridget Jones or Jilly Cooper, with a dash of Bryony Gordon Hardback 384pp

‘I was pregnant with the baby of a man I had met once. About the author

What was one normally left with after a first date? A bad case of thrush?’ Sophia Money-Coutts is a 32-year- After eight years together, Lil Bailey thought she’d already found ‘the old journalist who spent five years one’ – that is, until he dumped her for a blonde twenty-something studying the British aristocracy colleague. So she does what any self-respecting singleton would do: while working as Features swipes right, puts on her best bra and finds herself on a first date with a Director at Tatler. Prior to that handsome mountaineer called Max. What’s the worst that can happen? she worked as a writer and an editor for the Evening Standard Well it’s pretty bad actually. First Max ghosts her and then, after weeing and the Daily Mail in London, and on a stick (but mostly her hands), a few weeks later Lil discovers she’s the National in Abu Dhabi. pregnant. She’s single, thirty-one and living in a thimble-sized flat in London, it’s hardly the happily-ever-after she was looking for. Lil’s ready to do the baby-thing on her own – it can’t be that hard, right? But she should probably tell Max, if she can track him down. Surely he’s not that Max, the highly eligible, headline-grabbing son of Lord and Lady Rushbrooke, currently trekking up a mountain in South Asia? Oh, maybe he wasn’t ignoring Lil after all… Rights sold

Praise for The Plus One: Previous rights sold to: ‘So funny. And the sex is amazing – makes me feel like a nun!’ Jilly HarperCollins (Brazilian Cooper Portuguese), Albatros (Czech), J’ai Lu (French), Penguin (Germany), ‘Light, fizzy and as snort-inducing as a pint of Prosecco.’ Evening Standard Ikar (Slovak) Magazine ‘Hilarious and compelling.’ Daily Mail

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 63 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 RACHEL’S PUDDING PANTRY

STEP INSIDE RACHEL'S FARMHOUSE PUDDING PANTRY, A PLACE WHERE LOVE, LAUGHTER AND SCRUMPTIOUS BAKES BRING EVERYONE TOGETHER.

Caroline Roberts

A warm, cosy romance that marks a gorgeous new series from the Kindle bestselling author – the Pudding Pantry novels 18 Apr 2019 Caroline’s bestselling Cosy books have been terrifically successful, £7.99 selling 65K PBs and over 100K ebooks in the UK 198x129 Paperback 400pp

Primrose Farm is Rachel’s very own slice of heaven. Come rain or shine there’s always a pot of tea brewing by the Aga, the delicious aroma of freshly baked puddings, and a chorus of happy memories drifting through the kitchen. About the author

Caroline Roberts lives in the But the farm is in a spot of trouble. As the daffodils spring, Rachel must wonderful Northumberland plant the seeds of change if she wants to keep the farm afloat, and it’s all countryside with her husband and resting on a crazy plan. She’ll need one family cook book, her Mum Jill’s credits the sandy beaches, castles baking magic – and a reason to avoid her distractingly gorgeous and rolling hills around her as neighbour, Tom. inspiration for her writing. She enjoys writing about relationships; Swapping their wellies for aprons, can Rachel and Jill bake their way into stories of love, loss and family, a brighter future? The proof will be in the pudding! which explore how beautiful and sometimes complex love can be. A slice of cake, glass of bubbly and a cup of tea would make her day – Reviews: preferably served with friends! She ‘A delightful, life affirming story. I wanted to retreat to a cottage by the believes in striving for your sea after the first chapter!’ Ali McNamara dreams, which led her to a publishing deal after many years of writing. ‘Such a wonderful book, heart-wrenching and uplifting and joyful! Cressida McLaughlin

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 64 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 FLOUNDER

Hannah Sunderland

Ideal for fans of Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and The Year I Met You by Cecelia Ahern. 28 May 2020

Meet Effie, a cantankerous young woman with a sideways perspective on About the author life. Effie, like many twenty-somethings, feels as though she is failing at life. She doesn’t have the London apartment, handsome fiancé, or high-flying Debut author, Hannah Sunderland job. What she does have is a bed at her parents’ house, a part-time job in was born and bred in Sutton a bookshop, a potential drinking problem and a dry sense of humour. Coldfield, north of Birmingham. Hannah inherited the writing gene Effie has little going for her, until she meets charming and sprightly Theo, and unquenchable thirst for her polar-opposite. Their relationship begins on shaky ground when reading from her father. She has Theo bears witness to Effie’s excruciating Tinder date with someone who an obsessional love of stationary crushes her last ounce of confidence. But Theo sees something that the and the writing bug set in when Tinder date didn’t. Despite Effie’s resistance, she falls hard for Theo. someone handed her a notebook But Theo cuts her off – he’s hiding a secret that Effie isn’t allowed to and she realised that she could know. Will Effie learn to love life, and herself, even after Theo is gone? create a world within it. She is an ambassador for the charity Mast Cell Action, raising money through sponsored events and working with the charity to raise awareness of the illness.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 65 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 OUR STOP

Laura Jane Williams

Urban feel-good romance for fans of Holly Bourne and Dolly Alderton

Younger, fresh voice that will connect with a more millennial market 27 Jun 2019 Sold at auction in Germany within 48 hours of submission £7.99 198x129 Laura Jane Williams is known for her touching insight, outrageous Paperback wit, and charismatic truth-talking, with a focus on female 400pp empowerment and connection

Nadia Fielding gets the 7.30am tube from Clapham Common station every morning without fail. Well, except on the days she oversleeps/wakes up at her friend Lucy’s house after too much wine/spills About the author coffee on her dress and has to get changed three times before work, that is. Laura is an author, social media influencer and Red and Grazia Daniel Knights really does get the 7.30am tube without fail every columnist. She has previously morning, but getting up early has never been a problem for him, because written two non-fiction books for he hasn’t been able to sleep properly since his Dad died last summer. But Hodder. This is her first novel. he doesn’t want to think about that. She also runs a popular blog, One morning, Nadia is reading the Metro, pretending to look at the www.superlativelyrude.com. news, when her eye catches sight of the “Rush Hour Crush section”, and one post in particular: To the cute blonde girl with the coffee stains on her dress. I’m the guy who’s always standing near the doors of your carriage, hoping today’s a day you haven’t overslept. Drink sometime? So begins a not-quite-romance of near-misses, post-it notes and the power of the written word. Rights sold

Review: Droemer (German), AST (Russian) ‘A cult hit’ Grazia ‘If you’ve ever felt a little lost, I hope this book finds its way to you’ Daisy Buchanan ‘LJ’s honesty and voice are unique in a crowded market’ Stylist

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 66 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 TOLKIEN & FANTASTIC BEASTS Movie-Making News: The Stories Behind the Magic

Inspired by the very newspapers seen in the Fantastic Beasts films, the Wizarding World News reveals previously untold behind-the-scenes stories from the first film and offers a sneak-peek at what’s to come in the exciting next instalment. PB | Trim: 9 1/4 x 11” Page count: 80 pp On sale: October 2nd 2018

The Archive of Magic: the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Go behind the scenes of J. K. Rowling’s magical universe of creatures and wizards in this exciting full-colour companion volume to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. HC | Trim: 9 1/4 x 11” Page count: 160 pp On sale: November 16th 2018

The Art of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Step inside the world of the talented art departments who, led by Academy Award®-winning production designer Stuart Craig, were responsible for the creation of the unforgettable characters, locations, and beasts from the eagerly anticipated next chapter in the Wizarding World. HC | Trim: 11 4/5 x 10 9/10” Page count: 256 pp On sale: November 16th 2018

Lights, Camera, Magic!: The Making of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald

Return to the Wizarding World and discover how director David Yates and producer David Heyman brought the thrilling next chapter of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts story to the big screen. HC | Trim: 9 1/4 x 11” Page count: 160 pp On sale: November 16th 2018

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: Magical Adventures Colouring Book

From MACUSA in New York to London and on to Paris, follow Newt Scamander, Tina, Queenie & Jacob as they face off against the dark ambitions of the wizard Grindelwald in this third official tie-in colouring book showcasing the most iconic scenes from J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald —accompanied by memorable quotes from the film. PB | Trim: 8 1/2 x 10 3/4” Page count: 80 pp On sale: November 16th 2018 MIDDLE-EARTH: FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN BUILDING THE WORLD OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND THE HOBBIT

Daniel Falconer

For the first time ever, the epic, in-depth story of the creation of one of the most famous fantasy worlds ever imagined, a richly illustrated compendium that reveals the breath-taking craftsmanship, artistry, and technology behind the magical Middle-earth of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit motion picture trilogies, directed by Peter Jackson. Middle-earth: From Script to Screen tells the complete story of how J.R.R. 19 Oct 2017 Tolkien’s magic world was brought to vivid life on the big screen in the £60.00 record-breaking film trilogies The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy 305x250 and The Hobbit motion picture trilogy. Drawing on resources, stories, and Hardback content from the archives of the companies and individuals behind the 512pp, films, much of which have never appeared in print before, as well as 300 col illus, 999 col plates interviews with director Peter Jackson and key members of the Art Department, Shooting Crews, Park Road Post, and Weta Digital teams who share their personal insights on the creative process, this astonishing resource reveals: How the worlds were built, brick by brick and pixel by pixel; How environments were extended digitally or imagined entirely as computer generated spaces; How the multiple shooting units functioned; How cast members and characters interacted with their environments. About the author Daniel Falconer takes fans from storyboard concepts to deep into the Weta Workshop is a multi-award post-production process where the films were edited, graded, and winning conceptual design and scored, explaining in depth how each enhanced the films. He also physical manufacturing facility discusses how the processes involved in establishing Middle-earth for the servicing entertainment and creative screen have evolved over the fifteen years between the start and finish of industries around the globe. It the trilogies. Going region by region and culture by culture in this fantasy houses a range of disciplines under realm, The Making of Middle-earth describes how each area created for one roof – including conceptual the films was defined, what made it unique, and what role it played in the design, weapons, armour & stories. chainmaille, specialist props, vehicles, specialty costumes, models Illustrated with final film imagery, behind-the-scenes pictures and & miniatures, special makeup & conceptual artwork, including places not seen in the final films, this prosthetics, public art & displays. monumental compilation offers unique and far-reaching insights into the Daniel Falconer has been a designer creation of the world we know and love as Middle-earth. at Weta Workshop for more than 15 years. Rights sold

