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A Year Of Beautiful Eating ...... 119 Fiction 2 Fiction | Crime & Thrillers ISABEL ASHDOWN

sabel Ashdown is the author of four novels and winner of the IMail on Sunday Novel Competition. Her debut Glasshopper was published and named as one of the best books of the year by the Observer and the London Evening Standard.

Little Sister

A dark exploration of the relationship between sisters and the secret history that binds them. Perfect for fans of The Ice Twins.

All she ever wanted was her sister’s forgiveness...

A missing child. A broken mother. A sister who doesn’t remember a thing.

After sixteen years apart sisters Jessica and Emily are reunited. With the past now behind them, the warmth they once shared quickly returns and before long Jess has moved into Emily’s comfortable island home. Life couldn’t be better. But when baby Daisy disappears while in Jess’s care, the perfect life Emily has so carefully built starts to fall apart.

Was Emily right to trust her sister after everything that happened before?

ason Cross has written a number of short stories, including M‘A Living’, which was shortlisted for the Quick Reads ‘Get Britain Reading’ Award, and his first novel, The Killing Season, was published in 2014 to great acclaim. masoncrossbooks.blogspot.com @MasonCrossBooks

Don’t Look for Me

Mason Cross returns with his gripping new thriller – perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Linwood Barclay and Mark Billingham.

It was a simple instruction, and for six years Carter Blake has kept his word. He hasn’t looked for the woman he once loved and lost. But now her life is in danger and Blake is forced to break that promise.

Trenton Gage is a hitman with a talent for finding people – dead or alive. His latest job is to track down a woman who’s on the run, harbouring a secret many would kill for. It turns out Blake and Gage are after the same person – but who will get to her first?

‘My kind of book’ Lee Child

‘One of the most interesting ‘loner’ heroes to have arrived in recent years . . . Told with pace and vigour by a writer who seems to have a natural aptitude for thrillers, it is not to be missed’ Daily Mail

Also by Mason Cross: The Killing Season (2014); The Samaritan (2015); The Time To Kill (2016)

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teve Mosby is the author of six previous thrillers including S The 50/50 Killer, which won him critical acclaim and massive translation deals across Europe. He has won the CWA Dagger ‘in the Library’ award, given for not just one novel but a whole body of works, and Black Flowers was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year, as well as being optioned for television. www.leftroom.co.uk @stevemosby

Dead Letters

A gripping psychological thriller from the author of The Nightmare Place and I Know Who Did It.

When a car crashes into a garage on an ordinary street, the attending officer is shocked to look inside the damaged building and discover a woman imprisoned within. As the remains of several other victims are found in the attached house, police believe they have finally identified the Red River Killer – a man who has been abducting women for nearly twenty years and taunting the police with notes about his crimes. But now the main suspect, John Blythe, is on the run.

As the manhunt for Blythe intensifies, DI Will Turner finds himself fighting to stay involved in the investigation. The Red River killings hold a personal significance to him and he must be the one to find the killer, although he’s determined to keep this from his fellow officers at all costs.

‘Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.’ Val McDermid

Also by Steve Mosby: The Third Person (2003); The Cutting Crew (2004); The 50/50 Killer (2007); Cry For Help (2008); Still Bleeding (2009); Black Flowers (2010); Dark Room (2012); The Nightmare Place (2014); I Know Who Did It (2015)

arah Naughton’s children’s debut novel, The Hanged Man SRises, was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa award and her second children’s thriller, The Blood List, was published in 2014. Trapeze snapped her up for her adult fiction and Tattletale is her brilliant debut.

Tattletale

For fans of Disclaimer and I Let You Go, Tattletale is the debut psychological thriller you can’t miss.

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who believed in fairytales.

Now she is out to get your happy ending.

One day changes Jody’s life forever. She has shut herself down, haunted by her memories and unable to trust anyone. but then she meets Abe, the perfect stranger next door, and suddenly life seems full of possibility and hope.

One day changes Mags’s life forever. After years of estrangement from her family, Mags receives a shocking phone call. Her brother Abe is in hospital and no-one knows what happened to him. She meets his fiancé Jody, and gradually pieces together the ruins of the life she left behind. But the pieces don’t quite seem to fit . . .

‘A gripping thriller. Delivers suspense, twists and sharp writing.’ Lisa Jewell, author of I Found You

‘It’s one of the best debuts I’ve read. It deserves to be MASSIVE.’ Julia Crouch

onnie O’Sullivan is still the most naturally gifted snooker Rplayer around. Since turning professional in 1992, O’Sullivan has clocked up an incredible number of awards and trophies, but recently has also made his name as an engaging and dynamic writer with his bestselling memoir, Running.

Framed

The first crime novel from the UK’s most charismatic sporting genius.

Frankie James is a young man with a lot on his shoulders. His mother disappeared when he was fifteen; his father’s in jail for armed robbery; and he owes rent on his inherited SoHo snooker club to one of London’s toughest gangsters. Things, you’d think, can only get better. Actually, they’re about to get a whole lot worse.

Frankie always swore to his mum he’d keep his younger, wilder brother out of trouble. However when Jack turns up at the club early in the morning, covered in someone else’s blood, with no memory of the night before, it seems there’s no way Frankie can make good on his promise. With Jack banged up, awaiting trial for the vicious murder of a bride-to-be – a murder that’s sparked an even more vicious gang war between London’s two foremost crime families – Frankie knows a conviction could quickly turn into a death sentence if he doesn’t discover who framed Jack. . .

Also by Ronnie O’Sullivan: Running (2013)

Orion | November 2016 | 320pp Rights: World (Complex & Simplified Chinese: Curtis Brown) Agents: Japan: Tuttle Mori 8 Fiction | Crime & Thrillers MB SHAW

.B Shaw is the pen-name of New York Times bestselling writer MTilly Bagshawe. A mother at 17, Tilly won a place at Cambridge University and took her baby daughter with her. She went on to enjoy a successful career in the City before becoming a writer, contributing regularly to the Sunday Times, Daily Mail, and Evening Standard, before turning her hand to novels. Tilly’s first book, Adored, was a smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and she now divides her time between the UK and America, writing her own books and the new series of Sidney Sheldon novels.

For more information, please visit www.tillybagshawe.com

Portrait of a Murder: The Mill

Book one in the Iris Grey series

A fresh cosy-crime series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, the British Library Crime Classics series and Midsomer Murders.

The Mill introduces readers to portrait painter and amateur sleuth Iris Grey. Set in an old converted water mill in Hampshire, the first Iris Grey mystery centres around The Mill’s owners, the Wetherby family. Iris has been commissioned to paint a portrait of Dominic Wetherby, a celebrated author, and finds herself drawn into a world of village gossip, romantic intrigue, buried secrets and a murder.

Trapeze | December 2017 | 304pp Rights: US Translation: Janklow & Nesbit 9 Fiction | Women’s SONYA LALLI

onya Lalli grew up in Canada and now works as a journalist Sin London. She was inspired to write her debut novel by the strong Indian women in her life, including her real-life Nani – who thankfully is yet to play matchmaker. Visit her website www.sonyalalli.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @saskinthecity

The Arrangement

A comic tale of one girl’s attempts to break free from cultural expectations and her matchmaker grandmother – Bend it Like Beckham meets Bridget Jones’s Diary.

Raised by her grandmother ‘Nani’, Raina is 29 and unmarried. According to their very tight-knit Indian community, she’s also selfishly crushing Nani’s dream of a traditional Indian wedding for her.

However, Nani is fighting back by ambushing Raina with blind dates so that, like her friends, Raina too can choose a nice Indian man and have a nice Indian wedding. But Raina doesn’t want to date Indian men, she wants to date and marry one specific Indian man, Dev. He’s not so much the one who got away but rather the one who’s never around but won’t go away. Heartbroken by Dev’s inability to commit or leave her alone, Raina wants to believe Dev will one day see the light. Waiting for that day, Raina is desperate to avoid the arrangement Nani is making for her and in a moment of panic lets Nani believe that the reason why she doesn’t want to get married is because she’s gay.

Horrified by the lie she’s told, Raina is torn between the relief of escaping the pressure of getting married and the guilt at seeing her beloved grandmother ostracised by bigoted elements of the community.

Sonya is a fresh, new voice in commercial women’s fiction and will appeal to women in their twenties and thirties looking for a new perspective.

Orion | June 2017 | 304pp | Ms due November 2016 Rights: Translation US: Martin Leonardis 10 Fiction | Women’s TERRI FLEMING

erri Fleming spent several happy years in advertising before Tturning her hand to writing. She was born in Australia, but has lived in the UK for over thirty years. Perception is her debut novel.

Perception

A lively, entertaining sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, following the fates of the unmarried Bennet sisters, studious Mary and fun-loving kitty.

Opening several years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, Mary and Kitty are still at Longbourn and Mrs Bennet’s hopes of finding an eligible bachelor in Meryton are dwindling. Mary, busy with her books, has no interest in finding a husband. But when Mr Montagu, the handsome son of a local family, returns home after years of study, Mary discovers in him a kindred spirit. Against all her better judgement, Mary finds herself falling for Mr Montagu, but his socially ambitious mother has other ideas . . .

• July 2017 is the 200th aniversary of Jane Austen’s death.

Orion | July 2017 | 320pp | MS available January 2017 Rights: World 11 Fiction | Women’s KARINE LAMBERT

arine Lambert is a photographer and novelist. Her first novel, KL’immeuble des Femmes Qui Ont Renoncé aux Hommes, sold more than 100,000 copies in France.

Now Let’s Dance

For fans of The Elegance of the Hedgehog and The One Hundred Year Old Man, a heart-warming tale of two unlikely lovers rediscovering their joie de vivre.

Marguerite had been living a comfortable but dull existence in a suburban town with her straitlaced lawyer husband. When he dies, she realises that life has passed her by.

Marcel had been in a loving relationship with Nora since they left Algeria sixty years before. Now that he has lost her, he has lost his way.

Marguerite and Marcel live in two very different worlds – one rich, one poor. They never should have met. And yet their paths cross at a retreat, and a connection forms... But will they manage to overcome the disapproval of their friends and families, as well as their own misgivings? Or have they left it too late to really follow their hearts’ desires?

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | September 2017 | 288pp | MS available July 2017 Rights: US Translation: JC Lattes 12 Fiction | Women’s MAUREEN LEE

aureen Lee is the queen of saga writing. Women of all ages M are inescapably drawn to her wonderful, unputdownable novels. Each one is packed full of drama, sorrow, friendship and romance. Her books are now selling in excess of 100,000 copies in paperback and her last two novels appeared on the Sunday Times’ bestseller lists. www.maureenlee.co.uk

Violet’s Children

A powerful, heart-warming new novel from the author of The Seven Streets of Liverpool and The Kelly Sisters.

Beginning in 1950s Liverpool, Violet’s Children is a warm and nostalgic story of a young woman who must adopt her sister’s children after tragedy strikes.

• With over 20 novels to date, Maureen Lee’s powerful stories and compelling narrative have made her the Queen of the Saga. • All of Maureen’s recent titles have been Sunday Times bestsellers in both hardback and paperback. • Maureen Lee won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award for Dancing in the Dark. • Maureen Lee has written two Quick Reads for World Book Day.

‘Another powerful saga from a fine writer.’ Evening Telegraph

Also by Maureen Lee: Queen of the Mersey (2004); The September Girls (2005); The Old House on the Corner (2005); Kitty and her Sisters (2006); The Leaving of Liverpool (2007); Mother of Pearl (2008); Nothing Lasts Forever (2009); Martha’s Journey (2010); Au Revoir Liverpool (2011); After the War is Over (2012); Flora and Grace (2013); The Seven Streets of Liverpool (2014); The Kelly Sisters (2015)

icky Pellegrino is of Italian origin and lives in New Zealand Nwhere she works on a leading women’s magazine. Her debut novel Delicious received wonderful reviews: ‘Full bodied as a rich Italian red, it is a page turner combining the missed chances of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin with the foodie pleasures of Chocolat. A warming read for a winter’s night’ Eve magazine. Her novels have been translated into thirteen languages. www.nickypellegrino.com @nickypellegrino

Under Italian Skies

Imagine swapping your house for a stay in an Italian villa...and falling in love with the owner’s life...

When Stella’s boss, a legendary fashion designer, dies, she is left feeling totally lost. That is, until she finds a house swap website and exchanges her poky London flat for a beautiful old villa in southern Italy. But what was just intended as a break becomes much more, as Stella finds herself trying on a stranger’s life. As the villa begins to get under her skin, she can’t help but imagine the owner from the clues around her. She meets his friends, cooks the local food he recommends and follows suggestions to go to his favourite places. But can an idea of someone ever match up the reality?

As Stella wonders if she can let go of the safety of her past, perhaps there’s a chance for her to find a way into her future...

Also by Nicky Pellegrino: Delicious (2005); Summer at the Villa Rosa (2007); The Italian Wedding (2009); Recipe for Life (2010); The Villa Girls (2011); When in Rome (2012); The Food of Love Cookery School (2013), One Summer in Venice (2015)

ane Sanderson has worked as a producer for the BBC and is J the author of three novels published by Little, Brown.

The Dog Days of Annie Doyle

A story of family, friendship and long-held secrets, perfect for fans of Dawn French and Jojo Moyes – and for anyone who loved Elizabeth is Missing.

Annie Doyle leads a very quiet life. She cleans the house, runs errands and visits her ailing husband, Vince. The highlight of her week is Wednesday, the day she walks her gorgeous Golden Retriever, Finn, with two local dog-owners.

But what nobody knows, is that for years Annie has held a terrible secret close to her heart . . .

When Vince takes a turn for the worse, the family gather under one roof, and Annie fears her secret will soon be revealed. As she struggles to keep things together, Annie realises opening her heart to friendship – and love – might be the only way to make it through.

Orion | March 2017 | 400pp | Ms available January 2017 Rights: World 15 Fiction | Women’s KATHERINE WEBB

atherine Webb’s spell-binding novels have sold over half a Kmillion copies in the UK, where she is a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller, but this is dwarfed by the success of her German publisher Diana Verlag who have sold double that. She is now a fully-fledged international bestseller and her novels have been translated in twenty-seven languages. f/KatherineWebbAuthor @KWebbAuthor

The River’s Edge

Dark secrets burst forth one humid summer in 1922 in the latest enthralling historical novel from bestselling writer Katherine Webb.

Wiltshire, 1922. Fifteen-year-old Pudding Cartwright has begun the career she always wanted, as ‘girl groom’ to the Hadleigh family’s horses at Manor Farm. Irene Hadleigh is struggling to adjust to her new life in sleepy Slaughterford, having married Alistair to escape a scandal in London. At a loss to occupy herself, Irene sets about restyling Manor Farm, and during the work the chance finding of a strange object, hidden away in the house for years, will change everything. When somebody close to both of them is murdered, and Pudding and Irene are thrown together to seek out the identity of the killer in their midst, unaware of just how deep the roots of the crime lie. During a hot, humid summer of grief, betrayal, and misapprehensions, they will uncover truths neither of them could ever have foreseen.

‘Webb brings her world to life with skill and passion’ Santa Montefiore

Also by Katherine Webb: The Legacy (2010); The Unseen (2011); A Half Forgotten Song (2012); The Misbegotten (2013); The Night Falling (2014); The English Girl (2016)

ate Williams is an author, social historian, constitutional Kand royal expert, broadcaster and novelist. She is a master of both fiction and non-fiction. ‘Williams has a gift for showing how great movements in history affect the lives of people caught up in them’ Kate Saunders, The Times

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The Storms of War: Book 1 First in a historical series perfect for fans of Atonement, Birdsong and Downton Abbey. In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. But the onslaught of war changes everything and soon the de Witts find themselves sidelined and in danger of losing everything they hold dear. As youngest daughter Celia struggles to make sense of the changing world around her, she lies about her age to join the war effort and finds herself embroiled and in a complex plot that puts her and those she loves in danger.

