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2 3 Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction THE PRICE OF PARADISE WAR PESTILENCE FAMINE DEATH: The Iain Overton Four Horsemen and Those Who Seek to Save Us An urgent and pertinent exploration of how and why the suicide bomber has shaped the modern Emily Mayhew age, written by a multi-award winning investigative journalist and human rights campaigner. Everyone is familiar with the four horsemen of the apocalypse, age old symbols of the threats to Investigative journalist Iain Overton addresses the our very existence. But when we think of them we fundamental drivers of modern day suicide attacks do so with outdated ideas of what these threats in this fascinating and important book, showing now mean, failing to see how deeply interlinked how the suicide bomber has played a pivotal role they are in our time. In this important book Emily in the evolution of some of the most defining forces Mayhew explains what the serious battles are on of the modern age – from Communism and the all of these fronts. Cold War, to the modern day War on Terror. Mayhew begins with the consequences of the end Interviewing Russian anarchists, Japanese of modern warfare, the battle for Mosul in 2016. Quercus kamikazes, Hezbollah militants, survivors of suicide Quercus The International Committee of The Red Cross was bombings and countless other sources of valuable for the first time in its history unable to fill its role as a UK Pub: April 2019 information, while travelling to places such as UK Pub: March 2021 neutral body for the relief of the wounded of both Iran, Irak and Pakistan, Overton skilfully combines sides. What does the end of neutrality mean for UK Editor: Katy Follain historical narrative, travelogue, interviews and UK Editor: Jon Riley civilians caught in a warfare without clear ‘sides’? testimonies, and brings his research alive thanks to She examines the crisis we face from our misuse of Page Extent: 560pp potent facts and visceral storytelling. MS due May 2020 antibiotics, the resultant resistance of bacteria to Proposal Available them, and the work being done to discover a third Rights Sold: The result is a powerful and unforgettable read, generation of anti-microbial medicines; the lethal Netherlands (Uitgeverijen Q) the first non-academic attempt to chart the rise of role of fungal pathogens in destroying plants and Romania (Corint Books) this horrific weapon. crops, spreading the effects of serious malnutrition, which includes obesity and carries on through About the Author: generations, and the research into combatting Iain Overton is a multi-award winning journalist them; and, finally, although we measure disasters and human rights campaigner, and has reported and wars through the metric of death, the from over two dozen conflict zones worldwide. consequences for those who survive are seldom Today he runs the London based charity Action on taken into account, including whether they are Armed Violence (AOAV). He is the recipient of two adults or children. What is being done for them? Amnesty Media Awards, a BAFTA, and a Peabody Award, and holds two degrees from Cambridge About the Author: University. Dr Emily Mayhew is Historian in Residence in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College, London, the only historian on staff in a scientific department in the world. Emily is also the author of three books - A Heavy Reckoning, Wounded: the Long Journey Home from the Great War and The Guinea Pig Club.

4 5 Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction POWER & THE PEOPLE: Lessons OTTOMAN ODYSSEY for Today from the Birthplace of Alev Scott Democracy A journey across the former Ottoman Empire Alev Scott & Andronike Makris reveals the legacy of its influence on people from the Balkans to the Levant, and the integral diversity An enlightening, entertaining and bitesize book threatened amid rising nationalism. about how Ancient Athenian democracy relates to the most urgent political issues of our day, for Alev Scott’s odyssey began when she looked fans of Mary Beard’s Women & Power and Yanis beyond Turkey’s borders for contemporary traces Varoufakis’s Talking to my Daughter about the of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule ended Economy a century ago – and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, Democracy was born in Athens. From its founding she uncovers a legacy that’s vital, relevant and myths to its golden age and its chaotic downfall, surprising. it’s rich with lessons for our own times. Faced by questions of exile, diaspora and riverrun Why did vital civil engagement and fair debate riverrun collective memory, Alev Scott searches for answers descend into paralysis and populism? Can we among Erdoğan supporters in Serbia, Druze sheikhs UK Pub: November 2019 compare Creon to Trump, Demokratia to the UK Pub: October 2018 in Lebanon, refugees in Lesbos and Armenian American Constitution or Demosthenes’ On the descendants in Jerusalem, before returning to her UK Editor: Rose Tomaszewska Crown to the Brexit campaign? And how did a UK Editor: Rose Tomaszewska family’s roots in Cyprus. Her enlightening, often second referendum save the Athenians from a funny journey shows that diversity is the enduring, MS due April 2019 bloodthirsty decision? Page Extent: 320pp endangered heart of this fascinating region and will make you see it with fresh eyes. With verve and acuity, the heroics and the critics of Athenian democracy are brought to bear on About the Author: today’s politics, revealing in all its glories and its Alev Scott was born in London in 1987 to a Turkish flaws the system that still survives to execute the mother and a British father. She studied Classics at power of the people. Oxford. In 2011 she moved to Istanbul, where she taught Latin at the Bosphorus University. Her first About the Author: book, Turkish Awakening, was published in 2014. Alev Scott was born in London in 1987 to a Turkish mother and a British father. She studied Classics at Oxford. In 2011 she moved to Istanbul, where she taught Latin at the Bosphorus University. Ottoman Odyssey, was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award in 2019.

Andronike Makris is a founding member of the Hellenic Education & Research Center. She graduated from the University of Athens and holds a D.Phil. in Ancient History from Oxford University. Her research focuses on ancient Greek history and epigraphy.

6 7 Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction BATTLE OF BRITAIN CULTS: The World’s Most Terrifying Patrick Bishop Cults Nigel Cawthorne A day-to-day chronicle of a defining episode in British history: the epic struggle of the Royal Air The inside story of 50 of the most infamous cults in Force with the Luftwaffe. world history.

From the bestselling author of Fighter Boys and The strange and sinister world of cults is a source Bomber Boys, this is a magisterial chronicle of a of endless fascination. Their secrets, rituals and defining episode in British history: the epic struggle shadowy hierarchies make for some of the most of the Royal Air Force with the Luftwaffe. disturbing and shocking revelations in history. Most chilling of all is the fact that many of their followers Patrick Bishop’s Battle of Britain is a compelling forfeit all independence in order to carry out account of Britain’s fight for national survival, from the often sadistic bidding of a mysterious master the shock defeat and evacuation from Dunkirk in manipulator - and continue to defend their leader May/June 1940 to fighter Command’s assertion of to this day. superiority over the Luftwaffe in mid-September. Quercus Quercus Battle of Britain takes the reader through that From Charles Manson, who instructed his followers summer day by day, revealing the ongoing battle’s to murder seven people, including a heavily UK Pub: June 2020 UK Pub: August 2019 impact on flyers and civilians alike. By enhancing his pregnant Sharon Tate, to Aum Shinrikyo, the narrative with eye-witness accounts, diary extracts Japanese doomsday cult that carried out deadly UK Editor: Richard Milner UK Editor: Alison and pilot profiles, Bishop brings the often horrific terror attacks, and the People’s Temple, these MacDonald reality of air combat vividly to life. In Battle of Britain cults and their leaders transfix us with their extreme Page Extent: 416pp Patrick Bishop has written the definitive account of ability to commit savage acts of cruelty and MS due April 2019 one of the pivotal moments in twentieth-century depravity in the name of a self-appointed higher British history, and a nation’s ‘finest hour’. power.

About the Author: About the Author: Patrick Bishop has worked as senior correspondent Nigel Cawthorne is the author of a number of for the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of The Irish successful true crime and popular history books. Empire; the acclaimed book The Provisional IRA His writing has appeared in over 150 newspapers, with Eamonn Mallie; the bestselling Fighter Boys; magazines and partworks - from the Sun to the and most recently the best-selling Bomber Boys Financial Times, and from Flatbush Life to The New and 3 Para. He lives in London. York Tribune. He lives in London.

