January–June 2012 CONTENTS

3–21 Simon & Schuster HIGHLIGHTS

22–64 Simon & Schuster FICTION

65–118 Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION

119-125 Simon & Schuster ILLUSTRATED

126–127 Index

128 Contacts FICTION Highlights

Karen Thompson Walker THE AGE OF MIRACLES

KEY TO RIGHTS CODES – EXCLUSIVE TERRITORIES W World What if our 24-hour day grew longer, WEL World English Language first in minutes, then in hours, until day BC British Commonwealth including Canada becomes night and night becomes day? BCE British Commonwealth including Canada, EU What effect would this slowing have UK United Kingdom, Ireland and European Open Market on the world? On the birds in the sky, BXC British Commonwealth excluding Canada the whales in the sea, the astronauts in BXCA British Commonwealth excluding Canada, Australia, New Zealand space, and on an eleven-year-old girl, BEXCA British Commonwealth including EU, excluding Canada, Australia, New Zealand grappling with emotional changes in her BEXC British Commonwealth including EU, excluding Canada own life? BCXA British Commonwealth including Canada, excluding Australia, New Zealand One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in WXUSA World excluding USA their modest suburban home in California to WXUSI World excluding USA and India discover, along with the rest of the world, that the FICTION rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The JUNE enormity of this development is almost beyond Hardback 978-0-85720-723-4 comprehension. And yet, even if the world is, in 234x153 mm fact, coming to an end, as some assert, day-to-day 400 pp £12.99 life must go on. Julia, facing the loneliness and Agent: William Morris Agency (UK) Ltd. Rights: BXC despair of an awkward adolescence, witnesses the

Ebook: 978-0-85720-726-5 impact of this phenomenon on the world, on the Export TPB: 978-0-85720-724-1 / £12.99 community, on her family and on herself.

KAREN THOMPSON WALKER graduated with an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and recently won the 2011 Sirenland Fellowship for her novel in progress. She is a Commissioning Editor at Simon & Schuster, Inc., and lives in Brooklyn. The Age of Miracles is her first novel.

3 FICTION Highlights FICTION Highlights ‘Sex, power and intrigue – Jackie Collins no one does it Jackie Collins GODDESS OF VENGEANCE better than Jackie’ THE POWER TRIP HEAT MAGAZINE Lucky Santangelo is back – in a tale of power, passion, revenge and raging family dynamics Lucky Santangelo rules with her high profile casino and hotel A Russian billionaire and his state of the art yacht. complex – The Keys in Las Vegas. Lennie, her ex-movie star His beautiful and sexy supermodel girlfriend. And husband, is directing successful independent movies, while Max, five dynamic, powerful and famous couples invited her wild and gorgeous teenage daughter, is about to celebrate her 18th birthday, and her son, Bobby, owns a string of hot clubs. on the yacht’s maiden voyage.

WOMEN’S FICTION Lucky has everything. Family. Love. Life. When billionaire A senator and his lovely but unhappy wife. A very businessman Armand Jordan is told that the one property he APRIL attractive movie star and his needy ex-waitress Paperback covets more than anything, The Keys, is not for sale, he is girlfriend. A famous footballer and his interior 978-1-84983-144-4 shocked. That a mere woman would turn down his offer is 198x130 mm designer wife. A male Latin singing sensation and 480 pp unthinkable and Armand vows to force Lucky’s hand whatever £7.99 it takes. And so the battle for power begins… his older English boyfriend. And a maverick writer Agent: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Rights: BXC with his Asian journalist female friend.

Ebook: 978-1-84737-984-9 Export A format: 978-1-84983-145-1 Could this be the trip of a lifetime? Or could this be the trip from hell? CHANCES Simon & Schuster are thrilled to have acquired Whatever happens on the high seas doesn’t Jackie Collins’s entire backlist. Jackie regained WOMEN’S FICTION necessarily stay there.

her rightful place at the top of the hardcover APRIL Hardback The Power Trip – take it if you dare. bestseller list in 2011 with ; 978-1-84737-979-5 Goddess of Vengeance 234x153 mm and in 2012 we are revitalizing her classic titles 448 pp JACKIE COLLINS is one of the world’s top- £18.99 with stunning new packages Agent: Andrew Nurnberg Associates selling writers, with more than 400 million copies Rights: BXC Starting with the first book in the ‘Lucky’ series, Chances of her books sold in more than forty countries. Her Ebook: 978-1-84737-981-8 sweeps you from the sophisticated playgrounds of Europe to the Export TPB: 978-1-84737-980-1 / £12.99 twenty-eight bestselling novels have never been out glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas. It plunges you into of print, and have all been international bestsellers. the reckless, dangerous world of the Santangelo crime family. It Jackie lives in . WOMEN’S FICTION introduces you to Gino Santangelo, the street kid who makes it

JUNE all the way to the top. And then brings you Lucky – his sensual, Trade Paperback stunningly beautiful and passionate daughter; a woman who 978-1-84983-612-8 234x153 mm dares to win her father’s empire for herself; a woman unafraid of 480 pp taking…chances. £12.99 Agent: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Rights: BXC Poor Little Bitch Girl Married Lovers Drop Dead Beautiful Lovers & Players Deadly Embrace Lethal Seduction Hollywood Wives Hollywood Divorces Ebook: 978-1-84983-611-1 978-1-84983-546-6 978-1-84983-423-0 978-1-84983-544-2 978-1-84983-422-3 978-1-84983-545-9 978-1-84983-421-6 The New Generation 978-1-84983-547-3 4 978-1-84983-522-0 5 FICTION Highlights FICTION Highlights ‘Without doubt one of the Lynda La Plante best writers Lynda La Plante THE LITTLE ONE working today’ KARIN SLAUGHTER A Quick Read from Number One bestselling author Are you scared of the dark? Barbara needs a story. A struggling journalist, she tricks her way The brilliant new novel from one of the into the home of former soap star Margaret Reynolds. Desperate UK’s foremost crime writers for a scoop on the actress and her return to stardom, she finds instead a terrified woman living alone in a creepy manor house. Praise for Lynda La Plante: A piano plays in the night, footsteps run overhead, doors slam in THRILLER dark corners. The nights are full of strange noises. Barbara thinks ‘Shades of The Silence of the Lambs, but with FEBRUARY there may be a child living upstairs, unseen. Who looks after her? La Plante’s characteristic ability to ramp up the Paperback And why is she kept out of sight? 978-0-85720-920-7 tension’ times education supplement magazine 198x130 mm Little by little, Margaret’s haunting story of broken promises is 150 pp £1.99 revealed, and Barbara is left with a chilling discovery. ‘The queen of British crime fiction’ stylist Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White Rights: BXC This spooky tale from bestselling author Lynda La Plante will ‘As ever La Plante excels when it comes to police Ebook: 978-0-85720-921-4 make you want to sleep with the light on. procedure and the minutiae of the investigation. BLOOD LINE The compulsive plot whizzes along, twisting and turning, with clues being dropped like litter. It’s a The Number One Bestseller great read and another well-deserved notch on La Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis is back, THRILLER Plante’s bestseller list’ sunday express recently promoted and leading her first murder JUNE Hardback ‘Best-known for creating TV’s Prime Suspect, enquiry 978-0-85720-183-6 234x153 mm Lynda La Plante writes fantastic crime novels, Under the watchful eye of Detective Chief Superintendent 512 pp £18.99 including the addictive Anna Travis series’ express James Langton, Anna is given her first case. But is it a full- Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White blown murder investigation or purely a missing person’s case? Rights: BXC LYNDA LA PLANTE was inducted into the An ominous pool of blood and no victim lead Anna on a Ebook: 978-0-85720-185-0 desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. TPB: 978-0-85720-184-3 Crime Thriller Award Hall of Fame in 2009.

As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details,

THRILLER Langton fears that she is losing control of the case. They still have no body and Anna is under increasing pressure to make JUNE Paperback an arrest… 978-1-84983-335-6 198x130 mm LYNDA LA PLANTE’s Anna Travis series, Above Suspicion, 512 pp £7.99 is currently being dramatized on ITV and has garnered an Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White audience of over 8 million viewers. Her novels have all been Rights: BXC international bestsellers. Ebook: 978-0-85720-182-9 Above Suspicion The Red Dahlia Clean Cut Deadly Intent Silent Scream Blind Fury 6 Export A format: 978-1-84983-340-0 / £6.99 978-1-84983-433-9 978-1-84983-434-6 978-1-84983-435-3 978-1-84983-436-0 978-1-84983-006-5 978-1-84983-099-7 7 FICTION Highlights FICTION Highlights

‘As warm and sweet as Southern Lloyd Shepherd Comfort’ Adriana Trigiani THE ENGLISH MONSTER ELLE THE SHOEMAKER’S WIFE

Based on the real-life story of the A sumptuous, epic new novel set gruesome Ratcliffe Highway murders, between the Italian Alps and the USA The English Monster takes us on a thrilling Like threads of delicate gold, the lives of two voyage through the Age of Empire young Italian lovers, Enza Ravanelli, a practical girl born into poverty, and Ciro Amadei, a dreamer , 1811. The twisting streets of riverside raised in a convent orphanage, are woven together Wapping hold many an untold sin. Shameful secrets in this epic novel set against the landscape of world are largely hidden by the noise and glory of trade, but events in the first half of the 20th century. two families have fallen victim to foul murder. John Harriott, magistrate of the new Thames River Police Spanning two world wars, immigration, the birth of Office, must deliver revenge up to a terrified populace American manufacturing and the Great Depression, and his only hope of doing so is Charles Horton, Enza and Ciro embrace the promise of a new and Harriot’s senior officer. Harriott only recently came better life as they attempt to survive. But when up with a word to describe what it is that Horton Ciro is diagnosed with a deadly illness, he returns does. It is detection. to Italy to say goodbye, and solve a family mystery. FICTION FICTION

MARCH Plymouth, 1564. Billy Ablass arrives from Oxford MAY When all seems lost, the new generation of the Hardback with the burning desire of all young men; the getting Hardback Amadei family rises, led by Enza, a devoted and 978-0-85720-535-3 978-0-85720-494-3 234x153 mm and keeping of money. For Captain John Hawkyns is 234x153 mm new patriot, she offers her only son to serve in 416 pp 384 pp £12.99 about to set sail in a ship owned by Queen Elizabeth £12.99 World War II, and a surprising ending leads to a Agent: United Agents Agent: William Morris Agency (UK) Ltd. Rights: BXC herself, and Billy sees the promise of a better life with Rights: BXC new era for the family. a crew intent on gain and glory. The kidnap and sale Ebook: 978-0-85720-538-4 Ebook: 978-1-84983-424-7 Export TPB: 978-0-85720-536-0 / £12.99 of hundreds of human beings is not the only cursed Export TPB: 978-1-84737-892-7 / £12.99 ADRIANA TRIGIANI is an award-winning event to occur on England’s first officially-sanctioned playwright, television writer and documentary slaving voyage. On a sun-blasted islet in the Florida filmmaker. Cays, Billy too is to be enslaved for the rest of his accursed days.

LLOYD SHEPHERD is a former journalist and digital producer. The English Monster is his first novel.

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Edited by Martin Sheen and Ruth Cowen Emilio Estevez A NURSE AT THE FRONT ALONG THE WAY The Great War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton The Journey of a Father and Son

A Nurse at the Front is the second book In this remarkable dual memoir about in the ‘War Diaries’ series produced family, faith, and friendship, film legend in conjunction with London’s Imperial Martin Sheen and his son Emilio Estevez War Museum share their stories

This book, the second in a series of four War Spanning nearly 50 years of family history, the Diaries tells a unique story: the experiences of book chronicles the remarkable lives of two creative a nurse working close to the Western Front in talents. It’s a story of father and son set against the First World War. Edith Appleton served in the backdrop of Hollywood, organized around their France for the whole of the conflict. Her bravery physical and spiritual journey along the Camino de and dedication won her the Military OBE, the Santiago, Spain, the thousand-year-old pilgrimage Royal Red Cross and the Belgian Queen Elisabeth route which traverses Galicia. It is the area from medal among others. which Sheen’s father emigrated to the U.S. and to which Estevez’s own son has returned. Her diary details with compassion all the horrors AUTOBIOGRAPHY

AUTOBIOGRAPHY of the ‘war to end wars’, including the first use MAY This is a story of family bonds and artistic Hardback MARCH of poison gas and the terrible cost of battles such 978-1-84983-695-1 fulfilment; of good choices and hard choices; of Hardback as Ypres, but she also records what life was like 234x153 mm opportunities lost, and found. 978-0-85720-223-9 352 pp 216x135 mm for nurses and how she spent her time off-duty. £18.99 272 pp Agent: The Free Press, Simon & Schuster Inc. MARTIN SHEEN was born (and still is) Ramon Integrated pictures There are moments of humour amongst the Rights: BXC £14.99 Antonio Gerardo Estevez. His acting career includes Agent: Barbara Levy tragedy, and even lyrical accounts of the natural Ebook: 978-1-84983-698-2 Rights: BXC beauty that still existed amidst all the destruction. Export TPB: 978-1-84983-696-8 Badlands, Apocalypse Now, Wall Street and recently Ebook: 978-0-85720-224-6 The West Wing. A long-time activist for social justice RUTH COWEN is a social historian who has and human rights, in 2008 he received the Laetare been specially selected by the Imperial War Award from the University of Notre Dame for his Museum to work on this project. humanitarian work. EMILIO ESTEVEZ is an accomplished actor (The Outsiders, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire) as well as writer and director (The War At Home, Bobby). Born in New York City and raised in California, he is co-proprietor of two California vineyards. 10 11 NON-FICTION Highlights NON-FICTION Highlights ‘Arnold’s tone is enthusiastic, good-humoured Catharine Arnold Mark Easton and constantly BRITAIN ETC. UNDERWORLD LONDON engaging’ City of Crime DAILY TELEGRAPH

Mark Easton’s A to Z of modern Britain A quirky, fascinating portrait of the looks at the UK through its relationship capital’s dark and criminal underbelly to 26 subjects – one for each letter of the throughout history alphabet Beginning with an atmospheric account of a hanging From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese and Dogs at Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through Immigration, Justice, Knives and Murder to through London as a city of ne’er do wells, taking the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of in beheadings at the Tower, Elizabethan street a well-deserved rest, the essays reveal a Britain that crime, cutpurses and con-men; the Gordon Riots cannot be seen through the prism of daily news or and highway robbery of the 18th century, and the current affairs. A park, a wedding, a beggar and a rise of prisons; the police and the Victorian era carrot all take on new significance once you have read of incarceration. Arnold looks at the influence of this book. London’s criminal classes on the literature of the

CURRENT AFFAIRS HISTORY 19th and 20th century, and ends up with the Krays

MARCH As the UK welcomes millions of visitors to its MARCH and Soho gangs of the 1950s and ’60s. Trade Paperback shores for the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee Hardback 978-0-85720-142-3 978-0-85720-116-4 234x153 mm celebrations, this is a book that offers insight into the 216x135 mm CATHARINE ARNOLD read English at 320 pp 320 pp Cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology. £12.99 psyche of Britain; a nation’s obsessions, prejudices, £14.99 Agent: David Higham Associates values and idiosyncrasies. What sort of place is it, Agent: The Viney Agency Ltd A journalist, academic and popular historian, Rights: WORLD Rights: WORLD what are the natives like, and how did we get to her previous books include the novel Lost Time, Ebook: 978-0-85720-143-0 Ebook: 978-0-85720-117-1 where we are? winner of a Betty Trask award, and the acclaimed Necropolis: London and Its Dead, Bedlam and City of MARK EASTON is a Glasgow-born journalist who Sin, the first three volumes of her ‘London’ series. has written and presented numerous current affairs programmes and writes the award-winning BBC blog ‘Mark Easton’s UK’. From 1998–2004 he was the ‘A keen eye for detail Home and Social Affairs Editor of Channel 4 and in and unfrilly prose, 2004 he became the Home Editor of BBC News. Arnold brings alive the whole spectrum of sin in London’ MAIL ON SUNDAY Necropolis Bedlam City of Sin 12 978-1-41650-248-7 978-1-84737-000-6 978-1-84739-372-2 13 NON-FICTION Highlights NON-FICTION Highlights

Christopher Kester Aspden Sandford BROKEN ENGLISH THE ROLLING STONES

In a masterful act of autobiographical The definitive story of the most honesty, Kester Aspden embarks on a controversial and longest surviving harrowing personal odyssey to make sense band in music history of his troubled past During the 1960s and 70s the Rolling Stones were Kester grew up like any shy, lower middle-class boy the polarising figures in Britain, admired in some in Thatcher’s Britain, but aged 17 he held up a local quarters for their flamboyance, creativity and shop with a replica gun and spent 18 tough months salacious lifestyles, and reviled elsewhere for the in a correctional facility. After prison, Kester engaged same reasons. Confidently expected never to reach in regular football hooliganism and before long, he’d 30 they are now approaching their seventies and, signed up with the National Front and was taking part in 2012, will have been together for 50 years. in meetings and rallies, selling copies of The Flag, and In , Christopher Sandford tells fraternising with the leadership. The Rolling Stones the human drama at the centre of the band’s MUSIC Fast forward 20 years. It is 2007 and Kester has written story. Sandford has carried out interviews with APRIL members of the Stones themselves, close family AUTOBIOGRAPHY a book about David Oluwale, who was hounded to Hardback 978-0-85720-102-7 members (including Mick’s parents), the group’s MARCH death by Leeds policemen in 1969. Suddenly Kester 234x153 mm Hardback realises that he has to make sense of those lost years 356 pp fans and contemporaries – even examined 978-0-85720-116-4 16pp colour plate section 216x135 mm with the NF and reflect on what has become of him. £20 their previously unreleased FBI files. Like no 320 pp Agent: Barbara Levy other book before, The Rolling Stones will make £14.99 Rights: WEL Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White Broken English is a dark, occasionally funny, and sense of the rich brew of clever invention and Rights: WORLD Ebook: 978-0-85720-104-1 brilliantly written account and a testament to turning Export TPB: 978-0-85720-103-4 / £12.99 opportunism, of talent, good fortune, insecurity, Ebook: 978-0-85720-117-1 the mistakes of the past into something useful and self-destructiveness, and of drugs, sex and other meaningful for the present. excess, that made the Stones who they are.