The Edge of the Fall : Book 2 In the aftermath of the Great War, the de Witt family are struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of their lives.

Rudolf and his wife Verena, still reeling from the loss of their second son, don’t know how to function in the post-war world. Stoneythorpe Hall has become an empty shell with no servants to ensure its upkeep. Celia, still desperate to spread her wings and see more of the world, moves to London and embraces life and love in the Roaring Twenties.

Book 3 In 1939, the world is on the verge of turmoil with the approaching storm of the Second World War. The fragile peace of the de Witt’s world is threatened once again as the fascinating story of the de Witt family draws to its dramatic conclusion.

Also by Kate Williams: England’s Mistress (Hutchinson, 2006); Becoming Queen (Hutchinson, 2008); The Pleasures of Men (Penguin, 2012); Young Elizabeth (Weidenfeld & Nicolson); The Storms of War (Orion, 2014); The Edge of the Fall (2015)

Orion | January 2018 | 364pp | MS available September 2017 Rights: World 17 Fiction | General DAVID M BARNETT

avid Barnett is a journalist and author of the critically Dacclaimed Gideon Smith series of Victorian fantasies. Following a career working on regional newspapers, he is now a freelance journalist and teaches journalism at Leeds Trinity University. He writes for the Daily Mail, Guardian and The Pool.

Calling Major Tom

Calling Major Tom is a heart-warming and ultimately life-affirming story of a man who has given up on the world... but discovers in the most unlikely way that it might not have given up on him.

Meet Thomas. Yesterday, he was the grumpiest man on the planet. Today, he is Britain’s unlikeliest astronaut. He is all alone on a one way mission and couldn’t be happier about it. But beneath his cranky exterior lies a story and a sadness. So when the man the media have dubbed Major Tom accidentally calls the wrong number and is put through to the dysfunctional yet loveable Ormerod family, what begins is a heart- warming and comical tale of unexpected friendship.

Calling Major Tom is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of friendship and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. A Man Called Ove meets The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by way of It’s A Wonderful Life.

hristian Cameron is one of Orion’s most accomplished and Cprolific writers of historical fiction. As a seasoned re-enactor, he totally immerses himself in the world he writes about in order to recreate the historical setting of his novels accurately and completely.

The Rage of Ares

The epic conclusion to the Long War series climaxes with the earth-shattering Battle of Plataea between the Greeks and Persians.

Arimnestos of Plataea, hero of the Battle of Marathon and many others, soon learns that even these stunning victories only served to buy the Greeks time. As the Persians gathered a new army, they return with overwhelming force to strike the final killing blow. For the Greeks, divided and outnumbered, there was only one possible strategy: attack. And so, in the blazing summer of 479 BC, Arimnestos took up his spear one final time at the Battle of Plataea.

Also by Christian Cameron: Tyrant series (2008–2013); The Long War series (2010–2015); God of War (2012); The Chivalry Series (2013–15)

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ulian Fellowes is an award winning actor, writer, director and Jproducer, and as creator of Downton Abbey, the winner of three Emmy awards. His new bestseller Belgravia has been sold in 22 countries.

Julian Fellowes’s Belgravia

The brand new bestseller from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, set in 1840s London.

Julian Fellowes’ Belgravia is the story of a secret – a secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London’s grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond’s now legendary ball, one family’s life will change for ever. . .

“Simply a wonderful read. Fellowes is as witty as ever . . . a modern classic that will fill any Downton-shaped hole” Daily Express

Also by Julian Fellowes: Snobs (2005); Past Imperfect (2008)

ichelle Paver is the author of the internationally bestselling MChronicles of Ancient Darkness series for children. Dark Matter was her first adult novel, published to great acclaim in 2010: ‘This powerful ghost story is anchored so securely in reality that the supernatural element seems entirely credible – and is all the more unsettling. ... The skilled narration further enchances the chilling reality of Jack’s life-changing experiences. Totally brilliant.’ Observer

Thin Air

The chilling new ghost story from the author of Dark Matter.

In 1935, young medic Stephen Pearce travels to India to join an expedition with his brother, Kits. The elite team of five will climb Kangchenjunga, the world’s third highest mountain, following in the footsteps of one of the most famous mountain disasters of all time – the 1907 Lyell Expedition in which five men lost their lives.

Lyell became a classic British hero when he published his memoir, Bloody, But Unbowed, which regaled his heroism in the face of extreme odds. However as the team prepare for the epic climb, Pearce’s unease about the expedition deepens. The only other survivor of the 1907 expedition, Charles Tennant, warns him off. He hints of dark things ahead and tells Pearce that, while five men lost their lives on the mountain, only four were laid to rest.

But Pearce is determined to go ahead and complete something that he has dreamed of his entire life. As they get higher and higher, and the oxygen levels drop, he starts to see dark things out of the corners of his eyes. As macabre mementoes of the earlier climbers turn up on the trail, Stephen starts to suspect that Charles Lyell’s account of the tragedy was perhaps not the full story . . .

Also by Michelle Paver: Dark Matter (2010)

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Waiting For Monsieur Bellivier

For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, a tale of two mysteries, set in the shadow of Montmartre.

‘Are you waiting for Monsieur Bellivier, madame?’ Helena Folasadu should of course say no. She doesn’t know the man talking to her, she doesn’t know Monsieur Bellivier, and she certainly isn’t waiting for him. But, bored of life, and sparked by a whim, she says yes. The go-between leads her to a deserted floor in an office building and offers her a large sum of money to sit at a computer and forward emails to Monsieur Bellivier. The emails turn out to be in code, and the bouquets Helena is handed every evening entangle her in an even greater mystery.

Mancebo, a Tunisian shopkeeper, lives a quiet and ordered life, manning his grocery shop on a street leading to the Sacré-Cœur. But one day he is approached by a woman asking whether he will spy on her boyfriend, who lives in the apartment across the street. To his surprise, Mancebo agrees. As he begins to focus on the man, his own life comes into focus, and he starts to suspect that his wife and cousin are leading secret lives. Helena and Mancebo don’t know it yet, but their missions will overlap in the most surprising ways.

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idely read in medieval history, Mark Alder was a journalist Wbefore becoming a full time writer. His previous book Son of the Morning was given a rare 5 star recommendation by SFX, who also called it a ‘smart, gripping historical fantasy’. He has also written novels under the name M.D. Lachlan, including Wolfsangel which was translated into 9 languages. @aldermark

Son of Night

The 100 Years War reaches the bloody slaughter of Crecy as Angels and Demons fight for the future of Man, in a series perfect for fans of George RR Martin and Bernard Cornwell alike.

Following on from the success of Son of the Morning, which saw him compared to both Bernard Cornwell for the flair of his historical writing and to George RR Martin for his gripping plotting, Mark Alder takes his history of the 100 Years War into France as the war between Heaven and Hell swallows up the ambitions of both the French and English crowns.

As the armies mass around Crecy the rivalries between Lucifer, Satan and God become ever deeper and more violent. Combining a cast of larger than life (yet real) characters and a truthful, deeply researched take on the religious beliefs of the time, Mark Alder has embarked on a truly unique historical fantasy that will ensure you never see the 100 Years War and the history of medieval Europe in the same way again.

Also by Mark Alder: Son of the Morning (2014). Writing as M.D. Lachlan: Wolfsangel (2010); Fenrir (2011); Lord of Slaughter (2012); Valkyrie’s Song (2013)

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tephen Baxter is the pre-eminent science fiction writer of Shis generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He is one of the most important voices in modern science fiction.

The Massacre of Mankind

The authorised sequel to The War of the Worlds, written by one of the world’s greatest SF authors.

H.G. Wells’s SF classic The War of the Worlds, first published 1897, has never been out of print and has spawned numerous films, TV series, radio drama series, a record album and numerous comic book adaptations. The Massacre of Mankind is the authorised sequel, written by one of the world’s greatest SF authors.

In the early years of the twentieth century, we were invaded by beings from Mars. They defeated us utterly – but by luck, and the intervention of the common cold – they were defeated in turn. But the world had changed. We knew we were no longer alone. And we knew that one day the Martians might return, and the war would begin again. That day is now. The massacre of mankind has begun.

Also by Stephen Baxter: Transcendent (2005); Resplendent (2006); Time’s Tapestry series: Emperor (2006), Conqueror (2007), Navigator (2007), Weaver (2008); Flood (2008); Ark (2009); Stone Spring (2010); Bronze Summer (2011); Iron Winter (2012); Proxima (2013); Ultima (2013); Obelisk (2016). With Alastair Reynolds: The Medusa Chronicles (2016)

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Cutting of where every FTL journey creates its own A wild adventure across an imagined cosmos up to the knowledge that a long-dead, mini-universe. A universe that is just waking around. Knowledge that could tip the hugely powerful alien species may still be perilous peace mankind has found into war. Ancestral are salvage operators. Theirs is a perilous Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz chance of striking it fantastically big, and marginal existence. They have barely enough back for more. They pilot their tiny ship just enough however, to keep them coming searching for the relics of lost into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, human and alien vessels. A wild, big-ideas space opera that will appeal to fans of Iain M. Banks, Peter F. to fans of Iain M. Banks, Peter F. A wild, big-ideas space opera that will appeal Campbell and multiple Hugo award Hamilton and Al Reynolds from a John W. winning author. Science Fiction & Fantasy

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oronto based Miles Cameron is a hugely successful full Ttime writer, smashing into the fantasy genre with his highly acclaimed debut novel The Red Knight. Unknown to many, Miles is also a prolific historical fiction writer under the name of Christian Cameron.

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The Fall of Dragons

Forget George and the Dragon. Forget Sir Lancelot and tales of Knightly exploits. This is dirty, bloody work. This is violent, visceral action. This is a mercenary knight as you’ve never seen one before.

The fifth volume in the acclaimed Red Knight series in which a dragon-killing expedition may lead to the destruction of an empire. Brought vividly to life by drawing on accurate historical detail, the complete series charts the rise and fall of kings and nations. But each novel is its own self-contained political and personal story, focusing on a specific event. We’ve had an epic siege in The Red Knight, a full-blown coup in The Fell Sword and a tournament in the third in the series. Now, we’re on a dragon hunt!

Also by Miles Cameron: The Red Knight (2012); The Fell Sword (2013); The Dead Wren (2015); A Plague of Swords (2016)

Gollancz | October 2017 | 560pp | Ms due March 2017 Rights: World Agents: Korea: KCC | Turkey: Anatolialit Rights sold: US: Orbit Option Publishers: Polish: MAG 33 Science Fiction & Fantasy ELSPETH COOPER

lspeth Cooper is an exceptional writer. Born and raised in ENewcastle-Upon-Tyne, she has always been fascinated by the magic of words and it was inevitable that she would come to write magical fiction of her own. Her debut novel Songs of the Earth was shortlisted for Best Fantasy Debut by the David Gemmell Awards in 2012.

The Dragon House: The Wild Hunt Book Four

This astonishing, bold fantasy series continues – and brings its world one step closer to destruction

Two of the three great Suvaeon keeps that held the North have fallen. In the south, a radical prophet fans the flames of bloody insurrection. Too long at peace, the Empire faces a war on two fronts that it is ill-equipped to fight.

The events surrounding the fall of Saardost Keep have stretched Gair to breaking point. His body is failing, and his gift has turned treacherous. Running out of time to save Tanith, he takes to the wildwood to shorten his journey to Astolar, but in Bregorin he will come face to face with his darkest fears.

As Ytha and her war band ride unopposed into the heart of the Empire, Teia struggles to catch them. If she can capture the starseed, she believes she can prevent the foretold destruction of her people by the Wild Hunt. Except she might already be far too late.

With the Guardians of the Veil scattered, and the Empire’s military resources stretched thin by war, only two people stand between the arch-manipulator Savin and his desires. But unless Gair and Teia can embrace the most deadly aspects of their gifts, their world will burn.

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oanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted JChocolat and many other bestselling novels. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. Joanne’s first book for Gollancz The Gospel of Loki was published to rave reviews in 2014 and has sold nearly 60,000 copies.

Honeycomb

A collection of dark, captivating fairy tales from the bestselling author of The Gospel of Loki.

That’s the beauty of stories; you never know where they will take you.

The toymaker who wants to create the perfect wife; the princess whose heart is won by words, not actions; the tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs his size; and the sinister Lacewing King who rules over the Silken Folk. These are just a few of the weird and wonderful creatures who populate Joanne Harris’s first collection of fairy tales. Dark, gripping and brilliantly imaginative, these magical tales will soon have you in their thrall.

Honeycomb will be beautifully illustrated throughout, with line drawings and full-colour plate sections by Charles Vess, the award-winning artist who illustrated Stardust by Neil Gaiman and The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Suzanne Clarke.

Also by Joanne M Harris (in Gollancz): The Gospel of Loki (2014)

eter Higgins is the acclaimed author of the Wolfhound Century Ptrilogy, which met extraordinary critical acclaim and was sold in five territories. The British Fantasy Society rated Wolfhound Century as ‘A thrilling masterpiece... brilliant world-building, great writing, and a pace that challenges you to put it down and then slaps you in the face with a constant niggling itch to return.’

The Waldenau Series

The Cold War is fought across a mythical Europe in this thrilling meeting of China Mieville and John le Carre.

Deep in the frozen years of the Cold War the intelligence services of East and West stumble on Waldenau. Waldenau is another Europe, a Europe of myth, legend and folklore that has existed alongside our Europe for 300 years. It is a place of mythical beasts, and slow magics, of folklore come true and living legends. It has evolved into a dream of Europe as it was in the 1920s, a Europe of Kafka, Bulgakov, Carter and Schulz.

A Europe of riches and dangers that the Cold War cannot let alone. A Europe that cannot let the Cold War alone.

This is the first in a sequence of extraordinary spy novels, rich with the atmosphere of the Cold War and the older, darker atmosphere of a shadowy, realer Europe.

Also by Peter Higgins: Wolfhound Century (2013); Truth and Fear (2014); Radiant State (2015)

Gollancz | August 2018 | 352pp | Ms available October 2017 Rights: World Agents: China/Taiwan: Grayhawk | Japan: EAJ 37 Science Fiction & Fantasy JOHN HORNOR JACOBS

ohn Hornor Jacobs is the author of Southern Gods, short-listed Jfor the Bram Stoker Award For Best First Novel, This Dark Earth, from Simon & Schuster, and The Twelve-Fingered Boy series of young adult novels from Carolrhoda Labs.

www.johnhornorjacobs.com @johnhornor

Infernal Machines

The final book in the critically acclaimed trilogy that began with The Incorruptibles

The action of John Hornor Jacob’s warmly received trilogy draws to a close as mercenaries Fisk and Shoe navigate the politically charged realm of the Autumn Lords’ Empire. Hornor Jacobs has received much praise for his remarkably conceived universe which ingeniously fuses elements of a Western with the Roman Empire with spectacular results.

‘5 * The Incorruptibles is a rare thing: a clever story and an action-packed one.’ – SFX

‘The Incorruptibles blends cowboys, the Roman empire and high fantasy and not only gets away with this unusual mix but pulls it off with such aplomb that you’re left wondering why no one has attempted it before’ – The Financial Times

‘Grim and gripping, surprising and exciting, tense and tremendously well-told.’ – Tor.com

‘One part ancient Rome, two parts wild west, one part Faust. A pinch of Tolkien, of Lovecraft, of Dante. I wish more books were as fresh and brave as this.’ – Patrick Rothfuss

Also by John Horner Jacobs: The Incorruptibles (2014); Foreign Devils (2015)

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The Smoke

An intense meditation on loneliness, capital, and cognition by the author of Wolves.