8 9 Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction ANIMAL HOUSE OUR MAN IN NEW YORK James Brown Henry Hemming

Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown’s loaded When William Stephenson – “our man in New York” magazine became the fastest payback in IPC - arrived in the United States towards the end of Media’s publishing history - the must-buy and must- June 1940 with instructions from the head of MI6 be-in publication of the decade. It won every to secure aid for Britain and ‘organise’ American award going, year after year, and came to define public opinion, Britain was on the verge of defeat not only its audience but also a generation. Bright, to Nazi Germany. Surveys at that time showed loud, funny, provocative, ambitious and careless it that just 14% of the population wanted to go to was read from the barracks of Afghanistan to the war against Germany. But over the months that England dressing room at Euro ‘96. followed, public opinion in the US began to shift . . .

Animal House follows James Brown’s remarkable Those campaigning against America’s entry career from a high school drop-out fanzine writer into the war had many theories about who or to NME features editor aged 22, and loaded what was behind this shift in public opinion. The founder at 27. In between, his mother died in American aviator Charles Lindbergh, by 1941 the Quercus tragic circumstances and gradually his own drug Quercus chief spokesman for the isolationist America First and alcohol use took over. Loaded’s unexpected Committee, referred to a British-led plot to bring UK Pub: May 2020 success legitimised (and paid for) James’s lifestyle, UK Pub: September 2019 the US into the war. Others believed that the and it wasn’t until he crashed and burned at British were somehow manipulating the American UK Editor: Richard Milner GQ, and went through rehab, that any sense of UK Editor: Ben Brock media, that the government was riddled with British perspective kicked in. stooges, and that the British were meddling in US Proposal Available MS due March 2019 politics and using dirty tricks to smear prominent Recuperating on the island of Mustique, whilst anti-war politicians. plotting his return with Oz founder Felix Denis, James was asked by neighbour Lord Patrick Lichfield: These claims were shocking, wild, even paranoid: “How on earth did you manage to sell so many they were also true. That truth is revealed here magazines whilst taking so many drugs?” for the first time by bestselling author Henry Hemming, using access to hitherto private and This book is his answer. classified documents, including the diaries of his own grandparents, who worked for Stephenson’s About the Author: organisation. Stephenson – who later saved the James Brown worked on the NME, founded life of Henry Hemming’s father – was a maverick loaded, Jack and Leeds, Leeds, Leeds magazines, figure of unique brilliance and daring whose work and was Editor-in-Chief of British GQ. He is a media changed the course of the war, and can now be entrepreneur, journalist and hosts a weekly show told in full. on talkSPORT. He is now down to three matches a week. About the Author: Henry Hemming is the author of five works of non- fiction including the Sunday Times bestsellerM , the Dolman Travel Award-shortlisted Misadventure in the Middle East and Churchill’s Iceman, the New York Times bestseller.

10 11 Popular Science Popular Science THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH BELIEVE IT OR SNOT: THE DEFINITIVE Kit Yates FIELD GUIDE TO EARTH’S SLIMY CREATURES Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between Nick Caruso & Dani Rabaiotti life and death A compendium of slimy and repulsive facts from Maths ends at school and has nothing to do the authors of Does it Fart? with real life – or so the popular misconception goes. In fact, it turns out that maths is present in A compendium of slimy and repulsive facts from every single one of our decisions. When we tap the authors of Does it Fart? our foot to music, sing in the shower or admire a snowflake, we are unconsciously performing What is hyena butter, and would you want to put maths. it on toast? A hagfish can produce how much slime in 60 seconds? Which animal produces a Instead of explaining complex formulae, snotty sleeping bag? How does a bubble snail use Quercus mathematical biologist Kit Yates is here to make Quercus mucus to get around? Which organism is the slime real-life sense of the equations that rule our lives. champion? UK Pub: September 2019 From deciding which seat on the train to pick, UK Pub: October 2019 searching for our life partner and coping with Find out the answer to these and other slimy facts UK Editor: Katy Follain worrying medical results, to drugs tests, inaccurate UK Editor: Ben Brock and more in Believe it or Snot, the new book from profiling and social media algorithms, maths has the authors of the New York Times bestseller Does MS due March 2019 a lot of answers – and even more questions. Material due... it Fart? and the follow-through True or Poo. Slime, sludge, mucus, ooze, goo - it’s all covered in here Rights Sold: How can maths prevent innocent people being Rights Sold in Previous Titles: (but at least you’re not covered in it). Arabic (Arab Scientific) convicted for crimes they didn’t commit? When China (Citic) Brazil (Grupo Editorial Record) is alarm fatigue useful or fatal? And does DNA Denmark (Lindhart and About the Author: China (China Citic) always reveal the full truth? Maths is the story of Ringhof) Nick Caruso is a PhD student and salamander Croatia (Planetopija) the world around us, and the wisdom it can give France (Marabout) expert at the University of Alabama. Czech Republic (Albatros) is there for the taking. If we listen up it could be Germany (Verlag Nagel) Germany (Piper) the difference between life and death. Italy (Antonio Vallardi) Dani Rabaiotti is a PhD candidate and zoologist Hungary (Athenaeum) Japan (Mikasa Shobo) who studies African wild dogs and climate change Israel (Tchelet Books) About the Author: Netherlands (Meulenhoff at London Zoo. Italy (RCS Media) Kit Yates is a Senior Lecturer in mathematical Boekerij) Japan (Soshisha) biology at the University of Bath. His job consists Norway (Cappelen Damm) Korea (Woongjin Think Big) of taking real-world phenomena and uncovering Poland (Insignis Media) Netherlands (Bezige Bij) the mathematical truths that lie behind them. He Sweden (Bokforlaget Forum) Norway (Bazar) extracts the common patterns that underlie these Turkey (Alakarga) Poland (Insignis Media) processes and communicates them. He works in US (Hachette Book Group) Portugal (Saida de Emergencia) applications as diverse as embryonic disease, Romania (Grup Media Litera) the patterns on egg-shells and the devastating Russia (Eksmo) swarming of locust plagues – teasing out the Slovakia (Albatros) mathematical connections in the process. Spain (Blackie Books) Sweden (Pagina) US (Simon & Schuster)

12 13 General Non-Fiction General Non-Fiction STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE STORIES FOR KIDS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENT 2 DIFFERENT Ben Brooks and Quinton Winter Ben Brooks and Quinton Winter

