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STAY GOLDEN Lucky Blue Smith FICTION……………4-23 NON FICTION……24-47 BACKLIST…………48-51 3 Fiction 4 WHAT ALICE KNEW T.A. Cotterell Publicaon: April 2017 Format/extent: Pbk, 480 pp Material: Mid‐September 2016 An addicve debut for fans of tense, thought‐provoking novels such as Liane Moriarty’s The Husband’s Secret and Clare Macintosh’s I Let You Go Alice is a portrait painter obsessed with capturing the ‘truth’ of her siers. She has always trusted her insncts and she knows that she married a good man. But when a woman dies following a party her husband aended things don’t add up. In a weak moment Alice promises to support her husband and cover up suspicious details regarding his whereabouts at the night of the murder. But as the net closes in, Alice unravels psychologically and her capacity to keep her husband’s secret – and liberty – falls into doubt. What consequences will it have on her relaonship with her children, and what happens if they find out one day? Will it mark their lives in the same way that Alice’s own mother’s lies marked hers? What would you do? T.A. Coerell read History of Art at Cambridge University. He worked in the City before resigning to become a freelance writer. He has wrien for The Telegraph, The Spectator and assorted magazines and is now a writer and editor at the research house, Redburn. He is married with three children and lives in Bristol. 5 THE THINGS WE THOUGHT WE KNEW Mahsuda Snaith Publicaon: June 2018 Format/extent: Hbk, 304 pp Material: Mid‐October 2016 A moving, insighul novel with an underlying mystery, for fans of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Elizabeth is Missing. Ravine Roy has been lying in a bed in a council flat for the last ten years. And she doesn't plan on going anywhere anyme soon. At the age of eight she is badly burnt in a fire, and when the burns heal she is le in chronic pain that won’t ease. At the same me, her best friend leaves her, and her world falls apart. As she reaches her eighteenth birthday Ravine’s eccentric mother decides it’s me for her to leave the flat and move on. But Ravine has memories she’s been trying to forget and when suddenly her past and present collide, is forced to make a decision: to stay in the safety of her bed or step out into the Big World Outside. Seducve, heart‐breaking and charming, The Things We Thought We Knew is a warm, clever novel about the things we remember and the things we wish we could forget. Mahsuda Snaith is a writer of novels, short stories and plays, and is the winner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2014, Bristol Short Story Prize 2014 as well as a finalist for the Mslexia Novel Compeon 2013. Mahsuda leads creave wring workshops at De Monort University, and has performed her work at literary fesvals. 6 THE FRACTURE (working title) Kate McNaughton Publicaon: January 2018 Format/extent: Hbk, 304 pp Material: Mid– October 2016 Rights sold: Les escales (France) Beaufully wrien and announcing a bold new literary talent, The Fracture offers a tender and heart‐breaking perspecve on the queson of how much we can ever really know the person we love. When Eva wakes up one morning to discover that her husband has died in his sleep, she is overwhelmed: with anger, with disbelief, with fear. For Adam was only thirty‐one, a brilliant doctor with no health issues. They were supposed to grow old together. In the aermath, once the endless cups of tea and visits from family and friends have begun to thin out, Eva’s life begins to fracture. In aempng to confront the agony of her loss, Eva starts to uncover the story of her marriage, delving into those parts of her husband’s life to which she never before had access. What she finds is like nothing she could ever have expected. The Fracture is a novel about loss and love, about the irreducibility of otherness and about breaking points: those moments when everything changes from one second to the next and how we deal with the consequences. Kate McNaughton was born and raised in Paris to English parents. She read English at Cambridge and filmmaking at the European Film College in Denmark. She currently works as a documentary filmmaker and translator and lives in Berlin. 