1980. A new ray has split the human family into different species. Mutual incomprehension has fractured the globe. No-one has the appetite for another Great War and each kind of human is looking for a place to be itself, alone. For you that means a train journey back to Yorkshire and the town of your birth, where foundries and factories churn out the parts for simple, gigantic spaceships. You’re done with the fancies and pretentions of the capital, its steel and glass, its incomprehensible media and curvilinear mathematics. You’re done with the people of the Bund, their easy superiority and unstoppable spread from the city of London to the Vale of Vision south of the Thames. You’re done with Georgy Chernoy, his cruelly magical medicine and his questionable defeat of death. You’re done with his daughter. You’re done with Natascha, and losing all the time. You’re done with love.

The locomotive tugs at its matchwood burden, nursing you past sodden pastures, and flocks of indeterminate black birds, and mill towns, and the backs of terraces. Soon enough you will find yourself in the Smoke again, living the future you tried to leave behind.

You’re done with love. But love’s not done with you.

Gollancz | November 2017 | 400pp Rights: US Translation: The Science Factory Ltd 39 Science Fiction & Fantasy M.D LACHLAN

.D Lachlan is the pseudonym of Mark Barrowcliffe, author Mof Girlfriend 44. He is full-time writer. Lachlan also writes historical fantasy as Mark Alder. ‘The most exciting, visceral and deeply imaginative writer of fantasy working today’. Adam Roberts

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Moonlight Sonata

The stunning conclusion to an extraordinarily original fantasy series.

During the height of World War Two, an immortal man who may be a wolf is sucked in to a mysterious murder in a remote English town. It is nearly time for him to give up his life and look for a new identity, to prevent his past from catching up with him – but he may have left it too late. The wolf inside him is howling.

In Germany, a good-hearted doctor finds himself unexpectedly caught up in the machinations of the Third reich. They believe he may be able to bring them a supernatural advantage in the war, even though he does not believe himself. But as he investigates, he begins to realise that he might have discovered something. A magic which has been largely forgotten. The runes are awakening…

MD Lachlan wraps up his cycle of werewolves and Norse mythology with a dark and dramatic step forward into the 20th century, and the greatest horrors the world has ever seen.

Also by M.D. Lachlan: Wolfsangel (2010); Fenrir (2011); Lord of Slaughter (2012); Valkyrie’s Song (2015)

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orld Fantasy Award nominee Scott Lynch’s brilliantly Woriginal fantasy debut The Lies of Locke Lamora launched one of the most exciting new fantasy careers of the 21st century and it introduced the world to the thief and con-man Locke Lamora. Praised by the likes of Joe Abercrombie and George R.R. Martin, The Lies of Locke Lamora has sold in twenty-five countries.

www.scottlynch.us @scottlynch78

The Thorn of Emberlain

With a controversial twist in the tale coming, Locke and Jean find themselves sucked into the horror of war.

The Gentleman Bastard series continues, and now Locke Lamora, thief, con-man, pirate, political deceiver must also become a soldier as finally the war that has been brewing in the Kingdom of the Marrows flares up and threatens to capture all in its flames.

And all the while Locke must try to deal with the disturbing rumours about his past revealed in The Republic of Thieves. Fighting a war when you don’t know the truth of right and wrong is one thing. Fighting a war when you don’t know the truth of yourself is quite another. Particularly when you’ve never been that good with a sword anyway...

Also by Scott Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006); Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007); The Republic of Thieves (2013)

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by climate change, and shaped by the betrayals and mistakes of the past. by climate change, and shaped by the betrayals of know (2007); The Quiet War (2008); Gardens of the Also by Paul McAuley (by Gollancz): Cowboy Angels Evening’s Empires (2013); Confluence – the Trilogy Sun (2009); In The Mouth of the Whale (2012); (2016) (2014); Something Coming Through (2015); Into Everywhere ‘Paul Austral A rising, and the Antarctic Peninsula is home to Earth’s newest nation, with life quickened by to Earth’s newest nation, with life quickened by rising, and the Antarctic Peninsula is home exposed by the retreat of the ice. ecopoets spreading across valleys and fjords generation of ecopoets, is a husky: an edited Austral Morales Ferrado, a child of the last of the far south, feared and despised by most of person adapted to the unforgiving climate officer in a labour camp, and consort to a its population. She’s been a convict, a corrections has committed the kidnapping of the century. criminal, and now, out of desperation, she the fractured history of her family and its role in Blending the story of Austral’s flight with the colonisation of Antarctica, Coming Through The world is still warming, sea levels are still The great geoengineering projects have failed. 44 Science Fiction & Fantasy IAN MCDONALD

an McDonald is a key figure in the history of SF. A ground- Ibreaker in the movement to extend SF beyond its anglo-centric roots, he has won many awards, including the BSFA award for best novel FOUR times, and is universally critically acclaimed. His thrilling new novel Luna: New Moon was the subject of a six way auction for the TV rights in the US, which have been acquired by CBS and Shane Brennan, the showrunner for NCIS: Los Angeles.

Luna: Wolf Moon

The BSFA and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author returns with the second part of his stunning moon colonisation epic, perfect for fans of The Martian and Red Mars.

Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed. The remaining Helio children, Lucasinho and Luna, are under the protection of the powerful Asamoahs, while Robson, still reeling from witnessing his parent’s violent deaths, is now a ward – virtually a hostage – of Mackenzie Metals. And the last appointed heir, Lucas, has vanished from the surface of the moon. However, some suspect all is not as it appears.

In an unstable lunar environment, the shifting loyalties and political machinations of each family reach the zenith of their most fertile plots as outright war between the families erupts.

Also by Ian McDonald: Chaga (1995); Sacrifice of Fools (1996); Kirinya (1998); Brasyl (2007); Cyberabad Days (2009); River of Gods (2009); The Dervish House (2010); Necroville (2011); Luna (2015)

imon Morden is the author of the Metrozone series, published Sby Orbit. He has won the Philip K. Dick Award and been a judge of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. A popular figure on the genre scene he has also proved to be a popular author of both noir SF and extravagant fantasy themed SF.

The White City

Award-winning author Simon Morden’s stunning SF quest continues, unravelling magic and uncovering secrets on the way . . .

In this fresh and unique take on portal fantasy Simon Morden continue the story he began in Down Station, following a group of commuters and tube workers who escaped from a fiery apocalypse in the London Underground into a mythical world that is divided by a mighty river and bordered by The White City and The Crystal Palace.

Reminiscent of Michael Moorcock and Julian May this is a grand and sweeping science fantasy built on the ideas, the legends, the memories of every London there has ever been.

‘Fast paced, with intense moments of danger as well as being full of wonder. Morden has written a book full of mysteries that are just waiting to be discovered.’ – Fantasy Book Review

‘Once again Simon Morden takes the fantasy genre and moulds it wonderfully.’ – The Sun

Also by Simon Morder: Down Station (2016)

ichard Morgan is the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke, John W. RCampbell and Philip K. Dick Awards; his books are published around the world, having been translated into 25 languages. His stunning debut novel Altered Carbon is currently being adapted into a ten-part Netflix series by Skydance Television.

Thin Air

Multi-award-winning author Richard Morgan returns to SF with a vengeance!

Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast- moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.

And now he’s back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember.

‘Altered Carbon is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there – a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.’ – Laeta Kalogridis (Executive Producer for Altered Carbon, Netflix Series)

am Peters is a mathematician and occasional screenwriter who Shas seen faces glaze over at the words ‘science fiction’ once too often. He brings a striking new voice to the Gollancz list and his inspirations include Dennis Potter, Mary Doria Russell, Lynda La Plante, Neal Stephenson, and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

From Darkest Skies

A high-concept science fiction thriller wrapped around a love story, a man’s search for the truth about his dead wife, and his relationship with the artificial intelligence he has built to replace her.

Keona Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service. With him he brings an artificial recreation of his dead wife’s personality. Built to discover the truth behind her own death, Keona’s relationship with her has grown into something more, something frighteningly dependent, something that verges on love.

His investigations lead him inexorably to a dilemma: does he do his duty and stand with his team to expose a villainous crime, or sacrifice them all for the truth about his wife?

arah Pinborough is a novelist and screenwriter. Her work Sincludes an original film and a TV series, both in development, and novels ranging from psychological crime to beautifully retold modern fairy tales.

www.sarahpinborough.com @sarahpinborough

13 Minutes

Netflix acquire film rights in this fresh psychological YA thriller – ‘Mean Girls meets Donna Tartt’s The Secret History for the Instagram age.’ The Times Natasha died for 13 minutes. We know she drowned. We know someone tried to murder her. But we don’t know the truth . . . This is an exceptional, contemporary, thought provoking thriller from an award- winning novelist. Brilliant characterisation, a simple narrative and an unflinching look at manipulation, relationships and death make this a compelling read. 13 Minutes is a high-concept tale of manipulation and “the power of truth in the age of the smartphone and social media”. The deal for film rights was struck through Undergound Mangement. Netflix are bringing Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the creators of “Gossip Girl”, on board to write. ‘The most exciting premise of the year...surely belongs to Sarah Pinborough’s 13 Minutes.’ The Express ‘The book’s evocation of the dark world of secondary school, with all its petty betrayals, casual cruelties and toxic friendships, is painfully spot on.’ The Telegraph ‘13 Minutes is another fantastic demonstration of Sarah Pinborough’s gifts for telling an enthralling tale.’ 9/10 – Sci-Fi Bulletin Also by Sarah Pinborough: A Matter of Blood (2010); The Shadow of the Soul (2011); The Chosen Seed (2012); Poison, Charm, Beauty (2013); The Death House (2014)

annu Rajaniemi is from Finland and has a PhD in String HTheory. He was the most successful debut SF novelist of recent years. He has given TED talks and continues to work as a scientist. His debut novel The Quantum Thief has been published in 13 countries.

Summerland

An awe-inspiring SF account of the afterlife and what happens when it spills over into the world of the living.

Hannu Rajaniemi follows up on the astounding success of his Jean de Flambeur trilogy with an epic stand-alone novel. One which will confirm his talent, emphasise the breadth of his range as a novelist and will establish him alongside Neal Stephenson and Adam Roberts as a master of both prose and ideas. It is 1958. World War II never happened. In the 1930s, the armies of the afterlife – known as Summerland – conquered the world of the living. The ruthless, immortal Summer Lords and their ectoplasmic machines rule a dark Britain with an iron fist, while a gifted young medium and a bastard daughter of Harry Houdini discover a map of the Other Side that could break their power.

ward-winner Alastair Reynolds is one of the world’s finest Awriters of far future space opera. His first novel Revelation Space has now sold over 100,000 copies in the UK and has been translated into eighteen languages. He has won the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD and been shortlisted three times for the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD.

www.alastairreynolds.com @AquilaRift

Revenger

Engaging from the first word, this is a superb, punchy, action-packed stand-alone caper from one of the greatest SF novelists around today. The planets have long since broken up into vast asteroid fields, floating around the universe. Some have become habitats for that most durable of races, humanity. It’s a universe of traders, schemers and planetary safe-breakers . . . and two sisters, Adrana and Aufura, who are determined to escape their middle-class lives, and debt-stricken parents, for a taste of it. Only there are dangers too. Where there are traders and looters there are also pirates, and sooner or later, everyone’s luck runs out.

Also by Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space (2000); Chasm City (2001); Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003); Redemption Ark (2003); Absolution Gap (2003); Century Rain (2004); Pushing Ice (2005); Galactic North (2006); The Prefect (2007); House of Suns (2008); Blue Remembered Earth (2012); On the Steel Breeze (2013); Poseidon’s Wake (2015); Beyond the Aquila Rift (2016)

dam Roberts is Professor of 19th Century Literature at Royal AHolloway, London University, and has written a number of critical works on SF as well as 19th Century poetry. He has been nominated three times for the Arthur C Clarke Award and has won both the BSFA Award For Best Novel and the John W Campbell Memorial Award for his novel Jack Glass.

The Real-Town Murders

An impossible murder. A ticking deadline. A political coup. The future may not be as bright as we would wish.

Alma is a private detective in a near-future Reading, rebranded as R!-town to try to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. Her partner is ill, and has to be treated without fail every 4 hours, a task that only Alma can do. If she misses the 5 minute window her lover will die.

So when Alma is called to an automated car factory to be shown an impossible death and finds herself caught up in a political coup, she knows that getting too deep may leave her unable to get home. What follows is a fast-paced thriller as she evades arrest, digs into the conspiracy, and tries to work out how on earth the dead body appeared in the boot of a freshly-made car in a fully-automated factory.

Literary SF perfect for fans of Mieville, Mitchell, Atwood and Stross

Also by Adam Roberts: Salt (2001); On (2002); Stone (2003); The Soddit (2003); Polystom (2004); The Sellamillion (2004); The McAtrix Derided (2004); The Va Dinci Cod (2005); Star Warped (2005); The Snow (2005); Gradisil (2006); Land of the Headless (2007); Swiftly (2008); Yellow Blue Tibia (2009); I am Scrooge (2009); New Model Army (2010); By Light Alone (2011); Jack Glass (2012); Adam Robots (2013); I, Soddit (2013); Twenty Trillion Leagues under the Sea (2014); Bete (2014); The Thing Itself (2015)

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The The by explosive collars and trained in virtual reality by the electronic ghost of a dead marine by the electronic ghost of a dead marine by explosive collars and trained in virtual reality and worse are transformed into Miska’s sergeant, the thieves, gangsters, murderers, Legion. Are the mercenaries just for fun and own private indentured army: the Bastard connected to her covert past? profit, or does Miska have a hidden purpose ‘Gavin Crysis: (2011); The Age of Scorpio (2012); Crysis: Also by Gavin Smith: Veteran (2010); War in Heaven The Beauty of Destruction (2016) Escalation (2013); Quantum Mythology (2015); set Four hundred years in the future, the most dangerous criminals are kept in suspended dangerous criminals are kept in suspended Four hundred years in the future, the most in a shared virtual reality animation aboard prison ships and “rehabilitated” hacker with a background in black ops, environment. But Miska Storrow, a thief and has stolen one of these ships, the 54 Science Fiction & Fantasy TRICIA SULLIVAN

ricia Sullivan is an award-winning writer of SF, Fantasy and YA. THer third novel, Dreaming In Smoke, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best SF novel. Her work has encompassed cyberpunk, space opera and near future satire. Her novels have been shortlisted for the BSFA Award, the Tiptree Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. An American, she has lived in the UK since 1995.

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

Tricia Sullivan – winner of multiple awards – returns with a dramatic yet light-hearted novel which melds science fiction and detective fiction.

A light-hearted mystery, featuring Charlie, a dream therapist. Early in the book, a famous client dies from sleepwalking, having been stalked to death in her own dreams, and Charlie gets caught up in searching for the killer, who also wants to get rid of her.

A lot of people die, but it’s fun.

Reviews for Occupy Me

‘Occupy Me keeps the pages turning and the wheels of thought whirring. It’s a psychedelic experience, a wacky tapestry of an idea’ – SFX

‘Sullivan uses the tired tropes of paranormal fantasy and high-tech SF to explore ideas of morality and identity, and has produced a work of startling originality.’ – The Guardian

Also by Tricia Sullivan (in Gollancz): Occupy Me (2016)

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of our War (2004); No Present Like Time (2005); Dangerous Also by Steph Swainston: The Year of our War Offspring (2007); Above the Snowline (2009) a The fifth book set in Steph Swainston’s unique world. Rarely has a world been so world. Rarely has a world been so The fifth book set in Steph Swainston’s unique to flights of true fantasy. completely imagined and consistent yet open addicted, drug immortal, winged, – creation enduring an is Shira, Jant hero, Swainston’s And one of a circle of 50 immortals egotistical, vain, and a messenger of the Emperor. leading a war against an implacable foe. ‘Thoughtful, Fair One imagined Non-Fiction 57 Non-Fiction | History IAIN BALLANTYNE

one-time London-based defence and diplomatic correspondent A for a national news agency, Iain Ballantyne has contributed to coverage of naval and military issues in the Sunday Telegraph, Scotland on Sunday, Maxim and Focus as well as prestigious publications published on behalf of NATO and the Royal Navy.

Deadly Trade: A History of Submarine Warfare

The dramatic and largely untold story of submarine warfare in the Cold War and beyond.

