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WEL RIGHTS FICTION CONTENTS

Historical 3

Commercial Fiction 8

Romance 14

Literary Fiction 18

Crime + Thriller 21

Psychological Suspense 27

Science Fiction 32

Contact 34

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • LBF21 • 4 Hardcastle combines that atmosphere A chillingghoststorythe of mrn:HarperNorth Imprint: dtr eeiv Pegg Genevieve Editor: eyes. fictionthrough seen modern gothic classic love of of out film buff, his novels are born civil servant. A keen horror a as in Edinburgh works and lives now he journalist music a as a spell After Zealand). (andvery briefly New grew up in Aberdeenshire Author:The Genre: Extent: Format: Feb 3 Pub: 304 Ghost story, historical story, Ghost eyHardback Demy pp 2022 Mathew West West Mathew and the suspense and theofSusanHill. lightdark. and by what has happenedbefore in this place between lands, between askcan if believe he whathe sees in theor dusk if his mind is poisoned shifting shadows aroundhim, Simon mustdecide what he can trustand Asnight falls evening, eacha growing and of sense uneaseroils in the stirring. are answers in surprising places.But someoneis not pleased that old secrets not so welcoming. As his questionsabout the Mordrakes Simon’s host is glad of his company,but he gets the feeling the houseis of pictures. selection gruesome shift a headache and a sensethat there’s more to the Manorand its the moment he gets off the train at the deserted village station he can’t cataloguingthe infamous art collection of the Mordrake has has border,the roaring twenties seem not to have arrived.But Simon Christie It’sat 1923 and THEHOUSE FOOTSTEPS OF Mathew West Mathew – a youngwhoman can’tbelieve his luckwhen he job getsa Mordrake Manor, a forbiddingManor,houseon Scottish the The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Evelyn of Deaths Seven The grow,he finds family. Yet from from Yet family.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • LBF21 • 5 century andSicily. century passion A debuthistoricalnovelfullofromance, and adventure setinnineteenth mrn:HarperNorth Imprint: dtr eeiv Pegg Genevieve Editor: London. children and lives four in orphanages there. She has OBEfor her work in an receiving Vietnam, to at university, before moving history read She Jedburgh. near up Italian, grew and half and Scottish half is Author:The Genre: Extent: Format: Pub: o 2021 Nov 400 Historical romance Hardback pp Cecil Cameron Cameron Cecil Temple shouldlead Meanwhile back in England,Carina’s family has plans for the life Miss othereach tostay alive. reluctantly When trouble comes to Carina’s door,it is Ben who saves her him a violent extremist. and Carina meet, he distrustsher society pedigree,and she considers fighting for freedom. Chief among these is Ben her of the fault lines between the states and the dangerousrebels ButItaly is atempestuous place her. for found travel to Italy until the gossiprecedes and a suitablematch can be reputationis ruined,thanksto certain a Lordhe tellsDanby, shemust When Carina’s uncle summonsher to Belgrave Squareto tell her do. asidesociety’s expectations of whata single lady young shouldbe and of father her death the by demanded London 1859. Carina Temple has put away the stifling black crepe SCANDAL AN ITALIAN Cecil Cameron – and asgoand they the onthey run, mustlearn tounderstand – if she ever returns. ever she if – her grandmotherand cousins soon tell – butwith it shehas also cast arn – Mavrone and whenand he –

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • LBF21 • 7 COMMERCIAL FICTION • most challenging gig yet. comedian Struggling step-parenting Abi isusedtoughcrowds, but isgoingtobe to her international film festivals. festivals. film international nine at screened Brit.i.am debut, film short winning - award triple her and US Fox and Radio BBC Comedy, BBC from commissions gained severalscript - stand panel and formats show TV popular of a number on appeared has who maker film and comedian up award and accomplishedwriter, actress Author:The Genre: 400pp Extent: Paperback Format: 2022 Feb 3 Publication: Seaman Katie Editor: HQ Imprint: Andi’s debutnovel Friend formats. formats. isand a acrossall first threeweeks since publication up shows. She has has She shows. up Romantic Comedy Romantic has soldhas 15k copiesin the - Andi Osho Andi winning stand is an an is Asking For A A For Asking - TOUGHCROWD ‘Funnyand written with so much heart.’ romcom.’ sassy spunky, sparky, ‘A According to the world, her mumand her last fourboyfriends, plus Andi Osho get Nobodyisto immune her charisma,exceptit seems Will’s kids. Fromthe discountstoeven getting extra chicken nuggetsherat local takeout. Extrovert Abi has spent her life charming everyone, from wangling previous relationship. althoughWill packagedealcomesis and a with two daughtersfrom a For the first time she’s not too much becauseWill can’t get enough, everything. But then she meets Will and everything changes.He gets her. – emotional too too black, big, too woke, too Too loud, much. powerhouse,aspiring comedian and self ‘Wise, witty Richard warm.’ witty ‘Wise, Osman and Praisefor Andi Osho: to difficultthisaudiences,but is going toher be toughest crowdyet. especially givencurrent her approvalrating is zero. Abi is usedto playing - go, Abi knows that winning the girls over will be a mammoth task, BY THE SAME AUTHOR Red Daisy Buchanan Daisy - proclaimedlegendAbi is too too too - size size