Huginn & Muninn (French), HarperCollins (US English)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 69 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR

A BIOGRAPHY EXPLORING J.R.R. TOLKIEN’S WARTIME EXPERIENCES AND THEIR IMPACT ON HIS LIFE AND HIS WRITING OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS

John Garth

The first time Tolkien’s formative years have been put under the spotlight

Much original research – most of this book reveals facts about Tolkien never before published 5 Jul 2004 The author, John Garth, was granted exclusive access to Tolkien £9.99 family papers 198x129 Paperback 416pp Shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Society’s 2004 Scholarship Award 2 b/w illus, 11 b/w plates

‘To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in About the author 1939 … by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.’ John Garth is a Tolkien expert, So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The Lord of the Rings as a widely acknowledged as the reaction to the Second World War. Tolkien and the Great War tells for authority on Tolkien’s wartime the first time the full story of how he embarked on the creation of experiences, having appeared on Middle-earth in his youth as the world around him was plunged into The South Bank Show and other catastrophe. This biography reveals the horror and heroism that he documentaries about Tolkien. He experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of the Somme and studied English at Oxford introduces the circle of friends who spurred his mythology to life. It University and spent five years shows how, after two of these brilliant young men were killed, Tolkien researching and writing this book. pursued the dream they had all shared by launching his epic of good and He works as a newspaper evil. journalist in London. John Garth argues that the foundation of tragic experience in the First World War is the key to Middle-earth’s enduring power. Tolkien used his mythic imagination not to escape from reality but to reflect and transform the cataclysm of his generation. While his contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. Rights sold This biography is meticulously researched and distilled from his personal Wenhui Press (Chinese Simple) wartime papers and a multitude of other sources. Bourgois (French), Klett Cotta (German), Casa Editirice Marietti (Italian), HarperCollins (Portuguese – Brazil) Minotauro (Spanish), Houghton Mifflin (US English)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 70 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 A MIDDLE-EARTH TRAVELLER

SKETCHES FROM BAG END TO MORDOR

John Howe

Fully illustrated art book by one of the greatest ever Tolkien artists 4 Oct 2018 £20.00 Packed with previously unseen art and unique insider anecdotes 246x189 from a man who was at the heart of Peter Jackson’s film adaptations Hardback 176pp 120 b/w, 20 col illus

Let acclaimed Tolkien artist John Howe take you on an unforgettable About the author journey across Middle-earth, from Bag End to Mordor, in this richly illustrated sketchbook full of previously unseen artwork, anecdotes and Vancouver-born John Howe moved meditations on Middle-earth. to France in 1976 when he was 19. There, he obtained a Diploma in Middle-earth has been mapped, Bilbo’s and Frodo’s journeys plotted and Illustration at the Ecole des Arts measured, but Middle-earth remains a wilderland for all that. The roads Décoratifs de Strasbourg in 1981. as yet untraveled far outnumber those down which Tolkien had time to He has illustrated many French wander. children’s books, but is best known for his Tolkien calendars, book A Middle-earth Traveller presents a walking tour of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, jackets, maps and posters. In 1998 visiting not only places central to his stories, but also those just over the he spent over a year in New hill or beyond the horizon. Events from Tolkien’s books are explored – Zealand working as Conceptual battles of the different ages that are almost part of legend by the time of Artist on Peter Jackson’s acclaimed The Lord of the Rings; lost kingdoms and ancient myths, as well as those The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. places only hinted at: kingdoms of the far North and lands beyond the In 2009 he returned to New seas. Zealand to work on the The Hobbit Sketches that have an ‘on-the-spot’ feel to them are interwoven with the movie trilogy. artist’s observations gleaned from Tolkien’s books and recollections of Rights sold his time spent in Middle-earth while working alongside Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies. Combining concept work Century Horizon (Chinese produced for films, existing Middle-earth art and many new paintings and Simplified), Klett Cotta (German), sketches exclusive to this book, A Middle-earth Traveller will take the Bompiani (Italian), Minotauro reader on a unique and unforgettable journey across Tolkien’s magical (Spanish) Houghton Mifflin (US landscape. English)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 71 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE HOBBIT SKETCHBOOK

Alan Lee

The Hobbit is one of the all-time classic children’s books, selling 100 million copies world-wide

Includes dozens of brand-new works of art 19 Sep 2019 Provides a lavishly illustrated and fascinating overview of the project £20.00 of illustrating The Hobbit – sure to be of interest to the generations 246x189 of readers.who have grown up with his art Hardback Alan Lee worked as Conceptual Artist on the multi-billion-dollar- 168pp grossing LOTR and Hobbit film adaptations 100 b/w & 40 col illus

This richly illustrated book celebrates in words and pictures the beautiful About the author work that award-winning artist Alan Lee produced for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and includes dozens of brand-new paintings and pencil Alan Lee was born in Middlesex in drawings exploring the world of Bilbo Baggins. 1947. His illustrated books include Faeries (with Brian Froud), Castles Since The Hobbit was first published in 1937, generations of readers have and Merlin Dreams, and the three fallen under its spell. That magic was reignited sixty years later, when ‘Great Tales’ of Middle-earth: The Alan Lee was commissioned to produce a special illustrated edition, and Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, his delicate pencil drawings and beautiful watercolour paintings have and The Fall of Gondolin. He has become for many the definitive vision of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. worked on such prestigious films In this sumptuous, large-format hardback Alan Lee reveals in pictures and as Erik the Viking (Terry Gilliam), in words how he created these images, which would prove so powerful, Legend (Ridley Scott), and the matching perfectly with Tolkien’s own vision, that they would eventually acclaimed NBC miniseries Merlin. define the look of Peter Jackson’s film adaptations and earn Alan a He is best known, however, for coveted Academy Award. his work on the books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and now The Hobbit Sketchbook is filled with more than 100 of his sketches and the film versions. early conceptual pieces that reveal how the project progressed from idea to finished art. It also contains a wealth of brand-new full-colour paintings Rights sold and sketches drawn specially for this book, which unlock the secrets of how Alan creates his own magic and provide a fascinating insight into the The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook imagination of the man who breathed new life into Tolkien’s vision. sold in 8 languages. Details available upon request.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 72 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 TOLKIEN CALENDAR 2020

Alan Lee

The only official Tolkien calendar

Contains material exclusive to this calendar 29 Aug 2019 £9.99 302x305 ‘Alan Lee’s artwork has a beauty and lyricism about it. His art Calendar captured what I hoped to capture with the films.’ Peter Jackson 32pp 20 b/w, 12 col illus

The official Tolkien calendar, this year containing the finest watercolours About the author by Alan Lee selected from his brand-new Hobbit Sketchbook, and accompanied by numerous pencil drawings, many unique to this calendar. Alan Lee is the creator of the highly successful illustrated edition The Tolkien Calendar has become an established publishing event, eagerly of The Lord of the Rings, and looked forward to by Tolkien fans the world over. This year's is more winner of the 1994 Kate sumptuous than ever, and is not only illustrated by the acclaimed and Greenaway Medal for Children’s Oscar-winning Tolkien artist, it has been designed by him, too, with the Book Illustration. He won an same care and attention to detail that has seen his work embraced by the Oscar for his work on Peter Tolkien Estate, Peter Jackson and discerning fans around the world. Jackson’s Return of the King. His Alan Lee has depicted famous scenes including Gollum and Bilbo, Bag End most recent work, The Hobbit and Smaug the Dragon in his celebrated illustrated editions of The Hobbit, Sketchbook, is a sumptuous but with these brand new paintings and drawings inspired by this beloved portfolio collection of conceptual children’s classic he will take the reader deeper into the enchanting designs produced for both world of Middle-earth than ever before. Tolkien’s books and Peter Jackson’s movies, together with To accompany each watercolour painting, every month features many new sketches drawn complementary pencil drawings selected by Alan and there are also specially for this book. brand new sketches produced exclusively for this official calendar.

Previous rights sold to: Planeta (Spanish), HarperCollins (US English)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 73 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE FALL OF GONDOLIN

J. R. R. Tolkien, Illustrated by Alan Lee, Edited by Christopher Tolkien

Completes the ‘trilogy’ of standalone Middle-earth books by J.R.R. Tolkien begun with The Children of Húrin and Beren and Lúthien 30 Aug 2018 The Children of Húrin was an international #1 bestseller, selling over 500,000 copies in English £20.00 222x143 Includes colour paintings and pencil drawings by Alan Lee (Oscar® - Hardback winning designer of the billion-dollar-grossing The Lord of the Rings 304pp and Hobbit film trilogies) 12 b/w illus, 8 col plates In the tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar. Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves About the author who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by is best known for writing The Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in The Silmarillion, plus other stories support of Ulmo's desires and designs. Into this world comes Tuor, and essays. His books have been cousin of Túrin, the instrument of Ulmo's designs. translated into over 60 languages Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the and have sold many millions of fearful journey to Gondolin, and in one of the most arresting moments in copies worldwide. the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the midst of a storm. In Gondolin he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon's daughter, and their son is Eärendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo. At last comes the terrible ending. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs. After a minutely Rights sold observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of Tuor and Idril, with the child Eärendel, looking back from a cleft in the Rights sold in 20 languages. mountains as they flee southward, at the blazing wreckage of their city. Details available upon request. They were journeying into a new story, the Tale of Eärendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources. In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, this was ‘the first real story of this imaginary world’ and, together with Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin, he regarded it as one of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 74 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 SAGA THE HIDDEN WOMEN

Kerry Barrett

The next book from the bestselling author of The Girl in the Picture, which has sold over 80K copies in the UK and US

An inspirational tale of sisterhood and strength, perfect for fans of Tracy Rees and Kathryn Hughes 14 Jan 2019 £2.99 E-book A timeslip novel set between 1944 and 2018 384pp

Berkshire, 1944 About the author

When Will Bates offers to take ATA pilot Lilian Miles to the dance, he Kerry Barrett was a bookworm sends her heart into a flutter. But as their relationship progresses, Lilian from a very early age and did a can’t help but get cold feet. Deep down she’s always known that the degree in English Literature, then secrets locked in her past would weigh heavily on her future happiness. trained as a journalist, writing London, 2018 about everything from pub grub to EastEnders. Her first novel, Helena Miles loves nothing more than digging into the back stories of Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, celebrity families, making her perfectly suited for her job as a researcher took six years to finish and was on the hit show Where Did You Come From? But when handsome mostly written in longhand on her superstar Jack Jones sweeps into her life, she unexpectedly finds herself commute to work, giving her a trawling through her own family history. very good reason to buy beautiful notebooks. Kerry lives in London As she explores her family’s past, she discovers that there are far more with her husband and two sons, secrets hidden there than she ever expected. What really happened to and Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes her aunt Lilian during the war, and why can’t she open up about it now? is still her favourite novel.

