The Orion Publishing Group ORIONBOOKS.CO.UK New Titles: July 2019 – January 2020 Weidenfeldc & Nicolson | Trapeze | Gollancz | Orion Spring | Orion Fiction |C Seven Dials Orion_NewTitles_5.4.19.indb 1 08/04/2019 08:15 Artwork from Inland by Téa Obreht, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (p9) Orion_NewTitles_5.4.19.indb 2 08/04/2019 08:15 Contents I Weidenfeld & Nicolson | P5 Fiction and Non-Fiction Trapeze | P23 Fiction and Non-Fiction Gollancz | P41 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Orion Fiction | P57 Fiction Orion Spring | P77 Non-Fiction Seven Dials | P83 Non-Fiction Contacts | P88 WWW.ORIONBOOKS.CO.UK Orion_NewTitles_5.4.19.indb 3 08/04/2019 08:15 Artwork from Dolores by Lauren Aimee Curtis, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (p.7) 4 Orion_NewTitles_5.4.19.indb 4 08/04/2019 08:15 Fiction & Non-Fiction f WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON is one of the most prestigious and dynamic literary imprints in British and international publishing, home to ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949. In non-fiction, W&N publishes across W&N also publishes first-rate literary a number of categories including fiction that appeals to a broad history, memoir, ideas-driven books, readership. Our fiction authors popular science, biography, sport, include Gillian Flynn, Carlos business and narrative non-fiction. Ruiz Zafón, Laura Barnett, Téa Our authors include Antonia Fraser, Obreht, Joe Ide, Jostein Gaarder, Keith Richards, Henry Marsh, Alice Walker, Michel Bussi, Emily Simon Sebag Montefiore, Antony Fridlund, Paul Torday, Julian Beevor, Bettany Hughes, Jennifer Fellowes and Nathan Englander. Worth, Adam Rutherford, Tina Brown, Eric Idle, Philippe Sands, A. A. Gill, John McEnroe and Nicholas Crane. 5 Orion_NewTitles_5.4.19.indb 5 08/04/2019 08:15 The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope. Down in the basement of a bombed building in Daraya there is a secret library. No signs mark its presence, because in a war zone, books are dangerous. More than 14,000 books are neatly stacked, arranged according to author and subject. They are checked in and out meticulously. Those within read quietly, drinking tea on comfortable sofas and chairs. For them, the library is a symbol of hope, a symbol of the JULY determination of ordinary people to have a meaningful existence and to rebuild their fractured society. MIKE THOMSON is a multi-award-winning World Affairs correspondent for the BBC. He is the only journalist to have Syria’s Secret Library attained four Amnesty Awards in his career. Mike Thomson Current Affairs HB / ETPB: £18.99 / £14.99 320pp 8pp colour illustrations V 978 1 4746 0590 8 978 1 47468 0591 58 London, UK eBook: £18.99 978 8 1 4746 0593 9 @ThomsonRadio Audio: £19.99 8 978 1 4091 7146 1 8 The No.1 international bestseller from France’s most popular author. A novel of dark secrets and teenage obsessions. French Riviera, winter 1992. On a freezing night, nineteen-year-old Vinca Rockwell runs away with Alexis, her philosophy teacher. No one will ever see them again. French Riviera, spring 2017. Thomas, Maxime and Fanny – Vinca’s best friends – have not JULY spoken in twenty-five years. But when they receive an invitation to their old school reunion detailing plans for a new gymnasium, they know they must go back one final time. Because there is a body buried in that building… …and they’re the ones who put it there. GUILLAUME MUSSO is the No.1 bestselling author in France. His novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold over 33 million copies worldwide. He was born in Antibes The Reunion in the south of France, and currently lives in Paris. Guillaume Musso Translated Fiction / Crime HB / ETPB: £14.99 256pp 978 1 4746 1120 6 978 1 4746 1121 3 V eBook: £14.99 978 8 1 4746 11238 7 8 Paris, France Audio: £19.99 8 978 1 4091 8594 9 8 6 Orion_NewTitles_5.4.19.indb 6 08/04/2019 08:15 ‘A glowing, beating heart of a book’ Megan Hunter ‘Short, lyrical, intense, and with adventurous ambition’ Nell Zink On a hot day in June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When the nuns take her in, they name her Dolores. Dolores adjusts to the rhythm of her new life – to the nuns with wild hairs curling from their chins, the bells that ring throughout the day. JULY But in the dark, private theatre of her mind are memories – of love motels lit by neon red hearts and a boy called Angelo. And inside her, a baby is growing. LAUREN AIMEE CURTIS was born in Sydney in 1988. She is Dolores currently