KESTER ASPDEN has a doctorate in history from CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD has been a Cambridge University, and taught history of crime professional writer for 30 years and a frequent at Leeds University. His first book, The Hounding of writer about the Rolling Stones for 25. He has David Oluwale won the Crime Writers’ Association’s published 17 books and is the only writer to have Gold Dagger Award for non-fiction. written biographies of both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. 14 15 SPORT Highlights SPORT Highlights

James Anderson James Leighton AUTOBIOGRAPHY DUNCAN EDWARDS

The autobiography of the England pace The definitive and long-awaited bowling sensation with rock star charm, biography of the legendary Busby Babe Jimmy Anderson who died in the Munich air disaster

He’s the good-looking lad from Burnley whose One of the greatest players of all time, Duncan brilliance on the pitch and good looks have drawn Edwards’ story is one of tragic heroism. He comparisons with David Beckham and who has rose from working-class Dudley roots to help established himself as one of the most exciting Manchester United win two League Championships cricketers in the world. and reach the semi-finals of the European Cup before his untimely death. In his first book, James Anderson (or Jimmy, as everyone knows him) tells the story of his life in He made his England debut at the age of 18 years cricket: from promising beginnings at Burnley Cricket and 183 days, the youngest player for England club where he discovered, seemingly overnight, that since WW2 and went on to play 18 games for

SPORT he could bowl faster than the rest, to his first-class SPORT his country, including all four of the qualifying

MAY debut with Lancashire and the England call up that MAY matches for the 1958 World Cup, in which he was Hardback followed, to playing under Darren Fletcher and the Hardback expected to be a key player. 978-0-85720-705-0 978-0-85720-781-4 234x153 mm run of hat tricks that made him England’s golden 234x153 mm 352 pp 352 pp Sir Bobby Charlton described him as ‘the only £18.99 boy. Career-halting injury devastated Anderson but £18.99 Agent: Mulcahy Conway Associates Ltd then came a recent glorious return to form making Agent: Darley Anderson Literary Agency player that made me feel inferior’ and Terry Rights: WORLD Rights: BCE this is a tale of exuberance, determination and sheer Venables claimed that, had he lived, it would have Ebook: 978-0-85720-708-1 Ebook: 978-0-85720-783-8 Export TPB: 978-0-85720-706-7 force of character. Paperback B: 978-0-85720-782-1 been Edwards who lifted the World Cup as captain in 1966. Page-turning and poignant, this is the Jimmy Anderson has earned himself a place at the tragic story of a magnificent sportsman and great high table of English cricket and this book, much like man – the perfect antidote to the headline-grabbing the man himself, is sure to get people talking. footballers of today.

JAMES ‘JIMMY’ ANDERSON plays first-class JAMES LEIGHTON is a professional writer from cricket for Lancashire and since bursting onto Cardiff and ex-semi-professional footballer. This is the scene in 2002/03 has represented England his fourth book. in over 50 matches and more than 100 One Day Internationals. 16 17 SPORT Highlights ILLUSTRATED Highlights

Will Greenwood Lisa Faulkner RECIPES FROM MY MOTHER ON RUGBY FOR MY DAUGHTER

England’s World Cup-winning centre, A personal collection of over 100 recipes Will Greenwood, lets loose on the game for home-cooked food that are great for sharing and taste delicious In almost 20 years in the sport, Will Greenwood has achieved just about everything a professional rugby When actress Lisa Faulkner won Celebrity player could ever aspire to, playing an integral role MasterChef in 2010, it was the culmination of an in the World Cup-winning campaign of 2003, and emotional journey that began when her mother lost achieving great things with England beyond that at her battle with cancer when Lisa was just 16. Lisa’s the Six Nations and on tour with the Lions. clearest memories of her mum are of her cooking delicious meals for the family, and in recreating Never was a man better placed to write on the her recipes in this book Lisa is not just keeping her sport. From the grass roots to elite professionalism, mother’s memory alive – she is also able to pass on Greenwood has made his name as the face of to her own daughter, Billie, the love of cookery she intelligent and entertaining rugby writing and inherited from her mum. SPORT punditry. From hilarious character sketches of players COOKERY MAY to technical discussion of scrummaging and World MARCH Hardback Hardback With evocative photographs and easy-to-follow 978-1-84983-715-6 Cup reminiscences, Greenwood delivers unrivalled 978-0-85720-616-9 recipes, you too can tempt family and friends with 234x153 mm 246x189 mm 320 pp writing on the game of rugby. 256 pp fabulous home cooking all year round. Peppered £18.99 Fully illustrated Agent: Benchmark Sport Holdings Ltd £20.00 with anecdotal snippets from Lisa’s life as well as WILL GREENWOOD represented Leicester Tigers Rights: WORLD Agent: Mulcahy Conway Associates Ltd invaluable personal tips, the recipes include dishes and Harlequins, won more than 50 caps for the Rights: WORLD Ebook: 978-1-84983-717-0 suitable for entertaining – My MasterChef Fish England rugby team, including the World Cup- Stew, Pan Fried Scallops with Pea and Mint and winning campaign of 2003, and served on two British Pistachio Biscotti – alongside failsafe family fare: Lions tours. He now works as a pundit for Sky The Best Fish Pie, The Perfect Roast, Nanna’s Sports and as a columnist in the . Telegraph Bread and Mummy’s Christmas Cake.

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Ariana Bundy Debrett’s POMEGRANATES AND ROSES THE QUEEN My Persian Family Recipes A Celebration

This evocative collection of Persian Debrett’s – Britain’s leading authority recipes with stunning photography is on the peerage and royal family since a celebration of a vibrant culture and 1769 – appraises the remarkable life its cuisine of the Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee Ariana Bundy was brought up in New York trained as chef in and has worked in top The Queen: A Celebration is a beautifully restaurants all over Europe. But Ariana’s family illustrated commemoration of the life and reign roots are firmly planted in Persian soil. She of Queen Elizabeth II, from her early years to inherited her love of food and cooking from her her role as a modern monarch in the twenty- grandparents – who grew fruit, wheat and barley, first century. This book explores the Queen’s bred sheep and goats for dairy, and had beautiful genealogy, tracing Elizabeth’s descent from vineyards producing prized grapes – and from her William the Conqueror, her coat of arms and

father, who owned and ran the first fine-dining REFERENCE orders of chivalry. It looks at her personal life, her COOKERY French restaurant in Iran. MAY childhood, teenage years, hobbies and pursuits, as APRIL Hardback Hardback 978-0-85720-XXX-X well as her closest family ties: her mother, sister, 978-0-85720-690-9 In this lavishly illustrated book Ariana writes 260x220 mm husband, children, in-laws and grandchildren. Her 246x189 mm 192 pp 224 pp evocatively of the traditions cherished by Fully illustrated public life is also reviewed and celebrated, from Fully illustrated her forefathers when life was simpler, family £25.00 £25.00 Agent: Simon & Schuster, UK formal occasions to garden parties, walkabouts, Agent: Louise Greenberg mattered above all else, and eating together was Rights: WORLD ship-launchings and ribbon-cuttings, to her work Rights: WEL of paramount importance. She captures the with charities and presenting awards and honours. sensual, exotic pleasure of this Middle Eastern The state occasions that have punctuated the cuisine using pomegranate seeds and juice, rose Queen’s life – her own wedding, her coronation, water and rose petals, fragrant herbs and spices other royal weddings, state funerals, state to create the most delicious dishes – fabulously openings of parliament, investitures and trooping photographed by Lisa Linder. the colour – are explored with insightful and gorgeous photographs. ARIANA BUNDY is a chef, presenter and the author of Sweet Alternative. An Iranian-American, The Queen: A Celebration is a touching, unique she is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu and holds a and beautiful book, and a perfect way to BA in international marketing and finance. remember and celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee. Debrett’s: A Modern 20 Royal Marriage 21 978-0-85720-685-5 FICTION Simon & Schuster FICTION Simon & Schuster

‘A born storyteller’ Leah Fleming Penny Hancock KATE ATKINSON THE CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER TIDELINE

Two women’s lives are changed forever He chose to come to the River House. when they meet on board the doomed She chose to keep him there – forever… Titanic One winter’s afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens For May Smith, travelling with her husband and the door of her beautiful riverside home to fifteen- baby Ellen, stepping foot on the Titanic marks her year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. journey from the back streets of Bolton to the land He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites of opportunity. him in and soon decides that she isn’t going to let him leave. But when the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic hits an iceberg, May’s dreams are shattered. Jumping from the As Sonia’s desire to keep Jez hidden and protected wreck, May loses sight of her family. Distraught, from the outside world becomes all the more she is pulled into a lifeboat. Minutes later, Captain overpowering, she is haunted by memories of an Smith swims to May and hands her a baby intense teenage relationship, which gradually reveals swaddled in blankets. a terrifying truth. The River House, Sonia’s home since childhood, holds secrets within its walls. HISTORICAL FICTION FICTION Beside herself, and in virtual darkness, May believes Outside, on the shores of the Thames, new ones JANUARY JANUARY Hardback the baby to be Ellen as she’s comforted by first-class Trade Paperback are coming in on the tide… 978-0-85720-341-0 978-0-85720-627-5 234x153 mm passenger Celeste Parks. In horror, the two women 234x153 mm 576 pp watch the death throes of the mighty ship; May, 400 pp PENNY HANCOCK grew up in south-east £12.99 £12.99 Agent: Judith Murdoch knowing her husband has drowned, and Celeste Agent: Gregory & Company Authors’ Agents London and travelled extensively as a language Rights: World wishing her bully of a husband had still been on Rights: BXC teacher. She now lives in Cambridge with her Ebook: 978-0-85720-343-4 Ebook: 978-0-85720-629-9 husband and three children. This is her first novel. Export TPB: 978-0-85720-342-7 / £12.99 board. As dawn approaches, the women are rescued Library HB: 978-1-84983-768-2 and a friendship is formed, one which transcends the Atlantic and social differences. Then May makes a shocking discovery and a split-second decision which will change the lives of so many.

LEAH FLEMING was born in Lancashire.

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Kresley Cole Virginia Andrews FAMILY STORMS LOTHAIRE An irresistible tale of jealousy, deception and drama While in hospital recovering from a terrible car accident that The Number One killed her mother, teenager Sasha is approached by a stranger. New York Times Jordan March tells Sasha that, as it was her daughter, Keira, who bestselling author with the next instalment hit Sasha’s car, she will pay for her hospital bills and see to her in her phenomenally successful Immortals mother’s funeral arrangements. After Dark series Sasha soon learns that Jordan once had another daughter who died of leukaemia, leaving Jordan heartbroken and her relationship with WOMEN’S FICTION her husband strained. From the humblest of beginnings a millennia ago, JANUARY Lothaire the Enemy of Old rose to power, becoming Trade Paperback Knowing that Sasha has no other family willing to take her in, 978-0-85720-785-2 the most feared and evil vampire in the immortal 234x153 mm Jordan offers to adopt her. Stunned, but with few options, Sasha 368 pp agrees and is soon whisked away by this stranger who keeps world. Driven by his past, he will not rest until he £12.99 insisting the accident was ‘an act of destiny’. captures the vampire Horde’s crown for himself. Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. Rights: BXC

Ebook: 978-0-85720-787-6 The discovery of his Bride, the female meant only Library HB: 978-0-85720-784-5 / £19.99 for him, threatens to derail his plot. She is a mere mortal, a glaring vulnerability for a male with so DELIA’S GIFT many deadly foes bent on annihilating anything he Two lovers, a terrible accident. When one life desires. Yet soon he discovers his Bride’s secret. A PARANORMAL FICTION is cut short by tragedy, will the other be forever magnificent power dwells inside the fragile human, JANUARY plagued by guilt? Hardback one that will aid his quest. But to possess that power, 978-0-85720-797-5 234x153 mm he will have to destroy her. When Delia Yebarra’s fairytale romance with Adan Bovio, the son 432 pp of a wealthy politician, was cut short, nothing could have prepared £12.99 Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. KRESLEY COLE is one of the biggest names in her for the heartache that followed. But when she discovers she is Rights: BXC carrying Adan’s child, Delia has no choice but to live under the the paranormal world. She has a master’s degree in Ebook: 978-1-84983-691-3 watchful eye of Adan’s powerful father. ExportTPB: 978-0-85720-798-2 / £12.99 English from the University of Florida. At first Mr Bovio goes out of his way to provide for Delia and his unborn grandchild. But as her freedom is increasingly restricted,

WOMEN’S FICTION Delia soon realises that he still blames her for his son’s death, and he intends to use his connections to make her life hell. JANUARY Paperback 978-1-84739-474-3 VIRGINIA ANDREWS’ novels have been translated into twenty- 198x130 mm two languages and sold over 100 million copies worldwide. 368 pp £6.99 Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. Rights: BXC

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‘Wickedly funny’ Benjamin Wood MILLY JOHNSON Chris Smyth THE BELLWETHER DINNER AT MINE REVIVALS

Four dinner parties. One contest. An unforgettable debut from an The oven gloves are off… outstanding new literary talent

Rosie challenges her friends to their very own version Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the of Come Dine With Me – four couples each hosting urban estate where he was raised and made a dinner party, with a prize for the best one. Her a new life for himself amid the colleges and husband Stephen isn’t keen, but Rosie can’t wait. spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a What Rosie doesn’t anticipate are the lengths her local nursing home, where he has forged a close fellow hosts might go to for the prize – outlandish friendship with the home’s most ill-tempered recipes, rare ingredients, and a chocolate tart that resident, Dr. Paulsen. looks just too good to be homemade…But perhaps she should be more worried about the mounting But when he meets and falls in love with Iris tension, as backbiting breaks out over the appetisers Bellwether, a beautiful and enigmatic medical and a glass of wine too many leads to indiscreet student at King’s College, Oscar is drawn into FICTION flirtation. As the pressure in the kitchen rises, her world of scholarship and privilege, and soon JANUARY LITERARY FICTION Paperback relationships begin to crack under strain, and the becomes embroiled in the strange machinations 978-0-85720-505-6 FEBRUARY 198x130 mm oven gloves come off… But that’s all part of the fun. Hardback of her brilliant but troubled brother, Eden. 352 pp Isn’t it? 978-0-85720-695-4 Eden’s self-belief knows no bounds, and as he £6.99 216x135 mm Agent: A.P. Watt Ltd. 432 pp draws his sister and closed circle of friends into Rights: BXC £12.99 CHRIS SMYTH is a journalist for The Times and Agent: Greene & Heaton Ltd. a series of disturbing experiments, Oscar realises Ebook: 978-0-85720-506-3 lives in London. This is his first novel. Rights: BXC the extent of the danger facing them all… Ebook: 978-0-85720-697-8 Export TPB: 978-0-85720-740-1 / £12.99 BENJAMIN WOOD grew up in north-west England and is now a lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. This is his first novel.