More true tales of amazing boys who found True, inspirational and amazing tales of boys and the courage to be themselves, and achieved girls who stood up and stood out. something remarkable at the same time. Björk, Dr Seuss, Whoopi Goldberg, Andy Warhol, This is the follow-up to the much loved and hugely Ellen MacArthur, Greta Gerwig, Andrea Bocelli, successful Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different, Hua Mulan . . . these are men and women who all the bestselling book that changed countless dared to be different. boys’ lives around the world and gave them the confidence to be themselves. Boys will be boys and girls will be girls – or so the meaningless saying goes. Because what if you’re Quercus What have the footballer Kylian Mbappé, the Quercus a girl and you like cage fighting? Or you’re a boy philosopher Socrates and the singer Ed Sheeran and you love ballet? And what if you’ve always UK Pub: March 2019 all got in common? All three of them defied UK Pub: October 2018 dreamed of being a scientist but you can’t see expectations – going against the grain and anyone who looks or sounds like you, and who UK Editor: Katy Follain pursuing their dreams – despite a seemingly UK Editor: Katy Follain has left a legacy – in the form of microscopes and impossible barrage of obstacles and difficulties. Page Extent: 208pp Bunsen burners – for you to follow? Their stories are incredible, as are those of the Page Extent; 208pp Rights Sold: tap-dancer Evan Ruggiero, the Pokémon creator This is the book for children who want to know Slovene (Ucila) Satoshi Tajiri, and the other inspirational boys who Rights Sold: about the lives of those heroes who have led the fill the pages of this extraordinary book. Bulgaria (Ciela Norma) way, changing the world for the better as they go. Rights Sold in Previous Title: Czech Republic (Presco) Croatia (Znanje) It’s books like these that can make a huge Following the runaway success of Stories for Boys Czech Republic (Presco) Finland (Readme) difference to parents and their children’s lives. Who Dare to be Different, parents asked for a Estonia (Helios) Germany (Loewe) In this day and age, any publication that shows Finland (Readme.fi) Poland (KE Liber) celebration of role models of both genders for France (Librairie Artheme) how we can triumph in the face of adversity and Serbia (Evro Book) boys and girls within the same book. Stories for Kids Germany (Loewe) prejudice deserves to be read over and over Sweden (Lind & Co) Who Dare to Be Different is the answer. These are Italy (Adriano Salani) again. US (Running Press) the extraordinary stories of 100 famous and not- Israel (Argaman) so-famous men and women, every single one of Japan (Kawade Shobo Shisha) About the Author: them an inspiring pioneer and creative genius in Macedonia (ARS Lamina) Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Berlin. He their own way, who broke the mould and made Netherlands (Veltman) is the author of several books, including Grow Up their dreams come true. Norway (Fontini Cappelen Damm) and Lolito, which won the Somerset Maugham Poland (KE Liber) Portugal (Editorial Presenca) Award in 2015. Like Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different, this is Romania (Grup Media Litera) a beautifully illustrated, evocative and inspirational Serbia (Evro Book) Quinton Winter is a British illustrator, artist and book of amazing stories of amazing people, that will Spain (Penguin Random House colourist. He has worked for many clients delight sons and daughters, nephews and nieces, Grupo Editorial) including the Guardian newspaper, Walker Books, and give them the courage to be themselves. Slovenia (Ucila) Gogglebox, 2000AD, Vertigo Comics, Mojo and Sweden (Bokforlaget) the BBC. Turkey (Eksik Parca) US (Running Press)

14 15 General Non-Fiction General Non-Fiction THINGS THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO THE LITTLE BOOK OF BHAVANA: Thai KNOW: A field guide for parents Secrets of Everyday Resilience about the secret lives of teenagers Leah Weiss S.W.I.M Drawing on the remarkable resilience and calmness of the Thai soccer team, who meditated This is a book for parents, written by me, a bestselling regularly while trapped in the Tham Luang cave writer who was, until recently, a teenager himself for several weeks in last summer’s incredible and who can only now articulate what those ordeal, this book gives us the tools and means to twilight years felt like. deal with our own ‘caves’ of stress and anguish.

It is the book I wish my parents had read, because This book explains how meditation within the if they had, they might have been better prepared framework of Bhavana works, why it’s something for stumbling onto a browser history packed with we should all be doing, and how to do it. niche porn and suicide tips. Quercus Quercus Bhavana - which refers to mental and spiritual When I turned into a teenager, I watched my UK Pub: January 2020 development - is the cultivation of wisdom and parents panic with questions they were unprepared UK Pub: May 2019 tranquility through meditation. It is the means for: is the computer killing his brain? is he watching UK Editor: Katy Follain to developing resilience and strength that will porn? are those cuts on his arms? what the hell do UK Editor: Katy Follain serve when it is most needed. This book makes we do now? MS due June 2019 Bhavana accessible and practical by distilling MS due March 2019 / 144pp the insights of thousands of years of tradition. It The child-rearing tactics they’d read about in integrates the teachings and practices with the parenting manuals or learned from their own Rights Sold: most recent neuroscience of how our brains parents were useless. Anyway, how do you punish Finland (Bazar Forlag Finland) and behavior can change to give us the tools to someone who’s already so miserable? Norway (Bazar Forlag Norway) withstand suffering and fear. Russia (Eksmo) Things They Don’t Want You To Know is a field Sweden (Bazar Forlag Sweden) About the Author: guide for confused parents who are currently Leah Weiss, Ph.D is a researcher, lecturer, custodians of any teenager who’s feeling lost, consultant, and author of How We Work. Prof alone, depressed or horny. Wesiss teaches Compassionate Leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where I’m not an expert, a psychologist, or even a she created the perennially waitlisted course, particularly good person, but I do understand the Leading with Mindfulness and Compassion. She unique kinds of troubles that come with trying to is a principal teacher and a founding faculty grow up in the current climate, and I wanted to member of Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation share what would have helped me, my friends, Program, conceived by the Dalai Lama. and everyone else I spoke to while writing this book. It might be hard to read what I write about self- harming, body piercings, gender confusion, drugs and social media angst. It might involve unpleasant surprises and be occasionally disgusting, but it could also help you to understand and support your kids. They won’t thank you, but they might hate you less.

16 17 General Non-Fiction General Non-Fiction POEMS TO FIX A F*CKED UP WORLD A WORD FOR EVERY DAY OF THE Various YEAR Steven Poole Short sharp shots of poetry to help you face the sh*t. An unusual word and its meaning for every day of the year. Sometimes it’s hard to keep looking up at the stars when the gutter we’re in seems so full of sh*t. A Word for Every Day of the Year is a fascinating But isn’t that why we need poetry? collection of 366 words and their definitions, perfect for anyone who loves the richness of Oscar Wilde wrote some of his best when he the English language, its diversity and wants to was in prison for ‘the love that dare not speak its expand their vocabulary. Each day offers an name’. unusual word, a definition and occasionally a challenge to include it in our lives. Nelson Mandela held fast to his ‘unconquerable soul’ on Robben Island with the help of words a Quercus About the Author: Quercus poet wrote about his battle with tuberculosis a Steven Poole is the author of the books Rethink, century before. UK Pub: October 2019 Unspeak, Trigger Happy, You Aren’t What You Eat, UK Pub: August 2019 Trigger Happy 2.0, and Who Touched Base In My So maybe it’s not inconceivable that the words UK Editor: Jane Sturrock Thought Shower and is a columnist, cultural critic, UK Editor: Jane Sturrock in this little book could help you put some of the and broadcaster. He writes a language column shit in perspective, get all the important bits of MS due April 2019 in the Guardian and made a web-documentary MS due April 2019 your life - like sleep, work, food, travel, love and series on Unspeak. He writes essays and reviews learning - in some kind of balance, so you can go for the New Statesman, the Wall Street Journal, back to star-gazing again . . . the Atlantic, and many other places.

‘This is not a poetry book as you know it, this is a life raft.’ Emerald Street on Poems for a world gone to sh*t.

Taking as its starting point the classic ‘wheel of balance’ life-coach model, this beautifully packaged collection of extracts and short poems gathers wisdom old and new in a perfect gift for anyone who needs comfort in this f**ked up world of ours.

18 19 General Non-Fiction General Non-Fiction GREAT SPEECHES IN MINUTES FEMINISM IN MINUTES Jacob F. Field Shannon Weber

The Great Speeches in Minutes presents the key extracts 200 key ideas, movements and feminists explained of 200 of the orations that changed the world, from in an instant. antiquity to the modern day. Each is accompanied by an explanation of the historic context of the speech and Never has having an understanding of feminism its momentous consequences. been so important. But what really is feminism – in Quercus all its forms? Who were the key feminists – and what Includes the speeches of: Buddha, Socrates, Muhammad, are their beliefs? What do feminists think about UK Pub: November 2019 Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, George Washington, Napoleon abortion, sex, religion, pornography and beauty? Bonaparte, Vladimir Lenin, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Quercus And have women achieved equality – or is there UK Editor: Alison Gandhi, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther still much to do? MacDonald King, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, and many more. UK Pub: May 2019 Feminism in Minutes is the quickest, easiest way to UK Editor: Alison understand the big ideas and history of feminism, WORLD WAR II IN MINUTES MacDonald from its ancient roots to the #MeToo movement of R. G. Grant today. Page Extent: 416pp Clear, concise yet comprehensive, World War II in Minutes is the quickest way to understand the greatest conflict in human history.

