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NEW BOOKS 2020–21 & COMPLETE BACKLIST ‘Myriad publishes books that are both nourishing and inspiring, and a gift to any reader. What a huge achievement to publish FICTION challenging, impressive literature in a climate like this.’ KERRY HUDSON CONTENTS FICTION ................................3 ANTHOLOGIES & ESSAYS .................17 MEMOIR & NONFICTION .................21 GRAPHIC NOVELS . 31 COMPLETE BACKLIST ....................45 www.myriadeditions.com 3 NEW FICTION NEW FICTION Tyler Keevil Lisa Blower Your Still Beating Pondweed Heart A love story in the slow lane about loss and All it takes to change a life is a single getting lost—two childhood sweethearts moment. A random stabbing in London take a trip via pints, ponds and pitstops to leaves a young woman widowed, and find their future on a road less travelled from cut off from her previous life. Stoke-on-Trent to Wales. As a way of coping, she books a spontaneous trip to Prague, the city where she and her husband became ‘Funny, moving, philosophical One Monday afternoon, around three o’clock, pond ‘Equally compelling and engaged. A chance meeting leads to an intriguing and wise. A road trip through supplies salesman Selwyn Robby arrives home towing unsettling, this razor-sharp proposition. There’s a small job for someone like life, loss, and the murky depths the Toogood Aquatics exhibition caravan and orders thriller reminds us that for life to her: someone without a criminal record or personal of the human heart. Utterly his like-wife, Imogen ‘Ginny’ Dare, to get into the car. be truly lived, we must know connections; someone willling to take a minor risk. All charming and utterly hilarious.’ He’s taking her on a little holiday, he says. To Wales. death. In his customary electric she needs to do is pick something up, and drive back. Emma Jane Unsworth prose, Keevil cranks up the Just once. Only ever once. So begins their road trip west, via blasts from Selwyn’s tension. You won’t be able to Her mission takes her to a place where life is cheap past, and a fortnight’s journey of self-discovery for look away.’ and sordid deals are done. Risking her own life to save them both. But it’s a fishy business towing this caravan, Katherine Stansfield another, she must now outrun those who would betray with its saucy mermaid curtains and fully stocked bar, them. and Ginny must untangle the pondweed to get to the bottom of it, even it does mean unearthing her own Taut and chilling with an ingenious twist, this intense murky past to find out. thriller is as revealing in its psychological acuity as it is in its portrait of organised crime. ISBN: 978-1-912408-62-7 ISBN: 978-1-912408-86-3 Lisa Blower is winner of the Guardian National Short eISBN: 978-1-912408-63-4 eISBN: 978-1-912408-73-3 Story competition. Her debut novel Sitting Ducks was September 2020 Tyler Keevil grew up in Vancouver and moved to July 2020 shortlisted for the Arnold Bennett Prize, and her short £12.99 Wales in his twenties. He has written three other novels, £12.99 story collection It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s was 135mm x 216mm including The Drive (p.52). His awards include the 135mm x 216mm widely praised (p.10). A contributor to Common People, 288 pages Wales Book of the Year People’s Prize and the Writers’ 288 pages edited by Kit de Waal, she has a PhD from Bangor Hardback Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Hardback University and is senior lecturer in English and Creative Rights held: World English language He is Director of the MA in Creative Writing at Cardiff Rights held: World English language Writing at Wolverhampton University. Other rights: Johnson & Alcock University. 4 5 NEW FICTION NEW FICTION Tammye Huf A More Perfect Elizabeth Haynes Union You, Me & the Sea This epic love story between an Irish A remote and windswept Scottish island is immigrant and a black slave is set in the the setting for Elizabeth Haynes’ breakaway pre-Civil War Southern state of Virginia in new novel of love and redemption. 