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Jane Costello Michael Dobbs THE SENTIMENTAL TRAITOR ALL THE SINGLE LADIES Good men have stepped over the line. Now they need to cover up their actions, and for that they need to bury Harry Jones… An ex-lover, a fake lover and an ambitious plan. Be careful what you wish for… Fifty young Americans are on their way back from a day’s outing to Brussels. But their rapture at returning home is cut short when a bomb blows their plane from the skies above Kent, Samantha Brooks’ boyfriend has made a mistake. killing them all. One his friends, family, and Sam herself know he’ll live to regret. Jamie has announced he’s leaving. THRILLER The savage media reaction to the atrocity will sweep away a powerless Prime Minister and his followers at the next election. Jamie is loving, intelligent and, while he isn’t perfect, FEBRUARY Hardback In nothing less than a coup, Britain is about to be taken over he’s perfect for Sam – in every way except one: he’s 978-0-85720-367-0 234x153 mm – unless Harry Jones can stop it. But Harry, no longer an MP, a free spirit. And after six years in one place, doing a 448 pp finds his path strewn with obstacles. Caught in a web of betrayal £16.99 by his closest friends, is there anyone who will believe what job he despises, he is compelled to do something that Agent: Bell Lomax will tear apart his relationship: book a one-way flight Rights: World Harry has to say? to South America. Ebook: 978-0-85720-369-4 Export TPB: 978-0-85720-368-7 / £12.99 But Sam isn’t giving up without a fight. With the THE LORD’S DAY help of her friends Ellie and Jen, she hatches a plan that involves dirty tricks, plotting, and a single aim: The Queen, her Cabinet and all the most powerful people in WOMEN’S FICTION to win him back. the land are gathering for the State Opening of Parliament, FEBRUARY unaware that they are about to endure the most terrifying day Hardback But by the time the tortured Jamie finally wakes of their lives. 978-0-85720-657-2 210x135 mm up to what he’s lost, a gorgeous new pretender has Amongst the hostages are the sons of the Prime Minister and 400 pp £12.99 entered Sam’s life. Which begs the question…does the US President. Both men are torn between their duty as Agent: Darley Anderson Literary Agency statesmen and their love as parents. Rights: BCE she still want him back?

Ebook: 978-0-85720-554-4 Harry Jones becomes swept up in the maelstrom. What can he Export TPB: 978-0-85720-552-0d / £12.99 JANE COSTELLO was a newspaper journalist do about this act of terrorism when the most powerful people before she became an author. are rendered helpless?

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Double agent Paul Dark must confront A penetrating new spy thriller from a his past to save himself and the world master of the genre

October 1969. Moscow. A terrible mistake twenty- From a prison cell, in which he has been held four years ago led to Paul Dark being recruited into on suspicion of breaking the Official Secrets Act, Soviet intelligence, and he has paid a heavy price Charles Thoroughgood awaits not only his bail, for it. Now locked up in a cell, Dark has nothing but also the reappearance of the woman whom all for company but the ghosts of his past when he the major roads in his life have led back to. After is woken in the early hours and taken to a secret his years in the army and then with MI6, Charles location. There, he discovers that the Soviets believe has begun a new chapter in his life with the Secret they are about to face a nuclear attack by the West Intelligence Agency, shadowing the movements of – and are planning to strike first as a result. Dark a suspected double agent. Charles knows that he realizes at once that the truth can be found in the has nothing to hide, and as he casts his mind over final days of the Second World War, and the final the course of recent events, he begins to suspect mission he undertook as a loyal British agent. a more sinister motivation, both personally and politically, behind his incarceration… CRIME LITERARY FICTION Now the fate of the world rests on his shoulders: FEBRUARY FEBRUARY Trade Paperback a traitor long past his best, who is soon the subject Hardback Born in 1946, ALAN JUDD trained as a teacher 978-1-84737-447-9 978-0-74327-566-8 234x153 mm of a massive man-hunt. Dark needs to make it to 234x153 mm but instead became a soldier and diplomat. He 400 pp a small Baltic island before it’s too late – and the 320 pp is now a full-time writer, contributing regular £12.99 £16.99 Agent: Greene & Heaton Ltd. clock is ticking. Agent: David Higham Associated Ltd. articles on current affairs to newspapers, most Rights: BXC Rights: BC frequently the Daily Telegraph. He is the author Ebook: 978-0-85720-071-6 JEREMY DUNS is a British-born journalist who Libraries HB: 978-1-84737-446-2 / £19.99 of several novels drawing on his military and currently lives and works in Stockholm. diplomatic experience.

‘Belongs to the classic tradition of spy writing’ GUARDIAN Free Agent Song of Treason A Breed of Heroes Legacy 32 978-1-84983-088-1 978-1-84739-452-1 978-1-84739-772-0 978-1-84739-773-7 33 FICTION Simon & Schuster FICTION Simon & Schuster

Kevin J. Anderson Tom Rob Smith & Brian Herbert AGENT 6 THE SISTERHOOD OF DUNE The heart-racing adventure that began in Child 44 and The Secret Speech now reaches its epic conclusion… The exciting first book in a new Dune trilogy Moscow, 1965. Former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov is It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines forbidden to travel with his wife and daughters to New York as were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin and Faykan part of a ‘Peace Tour’. Leo’s natural paranoia reaches its peak: Why has his family been selected? What is being planned? Butler established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. The great war hero, Vorian Atreides, THRILLER When Leo’s worst fears are realised and a tragic murder destroys has turned his back on politics. Abulurd Harkonnen, FEBRUARY everything he loves, he demands only one thing: that he is allowed Paperback to investigate and find the killer who has struck at the heart of his convicted of cowardice during the Battle of Corrin, 978-1-84739-674-7 198x130 mm family. Crippled by grief, his request denied, Leo sees no other was sent away in disgrace to live on the gloomy 560 pp option than to take matters into his own hands, thousands of miles planet Lankiveil. £7.99 from the crime scene. Agent: Curtis Brown Rights: BEXC TOM ROB SMITH was born in l979 to a Swedish mother and an Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit Ebook: 978-1-84737-976-4 English father and was brought up in London where he still lives. School on the jungle planet Rossak as the first Reverend Export A format: 978-1-84983-443-8 Mother. The descendants of Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva have built a powerful transportation company, the Venport Spacing Fleet, using mutated, Neil Cross SCIENCE FICTION spice-saturated Navigators. LUTHER: THE CALLING FEBRUARY Trade Paperback 978-1-84737-424-0 Gilbertus Albans has established his own school on Inspired by the international hit BBC crime 234x153 mm 656 pp Lampadas where he teaches humans to become Mentats. drama series, Luther £12.99 Even so, many decades after the defeat of the thinking Agent: Trident Media Group DCI John Luther has an extraordinary clearance rate. He Rights: BXC machines, anti-technology fervor continues to sweep commands outstanding loyalty from friends and colleagues. Yet Ebook: 978-0-85720-066-2 across the human-settled planets with powerful fanatical beneath the surface, Luther seethes with uncontrollable fury. Libraries HB: 978-0-85720-845-3 / £19.99 groups imposing violent purges. Sometimes it sends him to the brink of madness, making him do things he shouldn’t; things way beyond the limits of the law. KEVIN J. ANDERSON has published numerous novels THRILLER The first in a new series, Luther: The Calling takes us into based on and , and an ambitious Luther’s past and into his mind. It is the story of the case that Star Wars The X-Files AUGUST space-opera series, The Saga of Seven Suns. Paperback tore his personal and professional relationships apart and propelled 978-0-85720-339-7 him over the precipice. Beyond fury, beyond vengeance. All the 198x132 mm BRIAN HERBERT has also written Dreamer of Dune, a 400 pp way to murder… £7.99 comprehensive, Hugo Award-nominated biography of his Agent: Curtis Brown NEIL CROSS is an acclaimed novelist and creator and sole writer father, Frank Herbert. Rights: BCE of the international hit BBC series Luther. 34 35 FICTION Simon & Schuster FICTION Simon & Schuster

Paul Pickering Helen Warner IOU OVER THE RAINBOW Three very different women, and three debts to be paid…

A novel of love in the mountains of Amy has never had to work courtesy of her wealthy husband Ben. Her sister, Kate, however, has always had to struggle by on very Afghanistan little money. Meanwhile Jennifer, their mother, is only beginning to recover from her husband’s death. It is September 2009, Ramadan and the eve of When Jennifer meets Hugh, she unlocks a dangerous Pandora’s Afghanistan’s first ‘democratic’ elections when young Box. She wants to find the answer to a question that has WOMEN’S FICTION American Malone, a pilot for an aid airline, does tormented her for 36 years: who is Kate’s real father? Fatima Hamza the favour of flying her out of Kabul MARCH Hardback When Ben’s business collapses, Amy’s charmed life disappears. to Bamiyan. The beguiling, Oxford-educated Pashtun 978-0-85720-124-9 216x135 mm Can their marriage survive such an upheaval, or is it a case of ‘Til Fatima has left Pakistan to rediscover the country she 400 pp Debt Do Us Part’? comes from, she tells him, to retrace the places that £12.99 Agent: Curtis Brown Kate’s safe world is rocked when she meets Jack. Feeling Rights: BXC were important to her spy-chief father, ex-military increasingly estranged from her husband Miles, Kate thinks Jack man and a writer with a disturbing gift of prophecy. Ebook: 978-0-85720-126-3 can offer her a fresh start. But there’s something about Jack that Export TPB: 9780857201256 / £12.99 Kate doesn’t know… For both Kim and Malone, the foray into that dangerous territory is to become a prolonged RSVP adventure, their former lives receding as they lose FICTION touch with one another and enter the world of the Four women, one wedding and a day they’ll MARCH never forget… Hardback enemy. Each is to witness the horror of an air raid, 978-1-84737-829-3 234x153 mm and each is to come face-to-face with the Taliban. Anna’s world is rocked when she is invited to her ex Toby’s 352 pp They will glimpse hell, but paradise, too, and be nuptials – Toby was The Love of Her Life. Will attending his £16.99 Big Day finally give her the closure she so desperately craves? Agent: Aitkin Alexander Associates Ltd. changed. Rights: BXC Clare, Anna’s best friend, was there for her and Toby’s Ebook: 978-1-84737-830-9 In this powerful novel, Paul Pickering gives a human breakup. Little does Clare know that Toby’s wedding day will Export TPB: 978-0-85720-591-9 / £12.99 face to the conflict in Afghanistan, capturing the also change her life. Ella is a classic femme fatale. But the one magical quality of a land and its people. person who’s never fallen for her charms is Toby. Is it too late for a last-ditch attempt to win his heart? WOMEN’S FICTION

PAUL PICKERING is the author of six novels. He MARCH Rachel is the bride-to-be. This should be the happiest day lives in London, where he is a columnist for Paperback of her life. So why does she feel nothing but a terrible sense The 978-1-84983-294-6 Times. 198x130 mm of foreboding? 400 pp £6.99 HELEN WARNER is Head of Daytime TV at Chanel 4. Agent: Curtis Brown Rights: BXC 36 Ebook: 9-780-85720-123-2 37 FICTION Simon & Schuster FICTION Simon & Schuster ‘Fast-paced, gripping and Jason Steel impossible to Sean Slater put down’ THE TITANIC SECRET SNAKES & LADDERS CHRIS CARTER

It was not the iceberg that sank the Authentic by-the-seat-of-your-pants Titanic and condemned 1,517 innocent thriller from a real-life homicide cop people to death. Unearth the true story When Homicide Detective Jacob Striker discovers in this gripping conspiracy thriller that a string of recent suicides might actually be covered-up murders, his investigation quickly leads On Sunday 15 April 1912, the ‘unsinkable’ RMS him to the Riverglen Mental Health Facility. The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage to New York. victims were all patients from the support group This is the story of what really happened on that overseen by Dr Erich Ostermann. And when night – a truth that governments have killed for Striker discovers Larisa Logan – a friend of his, and kept hidden for a hundred years. Their goal and a patient of Ostermann – has gone missing, his – war with Great Britain and the destruction of investigation goes into overdrive. The evidence tells the British Empire. him one very important fact: that Larisa knows British intelligence is determined to stop a terrible something about the murders. Even worse, she is plan which, if successful, will change the world trapped. She can’t return to the hospital because her own life is in danger, her only chance of living THRILLER overnight, and dispatches their best spy, Alex THRILLER is to escape. MARCH Tremayne, and his American colleague Maria MARCH Paperback Weston onto the Titanic with one objective in Trade Paperback 978-0-85720-862-0 978-0-85720-040-2 Racing against time and a chilling adversary, 198x130 mm mind – to stop the ship from reaching New York 234x153 mm 400 pp 540 pp Striker searches desperately for Larisa. It is a £6.99 by whatever means necessary. £12.99 Agent: Luigi Bonomi Associates Agent: Darley Anderson Literary Agency dangerous game they play where one move can Rights: BCE Rights: BC catapult you to a place of dominance and one Ebook: 978-0-85720-861-3 Ebook: 978-0-85720-041-9 wrong step can leave you sliding to your doom.

It is a game of psychopaths. It is Snakes & Ladders.

SEAN SLATER is the pseudonym for Vancouver Police Officer Sean Sommerville. He works in Canada’s poorest slum, the Downtown East Side – an area rife with poverty and gang warfare.