The Deadly Trade is an exciting and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat – originally derided and loathed in equal measure – evolved into the most powerful and terrifying vessel ever invented, with enough destructive power to end all life on Earth. Much-respected naval writer Iain Ballantyne considers the key episodes of submarine warfare and vividly describes the stories of brave individuals who have risked their lives under the sea, often with fatal consequences.

Today, nuclear-powered submarines are among the most complex, costly ships in existence. Armed with nuclear weapons, they have the ability to destroy millions of lives: they are the most powerful warships ever created. At the heart of this thrilling narrative lurks danger and power as we discover warfare’s murkiest secrets.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | September 2017 | 384pp | Ms due January 2017 Rights: World 58 Non-Fiction | History EDWARD BURMAN

dward Burman is a writer and film maker. He is the author of E Xi’an Through European Eyes: A Cultural History in the Year of the Horse. From 1999–2012 he was director of a London-based investment company and in 2006 set up offices for them in China, in Beijing and in Xi’an. Since then he has visited Xi’an once a month. He has lived in China since 2003 and he has set up EB Cultural Enterprises Ltd in Hong Kong for his cultural activities. www.edwardburman.com

Terracotta Warriors: 2,000 Years of History, Mystery and New Discovery

An up to date exploration of the famous Terracotta Army which will include all recent discoveries.

Exciting investigations in north-west China are about to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor, a portion of which was accidently discovered in 1974 by farmers who were digging a well. The second phase of an international research project began in 2011 and is on-going. More recently still, in March 2015, promising new excavations began in Pit 2, with exciting fresh discoveries. Much new material has become available since 2008, the year of the major sell-out exhibitions in London and Paris.

Written with the full support of the Shaanxi Province Cultural Relics Bureau, Terracotta Warriors will describe the discovery of the site as well as explore recent new findings and discoveries. Edward Burman wears his learning lightly, and his narrative about this momentous archaeological discovery is unfailingly fascinating.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | April 2018 | 304pp | Proposal available Rights: World 59 Non-Fiction | History JAMES EVANS

ames Evans completed a PhD at Oriel College, Oxford, following Ja first-class degree and a Masters in Historical Research. He has written and produced many historical documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, and is the author of Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England.

Emigrants: Why the English Sailed to the New World

An absorbing, unconventional approach to the mass emigration from England to the Americas in the seventeenth century.

During the course of the seventeenth century nearly 400,000 people left Britain for the Americas, most of them from England. It was an astonishing outpouring, unlike anything in the country’s remembered past, but few have looked in detail at the lives these emigrants led or asked, simply, why did they go?

Emigrants casts light on an unprecedented population shift – a phenomenon that not only helped shape modern America, but continues to shape the modern world. James Evans uses contemporary sources from diaries, court hearings and letters to bring many of the individual emigrants’ diverse stories to life, and uncovers the fascinating reasons behind why so many people left England for a new life in an unknown part of the world.

Also by James Evans: Merchant Adventurers (2013)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | June 2017 | 352pp | Ms due December 2016 Rights: US Translation: Johnson & Alcock 60 Non-Fiction | History LOUIS FERRANTE

ouis Ferrante is the author of Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach Lthe Legitimate Businessman (Portfolio/Penguin, 2011) and Tough Guy: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insider (Bantam, 2008). Ferrante was a mobster, before he became a writer. Nicholas Pileggi, co-writer (with Martin Scorsese) of one of the most famous Mafia movies of all time, Goodfellas, said of him: ‘I’ve met a million mobsters and I’ve met a million writers, but until I met you, I’d never met a mobster who can write.’

The Mafia: A Modern History

A unique historical record of the modern Mafia, (1985-2005), written by a former mobster.

Ferrante’s book is a history of ‘our Mafia’ – the Mafia of the last 30 years. Ferrante acquaints the reader with the Mafia’s formative years: its origins in Sicily, before following Italian immigrants to America. Several ambitious New York mobsters are introduced, exploring how the structure of their new underworld empires shaped the American Mafia. A twenty year period from 1985-2005, during which Ferrante was an active mobster, makes up the meat of this book. The epilogue takes a look at the Mafia since 2005, and the author’s predictions of where the organisation is heading.

The Mafia remains one of the largest organised crime groups in America, with operations all over the world, and Ferrante’s exploration of a more recent and relevant Mafia is an important contribution to contemporary history. All of this with the added twist of the author’s criminal involvement in the history he is writing.

Ferrante’s insider knowledge details every aspect of Mafia life within the focus period of 1985–2005, making this history unparalleled in its conception.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | June 2018 | 320pp | Proposal available Rights: World 61 Non-Fiction | History OPHELIA FIELD

phelia Field read English at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating Owith a double first, and gained a Masters with distinction in Development Studies at the London School of Economics. Her first book, The Favourite, was published to wide acclaim in 2002. Field has since acted as the historical consultant on Queen Anne, a play by Helen Edmundson about the Duchess of Marlborough’s downfall which was staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company from November 2015 to January 2016.

The Favourite

A new edition of Ophelia Field’s acclaimed biography of Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744).

Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough, was the glamorous and controversial subject of hundreds of newspaper articles and publications during her lifetime and after her death. Tied to Queen Anne by an intimate friendship, Sarah hoped to wield power equal to that of a government minister. Politically, Sarah was most influential through her husband, one of England’s greatest generals, and their mutual friend, the Treasurer Sidney Godolphin. After their deaths, she remained independently powerful thanks to the immense wealth she controlled as the founder of several dynasties, including the Spencer-Churchills.

This biography brings her own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life, and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature. Here is an unforgettable portrait of a woman who cared intensely about how we would remember her.

A film about Sarah Churchill starring Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz is in development, with Olivia Colman set to play Queen Anne. Oscar-nominee Yorgos Lanthimos will direct under the auspices of Element Pictures, producers of the Oscar-winning adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s Room.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | April 2018 | 496pp Rights: US Translation: David Higham 62 Non-Fiction | History LEONIE FRIEDA

wedish by birth, but educated in Britain, Leonie Frieda speaks Sfive languages and is a member of the Institute of Linguists. Her long interest in Catherine de Medici resulted in a biography that was a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and was translated into six languages.

King Francis I Of France

The author of the bestselling Catherine de Medici turns to King Francis of France, Catherine’s father-in-law, who turned France into a great nation.

King Francis I (1494–1547)was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement’s exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. A renowned patron of the arts (he acquired Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa), diplomat par excellence and contemporary of Machiavelli, he was the founder of modern France, whose sheer force of will and personality moulded his kingdom into the first European superpower. With access to private archives that have never been used in a study of Francis I, Leonie Frieda explores the life of the man who was the most human of the monarchs of the period, and yet remains the most elusive.

Also by Leonie Frieda: Catherine de Medici (2004); The Deadly Sisterhood (2012)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | July 2017 | 512pp | Ms due January 2017 Rights: World Rights sold: US: HarperCollins 63 Non-Fiction | History JAMES HAMILTON

ames Hamilton, biographer of J M W Turner and Michael JFaraday, is Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at the University of Birmingham. His most recent book is A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain. He has curated dozens of highly influential exhibitions, among them Turner and the Scientists (Tate Gallery, 1998).

Thomas Gainsborough: Portrait of an Age

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) is the quintessential painter of the 18th century, an era that is so richly reflected in the novels of Jane Austen, the music of Handel, and the elegance of Bath and Georgian London. Gainsborough defined an age in his portraits, while in his landscape paintings he evoked the first critical reverberations of the impending social change from Britain’s rural to an industrial economy.

While Gainsborough’s work has been displayed fruitfully in exhibitions and in country house collections, there is no modern full-length biography. The circumstances of his life have only been seriously addressed where they touch on the interpretation of his work by art historians. James Hamilton’s vibrant biography draws a striking picture of the social, literary and musical background in London, Bath and provincial Suffolk, setting the artist in his period and society, whilst also illuminating the paintings, the majority of which are in public collections in Britain, principally at the National Gallery, Tate Britain, Kenwood and the National Gallery of Scotland, where they are seen as the epitome of 18th-century elegance.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | July 2017 | 320pp | Ms due January 2017 Rights: US Translation rights: Felicity Bryan 64 Non-Fiction | History BETTANY HUGHES

ettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and B broadcaster. Her previous books – Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore and The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life – were published to great critical acclaim and worldwide success. Bettany has made a number of factual films and documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, The History Channel and ABC for both British and international viewers. Bettany is a Research Fellow of King’s College London and has been honoured with numerous awards including the Norton Medlicott Medal for History. www.bettanyhughes.co.uk @bettanyhughes

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

A captivating history of one of the world’s greatest cities, based on years of first-hand research and new archaeological evidence.

Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where ideas are as potent as historical fact. Standing as the gateway between the East and West, it has served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was known simply as The City, but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a story. Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the world’s greatest cities. As the longest-lived political entity in Europe, over the last 6,000 years Istanbul has absorbed a mosaic of micro-cities and cultures all gathering around the core. Phoenicians, Genoese, Venetians, Jews, Vikings and Azeris all called a patch of this earth their home. Delving into these layers – both physical and ideological – this epic new biography of Istanbul is visceral, immediate and scholarly narrative history at its finest.

awrence James was a founding member of the University L of York and then took a research degree at Merton College, Oxford. After a distinguished teaching career he became a full- time writer in 1985 and has emerged as one of the outstanding narrative historians of his generation.

Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa

How in a hundred years Europeans coerced Africa into their various empires – and how Africa decolonised itself. Colonial Africa was a magnet for the high minded, the philanthropic, the unscrupulous and the insane. Visionary pro-consuls rubbed shoulders with missionaries, explorers, soldiers, adventurers, engineers, big-game hunters, entrepreneurs and physicians. In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world, and then how, by 1945, in a process of rapid decolonization, a transformed continent prepared to take charge of its own affairs. Also by Lawrence James: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (Little, Brown, 1995); Raj: the Making and Unmaking of British India (Little, Brown, 1998); Warrior Race: a History of the British at War (Little, Brown, 2001); The Middle Class: a History (Little, Brown, 2008); Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence – Britain’s Great Ruling Class from 1066 to the Present (Little, Brown, 2009); Churchill and Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist (W&N, 2013)

orn in 1947, Richard Morris grew up in Birmingham and Bstudied English at Oxford but has lived in Yorkshire for most of his life. Morris’s research on medieval and twentieth-century themes is reflected in writing that includes six books of history and historical biography including Time’s Anvil, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He is currently professor of conflict and culture at the University of Huddersfield.

Yorkshire

A lyrical history of England’s greatest county.

Yorkshire explores the tumultuous history of one of Europe’s most geologically varied areas – a realm where mountain, plain, coast, chalk hills, wetland and heath lie close, often within sight of each other – has often been to the fore in times of conflict or tension (think Wars of the Roses, Northern Rising, Civil War, Cold War, the miners’ strike of 1984).

Eighteen centuries ago a province of the Roman Empire was governed from York; in the Viking age a trading axis ran from Dublin through the kingdom of York to the Baltic, along Russian rivers to Byzantium and Baghdad. As Richard Morris reveals in this dazzlingly wide-ranging and lyrical history, Yorkshire has always been both a region with a distinct identity inside Britain and a fulcrum in the world.

Also by Richard Morris: Time’s Anvil (2012)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | May 2017 | 320pp | Ms due November 2016 Rights: World 67 Non-Fiction | History LIZA PICARD

iza Picard was born in 1927. She is the author of many Lacclaimed works of social history, including Restoration London, Dr Johnson’s London and Victorian London. She read law at the London School of Economics and worked for many years in the office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue and lived in Gray’s Inn and Hackney, before retiring to become a full-time author.

Chaucer’s People

A fascinating exploration of the Middle Ages through the lives of Geoffrey Chaucer’s pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.

In Chaucer’s People, Liza Picard guides us through the tumultuous world of the late fourteenth century in an ingenious, informative and entertaining way. Taking the assorted cast of pilgrims Chaucer selected for The Canterbury Tales, Picard brings medieval social history to life and uncovers the detail behind Chaucer’s poetic portraits. These are the lives lived beyond the court circles frequented by most of his well-heeled audience.

Drawing on contemporary experiences of a vast range of subjects including war, trade, religion, plague and banking, Liza Picard recreates the medieval world in all its glorious detail. Chaucer chose his pilgrims carefully. By providing these characters with a three-dimensional framework – the times in which they lived – Liza Picard opens the fourteenth-century world up to us.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | October 2017 | 320pp | Ms due March 2017 Rights: World 68 Non-Fiction | History VICTOR SEBESTYEN

ictor Sebestyen is the acclaimed author of Twelve Days, VRevolution 1989 and 1946. He was born in Budapest and was still a child when his family left Hungary as refugees. As a journalist, he has worked for numerous British newspapers, and reported widely from Eastern Europe when Communism collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.

Lenin

A new life of the creator of the world’s first communist state.

Victor Sebestyen’s intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. In Russia to this day Lenin inspires adulation. Everywhere, he continues to fascinate as a man who made history, and who created a new kind of state that would later be imitated by nearly half the countries in the world.

Lenin believed that the ‘the political is the personal’, and while in no way ignoring his political life, Sebestyen’s focus will be on Lenin the man – a man who loved nature almost as much as he loved making revolution, and whose closest ties and friendships were with women. The long-suppressed story of his ménage a trois with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a different character to the coldly one-dimensional figure of legend.

Told through the prism of Lenin’s key relationships, Sebestyen’s lively biography casts a new light on the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history.

Also by Victor Sebestyen: Twelve Days (2006); Revolution 1989 (2009); 1949 (Macmillan 2014)

adek Sikorski is an Oxford educated Polish journalist, and Rauthor of several books, in 2012 he was named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by the foreign policy magazine ‘for telling the truth, even when it’s not diplomatic.’

The Polish Model

The first popular book to chart the extraordinary story of Poland’s post-communist transformation by Poland’s former foreign secretary

The astonishing transformation of Poland from authoritarianism to democracy in two short decades may be the greatest achievement in modern history. Poland chose the path of democracy, liberal capitalism and European Union membership but due to its history and economy the predictions for Poland’s future were overwhelmingly bleak.

Yet for a quarter century, Poland has had a working democracy, constantly improving infrastructure, upward mobility and steady growth. Whereas once Poland aspired to match ‘the West’, now other states – notably Ukraine and north African countries in the wake of the Arab Spring – aspire to learn from the Polish model.

Drawing on interviews, stories of real people and situations, and academic sources, The Polish Model will be a unique portrait of a country in transition, with far-reaching lessons for us all.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | September 2018 | 368pp | Ms due January 2018 Rights: World 70 Non-Fiction | History CHRIS SKIDMORE

hris Skidmore is the author of three much admired books on CTudor and medieval history: Edward VI, Death and the Virgin and Bosworth. He previously taught at Bristol University and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2010 he was elected Member of Parliament for Kingswood.

Richard III: Brother, Protector, King

The first full biography of Richard III in over fifty years by ‘one of our brightest young historians’ David Starkey.

The last Plantagenet king (1452–85) remains one of England’s most famous and controversial monarchs. A dedicated brother and loyal stalwart of the Yorkist dynasty for most of his early life, Richard III’s personality was forged in the tribulation of exile and the brutality of medieval combat. His two-year reign would become one of the most tumultuous in history, ending in treachery and his death on the battlefield at Bosworth.

Chris Skidmore’s biography strips back the legends that surround Richard’s life and reign, and by returning to original manuscript evidence, rediscovers the man as contemporaries saw him.

Also by Chris Skidmore: Edward VI (2007); Death and the Virgin (2010), Bosworth (2013)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | April 2017 | 400pp | MS available November 2016 Rights: Translation US: Capel & Land 71 Non-Fiction | History ROBERT TWIGGER

obert Twigger is a British author, poet and adventurer. After R attending Oxford University he trained with the Tokyo Riot Police, which became the subject of his bestselling book Angry White Pyjamas.