Readers love Kerry Barrett: ‘I'd highly recommend this: detective fiction, historical fiction, powerful, moving, thrilling, sometimes comic, always very human’ ‘A beautiful story which kept me hooked’ ‘Will definitely read more from this author’

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 76 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE RAGGED ORPHAN’S TALE

Rosie Darling

London,1820s: little orphan Maisie has no idea who her parents are. She was left one night on the steps of a workhouse, wrapped only in a blanket. Now eight years old, Maisie is apprenticed from the workhouse to become a mudlark. She will search in the mud on the banks of the Thames, looking for valuables. There she meets Arthur, who works as a tosher searching for valuables in the sewers. Together, the two of them plan to run away from their hard life to the country. But when Arthur is tragically drowned in the Thames, Maisie must flee alone. Dec 19 After working as a maidservant in a wealthy household, Maisie eventually meets and marries Jasper, a local businessman and a secret resurrectionist. But the practice of resurrectionism is outlawed, and Jasper is captured and hanged for his crimes. Widowed, desperate and with child, Maisie is utterly alone. She wraps her child in a bundle and prepares to leave her on the workhouse steps. Will Maisie abandon her child to the same fate that she herself suffered? About the author Or will the unexpected appearance of her childhood sweetheart save her from destitution? Rosie Darling’s passion for Victorian romance began as a young child, and developed as a teenager through a love of Dickens. Rosie is the author of four self-published novels, all of which have been Amazon bestsellers: The Beggar Sisters; The Pickpocket Girl, The Christmas Orphan and The Workhouse Daughter. fb.me/rosiedarlingauthor

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 77 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 FLIGHT GIRL

Molly Green

The first in a brand new trilogy from Molly Green

Each book will focus on one Linfoot sister: Lorraine, Suzanne and Véronique 28 Nov 2019 £7.99 This first novel focuses on Lorraine, who joins the ATA (Air 198x129 Transport Auxiliary) aged 17 Paperback 400pp

Each book will tells the story of a different sister, and the roles they each played throughout the course of World War II (fighter pilot, jazz singer, canal girl). About the author The overriding theme is that all three sisters have a close relationship with one another as they face difficulties working in a man’s world, and Molly Green is a seasoned author try to conquer such prejudice. of fiction and non-fiction. She has sold lipstick in a Denver store, modelled in Atlanta, assisted the Praise for Molly Green: UN Narcotics Director in Geneva, chauffeured a Swiss 'A moving, gripping story set during World War II, of a woman's Gnome in Zurich, assisted a dedication to the orphans in her care and her heart wrenching love for a famous film producer in the UK, RAF pilot’ Kitty Neale and cooked in a sanatorium in Germany. She now lives in Kent. ‘Redolent of wartime Britain and brimming with heartfelt stories from several characters, Molly Green's sure-footed novel shows just how challenging it was to find love and a place to call home in the dark days of the war’ Terri Fleming

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Previous rights sold to Weltbild (German)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 78 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 WARTIME FOR THE DISTRICT NURSES

Annie Groves

Annie taps into the ongoing nostalgia for the Second World War and the heroic women who kept calm and carried on 4 Apr 2019 £7.99 Annie Groves is a Top 20 Sunday Times bestselling author 198x129 Paperback 416pp Alice Lake and her friend Edith have had everything thrown at them in their first year as district nurses in London’s East End. From babies born out of wedlock to battered wives, they’ve had plenty to keep them occupied. As rationing takes hold and Hitler’s bombers train their sights on About the author London, there is no escaping the reality of being at war. Edith is trying to battle on bravely while bearing her own heartache but there’s no Annie Groves was the creation of escaping the new terror of the bombing raids. The girls find themselves the much-loved writer, Penny caught up in the terrible aftermath, their nursing skills desperately needed Halsall, who died in 2011. Penny by the shaken locals on their rounds. was born and lived in the north- west of England all of her life and With the men away fighting for King and country, it’s up to the nurses to the Annie Groves novels drew on keep up the Spirit of the Blitz, and everyone is counting on them. her family’s history, picked up from listening to her grandmother’s stories as a child. Praise for Annie Groves: Penny’s legacy of heart-warming and uplifting novels lives on ‘An engrossing story’ My Weekly through writer Jenny Shaw; who ‘A stirring and heartrending family saga…Against a backdrop of change knew Penny personally for many when the suffragette movement was coming to the fore, the choices and years. dreams of a generation of women combine to create this passionate story’ Liverpool Daily Post ‘Heartwrenching and uplifting in equal measure – a tragic indictment of what can happen when you swap passion for duty. Roll on the sequel!’ Take a Break ‘Written from the heart’ My Weekly

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 79 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 A FAMILY’S HEARTBREAK

Kitty Neale

Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, viewers of EastEnders and Coronation Street as well as traditional readers of this genre 22 Aug 2019 One of Avon’s key performers and one of the UK’s best-loved saga £7.99 authors, with over 1m copies sold to date 198x129 Paperback 400pp

All they ever wanted was somewhere to call home: About the author

Beaten Kitty Neale was raised in South When Jenny’s mother abandons her and her younger siblings, Jenny is left London and this working class at the mercy of her abusive father Henry. And when Henry beats his area became the inspiration for eldest daughter so badly that she ends up in the hospital, it seems like her novels. In the 1980s she there’s nowhere left for them all to go. moved to Surrey with her husband and two children, but in Broken 1998 there was a catalyst in her life when her son died, aged just But factory worker Craig has fallen head over heels for Jenny, and he 27. After joining other bereaved offers her a place to stay. Happy at last, Jenny begins a new life with him, parents in a support group, Kitty but when tragedy strikes, she’s left to pick up the pieces of both her was inspired to take up writing broken home – and her broken heart. and her books have been Sunday Bereft Times bestsellers. Kitty now lives in Spain with her husband. Desperately trying to make ends meet, Jenny is alone and working round the clock. Will she ever be able to give her siblings the happy home they deserve? Or is the worst yet to come?

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 80 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE BAREFOOT CHILD

THE CHILDREN OF THE WORKHOUSE SERIES

Cathy Sharp

Cathy Sharp’s debut The Orphans of Halfpenny Street reached #15 on the paperback bestseller list

For fans of Maggie Hope, Sheila Newberry, Diney Costeloe and Linda Finlay 16 May 2019 £7.99 Cathy writes two books a year and her novels have won her Paperback numerous five-star reviews and legions of fans 400pp

When Lucy and her brother, Joshua, are orphaned, it falls to Joshua to About the author provide for them both, but he is barely into his teens and in his naivety, falls prey to bad influences and drink. Lucy is desperate to avoid the Cathy Sharp is happily married and workhouse, but when Joshua loses their meagre savings they are thrown lives with her husband in a small out onto the street and, in dire poverty, it isn’t long before Lucy finds Cambridgeshire village. They like herself at its gates – almost a fate worse than death. visiting Spain together and enjoy the benefits of sunshine and Inside the workhouse, Lucy meets with unkindness and cruelty and she pleasant walks, while at home they knows she must dig deep within herself if she is to survive, let alone love their garden and visiting the thrive. What Lucy needs is a friend and she is surprised to find one in the Norfolk seaside. most unlikely place.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 81 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 DIGITAL FIRST FEEL GOOD THE SECOND LIFE OF NATHAN JONES

David Atkinson

From the bestselling author of Love Byte

2 Aug 2019 Getting hit by a bus was the best thing that ever happened to him! E-book 400pp

When one wrong step – and the poor timing of the number 19 bus – send Nathan Jones to the Edinburgh morgue his story should have ended…but then he went and woke up. Returned to real life Nathan finds a wife disappointed that he’s About the author miraculously returned from the dead and an unshakeable ache for beautiful mortuary technician Kat – the woman who brought him back to David Atkinson is an Edinburgh- life, in more ways than one. based writer. His first romantic comedy Love Byte, published by Now, as his world implodes and Kat leads him down an unexpected path, Buried River Press, was shortlisted Nathan somehow finds himself having the time of his second life. for the Romantic Novelists’ Association award in 2015.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 83 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 FOXGLOVE FARM

Christie Barlow

‘Full of warmth, fun and feel-good factor’ Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde

‘Christie Barlow is one of the best writers in this genre’ Lorraine Rugman, The Book Review Café 28 Jun 2019 ‘Christie is an immensely talented author with the ability to spin E-book words into heart-warming comedy gold’ Caroline Mitchell, #1 400pp bestselling author

Spring has arrived in the small Scottish village of Heartcross and the trees About the author that adorn the pavement along Love Heart Lane are cloaked in blush pink blossom that scatters like confetti. Christie Barlow is the author of several books including The Cosy For Rona and her daughter Felicity though, beavering away in the kitchen Canal Boat Dream. She is an of Bonnie’s Teashop, this is just the start of a new adventure and there’s ambassador for @ZuriProject no way they can predict what will happen next… raising money and awareness and engaging with communities in Escape to Foxglove Farm for this year’s most heart-warming, feel-good Uganda through organisations to comfort read. improve their well-being. She is also Literary Editor for www.mamalifemagazine.co.uk. www.christiebarlow.com Twitter @ChristieJBarlow Facebook page: Christie Barlow author.