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When two brothers take a road trip to A spectacular global thriller that unlocks visit their ill father, their journey reveals, ancient hidden codes not only an unexpected friendship, but According to Jewish scripture, there are thirty-six also some surprising truths righteous people on earth. Without them, humanity would perish. It is late summer 2008 and forty-year-old Salinger Nash, who has been plagued since adolescence by a In , a monk collapses in his chamber. A mercurial depression, leaves the north-west London fiery mark has spread across his back and down his house he shares with girlfriend for his older brother spine. In Mumbai, a man who served the poor dies Carson’s home in New Orleans. suddenly. Similar deaths are reported around the world – the victims all humanitarians, all bearing the It is Carson who has persuaded Salinger that they same death mark. should visit their estranged father on his deathbed in Las Cruces, and use it as an opportunity to heal old In Copenhagen, it falls to veteran detective Niels wounds. However it is with a sense of foreboding that THRILLER Bentzon to investigate. He is told to find eight ‘good Salinger sets off with his brother on a road trip from MARCH LITERARY FICTION people’ of Denmark and warn them. But Bentzon is New Orleans in Carson’s prized brand new Lexus, as Trade Paperback MARCH 978-0-85720-579-7 trained to see the worst in people and he becomes Hardback their relationship is far from amicable. 234x153 mm 978-1-84737-305-2 400 pp increasingly skeptical as he realizes that not everyone 234x153 mm £12.99 352 pp perceived to be good is truly good. Tender, funny, unflinching, this is a road trip story Agent: Scribner, Simon & Schuster, Inc. £16.99 Rights: BXC Agent: Aitken Alexander Associated Ltd. in the great American literary tradition and an Rights: BEXC Ebook: 978-0-85720-581-0 It is only when Niels meets Hannah that the pair exploration of sibling rivalry. It is a vivid glimpse of Ebook: 978-1-84983-583-1 begin to piece together the puzzle. There have been a country through the eyes of an outsider, a profound Export TPB: 978-1-84737-306-9 / £12.99 thirty-four deaths and there are two more to come. exploration of brotherhood and a gripping journey of According to the pattern, Bentzon and Hannah can the soul. predict the time and place of the final two. The murders will occur in Venice and Copenhagen. And TIM LOTT is a British award-winning novelist and the time is now. memoirist who contributes regularly to TV and radio as a journalist and social commentator. Danish author duo ANDERS RØNNOW KLARLUND and JACOB WEINREICH are currently working on a sequel to The Last Good Man. 40 41 FICTION Simon & Schuster FICTION Simon & Schuster For readers who enjoyed Sophie Hardach Margaret Atwood’s Alex Adams THE REGISTRAR’S MANUAL FOR DETECTING FORCED The Handmaid’s WHITE HORSE MARRIAGES Tale, Liz Jensen’s The Rapture and A Waterstone’s 11 pick for the best debuts of 2011 A post-apocalyptic thriller chronicling one Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Cormac McCarthy’s Selim enters a world where a residency permit is a ticket to woman’s quest to nurture those she holds The Road paradise. When he ends up in Germany, Selim believes he is dear against the backdrop of a shockingly finally safe, until the law catches up with him. Selim realises THRILLER changed world there is only one way to avoid deportation, if he dare try… MARCH Fifteen years later in Paris, a registrar receives an unsettling Trade Paperback LITERARY FICTION book in the post. 978-0-85720-996-2 Thirty-year-old Zoe is afraid to tell her therapist, MARCH The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced 234x153 mm Paperback Marriages only fuels her suspicions surrounding an impending 400 pp Professor Nick Rose, the truth; not that she is in love 978-1-84983-293-9 Kurdish wedding. She embarks on an investigation that brings £12.99 with him – or even that the haunting words of that 198x130 mm Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. 400 pp her uncomfortably close to an old acquaintance: Selim. Rights: BXC preacher on cable and the US President are keeping £7.99 Agent: Jenny Brown Associates Ebook: 978-0-85720-998-6 her awake at night – but the other truth. The one SOPHIE HARDACH has worked as a correspondent for Rights: World about her part in White Horse, the virus which is Reuters news agency in Milan, Tokyo, Paris and London, where Ebook: 978-0-85720-120-1 she now lives. threatening to exterminate the whole of mankind.

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Edward Hogan Chris Carter THE HUNGER TRACE THE NIGHT STALKER The highly acclaimed new novel from the award- Chris Carter knows serial killers. Robert Hunter winning author of Blackmoor catches them. The sudden death of David Bryant, the charismatic owner of a When an unidentified female body is discovered laid out in an rambling Derbyshire wildlife park, leaves an indelible mark on abandoned butcher’s shop, the cause of death is unclear. Her three very different people: his young widow, Maggie; his old body bares no marks; except for the fact that her lips have friend Louisa and Christopher, David’s eccentric teenage son from been carefully stitched shut. It is only when the full autopsy an earlier marriage. With the arrival of a stranger, their loyalties gets underway that the true horror is revealed – a discovery so will be stretched to breaking point, and each must face the devastating that Detective Robert Hunter has to be pulled off a

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‘Topical, timely, Belinda Alexandra terrifying’ Joan Brady TUSCAN ROSE THIRST THE BLUE DEATH

An epic tale which sweeps through Passion, ambition and greed fuel this generations gripping thriller from the critically- acclaimed author of Bleedout and Venom A mysterious stranger known as ‘The Wolf’ leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver For generations the Freyls have ruled Springfield, key hidden in her wrappings is the one clue to the Illinois, capital of a state of great lakes and rivers. child’s identity… Now convicted killer David Marion threatens their invincibility, and he threatens it from within their When Rosa turns fifteen, she must leave the nuns own ranks. who have raised her and become governess to the daughter of an aristocrat and his strange, frightening Water: it’s blue gold, and the price on world wife. Their house is elegant but cursed, and Rosa – markets is soaring. When Springfield gets a new blessed with gifts beyond her considerable musical mayor, it finds its supply under threat, not only talents – is torn between her desire to know the truth from corporations out for the money but from a and her fear of its repercussions. THRILLER disease that appears from nowhere, that nobody can identify and nobody can treat. WOMEN’S FICTION APRIL Meanwhile, the hand of Fascism curls around Paperback APRIL beautiful Italy, threatening her citizens. In the face 978-0-85720-432-5 Paperback 198x129 mm None of this interests David Marion until his 978-0-85720-878-1 of unimaginable hardship, will Rosa’s intelligence, 416 pp own past surfaces and he finds himself caught 198x130 mm £7.99 400 pp intuition and her extraordinary capacity for love be Agent: Saddler Literary Agency between multinational leviathans at war over £6.99 Rights: World Agent: Selwa Anthony enough to ensure her survival? America’s heartland. Rights: BXCA Ebook: 978-0-85720-433-2 Ebook: 978-0-85720-879-8 A compelling and beautiful tale about sacrifice and In addition to the bestselling thrillers, Bleedout and reward, of beauty and horror, and of redemption. Venom, JOAN BRADY wrote Whitbread Book of the Year winner, Theory of War, and The Unmaking BELINDA ALEXANDRA has been published to of a Dancer, about her years with the New York wide acclaim in Australia, New Zealand, France, City Ballet. She now lives in Oxford.. Germany, Holland, Poland, Norway and Greece.

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Alexey Pehov Virginia Andrews SHADOW BLIZZARD CLOUDBURST The third instalment in the million-copy-selling The gripping sequel to Family Storms Russian fantasy trilogy, The Chronicles of Siala Sasha, a popular senior in high school, finds herself attracted Shadow Harold, master thief, and his band of companions have to Duane Banks, a boy who stands out not because he flaunts reached the deep catacombs of Hrad Spein, where Harold must go his good looks and achievements, but because he is shy and in alone to face unknown horrors and retrieve the Horn that will withdrawn. He’s one of the few boys who pays little attention to save Siala. He is magically bound to the Key with which the dark her, and that makes him more interesting. elves sealed Hrad Spein, and the Master’s servant, the sorceress When auditions for the school play begin, she and Duane get parts Lafresa, is close behind him. and Duane slowly comes out of his shell. But when neither of his FANTASY Harold and his companions must face H’san’kors, evil magic and WOMEN’S FICTION parents shows up to see the play, he goes into depression. AUGUST the agents of the Nameless One, but unless they find the long-lost APRIL Trade Paperback Hardback When Duane takes his own life, Sasha blames herself for not 978-1-84737-565-0 Horn darkness will overrun the realm of Valiostr. Harold’s destiny 978-0-85720-788-3 working harder to make him happy, and she too begins a 234x153 mm is tied to the fate of the kingdom… 234x153 mm 416 pp 368 pp downward spiral. But comfort comes from an unexpected quarter. £12.99 £19.99 Agent: Trident Media Group Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. More than 100 million VIRGINIA ANDREWS novels have been Rights: BXC Rights: BXC sold worldwide. Ebook: 978-0-85720-565-0 Ebook: 978-0-85720-791-3 Export TPB: 978-0-85720-789-0 / £12.99 SHADOW CHASER Santa Montefiore The second instalment in the Russian fantasy THE HOUSE BY THE SEA trilogy, The Chronicles of Siala Her Top Ten bestseller set between 1960s Tuscany When Shadow Harold accepted the King’s commission he did not think that it would be to retrieve a legendary artefact from Hrad and present-day Devon Spein, the underground resting place of ogres, elves and wizards. Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the magnificent Tuscan villa Unless Harold finds the long-lost Horn, the Nameless One will overlooking the sea outside her village and dreams of a life there. overrun Valiostr. But that was just the first challenges facing One day, Dante, son of the villa’s powerful owner, invites her inside. Harold. He is magically bound to the Key with which the dark From that moment Floriana knows her destiny lies with him. But as elves sealed Hrad Spein, and which his enemies are determined they grow up they unwittingly jeopardise what they hold most dear. to obtain. On one side is the threat of the Nameless One; on the other, the servants of the mysterious Master. A long-dead mage Decades later, a coastal Devonshire hotel has fallen on hard times. Rafael Santoro, an artist-in-residence hired for the summer by FANTASY is living in Harold’s head, and his dreams are haunted by terrible FICTION visions. What is the meaning of the Houses of Power, Pain, Love owner Marina, begins to pacify the discord in Marina’s family. JANUARY JULY However, Rafa has his own agenda. Whether to destroy or seduce, Paperback and the House of Fear? Paperback 978-1-84739-672-3 978-1-84983-106-2 it is certain to affect them all. 234x153 mm Born near Moscow in 1978, ALEXEY PEHOV is the author of 198x130 mm 368 pp eight bestselling fantasy novels and a collection of short stories. 400 pp Sweeping from the Italian countryside to the English coast, this £12.99 £7.99 is a moving tale of love, forgiveness and the past. Agent: Trident Media Group Shadow Prowler was his first novel to be translated into English Agent: Curtis Brown Rights: BXC Rights: BC and published in the UK. SANTA MONTEFIORE is married to historian 50 Ebook: 978-0-85720-564-3 Ebook: 978-1-84737-932-0 Simon Sebag Montefiore and an international bestseller. 51 FICTION Simon & Schuster FICTION Simon & Schuster

Daniel H. Wilson Camilla Grebe ROBOPOCALYPSE & Åsa Träff A post-apocalyptic vision of the war between SOME KIND OF PEACE human and machine In roughly twenty years, our technological marvels will unite and The beautifully written and haunting turn against us. A massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and kills the man who created it. This act No.1 Swedish bestseller of betrayal leads Archos to gain control over the global network of machines and technology. In the early months, sporadic glitches 34-year-old psychotherapist Siri Bergman is are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans – a senator, terrified of the dark. Living alone in an isolated SCIENCE FICTION a single mother disconcerted by her daughter’s ‘smart’ toys, a area east of Stockholm, she has tried hard to AUGUST Japanese bachelor, and a U.S. soldier – but most are unaware of convince herself that she has moved on since her Paperback the growing rebellion until it is too late. At a moment known later 978-0-85720-414-1 husband, Stefan, died in a diving accident several 198x130 mm in history as Zero Hour, every mechanical device rebels, setting 400 pp off the Robot War that both decimates and – for the first time in years ago. But when she goes to bed, Siri leaves £7.99 Agent: Random House Inc. history – unites humankind. all the lights on and she can’t shake the feeling Rights: BXC that someone is watching her through the windows DANIEL WILSON holds a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Ebook: 978-0-85720-415-8 Mellon University. at night.

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Mary Higgins Clark Wendy Wallace LOST YEARS THE PAINTED BRIDGE The brand new spine-tingling thriller from the global multi-million bestseller

A fantastically page-turning new thriller from the world’s favourite A spellbinding tale of secrets, lost lives, thriller writer, featuring all the twists, turns and chillingly close-to- the-bone storylines that her millions of fans know and love. and a Victorian woman seizing her own

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‘Dan Brown Paige Toon meets Robert Philip Carter UNTITLED ONE PERFECT SUMMER Ludlum in this gripping, From the author of Altar of Bones comes a brand incredibly fast- new global thriller, destined to keep the pages turning until the final conclusion If you fall too fast…you might just crash paced thriller’ The Medusa Society is an all-female secret society with a greg iles While on holiday in Dorset one summer, Alice chilling mission. Intent on establishing a new world order, they will set out to destroy New York City and bring down the meets Joe, a guy working at the local pub. She’s THRILLER dollar. Nothing will stand in their way. eighteen and about to start university, while Joe’s MAY Hardback Praise for Altar of Bones life is seemingly going nowhere. But despite their 978-0-85720-501-8 differences, the pair fall in love. And then summer 234x153 mm 520 pp ‘A corkscrewing, looping roller coaster of a reading experience, it comes to an end and they are dramatically torn apart. £14.99 definitely belongs in the hands of thriller fans’ booklist Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. Rights: BXC Alice heads off to university in Cambridge where Ebook: 978-0-85720-504-9 she slowly picks up the pieces of her broken heart. Export TPB: 978-0-85720-502-5 One day Lukas – a gorgeous golden boy from Cambridge University – spies her and it’s not long before Alice falls for his charms. ALTAR OF BONES WOMEN’S FICTION Months turn into years, but then Joe comes back into An incredible thriller spanning a century and three MAY Alice’s life again in a way that she could never have Paperback continents, and unearthing the dark secret behind 978-1-84983-128-4 imagined. She never stopped loving him, but he’s out 198x130 mm one of the world’s biggest unsolved conspiracies 464 pp of her reach now, surely? And what about Lukas? £6.99 Siberia 1939. Lena Orlova plans a daring escape from a grim Agent: Simon & Schuster, UK Soviet gulag to the one place in Russia’s icy wilderness she knows PAIGE TOON grew up in Australia, America Rights: World is safe: a cave concealing the legendary Altar of Bones. Ebook: 978-1-84983-129-1 and England and was formerly Reviews Editor at Heat magazine. San Francisco, Present Day. Zoe Dmitroff discovers that she is the last in a line of women who have been entrusted with a secret so great many have died preserving it.

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Baby Be Mine Pictures of Lily Chasing Daisy Johnny Be Good Lucy in the Sky Ebook: 978-0-85720-208-6 56 978-1-84983-126-0 978-1-84739-391-3 978-1-84739-390-6 978-1-84739-044-8 978-1-84739-043-1 57 FICTION Simon & Schuster FICTION Simon & Schuster ‘No one writes period fiction with the same sytle and Vince Flynn suspense – not to Joseph Kanon KILL SHOT mention substance’ UNTITLED SCOTT TURROW A pulse-pounding thriller from No. 1 bestselling phenomenon A gripping tale of an American For months, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of the men responsible for the Pan Am Lockerbie undercover agent in 1945 Istanbul who bombing – bullet by bullet. descends into the murky cat-and-mouse His next target – a Libyan diplomat – should be easy. Prone to world of compromise and betrayal drink and currently in Paris without a single bodyguard, Rapp

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Christopher Golden Tara Hyland WAKING NIGHTMARES FALLEN ANGELS

An ancient power imprisoned for centuries, returns The stunning novel from the author of the bent on vengeance and destruction bestselling Daughters of Fortune When chaos erupts in the small coastal town of Hawthorne, San Francisco, 1958. On a December night, a baby girl is left Massachusetts, former vampire-turned-mage Peter Octavian and at the Sisters of Charity Orphanage on Telegraph Hill. One earthwitch Keomany Shaw arrive to investigate. year later, movie star Frances Fitzgerald takes her own life. Her husband, wealthy businessman Maximilian Stanhope, is rumoured Years ago, Octavian helped expose the secret existence of vampires to know more about her death than he’s letting on. to the world, dismantling the Vatican’s sorcery corps in order to