1849, and based on the experience of the The Isle of Must lies two hours off the east coast of author’s great-great grand-parents. Scotland. Home to thousands of birds, a lighthouse, When Henry O’Toole escapes the Irish famine and sails a bird observatory, a dog called Bess, a recalcitrant to America, he doesn’t expect the anti-Irish prejudices nature reserve manager called Fraser, and his that await him. Determined never to starve again, assistant, Lefty, who isn’t supposed to be there at all. he changes his name, travels south to Virginia, and And now it’s home for Rachel, fresh from Norwich, with secures a job as a blacksmith on a plantation. There waterproofs and a desperate need to escape from her he meets Sarah, a slave woman recently torn from her messy past—a humiliating affair with her boss and also family and learning to navigate the power system of from the raw emotion that has followed her one selfless her masters as well as the hierarchy of her fellow slaves. act: that of being a surrogate for her older sister, Lucy. Even though Henry’s white skin represents the Against all odds the three misfits carve out something oppression Sarah suffers under, their attraction is resembling a shared purpose and things start to undeniable. But inter-racial marriage is not only illegal look up—until a violent storm puts them all in mortal but considered to be an ungodly abomination. Sarah danger. is owned by another man and her forbidden love for Henry now faces betrayal and jeopardy at every turn. With a nod to The Tempest and a forensic look at the workings of the human heart, this is a richly atmospheric novel from one of our finest storytellers. ISBN: 978-1-912408-89-4 ISBN: 978-1-912408-75-7 eISBN: 978-1-912408-90-0 Tammye Huf is a former teacher, and now works as a eISBN: 978-1-912408-76-4 October 2020 translator and copywriter. Her short stories have been February 2021 Elizabeth Haynes is a former police intelligence £12.99 published in various magazines, including Diverse £8.99 | $14.95 analyst whose debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, 135mm x 216mm Voices Quarterly and The Penmen Review. She was 129mm x 198mm was Amazon’s Best Book of the Year, a New York Times 288 pages runner-up in the 2018 London Magazine Short Story Prize. 256 Pages bestseller and published in 37 countries. Her most recent Hardback Originally from the USA, she moved first to Germany and Paperback novel The Murder of Harriet Monckton was selected as Rights held: World then to the UK with her husband and three children. Rights held: Worldi one of The Times 100 Best Books. 6 7 International BESTSELLING CRIME bestseller published in 37 countries •Amazon Book of the Year • Winner Amazon • The Times 100 Best Books for Summer Rising Stars • TV Book Club selection • Waterstones 2019 Essentials ‘One of my favourite reads this year. Check the locks on your doors and windows and surrender to this obsessive thriller.’ Karin Slaughter Elizabeth Haynes ‘A tour de force debut novel that is both creepily The Murder of disturbing and yet beautifully rendered.’ New York Journal of Books Harriet Monckton ISBN: 978-0-956251-57-2 Price: £8.99 † ‘The pages fly. Haynes is From the bestselling author of Into the ‘Haynes is one of an expert at ratcheting up Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian those “just one more tension, so when someone ‘A thoroughly absorbing crime novel based on a real murder. chapter” all-night- poisons one of Sarah’s whodunnit, with an ‘Haynes’ stories grip you reading writers. Her dogs, you know something unexpected conclusion. On 7 November 1843, the body of 23-year-old Harriet by the throat and force acute understanding bad is about to happen to Haynes’ novel is also a Monckton is found behind a chapel in Bromley, Kent. you to acknowledge of human nature under Sarah herself. Until the very touching portrait of a young The community is appalled by her death, apparently as that this is what real stress is delicious, her end, though, you aren’t woman unjustly stigmatised by a result of swallowing acid, and even more so when the crime and real horror plotting ingenious and sure who exactly it is that the prejudices of her day.’ surgeon reports that Harriet was six months pregnant. look and feel like.’ trustworthy.’ wishes her ill.’ New York Sunday Times Drawing on the coroner’s reports and witness Sophie Hannah Alex Marwood Times Book Review testimonies, Elizabeth Haynes builds a compelling picture of Harriet’s final hours through the eyes of the last people to see her alive. Her friend and fellow teacher, her would-be fiancé, her seducer, and her former lover—all are suspects, and each has a reason to want her dead. Brimming with lust, mistrust and guilt, The Murder of Harriet Monckton is a masterclass of suspense from one of our greatest crime writers. NEW IN PAPERBACK July 2019 ISBN: 978-1-912408-23-8 Elizabeth Haynes is a former police intelligence eISBN: 978-1-912408-05-4 analyst whose debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, £8.99 | $16.95 was Amazon’s Best Book of the Year, a New York 129mm x 198mm Times bestseller and published in 37 countries. Myriad 528 pages publishes Haynes’ other psychological thrillers (see Rights held: World opposite).