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 84 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 SPRING SKIES OVER BLUEBELL CASTLE

Sarah Bennett

This is the first book in a new series by Sarah Bennett

She has sold 100K copies across formats for her Butterfly Cove and Lavender Bay series

Sarah reached #2 in both the Audible and iBooks chart 1 Apr 2019 E-book 384pp Perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley, Rachael Lucas and Hilary Boyd

When Lucie Kennington flees the bright lights of London for the quiet About the author Derbyshire countryside, she’s shocked to discover that the heir to the Bluebell Castle estate is far from the wizened employer she expected. Sarah Bennett has been reading for as long as she can remember. In fact, Arthur Ludworth might just be the most handsome man Lucie’s Raised in a family of bookworms, ever laid eyes on – and a terrible distraction! So when she stumbles her love affair with books of all across a legendary painting feared lost for centuries, she can’t believe her genres has culminated in the luck – perhaps this is the hidden treasure to save Arthur and his family ultimate Happy Ever After – from ruin? getting to write her own stories But it’s only a matter of time before Lucie’s past catches up with her and to share with others. by then it’s too late, she’s falling for him. Twitter @Sarahlou_writes www.facebook.com/SarahBennett Author

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 85 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE JASMINE WIFE

Jane Coverdale

A sweeping epic romance set in the British Raj

19 Jul 2019 For fans of Dinah Jefferies and Lucinda Riley E-book 400pp

At midnight where the jasmine blooms, a woman waits for her lover… Sarah Shaw’s future as the dutiful wife of a British official in India seems assured, until a chance meeting with the gorgeous and powerful Ravi Sabran changes everything. About the author

Under the heat of the Indian sun, the veneer of polite society wears off Jane Coverdale worked as a scenic quickly and soon Sarah realises that nothing is as it appears to be, artist in theatre, television and especially her husband Charles. film, and as Art Director and But in the beautiful jasmine gardens of the Maharajah’s palace, Sarah graphic artist on television follows a forbidden path… away from her bullying husband, towards Ravi commercials, music videos and and the long-buried secrets of her own birth. series TV drama in her home country of Australia. Her feature film script is currently in development and has been shortlisted for funding by Screen NSW. The Jasmine Wife is Jane’s first historical novel and was influenced by her time living in Chennai, working with renowned Indian director and actor Kamal Hussain.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 86 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE WEDDING PLANNER

Eve Devon

‘A truly enchanting read’ Books of All Kinds

A charming feel good romance perfect for fans of Katie Fforde and 3 May 2019 Sarah Morgan E-book 400pp

Single mum Gloria Pavey has a bad habit of saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time. Determined to make a positive change she can’t say no when her best friend, Emma, asks her to take on the role of her wedding planner. The only problem? Gloria’s co-planner – best man Seth Knightley. About the author Gloria is on a self-imposed man ban but pulling together the most Growing up in locations like beautiful wedding Whispers Wood has ever seen alongside gorgeous Botswana gave Eve a taste for Seth is pushing her to her limits. As every interaction increases the adventure. When she wasn't tension between them Gloria finds herself wondering…could the happy consuming books she could be ever after she never thought she’d have be in her future after all? found pretending to be a damsel in distress or running around solving mysteries and writing down her adventures. As a teenager, she wrote countless episodes of TV detective dramas so the hero and heroine would end up together every week. As an adult she worked as a librarian before deciding she needed to write contemporary romance herself.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 87 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 SUMMER UNDER THE STARS

Catherine Ferguson

Catherine’s first two novels both hit the e-book bestseller charts, selling 30K copies apiece. Secrets at Ivy Garden reached #22 in the Kindle charts

For fans of Jenny Colgan and Lucy Diamond 16 May 2019 E-book 400pp

When Roxy proposes to her boyfriend Jackson in a moment of madness on live TV, she’s mortified when he rejects her. To escape the embarrassment, she takes a job working as baking assistant at the idyllic Log Fire Cabin. Roxy hopes the new job will take her mind off Jackson, because to her eternal annoyance, she hasn’t been able to stop thinking About the author about him. Catherine Ferguson burst onto But when Jackson turns up at the cabin unexpectedly, things begin to go the writing scene at the age of wrong. Can Roxy heal her own heart this Christmas? Or is someone nine, anonymously penning a waiting in the wings to help her? weekly magazine for her five-year- old brother (mysteriously titled the ‘Willy’ comic). Catherine’s Reviews: continuing love of writing saw her spend her twenties writing for ‘Gorgeously written, heart-warming and with characters so vividly various teenage magazines realised that you just want to hang out with them on a Saturday night. including Jackie and Blue Jeans She’s already a hugely popular author but this, mark my words, is the before getting serious and book that will make Catherine Ferguson go stratospheric.' Claudia becoming a sub-editor on the Carroll Dundee Courier and Dundee Advertiser.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 88 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE LAST LETTER FROM JULIET

Melanie Hudson

Me Before You meets The English Patient in this stunning romantic novel from award-winning author Melanie Hudson.

Her debut, The Wedding Cake Tree, won the Romantic Novelists’ 13 Sep 2019 Association Contemporary Romance Novel of the Year 2016 E-book 400pp

This is a note to yourself, Juliet. At the time of writing you are ninety-two years old and worried that bits and bobs of your story have begun to go astray. You must read this note carefully every day and work very hard to keep yourself and the About the author memories alive, because once upon a time you told a man called Edward Nancarrow that you would, and it’s important to keep that promise, Melanie Hudson was born in Juliet, even when there seems to be little point going on. Yorkshire in 1971. After running away to join the British armed forces in 1994, Melanie Readers adore Dear Rosie Hughes… experienced a career that took her around the world on some ‘This book is going to be spoken about everywhere…I really really loved exciting adventures. In 2010, when it’ Karen Whittard, Reviewer she returned to civilian life to look after her young son, on a whim, ‘I loved this story of friendship…emotional and memorable’ Jessica she moved to Dubai where she Bryson, Reviewer found the time to write women's ‘Definitely a book I would read over and over again…Highly recommend’ fiction. She now lives in Cornwall 5 stars, Ginger Book Geek Blog with her family. ‘You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, but most of all it will make you treasure the friends you have as who knows what each day may bring’ Book Lovers Anonymous

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 89 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE UNEXPECTED LIFE OF MAISIE PREVIOUS COVER MEADOWS

Jenni Keer

A feel-good, heart-warming story of community, friendship across generations and romance blossoming

Perfect for fans of Ruth Hogan and Gail Honeyman 8 Jul 2019 E-book 400pp

When Maisie Meadows finds herself single and jobless on New Year’s About the author Day, she resolves that this will be the year she focuses on bringing her scattered family back together. After all, romance is very well, but it’s the After gaining a history degree, people you grew up with that matter the most. Jenni embarked on a career in contract flooring before settling in But a new job working at an auction house puts her in the path of Theo, the middle of the Suffolk a gorgeous but unattainable man who she can’t help but be distracted by. countryside with her husband, an As their bond begins to grow, Maisie finds herself struggling to fulfil the antique-restorer. She valiantly promise she made to herself – but the universe has other ideas, and it’s attempted to master the ancient not long before the Meadows family are thrown back together in the art of housework but with four most unlikely of circumstances. teenage boys in the house, it remains a mystery. Instead, she spends her time at the keyboard writing women’s fiction with blind cat Seymour by her side.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 90 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE FORGOTTEN SECRET

CAN SHE UNLOCK THE MYSTERIES OF THE PAST?

Kathleen McGurl

A heart-breaking, dual timeline historical fiction novel about two women fighting for independence

For fans of Kate Morton and Gill Paul 1 Mar 2019 E-book 384pp

It’s the summer of 1919 and Ellen O’Brien has her whole life ahead of About the author her. Young, in love and leaving home for her first job, the future seems full of shining possibility. But war is brewing and before long, Ellen and Kathleen McGurl lives near the sea everyone around her are swept up by it. As Ireland is torn apart by the in Bournemouth, UK, with her turmoil, Ellen finds herself facing the ultimate test of love and loyalty. husband and elderly tabby cat. She began her writing career creating A hundred years later and Clare Farrell has inherited a dilapidated old short stories, and sold dozens to farmhouse in County Meath. Seizing the chance to escape her unhappy women’s magazines in the UK and marriage she strikes out on her own for the first time, hoping the old Australia. Then she got side-tracked building might also provide clues to her family’s shadowy history. As she onto family history research – which sets out to put the place – and herself – back to rights, she stumbles led eventually to writing novels with across a long-forgotten hiding place, with a clue to a secret that has lain genealogy themes. She has always buried for decades. been fascinated by the past, and the ways in which the past can influence the present, and enjoys exploring Readers LOVE Kathleen McGurl: these links in her novels. ‘Another fabulous dual timeline story’ ‘Haunting’ ‘Had me gripped from the start’ Previous rights sold: City Éditions (French) ‘I literally could not turn the pages fast enough’ ‘Captivating’

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 91 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Maxine Morrey

Perfect for fans of Sue Morecroft and Tilly Tennant 4 Mar 2019 E-book 384pp

Ellie Laing has a very good reason to want to stay single: her last About the author relationship put her in danger. And she’s worried that while the physical scars will heal, the emotional ones never can. So, travelling to Kansas for Maxine has wanted to be a writer her best friend Sandy’s wedding, Ellie’s in need of some time alone. And for as long as she can remember Sandy’s brother Ben’s rural and idyllic ranch seems like the perfect place and wrote her first (very short) for it. book for school when she was ten. In August 2015, she won Ben comes with his own baggage – a failed marriage in his past, and a big Harper Collins/Carina UK's 'Write question mark over his future – and he knows the feelings he had for Ellie Christmas' competition with her belong firmly in the history books. But, sitting on his porch with her, he’s first romantic comedy, Winter's never felt more at home. Fairytale. Both of them swore they were better off alone… yet is it possible that Twitter: Scribbler Maxi two broken hearts could come together to heal? Instagram: Scribbler Maxi www.scribblermaxi.co.uk

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 92 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 ROSIE’S TRAVELLING TEA SHOP THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME!