FANTASY save his fellow shadows from destruction. But without the Vatican WOMEN’S FICTION What is the connection between these two events? That’s what sorcerers, the magical barriers they spent centuries constructing to Frances’s daughter, Cara, wants to find out. Abandoned by her MAY MAY Paperback keep the forces of darkness out of our world are beginning to fail, Paperback mother when she was just seven years old, her childhood was filled 978-1-84739-928-1 and things are slipping through. 978-1-84739-853-6 with hardship. She is convinced that uncovering the secret behind 198x130 mm 198x130 mm her mother’s death is the only road to acceptance, but learning the 400 pp Now an ancient god of chaos is awakening and if Octavian can’t 400 pp £7.99 £6.99 truth may end up tearing her apart. Agent: Abner Stein stop it the blood of all human kind will be on his hands. Agent: Darley Anderson Literary Agency Rights: BXC Rights: WEL Fallen Angels is TARA HYLAND’s second novel. CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the award-winning author of Ebook: 978-1-84737-807-1 Ebook: 978-1-84737-702-9 numerous dark fantasy novels and comic book mini-series. Dean Crawford The Medieval ELIXIR Murderers HILL OF BONES The brilliant new high-concept, high-octane archaeological thriller from the new Michael Crichton Five of historical fiction’s biggest names weave an intriguing set of interlinked mysteries While carrying out an autopsy on a body recently brought into a morgue in Santa Fe, county coroner Alexis Cruz makes a Bath Abbey, 1199. The monks’ peaceful existence is turned surprising discovery. Lodged in the dead man’s femur is a musket upside down when the Abbey’s unpopular prior is found dead on ball which, carbon-dating reveals, was fired some 200 years earlier in Solsbury Hill. But when Sir Symon Cole and his wife, Gwenllian, the American Civil War. But before she can notify the authorities, arrive to investigate, their enquiries put them into great danger. Alexis disappears. THRILLER HISTORICAL FICTION Sacred treasures. Dangerous secrets. Plots against church, crown The DIA call in Ethan Warner and his partner, Nicola Lopez, to and government. Solsbury Hill continues to be the scene of MAY JUNE Paperback find the missing coroner. But the closer they come to unlocking the Paperback murder, theft and conspiracy throughout the ages. 978-0-85720-472-1 terrifying truth, the nearer they unknowingly bring a warped and 978-0-85720-427-1 198x130 mm 198x130 mm THE MEDIEVAL MURDERERS are Karen Maitland, Bernard 400 pp dangerous individual to achieving his catastrophic goal. 416 pp £6.99 £6.99 Knight, Ian Morson, Philip Gooden and and Susanna Gregory. Agent: Luigi Bonomi Associates Having failed the Royal Air Force’s stringent sight tests, DEAN Agents: Dorian Literary Agency Rights: World CRAWFORD had to give up his dream of becoming a fighter-pilot, Rights: WEL 60 Ebook: 978-0-85720-473-8 turning his hand instead to writing high-octane scientific thrillers. Ebook: 978-0-85720-428-8 61 FICTION Simon & Schuster FICTION Simon & Schuster ‘Witty, compelling and utterly Jennifer Weiner Craig Robertson unforgettable’ COLD AS THE GRAVE THEN CAME YOU HEAT The chilling new thriller from the CWA New Blood Dagger shortlisted author of Random and Snapshot Four women are thrown together in their November 1992. Scotland is in the grip of its coldest winter in common desire to make a family for 30 years and Lake Menteith in the Trossachs is frozen over. A themselves… young man and woman walk across the ice to the historic island of Inchmahome which lies in the middle of the lake. Only the man Jules Wildgren is a Princeton student with a family she’s comes back. CRIME ashamed of. Her plan is to save her father from addiction Four months later, as staff prepare the ruined abbey for summer JUNE using the money earned from donating her eggs. Trade Paperback visitors, they discover the remains of the body of a girl, her skull 978-0-85720-416-5 violently crushed. Her identity is unknown. 234x153 mm Amie Barrow is a married mother surviving on a single 400 pp Twenty years on, retired detective Alan Narey is still troubled by £12.99 pay-check. A programme about surrogates sparks an idea Agent: Jenny Brown Associates the unsolved crime. Determined to relieve her father’s torment, that could recover her sense of purpose and bring in Rights: WEL DS Rachel Narey, now returns to Lake Menteith and unofficially some extra cash. Ebook: 978-0-85720-418-9 ‘reopens’ the cold case.

India Bishop has found her happy-ever-after in marrying SNAPSHOT wealthy older man Marcus Croft, but when her attempts The gripping thriller from the at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology – and Annie Sunday Times WOMEN’S FICTION and Jules. bestselling author of Random JULY Paperback A series of shootings by a lone sniper leaves Glasgow terrorized. 978-0-85720-812-5 However with Marcus’ sudden death, his daughter, Who is behind the executions of the most notorious criminals in 198x130 mm 400 pp Bettina, is named guardian of India’s unborn child. the city? As more deaths occur – including police officers and £6.99 As the due date draws near, these four women discover innocent civilians – the authorities realise they have a vigilante on Agent: Simon& Schuster, Inc. their hands. Rights: BXC what makes each of them a mother in her own right. Ebook: 978-0-85720-814-9 Police photographer Tony Winter has seen his fair share of dead JENNIFER WEINER is the international number one bodies. So when he notices something in one of his prints that the bestselling author of eight novels. forensic team missed he launches an investigation of his own.

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FEBRUARY from the sniper case onto a seemingly routine inquiry into the Paperback death of a prostitute. But she can’t help but notice how every lead 978-1-84739-880-2 draws her back to the sniper. 198x130 mm 336 pp £6.99 As Winter and Narey search for the truth, their quest will lead Agent: Jenny Brown Associates them both down increasingly dark and dangerous paths. Rights: WEL CRAIG ROBERTSON, a respected journalist, worked with a Good In Bed In Her Shoes Best Friends Forever Fly Away Home Ebook: 978-0-85720-265-9 62 978-1-84983-400-1 978-1-84983-401-8 978-1-84739-023-3 978-1-84739-025-7 Scottish Sunday newspaper for twenty years. 63 FICTION Simon & Schuster ‘Fisher has NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster a talent for lacerating insight Michael Jecks that masquerades Carrie Fisher CITY OF FOOLS as carefree self- SHOCKAHOLIC It’s 1327 and England is in turmoil. Edward II has deprecation’ been removed from the throne and his son installed LOS ANGELES TIMES in his place. Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, tasked with Told with the same intimate style, guarding Edward II, has failed and now rides to Exeter to inform the sheriff of the old king’s escape brutal honesty, and uproarious wisdom that placed Wishful Drinking on In Exeter, the sheriff has problems of his own. Overnight, the body of a young maid has been discovered, lying bloodied and the New York Times bestseller list for HISTORICAL FICTION abandoned in a dirty alleyway. The city’s gates had been shut months, Shockaholic is the juicy account against the lawlessness outside, so the perpetrator must still lie JUNE of Carrie Fisher’s life Trade Paperback within the sanctuary of the town. 978-0-85720-522-3 234x153 mm When Baldwin de Furnshill arrives, he is tasked with uncovering 400 pp In Shockaholic she talks about subjects as far and £12.99 the truth behind this gruesome murder. But, in a city where every wide as: how she’s coped with mental illness Agent: Bell Lomax man hides a secret, his task will be far from easy… Rights: WEL (the clue is in the title!); coming to terms with

Ebook: 978-0-85720-524-7 her overnight fame; her friendship with Michael Library HB: 978-0-85720-521-6 Jackson; and her relationship with her father. KING’S GOLD CARRIE FISHER, the daughter of Debbie 1327. One kingdom. Two kings. But only one can Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, became an icon when rule. Another tale of murder and mayhem from the AUTOBIOGRAPHY she starred as Princess Leia in the original Star OCTOBER trilogy. Her star-studded career includes roles master of medieval crime Hardback Wars 978-1-84737-032-7 in numerous films such as The Blues Brothers and As the year 1326 draws to a close, London is in flames. King 216x135 mm Edward II is a prisoner, and the forces of his vengeful queen, 304 pp When Harry Met Sally. She is the author of five Illustrations throughout bestselling novels. Fisher’s honesty and experience Isabella, and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer, are in the ascendant. £14.99 The Bardi family, bankers who have funded the King, must look Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. with addiction and mental illness have made her a Rights: BXC to their future with the Queen, steering a careful course between sought-after speaker and respected advocate. rival factions – if, that is, they can keep themselves alive. Ebook: 978-0-85720-158-4 Export TPB: 978-1-84737-034-1 / £12.99 Others, too, find their loyalties torn. Guarding the deposed King

HISTORICAL FICTION on behalf of Mortimer, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and bailiff Simon Puttock find themselves entangled in a tightening net of JANUARY Paperback conspiracy, greed, betrayal and murder. 978-1-84983-083-6 198x130 mm MICHAEL JECKS is a past Chairman of the Crime Writers’ 352 pp Association. £7.99 Agent: Bell Lomax Rights: WEL ‘A fast-moving story full of fierce fights and cunning conspiracies’ literary review Ebook: 978-1-84737-903-0 Wishful Drinking The Best Awful Delusions of Grandma 64 978-1-84739-783-6 978-0-74347-857-1 978-0-68485-803-6 65 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster

Edited by The Sunday Times bestselling Lisa Niemi Swayze Joseph Galliano author of The WORTH FIGHTING FOR DEAR ME Time of My Life Love, Loss and Moving Forward More Letters to my Sixteen-Year-Old Self

A collection of letters from celebrities From the widow of Patrick Swayze, a written to their sixteen-year-old selves remarkably moving account of grief and moving on, with never-before-revealed In Dear Me, some of the world’s most famous and stories from Patrick’s final months best loved celebrities, from actors to chefs, directors to musicians, have written just such a letter. Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mother’s dance studio. He was The letters range from the compassionate to the older and cocky; she was the gorgeous waif who shocking, via hilarity and heartbreak, but they all refused to worship the ground he walked on. have one thing in common: they offer a unique It didn’t take long for them to fall in love, insight into the teenager who would grow up to their thirty-four year marriage was a uniquely be… J.K. Rowling, Kathleen Turner, Stan Lee, passionate partnership. James Belushi, Moon Zappa, Seth Green, Piers Morgan, Jodi Picoult, Stephen King, Phil Ramone, For the first time, Lisa shares what it was like Michael Winner, Alan Cumming, Jerry Springer, to care for her husband as he battled Stage IV Armistead Maupin, E from The Eels, Dr Phil, AUTOBIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY pancreatic cancer and describes his last days. She Ferran Adrià, Kim Novak, Rose McGowan, James NOVEMBER 2011 JANUARY writes about her grief, and candidly discusses the Woods or Gillian Anderson. Hardback Hardback challenges of the past fourteen months. 978-0-85720-715-9 978-0-85720-838-5 210x140 mm 234x153 mm 144 pp It is the perfect gift for your mum or dad, sister or 352 pp But while this is an emotionally honest and £12.99 brother, gran or granddad, or someone you know £16.99 Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. unflinching depiction of illness and loss, it is also Rights: BXC who is turning 16. Rights: BXC a hopeful exploration of the power of the human Ebook: 978-0-85720-716-6 Ebook: 978-0-85720-841-5 Export TPB: 978-0-85720-839-2 / £12.99 spirit. Lisa shows that no matter how dark the prospect of another day may seem, the love shared between two people never truly dies.

LISA NIEMI SWAYZE is the co-author of The Time of My Life, which she wrote with her late husband, Patrick Swayze. She also wrote, directed and produced the film One Last Dance in 2004.

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Condoleezza Rice Michele Hanson WHAT THE GROWN-UPS NO HIGHER HONOUR WERE DOING

The long anticipated chronicle of A hilarious memoir of growing up in Condoleezza Rice’s years in the Bush 1950s suburbia by one of the UK’s best- administration as national security adviser loved columnists and secretary of state Michele Hanson grew up an ‘oddball tomboy For eight years, Condoleezza Rice participated in disappointment’ in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the highest political councils and had a crucial role the 1950s – a suburban, Metroland idyll of neat in shaping policy that affected not just America lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this but the world. Here, she writes candidly of the shopfront of respectability masked a multitude of many fascinating people with whom she interacted suspected salacious goings-on. An atmosphere of and the momentous events that tested her resolve. intense rivalry prevails, with Michele’s mum very What emerges is a world-historical overview that is suspicious of her neighbours’ domestic and personal breathtaking. habits. And with glamorous, scheming Auntie Celia swanning around in silk dresses demanding CONDOLEEZZA RICE was the 66th US secretary attention, Michele has a lot to contend with. Only

POLITICS of state and the first black woman to hold that office. AUTOBIOGRAPHY the annual holidays to the south of France relieve

NOVEMBER 2011 Prior to that, she was the first woman ever to serve FEBRUARY the tension. Hardback as national security adviser, was provost of Stanford Hardback 978-0-85720-807-1 978-0-85720-488-2 234x153 mm from 1993 to 1999, and served as the Soviet and 216x135 mm This hilarious memoir charts Michele’s childhood 608 pp 272 pp £20 East European Affairs adviser during the dissolution 8pp colour (TBC) and coming of age in a Britain that was emerging Agent: United Agents £12.99 from post-war austerity into the days of ‘you’ve Rights: BXC of the Soviet Union. Agent: MBA Literary Agents Ltd. Rights: BXC never had it so good’. Ebook: 978-0-85720-809-5 Ebook: 978-0-85720-490-5 MICHELE HANSON books have been serialised for radio and made into a BBC cartoon series.

68 69 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Judith Bruce FUNNY HOW THINGS Laurie Matthew TURN OUT GROOMED Life as Mother Made It

Part biography, part memoir, Funny How A shocking memoir of a difficult, abusive Things Turn Out chronicles the long life of childhood, written by one of the UK’s Muriel Newmarch and her daughter leading experts in child protection

Muriel Newmarch was born in North London in In this powerful and honest memoir, Laurie 1903. She died in 2009, aged 106. Judith Bruce is her Matthew revisits her childhood in 1950s and ’60s daughter, and Funny How Things Turn Out traces the Dundee. Raised in a home which consisted of unprecedented changes women experienced during an emotionally neglectful and physically violent the 20th century, told through the story of both mother, a distant father, a chronically sick brother women’s lives. and a sister she needed to protect, the only ray of light in Laurie’s life came from the man who would The first half of the book chronicles Muriel’s world return home from the Army with pockets of sweets through WW1, a painfully stilted class system, and bags of toys. Uncle Andrew showered her with and marriage and motherhood in the 1930s – then attention and love – and carefully groomed her for

AUTOBIOGRAPHY Judith picks up the narrative as a mischievous child years of abuse by not only himself, but also by a in the 1940s. Woven artfully through the episodic MARCH AUTOBIOGRAPHY network of paedophiles. Hardback chapters are the aspirations and disappointments 978-0-85720-820-0 FEBRUARY 216x135 mm of two ‘ordinary’ women. Judith brings to life a Paperback Laurie tells a harrowing story of isolation, as her 272 pp 978-0-85720-827-9 £12.99 barely remembered England of satin dresses at 198x130 mm abusers went to extraordinary lengths to carry out Agent: Jeffrey Simmons Literary Agency Swan & Edgar’s and English summer days where 256 pp their sick acts. But these evil men had no idea Rights: World £6.99 silent fathers mowed the lawn in Sunday best and Agent: Clare Hutton that the girl they violated would turn into one of Ebook: 978-0-85720-822-4 Rights: BXC unsuitable boyfriends smoked Player’s Navy Cut. It the country’s leading child protection experts and Ebook: 978-0-85720-828-6 is a remarkable and accomplished portrait of life, love change the lives of so many innocent victims. and death. LAURIE MATTHEW is the award-winning JUDITH BRUCE is a retired BBC TV producer who founder of several support organisations for people specialised in children’s TV in the 1960s. affected by sexual violence and/or abuse including the ‘Eighteen and Under’ charity organisation.