White Mountain

A sweeping biography of the Himalayas by the acclaimed author of Red Nile and Angry White Pyjamas

Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world’s religions. They are also a plant hunter’s paradise, a climber’s challenge, and a traveller’s dream.

In his quest to explore the region’s seismic history, Twigger seeks out the Nagas, who helped his grandfather build a camp for Allied soldiers near Imphal during the Second World War and takes the most scenic bike ride in the world from Lhasa to Kathmandu. The result is a sweeping, fascinating and surprising journey through the history of the world’s greatest mountain range.

Also by Robert Twigger: Angry White Pyjamas (1997); Big Snake (1999); Being a Man (2002); Voyageur (2006); Lost Oasis (2007); Real Men Eat Puffer Fish (2008); Red Nile (2013)

ichael Vatikiotis is an expert commentator on Southeast MAsia and author of several books on the region. He has lived there for decades working as a private diplomat, conflict mediator and journalist and is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera and the BBC.

Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia

A powerful examination of the conflicts in Southeast Asia that risk destabilising its remarkable development.

Southeast Asia is a poster child for a model of development that for almost three decades has lifted most of the ten countries of the region out of poverty. Yet beyond the beach clubs and plush five-star hotel lobbies of Thailand and Singapore, the heart of Southeast Asia is a place where conflict is never far below the calm surface of outward politeness. In Blood and Silk, Vatikiotis aims to dispel the myth of a tropical Arcadia, and give proper consideration to the grim reality of the perpetual threats to lives and livelihoods in Southeast Asia from the Islamic jihadist groups of Central Java to the right-wing Buddhist nationalists of Rakhine State in Myanmar.

Also by Michael Vakiotis: Political Change in Southeast Asia: Trimming the Banyan Tree (Routledge); Indonesian Politics under Suharto (Routledge)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | June 2017 | 320pp | Ms due December 2016 Rights: World Agents: Korea: Bestun 73 Non-Fiction | Science & Nature MARCUS CHOWN

arcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. MFormerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is cosmology consultant for New Scientist.

The Ascent of Gravity: An Unfinished History

An exploration of the force that keeps our feet on the ground and holds the key to understanding our universe.

Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognised and described yet it is the least understood. Award-winning writer Marcus Chown takes us on an unforgettable journey from the recognition of the ‘force’ of gravity in 1666 thanks to Sir Isaac Newton, to the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015. And, as we stand on the brink of a seismic revolution in our world view, he brings us up to speed on the greatest challenge ever to confront physics.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | April 2017 | 256pp | Ms available Jan 2017 Rights: US Translation rights: Felicity Bryan Ltd. 74 Non-Fiction | Science & Nature ADAM RUTHERFORD

r Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. After Dstudying evolutionary biology at UCL, his PhD from Great Ormond St Hospital and the Institute of Child Health was on the genetics of the developing eye. He spent ten years at the editorial staff of the world’s premier science journal Nature. He has written and presented several television series and programmes. His first book, Creation, was published by Viking in 2013 to outstanding reviews and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize.

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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

Adam Rutherford explores – and exposes – what our map of the human genome can really tell us about ourselves.

Since scientists first read the human genome more than a decade ago it has been subject to all sorts of claims and counterclaims. We’ve been told that we inherit genes for sexuality, infidelity or criminality. But genetics just doesn’t work like that. Drawing on the very latest research, Adam Rutherford reveals a picture of this rapidly changing area of science that is more complex and more fascinating than scientists had dared to imagine.

Our genomes are not like instruction manuals, Adam Rutherford explains, but more like poems. Genes tell us less than we think about an individual person, but vastly more about people. Adam Rutherford’s book will explore in depth this relationship between our genes and our history.

osamond Richardson writes the monthly feature ‘Reflections’, Rnow approaching its third year, for Britain’s biggest-selling bird magazine BirdWatching. Familiar to many as author of the Penguin Classic Hedgerow Cookery and co-presenter of BBC2‘s Discovering Hedgerows, as well as the international bestseller Country Wisdom, she has written a column for The Countryman over the past three years

Waiting for the Albino Dunnock

An exquisite account of an acclaimed nature writer’s discovery of and conversion to bird-watching.

Waiting For The Albino Dunnock explores the mysterious world of birds through the seasons of a single year. Written by a beginner-birdwatcher with the passion and freshness of a convert, it describes encounters with wild birds in their habitats, travelling through the landscapes of East Anglia where the author is rooted – the Fens with their waterscapes and wide skies, the forests and heathland of the Brecks, the flat sea coastlines of Norfolk, the arable fields and woodlands of Suffolk and Essex, and beyond as far as the Outer Hebrides and Eastern Europe.

What makes this book different is the linking narrative, which reflects on how the ordinary yet serendipitous experience of birdwatching is far more than just that. It touches on themes of silence and solitude, on inscape and stillness, on waiting, and the uncommonness of the commonplace.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | July 2017 | 400pp | Ms due January 2017 Rights: US Translation rights: Felicity Bryan 76 Non-fiction | Music RAY CONNOLLY

ay Connolly is a journalist and screenwriter. While working Rfor the Evening Standard he interviewed, among others, many Sixties and Seventies rock stars and cultural icons, including The Beatles and Elvis Presley. He has written a number of articles for the Daily Mail, as well as The Sunday Times, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Observer.

Being Elvis

The definitive, intimate, no-holds-barred biography of the King of Rock ’n’ Roll.

What was it like to be Elvis? This new biography of Elvis by veteran rock journalist and columnist Ray Connolly takes a fresh look at the evidence to form a vivid portrait of an ordinary boy with an extraordinary voice who became a man trapped by fame and killed by his addictions.

Publishing ahead of the 40th anniversary of Presley’s death on 16 August 2017, Being Elvis is forensic in its analysis of the ways Elvis’s undoubted talent was squandered – by those around him and by Elvis himself.

What makes Connolly’s book unique from other books on the market is his interpretation of the loneliness of Elvis’ extreme fame, his lifetime fear of losing everything, his supine inability to stand up for himself, his career long drug dependency, and his need for money which led to frustrations about not being able to express himself in film and music. Being Elvis is a thoughtful and careful examination of an immortally celebrated life.

s a member of one of London’s best-loved bands, Chris Difford, Athe Squeeze co-founder has made a lasting contribution to English music with hits such as ‘Cool For Cats’, ‘Up The Junction’, ‘Labelled With Love’, ‘Hourglass’ and ‘Tempted’.

Some Fantastic Place

A captivating memoir of Chris Difford’s upbringing in South London and his rise to fame in Squeeze, one of the biggest bands of the 1970s and 1980s.

Over the course of a 13 album career with Squeeze, when it comes to smart, pithy lyricism Chris Difford has few peers. His ‘kitchen sink-drama’ style has drawn plaudits from fans on both sides of the Atlantic, while his influence is keenly felt today. Lily Allen, Mark Ronson, Kasabian, Razorlight and The Feeling have all recognised the debt they owe to Squeeze’s music and to Difford’s way with words.

“King George Street in Charlton, South London, was my first home. Six prefabs, three pubs, a school, a church and a yard where the electricity board kept cables. Two long rows of terraced house faced each other at one end of the street; and, at the other, big houses with big doors and even bigger windows. There was a phone box next to one of the pubs and when it rang everyone came out to see who it was for. It was a tiny road – at one end of which there was Greenwich Park. It was heaven being there, its beauty always shone on me from the trees at sunsets and from the bushes in the rain. I was there in all weathers. It was 1964, I was ten years old and this is when my memory really begins. The previous decade is built up from vague recollections that lean heavily on the imagination.”

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | September 2017 | 400pp | MS available April 2017 Rights: World 78 Non-fiction | Music EVGENY KISSIN

vgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian-British-Israeli classical Epianist who first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic era, particularly those of Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Franz Liszt.

Memoirs

The Russian-born classical pianist’s personal account of a life in music.

These captivating memoirs describe Kissin’s childhood in Russia and his family’s decision to live abroad after the attempted putsch at the Russian White House in 1993. With refreshing candour Kissin describes the life and attitudes of the mainly Russian Jewish intelligentsia, his views on the performance of music and his personal approach to concerts. The book also offers Kissin’s philosophy of life and his understanding of human nature derived from meetings with learned people, books and his own day-to-day experience. He does not indulge in false modesty, but takes a realistic view of who he is in the eyes of the world.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | February 2017 | 256pp | Ms available Rights: US Translation rights: Marina Arshinova 79 Non-fiction | Music THOMAS VOIGT

homas Voigt is a well-respected German music critic. THis previous books include biographies of the German operasingers Martha Mödl and Inge Borkh. His biography of Jonas Kaufmann has been written with Kaufmann’s full cooperation. The book was well received in Germany and will now be translated and published in English.

Jonas Kaufmann: The Authorised Biography Authorised biography of the most glamorous classical male singer in the world today.

Jonas Kaufmann (born 10 July 1969) is a German operatic tenor, best known for his performances in spinto roles such as Don José in Carmen, Cavaradossi in , Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur, and the title role in Don Carlos. He has also sung leading tenor roles in the operas of Richard Wagner with success in Germany and abroad, most notably the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He is also an accomplished Lieder singer. In 2014 The New York Times described Kaufmann as ‘a box-office draw, and ... the most important, versatile tenor of his generation.’

In this authorised biography we hear from his remarkable teachers and learn of ups and downs of the profession, and Kaufmann’s thoughts and emotions before and during debuts and performances at opera houses around the world.

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estselling author Guillem Balague is a key fixture of Sky BSports’ coverage of Spanish football, appearing regularly both on live match coverage and the weekly round-up show, Revista de la Liga. He is also the UK Correspondent for AS, the Madrid-based Spanish sports newspaper, and El Larguero, Spain’s most popular sports radio show. His work appears regularly in The Times and in Champions magazine, where he writes a regular column on international football.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Biography of the great Real Madrid, Portugal and former Manchester United superstar by the acclaimed author of Messi. Portuguese footballing sensation Cristiano Ronaldo came to global attention when Alex Ferguson spotted him and signed him for £12.24 million (€15 million) in 2003. He wore the number 7 shirt which was previously worn by George Best, Eric Cantona and David Beckham. Going on to win all four main PFA and FWA awards, Ronaldo has also won the Ballon d’Or award for best footballer on the planet (twice) and holds the record for the most goals scored for Real Madrid and most goals scored per minute in La Liga for a Real Madrid player. In January 2014, he scored his 400th career goal. In short, he is a phenomenon. But little is truly known about this great footballer and athlete. Guillem Balagué’s insightful and revelatory biography casts an illuminating eye on – officially – the greatest footballer on earth. Also by Guillem Balagué: A Season on the Brink (2006); Pep Guardiola (2012); Messi (2013)

ark Chapman began his broadcasting career in 1996 as a Mcontinuity announcer on BBC television before becoming the cricket correspondent for BBC North East radio. He then joined BBC Radio 1 as a sports reporter before joining Radio 5 Live to host 5 Live Sport. He also hosts Match of the Day 2, broadcast on Sunday evenings, and the BBC’s coverage of Rugby League. He is an occasional stand-in for Gary Lineker on Match of the Day.

The Love of the Game: Parenthood, Childhood and Me

Sports presenter Mark Chapman’s brilliant exploration of the relationship between parents and children in sport.

In The Love of the Game BBC sports presenter Mark Chapman explores the relationship between parents and children through the amateur sporting world. Like so many people, sport has played such a huge part in his life from a very early age, thanks to both his mum and dad. Now as a father to three children he is hoping to pass on this same love.

The difficult part is facing the fact that, now in his forties, he is no longer in his physical prime. As his sporting ability hurtles towards a cliff before plunging headfirst into a sea of beer bellies and knee replacements, his children are thriving.

This is a story about sport, but beyond that it paints sport as a touchstone for everything important: growing up, getting old, becoming a parent, learning how to win (and how to lose gracefully), the legacy we all hope to leave our children; in short, life and all that goes into it.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | November 2016 | 256pp | Ms available Rights: World 83 Non-Fiction | Sport JOHN MCMANUS

ohn McManus is an academic and writer based in Istanbul Jwho has periodically lived in Turkey since 2008. He did a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oxford looking at Turkish football and football fans in the diaspora. He is fluent in Turkish and has been writing about Turkish football for peer-reviewed academic journals and a general readership for more than five years. He has written for the BBC Sport website, the Guardian and in 2009 won a sports-writing competition at the Independent with a piece about Be ikta fans.

Welcome to Hell?: A Journey Through Turkish Football

The first book to shine a light on modern-day Turkey through its passionate football culture.

‘Turkey is a country that is very, very obsessed with football. From toddlers to doddery old grannies, everyone must be – or pretend to be – a fan. It is hard to over-estimate the role of the game in Turkey’s national life: the three biggest clubs are older than the 100-year old state itself. When politicians tour the country, the scarf of the local football team is draped around their neck as they take the stage at rallies. The president himself is a former semi-professional.’

Football permeates every part of Turkish society and is a great prism through which to look at the country. In his informed and entertaining new book, writer and Istanbul resident John McManus uses the subject of football to provide a unique take on Turkish society, politics and culture, covering a wide range of topics, from the plight of the refugees pouring into the country to gender politics in sport in Islamic countries.

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ordan Bone is a popular YouTuber, making beauty videos as well Jas opening up about her own life and sharing inspiration. Her video ‘My Beautiful Struggle’ has been viewed over 5.6 million times.

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My Beautiful Struggle

One day a girl’s life was changed forever in a car accident. This is the inspiring true story of how she got her life back.

Aged 15, Jordan Bone got into a car with friends. She would never walk again. Paralysed from the waist down, her life was changed forever. Becoming depressed and feeling like life wasn’t worth living, these weren’t the teenage years that Jordan had envisaged.

However, slowly but surely, she began to get herself out of the darkness. With a little help from the internet, Jordan started to embrace positive thinking and embarked on a personal journey to get her confidence – and her life – back. Eleven years on from the accident, Jordan creates her own beauty tutorials on YouTube and has a range of successful brand partnerships. She has reclaimed her life and her independence and now wants to share her inspirational story with others. This isn’t a book about outer beauty, this is a story of inner strength, believing in yourself and finding motivation when you feel like all hope is gone.

Trapeze | April 2017 | 320pp | Ms available December 2016 Rights: World 86 Non-Fiction | Biography & Memoir JULIA BUCKLEY

ulia Buckley is a journalist and translator. She read Modern JLanguages at Oxford before joining the launch team at The London Paper. She writes travel features for many publications including the Independent, Sunday Times Travel Magazine and Mail On Sunday; has a monthly column for National Geographic Traveller and is assistant editor at Condé Nast’s HotelChatter.

Heal Me

An honest account of a personal journey through the pain relief industry – with a touch of humour.

Julia Buckley suffers from a chronic pain condition that can leave her screaming in agony for days at a time. It’s a condition that affects one in five people, but, like the vast majority of these conditions, her pain is not only incurable but untreatable, as science cannot – yet – identify a cause. Three GPs, eight consultants, three physiotherapists, one nurse and two psychologists later – and faced with a life sentence of disability, pain support groups and the frustration of being shipped from one doubting specialist to another – Julia finds herself willing to try anything. What follows is a journey that takes her from California to Kerala, Bali to Bermondsey, and from eminent surgeons to witch doctors, to the fringes of healthcare where conventional medicine cannot reach.

Written with refreshing honesty and humour, Heal Me treads the boundaries between science, psychology and faith, and raises important questions about the modern medical system.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | June 2017 | 352pp | Proposal available Rights: US Translation rights: Johnson & Alcock 87 Non-Fiction | Biography & Memoir MAGGIE CLARKE WITH CATHRYN KEMP

ged 95, Margaret Clarke is sprightly and lives in London. AAlong with her daughter Eileen, she is keen to keep the memories of Liverpool alive through her storytelling. athryn Kemp is the Sunday Times bestselling author of We Ain’t Got CNo Drink, Pa and A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile. She has written across the spectrum of the British press, and in 2002 won the Peter Wilson Award for Journalism. She is also the author of Painkiller Addict for which she won the Big Red Read Prize for non-fiction in 2013.