Rebecca Raisin

A laugh-out-loud novel of love, friendship and adventure!

Perfect for fans of Debbie Johnson and Holly Martin 3 Mar 2019 E-book 384pp

Rosie Lewis has her life together. About the author

She has a swanky job as a Michelin-Starred Sous Chef, a loving husband Rebecca Raisin is a bibliophile, and and future children scheduled for exactly January 2021. her love of books morphed into That’s until she comes home one day to find her husband’s pre-packed the desire to write them. Rebecca bag and a confession that he's had an affair. aims to write characters you can see yourself being friends with. Heartbroken and devastated, Rosie drowns her sorrows in a glass (or People with big hearts who care three) of wine, only to discover the following morning that she has about relationships, and most spontaneously invested in a bright pink campervan to facilitate her grand importantly, believe in true, once- plans to travel the country. in-a-lifetime love. Now, Rosie is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime, and the chance to change her life! With Poppy, her new-found travelling tea shop in tow, nothing could go wrong, could it…?

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 93 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 PASSPORT TO HAPPINESS

Carrie Stone

An inspiring and escapist read: Eat, Pray, Love meets Bridget Jones!

A feel-good, escapist read full of romance, life-changing travel and 15 Mar 2019 the search for happiness E-book 356pp

Everly Carter is bored – bored with her job, with her single status and with the never ending line of rubbish men on Tinder. She’s tired of going through the motions of seeming happy, Everly wants to actually be happy! In a spontaneous moment of bravery (perhaps spurred on by a few About the author cocktails) Everly books a holiday. It will be time away, alone, to find out what she really wants from life. Carrie was born and raised in London and the suburbs, but tired Can this become the journey of her lifetime? of the dreary weather and her Everly’s search for happiness takes her to picturesque Swiss villages and permanently pale skin, has spent the sunsets of glamourous Bermuda. But with every new stamp in her the last decade living and working passport, Everly still feels as though something is missing. internationally. She is currently living in Bali, Indonesia and can Could it be that true happiness is hard to find, until she finds herself? often be found island hopping to far-flung places. When not writing, Carrie works as a Psychic Medium & Spiritual Coach. www.carriestone.co.uk Twitter @CarrieStoneUK

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 94 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 BRIDESMAIDS

Zara Stoneley

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Wedding Date!

26 Apr 2019 The Wedding Date has now sold over 100,000 copies worldwide E-book 400pp Meet Rachel, the beautiful bride with big plans for the perfect day! The venue is a castle and the dress is designer. It’s just a shame her husband is a rat. Maddie and Sally have only one thing in common – they both love the same man! About the author Beth is a newly single mum with a mystery baby daddy. Surely the father isn’t someone the girls all know? Zara Stoneley is the USA Today And then there’s Jane, the glue holding them all together, but being bestselling author of The Wedding dumped doesn’t make her the happiest bridesmaid…especially with Date and No One Cancels gorgeous flatmate Freddie complicating things. Christmas. She splits her time between a cosy country cottage in Will the bride say, ‘I Do!’? Or will her bridesmaids save the day…and Cheshire and an apartment in find love along the way? Barcelona, and writes fun, romantic stories set in the British countryside that she loves so Reviews of The Wedding Date: much. ‘Full of laugh out loud moments’ Sunday Times bestseller Heidi Swain ‘The rom com date of the year’ Phillipa Ashley ‘This book made me smile from beginning to end, every girl needs a Jake rooting for them’ Jules Wake ‘A terrific summer romp’ Bella Osborne ‘Beautifully charming, deliciously sweet but with an unexpected bite! I Previous rights sold to: Heyne loved it!’ Jo Robertson, My Chestnut Reading Tree blogger (German), Balto Leidybas Namai (Lithuanian) ‘As frothy as a wedding gown and as full of fizz as the very best bubbly’ Emma Reid, Screenwipe ‘Has everything I look for in a romantic comedy – romance, comedy, gorgeous man…pure, enjoyable escapism’ Rachel’s Random Reads

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 95 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 NOTTING HILL IN THE SNOW

PREVIOUS COVER

Jules Wake

Jules Wake’s previous book Covent Garden in the Snow was a Kindle Top 2 bestseller

For fans of One Day in December and Karen Swan 11 Oct 2019 E-book 400pp

Viola Smith, plays the viola in an orchestra (yes really!), she’s bright, bubbly and enthusiastic about absolutely everything. And it’s enough to About the author drive some people crazy…especially if they’re a grumpy widower with an eight-year-old in tow. Jules Wake's earliest known Nathan Williams hates Christmas, despite his small daughter’s efforts to declaration that she planned to be get him to stop being the Grinch. But when he’s caught up in the a writer came at the age of ten. community nativity play and meets Viola, her enthusiasm is infectious. As Along the way she was diverted by the snow starts to fall on Notting Hill and the bells ring out across the glamorous world of PR. London, Nathan might have to admit that Christmas isn’t so bad after all. Eventually the voices in her head persuaded her it was time to sit down and write the novel she'd always talked about. Her debut Praise for Jules Wake: novel, Talk to Me, in 2014, was ‘I love getting lost in a Jules Wake book’ Debbie Johnson quickly followed by the bestselling From Italy With Love, which reached the top ten in the Amazon Kindle charts. Since then Praise for Covent Garden in the Snow: she has had eight further novels ‘Had me laughing from the first page!’ Rachel’s Random Reads published. ‘Buy this book, put up a do not disturb sign and enjoy indulging in every page – you won't be disappointed!’ Gem’s Quiet Corner ‘A romantic and hilarious novel with a beautiful and snowy Christmas Previous rights sold: Albatros atmosphere’ Chicklit Club (Czech), J’ai Lu (French), Rowohlt (German), Vulkan (Serbian) ‘Oh I absolutely loved Tilly! What a fun, festive book, and a beautiful cover’ LoveReading.com

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 96 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 DIGITAL FIRST CRIME & THRILLER THE RULES

A GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER THAT WILL HAVE YOU HOOKED

Kerry Barnes

The gripping new gangland crime thriller from bestseller Kerry Barnes. Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Martina Cole and Jacqui Rose 15 Feb 2019 E-book 384pp

Do you live by the rules, or die by them? About the author

Holed up in prison, Mike Regan is offered a deal – his freedom in Kerry Barnes, born in 1964, grew exchange for his firm taking down the gang that is supplying a new up on a council estate in South dangerous drug that has hit the streets. What starts as a game soon East London. Pushed by her becomes a shocking revelation with devastating consequences. parents to become a doctor, she Meanwhile, Mike’s fiancé, Zara Ezra, has her own firm to run. But when entered the world of science and the so-called Governor is out to take her down, she has her own became a microbiologist. After decision to make – either fight, run, or write her own rule book. studying law and pharmaceuticals, her career turned to medicine. Having dyslexia didn’t deter her from her passion for writing. She began writing when her daughter was born thirty years ago. Once her children had grown up she moved to the Kent coast and now writes full time.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 98 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE FLOOD

Rachel Bennett

Dark, atmospheric and gripping – this is perfect for readers of The Dry

A hugely original setting, that is at once both utterly surreal and 2 Sep 2019 painfully familiar E-book 400pp

What really happened to the Cain sisters? About the author

When Daniela Cain returns to her small hometown after seven years’ Rachel Bennett was born in absence, she finds that flooding has left the village all but deserted. She’s England but is currently based on there to collect something she left in her childhood home, then she plans the Isle of Man (home of fast to leave. motorbikes, tailless cats, and very But when she enters the crumbling family house she discovers her changeable weather). She shares younger sister Auryn’s body half‐submerged in the water. her home with two kids, one angry cat, an exceptionally patient As Daniella tries to work out what happened to Auryn, she uncovers husband. dark secrets from her childhood as one of four sisters in the household, when the Cain’s and another local family begin to turn on each other with devastating results.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 99 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 ALL THE LITTLE LIES

Chris Curran

After a lifetime of secrets how far would you go for the truth?