70 71 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Angela Patrick Harry Keeble & with Lynne Barrett-Lee Kris Hollington THE BABY LAUNDRY FOR HURTING TOO MUCH UNMARRIED MOTHERS Shocking Stories from the Frontline of Child Protection The tragic but ultimately uplifting story Shocking stories from the frontline of of a young woman who was sent to a child protection in ‘Broken Britain’ ‘baby laundry’ for unmarried mothers Together, Detective Sergeant Harry Keeble and in 1960s London Ella, a newly qualified social worker, faced the violence of forced marriage, the horror of maternal In 1963, Angela Patrick was 19 years old, incest and the cruelty of child slavery. Their enjoying her first job working in the City when investigations took them into a mosque, a drug her life turned upside down. A brief fling with a den and a recording studio. Just as the unrelenting charismatic charmer left her pregnant and facing a caseload threatened to push the inexperienced stark future. She was still under the governance of Ella over the edge, Harry uncovered one of the her parents, strict Catholics who insisted she have most shocking cases of child abuse he’d ever the baby in secret and then put it up for adoption. encountered, forcing the duo to tread new ground Shunned by her family, Angela was sent to a in the search for justice. convent for unmarried mothers in north-east Hurting Too Much reveals why working in Child AUTOBIOGRAPHY London. It was run like a Victorian workhouse AUTOBIOGRAPHY Protection has never been so tough. MARCH and Angela was degraded by the nuns for her MAY Paperback ‘wickedness’, her only comfort came from the Paperback 978-1-84983-490-2 978-0-85720-848-4 HARRY KEEBLE is the pseudonym of a senior 198x130 mm other pregnant girls, all knowing they too would 198x130 mm 288 pp 288 pp officer in the Metropolitan Police for Hackney’s have to give up their babies. After a terrifying £6.99 £6.99 Child Protection division. KRIS HOLLINGTON Agent: Fox Mason labour, Angela gave birth to a beautiful son, Paul, Agent: Andrew Lownie Rights: BXC Rights: BXC is a noted crime writer and co-author of Crack with whom she fell instantly in love. At eight Ebook: 978-1-84983-491-9 Ebook: 978-0-85720-849-1 House, Terror Cops, Baby X and LittleVictim. weeks he was forcibly put up for adoption, leaving Angela heartbroken. Then, thirty years later, she received a letter. It was from Paul, and a reunion was arranged.

Crack House Baby X Terror Cops Little Victim 72 978-1-84739-152-0 978-1-84739-787-4 978-0-85720-061-7 978-1-84983-250-2 73 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Andy Martin Donald McRae THE BOXER & UNDER OUR SKIN THE GOALKEEPER Sartre Versus Camus

The true story of an ordinary family torn Existentialism meets the philosophy of the apart by an extraordinary country and Absurd. They should have been a dream- their emergence from prejudice to find team. It turned into a duel to the death the path towards reconciliation Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus first came Don McRae grew up in South Africa where his together in Occupied Paris in the middle of the family, like so many white people, seemed oblivious Second World War, and quickly became friends, to the violent injustices of apartheid. The political comrades, and mutual admirers. But the intellectual differences between father and son widened and honeymoon was short-lived. They ended up on when Don refused to join up for National Service, opposite sides in a war of words over just about risking imprisonment or exile overseas, the two were everything: women, philosophy, politics. Their torn apart. fraught, fractured friendship culminated in a bitter and very public feud that was described as ‘the end It wasn’t until years later that Don discovered that of a love-affair’ but which never really finished.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY his father, Ian McRae, with whom he had fought Sartre was a boxer and a drug-addict; Camus was a MARCH so bitterly, had transformed himself into a political BIOGRAPHY Hardback goalkeeper who subscribed to a degree-zero approach 978-1-84737-965-8 hero. Risking everything, Ian travelled secretly to MAY 234x153 mm meet members of Nelson Mandela’s then banned Trade Paperback to style and ecstasy. Sartre and Camus play out an 432 pp 978-1-84737-417-2 £20 African National Congress to discuss ways to bring 234x153 mm epic struggle between the symbolic and the savage. Agent: Curtis Brown 352 pp Rights: BXC power to black South Africa. He had no political £14.99 Agent: David Godwin Associates ambitions; he was just trying to replace the worst in The Boxer and the Goalkeeper: Sartre vs Camus Ebook: 978-1-84737-967-2 Rights: BXC reconstructs the intense and antagonistic relationship Export TPB: 978-1-84737-966-5 / £12.99 himself with something better. Ebook: 978-1-84983-588-6 that was (in Sartre’s terms) ‘doomed to failure’. Under Our Skin is a memoir of these tumultuous Weaving together the lives and writings of Camus years in South Africa. It offers an intimate and Sartre, Andy Martin relives the existential drama perspective on life under apartheid, and tells a story that still binds them inseparably together and remixes of hope and desolation, especially between a father a philosophical dialogue that speaks to us now. and his son. ANDY MARTIN teaches at Cambridge University. DONALD MCRAE is a journalist and winner of UK Sports Feature Writer of the Year. 74 75 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Nicole ‘Snooki’ Andrew Gimson Polizzi BORIS CONFESSIONS The Rise of Boris Johnson OF A GUIDETTE A fascinating and amusing portrait of Boris Johnson, a unique man of our times The inside scoop on what it’s like to Boris Johnson’s distinctive appearance (‘Like a haystack on a bicycle’), befuddled manner and ready wit have assured a high be ‘Snooki’, and how she got to be the media profile and popularity with the general public. In 2008 he breakout star of the runaway hit, was elected Mayor of London with over 1 million votes, the largest Jersey Shore personal mandate of any UK politician.

BIOGRAPHY Gimson investigates Boris’ twin-faced dilemma – politics or entertainment – and asks how deep his political ambition runs. Boris A loud, wild, cuddly and in-your-face party girl MARCH with sky-high hair and a spray tan, the pint-size Paperback has transcended his class and education to become a paradoxical 978-0-85720-738-8 character – the old Etonian who fascinates all generations, the Snooki has emerged as the breakout star of the 198x130 mm classical scholar who is also a TV quiz-show contestant. Despite wildly successful . She’s been parodied 304 pp Jersey Shore 16pp colour plates being a comic actor of genius, he is not just an act. on Saturday Night Live, appeared on almost every £7.99 Agent: David Higham Associates Ltd. ANDREW GIMSON writes the parliamentary sketch for the Daily major talk show (including Leno and Conan), was Rights: BXC Telegraph and is Foreign Editor of the Spectator. featured in the New York Times, and has more than Ebook: 978-0-85720-739-5 2.3 million followers on Twitter. Snooki also has AUTOBIOGRAPHY attracted a slew of celebrity fans, like Leo DiCaprio, Sean Smith NOVEMBER 2011 Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Hardback Moore, Zach Braff and Tinsley Mortimer. 978-0-85720-941-2 KATE 234x153 mm 192 pp £16.99 This attractively designed full colour book will The UK’s leading celebrity biographer tells the Agent: Gallery, Simon & Schuster , Inc. feature tons of photos, tips, and fascinating details Rights: BC uplifting story of the woman who overnight became from America’s favourite guidette and will be a Ebook: 978-1-45165-714-2 the most famous celebrity in the country must-have for fans of Snooki and Jersey Shore. Sean Smith examines Kate’s life, from her unhappy time at school to her years at Marlborough College where she was transformed NICOLE ‘SNOOKI’ POLIZZI is a reality from an ugly duckling to a swan, ending the story in Westminster television star who broke into the spotlight on Abbey where Kate and William married. Fully illustrated, this is MTV’s reality show Jersey Shore in December 2009. the one book you will want to read about the event of the decade. BIOGRAPHY Her popularity on the show helped make Jersey APRIL SEAN SMITH is the UK’s top celebrity autobiographer, the the highest rated show in MTV history. Shore Paperback bestselling author of Cheryl and Robbie. 978-1-84983-063-8 198x130 mm 240 pp £7.99 Agent: Curtis Brown Rights: WEL 76 Ebook: 978-1-84737-870-5 77 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster

Adriana Trigiani Henry Kissinger THE WISDOM OF YEARS OF RENEWAL The Concluding Volume of His Classic MY GRANDMOTHERS Memoirs

Bestselling author reveals how her Perhaps the best-known American diplomatist of grandmother’s simple values have shaped the twentieth century, Henry Kissinger is a major figure in world history, winner of the Nobel Peace her own life and shares with us their Prize, and arguably one of the most brilliant minds wisdom, experiences and humour ever placed at the service of American foreign policy, as well as one of the shrewdest, best- Adriana Trigiani’s two remarkable grandmothers, informed, and most articulate men ever to occupy a Lucia and Viola, lived through the 20th century from position of power in Washington. beginning to end as working women who juggled careers and motherhood. From the factory line to the The eagerly awaited third and final volume of his family table, the two of them – the very definition of memoirs completes a major work of contemporary modern women – cut a path for their granddaughter history. It is at once an important historical by demonstrating courage and skill in their fearless document and a brilliantly told narrative of almost approach to life, love and overcoming obstacles. Shakespearean intensity, full of startling insights,

unusual (and often unsparing) candour, and a Trigiani visits the past to seek answers to the essential sweeping sense of history. Years of Renewal is the questions that define the challenges women face today: BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY triumphant conclusion of a major achievement and how we hold on to the values that make life rich and FEBRUARY JANUARY a book that will stand the test of time as a historical Hardback beautiful, how we can take risks and reap the rewards, Trade Paperback 978-0-85720-422-6 978-0-85720-719-7 document of the first rank. 216X135 MM how to stand resilient in the face of tragedy. ‘Be bold; 234x153 mm 352 pp 1488 pp £12.99 ‘be direct’; ‘be different’! £16.99 HENRY KISSINGER was the fifty-sixth Secretary Agent: William Morris Agency (UK) Ltd. Agent: The Wylie Agency Rights: BXC Rights: BXC of State. Born in Germany, Dr. Kissinger came to ADRIANA TRIGIANI is an award-winning Ebook: 978-0-85720-424-0 Ebook: 978-0-85720-720-3 the United States in 1938 and was naturalized a playwright, television writer and documentary U.S. citizen in 1943. He served in the U.S. Army filmmaker. and attended Harvard University, where he later became a member of the faculty.

White House Years Years of Upheaval 78 978-0-85720-709-8 978-0-85720-717-3 79 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Alexandra Fuller Mark Radcliffe COCKTAIL HOUR UNDER REELIN’ IN THE YEARS THE TREE OF FORGETFULNESS The Soundtrack of a Northern Life Here is the sequel and the prequel to the hugely BBC Radio broadcaster Mark Radcliffe looks back successful Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight at the soundtrack of his lifetime At the heart of Alexandra’s family is Fuller’s iconic, courageous Taking a record from each year of his life, award-winning mother, Nicola, born on the Scottish Isle of Skye and raised in broadcaster Mark Radcliffe uses the song as a starting point Kenya’s perfect equatorial light. Fuller recaptures her mother’s from which to pull together a wonderfully entertaining catalogue inimitable voice with remarkable precision, and this book is as of memories and observations about British culture. From The funny, exotic, terrifying and unselfconscious as Nicola herself. Kinks’ ‘See My Friends’, through Slade’s ‘Coz I Luv You’ to Joy Division’s ‘Atmosphere’, Mark’s selections bring forth a diverse ‘Fuller’s prose is so beautiful and evocative…A gorgeous tribute, AUTOBIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY collision of styles from eras uniquely defined by their musical to both her parents and the land they love’ booklist AUGUST MAY genres and fashions. Paperback Paperback ALEXANDRA FULLER was born in England and then lived in 978-1-84983-296-0 978-1-84983-222-9 ‘An easy-read memoir is reliant on good anecdotes, and Radcliffe 198x130 mm Rhodesia, Malawi, Zambia, and now Wyoming. 198x130 mm 224 pp 352 pp has more than a few’ guardian £7.99 £7.99 Agent: Rogers, White & Coleridge Agent: PBJ Management Ltd MARK RADCLIFFE won Music Broadcaster of the Year in 2009 Rights: BXC Rights: BXC and has recorded five albums with two bands. Ebook: 978-0-85720-238-3 Ebook: 978-0-85720-051-8 Monique Roffey Simon Day WITH THE KISSES OF COMEDY AND ERROR HIS MOUTH They Were Really Marvellous Times A passionate, provocative and pioneering memoir Simon Day, star of the Fast Show and Bellamy’s from an Orange Prize shortlisted author People tells the shocking and hilariously funny story Monique Roffey had found her soulmate. But then the love affair of his life so far she had always longed for came to a sudden and heartbreaking Simon Day’s memoir is a story of unlikely successes and secret end. Devastated, Monique felt that she could never love again. But lives. In the early 1980s he was a petty thief living rough in South as time went on, she began to ask questions. Does ruling out love East London. Simon’s memoir tells of how this nice, middle-class have to mean ruling out sex? Can you have great sex without love? boy from the suburbs – a self-confessed ‘crap criminal’ – served And, conversely, can a great love survive without sex? time with the hard-cases in a jail divided along racial lines. It AUTOBIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY This is an inspiring story of one woman’s quest to heal a broken moves on to the lucky breaks, getting recognised, the ‘redemption’ JUNE APRIL of his years as a celebrity with the parallel story of his addiction Paperback heart and to find her own answers to some resonant questions. It Paperback 978-1-84739-872-7 takes her from the personal ads to a libertine’s resort in the south 978-1-84983-056-0 which – with money and success – became fuelled by drugs. 198x130 mm 198x130 mm 480 pp of France to tantra workshops and beyond – until she finds that 352 pp Dark and dramatic, Simon Day’s memoir is a laugh-out-loud- £7.99 she might just be able to love again, £8.99 Agent: Blake Friedmann Agent: Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd. funny story of drugs, crime and comedy. Rights: BXC Rights: World MONIQUE ROFFEY was born in Trinidad and now lives in SIMON DAY began his career as a stand-up comic, winning the 80 Ebook: 978-0-85720-256-7 London. Ebook: 978-1-84737-850-7 Time Out New Act of the Year Award in 1991. 81 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Patrick & Henry Cockburn Shirley MacLaine HENRY’S DEMONS I’M OVER ALL THAT Living With Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story Shirley MacLaine returns with the most accessible, An achingly honest dual memoir by a British funny and timely book of her career, detailing all journalist and his son about sudden descent into the things she’s over…and a few she’s not schizophrenia In a series of short essays Shirley shares her opinions and insights on all the things that drive her crazy, inspire her to action, and Soon after his 20th birthday, Henry Cockburn tried to swim keep her firmly in the public eye. With essay titles such as I across the lethally cold Newhaven estuary. The trees, he said, had Am Not Over Good Journalists and I Can’t Remember If I’m Over told him to do it. Days later, Henry was diagnosed with paranoid Memory Loss, this is Shirley’s pithiest and funniest book to date. AUTOBIOGRAPHY schizophrenia. Thus begins Patrick and Henry’s extraordinary AUTOBIOGRAPHY

JANUARY account of Henry’s fall into mental illness and Patrick’s journey MARCH SHIRLEY MACLAINE is a highly successful Oscar – and Paperback towards understanding. Paperback Golden Globe-winning actress and bestselling writer. 978-1-84739-859-8 978-0-85720-440-0 198x130 mm PATRICK COCKBURN is Middle East correspondent for the 198x130 mm 256 pp 224 pp £8.99 Independent and author of Muqtada; The Occupation: War and £7.99 Agent: Scribner, Simon & Schuster, Inc. Resistance in Iraq. HENRY COCKBURN was born in 1982 and Agent: Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc. Rights: BXC Rights: BXC attended Brighton University. He lives in a half-way house in Ebook: 978-1-84737-711-1 Lewisham. Ebook: 978-0-85720-441-7 Caradoc King Janet Jackson PROBLEM CHILD TRUE YOU