Jam Butties and a Pan of Scouse

A heart-warming and nostalgic memoir of hardship and happiness in Liverpool’s dockland slums.

This is a gritty yet heart-warming memoir set against the backdrop of Liverpool’s tightknit working-class docklands community. The story covers Maggie’s upbringing in the tenements close to the docks, the River Mersey and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal: an area notorious for having the worst slums in Britain, yet the closest community as well.

At the tender age of 11, Maggie Clarke finds herself the matriarch of the family when her Irish mother runs off with another man. Leaving school at 14 to work at a local factory putting sticks into lollies, she is determined to make a better life for herself and her family – before starting her own family with her childhood sweetheart, who she marries at 19 after ‘falling in the family way’.

Maggie’s story sweeps across the changing face of Liverpool, from its squalid dock streets, the tenement blocks and cobbled roads to the decline of the docklands, new council housing, the rise of the Mersey beat, the Beatles and the energy and passion of a city that is home to a cast of colourful characters with the resilience to withstand the heartbreak and hardships that only the poorest can know.

Trapeze | November 2016 | 256pp | Ms available Rights: World 88 Non-Fiction | Biography & Memoir HENRY FRASER

enry Fraser works in communications and social media for a HPremiership rugby club and is the first official representative of the Matt Hampson foundation, supporting young people seriously injured through sport.

The Little Big Things

A short, inspirational read from Henry Fraser, a young quadroplegic motivational speaker and artist.

Henry Fraser was a 17-year old sports enthusiast and senior prefect when he broke his spinal cord and was left paralysed from the shoulders down. Life as he knew it was over and yet, through extraordinary determination and a positive attitude, he has forged a successful career as an inspirational speaker and an artist. He chose survival over defeat, and transformed unimaginable difficulty into an opportunity to grow and inspire others.

This book will combine his wisdom and insight into accepting life’s challenges with positivity and hope, and will resonate with anyone facing an obstacle, no matter how big or small. It includes Henry’s thoughts on how to look at the right things and avoid the wrong things, looking for progress in whatever you do, and acknowledging and accepting the darkness when it comes. Right at the heart of Henry’s inspiring philosophy is his belief that every day is a good day.

Orion Spring | April 2017 | 192pp | Ms due November 2016 Rights: World 89 Non-Fiction | Biography & Memoir MAGGIE HARTLEY

aggie Hartley has fostered more than 300 children over the Mpast 28 years at her home in the Midlands. She's looked after refugees, supported children through sexual abuse and violence court cases, cared for teenagers on remand and helped teach young mums how to parent their newborn babies.

Little Ghost Girl Too Young to be a Mum

The true story of a little girl who suffered Can Jess learn to be a good mum when she years of abuse at the hands of her family, is only a child herself? A true story from eventually saved by foster mother Maggie bestselling foster carer Maggie Hartley. Hartley. When fifteen-year-old Jess arrives on foster Kayleigh was a ghost of a girl when carer Maggie Hartley’s doorstep with her she arrived into foster mother Maggie newborn son Jimmy, she has nowhere else Hartley’s care. Pale, frail and withdrawn, to go. it was clear to Maggie that Kayleigh had seen and experienced things that no ten- Arriving straight from the hospital having year-old should have to. just given birth, Jess is like a rabbit caught in the headlights. Scared, alone, and a Through love, reassurance and patience, child herself, she is overwhelmed with Maggie starts to unravel Kayleigh’s the responsibility of caring for a newborn painful past and helps Kayleigh find her without the support of a loving family. With voice, to be a ghost no more, and bring social services threatening to take baby those who’ve harmed her to justice. Jimmy into care, Jess knows that Maggie is her only chance of keeping her son. Trapeze | December 2016 | 272pp | Ms available Rights: World Trapeze | June 2017 | 288pp | Ms due January 2017 Agents: Korea: Shinwon Rights: World 90 Non-Fiction | Biography & Memoir ALAN PARTRIDGE

lan Partridge presents Mid Morning Matters on North Norfolk ADigital. Broadcaster, writer, motivational speaker, sports fan, thought-leader, businessman and consummate professional, Alan enjoys bitter shandy, high-end knitwear, The Daily Mail newspaper and personal success. He is currently doing very well.

Alan Partridge: Nomad

The follow-up to Alan Partridge’s hilarious mock memoir, I, Partridge, charting the highs, lows and mediums of his one-man walking tour around (certain parts of) Britain.

In the follow up to his 60k-word memoir, Alan Partridge dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey through a place he once knew – it’s called Britain – intent on completing a journey of immense personal significance.

Diarising his ramble in the form of a ‘journey journal’, Alan details the people and places he encounters, ruminates on matters large and small and, on a final leg fraught with danger, becomes – not a man (because he was one to start off with) – but a better, more inspiring example of a man.

Through witty vignettes, heavy essays and nod-inducing pieces of wisdom, Alan shines a light on the nooks of the nation and the crannies of himself, making this a biography that biographs the biographer while also biographing bits of Britain.

Trapeze | October 2016 | 304pp | Ms available Rights: World 91 Non-Fiction | Biography & Memoir STEPHEN PURVIS

tephen Purvis, an architect, was held in Cuba after his company, SCoral Capital Group, fell foul of a massive anti-corruption drive launched by President Raúl Castro. He was imprisoned for fifteen months before safely returning to Britain in 2013.

Close but No Cigar

An eye-opening account of a year spent in a Cuban jail – its horrors and absurdities.

Businessman Stephen Purvis suspected that an arrest was coming after his boss was taken in. Yet he and his family decided to stay in Cuba: despite living there for twelve years he had a naive sense of fair play. Eventually, Stephen was arrested for the vague crime of passing state secrets. Quite what secrets and to whom is not clear. He shares a tiny cell with three other men and can seldom go outside. The food is inedible. Many men there commit suicide; others just rot or go mad. Then, just as suddenly as it began, it all ends with his trial.

Told with rare self-possession and humour, Close But No Cigar gives a fascinating insight into the dark heart of Cuba’s prison system.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | March 2017 | 256pp | Ms due November 2016 Rights: World 92 Non-Fiction | Biography & Memoir KEVIN TOOLIS

evin Toolis is a writer and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. He is Kthe author of an acclaimed chronicle of Ireland’s Troubles, Rebel Hearts: Journey’s Within the IRA’s Soul (Picador). As a film maker, Toolis won the BAFTA for Best Single Drama in 2014.

My Father’s Wake

An intimate, lyrical memoir exploring the ancient rite of the Irish wake.

Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on the remote island of Dookinella, off the coast of Mayo, it has a louder voice. Along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio runs a thrice daily roll of ordinary deaths. The islanders go in great numbers, often with young children, to wake with their dead. They keep the corpse and the bereaved company through the long hours of the night. They dig the grave with their own hands. It is a communal triumph in overcoming the death of the individual.

In this beautifully written memoir, Kevin Toolis gives an intimate, eye-witness account of the death and wake of his father, and explores the wider history of the Irish Wake. With an uplifting, positive message at its heart, My Father’s Wake celebrates the spiritual depth of the Irish Wake and asks if we can find a better way to deal with our mortality, by living and loving in the acceptance of death.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | September 2017 | 288pp | MS available April 2017 Rights: US Translation: RCW 93 Non-Fiction | Biography & Memoir GWEN WILSON

wen Wilson began writing her memoir in her fifties, but Gshe has always been a storyteller. Essentially self-educated, she has had to fight hard for what she has achieved in life. After a tough upbringing in the western suburbs of Sydney, Gwen fell into series of traumatic circumstances – all before the age of nineteen. She now lives with her husband Bill in Wollongong, New South Wales.

I Belong to No One

One woman’s true story of family violence, forced adoption and ultimate triumphant survival.

A teenager in the 1970s, Gwen Wilson had a tough childhood. Illegitimate, fatherless, her mother in and out of psychiatric hospitals; it would have been easy for anyone to despair and give up. Yet Gwen had hope. Despite it all, she was a good student, fighting hard for a scholarship and a brighter future. Then she met Colin. Someone to love who would love her back. But that short-lived love wasn’t the sanctuary Gwen was looking for. It was the start of a living hell. Rape was just the beginning. By sixteen she was pregnant, her ongoing education abandoned.

Society did not tolerate single mothers; prejudice and discrimination followed her everywhere. In an effort to save her son, Jason, from the illegitimacy and deprivation she’d grown up with, Gwen chose to marry Colin – and too quickly the nightmare of physical abuse, poverty and homelessness seemed inescapable. I Belong to No One is a story of desperate lows, the fight for survival and how it led to one woman’s eventual triumph over adversity.

Orion | December 2015 | 320pp Rights: World (excluding German) German rights: Selwa Anthony 94 Non-fiction | Health, Well-being, Parenting CHARLOTTE ABRAHAMS

harlotte Abrahams is a highly respected writer, editor and Ccurator specialising in design and the applied arts. She trained at Central St Martin’s and since then has written regular features, columns and profiles for national broadsheets and magazines including Financial Times How to Spend It, Guardian Weekend Magazine, Crafts, Saturday Telegraph Magazine, Elle Decoration and Living Etc. She is also the author of two books, Wallpaper: the Ultimate Guide and Wallpaper: a Collection of Modern Prints.

Hygge: A Celebration of Simple Pleasures Living the Danish Way

A beautifully written and stylishly designed guide to living a more hygge life.

Candlelight is hygge; the smell of freshly brewed coffee is hygge; the feel of crisp, clean bed linen is hygge; dinner with friends is hygge. ‘Hygge’, pronounced ‘hoo-ga’, is a Danish philosophy that roughly translates to ‘cosiness’. But it is so much more than that. It’s a way of life that encourages us to be kinder to ourselves, to take pleasure in the modest, the mundane and the familiar. It is a celebration of the everyday, of sensual experiences rather then things. It’s an entire attitude to life that results in Denmark regularly being voted one of the happiest countries in the world.

So, with two divorces behind her and her 50th birthday rapidly approaching, journalist Charlotte Abrahams ponders whether it’s hygge that’s been missing from her life. Is it a philosophy we can all embrace? In a society where lifestyle trends tend to centre on deprivation – be it no sugar, no gluten, no possessions – what does cherishing yourself actually mean? And will it make her happy?

In Hygge, Charlotte Abrahams weaves the history of hygge and its role in Danish culture with her own attempts to embrace a more hygge life. In this beautifully written and stylishly designed book, she offers practical tips on how to introduce hygge to your home, health, relationships and, of course, happiness.

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Happy Drawing workbook too fast with pressure bearing down on us For many of us, life can feel like it’s moving or work, family or social media. As a result, from all sides – whether that’s from school – feeling blue. we find ourselves frazzled, lost and – too often life that little bit more. Drawing Happy is a practical workbook to help readers love happiness, practical sections include on every tried-and-tested method of achieving touch with your creativity, yoga poses and exercises to start the day well, how to get in Fearne’s own beautiful illustrations. mindfulness exercises, all accompanied by (2016) Also by Fearne Cotton: Cook Happy, Cook Healthy 96 Non-fiction | Health, Well-being, Parenting REBECCA DENNIS

ebecca Dennis is the founder of www.breathingtree.co.uk Rand a qualified Breath coach and workshop leader. She suffered from depression for nearly 20 years before discovering Transformational Breath, and managed to overcome her depression through the techniques she learned. She studied Transformational Breath with founder Judith Kravitz in Mexico and Miami and other influential trainers in Italy and in the UK. Her clients come with many various issues including stress, anxiety, addiction, abuse, depression, ME, respiratory problems, trauma, sleeping patterns, focus, lack of energy, physical problems and low self-esteem.

And Breathe: The Complete Guide to Deep Breathing and the Secret to Health, Wellbeing and Happiness

A wellbeing guide to the art of deep breathing: boost energy, combat stress and improve heart health.

Breathing is something we all know how to do. And yet, the majority of teenagers and adults let go of their natural ability to breathe fully. We are conditioned from an early age to control our feelings and emotions, and as a result our muscles tighten and our breathing patterns become restricted. The implications for our mental and physical wellbeing are enormous. By learning how to breathe properly we can live life fully, find emotional freedom and feel empowered.

And Breathe teaches readers how to harness the power of deep breathing. It is a practical guide to letting go of the unwanted patterns of emotions and tension which hold us back. It includes simple to follow exercises, tips, case studies, interviews and testimonials.

li first started practicing mindfulness in 2003, and all Ohe could find were books by the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist writers. Like many do, he found the task of putting those words into practice incredibly difficult, so he set about deconstructing this practice of mindfulness and translating the experience into everyday language. He now teaches mindfulness workshops and is the author of the bestselling Mindfulness Plain & Simple and Mindfulness for Life.

Mindful Relationships Mindfulness at Work Mindful Parenting

Find peace and joy through stress-free, mindful living, with bestselling author Oli Doyle’s six-week guides to relationships, work life and parenting.

The Mindful Living series is a new series of short mindfulness books dedicated to enhance three important areas of our lives: parenting, relationships and work. Bestselling author and mindfulness guru Oli Doyle shows that all the key domains of life provide great opportunities to practice mindfulness and discover peace of mind.

The Mindful Living series is for real, flawed, imperfect people who are ready to embrace their challenges and discover a different way of living.

Also by Oli Doyle: Mindfulness Plain & Simple (2014); Mindfulness for Life (2015)

Orion Spring | January 2017 | 160pp | Ms available Rights: World Agents: Korea: Bestun 98 Non-fiction | Health, Well-being, Parenting CLARE JOHNSON

lare Johnson is the leading expert on lucid dreaming. She has Ca PhD from the University of Leeds on using lucid dreams as a creative tool (the first doctoral work in the world to explore this topic), is a lucid dreamer herself, and is Board Director of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, the biggest dream organisation in the world. She regularly gives talks and leads workshops about dreaming, and she has written two critically- acclaimed, lucid-dreaming-inspired novels: Breathing in Colour (Little, Brown 2009) and Dreamrunner (Little, Brown, 2010). She is British, and currently based in Germany. Dream Therapy

Dream your way to health and happiness with this definitive book on lucid dreaming, based on 20 years of academic research.

Dreams can have a powerful effect on our waking life – we’ve all woken happy and refreshed from a particularly pleasing dream, or scared and sad because of a vivid nightmare. In Dream Therapy, Dr Clare Johnson shows how we can learn from and take control of our dreams in order to lead healthier, happier, more mindful and fulfilling lives. Johnson is a life-long lucid dreamer and the first person to complete a PhD on lucid dreaming and creativity. In this practical how-to guide, she shows us how to understand the language of dreams, how to wake up in our dreams, and finally how to shape our dreams while we sleep to improve our waking life.

Each chapter is packed with helpful tips, cutting-edge scientific findings, interviews with leading dream experts, and fascinating examples of how people have used their dreams to improve their lives and improve mindfulness.

Orion Spring | June 2017 | 256pp | Ms due January 2017 Rights: World 99 Non-fiction | Health, Well-being, Parenting ROSEMARY LEONARD

r Rosemary Leonard’s work as a consultant to national Dtelevision, radio and newspapers makes her one of the country’s best-known doctors. She is the resident doctor on BBC Breakfast, and also writes a weekly page for the Daily Express and a weekly column in “S” magazine. She is the medical editor and regular feature writer for Woman And Home magazine, and Tesco Healthy Living magazine. Her first book, The Seven Ages Of Woman, came out at the start of 2007. Rosemary was awarded an M.B.E. for her services to healthcare in the New Year’s Honours List, 2004.

Menopause: The Answers

The essential guide for women approaching or experiencing menopause from women’s health expert, Dr Rosemary Leonard.

