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2017-18 CATALOGUE myriad fICtION CONTENTS Nicholas Royle fICtION . 1 An English Guide GRAPHIC . 10 NON fICtION . 21 to Birdwatching tRADE AND RIGHtS INfO . 24 Nicholas Royle’s magnificent new novel combines a page-turning story about literary theft, adultery and ambition with a poetic and moving investigation into our relationship with birds and with the environment. Myriad publishes award-winning literary fiction, graphic novels and political non-fiction. We currently have books shortlisted for Silas and Ethel Woodlock retire from the business of undertaking to spend their twilight years by the sea but the CWA Ian fleming Steel Dagger and Polari first Book awards. things are not as easy as they’d hoped, and it’s all to , p1 (Rawshock design) (Rawshock p1 , Recently our books have won the Authors’ Club Best first Novel do with herring gulls. Journalist Stephen Osmer is writing Award (twice) and have been shortlisted for other prestigious a dangerously provocative essay about social justice awards, including British Book Design and Production Award, ‘Rachel Cusk rewritten by and the banking crisis, as well as a diatribe about two Wales Book of the Year Award, Prix des Lecteurs and the Premio Georges Bataille, full of people called Nicholas Royle, one a novelist, the other Letterario. Becoming Unbecoming was named by the New York strange sex, sudden violence a literary critic. Lily Lynch is pursuing more than her art and surreal twists. This is a Times as the Season’s Best Graphic Novel. project. novel that will charm and unsettle.’ Compelling, audacious, and dazzling in its linguistic this year we merged with New Internationalist as part of a joint Alex Preston, Financial Times playfulness and formal invention, An English Guide to plan to expand, reach wider audiences and publish books that Birdwatching explores the fertile hinterland between push boundaries and embrace diversity. Independent publishers fact and fiction, and pushes the boundaries of what a are increasingly important to ensure that vital literary, cultural The English Guide toBirdwatching novel might be. It is illustrated throughout with fine line and political work can exist despite commercial pressures. there drawing by Natalia Gasson. ISBN: 978-1-908434-94-4 has never been a more exciting time for our lists. eISBN: 978-1-908434-95-1 May 2017 Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of myriadeditions.com £9.99 Sussex. He is the author of the highly praised novel Quilt 129mm x 198mm as well as numerous books about literature and literary 352 pages criticism, including The Uncanny, Veering: A Theory of Paperback Literature and An Introduction to Literature, Criticism On the cover: Seagull from Rights held: World and Theory. 1 fICtION fICtION S.V. Berlin tony Peake The Favourite North Facing Welcome to the dark heart of the family – the A novel of awakening and atonement, this secrets we keep, the memories we treasure exquisitely realized story revisits a seminal and the relationships we feel bound to, but boyhood moment as it plays out – with long to escape. unexpected and sinister consequences – against the backdrop of political upheaval in Edward and Isobel haven’t spoken for years and live on South Africa. opposite sides of the Atlantic. When their mother, Mary, dies unexpectedly, they are thrown together to sort for one long, intense week in October 1962, the Cuban through the family home. With Julie, Edward’s diffident Missile Crisis brought with it an East-West stand-off and but devoted girlfriend, making an awkward third, the possibility of nuclear holocaust. On the other side of ‘Beautifully written, each stumbles through the practicalities and funeral ‘This beautiful, moving the globe, in Pretoria, a group of schoolboys scan the sometimes sad, often funny; preparations, trying to make sense of their emotions and novel is vast in how much horizon for signs that the world is about to end. their feelings towards one another. I don’t think I’ve ever read it recounts and how there is political tension in the classroom too, and the a more assured or deeply it makes us feel.’ power struggles and cruelties of the boys mirror the this utterly immersive novel is rich with insightful and compelling debut.’ Edmund White corruption of a deeply divided country. One of those wickedly comic observations of family members Elly Griffiths boys, Paul Harvey, now in his sixties and living abroad, behaving badly in stressful situations – of sibling rivalries, is drawn back to South Africa to confront the chilling a parent torn between the two, and a grieving process consequences of the part he unwittingly played in the that takes time to unfold. drama that unfolded. ISBN: 978-0-9935633-8-6 ISBN: 978-0-9955900-2-1 Tony Peake was born in South Africa but has lived eISBN: 978-0-9935633-9-3 eISBN: 978-0-9955900-3-8 in London most of his life. His work has appeared August 2017 October 2017 in many anthologies including The Penguin Book £8.99 S.V. Berlin was born and raised in London and £8.99 of Contemporary South African Short Stories, The 129mm x 198mm Brighton. She has worked as a copywriter, facilitator, 129mm x 198mm Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories and Best British 508 pages speechwriter and wilderness search-and-rescue 176 pages Short Stories 2016. He is the author of two novels, A Paperback professional. She divides her time between Manhattan, Paperback Summer Tide and Son to the Father, ‘and of Derek…’ Rights held: World NY and Saltdean, Sussex. Rights held: World Jarman: A Biography. 2 3 fICtION fICtION Peter Adamson The Kennedy Ruth figgest Moment Magnetism A compelling political thriller about Brutally honest, horribly funny and five ordinary people who hatch an unexpectedly uplifting, this stunning ‘unthinkable’ plot that must remain debut episodically unpacks 50 years secret for 30 years. of a mother-daughter relationship. When the mild-mannered American physician Dr Set in the American mid- and south-west, Magnetism Michael Lowell opens an invitation to his college opens in 1976 when the teenage Erica is recovering from ‘It reads like an Elmore reunion he knows he’ll see Seema Mir – the serene her suicide attempt. fast forward to the present and Leonard novel, only with young woman from Karachi who rejected him twenty Erica, now in her fifties, takes a phone call at work telling more emotion and more years earlier because he was ‘just a little bit too dull’. depth. I was spellbound, her that her mother has died. in genuine suspense, the He doesn’t expect to be caught up in a global Against a backdrop of significant social changes – the writing is so damned good.’ conspiracy. Vietnam war protests, Oklahoma bombing, Hurricane Adam Fifield Katrina, 9/11 – the novel captures the exacting Moving between Oxford, New York, Washington, rhythm of their relationship as well as the stigma of Geneva, Abidjan and Côte d’Ivoire, this gripping thriller mental health problems, sexual politics, infertility, is about having the courage of your convictions – in homosexuality and single parenthood. love as well as in life. the plotting is ingenious, and richly informed by an impressive career that has put the Ripe with humour, and tender as well as ruthless, New Internationalist author at the heart of international affairs. Magnetism heralds the arrival of an exciting new ISBN HBK: 978-0-9955900-4-5 literary voice. ISBN tPBK: 978-0-9955900-5-2 ISBN: 978-0-9955900-6-9 eISBN: 978-1-912408-08-5 Peter Adamson is the author of two previous novels, eISBN: 978-0-9955900-7-6 february 2018 Facing out to Sea and The Tuscan Master. His short story March 2018 £14.99 / £12.99 ‘Sahel’ was awarded the Royal Society of Literature £8.99 Ruth Figgest grew up in the US and has an MA in 234mm x 153mm V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize in 2013. for sixteen years 129mm x 198mm Creative Writing from the University of Sussex. Her fiction 384 pages Adamson was Senior Adviser to the Executive Director 356 pages has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize six times and Hardback / Paperback of UNICEf in New York. In the 1970s he founded New Paperback one of her stories, ‘the Coffin Gate’, was commissioned Rights held: World Internationalist magazine. Rights held: World for broadcast on BBC Radio 4. 4 5 fICtION fICtION Manu Joseph Elizabeth Haynes Miss Laila, Armed The Murder of and Dangerous Harriet Monckton Profound, wry and fiercely original, this from the award-winning and bestselling gripping chase novel poses searching author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a questions about the workings of power and delicious Victorian crime novel based on its effects on ordinary people. a real murder and marking the author’s On the day that Hindu nationalists and their breakthrough into literary historical fiction. controversial leader have won a spectacular election On 7 November 1843, the body of 23-year-old Harriet victory, a large apartment building collapses in Monckton is found behind a chapel in Bromley, Kent. Mumbai. the rescue operation finds a single survivor the community is appalled by her death, apparently as trapped under a beam and the only person able to a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and reach him is Akhila Iyer, a medical student who is also a even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet notorious social media prankster. Crawling through the was six months pregnant. rubble to administer painkillers, she finds him mumbling Brimming with lust, suspicion, mistrust and guilt, and in delirium about two people on their way to carry ‘The finest comic novelists ‘Haynes is the most exciting drawing on the original coroner’s reports and witness out a terror attack.