A remarkable memoir, the inspiring account of a Janet Jackson opens up about her struggles with child’s instinct for survival in a hostile world food, body image and relationships, and how she’s Adopted at eighteen months, Caradoc King was brought up in a worked through the hard times to find herself. large and growing family. His adoptive parents then cruelly ejected Infused with stories from fans and friends, Janet offers a candid him from the family as a teenager, and he scraped into Oxford look into the circumstances behind her well-documented weight University. Thirty years later, Caradoc went in search of his issues. Far more than a celebrity fitness manifesto, this book is an natural family and began to make sense of the mystery of his two honest account of the most tumultuous times of her life – from absent mothers. being taunted as girl to her internal battles with her beauty and AUTOBIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY ‘Beautifully written, it captures superbly the pleasure and pain of femininity, and her desire to fit in. APRIL MARCH Paperback childhood’ sunday times Paperback JANET JACKSON is a multi-Grammy award-winning singer, 978-1-84983-350-9 978-0-85720-613-8 198x130 mm CARADOC KING is a director of the literary agency, A P Watt, 198x130 mm making her breakthrough in 1986 with her album Control. 400 pp 256 pp 16pp b/w plates This is his first book. £7.99 £7.99 Agent: Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc. Agent: A.P. Watt Ltd. Rights: BXC Rights: BC Ebook: 978-0-85720-614-5 82 Ebook: 978-0-85720-199-7 83 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Dave Nasser with Lynne Barrett-Lee Anne Watts GIANT GEORGE OUTBACK NURSE Life With the Biggest Dog in the World ‘A magnificent life story. I feel humbled by Anne The true story of what it’s like to share your life Watts’ experiences’ jennifer worth and home with the world’s biggest dog In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse, eager In 2006, Dave and Christie Nasser welcomed a Great Dane puppy to use her skills. At the first opportunity she set sail for Canada, into their lives. In February 2010 George was officially crowned to work in the remote stations in the frozen north. She was one tallest dog ever (at over five feet!) by the Guinness Book of World of only a couple of British women to work among the indigenous Records. George has come to dominate the Nassers’ home. He has Inuit peoples who, in those days, were called Eskimos. Anne later grown from a quivering misfit into a goofy giant – eager to play headed for Alice Springs in the Australian outback to be a nurse AUTOBIOGRAPHY with everyone and boisterous to the point of causing chaos. Yet AUTOBIOGRAPHY and midwife among a tough cattle-ranching community who APRIL George is a big softie – a gentle giant frightened of water, of dogs APRIL lived, not always harmoniously, in close proximity with Australia’s Paperback Paperback 978-1-84983-282-3 a fraction of his size, and of being left alone. 978-1-84739-788-1 Aboriginal people. Forty years later, Anne returned to both 198x130 mm 198x130 mm countries to see how life has changed in Eskimo Point and Alice DAVE NASSER lives in Arizona with his wife, daughter and, of 272 pp 304 pp Springs, and what has become of its people and landscape. 8xpp colour course, George. LYNNE BARRETT-LEE is a successful novelist 8xpp colour £6.99 £7.99 Agent: HHB Agency Ltd. and non-fiction features writer for magazines. Agent: Blake Friedmann Rights: World Rights: BXC

Ebook: 978-0-85720-101-0 Ebook: 978-1-84983-587-9 Port Isaac’s Lisa Abend Fisherman’s Friends THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICES SAILING AT EIGHT BELLS A Season at el Bulli A vivid account of life inside the kitchen of the The ‘fishing nets to riches’ story of Port Isaac’s world’s most famous restaurant: ‘el Bulli’ world-famous singing group ‘A terrific read. And because it’s just as interested in the people as This is the full story of how the boat came in for this group of the recipes, it’s fascinating whether you’re a foodie or not.’ burly, middle-aged men from Cornwall’s Port Isaac, who shot to independent fame in 2010 and have since appeared at Glastonbury and won the BBC2 Folk Award for Good Tradition in 2011. Each member of The Sorcerer’s Apprentices tells the story of the young chefs enrolled the group has his own story, and their individual family histories in the restaurant’s legendary training course, how they learn to

AUTOBIOGRAPHY tell of Cornwall’s rugged landscape and the ever-present danger FOOD & DRINK push the limits of their culinary abilities and how they cope with and bounty of the sea. Chapters are interspersed with a charming the pressures of performing at the highest level night after night. MAY AUGUST Paperback miscellany of Cornish traditions, recipes and folk tales. Paperback 978-0-85720-444-8 978-1-84983-322-6 LISA ABEND is a journalist based in Madrid. She contributes 198x130 mm The FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS are ten friends from Port Isaac 198x129 mm regularly to all the major American food magazines. 288 pp in Cornwall. The book is written in collaboration with leading 259 pp 16pp colour + b&w illustrations £8.99 £7.99 ghostwriter Robert Uhlig. Agent: Abner Stein Agent: Lucas Alexander Whitley Rights: BXC Rights: BXC Ebook: 978-0-85720-157-7 84 Ebook: 978-0-85720-445-5 85 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Mike Parker Pearson Andrew Smith STONEHENGE EXPLAINED TOTALLY WIRED Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery

A striking and original interpretation of On the morning of Monday, April 3, the awesome Stone Age site from one of 2000, Josh Harris woke to the knowledge the world’s foremost archaeologists on that he was about to lose everything death and burial The man Time magazine had called ‘The Warhol Our knowledge about Stonehenge has changed of the Web’ was reduced to the role of helpless dramatically as a result of the Stonehenge Riverside spectator as the Nasdaq index collapsed like a Project led by Mike Parker Pearson, which included house of cards, and his personal fortune dwindled not only Stonehenge itself but also the nearby great from 85 million dollars…to 70 million…to 20… henge enclosure of Durrington Walls. This book to nothing. is about the people who built Stonehenge and its relationship to the surrounding landscape. If the mania attending the last six months of 1999 is hard to completely recall, it’s because when the

HISTORY The book expounds the explosive theory that crash came the events, dreams and expectations of

JUNE Stonehenge was built as a monument to the dead. HISTORY those few brief years were swept away with near Hardback Parker Pearson’s book changes the way that we JUNE Biblical inclemency. How easy to forget that at the 978-0-85720-730-2 Hardback 234x153 mm think about Stonehenge; correcting previously 978-1-84737-449-3 end of 1999, the world seemed to be spinning off 384 pp 236x156 mm 16p colour plates & b/w integrated pics erroneous chronology and dating; filling in gaps in its axis. 320 pp £25.00 our knowledge about its people and how they lived. £17.99 Agent: A.M. Heath & Co. Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White Rights: WEL In Moondust Andrew Smith looked at the lives of In lively and engaging prose, the author brings to life Rights: BXC Ebook: 978-0-85720-733-3 the imposing ancient monument that continues to the Moonwalkers, how their exploits helped shape Export TPB: 978-0-85720-731-9 / £12.99 hold a fascination for everyone. an era and how the era left its mark on them. In Totally Wired, he examines the dotcom bubble and MIKE PARKER PEARSON is a Professor of its lasting legacy on both its cast of players, and Archaeology at Sheffield University. He is an the 21st Century. internationally renowned expert in the archaeology of death. ANDREW SMITH is an author and journalist. He also wrote and presented two BBC4 documentaries: Being Neil Armstrong and To Kill a Mockingbird at 50.

86 87 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Alex von Tunzelmann Giles Whittell RED HEAT BRIDGE OF SPIES Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean The true story of one of the most dramatic moments of the Cold War – the famous Glienicke Five Rebels, Three Caribbean Nations and the spy swap in Berlin Battle for Power – a compelling history of the Cold War in the Caribbean On February 10, 1962 on Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge, the Soviet and American superpowers traded three men in the most America’s secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold legendary prisoner exchange between East and West. Bridge of War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the Spies vividly traces the journeys of these men, whose fate defines machinations of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks the complex conflicts that characterized the most dangerous years who took them on. Red Heat is an authoritative and eye- HISTORY HISTORY of the Cold War. opening account of a wildly dramatic and dangerous era of AUGUST MARCH international politics that has unmistakable resonance today. Paperback GILES WHITTELL is Washington correspondent for The Times. Paperback 978-1-84983-327-1 978-1-84739-459-0 ALEX VON TUNZELMANN was educated at Oxford and 198x130 mm 198x130 mm 305 pp 480 pp lives in London. 1 x 8pp b/w 16pp b/w £7.99 £8.99 Agent: A.M. Heath Co. Agent: A.P. Watt Ltd. Rights: BC Rights: BXC Ebook: 978-0-85720-165-2 Julie Summers WHEN THE CHILDREN Douglas Starr CAME HOME THE KILLER OF Stories from Wartime Evacuees LITTLE SHEPHERDS A moving and revealing insight into the real The story of Joseph Vâcher, France’s most experiences of children evacuated during the Second notorious serial killer and his nemesis, World War and the families they left behind Dr. Alexandre Laccassagne, the founder of modern forensic science On 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper began, placing the children of Britain’s industrial cities beyond the reach of At the end of the nineteenth century Vacher, dubbed ‘The the Luftwaffe. Here Summers explores how they coped in the Killer of Little Shepherds’, terrorized the French countryside. immediate aftermath of the war, and in later life. For some it was a He eluded authorities for years-until he ran up against HISTORY HISTORY wonderful experience that enriched their whole lives, and for others Lacassagne, the era’s most renowned criminologist. MARCH it changed everything. MARCH Paperback Paperback Winner of the 2011 CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction 978-1-84739-876-5 978-1-84983-328-8 JULIE SUMMERS is a writer, researcher and historian. She lives 198x130 mm 198x130 mm DOUGLAS STARR is a professor of journalism and co- 384 pp with her husband and three sons in Oxford. 320 pp 8pp b/w 8 pages b/w plates director of the Science & Medical Journalism Program at £7.99 £7.99 Boston University. Agent: Felicity Bryan Agent: Random House Inc. Rights: BC Rights: BXC

88 Ebook: 978-1-84737-734-0 Ebook: 978-0-85720-168-3 89 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster James Barr Bill James A LINE IN THE SAND Britain, France and the Struggle PERFECT VICTIMS that Shaped the Middle East Slaughter, Sensation and Serial Killers. An American Criminal Odyssey The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East In 1916, Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot secretly agreed A sweeping history of crime and the way to divide the Middle East between them. The deal they struck drew a line in the sand from the Mediterranean to the Persian frontier. we report it from one of America’s most admired reporters Through a cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, A Line in the Sand tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain The Black Dahlia case. The Manson murders. HISTORY and France ruled the Middle East. The slaughter of JonBenet Ramsay. Bill James’s JUNE Using newly declassified papers, Barr brings this overlooked Paperback astonishing chronicle of the history of American 978-1-84739-457-6 clandestine struggle back to life. 198x130 mm crime contends that such stories are as important to 350 pp JAMES BARR has worked for the Daily Telegraph and has travelled our understanding our society, culture and history £8.99 widely in the Middle East. Agent: Felicity Bryan as anything we may consider to be a more ‘serious’ Rights: BXC subject. James looks at how crime reporting shapes our perceptions of violence and his explosive and compelling analysis makes this one of the most Gavin Roynon intelligent books about crime ever written.

A CHAPLAIN AT GALLIPOLI BILL JAMES is an award-winning journalist The Great War Diaries of Kenneth Best TRUE CRIME and is currently the Senior Advisor on Baseball JUNE Paperback Operations for the Boston Red Sox. A fascinating and powerful true-life war diary 978-0-85720-391-5 198x130 mm produced in collaboration with the Imperial 448 pp War Museum £7.99 Agent: The Free Press, Simon & Schuster, Inc. Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in WWI Rights: BXC – others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Ebook: 978-0-85720-392-2 Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working with the troops under fire. In his diary, HISTORY Best records his efforts to encourage frightened men before they JUNE go over the top, to comfort the wounded and, when the fighting Paperback 978-1-84983-367-7 stops, to bury the dead. His empathy for the troops is matched 198x130 mm by a forthright disgust for their leaders, few of whom share his 272 pp B/W integrated illustrations insight into the horrific realities of trench warfare. £8.99 Agent: Imperial War Museum GAVIN ROYNON served as a National Service Officer with the Rights: BXC 13th/18th Royal Hussars during the Cold War. 90 Ebook: 978-0-85720-226-0 91 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster ‘Should be read NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster by every diplomat, politician and Carne Ross Jonathan Fenby thinking citizen THE LEADERLESS TIGER HEAD, SNAKE TAIL with the courage REVOLUTION China’s Past, Present and Future to pick it up’ How Ordinary People Will Take Power JOHN LE CARRÉ and Change Politics in the 21st Century A complete and coherent picture of China A provocative and original book about by a world expert on the subject the world today: the problems it faces, how it works and how ordinary citizens With its expanding economy (already the third largest can retake control of its future in the world), its population of more than 1.3 billion, its place at the core of the G20, its nuclear weapons In The Leaderless Revolution, Carne Ross takes and modernising military forces, China will become different angles on contemporary issues – steadily more important in the world. It will not economics, politics, the state of democracy, the collapse. But neither will it rule the world for reasons environment and terrorism – and wraps them that lie in its inner complexity, and complexes. into a unified explanation of how money and power function to control the lives of the earth’s In this compelling account, Jonathan Fenby links inhabitants. together the features of today’s China. The binary approach so often applied to China – the country is The Leaderless Revolution shows that even in either good or bad, set to reach the stars or collapse democracies, much of the population feel that they in chaos – often boils down to the prejudices of CURRENT AFFAIRS CURRENT AFFAIRS have no agency over the issues that most trouble its authors. Only by seeing China as a whole does APRIL SEPTEMBER 2011 them, while governments appear less and less able Fenby arrive at a coherent picture of its nature and Hardback Hardback to fix the global problems that threaten our peace 978-1-84737-393-9 depict its future, both internally and in its impact 978-1-84737-534-6 234x153 mm 234x153 mm and comforts. 450 pp on the rest of the world. 272 pp £20.00 £16.99 Agent: Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson Agent: Curtis Brown Mining the rich but little-examined histories of Rights: World From 1995-2000, JONATHAN FENBY edited the Rights: BXC both cosmopolitanism and anarchism, The Leaderless Ebook: 978-0-85720-088-4 South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Ebook: 978-1-84983-574-9 Export TPB: 978-0-85720-956-6 / £12.99 Export TPB: 978-0-85720-901-6 / £12.99 Revolution shows how both ideas are relevant to the He is China director of the research service problems of today. Trusted Sources. CARNE ROSS resigned from the British foreign service after giving secret testimony to an official inquiry into the Iraq war. He then set up the world’s first independent diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat.

Generalissimo The Sinking of Alliance The General 92 978-0-74323-144-2 The Lancastria 978-0-74325-926-2 978-1-84737-392-2 93 978-0-74325-930-9 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Ron Rosenbaum Ian Marchant HOW THE END BEGINS SOMETHING The Road to a Nuclear World War III OF THE NIGHT A Journey into the Darkness of An alarming analysis of how close, and how often, the British Isles the world has come to nuclear annihilation, and why we are once again on the brink A funny and fascinating night-owl’s How the End Begins deconstructs the dangers we face as we guide to Britain outgrow the post-Cold War strategy for averting nuclear disaster. Rosenbaum investigates the Bush Administration, Russia’s early With the punters tucked up in bed, the shelves warning system, and other international incidents which have can be stacked, the Tube de-fluffed, and the CURRENT AFFAIRS pushed the world close to nuclear conflict. He asks the questions: motorways repaired. Night is our time of greatest What is deterrence? How many nuclear weapons can we live with? APRIL playfulness and freedom, of love and romance: we Paperback In other words: Can we undream the nightmare? 978-1-84983-385-1 go dancing; nightingales sing in Berkeley Square; 198x130 mm RON ROSENBAUM writes a column for the New York Observer 320 pp we fall in and out of love. Night is also the time £8.99 and lives in New York City. Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. of greatest danger, when crime is committed and Rights: BXC the creatures of our nightmares roam abroad. Ebook: 978-0-85720-277-2 Monks chant compline in freezing cloisters to keep us safe from the old powers of the dark. Adam Boulton Above all, night is the time of sleep and dreams.

& Joey Jones In Something of the Night, Ian Marchant travels CURRENT AFFAIRS around Britain to see what happens after dark. In HUNG TOGETHER JANUARY The 2010 Election and the Coalition Government Trade Paperback the night, anything could happen. 978-1-84737-634-3 234x153 mm The inside story of the 2010 Election, its aftermath 304 pp IAN MARCHANT is the author of In Southern £12.99 and the first months in power of the unprecedented Agent: Annette Green Waters, The Battle for Dole Acre, Parallel Lines, Conservative/ Lib Dem coalition government Rights: BC Men and Models and The Longest Crawl. Ebook: 978-0-85720-218-5 On the campaign trail as the only senior journalist permitted to follow David Cameron, Jones reveals a glimpse of the stresses the future PM found himself under – and the coalition negotiations; a CURRENT AFFAIRS hothouse of discussion and give and take.