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • LBF21 • 9 belonging – familyand love, is apowerfulstoryaboutlife, this bittersweet original, and highly Funny, Lucy Cavendish Prize. Cavendish Lucy the for longlisted recently was 2019 andin competition creative nonfiction Dani won mrn:Avon Imprint: came third in in third came 2014, in prize fiction short Geographic Traveller National publications such as such publications appearing in articles her freelance travel writer,with a as working and India living spent two years in Upon finishing PhD,her Dani Arctic Circle. the in Spitsbergen, including islands, remote Europe’s trips of to some research involved Anglia. This East Writing from the University of andin Critical Creative PhD Author:The Genre: Extent: Paperback Format: Dec 9 Pub: Editor: Katie 400 Commercial fiction Commercial Words & Women & Words pp 2021 Dani Redd has a has Redd Dani Loughnane . Hinterland told with a reallightnessoftouch. told with ’s ’s ’s ’s you truly belong – A tender and uplifting story aboutfamily, community,and finding where know high demand for a CurryClubin the Arctic, and just one person with the forgepastand a future for herself in thisnew town? Afterall, there’s now enigmatic mother and her childhood in Bangalore.Can Maya face the But there’s a cost: the aromatic cuisine rekindles memories of her in the Arcticno longer freezes her with fear. unexpectedly grows unexpectedly cooks Indian food for the first time. Throughthis, her confidence In her loneliestopens moment,herMaya late mother’s recipe bookand ‘For my whole life I had been looking for home. But why would that be in in be that would why anxiety But sub facing she’s Instead, home. for Arctic,realises Maya it’s not all Northern Lights and husky sleigh rides. looking Soonafterherupending life to her accompany boyfriendtoRyan the been had I life whole my ‘For CLUB CURRY ARCTIC THE a place that I’d left? Perhaps I had to keep moving forward in order to to order in forward moving keep to had I Perhaps left? I’d that place a find it…’ it…’ find Dani Redd - how to run it. – and a distantand a boyfriend a result. as guaranteedto warm your heart despite the icy setting! – she makes friends,secures a job as a chef, and life - zero temperatures, 24 zero temperatures, - hour darkness,crippling

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • LBF21 • 10 about a family facing up to a secret in their past from perennial about afamilyfacingtosecrettheir in up Erica James. Her first book with HarperCollins, unsuspecting Italians. Italians. unsuspecting with conversation up strikes she Italy, in where Como between Cheshire and Lake time her divides now Erica compulsion. mother's their at embarrassment of state perpetual a in spent recoverchildhooda from will sons claim they never although her two although grown her characters for her novels, authentic write to way best it the finds She writing. her unearthinguseful a for gem of in hope the strangers will Erica readily with chat business, other people's for insatiable appetiteWith an Delight HQ Imprint: and and top ten Queen of New Beginnings Beginnings New of Queen and Award, Romantic Novel of the Year including novels, bestselling authorthe fifteen of Author:The Genre: Extent: Format: 3 Pub: Editor: Promises, Promises Promises, Kate Mar 400 Commercial fiction fiction Commercial which won 2006 the which Hardback Gardens of of Gardens pp 2022 Erica James is is James Erica Mills Sunday Times Times Sunday The The . - up up compellingof tale mothersdaughters,and secrets and love. The The her marriagetotheir fatherwasn’t what quite it seemed. fun and spark back into her life. And she’s certainly never told them that Likearrival the ofEllis, a long daughters. her from kept The three women are as close as can be. But there are things Naomi has charmingnew boyfriend veryshe Rick,a has good reasonto settle drifted Willow, the youngest,was always sunnier and more easy couldjustget with pregnant lifehusband,her would be perfect. was father Her eldest daughter,Martha,is sensible and determined – life they shared,in the village of Tilsham Since the suddendeath of her husband,Naomi has steadily rebuilt the DAUGHTERS AND MOTHERS Erica James Sunday Times Times Sunday through life, much to her father’s frustration.But now, with Mothers & Daughters Daughters & Mothers – and veryand muchin control of where her life is going.If she bestsellingauthor Ericareturns James with this gloriously - lost friendfrom waynow back, bringingthe is a rich, rewarding familydrama is arich, by the sea. the by Sunday Times Times Sunday - going, yet yet going, justlike her bestseller down.

