Contents 3 Little, Brown 16 Abacus 21 Virago 34 Blackfriars 35 Sphere 74 Piatkus 102 Orbit 124 Atom 130 Little Brown Books for Young Readers

Little, Brown Book Group, 100 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DY T +44 (0)20 7911 8071 F +44 (0)20 7911 8100 www.littlebrown.co.uk 2 3 The Spring of Kasper Meier About the author

Ben Fergusson is a writer, editor Ben Fergusson and translator. Born in Southampton in 1980, he studied The launch of a brilliant new British talent, perfect for fans of English Literature at Warwick Restless by William Boyd and Dominion by C.J. Sansom. University and Modern Languages at Bristol University, and has The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a worked for ten years as an editor shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The local and publisher in the art world. population is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier is one of these Germans, and his solution is to trade on the black market to feed His short fiction has appeared in himself and his elderly father. He can find anything that people publications in both the UK and the need, for the right price. Even other people. US and has won and been shortlisted for a range of prizes, When a young woman, Eva, arrives at Kasper's door seeking the including the 2010 Bridport Prize. whereabouts of a British pilot, he feels a reluctant sympathy for From 2009-2010 he edited the her but won't interfere in military affairs. But Eva is prepared for literary journal Chroma and since this. Kasper has secrets, she knows them, and she'll use them to 2013 has been the editor of the get what she wants. As the threats against him mount, Kasper is short story magazine Oval Short drawn into a world of intrigue he could never have anticipated. Fiction. Why is Eva so insistent that he find the pilot? Who is the shadowy Frau Beckmann and what is her hold over Eva? Currently based in London, his first • The biggest fiction debut launch for novel, The Spring of Kasper Meier, Under constant surveillance, Kasper navigates the dangerous L,B/Abacus in 2014, from an extremely was written during a four-year streets and secrets of a city still reeling from the horrors of war talented and exciting new writer. period living and working in Berlin. and defeat. As a net of deceit, lies and betrayal falls around him, • Vividly evocative of post-WW2 Berlin, this is Kasper begins to understand that the seemingly random killings of a perfect read for fans of William Boyd's http://www.benfergusson.com/ members of the occupying forces are connected to his own Restless and Dominion by CJ Sansom - @BenFergusson situation. He must work out who is behind Eva's demands, and tightly plotted, emotionally gripping and a brilliant sense of place and period. why - while at the same time trying to save himself, his father and • A brilliant read for book clubs, combining a July Eva. compelling narrative drive with the retelling 9781408705049 of history from a 'forgotten' or lost Fiction perspective - a 52 year-old gay man living in Hardback post-WW2 Berlin, whose sexuality doesn't £14.99 define his experience, but informs his life 400pp and what happens to him 4 The Great Race The Race Between the English and the French to About the author Complete the Map of Australia During his remarkable career, David Hill has been chairman then David Hill managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, chairman The thrilling race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and of the Australian Football

Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. Association, chief executive and director of the State Rail Authority On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, NSW, chairman of Sydney Water two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Corporation and chairman of Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent CREATE, a national organisation by their governments on the same quest: to explore the responsible for representing the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the interests of young people and west and east coasts, four thousand kilometres apart, were part of children in institutional care. He is ©David Hill the same island. © David Hill David Hill the author of the bestsellers The Forgotten Children and 1788. He And so began the race to compile the definitive map of Australia. lives in Sydney. These men's journeys were the culmination of two hundred years of exploration of the region by the Dutch - most famously Abel Tasman - the Portuguese, the Spanish and by Englishmen such as the colourful pirate William Dampier and, of course, James Cook.

The three-year voyages of Baudin and Flinders would see them endure terrible hardships in the spirit of discovery. They suffered scurvy and heat exhaustion, and Flinders was shipwrecked and imprisoned - always knowing he was competing with the French to produce the first map of this mysterious continent.