From its causes to its aftermath, this book details in 200 THE FUTURE IN MINUTES Quercus mini-essays every key event of the war, including the rise of Hitler, the Dunkirk evacuation, The Battle of Britain, Pearl Keith Mansfield UK Pub: November 2019 Harbor, Midway and Iwo Jima, the sieges of Leningrad 200 futuristic concepts, technologies and their and Stalingrad, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, consequences, explained in an instant. UK Editor: Alison D-Day and the fall of Berlin, and much much more. MacDonald What does the future hold? How will we live, work NUMBERS IN MINUTES and entertain ourselves? What new technologies Julia Collins will emerge? Will humanity evolve – and perhaps live forever? Or are we facing threats that could Numbers in Minutes demystifies the maths surrounding end us – and even the whole universe? the key numbers including: zero, 1-40, negatives, Quercus percentages, prime numbers, fractions, decimals, pi, The Future in Minutes tackles these and many other fundamental questions, concisely and lucidly exponentials, imaginary numbers, squares and cubes, UK Pub: May 2019 roots and powers, Fibonacci numbers, the golden explaining everything from cryptocurrencies Quercus and world governments to gene therapy and ratio, millions and trillions, a googol, ‘perfect,’ ‘kissing,’ UK Editor: Alison ‘vampire’ and ‘weird’ numbers, infinity, infinity+1 and colonizing planets – and painting our options for UK Pub: November 2019 MacDonald other sizes of infinity... utopia or disaster. UK Editor: Alison Page Extent: 416pp Every number is explained in a few short paragraphs with MacDonald a helpful picture, making the maths simple to understand and remember.

20 21 General Non-Fiction Sport THE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY THE TOUR ACCORDING TO G: My HANDBOOK: An Illustrated Step-by- Journey to the Yellow Jersey step Guide Geraint Thomas Doug Harman The inspirational inside story of the 2018 Tour de Everything you need to know to buy the right France from Geraint Thomas, the first Welshman digital camera for you and to get the best out of and third Brit ever to win the Tour it. For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with This updated edition of The Digital Photography extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike Handbook will allow you to make the most of all race in the world: twice an Olympic gold medallist the advantages your camera has to offer - as on the track, Commonwealth champion, yet at well as guiding you through the latest software the Tour de France a victim of crashes, bad luck to enhance your images, and get professional and his willingness to sacrifice himself for his team- results with every shot. mates. In the summer of 2018, that curse was blown away in spectacular fashion – from the cobbles Quercus of the north and the iconic mountain climbs of This book includes expert advice on the art Quercus of photography (composition, depth of field the Alps to the brutal slopes of the Pyrenees and, UK Pub: November 2019 finally, the Champs-Elysees in Paris. As a boy, G and how to photograph a variety of subjects), UK Pub: November 2018 editing and image manipulation software, had run home from school on summer afternoons UK Editor: Alison MacDonald to watch the Tour on television. This July, across how to print your images for the best results, UK Editor: Richard Milner developing a portfolio and mastering the rules of twenty-one stages and three weeks, and under Page Extent: 224pp constant attack from his rivals, he made the race copyright. Doug Harman includes the very latest Page Extent: 320pp developments in digital technology, equipping his own. you with everything you need to become a Rights Sold: photographer. With insight from the key characters around Netherlands (Edicola Geraint, this is the inside story of one of the most Publishing) Contents include: Types of camera, Computers thrilling and heart-warming tales in sport. and software, Memory, Pixels and magnification, Saving images, Exposure, Composition, Light, Not only can nice guys come first – they can win Camera modes, Special effects, Manipulating the biggest prize of all. images, Photo apps, Retouching old photos, Printing digital images, Selecting printers and About the Author: paper, Archiving and the cloud, Making money Geraint Thomas MBE is the winner of the 2018 Tour from your images, Copyright rules and more. de France, a double Olympic gold medallist and multiple world champion. A Tour de France veteran, About the Author: he had both completed the entire race with a Doug Harman has over 15 year’s experience fractured pelvis and been essential in piloting Chris as a journalist, writer, photographer, and digital Froome to the yellow jersey multiple times before camera and technology tester. He has written his own win. In 2014 he won Commonwealth road extensively for a multitude of digital photography race gold in Glasgow. He became the first British magazines and websites, including Amateur rider to win the E3 Harelbeke: in 2016 he won Photographer, What Digital Camera, Total Digital Paris-Nice and in early 2018 won the Criterium du Photography, Professional Photographer and Dauphine. Photography Monthly.

22 23 Commercial Fiction Commercial Fiction THE HOUSE AT SILVERMOOR MAKE DO AND MEND A BROKEN Tracy Rees HEART Katie Lovell The fifth novel from the author of the Richard and Judy bestseller Amy Snow. Perfect for fans of This is a gorgeous romance, celebrating all things Katheryn Hughes and Dinah Jefferies DIY, including home renovations, up-cycling, upholstery, sewing and crafts. 1899, South Yorkshire When you know how, you can make anything from Fourteen-year-old Tommy has been destined to a scratch, including a new life after love... life working down the mines since the moment he was born. But he has bigger plans for his future. When Leanne and Richard bought an old, dilapidated seaside cottage to renovate together His best friend Josie from the neighbouring village as their forever home, their future was full of hope is equally restless. The wealthy family that owns the and promise. mines are dictating harsher conditions than ever. But fast forward a few months and Richard is gone. Quercus The one source of intrigue and pleasure in their Quercus With his death, Leanne finds herself stony broke, grim Yorkshire life is their fascination with the faced with an uninhabitable home and none of UK Pub: February 2020 deserted house between their two villages. Heston UK Pub: January 2020 the skills to do it up herself. Manor has been shut up and uninhabited for UK Editor: Emma Capron years following a family tragedy. And when they UK Editor: Emma Capron She relies on the help of the friendly woman who discover that its mysteries aren’t all in the past, their runs the local library and the man who works in the MS due July 2019 lives change forever... MS due March 2019 local junk shop It won’t be just her cottage that will be restored, but her broken heart... Rights Sold in Previous Titles: About the Author: Czech (Euromedia) Tracy Rees was born in South Wales. A Cambridge About the Author: China (Guangxi Science and graduate, she had a successful eight-year career Katey Lovell is the author of commercial women’s Technology Publishing House) in nonfiction publishing and a second career fiction novels. Previously published by Harper Denmark (Forlaget Turbulenz) practising and teaching humanistic counselling. Collins’ imprint HarperImpulse, her novels are France (Editions Presses de la She was the winner of the Richard and Judy Search about people overcoming everyday challenges Cite) for a Bestseller Competition and shortlisted for the with the support of their friends, family and local German (Ullstein Buchverlage) 2018 Epic Romantic Novel of the Year award. community. Hebrew (Tchelet Books) Italy (Neri Pozza) Originally from South Wales, Katey now lives in Lithuania (Alma Littera) Sheffield with her husband and son. When she’s Macedonia (Matica not writing she’ll most likely be found watching Makedonska) musicals, enjoying live music or reading anything Netherlands (A.W. Bruna) and everything she can lay her hands on. Norway (Cappelen Damm) Poland (Czarna Owca) Serbia (Laguna) Spanish (Libros de Seda) Sweden (Piratforlaget) US (Simon & Schuster)

24 25 Commercial Fiction Commercial Fiction MISTLETOE ALL SUMMER WITH YOU Alison Littlewood Beth Good

