CONTENTS Fiction 2 Point Blank - Crime 15 Rock the Boat - Young Adult 23 Non-Fiction 28 Bestsellers 57 Beginner’s Guides 68 Sales & Distribution 73 new fiction | oneworld FEBRUARY Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2016 A poignant and haunting novel about female friendship and race in 1970s Brooklyn A New York Times bestseller They used to be inseparable. They used to be young, brave and brilliant – amazingly beautiful and credit: Juna F. Nagle Juna F. credit: terrifyingly alone. August, Sylvia, Angela and Gigi shared everything: songs, secrets, fears and dreams. But 1970s Brooklyn was a dangerous place, a place where grown men reached for innocent girls, where mothers disappeared and futures vanished at the turn of a corner. For fans of Jenny Offill and Siri Hustvedt comes Fiction this heartbreaking and exquisitely written novel February 2017 about an indelible yet fleeting friendship that united £10.99 four young lives. The first adult novel in twenty 192pp years from the National Book Award winner B Format Hardback ISBN: 9781786070838 Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn is a eISBN: 9781786070852 powerful and poetic work from one of America’s Export TPB: 9781786070845 | £8.99 most gifted novelists. Territories: UK/BC ‘A sort of fever dream…I loved this book.’ Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder ‘Gorgeous…a love letter to black girlhood.’ Roxanne Gay, author of Bad Feminist Jacqueline Woodson is the author of numerous award-winning books, including the New York Times-bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which won the National Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. 2 oneworld | new fiction FEBRUARY The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman Denis Thériault Translated by Liedewy Hawke For readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love story that will move readers old and young Secretly steaming open envelopes and reading the letters inside, Bilodo has found an escape from his lonely and routine life as a postman. When one day he comes across a mysterious letter containing only a single haiku, he finds himself avidly caught up in the relationship between a long-distance couple who write to each other using only beautiful poetry. He feasts on their words, vicariously living a life for which he longs. But it will only be a matter of time before his world comes crashing down around him… An instant hit on first publication when it was selected for Simon Mayo’s BBC Radio 2 Book Club, this beautifully packaged new edition is the Fiction ideal primer for Thériault’s much-anticipated February 2017 sequel, The Postman’s Fiancée, which will be US: March 2017 published by Oneworld in June. £8.99/$15.99 144pp B Format Paperback ISBN: 9781786070531 ‘A beguiling story about love, loneliness and the eISBN: 9781786070548 modern world.’ Independent Territories: World ‘Quirky and charming…brings to mind nothing less than a giddily-lovesick Kafka.’ Guardian credit: Martine Doyon credit: Denis Thériault is an award-winning author and screenwriter. The Postman’s Fiancée is the much-anticipated sequel to the runaway hit The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman (Oneworld, 2016). His debut novel, The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea, will be published by Oneworld in 2018. 3 new fiction | oneworld MARCH Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin Translated by Megan McDowell A deeply unsettling and disorientating debut novel about obsession, identity and motherhood A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He’s not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, taut novel. Fiction ‘A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and March 2017 frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever £12.99 Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish 192pp imagination.’ Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The B Format Hardback ISBN: 9781786070906 Sound of Things Falling eISBN: 9781786070913 Territories: UK/BC ‘Fever Dream is a small masterpiece, a beautiful and chillingly contemporary book. Every word throbs a kind of wisdom.’ Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple Choice and My Documents Samanta Schweblin is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first credit: Alejandra Lopez credit: novel. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin. 4 oneworld | new fiction MARCH Little Nothing Marisa Silver Blending fable and folklore, Silver conjures an electric, pitch-black allegory for fans of Angela Carter and Franz Kafka A stunning, provocative new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Marisa Silver, Little Nothing is part allegory, part a subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises, which unfolds across a lifetime of unimaginable, magical transformation. Born in an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, Pavla is scorned for her physical deformity. Her parents turn to the treatments of a local charlatan, but his terrifying cure opens the floodgates of persecution, and Pavla becomes a hunted woman whose ultimate survival depends on the most startling transfiguration of them all. ‘An emotionally suspenseful allegory...The novel Fiction twisted me up inside. I loved it.’ Lauren Groff, March 2017 £12.99 author of Fates and Furies 352pp Demy Hardback ISBN: 9781786071279 ‘This book is a beautifully realized riddle.’ eISBN: 9781786071286 Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers Export TPB: 9781786071521 | £12.99 Territories: UK/BC credit: Bader Howar Bader credit: Marisa Silver is the author of the New York Times-bestselling novel Mary Coin, The God of War (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist), No Direction Home and two story collections. She lives in Los Angeles. 5 new fiction | oneworld MARCH Here Comes the Sun Nicole Dennis-Benn A radiant, gorgeous novel that vibrates with power, heart and unflinching honesty Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn’s superbly crafted novel offers a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister Thandi to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When a maelstrom of change threatens their village, each woman – fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves – must confront long-hidden scars. From a much-heralded new writer, Here Comes the Fiction Sun offers a haunting glimpse into a vibrant, March 2017 passionate world most outsiders see simply as £12.99 paradise. 352pp Demy Paperback w/ flaps ISBN: 9781786071248 ‘Stuns at every turn...Here Comes the Sun is about eISBN: 9781786071262 women pushed to the edge and Jamaica in all its Export TPB: 9781786071255 | £9.99 beauty and fury.’ Marlon James, Booker-winning Territories: UK/BC author of A Brief History of Seven Killings ‘Here Comes the Sun sheds much-needed light on the island’s disenfranchised...An important debut.’ The New York Times Book Review Nicole Dennis-Benn was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches writing. credit: Jason Berger Jason credit: www.nicoledennisbenn.com 6 People are already talking about Here Comes the Sun A Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch A New York Times Cool Reads for Hot Days Pick One of BBC’s Ten New Beach Reads to Devour ‘I read it the way I read a thriller, holding my breath, waiting for the next new revelation. It’s Shakespearean-level drama and compulsively readable.’ Jamie Canaves, Book Riot ‘Her prose is lyrical and vibrant, but Dennis-Benn has a deeper purpose, and she takes the reader on a trip that is impossible to forget.’ Brooklyn Magazine ‘Dennis-Benn’s writing is so assured, so gorgeous...Here Comes the Sun is tough, beautiful and necessary, and it feels like a miracle.’ Michael Shaub, NPR ‘Nicole Dennis-Benn’s scorching debut is both desperately sad and impossible to forget.’ The Boston Globe 7 new fiction | oneworld JUNE The Postman’s Fiancée Denis Thériault Translated by John Cullen The much-anticipated sequel to the Radio 2 Book Club favourite The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman Tania moves from Bavaria to Montreal to fine-tune her French and fall in love. Finding work as a waitress in the working-class area of the city, she meets Bilodo, a shy postman who writes haiku and who is passionate about calligraphy. The two hit it off but then one stormy day their lives take a dramatic turn, and as their destinies become increasingly entwined the two are led into a world where nothing is as it seems. The Postman’s Fiancée reunites readers with the touching and much-loved characters first found in The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman, charming us once again with his deft touch and lyrical prose in Fiction a love story that will move readers, young and old June 2017 alike. US: July 2017 £8.99/$15.99 144pp ‘Enchanting, philosophically astute and deeply B Format Paperback w/ flaps ISBN: 9781786071132 poignant.’ John Burnside on The Peculiar Life of a eISBN: 9781786071149 Lonely Postman Territories: World Denis Thériault is an award-winning author and screenwriter.