Written from diaries and other first-hand accounts, this is the July thrilling story of men whose drawings recorded countless 9781408705735 previously unknown species and turned mythical creatures into Australasian History real ones, and whose skill and determination enabled Terra Trade Paperback Australis Incognita to become Australia. £14.99 400pp 5 California

About the author Edan Lepucki Edan Lepucki is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and is a For fans of The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker staff writer for the influential blog and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, California is a gripping The Millions. Her work has already story of love at the end of the world. appeared in publications including McSweeny's, LA Times Magazine The sunshine state lies in darkness. and Best American Short Stories 2012. Los Angeles is in ruins, left to the angels now. http://italicsmine.tumblr.com/ And the world Cal and Frida have always known is gone. @EdanL

Cal and Frida have left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by- side to make their days tolerable despite the isolation and hardships they face. Consumed by fear of the future and mourning for a past they can't reclaim, they seek comfort and solace in one other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's • PLAYS ON CONTEMPORARY FEARS: the pregnant. novel plays skilfully on contemporary anxieties and fears over the rise of global Terrified of the unknown but unsure of their ability to raise a child super-viruses, climate change and the depletion of natural resources - California alone, Cal and Frida set out for the nearest settlement, a guarded has a strongly zeitgeist feel to it and and paranoid community with dark secrets. These people can provides many talking points for book offer them security, but Cal and Frida soon realise this community groups poses its own dangers. In this unfamiliar world, where everything • AN AWARD-WINNING WRITER: in 2009, and everyone can be perceived as a threat, the couple must Lepucki won the James D. Phelan Award quickly decide whom to trust. and her story, 'Take Care of that Rage August Problem' is listed as a distinguished story in 9781408704714 A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, Best American Short Stories 2012 • A BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN, PLOT-DRIVEN General & Literary Fiction California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which Hardback clashes between mankind's dark nature and irrepressible NOVEL from an exciting new American voice, Edan Lepucki will get a lot of £14.99 resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the attention on US publication 400pp ones we love. 6 Attrition Fighting the First World War About the author William Philpott Dr William Philpott has lectured in military history in the Department of War Studies, King's College The magnum opus of the First World War, from the outstanding London, since 2001. He is a historian at the King's College Department of War Studies. specialist in the history of the First World War, in particular British The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. strategy and the history of the In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders French army. and commanders, and the anguished fiction of its combatants, any sense of order and purpose, effort and achievement, was missing.

Drawing on the experience of front line soldiers, munitions workers, politicians and those managing the vast economy of industrialised warfare, War of Attrition explains for the first time why and how this new type of conflict born out of industrial society was fought as it was. It was the first mass war in which the resources of the fully-mobilised societies strained every sinew in a conflict over ideals - and the humblest and highest were all caught up in the national enterprise.

In a stunning narrative, this brilliant and necessary reassessment • Published for the centenary of the First of the whole war cuts behind the myth-making to reveal the World War. determination, organisation and ambition on all sides. • By the author of Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme which received brilliant reviews • Philipott combines the very best academic credentials with an elegant and engaging writing style. August 9781408703557 History Hardback £30.00 416pp 7 If This Is A Woman The Untold Story of Heroism and Survival Inside About the author the Nazi's Women-only Concentration Camp Sarah Helm was a reporter on the Sunday Times and Diplomatic Editor Sarah Helm for the Independent before becoming Jerusalem and then The compelling story of the only concentration camp for women Brussels correspondent for the by the acclaimed author of A Life in Secrets. same paper. A Life in Secrets was her first book. Ravensbruck Concentration Camp is the worst atrocity ever committed solely against women, but today the name of the camp is barely known. From Ravensbruck's earliest days, when Himmler offered his own land for the camp, this book follows every stage of the story through to the camp's liberation by the Red Army. Based on meticulous research, If This Is A Woman lays bare the systematic brutalisation of mothers, pregnant women, children and babies. It details the extremes of cruelty enacted by SS guards and of suffering experienced by the prisoners, who were themselves reduced to inhuman acts.