An unputdownable new psychological thriller, full of twists you 15 Feb 2019 won’t see coming, from Chris Curran. E-book 400pp

‘Your whole life has been a lie…’ One email is all it takes to turn Eve’s world upside down. It contains a picture of her true birth mother, Stella, and proves that Eve’s entire life with her adoptive parents has been a lie. Now she must unravel the mystery of Stella’s dark past. But what Eve About the author finds will force her to take enormous risks, which put her, and her new- born baby, in immediate danger. Chris Curran worked as a teacher, an actor and scriptwriter, and now reviews fiction for various publications and blogs. She is a published short story writer and her most recent, The Thought of You, was shortlisted for the 2017 CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition. An early draft of her debut novel, Mindsight, was shortlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize in 2013. All the Little Lies is her fourth novel.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 100 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 TIL DEATH DO US PART

Stephen Edger

A tense, exciting domestic thriller with a strong hook and a commercial voice

17 May 2019 Perfect for fans of Louise Jensen, Kerry Wilkinson and Carol Wyer E-book 350pp

It was supposed to be the happiest day of her life… Alice Tandy has dreamed of her wedding since she was a little girl. The perfect venue, the perfect dress, the perfect groom. It’s all going exactly About the author to plan. But then her whole world comes tumbling down. Just as she and her new Stephen Edger has published over husband Ben are cutting their wedding cake, three policemen storm in a dozen novels – four trilogies, and arrest Ben. Alice looks on in horror, unable to comprehend what is and the rest standalone happening. Did they say murder? psychological thrillers. Stephen was born in the north-east of The next day, Ben is released on bail, but for Alice, the nightmare is only England, but grew up in London, just beginning. And as more details about the murder of Kerry Valentine meaning he is both a northerner emerge she starts to realise that everyone around her is keeping secrets. and a southerner. By day he Can she trust anyone? And who really killed Kerry? works in the financial industry using his insider knowledge to help shape the plots of his books. He also has a law degree, which gives him a good understanding of the inner workings of the UK justice system.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 101 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE BOSS

Caz Finlay

The first novel in an explosive new gangland crime series

Gangster thriller for fans of Kimberley Chambers 7 Jun 2019 E-book 400pp

He’s inside. She’s running the family. But now he’s back – only one can boss the streets of Liverpool. The first novel in an explosive new gangland crime series. About the author

As the daughter of a notorious Liverpudlian gangster, Grace Sumner Caz Finlay lives in Liverpool with commands respect – and she’s earned it on her own terms too. her husband, two children, and a But when her dangerous ex-husband Nathan Conlon is released from grumpy dog named Bert. A prison, Grace risks losing everything she’s worked hard to build up whilst qualified probation officer, Caz has he's been inside – including Nathan's own criminal empire. always been fascinated by the psychology of human behaviour Nathan's changed in prison, but old habits die hard. He makes it clear he and the reasons people do the wants his old life back, including his wife. And nothing or no one will get things they do. However, it was in his way. the loss of her son in 2016 which prompted her to rediscover her Nathan’s out for blood. Grace is out for revenge. And only one can love of writing and write her first come out on top. novel, The Boss.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 102 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE GUESTHOUSE

Abbie Frost

The perfect AirBnB holiday vacation that turns into a nightmare

For fans of And Then There Were None 9 Jan 2020 E-book 400pp

Five checked in. Only one came out. Hannah is travelling to Ireland for her dream Air BNB vacation – a week in the stunning Guest House, a dramatic building in a remote stretch of About the author countryside. With self-check-in, she doesn’t even need to meet the Host. It’s the perfect place to escape her problems. Abbie Frost has worked as a But when she arrives, she finds the house is miles from anywhere – it’s teacher, an actor and scriptwriter, on a bleak range of hills in the middle of a bog – and there’s no phone and now reviews fiction for signal. Five complete strangers are staying inside, each in their own various publications and blogs. She private room, none of whom have met the host. is a published thriller writer whose work has been shortlisted The guests start to hear banging noises coming from down in the cellar, for various awards. their phones disappear, their car keys vanish. And when Hannah finds the first dead body, she begins to realise just how dangerous the internet can be.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 103 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 DEAD INSIDE

Noelle Holten

A dark and gripping debut crime novel – the first in a stunning new series – from a huge new talent.

31 May 2019 ‘An excellent read’ Martina Cole E-book 400pp

When three domestic abuse offenders are found beaten to death, DC Maggie Jamieson knows she is facing her toughest case yet. The police suspect that Probation Officer Lucy Sherwood – who is connected to all three victims – is hiding a dark secret. Then a fourth domestic abuser is brutally murdered. And he is Lucy’s husband. About the author Now the finger of suspicion points at Lucy and the police are running out of time. Can Maggie and her team solve the murders before another Noelle Holten is an award-winning person dies? And is Lucy really a cold-blooded killer? blogger at CrimeBookJunkie. She is the PR & Social Media Manager for Bookouture, a leading digital publisher in the UK, and a regular reviewer on the Two Crime Writers and a Microphone podcast. Noelle worked as a Senior Probation Officer for eighteen years, covering cases of domestic violence and abuse. She has three Hons BA’s – Philosophy, Sociology (Crime & Deviance) and Community Justice – and a Masters in Criminology. Dead Inside is her debut novel and the start of a new series featuring DC Maggie Jamieson.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 104 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 MY SISTER IS MISSING

Carissa Ann Lynch

Reminiscent of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects~~ Christina Kaye, award-winning author of Presumed Dead

8 Feb 2019 A creepy and chilling thriller that you won’t be able to put down E-book 400pp

A twenty-year-old local mystery that has never been solved. A bone-chilling VHS tape depicting a horrific crime. About the author Neighbors with something to hide. Carissa Ann Lynch is a USA Today And a sister who is missing. bestselling author. She resides in Emily has to find out the truth. But is her sister Madeline the victim…or Floyds Knobs, Indiana with her the one to blame? husband, children, and collection of books. She’s always loved to read and never considered herself a “writer” until a few years ago Reviews: when she couldn’t find a book to read and decided to try writing ‘An unnerving, creepy, hair-raising novel, one that will have readers her own story. With a background sleeping with one eye open’ David Bell, USA Today bestselling author of in psychology, she’s always been a Layover little obsessed with the darker ‘Lynch has a knack for storytelling that not only captivates, but leaves one areas of the mind and social aching for the next page’ Bradon Nave, USA Today bestselling author problems. ‘A craftsman of the novel world. This book is a fine example of why reading is the perfect form of escapism. Edge of your seat thriller action’ 5* Karen Whittard, Netgalley ‘Had me on the edge of my seat’ 5* Tracy Cavanah, Netgalley ‘The most gripping novel with the perfect amount of mystery and thrill…the ending is great!’ 5* Cloud of Thoughts Blog ‘A well-written, fast-paced thriller that is packed full of twists and turns, mystery and suspense. I was hooked from the very first page … Worth far more than five stars’ Nicki’s Life of Crime Blog

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 105 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 ‘ THE ART OF DECEPTION

THE NEW MUST-READ THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF STRANGERS ON A BRIDGE

Louise Mangos

A dark, chilling psychological thriller set in Switzerland

Louise is well-connected in the crime community and has attended 6 Jun 2019 many international events E-Book 384pp

Art college dropout Lucie arrives in a Swiss ski resort looking for work – About the author but instead finds Mathieu. Louise Mangos writes novels, Handsome, charismatic and from a good family, Matt seems like the short stories and flash fiction, perfect man. But as Lucie soon discovers, he has a dark side – one that which have won prizes, been will drive their relationship to a dramatic conclusion, and tear the life she placed on shortlists and read out has built for herself and their son apart. on BBC radio. The Art of Deception Left fighting for her freedom in a foreign prison, and starting to lose her is her second novel. Her debut grip on reality, Lucie must summon all of her strength to uncover the novel, Strangers on a Bridge, was a truth and be reunited with her son before it’s too late. finalist in the Exeter Novel Prize and long-listed for the Bath Novel The clock is ticking… but who can she trust? Award. She lives in the Swiss Alps with her Kiwi husband and two sons. Praise for Strangers on a Bridge: Facebook @LouiseMangos ‘As well-plotted and high-anxiety-inducing as any Hitchcock flick. 5 stars’ Twitter @LouiseMangos ‘GREAT read, fast, with a number of twists and turns that you don't see www.louisemangos.com coming!’ Janice Lombardo

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 106 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 A FATAL FLAW

Faith Martin

The third Ryder & Loveday novel from global bestseller Faith Martin!

A gripping murder mystery, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and M.C. Beaton 1 Feb 2019 £2.99 Faith is a #1 Kindle bestselling author and her books have sold over E-book a million copies! 384pp

1960, Oxford About the author

As the city of Oxford prepares itself for the inaugural Miss Oxford Faith Martin has been writing for Honey Beauty Pageant at The Old Swan Theatre, excitement is in the air. over 25 years, in four genres and But when one of the leading contestants is found dead, suspicion hangs under four different pen names. over the competition. She was born in Oxford and sets most of her crime novels within Poisoned, the authorities assume her death was suicide. But after a sight of the city of dreaming malicious series of pranks and blackmail attempts are reported, WPC spires. A real nature lover and Loveday and Coroner Clement Ryder are called upon to solve the case. aficionado of the countryside, descriptions of wildlife and native In an atmosphere of fierce competition, the list of suspects is endless. flora often find their way into her Could what have started as harmless fun become a deadly race to win manuscripts. the prize? With time running out, the duo need to spot the killer before tragedy strikes again.

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 107 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE WAVE

Virginia Moffatt

The Wave perfectly fits into the trend for near-future dystopian fiction and will appeal the fans of The Last and Fever

Haunting, scarily real and brilliantly executed; the heart-stopping 14 Jun 2019 novel that everyone will be talking about in 2019 E-book 400pp

An earthquake deep in the ocean is sending a tsunami towards the Cornish coast with no early warning and little time for escape. With its poor infrastructure and isolation, many people won’t get away in time. About the author As the terrifying reality of this hits home, one young woman posts a message on Facebook: ‘With nowhere to run to, I’m heading to my favourite Virginia has always written, but beach to watch the sunset, who wants to join me?’ only began to take it seriously in 2004, when she began writing her A small group of people head towards the beach, each with their own debut novel Echo Hall in 2017. stories and their own secrets and as they come together in the dying Virginia writes flash fiction, essays, light of the Cornish sunset, they will discover something much more drama, The Wave is her second powerful than they thought possible. But there is no escaping the dawn, novel. the wave is coming.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 108 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