One thing is for sure women cannot avoid the menopause. But how do they show grace, dignity and control during this time? In this definitive guide, TV’s famous Dr Rosemary Leonard debunks some of the myths surrounding the menopause, including why ‘perimenopause’ is a layman’s term, and the pros and cons of HRT. Rosemary discusses the best approaches to the menopause and whether drugs, holistic remedies or other forms of treatment will work best for the individual.

Covering everything from hot flushes, changes to your menstrual bleeding pattern, how to tackle sex after menopause, and advice on alternative remedies, The Menopause is the comprehensive bible on how to navigate your body’s changes.

Orion Spring | February 2017 | 320pp | Ms available August 2016 Rights: World Agents: Korea: Shin Won 100 Non-fiction | Health, Well-being, Parenting SARAH NORRIS

arah Norris is one of the most accomplished and experienced Smaternity nurses in the UK. She is an expert in her field, and has cared for over 250 babies during her 23-year career. Her clients include celebrity couples such as Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge, Jessica and James Purefoy, and a number of the Guinness family. She is currently in the process of developing her online presence through her website and baby care blog, Babyfriend.net, her Facebook page and Twitter account.

The Baby Detective

The only parenting book that offers a unique, step-by-step guide to enable parents to solve 0–6 months baby care problems for themselves.

Baby and child care is a proven publishing market yet many parents today remain confused, stressed, lacking in confidence and crying out for help. The Baby Detective is the only book of the parenting genre to develop a unique, step-by-step investigative process that will enable parents to solve their own baby care problems. It puts them firmly back in the driving seat, giving them the tools to do away with sometimes conflicting and confusing expert advice, and to face parenting challenges using their own intuition.

Drawing on case studies of Sarah’s previous clients, the book is based around her unique principle of AIM, in which parents are guided through the process of Assessing a problematic situation, Investigating the possible causes and Modifying behaviour in order to resolve the situation. It provides insight into how and why environment, biology and personality interact to affect a baby, as well as suggesting numerous tips and strategies for remedying common problems.

‘Sarah’s experience, insight and problem solving skills were invaluable.’ Sienna Miller

Orion Spring | March 2017 | 288pp | Ms due November 2016 Rights: World Agents: Korea: BC Agency 101 Non-fiction | Health, Well-being, Parenting SAM OWENS

am Owen is a psychologist and relationship coach. She writes Swith a natural, warm yet authoritative manner and is regularly asked to contribute to editorial features for national newspapers and magazines. Sam works with a range of clients struggling with marriage issues, dating, anxiety and self-confidence. She has already appeared on BBC Breakfast and ITV’s This Morning as a dating/relationships expert.

Resilient Me

A practical guide to building everyday resilience.

It is inevitable that we will all have to face challenges, big and small, throughout our lives. From dealing with difficult co-workers to the death of a family member, events and situations occur that can throw us off course and make us feel anxious, frustrated, and out of control. So how can we make sure that we are ready to meet these challenges, and to cope with whatever life throws at us? Sam Owen, a psychologist and relationship coach, believes the key is resilience – the ability to problem-solve, to adapt, and to weather every setback.

Luckily, resilience is not an innate quality but one that we can all learn, and this is a practical guide to learn and develop it. Jam-packed with tips, exercises and case studies, Resilient Me covers such topics as self-esteem, setting realistic goals, developing positive relationships, and communication with yourself and others.

Orion Spring | November 2017 | 256pp | Ms available May 2017 Rights: World 102 Non-fiction | Health, Well-being, Parenting JUSTINE PATTISON

ustine Pattison is the UK’s favourite diet recipe writer and Jspecialises in creating recipes for some of the UK’s top TV chefs and food presenters. She is a contributor to the Guardian, BBC Good Food and Mail Online, and is the author of Freeze and the Without the Calories series.

The Healthy Gut Handbook

How a balanced gut is the key to weight loss, boosting your brain health and restoring your wellbeing

In The Healthy Gut Handbook, bestselling diet recipe writer Justine Pattison puts the latest nutrition research into practice and shows us how we can eat to improve our gut, leading to weight loss and better health. Written in consultation with Professor Tim Spector, bestselling author of The Diet Myth, The Healthy Gut Handbook includes the basics of the science behind the diet, which does away with the traditional calorie-in-calorie-out model.

It includes a 28-day plan to kick-start a healthy gut, and tips on how to maintain this way of eating for life. Delicious and diverse recipes are jam-packed with easy-to-find and inexpensive ingredients that are essential to gut health, from yoghurt and olive oil to pulses, fermented foods, proper cheeses, and even wine and chocolate! Dishes include Moroccan Baked Cod with Peppers, Tomatoes, Courgettes and Chickpeas, and Goat’s Cheese Salad with Chicory, Beetroot and Walnut Salad with Puy Lentils.

Orion | February 2017 | 336pp | Ms due November 2016 Rights: World 103 Non-fiction | Health, Well-being, Parenting HANNAH RICHARDS

annah Richards is a highly-trained nutritionist with Hprestigious qualifications matched by only a handful of others in the UK. She is an Advanced Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor, C.H.E.K Holistic Lifestyle Coach level III and a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist. She is a regular contributor to publications including Cosmopolitan, Evening Standard Magazine, the Daily Telegraph, Health for Men and Company magazine as well as having a regular slot on the Chrissy B Show on Sky TV.

The Best Possible You

A unique nutritional guide to your body. Discover how to improve your health and find the best possible you.

We have four ‘bodies’ in this human body of ours – the Physical body, the Chemical body, the Emotional body and the Mental body and a healthy body relies on all these bodies to be in tune with each other for the absence of disease.

The aim of this book is to teach you how you can improve and better your own health by getting back to the basics. To learn and understand where food comes from. To get back in touch with your body and build a relationship with every part, every organ and system that it houses. The book gives a breakdown of every organ that is inside you, what its job entails, when and how it can go wrong and how to heal back to health. Including recipes and detailed diet plans and/or detoxes, each chapter covers a different part of the body.

Written in an accessible, engaging style each chapter features helpful illustrations and focuses on practical, useful information backed up with relevant science.

Orion Spring | April 2017 | 256pp | Ms due November 2016 Rights: World Agents: Korea: Bestun Illustrated 105 Illustrated non-fiction | Health & Beauty LIZ EARLE

iz Earle is an unrivalled figure in beauty, with one of the most Lsuccessful global skincare ranges. A special in botanical LIZ EARLE ingredients, natural health and well-being, she is a beauty editor, author of over 30 books, and TV presenter. Covering every aspect of lifestyle, from beauty boosting foods to make-up tips and hints

6 WEEKS TO BEAUTIFUL, RADIANT SKIN AT ANY AGE her brand new book is the go-to guide for anyone looking to achieve youthful, luminous skin.

Skin: 6 Weeks to Beautiful, Radiant Skin at Any Age

Nourish, polish and perfect your skin following beauty guru Liz Earle’s amazing 6 week programme.

Liz Earle is the authority on skincare and her brand new guide, Skin, is the only book you will ever need to transform dull, lifeless skin, to skin that radiates youth and good health.

Skin features a 6 week programme to nourish your skin inside and out. As your skin improves week by week, you will move through stages of detox and exfoliation, cleansing and healing, to nourishing, balance and, finally, radiance and maintenance. It encourages you to incorporate new practices into your skincare routine such as body brushing and mindfulness, as well as guiding you through a make-up detox and problem-solving for specific skin conditions.

The programme is accompanied by a full recipe section, with breakfasts, lunches, easy suppers and snacks that will help you on your way to glowing skin during the programme and beyond. It includes seasonal dishes that are easy to make and don’t need expensive or specialist ingredients. Paying close attention to season-specific goals like getting spring skin ready for the beach and surviving party season, this section also includes tips on skin-saving larder essentials, ideas for healthy snacking and quick cheats, and easy ways to eat green.

Orion Spring | September 2016 | 256pp Rights: World 106 Illustrated non-fiction | Health & Beauty DALE PINNOCK

ale Pinnock, also known as the medicinal chef, is a food Dwriter specialising in the medicinal properties of food. He has published a number of successful books, as well as appearing on TV programmes such as The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Lorraine and Late Lunch Live.

Medicinal Cookery

The fully revised and updated ‘bible’ on eating for health, from the medicinal chef Dale Pinnock.

Medicinal Cookery is the only book you will ever need to understand and maximise health. Fully revised and updated as a beautiful full colour cookbook, it is jam- packed with brand new photography and delicious recipes that target many of today’s common chronic disorders, including digestive problems, heart and circulation conditions, and issues concerning the immune and nervous systems and skin disorders.

Orion | March 2017 | 256pp Rights: World 107 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery ITAB AZZAM AND DINA MOUSAWI

tab Azzam was born in Swaida, Syria, and lived in Damascus Iuntil 2011, when she moved to the UK. A filmmaker and theatre producer, she was part of the team behind BBC Four’s Syrian School. Dina Mousawi is a British-Iraqi actress whose performing experience spans theatre, film and television, as actor and presenter. Together they were involved in Antigone of Syria, a theatre project bringing together Syrian refugees in Lebanon in a reimagining of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy, and learnt how food is central to these women’s personal stories.

Syria: Recipes from Home

A sumptuously illustrated celebration of one the world’s greatest and least-known cuisines

Syria has always been the marketplace for the most delicious ingredients from East and West, a meeting-point for travellers and traders, where spices and sweetness collide. Nothing unites and inspires Syrians as much as food. Even now, in possibly the country’s darkest hour, Syrian families in tiny flats from Beirut to Berlin are searching out the best tomatoes, lemons, pomegranates and parsley to recreate the taste of home.

Friends and passionate cooks Itab and Dina met Syrian women in the Middle East and Europe to collect together the very best recipes from one of the world’s greatest food cultures. From hot yoghurt soup with turmeric to cherry meatballs, this is a delicious celebration of the unique taste, culture and food of Syria – and a celebration of everything that food and memory can mean to an individual, to a family and to a nation.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | May 2017 | 224pp Rights: World 108 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery HAIRY BIKERS

i King and Dave Myers, aka the Hairy Bikers, have been Sentertaining and feeding Britain with their unique blend of delicious recipes, cheeky humour and motorbike enthusiasm for years now. They are regular faces on the BBC, fronting programmes such as Mum Know’s Best, and The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation. This book is filled to the brim with the tasty recipes and easy-to-follow advice the boys are loved for.

The Hairy Bikers’ Chicken & Egg

A sensational savoury celebration of our favourite bird with show-stopping puds, desserts and cakes made with the humble egg!

Si King and Dave Myers love chicken. They also love eggs. In this, their biggest and best cookbook yet, the Hairy Bikers celebrate these most humble yet versatile of ingredients.

What comes first? It’s up to you. There are chicken soups and salads, eggy specials, an ultimate roasts section, smoky grills and hearty pies, everyday pasta and rice suppers, sensational spiced dishes and lots of ideas for making a little chicken go a long way. And to finish, there are irresistible puddings and cakes to peck at!

Orion | September 2016 | 384pp Rights: World 109 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery JORDAN BOURKE

ordan is an Irish chef and author of the critically acclaimed Jbestselling cookbooks Our Korean Kitchen, The Guilt-Free Gourmet and The Natural Food Kitchen. Having trained at the Ballymaloe cookery school in Ireland, he worked at the Michelin-starred Petersham Nurseries restaurant, London.

Healthy Baking

100 nourishing recipes for sourdoughs, savoury tarts, cakes, preserves, ferments and more.

This beautiful full-colour cookbook features nutrient-packed sourdoughs, yeasted loaves, comforting savoury tarts, abundant grain salads, decadent cakes and treats, and simple preserves and ferments. Anchoring the recipes are the use of natural and whole ingredients that have come from the land, sea or animal with as little interference as possible; and no additives, flavourings or preservatives. There are also chapters featuring recipes to serve alongside these baked gems including easy ferments and pickles, which taste incredible and are packed full of goodness. Enjoy hazelnut and fig sourdough; strawberry, amaranth and goat’s cheese salad; sticky chilli tomato jam; cabbage and kale kimchi; caramelised onion, butternut squash and rye tart; sweet potato scones; Amalfi lemon confit and buckwheat and almond chocolate cake.

Orion | February 2017 | 224pp Rights: World 110 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery FEARNE COTTON

earne Cotton has been on UK TV screens presenting since the Fage of 15, and hosted the prestigious weekday morning slot on BBC Radio 1 for the last ten years. With many millions of followers on social media, she is ranked amongst the world’s 250 most influential tweeters. Fearne lives in London with her family, and her first cookbook Cook Happy Cook Healthy was published in 2016.

Happy Food

More delicious, healthy and simple recipes from Fearne Cotton

Fearne Cotton is one of our best-loved television and radio presenters. She is also a keen healthy baker and young, busy, working mum who has found some great ways to eat well and eat clean.

In her first cookbook, Cook Happy, Cook Healthy, Fearne shows us how easy it is to eat delicious food that is good for our bodies and minds. Her second cookbook will be jam- packed with even more simple, fast and healthy recipes for everything from breakfast and speedy suppers to baked treats. With an eye to food bills and time-poor households, the ingredients are easy to buy and few in number, and the methods very simple.

Also by Fearne Cotton: Cook Happy, Cook Healthy (2016)

Orion | June 2017 | 224pp Rights: World 111 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery EMILY DOBBS

fter finishing her degree in Fine Art, Emily Dobbs followed Aher passion and began a career as a chef working at top restaurants in London including The Dock Kitchen, Ducksoup, Petersham Nurseries and Spring. She taught herself how to cook the Sri Lankan food she loved and founded Weligama, named after a town on the South Coast of the country, globally renowned for its stunning scenery, lively atmosphere and authntic street food stalls.

Weligama

Easy, vibrant and fresh modern Sri Lankan recipes.

Emily has always loved Sri Lanka. She fell in love with the Sri Lankan spirit from a young age, travelling with her family from Galle to Colombo. They would eat curry with their hands and drink coconuts, ‘thambili’, straight from the tree. Once back in London food never tasted as good or looked as colourful. Emily was at a loss as to why Sri Lankan food wasn’t popular in the capital and set off on a journey to bring the food she loved to the city where she lives.

Weligama will include many great recipes, such as Slow Cooked Pork Belly Curry with Ginger & Fennel. It also contains some great practical advice on how to add Sri Lankan flavour to any meal, including an ‘East to West Conversion Chart’, various seasonal curry recipes, sweet dishes and drinks.

Orion | June 2017 | 256pp Rights: World 112 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery LIZ EARLE

iz Earle is an unrivalled figure in beauty, with one of the most Lsuccessful global skincare ranges. A special in botanical ingredients, natural health and well-being, she is a beauty editor, author of over 30 books, and TV presenter. Covering every aspect of lifestyle, from beauty boosting foods to make-up tips and hints her brand new book is the go-to guide for anyone looking to achieve youthful, luminous skin.

The Good Gut Guide

Delicious recipes and the ultimate diet plan for a healthy gut in 6 weeks.

Following on from Skin, bestselling lifestyle and wellbeing writer Liz Earle presents a practical and easy-to-follow guide to improving gut health.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, The Good Gut Guide is jam-packed with delicious recipes, tips and a comprehensive 6 week plan to kick start gut health.

Orion Spring | May 2017 | 256pp Rights: World 113 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery FIONA HEGGIE AND ELLIE LUX

iona Heggie trained at Leith’s School of Food and Wine, F before running a catering business with clients including leading law firms, art galleries, ITV, Cancer Research UK and many more. Ellie Lux has worked in the strategy and marketing departments at Virgin and as a journalist. They both have children with multiple food allergies and have learnt to deal with the issues involved.

The Allergy Free Baby and Toddler Cookbook

‘Introducing your baby to food is one of the many great joys of parenthood. When it comes to weaning children with food allergies, we are two mums who have been there, done that and got the baby food-spattered T-shirts.’