The farmhouse looks perfect to Leah: a place to Nursing a broken heart and after being evicted from her start afresh, to put tragedy behind her – but she’s Boscastle home, Jennifer Bolitho is searching for a new not the only person to lose a husband and son, and start at Pixie Cottage. Her new landlord Alex Delgardo, soon tendrils of the past are pushing into Leah’s a former soldier-turned-actor, is tall, rugged, and known future in this spine-tingling new ghost story from for dating voluptuous blondes, not oddballs like Jennifer. Alison Littlewood. When a misunderstanding leads Jennifer to become Leah Hamilton is looking for a new life following the embroiled in Alex’s family, she ends up acting as an aide tragic deaths of her husband and son. Determined to his 79-year-old grandmother, Nelly, and a confidante to bury her grief in hard work, and desperate to to his pregnant younger sister, Thelma. escape Christmas and the pitying looks of her Quercus colleagues, she rushes through the purchase of a As she becomes closer and closer with his family, she run-down Yorkshire farmhouse, arriving just as the UK Pub: June 2019 inevitably finds herself developing feelings for Alex. But snow shrouds her new home. when your new life is built on a lie, it only takes one trip-up Quercus UK Editor: Cassie Browne to bring it all toppling down, and lose everything you hold It may look like a Christmas card, but it’s soon clear dear . . . UK Pub: November 2019 it’s not just the house needing renovation; the land MS due March 2019 is in bad heart too. And Leah’s mind starts playing UK Editor: Jo Fletcher tricks on her: she hears a child playing in the snow, but although there are snowballs, there are no MS due March 2019 footprints. Is this the ghost of her son, returned to WINTER WITHOUT YOU her? She starts having visions of the farm’s former Beth Good occupants – the young widow and her son, the cousin who’s wooing her, the maid who shares After the tragic death of her boyfriend, Hannah Clitheroe her secrets and the handsome labourer who’s is hiding away from the world. But when she discovers hanged for the murder of a child, a murder he she’s inherited a house in Cornwall, she knows it’s time to didn’t commit. face reality. Is Leah strong enough to lay the increasingly Her estranged grandmother lived in Kernow House for malevolent ghosts and find a way to move on? years, but Hannah soon realises someone else thinks it’s Or will her ashes end up scattered over the now – rightfully theirs: Raphael Tregar, a difficult man who quickly covered fields? gets under her skin. About the Author: Quercus But as winter sets in, there’s one more thing that keeps her Alison Littlewood is the author of 5 novels, including up at night, and the rising fear that she may not find her the Richard and Judy Book Club title, A Cold UK Pub: November 2018 true home in Cornwall after all . . . Season. Her most recent novel, The Hidden People, was published to critical acclaim. UK Editor: Cassie Browne Alison lives with her partner Fergus in Yorkshire, Page Extent: 384pp England, in a house of creaking doors and crooked walls.

26 27 Commercial Fiction Commercial Fiction THE LOST SON THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER: Angelotti Prue Leith Chronicles 2 Prue Leith The final epic part of The Angelotti Chronicles, from chef and Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith It is 1968. Angelica Angelotti has grown up in the Italian food business started by her English mother and Italian father. Now As poverty-stricken newlyweds, Laura and she is using her cooking talent to strike out on her own. There, Giovanni Angelotti were forced to put their first among the excitement and wild emotion of the student child – a boy – up for adoption. They have had barricades, she falls in love with her charismatic but unreliable other children since, and their first little Italian cafe cousin Mario. has become a restaurant empire, but Laura is still haunted by thoughts of the baby she lost. Navigating a blossoming career, from the Savoy hotel pastry kitchen to the world of food writing and presenting, Tom is a successful businessman enjoying the Quercus alongside an increasingly toxic relationship, eventually proves fast-paced City lifestyle – until his best friend and impossible. Angelica has to leave Mario, and makes the business partner is killed in the 9/11 attacks and his UK Pub: January 2019 decision to move back to the family home in Gloucestershire to help her other cousin Silvano with a new branch of the world turns upside down. Searching for meaning family business. Quercus in his life, he decides to track down his birth family: UK Editor: Jane Wood the Angelottis. But when Mario reappears, determined to win her back, and UK Pub: April 2019 Page Extent: 400pp as other jealous relatives plot the downfall of the Frampton But Laura has been keeping an explosive Arms, will Angelica be able to hold on to her business and the UK Editor: Jane Wood secret about Tom’s parentage that means his man she’s come to love? reappearance in her life is bittersweet. She may MS Available / 416pp have found her son, but will it be at the cost of THE HOUSE AT CHORLTON: Angelotti everything it has taken her fifty years to build? Chronicles 1 About the Author: Prue Leith As a cook, restaurateur, food writer and business woman, Prue Leith has played a key role in the The first instalment of an epic multi-generational family saga revolution of Britain’s eating habits since the 1960s. by award-winning restaurateur Prue Leith. She is a judge on Channel 4’s Great British Bake A proud family. Snubbed by aristocratic neighbour Lord Off. After a long break from food writing, Prue has Frampton at a coming-of-age ball, Donald Oliver dreams of returned to writing cookery books alongside her the day he’ll have his vengeance. fiction. She is the author of seven romantic novels as well as a memoir, Relish. All Prue’s fiction and A wild daughter. Laura Oliver, beautiful and tempestuous, her memoir are in print with Quercus. She lives in falls in love with Giovanni, an Italian ex-prisoner-of-war, now Oxfordshire. Quercus a humble cook. Disdaining her father’s snobbishness - and his wrath - the couple flee to London. UK Pub: August 2018 A desperate hope. Giovanni and Laura arrive to a city that has not yet re-awoken after the traumas of war. Facing UK Editor: Jane Wood destitution, only their love for one another and their dream of opening a restaurant business keeps them going. Page Extent: 432pp Rights Sold: Estonia (Varrak)

28 29 Commercial Fiction Commercial Fiction THE COBBLER’S WIFE A NIGHTINGALE SANG: THE FORCES’ Lynette Rees SWEETHEART 3 Rosie Archer A heartwarming saga, from the ebook bestselling author of WORKHOUSE WAIF In the third book in The Forces’ Sweethearts trilogy, Rainey, Ivy and Bea are preparing to go on tour as How far will she go for happiness? The Bluebird Girls. Their mission is to bring joy and glamour to brave British soldiers stationed overseas For years Seren James has yearned for a child of fighting the Second World War. None of them her own. Married to a man who has little care for have been abroad before and India and Burma her, she longs for something to fill the emptiness seem impossibly exotic to three Gosport girls. within - and fears that she is almost out of time. Juggling personal and professional lives becomes When Seren meets a woman who says she can harder on tour – Rainey has a new romance that help, she thinks her dreams have come true. But she is anxious to keep alive, while Ivy is trying her the locals suspect Anwen of witchcraft, and any best to get over her love for Bea’s brother Eddie, association with her may taint Seren too. but it’s proving almost impossible. They must rely on Quercus Quercus each other, rather than men, to keep their chins up And as Seren finds herself growing closer to Elwyn as the war rages on around them, and remember UK Pub: June 2019 Davies, the local minister, who has made no secret UK Pub: January 2020 that it’s always darkest before dawn. of his attraction to her, she must ask herself what UK Editor: Emma Capron it will take to find happiness - and whether she is UK Editor: Therese Keating About the Author: willing to pay the price . . . Rosie Archer was born in Gosport, Hampshire, MS Available MS due April 2019 where she still lives. She has had a variety of jobs About the Author: including waitress, fruit picker, barmaid, shop RONE award nominated author, Lynette Rees, is a assistant and market trader selling second-hand former writing therapist, tutor and mentor. books. Rosie is the author of The Munitions Girls, The Canary Girls, The Factory Girls and The Gunpowder She has written in many genres and has seen and Glory Girls as well as a series of gangster sagas a huge success with her self-published books. under the name June Hampson. Workhouse Waif hit the Amazon Kindle bestseller list and was no 1 in ‘Victorian Historical Romance’. It is the first in a series of orphan sagas, published by Quercus Books in the UK.