Darren O’Sullivan

Unmissable new thriller by the author of Our Little Secret and Close Your Eyes

Our Little Secret has sold over 62K copies 15 Mar 2019 E-Book 384pp

He’s watching. She’s waiting. About the author

Having barely escaped the clutches of a serial killer, Claire Moore has Darren O'Sullivan was born in struggled to rebuild her life. After her terrifying encounter with the man Slough in 1982 but moved to the media dubbed The Black-Out Killer, she became an overnight Peterborough when he was 17 to celebrity: a symbol of hope and survival in the face of pure evil. And then train in performing arts. He has the killings stopped. been working creatively ever Now ten years have passed, and Claire remains traumatised by her brush since, first as an actor for the with death. Though she has a loving and supportive family around her, stage, then director. Five years what happened that night continues to haunt her still. ago he felt inspired to write theatre and from that came the Just when things are starting to improve, there is a power cut; a house idea to develop a novel. Following fire; another victim found killed in the same way as before. being accepted into the Faber and Faber novel writing programme in The Black-Out Killer is back. And he’s coming for Claire. 2015, he fine tuned his hand and during that six month training programme his debut novel Our Praise for Darren O’Sullivan: Little Secret was born. ‘Engrossing, compelling and twisty from the first page to the shocking ending. This book grabbed me and didn't let go’ Michele Campbell, author of It’s Always the Husband Previous rights sold: 'Unique and utterly compelling. This twisty psychological thriller will chill HarperCollins (Polish) you to the bones' Gemma Metcalfe, author of Trust Me ‘A stellar and original concept, brilliantly executed. The final chapters had my heart in my throat! O’Sullivan is certainly one to watch’ Phoebe Morgan, author of The Doll House

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 109 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 REMEMBER ME

D.E. White

D.E. White is a new crime writer. Remember Me is her debut psychological thriller

This books had over 700 pre-orders before publication! 6 Feb 2019 E-book Filled with shocking discoveries and traumatic memories, this fast 384pp paced thriller is perfect for fans of Friend Request and Close to Home

Fifteen years ago Ellen Smith vanished from the woods near her small About the author Welsh village. Never to be seen again. D. E. White started writing Eight people were in the woods that night: eight splintered lives, eight fifteen years ago, scribbling ideas people hiding a terrible secret. But who can remember the truth? on napkins at work on the night Now, Ellen’s best friend, Detective Ava Cole is all grown up and back in shift. After various jobs, including the village where it all began, and everyone is asking the same question. working as cabin crew, in a hospital, a supermarket and as a What really happened to Ellen? 999 call handler for the ambulance service, she began writing full time in 2018. A multi- award winning entrepreneur, and was part of a small business delegation speaking at Number 10, Downing Street in 2015. www.daisywhiteauthor.co.uk

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 110 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 RECENTLY PUBLISHED SLENDER MAN

Anonymous

A horror movie based on the Slender Man myth was released in September 2018 Slender Man is one of the internet’s most notorious creations – a shadowy figure whose victims disappear or find themselves doing 20 Sep 2018 terrible things. This is the first official Slender Man book £9.99 In 2016, Netflix released a documentary, Beware the Slender Man, 216x135 exploring the phenomenon Hardback 336pp

Lauren Bailey has disappeared. About the author As her friends and the police search for answers, Matt Barker begins to These documents were collected dream of trees and black skies and something drawing closer. by sources who wish to remain Through fragments of journals, blog posts and messages, a sinister, anonymous. slender figure emerges and all divisions between fiction and delusion, between nightmare and reality, begin to fall. The urban legend of the Slender Man has inspired short fiction, viral videos, and a feature film. Gathered from online whispers, Matt’s story reveals the true power of the internet’s most terrifying creation.

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 112 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE GHOST TREE

Barbara Erskine

Barbara is a regular Sunday Times bestseller, with millions of copies sold The Ghost Tree is based on Thomas Erskine, the author’s great (x5) grandfather, who was the Lord Chancellor of England and has an 23 Aug 2018 intriguing personal history £14.99 234x153 Barbara Erskine is the queen of timeslip novels Hardback 592pp Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile, left rootless by the end of her marriage, career and now the death of her father. Hidden away in a top-floor room, she finds he had secretly kept a cupboard full of her possessions. Sifting through the ancient papers, Ruth discovers the diary and letters written by her ancestor from the 18th century, Thomas Erskine. About the author

As the youngest son of a noble family now living in genteel poverty, Barbara Erskine is the Sunday Thomas always knew he would have to make his own way in the world. Times bestselling author of over a He joins the navy and then the army, rising through the ranks, travelling dozen novels. Her first book, Lady the world. When he is finally able to study law, his experiences and of Hay, has sold more than 3m abilities propel him to the very top and he becomes Lord Chancellor. Yet copies worldwide and has never he has made a powerful enemy on his voyages, who will hound him and been out of print since it was first his family to the death. published 30 years ago. Her books Ruth becomes ever more aware of Thomas as she is gripped by his story, have been translated into over 25 and slowly senses that not only is his presence with her, but so is his languages and are international enemy’s. bestsellers. Praise for Sleeper’s Castle: ‘Sleeper's Castle is a haunting tale, confirming that Barbara Erskine remains the mistress of the time-slip novel’ Alison Weir, acclaimed historian and novelist ‘Captivating . . . Beguiling ghosts that whisper to us from the past and Rights sold seek to stamp their will upon the present’ Richard and Judy bestseller, Rachel Hore Previous rights sold available on request Praise for Barbara Erskine: ‘Her forte is mood, atmosphere and the toe-curling frisson’ Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times ‘Barbara Erskine’s storytelling talent is undeniable’ Times ‘Marvellous escapist stuff’ Woman and Home HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 113 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 KING OF ASHES

FIREMANE SERIES

Raymond E. Feist

Brand new saga from New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist

Riftwar and Serpentwar Sagas have been global bestsellers and sold millions of copies worldwide 26 Apr 2018 £20.00 Raymond E. Feist is one of fantasy’s best loved authors and his work 234x153 rivals David Gemmell and Terry Goodkind for action and drama Hardback 560pp The world of Garn once boasted five great kingdoms, until the King of Ithrace was defeated and every member of his family executed by Lodavico. Ithrace's ruling family were the legendary Firemanes, and represented a great danger to the other kings. Now four great kingdoms remain, on the About the author brink of war. But rumour has it that the newborn son of the last king of Ithrace survived, carried off during battle and sequestered by the Quelli Feist is one of the world’s leading Nacosti, a secret society whose members are trained to infiltrate and spy fantasy writers. Born and raised in upon the rich and powerful throughout Garn. Terrified that this may be Southern California, Raymond E. true, and that the child will grow to maturity with bloody revenge in his Feist was educated at the heart, the four kings have placed a huge bounty on the child's head. University of California, San Diego, where he graduated with In the small village of Oncon, Declan is apprenticed to a master honours in Communication Arts. blacksmith, learning the secrets of producing the mythical king's steel. He is the author of the bestselling Oncon is situated in the Covenant, a neutral region lying between two and critically acclaimed Riftwar warring kingdoms. Since the Covenant was declared, the region has Saga. existed in peace, until violence explodes as slavers descend upon the village to capture young men to press as soldiers for Sandura. Declan must escape, to take his priceless knowledge to Baron Daylon Dumarch, ruler of Marquensas, perhaps the only man who can defeat Lodavico. Reviews Rights sold

‘File under guilty pleasure’ Guardian Rights sold: Bard (Bulgarian), ‘Get in at the start of a master’s new series’ Daily Sport HarperCollins (Brazilian Portuguese), Luitingh Sijthoff (Dutch), Bragelonne ‘Well-written and distinctly above average…intelligent…intriguing’ (French), Fanucci Editore (Italian) Publishers Weekly ‘Epic scope…vivid imagination…a significant contribution to the growth of the field of fantasy’ Washington Post

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 114 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 PHILIPPA GREGORY

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Rights information available on request. A THOUSAND ROADS HOME

Carmel Harrington

Warm, powerful and unforgettable, Carmel Harrington’s new novel is about second chances, friendship and unlikely heroes 18 Oct 2018 Carmel Harrington is an Irish Times and Kindle bestselling author. £12.99 This is her 6th novel 234x153 Paperback 400pp

Single mother, Ruth, and her teenage son, Thomas, have always had each About the author other. They’ve never truly fitted in with the norms of society but that didn’t matter as long as they were together. Carmel Harrington has won several international awards Until Thomas befriends Bill – a man who ten years ago walked out of his including Kindle Book of Year and house and never looked back, choosing to live on the streets instead. Romantic e-book of Year at the Ruth, Thomas and Bill have all felt like outsiders. Burdened with grief and Festival of Romance in 2013 for insecurities, they were not living their best lives. But together, these her debut novel, Beyond Grace’s three ordinary people manage to do an extraordinary thing. Rainbow. A popular freelance writer, she has written features for the Irish Independent, Daily Mail, Evening Herald, Woman’s Way and Reviews: acclaimed online blog, Mothering ‘Will make you see life in a different way’ Woman’s Way In The Middle. ‘Heartwrenching and heartwarming’ Evening Herald ‘Carmel Harrington has done it again! Brilliantly written…it surpasses all expectations’ Chicklit Club Rights sold ‘A bittersweet, quietly brilliant novel that will make you cry, laugh and cry Previous rights sold: Yabanci all over again’ Female First (Turkish), HarperCollins (Finnish, ‘It will stay with you well after, you have turned the last page’ Bleach French, German, Hungarian, House Library Norwegian, Swedish) ‘Guaranteed to brighten your day’ Novelicious ‘Funny, poignant and bursting with heartfelt humour’ I Heart … Chick Lit

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 117 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE TUDOR CROWN

SHE’LL BETRAY HER KING TO CROWN HER SON

Joanna Hickson

Historical detail with great dramatic content and commercial appeal 31 May 2018 Joanna’s debut, The Agincourt Bride, was a huge success in the UK £7.99 and the US 198x129 Paperback 544pp When Edward of York takes back the English crown, the Wars of the Roses scatter the Lancastrian nobility and young Henry Tudor, with a strong claim to the throne, is forced into exile. Recently widowed and vulnerable, his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, forges an uncomfortable alliance with Edward’s queen, Elizabeth Woodville. Swearing an oath of allegiance to York, Margaret agrees to About the author marry the king’s shrewdest courtier, Lord Stanley. But can she tread the precarious line between duty to her husband, loyalty to her son, and her Joanna Hickson spent 25 years obligation to God and the king? presenting and producing News and Arts programmes for the When tragedy befalls Edward’s reign, Richard of York’s ruthless actions BBC. Her first published book was fire the ambition of mother and son. As their destinies converge each of a children’s historical novel them will be exposed to betrayal and treachery and in their gruelling bid Rebellion at Orford Castle but more for the Tudor crown, both must be prepared to pay the ultimate price. recently she has turned to adult fiction, concentrating on bringing 15th century English history and Praise for Joanna Hickson: some of its fascinating principal characters to life. She gets ‘A great tale…the golden thread that led to the crown of England’ Conn inspiration from her Wiltshire Iggulden farmhouse home, which dates back to her chosen period. ‘An intriguing tale, told with confidence’ Times