7 THE BOSTON TAPES (working title) Barney Norris Publicaon: June 2017 Format/extent: Hbk, 320pp Material: January 2017 Opon publishers: Dumont (Germany); Le Seuil (France); Algoritam (Croaa) The second moving novel by crically acclaimed author Barney Norris tackles family relaonships and coming to terms with the past. The Boston Tapes tells the beauful story of a grandfather and granddaughter. It takes place on the day of the grandfather’s big 80th birthday party, a party he has decided will be the last one he celebrates on this scale. When someone from his past knocks on the door, the grandfather is forced to look back at the life choices he has made. The granddaughter is at the end of a very difficult year and is guilt ridden for not staying with her boyfriend post his life changing accident but she is determined for her life to move forward. Reviews for Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain ‘Norris writes beaufully, unearthing extraordinary depths in the everyday...a memorable writer, mature beyond his years.’ ‐ Sunday Times ‘Brilliant and mul‐layered...the author has an uncanny ability to capture even the niest nuances of each character’ ‐ The Herald Barney Norris is the founder of the theatre company Up In Arms, and has won an award for Most Promising Playwright for his play Visitors. 8 ALL WE SHALL KNOW Donal Ryan Publicaon: September 2016 Format/extent: Hbk, 224 pp Rights sold: Jensen & Dalgaard (Danish); Koper‐ nik (Dutch); Albin Michel (French); Diogenes Verlag (German); Penguin Books (US) ‘[As] All We Shall Know progresses, we watch with growing fascinaon as he expands, not only his emoonal range, but also his social sphere. The book builds on those earlier works to establish Ryan beyond dispute as one of the finest writers working in Ireland today.’ The Guardian ‘Marn Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He’s seventeen, I'm thirty‐three. I was his teacher. I’d have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don’t think it would hurt the baby. His lile heart would stop with mine. He wouldn't feel himself leaving one world of darkness for another, his spirit untangling itself from me.’ Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn't take her news too well. She doesn't want to tell her father yet because he’s a good man and this could break him. She’s trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming – larger by the day – while the past won’t let her go. Donal Ryan’s new novel is breath‐taking, vivid, moving and redempve. Donal Ryan’s first novel, The Spinning Heart, was published to major acclaim. It won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature, and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and it was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Ellio Prize. 9 MARRIED QUARTERS Shane Connaughton Publicaon: May 2017 Format/extent: Hbk, 368 pp Material: January 2017 A sequel to the acclaimed A Border Staon from the Oscar‐nominated screenwriter of My Le Foot. Married Quarters is brilliant, funny and beaufully observed. A small, insignificant Irish border town in the early 1960s. The Sergeant is nervous. He has his men lined up for inspecon in the day room of the Garda staon, and any slip‐ups will reflect badly on the Sergeant. But what can he do with the men under his command – all of them the leovers from other more important staons in more important towns? Each garda has his own story, his own problems. How can a man be expected to keep the peace with such a bunch of misfits? Observing them with fascinaon, all but invisible in his own quiet corner, sits the Sergeant’s son. On the cusp of manhood, he is drawn in by these rough and ready men, stuck in this place and me, when all he wants is a chance to leave and start his life anew. Shane Connaughton is an acclaimed novelist, screenwriter and actor. His screenplay for My Le Foot was shortlisted for an Academy Award; the film won two acng Oscars. His novel A Border Staon, which we will be reissuing in April 2017, was a bestseller and was shortlisted for the Guinness Peat Aviaon Book Award in 1989. 10 NOTHING ON EARTH Conor O’Callaghan Publicaon: May 2016 Format/extent: Tpk, 176 pp Rights sold: Jensen & Dalgaard (Danish) This one will stay with you like your shadow, as hard to shake off and as impossible to pin down. ‐ The Guardian Quite extraordinary . like many great works, it could so easily have all gone wrong if it hadn’t been done exactly right. All that can be done is to give it the highest recommendaon: read it, and find out for yourself ‐ Sunday Independent A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. It is the hoest summer in living memory, in a country that sounds like Ireland: post‐boom, in ruins, depopulated. The girl has words scrawled in blue on her burned flesh.
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