30 31 Crime and Thriller Crime and Thriller THE CARRIER IN HIGH PLACES Mattias Berg J J Holland

The man with the nuclear briefcase has gone An explosive new thriller from a bestselling author, rogue – Mission Impossible meets the Hunt for Red perfect for fans of Lee Child and Harlan Coben October in an explosive new thriller for fans of James Swallow and Tom Clancy Ever since the death of his wife, Lina, in a Kabul bombing, Aubrey Savage has been determined to Erasmus Levine has a job like no other. fulfil his promise to her: to find out what happened He travels with the President of the United States to her brother, Jarrah, a disavowed MI5 agent who at all times, and holds in his hands the power to has been missing for two years. obliterate life as we know it. He is the man with the nuclear briefcase, part of a crack team of top- An ex-SAS officer, Savage is used to noticing the secret operatives established after 9/11 and led by small things. So when he offers a lift to a terrified a man codenamed Edelweiss. But even Edelweiss runaway bride on the moors, he knows there’s does not know the identity of their ultimate more to her story than meets the eye. authority, known only as Sysboss. Quercus MacLehose Press But when she is snatched away immediately, Levine has a secret. UK Pub: April 2019 leaving behind a holdall and a Glock that he UK Pub: May 2019 For twelve years he has been receiving recognises to only be that of an MI5 agent, he is cryptic messages from Sysboss – an elaborate UK Editor: Emily Yau thrust into a terrifying world of corruption, and a UK Editor: Paul Engles communication that began with the words We two threat that’s all too close to home . . . against the world. Slowly but surely, Levine begins MS due November 2018 MS Available / 448pp thinking of escape. His chance comes during an About the Author: official visit to Sweden, when the alarm sounds in J J Holland is the pseudonym for Jane Holland, a Rights Sold: Stockholm’s Grand Hotel. Gregory Award-winning poet and novelist. She’s Czech Republic published six collections of poetry and dozens of (Euromedia) But Sysboss has other plans for him. thrillers, historicals, romances, romcoms, and feel- Estonia (Varrak Publishing) From their first meeting in a network of tunnels and good fiction with major publishing houses, under Germany (Atrium Verlag) bunkers beneath the city, Levine is drawn into a various pseudonyms, including Victoria Lamb, Italy (Marsilio Editori) plan to eliminate the world’s nuclear arsenals. But Elizabeth Moss, Beth Good, and Hannah Coates. Slovakia (Ikar) how can he be sure that controlled demolition is Sweden (Norstedts) the endgame? Could he be working towards a Her first thrillerGirl Number One hit Number 1 in the controlled apocalypse, a doomsday plot to wipe UK Kindle store in 2015, catapulting her into a life of humanity from the face of the earth? crime. Her latest thriller is Forget Her Name, now a UK Kindle Top 25 bestseller. Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding

About the Author: Mattias Berg was born in Stockholm 1962. He has been a culture journalist since the late 1980s and worked at major Swedish newspapers, including Dagens Nyheter and Expressen. Since 2002 he has been employed at Swedish Radio, where he for ten years was the head of the Culture Department.

32 33 Crime and Thriller Crime and Thriller JUST LIKE YOU DELIVER ME Alison Percival Karen Cole

A gripping novel about break-ups, jealousy and When Abby’s doctor tells her she’s two months pregnant obsession, from the winner of Psychologies’ thriller she doesn’t believe him. She can’t be - she hasn’t had writing competition. sex for over a year. But to her astonishment and dismay, multiple tests confirm it’s true. Nicky can’t stop obsessing over Iain’s new girlfriend. What does she have that she doesn’t? Desperately searching for an explanation, Abby recalls New Year’s Day - the terrible hangover, the hole in her Isabel isn’t prepared for the online vitriol from rising memory where the night before should have been and star Iain’s obsessive fans. Is he being totally honest the inexplicable sense of unease - and realises that this about his past? baby must have been conceived at her best friend Quercus Danny’s NYE party. As both women’s lives begin to unravel, they will realise that you can’t always get what you want, UK Pub: April 2019 Horrified that someone would have taken advantage of and sometimes, love can turn into obsession . . . her intoxicated state, Abby enlists the help of Danny to Quercus UK Editor: Rachel Neely find out which of the party guests assaulted her. But, when About the Author: she starts to receive anonymous messages, it seems that UK Pub: March 2019 After an English degree and a postgraduate Page Extent: 368pp while she has been looking into the father of her baby, diploma in Journalism, Alison had a long career someone has been watching her... UK Editor: Rachel Neely in television as a researcher and BBC Script Editor before going freelance. Her features have MS due March 2018 appeared In numerous publications. Alison won DECEIVE ME the Psychologies Novel Writing competition in Karen Cole association with Quercus. She lives in Brighton with her family. A PERFECT FAMILY OR A PERFECT LIE?

When Jo’s teenage daughter goes missing, she feels like the world is collapsing around her. Has Grace been taken or have recent tensions between mother and daughter driven her away?

With little urgency from the police who have dismissed Grace as a teenage runaway who will soon return home, Jo takes matters into her own hands. Quercus But as she gets closer to discovering what has happened UK Pub: July 2019 to Grace, it looks like the Jo’s deepest, darkest secret is about to be uncovered, and it could destroy everything UK Editor: Rachel Neely she holds dear.

Page Extent: 400pp A gripping thriller for fans of Louise Jensen, Rachel Abbott and CL Taylor.

34 35 Literary Fiction Literary Fiction TIGER A BURIED LIFE Polly Clark Hannah Michell

A mesmerising literary novel set between the UK The night the tower fell, Sae was furious with her and Siberia about mothers, daughters and the husband, Jae, for leaving her to cope alone with wild side of female nature, from the prize-winning their two boys. The next day, she joins the crowds author of Larchfield. of mourners at the site of Seoul’s most aspirational department store, now reduced to rubble, and Set across two continents, Tiger is a sweeping story vows that justice will be served. Yet the directors at of survival and redeeming love that plunges the Daehan Corp – South Korea’s biggest construction reader into one of the world’s last wildernesses with company and the backbone of its economic blistering authenticity. recovery – walk free.

Frieda is a primatologist, sensitive and solitary, until Two years later, Sae has still never seen her a violent attack shatters her ordered world. In her husband’s body. Desperate for work, she takes on new role as a zookeeper, she confronts a very the job of biographer to the Chairman of Daehan different ward: an injured wild tiger. Corp. Loyal to her student days as a protester in riverrun riverrun the famous riots of 1987, Sae struggles to resist the Deep in the Siberian taiga, Tomas, a Russian Chairman’s charisma, his ideology of family; even UK Pub: May 2019 conservationist, fears that the natural order has UK Pub: March 2020 as she surrenders her own children to her new toppled. The king tiger has been killed by poachers obsession. UK Editor: Jon Riley and a spectacular tigress now patrols his vast UK Editor: Rose territory as her own. Tomaszewska For Sae has a plan. She will use her position to PDF Available / 432pp uncover who was truly responsible for the tragic In a winter of treacherous competition, the path MS due May 2019 deaths in the Tower. She will expose the company Rights Sold: of the tigress and her cub crosses with an Udeghe that enslaved a country to its greed. She will Bulgaria (List 2016) huntress and her daughter. Vengeance must unravel what truly happened to Jae. But what Sae Italy (Edizioni di Atlantide) follow, and the fates of both tigers and people are will discover too late, is that the Chairman has his transformed. own reason for employing her. One that will rock the story of her own life, and bring it crashing down Learning of her tiger’s past offers Frieda the around her. chance of freedom. Faced with the savage forces of nature, she must trust to her instinct and, like the A searing portrait of South Korea, A Buried Life asks tiger, find a way to live in the world. with heart-stopping suspense how truth can be proved in a climate of oppression, whether family About the Author: can be sacrificed to progress and who writes our Polly Clark was born in Toronto and lives in history. Helensburgh on Scotland’s west coast. Her three poetry collections have between them won the About the Author: Eric Gregory Award, been shortlisted for the T.S. Hannah Michell studied Philosophy and Eliot Prize and twice been selected as one of the Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Poetry Book Society’s books of the year. She has worked for the Economist, Penguin Books and now lectures on Korean pop culture at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first novel,The Defections, was published in 2014.