‘Rich and warm’ Sunday Express Rights sold 'Colourful and vivid' Elizabeth Chadwick Rights sold: HarperCollins ‘A big-hearted and engrossing novel’ Elizabeth Freemantle (Brazilian Portuguese) ‘A bewitching first novel…alive with historical detail’ Good Housekeeping Previous rights sold: Brana (Czech), Apgads (Latvian), 'An enthralling blend of fact and fiction, drama and danger, passion and Literackie (Polish), Eksmo politics’ Lancashire Evening Post (Russian) ‘A gripping and emotional story’ Woman

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 118 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 I KNOW YOU

Annabel Kantaria

Page-turning psychological suspense, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Claire Mackintosh and Holly Seddon

Annabel Kantaria’s previous title The Disappearance has sold nearly 28 Jun 2018 40K copies across all formats £7.99 198x126 Annabel’s debut novel Coming Home won the inaugural Montegrappa Paperback First Fiction prize at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 384pp

You trust her. About the author

You shouldn’t. Annabel Kantaria is a British That picture you just posted on Instagram? I’ve seen it. The location you journalist who now lives in Dubai tagged? I’ve been there. with her husband and children. She has edited and contributed to You haven’t been careful enough, have you? Because I know all about women’s magazines and you. publications throughout the Middle East and returns regularly But when I meet you, I won’t tell you that. I’ll pretend. Just like you do. to the UK. You’ll like me though. You’ll trust me enough to let me into your life. And then I’ll destroy it.

Praise for Annabel Kantaria: ‘Draws you in and doesn’t let you go. Gripping, chilling and twisted’ Judy Finnigan Rights sold ‘Twists and turns abound’ Hello! Magazine Crooked Lane Books (US English)

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 119 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 MISS MARLEY

A CHRISTMAS GHOST STORY – A PREQUEL TO A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Vanessa Lafaye

A Christmas Carol is a perennial favourite, but in this delightful novella Vanessa Lafaye explores what led to Jacob Marley’s appalling punishment – doomed to drag chains for all eternity A seasonal tale of kindness and goodwill Vanessa Lafaye had a terminal illness when she began writing Miss Marley, and sadly died before she was able to complete it. Historical novelist Rebecca Mascull helped finish Vanessa’s story, having been a 1 Nov 2018 close friend and confidante £7.99 184x120 ‘Exquisite’ Veronica Henry Hardback ‘A moving companion piece to the classic A Christmas Carol, with all 176pp the traditional echoes of the Dickensian festive season woven through, and with tragedy and joy in equal measure. A delight.’ Essie Fox, author of The Somnambulist

Orphans Clara and Jacob Marley live by their wits, scavenging for scraps About the author in the poorest alleyways of London, in the shadow of the workhouse. Every night, Jake promises his little sister ‘tomorrow will be better’ and Vanessa Lafaye was born in Florida when the chance to escape poverty comes their way, he seizes it despite and studied in North Carolina. the terrible price. She moved to the UK in 1999 (having been deported once). She And so Jacob Marley is set on a path that leads to his infamous is the author of two previous partnership with Ebenezer Scrooge. As Jacob builds a fortress of wealth novels; her first book Summertime, to keep the world out, only Clara can warn him of the hideous fate that was chosen for Richard and Judy awaits him if he refuses to let love and kindness into his heart. in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Historical Writers Award. In Miss Marley, Vanessa Lafaye weaves a spellbinding Dickensian tale of Vanessa passed away in February ghosts, goodwill and hope – a perfect prequel to A Christmas Carol. 2018.

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 120 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 WRECKER

Noel O’Reilly

For fans of The Miniaturist, The Essex Serpent and Poldark

Powerful debut exploring the dark side of Cornwall – the myths and legends, the wrecking and the drowned sailors – where poverty 12 Jul 2018 drove villagers to dark deeds £14.99 234x153 ‘With echoes of Du Maurier, this compelling Cornish drama weaves a Hardback tangled web of fallen faiths, of sins, seductions and deceits.’ Essie Fox 384pp

Shipwrecks are part of life in the remote village of Porthmorven, About the author Cornwall. And as the sea washes the bodies of the drowned onto the beach, it also brings treasures: barrels of liquor, exotic fruit, the chance Noel was a student on the New to lift a fine pair of boots from a corpse, maybe even a jewel or two. Writing South Advanced Writing course. He has worked as a When, after a fierce storm, Mary Blight rescues a man half-dead from the journalist and editor at the sea, she ignores the whispers of her neighbours and carries him home to international business media nurse. Gideon Stone is a Methodist minister from Newlyn, a married company RBI, and is now a man. Touched by Mary’s sacrifice and horrified by the superstitions and freelance writer. This is his first pagan beliefs the villagers cling to, Gideon sets out to bring light and novel. He lives in Brighton with salvation to Porthmorven by building a chapel on the hill. his wife and children. But the village has many secrets and not everyone wants to be saved. As Mary and Gideon find themselves increasingly drawn together, jealousy, rumour and suspicion is rife. Gideon has demons of his own to face, and soon Mary’s enemies are plotting against her. Gripping, beautifully written and utterly beguiling, Noel O’Reilly’s debut Wrecker is a story of love, injustice, superstition and salvation, set against Cornwall’s dark past. Rights sold

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 121 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 THE SECRET ORPHAN

Glynis Peters

For fans of Orphan Train and The Secret Wife

A stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience 9 Nov 2018 E-book 400pp

As the Nazis’ relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year- old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew. About the author Elenor knows that the only way to protect spirited Rose is to leave the city and make a new life for themselves away from harm. But soon Glynis Peters lives in the seaside Elenor discovers that Hitler’s firestorm is not the only thing she must town of Dovercourt-Harwich. In fear when she learns a devastating secret about Rose. 2014 she was shortlisted for the With Rose’s life in imminent danger, Elenor turns to the only person she Festival of Romance New Talent can trust to keep the deadly secret, heroic Canadian pilot, Jackson St Award. John. And amidst the destruction of war, an unlikely romance blossoms The Secret Orphan is her first as they find a way to protect the child they have both grown to WW2 historical novel. love…and each other.

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 122 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 FRIENDSHIP FAILS OF EMMA NASH

Chloe Seager

Chloe Seager’s fresh, original YA heroine Emma Nash is back and bumbling through another adventure

This is Louise Rennison for the current teen generation with a more daring new edge 9 Aug 2018 £7.99 Chloe Seager is a literary agent herself with incredible connections 198x129 in the YA world Paperback 384pp

Emma Nash is back….and determined to work out the world of About the author friendships and relationships once and for all (…ish). Now she’s in the sixth form, Emma’s expecting life to be a breeze but Chloe Seager studied English when her best friend Steph suddenly has a boyfriend who she’s spending Literature and Drama at the more time with Emma’s not sure what to do with herself. University of East Anglia, where she sadly realised she couldn't act, So Emma’s got a mission in mind: making new friends. Signing up for the but did rediscover her love of school fashion show seems like the perfect opportunity. Although soon, children's books. Children's through a series of mishaps that are absolutely not Emma’s fault (well, Literature was one of her sort of), her world is teetering on the edge of disaster again. favourite modules, and it made her wonder why grown-ups ever Would going back to creating a life for herself online reaaaaaallllyyy be so stopped reading them. She now bad? works with YA and kids’ books full-time. Chloe lives in East London.

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 123 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 I STILL DREAM

James Smythe

Cloud Atlas meets Black Mirror

TV rights sold to Carnival Films with plans to unfold across multiple seasons 5 Apr 2018 £12.99 216x135 Epic, heart-breaking and hugely readable, with a killer twist Hardback 400pp 17-year-old Laura Bow has invented a rudimentary artificial intelligence, and named it Organon. At first it’s intended to be a sounding-board for her teenage frustrations, a surrogate best friend; but as she grows older, Organon grows with her. As the world becomes a very different place, technology changes the way About the author we live, love and die; massive corporations develop rival intelligences to Laura’s, ones without safety barriers or morals; and Laura is forced to James Smythe is the winner of the decide whether to share her creation with the world. Wales Fiction Book of the Year Reviews: 2013 and shortlisted nominee for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2014. ‘The best fictional treatment of the possibilities and horrors of artificial He is the author of the Anomaly intelligence that I’ve read’ Guardian Quartet which includes The Explorer and The Echo. James ‘I Still Dream is amazing!’ Beth Lewis, author of Wolf Road currently lives in London and ‘A haunting meditation on the implications of AI, on intelligence itself, and teaches creative writing. on what it means to live and die in the age of technology. I Still Dream is a must-read for fans of David Mitchell, for anyone who’s ever used a smartphone, and for anyone who appreciates riveting plots and beautiful prose.’ Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven ‘One of the most affecting and brilliant books I've read this year … a huge achievement: toweringly ambitious, and yet beautifully controlled and crafted’ Sam Byers, author of Idiopathy Rights sold

‘This is a visionary novel about what it is to be human. It is a startling Host (Czech) look at intelligence, empathy and grief in the face of technology. Smythe has written his masterpiece’ Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Previous rights sold: Bragelonne Immigrant and author of Meatspace (French), Gabo (Hungarian) ‘I Still Dream begins with melancholy nostalgia, before growing urgently contemporary and finally chillingly prescient. It is a strikingly intelligent book about intelligence itself: artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence, and all the ways we watch each other. Having read it, you may wish to turn off your phone’ Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS 124 LONDON BOOKFAIR 2019 CONTACTS

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