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • LBF21 • 11 (German), Previousrights sold: UnitedNew Sky(Chinese MediaSimplified), emotional ofCiaraGeraghty’strademarkheartandpoignancy. novel isfull unforgettable an cast coast, thisdeeply with of characters, wild Irish Set onthe her eighth her novel. Make Yourself at Home Home at Yourself Make HarperFiction Imprint: husband and three children. one with Dublin in lives Author:The Drew Lynne Editor: Genre: Extent: Paperback Format: Sep 2 Pub: Independent Marian Keyes.’ mixed you if get might you what engaginginstantly read, ‘Hugely entertaining… an 400 Commercial pp 2021 Ciara Geraghty Geraghty Ciara DeAgostini Jojo fiction Moyes with with Moyes is is (Italian), Park (US) Row Park (Italian), Sunday Sunday MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME story of your past before you can work out the shape of work outthe future. you can the story before shape of past your the with terms to come to have you sometimes, that, discover just might she them to. work But don’t outyou wanted way some plans the that incident. She never planned to return,and now she has to face the fact leftMarianne home she when was15 following traumaticaand tragic alcoholic who livesown her by rules. relationship with her mother, Rita,a flamboyant artist and recovering perched high on a cliff by the Irish Sea.There she mustrebuild her forcedto returntochildhood her home,a ramshackleseaside mansion When Marianne’scarefully constructedlife and marriage fall apart, she is Ciara Geraghty BY THE SAME AUTHOR Meulenhoff Moyes.’ Moyes.’ ’A superb writer writer ’A superb O’Flanagan immersed.’immediately read…you’re fabulous ‘A Boekerij Irish Examiner Irish (Dutch), Goldmann – the Irish Jojo Sheila Sheila

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • LBF21 • 12 England’s wild Cornish coast. England’s wildCornish conflicting pulloffamilytiessweeps hill villages to the reader from theofPakistan Absorbing, epic poignant andevocative, loyaltyandthe this storyoffriendship, novels. of bestselling the author the is She novelist. time afull as then magazines, for started writing professionally, and Cornwall down in roots wife. Eventually, she put army an as then parents, her with first world, the all over travelling nomad, a as life her of much spent has Author:The Genre: 400pp Extent: Paperback Format: 2022 Feb 3 Publication: Drew Lynne Editor: HarperFiction Imprint: the Sea the Music storytelling.’ and compelling characters… Thoughtful ‘Vividly drawn PREVIOUS PREVIOUS and and Commercial fiction Commercial , among many other other many , among COVER In a Kingdom by by Kingdom a In Sara Macdonald Macdonald Sara Choice Sea Sea - [WORKING TITLE] [WORKING BREATH OF THE SLEEPINGBOYS they love most? love they danger,will their powerful bond save not justand Raza Finn,but those fatetheir pathscross. Andas familyloyalty and pull themtowards Both boysaboutareto their have worlds torn apart with army life, isthe on verge of leaving. will join British troopsin Afghanistan.His mother,who has always struggled that when summerends his life will never be the same again. His father In his family’s ramshacklehousebeachtwelve Cornwall 2009 There is another path,but it comes at a high price. Taliban brothers,a gunplaced in his hands, his life one of danger. hangsin theIf balance. he remainsin Pakistan will he be recruited hisby In a small villagethe at foot of mountains the ten- Pakistan 2007 Sara MacDonald BY THE SAME AUTHOR Life gripsto the end.' it of page… every interest along theby sheer swept myself found I together… woven cleverly 'Intriguingthemes are - year year - - old Finn is unawareisold Finn but in a twist of twist a in but - old Raza’s future future Raza’s old Country Country

HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • LBF21 • 13 ROMANCE award-winning The brandnewhigh-conceptlovefromthe story Eponine in played role the Carrie of number one. the leadthe role. novel, debut including T including productions of number received awardsafor She has since starred in and years. three almost London's EndWest for the Queen's Theatre in Times one a number was HQ Imprint: Lloyd Webber’s Webber’s Lloyd Andrew in star soon will She and Worlds, The Addams Family Addams The Worlds, Side first book, book, first authorand vlogger. Carrie's Fletcher is an actress, singer, Author:The Genre: Extent: Format: Grewal Manpreet Editor: u:5 Pub: , also went straight to to straight went also , Heathers: The Musical. The Heathers: bestseller andher u 2021 Aug 400 Romance Hardback All I Know Now Know I All he War of the the of War he p Les Misérables Les Carrie Hope Hope Carrie On the Other Other the On Cinderella Sunday Sunday theatre actress, Carrie Hope Fletcher. Carrie actress, theatre , at at in in ‘Reminded you will never forget. never will you Praise Spellbinding,magical and utterly original, if she does,shouldsheto try intervenewhatchange and shesees? time in yearsshe yearnsforman’s kiss. a But she or can’t…she? can And Then she meets Grayson.Sweet, clever, funny Grayson.And for the first destiny. And so, she hasn’t kissed anyone since she was eighteen. was always meant to be, or if her kiss is the thing that decides their how they are going to die. But she’s never known if she’s seeing what kept hidden for years; whenever she kisses someone on the lips, she sees with her best friend. But she carries a painful burden,something she’s Sheloves ,she works the atcinema local she and adoresliving From the outside,Lorelai is an ordinary young woman with a normal life. theirWhen lips touch,will sheseal his fate? KISS THIS WITH ‘Enchanting ‘Our ’Utterly Carrie Hope Fletcher Hope Carrie go for enchanting - to Carrie for me . . . spellbinding so charming Hope much .’ Jill Fletcher Mansell of romance Sunday Times Times Sunday stories Cecelia : .’ Heat .’ Ahern Woman With This Kiss Kiss This With .’ Ali bestselling author and bestselling author McNamara is one love story story love one is

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • LBF21 • 16 Previousrights sold: Grand Central(US) gone. Perfect for fans of Rosie Walsh, Catherine Isaac PerfectfansofRosie gone. and Josie Catherine for Walsh, Silver. life is the loveofyour A beautifulandsophisticated love aboutoverwhen story starting mrn:HQ Imprint: number one bestseller. globalher of million copies a sold has over She Jensen. realher name, Louise under psychological thrillers Amelia also writes dtr apetGrewal Manpreet Editor: high writing through relationships of intricacies the exploring has a penchant for who romantic a hopeless Author:The Genre: Extent: Paperback Format: Pub: emotional.’ emotional.’ difference… intensely ‘Alove story with a definite - 22 concept love stories. stories. love concept 400 Emotional Jul p 2021 Amelia Henley is Henley Amelia Best THE ART OF LOVING YOU LOVINGOF THE ART The Art of Loving You You Loving of Art The friend, eighty theandareLibby Jackthey’ve happiest everThanks been.to their dear Will they find happiness again? Theywere so in love.Andthen life changedforever. Amelia Henley forwardwhen what they lovedthe most beenhas lost? might Sid be the one person who can help Libby and Jack move All ofsuddenlife a is looking very different,and unlikely though it seems, world. their shatters of fate twist But the universe has other plans for Libby and Jack and a devastating and it's the beginning of the life they'vealways dreamed of. uplifting,it will break your heart and then putit back together again. BY THE SAME AUTHOR - year - old Sid,they’ve justboughttheir first housetogether, is a beautifullove story for ourtimes.Romantic and Sunday Mirror Sunday intensely romantic.’ ‘Intriguing, unusualand

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HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS • LBF21 • 28 THE WOMAN IN THE WOODS

Lisa Hall

Bestseller Lisa Hall’s The Woman in the Woods is full of creeping unease and nerve- racking tension. It will have readers on the edge of their seat.

Imprint: HQ When Allie moves to a quaint old cottage with her husband, it’s their Editor: Kate Mills dream home. Nestled in the village of Pluckley, it seems a perfect haven Publication: 14 Oct 2021 Format: Paperback in which to raise their two children. But Pluckley has a reputation. It’s Extent: 400pp known as England’s most haunted village. And not long after the birth of their new son, Allie begins to notice strange things. Genre: Thriller, suspense For: Fans of Louise Jensen, What’s the flash of white she sees moving quickly through the woods to BA Paris and Katerina the back of their house? And what’s the strange scratching noise from Diamond. the chimney?

The Author: Lisa Hall is the bestselling author of As Allie discovers more about the history of their new home, she uncovers Between You and Me, which a story of witchcraft and superstition which casts a long shadow to the sold over a quarter of a present day. And not everything is as it seems. Her family might well be in million copies and was the danger, but it’s a danger none of them could have foreseen. fifth top selling title on Amazon in 2016.

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