36 37 Literary Fiction Literary Fiction DAUGHTER OF THE TIGRIS MADELEINE Muhsin Al-Ramli Euan Cameron

The follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The A young musician uncovers a painful family history President’s Gardens. and must confront the realities of collaboration and betrayal in Vichy France On the sixth day of Ramadan, in a land without bananas, Qisma leaves for Baghdad with her Family history has always been a mystery to Jo husband-to-be to find the body of her father. But Latymer. His father flatly refused to talk about it, in the bloodiest year of a bloody war, how will she and with no other relatives to consult, it seems that find one body among thousands? a mystery it shall always remain. Until of course, Jo meets Ghislaine, his beautiful French cousin, in a For Tariq, this is more than just a marriage of chance encounter that sends him headlong into convenience: the beautiful, urbane Qisma must the life of his longlost grandfather, Henry Latymer. be his, body and soul. But can a sheikh steeped Reading Henry’s old letters and diaries for the first in genteel tradition share a tranquil bed with a time, Jo discovers an idealistic young man, full modern Iraqi woman? of hopes and optimism – an optimism that will MacLehose Press MacLehose Press gradually be crushed as the realities of life under The President has been deposed, and the garden the Vichy regime become glaringly clear. UK Pub: November 2019 of Iraq is full of presidents who will stop at nothing UK Pub: June 2019 to take his place. Qisma is afraid – afraid for her But the more Jo delves into Henry’s past, and into UK Editor: Paul Engles son, afraid that it is only a matter of time before her UK Editor: Katharina France’s troubled history, the darker the secrets he father’s murderers come for her. Bielenberg discovers about his grandfather become, and the MS Available more he has cause to wonder if sometimes, the The only way to survive is to take a slice of Iraq for MS Available past should remain buried. Rights Sold in Previous Title: herself. But ambition is the most dangerous drug of Portugal (Editora 2020) all, and it could just seal Qisma’s fate. About the Author: Spanish (Alianza) Euan Cameron is a literary translator from French About the Author: and a former publisher. His translations include Muhsin Al-Ramli is an Iraqi writer, poet, academic works by Patrick Modiano and Philippe Claudel, and translator, born in the village of Sudara in and biographies of Marcel Proust and Irène northern Iraq in 1967. He has lived in Madrid since Némirovsky. Madeleine is his first novel. 1995. The President’s Gardens was longlisted for the IPAF, known as the “Arabic Booker”, in 2013.

38 39 Fantasy and Sci Fi Fantasy and Sci Fi LADY OF SHADOWS LORD OF SECRETS Breanna Teintze Breanna Teintze

With the humour of V.E. Schwab, the scale of Trudi In the gripping sequel to Lord of Secrets, outlaw Canavan and the deftness of Naomi Novik, Lord wizard Corcoran Gray is just starting to rebuild his of Secrets is a heartwarming fantasy novel about life - but then a mysterious plague starts killing saving the people you love without destroying the magicians, and threatens everything he holds world (or yourself) in the process. dear. Magic is poison. Secrets are power. Death is . . . A year after dying and being resurrected in a new complicated. body, outlaw wizard Corcoran Gray is still trying to rebuild his life. So when the powerful Mage’s Guild Outlaw wizard Corcoran Gray has enough requests his help in curing a mysterious plague problems. He’s friendless, penniless and on the that’s targeting wizards, he’s inclined to refuse. run from the tyrannical Mages’ Guild - and with the search for his imprisoned grandfather looking Then Brix, his partner and the love of his life, begins hopeless, his situation can’t get much worse. Jo Fletcher Books showing symptoms, and Gray realises he no longer Jo Fletcher Books has a choice. He will do anything to save her, even So when a fugitive drops into his lap - literally - and UK Pub: July 2020 work with his greatest enemies. UK Pub: July 2019 gets them both arrested, it’s the last straw - until Gray realises that runaway slave Brix could be UK Editor: Molly Powell Gray forms an uneasy alliance with Dace, a high- UK Editor: Molly Powell the key to his grandfather’s release. All he has to ranking Guild official who believes someone is do is break out of prison, break into an ancient MS due March 2019 using the plague to wipe out moderate members MS Available / 336pp underground temple and avoid killing himself with of the guild, and travels to Brix’s homeland to find his own magic in the process. the source of the disease before it’s too late. Rights Sold: Germany (Blanvalet) In theory, it’s simple enough. But as secrets unfold But when they arrive, it quickly becomes clear and loyalties shift, Gray discovers something with that the situation is more complicated, and more the power to change the nature of life and death dangerous, than they realised – and there could itself. be thousands of lives at stake . . . Now Gray must find a way to protect the people About the Author: he loves, but it could cost him everything, even his Breanna Teintze is a registered nurse, who writes soul . . . (well) and gardens (badly). She lives in Idaho with her husband, where she homeschools her three About the Author: kids, polishes swords, and perfects her eyeliner. Breanna Teintze is a registered nurse, who writes Her novel, Lord of Secrets, will be published by Jo (well) and gardens (badly). She lives in Idaho with Fletcher Books in 2019. her husband, where she homeschools her three kids, polishes swords, and perfects her eyeliner. Her novel, Lord of Secrets, will be published by Jo Fletcher Books in 2019.

40 41 Fantasy and Sci Fi Fantasy and Sci Fi BRIGHTFALL LOST ACRE Jaime Lee Moyer Andrew Caldecott

Someone is murdering the Merry Men - and if Marian Wynter is here . . . and if he isn’t stopped, this could doesn’t stop them, her children will be the next to be the end of Rotherweird – for good. die: a wonderful re-imagining of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, perfect for fans of Katherine Arden, Gervon Wynter has returned to Rotherweird and Naomi Novik and Christina Henry. has not only taken over the town but is busy destroying the countrysiders’ lves too. It’s been a mostly quiet life since Robin Hood denounced Marian, his pregnant wife, and his Can our small band of heroes find a way to outwit former life and retreated to a monastery to repent a genius whose master plan is five centuries in the his sins . . . although no one knows what he did that making? was so heinous he would leave behind Sherwood Forest and those he loved most. Watch this space . . .

But when friends from their outlaw days start dying, Praise for Rotherweird: Jo Fletcher Books Father Tuck, now the Abbott of St. Mary’s, suspects Jo Fletcher Books a curse and begs Marian to use her magic to ‘Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn’ Hilary Mantel UK Pub: September 2019 break it. A grieving Marian bargains for protection UK Pub: June 2019 for her children before she sets out with a soldier ‘Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention UK Editor: Jo Fletcher who’s lost his faith, a trickster Fey lord and a sullen UK Editor: Jo Fletcher bold. An enthralling puzzle picture of a book’ Robin Hood, angry at being drawn back into the M. R. Carey MS due March 2019 real world. MS due May 2019 ‘Compelling . . . the love child of Gormenghast Marian soon finds herself enmeshed in a maze Rights Sold in Previous Title: and Hogwarts’ The Guardian of betrayals, tangled relationships and a vicious Czech Republic (Host) struggle for the Fey throne . . . and if she can’t Poland (Zysk S-KA) About the Author: find and stop the spell-caster, no protection Russia (Family Leisure Club) Andrew Caldecott is a QC specialising in media in Sherwood Forest will be enough to save her law; he has represented a wide variety of clients, children. from the BBC and the Guardian to supermodel Naomi Campbell. An occasional playwright, he About the Author: turned his hand to fiction when, informed by his Jaime Lee Moyer lives in a dry land of cactus love of history, he was seized by the notion of a and cowboys, while dreaming of tall trees and city-state hiding a cataclysmic secret. Wyntertide the ocean. She writes novels about murder and continues the story started in Rotherweird. betrayal, friendship, ghosts and magic, and she feels it’s only fair to warn you that all her books are kissing books. She is the author of Delia’s Shadow, A Barricade In Hell and Against A Brightening Sky, published by Tor Books, and the forthcoming Brightfall, from Jo Fletcher Books.