With over 100 delicious, wholesome recipes covering your baby’s very first tastes up to mini meals, The Allergy-Free Baby & Toddler Cookbook works with whichever weaning method you use. Offering meal plans and a host of practical advice and nutritional expertise this book will help lay the foundations for life-long healthy eating. Using ingredients that can be readily found in supermarkets, each recipe is free from 14 major food allergens: dairy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soya, gluten, sesame, fish, molluscs, crustaceans, celery, mustard, lupin and sulphites.

Also by Fiona Heggie, Ellie Lux: The Allergy-Free Family Cookbook (2015)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | December 2016 | 256pp Rights: World 114 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery LIZZIE KING

izzie King is the face of popular blog Lizzie Loves Healthy. She Ltrained at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and Leith’s and runs sell-out cookery classes in London and with brand partners such as Daylesford.

Lizzie Loves Healthy

Lizzie Loves Healthy is the book for all parents wanting to eat healthy and delicious food alongside their kids. A mother of 3, Lizzie King started her journey after the birth of her first child having become frustrated that quinoa, green smoothies and gluten-free meals were only finding their way into an adult’s diet. Kids, it seemed, were left to enjoy fish fingers and other fast foods or at best packaged ‘organic’ food that was really replete with sugar. Lizzie Loves Healthy is a book that will feed both parent and child. After all, children are the fastest growing members of any family and they are being built on what we feed them.

With over 150 recipes on offer there will also be practical chapters on your store cupboard and general hints as to what a child needs at each stage of their life, so you know when you need to focus on iron intake, for instance. Lizzie Loves Healthy is the only book you and your family need to eat well, and be well, for life.

Trapeze | March 2017 | 272pp Rights: World 115 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery DAVINA MCCALL

elf-confessed sugar addict Davina McCall is admired in Sthe UK for an extraordinary television career and charity work, as well as fronting a hugely popular range of workout DVDs. Davina’s first cookery book 5 Weeks to Sugar Free shot to top of the bestseller lists when it was published last year, and has sold 180,000 copies to date.

Davina’s Sugar Free in a Hurry

Davina McCall’s delicious and healthy family recipes that help you balance blood sugar, lose weight and feel fantastic.

Following on from the huge success of Davina’s 5 Weeks to Sugar-Free and Davina’s Smart Carbs, Davina McCall is back with a brand new cookbook to help you kick the sugar habit and cut out junk food for good, even if you’re short on time.

Lavishly illustrated throughout, Davina’s Sugar-Free in a Hurry is full of healthy, delicious and – best of all – quick recipes for everything from lunch on the go and quick suppers to guilt-free snacks. Easy dishes include Mexican Tomato and Black Bean Soup, Healthy Chicken Caesar Salad and Banana, Oat and Sultana Muffins. With Davina’s trademark warmth and wit, these recipes are for busy people who want to keep their blood sugar in check while eating delicious food. They will become regular favourites and easy healthy options.

Orion | December 2016 | 224pp Rights: World 116 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery OLIVE MAGAZINE

marter than your average food mag, Olive is the stylish, Smonthly magazine for food lovers with over 50 seasonal recipes in each issue. Olive inspires food lovers to cook new dishes, find great value ingredients and eat exciting foods from around the world.

Olive: 100 of the Best Cakes and Bakes Olive: 100 of the Best Chicken Recipes Olive: 100 of the Best Ready in Under 30 Minutes Olive: 100 of the Best Healthy Meals Ready Under 30 Minutes Olive: 100 of the Best Vegetarian Recipes Olive: 100 of the Best 5:2 Recipes

A series of beautiful cookbooks from one of the UK’s top food magazines.

OLIVE magazine is famous for its delicious recipes loved by foodies and fans of easy-to- follow recipes alike. Now OLIVE is here with a series of stylish, collectable cookbooks for everyone.

Orion | March and December 2016 | 224pp Rights: World 117 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery JUSTINE PATTISON

ustine Pattison is a highly regarded food writer and food J consultant who specialises in writing recipes for some of the UK’s top TV chefs and food presenters. Her recipes have featured in a number of books that have sold over one million copies.

Without the calories

A brand new series of low calorie cookbooks by best-selling recipe writer Justine Pattison.

Slow Cooker

No longer feel guilty about eating any of your favourite foods! Bestselling recipe writer Justine Pattison provides 123 accessible, imaginative recipes in each volume of this brilliant series. Each delicious recipe is thoroughly tested, and supplied with preparation time, cooking times, calorie counts and addition nutritional information.

Also by Justine Pattison: Freeze (2013), Comfort Food without the Calories (2015), Quick and Easy without the Calories (2015), Takeaway Favourites without the Calories (2015)

Orion | May 2017 | 192pp Rights: World 118 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery TOM SELLERS

om Sellers is the owner of the Michelin-starred Restaurant T Story in London. He has trained under some of the world’s best and most respected chefs, including Tom Aikens, Thomas Keller, Adam Byatt and René Redzepi at the world-famous Noma in Copenhagen. Influenced by Tom’s fascination with the narrative side of food, his restaurant Story creates a personal journey for each diner. He was nominated for the Young British Foodie Awards 2012 in the ‘Most Irreverent Young Chef’ category, when judges were wowed by his signature edible candles www.tomsellers.co.uk @tomsstory

A Kind of Love Story

Stories of food: enter the mind of critically-acclaimed chef Tom Sellers.

Tom Sellers is a luminary of the British culinary scene. His own restaurant Story opened its doors in April 2013, and its unique literary-inspired menu taking diners on ‘a personal journey through food’, has won him huge critical and public acclaim. The Telegraph described his food as ‘beyond faultless’, and the Guardian called his food ‘genuinely directional’. The menu served has been crafted and inspired by the memories and significance that food holds, and guests are encouraged to leave behind a book to evoke the same inspiration in others.

In this celebration of cooking Tom shares his unique ideas for intelligent and charismatic food, from Edible Beef and Dripping Candles, Snow White’s Poisonous Apple to Rhubarb and Custard Cream Soda. This stunning book will be your chance to enter the visionary mind of one of the most original chefs of our time, and discover the truth behind the tales of his brilliant food. The book will be an explosion of snapshots, images and impressions to propel you into the heart of the kitchen. It will be exquisitely produced and visually stunning, with everything from beautiful photographs covered by tracing paper down to the inked edges patterned with Tom’s tattoo design.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | September 2016 | 256pp Rights: World 119 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery MADELEINE SHAW

adeleine is a trained nutritional health coach, food blogger Mand cook with lots of high profile clients (including Millie Mackintosh) and a rapidly expanding online profile. Madeleine is committed to helping her clients enliven the hottest healthiest happiest versions of themselves.

A Year of Beautiful Eating

100 ways to eat yourself beautiful, inside and out, season by season. The hotly anticipated follow up to Get the Glow and Ready, Steady, Glow.

In A Year of Beautiful Eating, bestselling nutritional health coach Madeleine Shaw shows you how to eat your way to health and beauty all year round. With over 100 nutritious and wholesome recipes packed with flavour and medicinal benefits, Madeleine focuses on the importance of eating in tune with nature and supercharging your plate with what your body needs to look and feel beautiful season by season.

Toast the longer days of spring with Lamb Chops with Parsnip Mash and Asparagus; cool off with a Papaya and Peanut Salad in summer; embrace the autumn with a Pumpkin and Red Cabbage Salad with Miso Dressing and indulge in winter with Coconut Chocolate Chunk Cookies. No matter your mood, this is good, wholesome eating, every day of the year.

Also by Madeleine Shaw: Get the Glow (2015); Ready, Steady, Glow (2016)

Trapeze | April 2017 | 272pp Rights: World 120 Illustrated non-fiction | Cookery STUDENT BEANS

tudent Beans is a youth media brand, producing entertaining Scontent and aiming to provide useful resources to make student life a little more awesome. Visit the website at www.studentbeans.com follow them on Twitter https://twitter.com/studentbeans and join them on Facebook www.facebook.com/studentbeans.

Student Beans The Healthy Student Cookbook

100 delicious clean-eating recipes from the authors of The Ultimate Student Cookbook

Student Beans are back! Packed with even more delicious, nourishing and low-cost recipes The healthy student cookbook is the bible for students who want to eat well. This time Student Beans have teamed up with the UK’s leading high street restaurants, from Pizza Express to Wahaca, to bring you a bonus chapter on the all-time favourite student-friendly dishes with a healthy twist. There are also exclusive recipes from fitness sensation The Body Coach Joe Wicks who has specially devised the perfect meals for busy, energetic students.

Orion | August 2016 | 176pp Rights: World 121 Illustrated non-fiction | Gift Books and Gardening LOU HAMILTON

ou Hamilton is a writer, artist, coach and award winning L filmmaker.

Brave New Girl: How to be Fearless

A treasure box of drawings to help girls and women around the world feel that anything is possible.

Insightful and timeless, this inspiring little book offers a humorous and inspiring path to fearlessness. Inside us all is a Brave New Girl just waiting to get out and with every drawing and thoughtful saying, each page is an invitation to pause, reflect, smile and take actions.

The naïve hand-drawn character of Brave New Girl shows us how to be tenacious; if she can’t do something, she invents a way round it. If she is afraid, she challenges herself to move past fear and into courage. Through her we see that by using our imagination, our creativity and our purpose, we can create a meaningful and happy life. She is the antidote to a scary world.

Orion Spring | September 2016 | 256pp Agents: China/Taiwan: Big Apple Rights sold: US: Sourcebooks | German: Rowohlt 122 Illustrated non-fiction | Gift Books and Gardening HOLLIE NEWTON

ollie Newton is a self-taught gardener. She is also one of HEurope’s youngest Executive Creative Directors and one of the very few women in the world to hold this position. She has produced award winning work for everyone from the BBC and Volvo Cars, to Prada, the Roald Dahl Literary Estate, and Lurpak.

How to Garden

A guide for gardeners who can’t garden yet.

Witty, irreverent and inspiring; this is the gardening book reimagined for a new generation. A book for people who want to learn how to grow things, but haven’t got a clue where to start.

With the average person now spending an enormous 8 hours and 41 minutes in front of a screen every day, this is an easy way to escape for half an hour. Whether on a rented balcony, in your first tiny garden, or sunny kitchen windowsill, it turns out, covering yourself in mud while trying to coax a misbehaving carrot from the soil can make you feel better; relieve stress, make you happier, provide a moment of peace and the satisfaction of growing something with your own two hands – which is where How To Grow comes in. Whatever space, time or ability you have, this book will equip you with all the know-how and confidence you need to take your first steps into your gardening love affair – trowel in one hand, drink in the other.

Orion Spring | March 2017 | 256pp Rights: World 123 Illustrated non-fiction | Humour, Leisure Time DIAMOND MINECART

an Middleton, aka The Diamond Minecart, is one of the Dmost popular YouTubers in the world, with an incredible social footprint of over 12.5 million followers. He is beloved by his core audience of 7–24 year-olds for his Minecraft videos, which often reach over 1 million views within 24 hours (his channel boasts a staggering 6.3 billion views and 10 million subscribers). Now Dan wants to bring his custom mod Minecraft adventures to life in a graphic novel set to be one of the biggest books of its kind of 2016.

The Diamond Minecart

A graphic novel by the hugely popular YouTuber The Diamond Minecart, set in one of his custom Minecraft mod worlds

The Diamond Minecart is the most famous person you’ve probably never heard of. His Minecraft videos made him the world’s most popular YouTube channel last year beating WWE wrestling, BuzzFeed and Taylor Swift with 400m views in July alone.

He is a brilliant and creative storyteller, inventing worlds and characters within Minecraft that have reach beyond the game. DanTDM was approached by Universal Studios to create a one-of-a-kind Jurassic World Minecraft video to promote the new film. The video, approved by Stephen Spielberg himself, proved a huge success, attaining over 5 million views in its first 4 days of upload.

DanTDM is now turning his hand to books – with his debut graphic novel due out this autumn. This is destined to be the biggest YouTube book of the year.

Facebook: 820 thousand followers: https://www.facebook.com/TheDiamondMinecart Instagram: 1.2 million followers: https://www.instagram.com/dantdm/ Twitter: 573 thousand followers https://twitter.com/diamondminecart

Trapeze | September 2016 | 208pp Rights: Translation Rights sold: US: HarperCollins 124 Illustrated non-fiction | Humour, Leisure Time RICK GRAINS

The Walking Bread

Hilarious spoof cookbook to tie into the hit series, The Walking Dead.

From the creators of Baking Bad and Game of Scones comes the ghoulishly funny spoof cookbook The Walking Bread, inspired by the hit television series that viewers have been hungrily devouring for the past five years.

Fans of the show will be dying to get their hands, and jaws, on this new pun-tastic, post-apocalyptic instalment that features edible recipes inspired by key moments on the show, such as Dary’s Tracker Bars, Carol’s Tough Nut Cookies and Rick’s Ribs. Don your apron (and your eye patch) and prepare for the very best of dystopian cooking.

Trapeze | October 2016 | 128pp Rights: World 125 Illustrated non-fiction | Humour, Leisure Time RICHARD HAMMOND

ichard Hammond is internationally famous for co- Rpresenting Top Gear over the last eleven years with Jeremy Clarkson, as well as other programmes, and writes a weekly column in The Daily Mirror. His crash whilst filming for Top Gear in September 2006 made him a household name.

Follow Richard Hammond on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ TheHamstersCage and visit his website at www.thehamsterscage.co.uk.

A Short History of the Motorcycle

Richard Hammond’s A Short History of the Motorcycle attempts to explain what it is about bikes and biking that calls to some people, leaving them powerless to resist.

Wittily written and lavishly illustrated, the book consists of three sections: Bikes, Bikers and Biking. It is for bikers, who will value the reassurance that they are not alone and that their love is shared. And it is for non-bikers too, offering a simple, clear guide to a world that is, for many, closed off and inaccessible.

Also by Richard Hammond: What Not to Drive (2005); Richard Hammond’s Car Confidential (2006); On the Edge (2007); As You Do (2008); A Short History of Caravans in the UK (2009); Or is that Just Me (2010); On the Road (2013)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | October 2016 | 192pp Rights: World 126 Illustrated non-fiction | Humour, Leisure Time KIRSTY HARTLEY

irsty Hartley is a prolific seamstress, designer and Kfounder of Wild Things: Funky Little Dresses, a fun label of designed and custom made dresses and outfits for little girls. @wildthingsdress

Wild Things to Make

The Wild Things clothing brand is back with more sewing projects for children

Wild Things 2 will inspire makers of all abilities to create something exciting for their children that they will really want to wear. Drawing on simple shape and whimsical imagery, the step-by-step projects include dresses, hats, jackets and dungarees, as well as some simple accessories and keepsake gifts with a little heart and soul.

With themes from enchanted woodland to summer essentials for beginners, and outfits including a robin pinafore, mermaid sundress, shark dungarees and fun accessories like your child’s very own puppet theatre or teepee, this book adds a spark of adventure to everyday clothes and playtime fun.

Also by Kirsty Hartley: Wild Things (2015)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson | August 2016 | 224pp Rights: World 127 Illustrated non-fiction | Humour, Leisure Time MALCOLM KATZ

alcolm Katz is a distinguished feline behaviourist and Mauthor. Some of his most famous work includes peeing in his owner’s school bag, bringing in a bat someone else had killed, and sniffing the eye of anyone who comes close enough.

My Cat is a Dick

A photographic celebration of cats on their worst behaviour.

No matter how much of a cat lover you are, you have to admit those loving feelings can feel pretty one-way. Whether it’s in the form of treasure hunts around the house with small dead animals as the ‘treasure’, biffing your face for attention in the middle of the night, or the endless indecision about being inside or outside, cats – a lot of the time – are dicks.

Thankfully, we can laugh about it, because thankfully (as this book shows) we are far from alone. Featuring over 100 photos of cats in all sorts of interesting predicaments, My Cat is a Dick shows that even when they’re playing up, cats have an excellent sense of humour. It just often comes at human expense.

Trapeze | October 2016 | 144pp Rights: World ORION GOLLANCZ WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON ORION SPRING TRAPEZE

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