completing a PhD on the work of Renata Adler and Lauren Aimee Curtis Elizabeth Hardwick. Dolores is her first book. V Literary Fiction Lisbon, Portugal MMP (with flaps): £9.99 144pp 978 1 4746 1193 0 Sydney, Australia eBook: £9.99 978 1 4746 8 1194 78 laurenaimeecurtis.com Audio: £19.99 8 978 1 4091 8952 7 8 A novel of desire and ambition illuminating one of the great love stories of the twentieth century – Tennessee Williams and his longtime partner Frank Merlo. In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives. Like The Master and The Hours, Leading Men seamlessly JULY weaves fact and fiction to navigate the tensions between public figures and their private lives, in a heartbreaking story about the complex negotiations of life in the shadows of greatness. The son of Italian immigrants, CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI now lives in Boston, where he works as artistic director of Grub Street, one of the country’s leading independent creative writing Leading Men centres. Christopher Castellani Literary Fiction MMP: £8.99 368pp 978 1 4746 1354 5 V eBook: 8.99 8 978 1 4746 8 1355 2 Boston, USA Audio: £19.99 8 978 1 4746 1356 9 8 7 Orion_NewTitles_5.4.19.indb 7 08/04/2019 08:15 The story of a nineteenth-century scoundrel and his murder at the hands of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, a founding father of cinema. Major Harry Larkyns is known to history as a swindler and seducer in 1870s California, more famous for his cold-blooded murder at the hands of Eadweard Muybridge, one of the inventors of moving pictures, than his life. Muybridge walked free. How was this possible? Although he has largely been dismissed as an imposter and a AUGUST rogue until now, Rebecca Gowers discovers that Larkyn’s tall tales were (mostly) true, and that he was hiding more… REBECCA GOWERS’ debut novel When to Walk and second novel The Twisted Heart were both longlisted for the Orange Scoundrel Prize for Fiction. This is her first work of non-fiction. The Astonishing True Story of Harry Larkyns Rebecca Gowers History V HB: £20 320pp 978 1 4746 0642 4 Cambridge, UK eBook: £20 8 978 81 4746 0644 8 8 A deeply imaginative, street-by-street and meticulously researched biography of one of London’s most vibrant and seductive districts. Soho – illicit, glamorous, sordid, louche, poverty-stricken, squalid, exhilarating. The history of Soho is written in its surviving architecture. Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied history as he guides us around the Soho of the last 500 years. We learn of its original aspirations towards respectability, how it became London’s bohemian quarter and why it was once AUGUST home to its criminal underworld. The bars, clubs, theatres and their frequenters are described with detail that evokes the heart of the district. DAN CRUICKSHANK is a TV presenter and bestselling author. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Soho Architects. Dan Cruikshank History HB: £20 320pp 16pp colour illustrations 978 0 297 86932 0 V eBook: £20 8 978 80 297 86933 7 8 London, UK Audio: £19.99 8 978 1 4091 8472 0 8 8 Orion_NewTitles_5.4.19.indb 8 08/04/2019 08:15 The literary event of 2019: the new novel by the Orange Prize-winning author of The Tiger’s Wife. After an eight year wait, Inland is the new novel by one of the most ‘brilliant’ (Sunday Times), ‘prodigious’ (Guardian) and ‘extraordinary’ (Vogue) writers of her generation. This is a book grounded in true but little-known history, focusing on two extraordinary characters: Nora, an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of her husband; and Lurie, a former outlaw haunted by ghosts. AUGUST Inland showcases all of Téa Obreht’s talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely – and unforgettably – her own. TÉA OBREHT is the author of the international bestseller The Tiger’s Wife, winner of the Orange Prize. Born in Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, she currently lives in New York. Inland Téa Obreht Literary Fiction HB / ETPB: £14.99 / £13.99 368pp 978 0 297 86706 7 978 0 2978 86707 4 V eBook: £14.99 978 8 0 297 86708 1 New York, USA Audio: £19.99 8 978 1 4091 6106 6 8 Everyone knows who killed the Clutters. But who murdered the Walker family? In 1959, the Walker family murders shook Florida. 587 people were considered suspects – but sixty years later the investigation remains unsolved. Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn is trying to enjoy life after work. But when the Walker case comes up, she’s only too happy to postpone retirement.