42 43 Fantasy and Sci Fi Fantasy and Sci Fi MORHELION COUNCIL Dominic Dulley Snorri Kristjansson

An alien exile. A lethal secret. The hunt is on . . . A murdered diplomat, planted evidence and a treacherous sister: once again, Helga had better Orry Kent may not have stopped the war between find the real killer quickly, before heads start rolling the Ascendancy and the alien Kadiran, but at – literally – in this brand-new Viking noir mystery. least she saved the Grand Fleet from immediate annihilation. Now she just wants to get on with her Helga Finnsdottir left her foster parents, the old own life. Viking chieftain Unnthor Reginson and his knowing wife Hildigunnur, to see the world, but she stopped The conflict feels a long way away – until acon in Uppsala when she fell in love. Now she’s turns sour and she finds herself drawn into the very established herself as a local healer and herb- heart of the war. woman on the outskirts of town, and life is good – until King Eirik the Victorious calls a trade council When a dying agent of the emperor’s shadowy and hairy northerners and southern Swedes alike Seventh Secretariat tells Orry there’s a traitor at descend on the town. Jo Fletcher Books the highest levels of the Ascendancy, she has little Jo Fletcher Books choice but to take on the mission. Unfortunately for Helga, one delegation is headed UK Pub: April 2019 UK Pub: May 2019 by a very determined young woman who has her Which is why she finds herself stranded among own agenda and will let nothing – and no one -– UK Editor: Jo Fletcher the floating bubble habitats of Morhelion, where UK Editor: Jo Fletcher get in her way. But the last time Helga saw Jorunn pollution-spewing smokers ply their trade in the Unthorsdottir, her foster-sister was being cast out by Page Extent: 400 beautiful but toxic atmosphere. MS Available / 352pp their father for killing their brother Bjorn and trying to pin the blame on Helga. Rights Sold: The hunt is on . . . Rights Sold in Previous Title: Germany (Heyne) Germany (Rowohlt) So perhaps it’s no great surprise when one of About the Author: Russia (AST) the delegates is murdered, or that Helga’s soon Rights Sold in Previous Title: Dominic Dulley is a software developer with a tagged as the lead suspect. It doesn’t take her Germany (Heyne) passion for SF. His short fiction has been published long to clear her own name, but that only leads Hungary (Agave Konyvek widely, in books, journals and magazines. suspicion to fall on to her man. Kiado) Shattermoon is his first novel, and the start of the fast-moving space opera The Long Game. He lives Once again, Helga must solve a murder, and fast, with his wife and family in Warwick. before the innocent pays with his head.

About the Author: Snorri Kristjansson was born in Iceland and is a writer and a teacher, as well as a stand-up comedian, actor and musician. He currently lives in Edinburgh with his artist wife. The Valhalla Saga, his Viking fantasy series, and The Helga Finnsdottir books, his Viking historical/crime series, are all published by Jo Fletcher Books.

44 45 Fantasy and Sci Fi Fantasy and Sci Fi OUR CHILD OF THE STARS THE KING Stephen Cox David Hair

Our Child of the Stars is a remarkable story of Ravindra is about to succeed in his centuries- warmth, tenacity and generosity of spirit, set long quest to become the demon-king – unless against the backdrop of a fast-changing, terrifying four young men and women can stand against decade. this ancient evil . . . The grand finalé in the thrilling award-winning adventure. In this magical, bewitching debut, Molly and Gene Myers’ marriage is on the brink of collapse. Then a There is no escape from destiny . . . is there? child arrives, with a remarkable appearance. Will he bring them together, or tear their whole world For four young men and women trapped in its apart? story-cycle, the Ramayana is not just a legend: it is their fate! Molly and Gene Myers were happy, until tragedy blighted their hopes of children. During the years In every life they have ever lived, Vikram, Amanjit, of darkness and despair, they each put their Rasita and Deepika have been persecuted and Jo Fletcher Books marriage in jeopardy, but now they are starting to Jo Fletcher Books killed by Ravindra on his quest to reincarnate as rebuild their fragile bond. Ravana, the Demon-King. Now Ravindra has UK Pub: January 2019 UK Pub: January 2019 captured Rasita, and demonic beings are rallying This is the year of Woodstock and the moon landings; to his cause. His triumph is looking certain. UK Editor: Jo Fletcher war is raging in Vietnam and the superpowers are UK Editor: Jo Fletcher threatening each other with annihilation. Vikram and Amanjit must rescue Rasita – but in Page Extent: 496pp Page Extent: 400pp every past life, Vikram has died at Ravindra’s Then the Meteor crashes into Amber Grove, hands. devastating the small New England town - and changing their lives for ever. Molly, a nurse, caught This time, failure is not an option. This time, if up in the thick of the disaster, is given care of a Ravindra wins, it will be for ever. desperately ill patient rescued from the wreckage: a sick boy with a remarkable appearance, an Ages-old mysteries must be uncovered and orphan who needs a mother. forgotten powers regained as the fight to defeat Ravindra moves toward the final, heart-stopping And soon the whole world will be looking for him. climax and a finalé that is as startling as it is electrifying. Cory’s arrival has changed everything. And the Myers will do anything to keep him safe. Praise for David Hair ‘Riveting! Like its reincarnated heroes, I was drawn About the Author: again and again to David Hair’s gripping, blood- Stephen Cox was born in the USA and now lives in soaked tale’ Chris Bradford, author of Young London with his partner of twenty years. A father Samurai to two children, he has worked for various not-for- profits, most notably for twelve years with Great About the Author: Ormond Street Hospital. David Hair, an award-winning writer of fantasy, has been inspired by his travels around the globe.

46 47 Fantasy and Sci Fi Recent Highlights HEARTS OF ICE: The Sunsurge Quartet ALMOST LOVE Book 3 Louise O’Neill David Hair riverrun

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48 49 Recent Highlights Recent Highlights ALL THE LIVES WE NEVER LIVED DARLING BLUE Anuradha Roy Tracy Rees MacLehose Press Quercus

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52 53 Recent Highlights Recent Highlights 50 IDEAS SERIES THE LITTLE WAYS TO LIVE A BIG LIFE SERIES Quercus Quercus The 50 Ideas Series is a hugely successful series with over a million copies sold across The Little Ways to Live a Big Life: Do something amazing and learn a new skill thanks 20 territories. 200 Key ideas explained in an instant, written by renowned experts in to the Little Ways to Live a Big Life books! Each book in this life-enhancing series each area with titles including: Architecture • Art • Astronomy • Big Ideas • Biology is written by an expert in that field. Titles include: How to Play the Piano by James • Capitalism • Chemistry • Digital • Earth • Economics • Ethics • Genetics • History Rhodes • How to Count to Infinity by Marcus du Sautoy • How to Understand E=MC2 of War • Human Brain • Islam • Literature • Management • Maths • Philosophy by Christophe Galfard • How to Land a Plane by Marc Vanhoenacker • How to Draw • Philosophy of Science • Physics • Political • Psychology • Quantum Physics • Anything by Scriberia • How to Make Children Laugh by Michael Rosen • How to Religious • Science • The Future • World History • Universe Remember Everything by Richard Wiseman

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