MAY ADAM BOULTON is a broadcast journalist and wrote a critically Paperback 978-1-84983-381-3 acclaimed account of the Blair premiership. 198x130 mm JOEY JONES was Sky News’ lead correspondent covering the 352 pp £8.99 Conservative campaign. Agent: The Wylie Agency Rights: BXC 94 Ebook: 978-0-85720-253-6 95 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster

David Winner Tom Fort AL DENTE THE A303 Madness, Beauty and the Food of Rome Highway to the Sun

This witty and highly original The story of one of the country’s most interpretation of Rome’s history, culture, loved – and loathed – roads art and religion takes the form of a book The A303 is a one of the essential routes of English about food motoring, promising to whisk the traveller towards the green and honeyed lands of Somerset and the During his first two years in Rome, David Winner far west to a world of holidays and escape. found himself amazed and overwhelmed by its

physical, historical and cultural vastness. Then a Yet the A303 is more than a road. It is a story. chance encounter with an extraordinary pudding Four-and-a-half thousand years ago the bluestones provided him with the means to start digesting his of Stonehenge were conveyed west from the river surroundings. That evening he was struck by the Avon along a small section of its route. Roman significance of the Roman attitude to food: a unique roads crossed it and drovers’ paths lie beneath it. relationship between sustenance and existence. Its route cuts across some of the finest chalkland in southern England. The views are huge, the hills Winner takes us on a stroll through the city as wide and windswept. Ancient woods lay across the TRAVEL he muses on all things comestible and much else TRAVEL summits of the downs and prehistoric monuments MARCH besides. Here we learn about Rome as metropolis and MAY and sites are everywhere, the evidence of ancient Hardback necropolis, about tasty vineyard snails, the cinematic Hardback 978-1-84737-435-6 978-0-85720-328-1 habitation and worship left in abundance. 216x135 mm greats, and historical political satire. 216x135 mm 304 pp 304 pp £14.99 £14.99 Digging in dark corners, exploring long-forgotten Agent: Jane Judd Winner is a master of wit with a seemingly insatiable Agent: United Agents Rights: BEXC Rights: BC byways and pouring over ancient maps Tom Fort appetite for peculiar detail. His ability to explore the Ebook: 978-0-85720-881-1 Ebook: 978-0-85720-327-4 has created a book of travel, and of social and world around him provides an intriguing new portrait cultural history, as alive to the England of 3000 BC of a remarkable city – a veritable trifle of Roman as the England of 2011 AD. bedrock and apogee, cosmos and counterculture to be devoured with gusto. Buon appetito… TOM FORT worked in the BBC radio newsroom for 22 years and since retiring in 2000 he has DAVID WINNER is the author of Brilliant Orange: written six works of non-fiction. The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football and Those Feet: A Sensual History of English Football.

96 97 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Jeremy Poolman Barry Ryan & THE ROAD OF BONES Brian Gorman A Journey to the Dark Heart of Russia JOY DIVISION An epic and intimate story of life and death on GRAPHIC HISTORY Russia’s greatest road: the Vladimirka For over 200 years the Vladimirka Road has been at the centre The first in a groundbreaking series of of the nation’s history, having witnessed everything from the first human footsteps to the rise of Putin and his oil-rich oligarchy. graphic novel-style books that will take This is a book about life and about death and about the strength the reader through the heyday of the of will it takes to celebrate the former while living in the shadow Manchester music scene of the latter. TRAVEL Anecdotal and epic, The Road of Bones follows Poolman’s journey FEBRUARY The Joy Division story is the story of Paperback along this road, into the past and back again. Manchester and the first chapter in the city’s musical 978-1-84739-797-3 198x130 mm JEREMY POOLMAN was born and educated in England. journey. It starts with the touchpaper that was the 354 pp £8.99 Sex Pistols gig at the Free Trade Hall – the very Agent: Pollinger Limited next day ‘Barney’ Sumner bought a Gibson SG Rights: WEL guitar, an instruction book, and an amplifier, Peter Ebook: 978-0-85720-609-1 Hook (‘Hooky’) got himself an electric bass, and Terry Mason financed a drum kit. They formed a Brian Viner band, Warsaw, which later, and after several line-up CREAM TEAS, TRAFFIC JAMS, changes, became Joy Division. The rest has gone AND SUNBURN MUSIC down in musical history. The Great British Holiday JUNE Trade Paperback Brian Gorman’s striking black and white illustrations 978-0-85720-981-8 A painfully well-observed and hilariously funny 234x153 mm open a window onto the city’s landscape, and his text 160 pp look at the British holiday – from Blackpool to Fully illustrated recalls effortlessly the world of 1970s Manchester £12.99 Barcelona and from Mauritius to Margate Agent: DCD Media and the creative explosion it was about to spark. Rights: World The British on holiday: how can four simple words evoke so With a specifically written foreword by Peter Hook, many vivid images, images of raw sunburn and relentless rain, of endless queues to get through security at Manchester Airport, and Joy Division, The Graphic History will bring the endless tailbacks on the M5, but also images of carefree sploshing city and its music to life in a completely new and TRAVEL in Portuguese swimming-pools and lazy lunches in the Provencal exciting way. MAY sun? In this funny and engaging social history, Brian Viner Paperback 978-1-84739-877-2 celebrates the holidaying British. Writer and illustrator BRIAN GORMAN, is a 198x130 mm 320 pp BRIAN VINER was born in 1961 and grew up in Southport, Manchester actor, writer, playwright and graphic £7.99 artist, and BARRY RYAN, is a music journalist Agent: Curtis Brown Lancashire. Rights: BC and Royal Television Society Award-winning 98 Ebook: 978-1-84737-733-3 media producer. 99 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster

THE LARRY DIARIES Tom Bromley My First year as Downing Street’s WIRED FOR SOUND Chief Rat Catcher

A charmingly nostalgic and humorous Larry the cat is No.10 Downing Street’s memoir of growing up during the decade new rodent catcher in residence. This is in which music changed forever – the a satirical diary of his first 100 days at 1980s the heart of government

The ’80s was a golden era for British pop: Radio It was the brazen cheek of the huge rat running One served as the soundtrack of the nation; the across the front of No 10 on a live TV broadcast chart run-down on Sunday evenings was compulsory that galvanised the government into action. listening – ditto watching Top of the Pops and reading Meetings were held at the highest level and, on Hits. In the States, the arrival of MTV helped 15 February 2011, Larry the tabby cat arrived usher in what became known as the ‘Second British in Downing Street as the new rodent bouncer in Invasion.’ residence. A secret source quickly made contact and has been working closely with Larry ever since

MUSIC Wired For Sound tells the story of the great ’80s to get the full story.

JUNE British bands and how their music captured the Paperback nation’s imagination: the more radical beginnings in HUMOUR In a swift-moving narrative that pits Larry against 978-1-84983-393-6 198x130 mm the early eighties, the full pomp of their mid-eighties JUNE the evil King Rat and his legion of cheese- 384 pp success, and their fall from the top of pop’s pedestal. Paperback eaters, our hero still finds time to spill the beans £7.99 978-0-85720-770-8 Agent: United Agents 198x129 mm on what life with Sam and Dave is really like. Rights: BXC 204 pp This is a book for anyone who grew up reading £6.99 With the economy in crisis and the press under Ebook: 978-0-85720-323-6 Smash Hits, soundtracked their teenage years on Agent: Simon & Schuster, UK Rights: World scrutiny Larry is able to take a wry look at the C90 cassettes and remembers a time when it really machinations of coalition power that lurk behind Ebook: 978-0-85720-771-5 mattered who was number one. the big black door.

TOM BROMLEY is the author of All in the Best LARRY is approximately four years old. He lives Possible Taste and two music-related novels, Crazy in a desirable area of Central London. Little Thing Called Love and Half a World Away.

100 101 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Hugh Warwick Tom Cox BEAUTY IN THE BEAST TALK TO THE TAIL Britain’s Favourite Creatures Adventures in Cat Ownership and Beyond and the People Who Love Them A funny and heart-warming sequel to Under the Paw from ‘Mad Cat Man’, Tom Cox An enchanting portrait of some of ‘Warm, wryly witty, hilariously observed and more often than the UK’s best-loved wild animals and not, genuinely laugh-out-loud funny’ easy living birds and the colourful enthusiasts who Readers of Tom’s previous book will be delighted to read what has happened to his six eccentric cats, and Tom also writes champion their causes about his further forays into the animal kingdom. He attempts to PETS overcome his fear of horses, chases ostriches in Kenya, puts his

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Ebook: 978-0-85720-397-7 HUGH WARWICK is an environmental writer and This fresh and original book about man’s best friend introduces the reader to the world from a dog’s point of view. It answers photographer whose work has appeared across print questions no other dog book can, like: what is a dog’s sense of media from BBC Wildlife and New Scientist to the time? Does she miss me? Know when she’s been bad? Inside of Daily Telegraph. a Dog will allow dog owners to look at their pets’ behaviour in a different and revealing light, enabling them to better understand PETS and enjoy their dogs. Reading Inside of a Dog is as close as you can FEBRUARY get to knowing about dogs without being a dog yourself. Paperback 978-1-84983-567-1 ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ is has a PhD in Cognitive Science 198x130 mm 366 pp and has researched dogs professionally for over 10 years. £8.99 Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. Rights: BXC 102 Ebook: 978-1-84737-957-3 103 NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION Simon & Schuster Theresa Cheung Margaret Heffernan WILFUL BLINDNESS CELTIC ANGELS Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril True Stories of Irish Angel Blessings An engaging and anecdotal examination of how and why as individuals and as a society we choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truth Angelic healing from Ireland Drawing on a wide array of sources from psychological studies Ireland is a sacred land of ancient mysteries whose and social statistics, Heffernan ranges freely through history, people have a strong sense of spirituality. In this science and business to explain why wilful blindness is so dangerous in the globalised, interconnected world in which we unique book, best-selling angel author Theresa live, before suggesting ways in which institutions and individuals POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY Cheung takes readers on a journey through the can start to combat it. nation’s deep-rooted belief in angelic healing. Many FEBRUARY Paperback MARGARET HEFFERNAN has worked in BBC Radio and Irish people have grown up with stories of guardian 978-1-84739-905-2 198x130 mm as a television producer, before leaving to run the trade angels and protector saints like St Patrick, so their 400 pp association IPPA. insights and stories provide the perfect launching £7.99 Agent: A.P. Watt Ltd. point to help others connect with angels. Rights: BXC

Ebook: 978-1-84737-771-5 Punctuated throughout with real-life stories from both Irish people and visitors to the ‘Emerald Isle’ the book is not just for Irish readers but for all those Kevin Nelson with a Celtic soul. THE GOD IMPULSE MIND, BODY, SPIRIT Is Religion Hardwired Into the Brain? FEBRUARY THERESA CHEUNG is a bestselling author Paperback 978-1-84983-483-4 who has been involved in the research of psychic The first comprehensive, empirically tested 198x130 mm 272 pp phenomena for over twenty-five years. examination of our capacity for near-death £6.99 experiences and other mystical states of Agent: Clare Hulton Rights: World consciousness Ebook: 978-1-84983-484-1 Why do people have near-death experiences? Are there physical explanations for those out-of-body sensations and tunnels of light? And what about moments of spiritual ecstasy?

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Buffett insiders help readers understand The bestselling golf writer tackles the and emulate Warren Buffett’s success – his short game philosophy for managing career, money, It’s no secret that more than two-thirds of the business, life shots a golfer makes are short ones: putts, chips, and pitches. Long drives may garner applause, but The book is divided into several sections covering whether a golfer wants to win the Masters or just Warren Buffett’s personal business management: win a friendly round, it’s the little shots that make • Managing one’s life – focuses on a good education, the difference. picking one’s heroes early in life, and staying away from things that damage you personally. Here Dr Rotella teaches readers how to use their • Managing One’s Career – Buffett believes that minds to master the short game. In addition to you should work at something that you are preparing players mentally, Rotella also explains passionate about. the science of memory, and how knowledge of the • Managing Employees – place honesty on the same brain’s workings – in particular how it masters level as intelligence as a managerial attribute. SPORT physical task – can improve how you chip and putt. BUSINESS • Managing the Business – Companies that have a APRIL Hardback Wherever a reader falls on the golf spectrum from JANUARY durable competitive advantage over their 978-0-85720-082-2 Paperback casual to passionate, Go to the Cup! will help them competitors consistently earn more money year 190x140 mm 978-1-84983-323-3 208 pp improve their game. 198x130 mm after year and are the easiest to manage. £14.99 176 pp Agent: Simon & Schuster US, The Free Press £8.99 • Managing of Personal Money – discover the simple Rights: BXC Agent: Simon & Schuster US, Scribner DR BOB ROTELLA is a consultant to the PGA Rights: BXC rules that Buffett uses for buying other businesses Ebook: 978-1-84983-735-4 of America, the PGA Tour, and the LPGA Tour Ebook: 978-1-84737-954-2 and how he has incorporated them into his own and has worked with champions such as Padraig Hardback: 978-1-84737-692-3 / £14.99 personal investment style. Harrington, Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy. He is the author of several bestselling golf books MARY BUFFETT is an internationally bestselling including Golf is not a Game of Perfect. author and speaker on the investment methods of Warren Buffett. DAVID CLARK is an internationally recognized authority on the subject of Buffettology and the managing partner of a private investment group.

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Christopher Jimmy Burns Martin-Jenkins LA ROJA CMJ A Journey Through Spanish Football A Cricketing Life

An engaging memoir from the much- In a book timed to coincide with the respected and well-loved commentator 2012 European cup, Jimmy Burns digs of Test Match Special, Christopher deep into the roots of the world’s most Martin-Jenkins popular sport to look at how Spanish football has become the most admired in Christopher Martin-Jenkins, or CMJ to his many fans the world as well as listeners of Test Match Special, is perhaps the voice of cricket; an unparalleled authority whose From its early beginnings when the first football insight and passion for cricket as well as his style of played by British sailors and engineers on the commentary have captured what it is that makes the shores of Bilbao and Buenos Aires, through to sport so special. the influx of South American stars, and similarly Recounted with all the warmth and vigour that has inspirational Italians, Dutchman and Scandinavians, the author shows how the engagement of foreigners SPORT endeared CMJ to generations of cricket fans, this with home-grown Spanish talent overcame political APRIL memoir relives the moments that defined modern SPORT Hardback adversity and produced football of sublime skill, cricket and which shaped his life in turn. It is a MAY 978-0-85720-082-2 Hardback 234x153 mm passion and unparalleled entertainment value. must-have book for all devotees of the sport. 978-0-85720-652-7 384 pp 234x153 mm 16pp colour plates 352 pp £20 The book takes us on a journey through some of After a brief and unspectacular spell as a county £18.99 Agent: PFD Agent: PFD the extraordinary characters, games and moments Rights: BXC cricketer CMJ began his journalistic career as cricket Rights: BXC that have defined Spanish football from the early Ebook: 978-0-85720-083-9 correspondent for the BBC, joining Test Match Ebook: 978-0-85720-655-8 days when a few enthusiasts were kicking a ball Special in the early 1970s, where he succeeded Brian Export TPB: 978-0-85720-653 Johnston. He left the BBC in 1980 to become editor around on a piece of industrial wasteground of the Cricketer, but returned in 1985 as both a TV or beach, to the emergence of rival giants FC and radio commentator, combining both roles until he Barcelona and Real Madrid – the most powerful joined the Daily Telegraph. He later became cricket and successful football clubs in the world – and a correspondent for The Times, where he remained until national team of World Champions. 2008. He continues to commentate for TMS. JIMMY BURNS is the author of The Hand of God, a biography of Diego Maradona, and Barca. He also writes for the . 112 113 SPORT Highlights SPORT Highlights

MUFC MUFC MU SEASON DIARY SIR ALEX FERGUSON The Official Manchester United 2011-12 Celebration of 25 Years at Old Trafford

The full inside story of Manchester When Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United’s 2011-2012 season, including United in November 1986, he came with contributions from all of the players a great track record from his time in charge of Aberdeen. But re-establishing the Reds as the most successful club in the land was an enormous task. Famously, he knew he had to knock Liverpool off their perch

At the dawn of the Premier League era, in 1992-93, United had gone twenty-six years without being champions, but that season Ferguson finally led the club to title success and in 2010-11 he finally achieved the record-breaking nineteenth title.

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