But at the heart of If This Is A Woman are stories of heroism and survival. The narrative centres on the experiences of women - from the farmer's wife to the aristocratic intellectual - who had • The first book for a mass-market audience the resilience, the mental and physcial strength to withstand their on a subject with huge emotional power as ordeal and to emerge from the camp alive. well as enduring interest (see Laurence Rees' Auschwitz) • A Life in Secrets received fantastic reviews and has now grossed more than 30,000 (home and export, all formats)

September 9781408701072 History Hardback £25.00 608pp 8 The Skeleton Road

About the author Val McDermid Val McDermid is the author of twenty-six bestselling novels, which The Queen of the psychological thriller returns with her latest have been translated into more chilling novel. than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. She has When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a gothic won many awards internationally, Victorian building in Edinburgh, which is scheduled for renovation, including the CWA Gold Dagger for Cold Case Squad detective Karen Pirie is given the task of best crime novel of the year and identifying the decades-old bones. Her investigation leads her the LA Times Book of the Year back to past conflicts, false identities and buried secrets... Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. She has a son and a dog, and lives with her wife in the north of England.

September 9781408704578 Crime & Mystery Fiction Hardback £18.99 464pp 9 The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Café About the author

Following a distinguished career as Alexander McCall Smith a Professor of Medical Law, Alexander McCall Smith turned to The new Botswana book from bestselling author Alexander writing full-time. He is the author of McCall Smith, this is Mma Ramotswe's fifteenth wonderful over eighty books on a wide array adventure. of subjects, and his works have been translated into forty-six Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from languages. He lives in Edinburgh success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a with his wife. In addition to his full partner in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - in spite of Mma books, Alexander writes radio Ramotswe's belated claims that she is only 'an assistant full adaptations for BBC Radio Four, partner' - she also launches a new enterprise of her own: the film and television scripts and has Handsome Man's De Luxe Café. Grace Makutsi is a lady with a collaborated with the Edinburgh business plan, but who could predict temperamental chefs, musician Tom Cunningham on a drunken waiters and more? Luckily, help is at hand, from the only number of pieces including a short person in Gaborone more gently determined than Mma Makutsi.. opera – The Okavango Macbeth. Alexander McCall Smith Mma Ramotswe, of course. has been commissioned to write the words for a work entitled The ‘The magnificent Mma Ramotswe is a delightful original and a Friendship Oratorio for Scottish reminder of a calm, leisured way of life’ Opera which will be performed – Guardian • English language sales for McCall Smith's during the festivities surrounding titles now exceed 20 million copies the Commonwealth Games, in worldwide Glasgow, this year. It will feature • Winner of Author of the Year three times 100 young people and emerging (BA, NIBBIES and Waterstone's) artists from seven Commonwealth • In 2013 Alexander McCall Smith unveiled countries. the Great Tapestry of Scotland after

forming a team to produce the world’s longest tapestry, through one of the biggest September community arts projects ever to take place 9781408704332 in Scotland. Modern Fiction Hardback £16.99 256pp 10 England, Arise

About the author Juliet Barker Juliet Barker is a distinguished biographer, medievalist and A fascinating and evocative account of the Peasants' Revolt from scholar. She is both a bestselling the acclaimed author of Agincourt. historian and a critically acclaimed expert on the Brontës. The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday life was like for ordinary people living in the middle ages. The same highly successful techniques she deployed in Agincourt and Conquest will this time be brought to bear on civilian society, from the humblest serf forced to provide slave- labour for his master in the fields, to the prosperous country goodwife brewing, cooking and spinning her distaff and the ambitious burgess expanding his business and his mental horizons in the town.

The book will explore how and why such a diverse and unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against church and state to demand a radical political agenda which, had it been implemented, would have fundamentally transformed English society and anticipated • Agincourt sold over 82,000 copies through the French Revolution by four hundred years. The book will not Bookscan. One of the biggest history books only provide an important reassessment of the revolt itself but will of 2014 also be an illuminating and original study of English medieval life • Juliet Barker writes compellingly and at the time. excitingly about a gripping subject with wide appeal

September 9781408703359 History Hardback £25.00 384pp 11 Waterloo Four Days, Three Battles That Changed Europe’s About the author Destiny Tim Clayton is the award-winning author of a number of books on Tim Clayton naval and military history, including

Tars (winner of the Mountbatten

Literary Award 2008) and Finest An epic page-turner about Waterloo, one of the greatest land Hour, the best-selling book that battles in British history, rich in dramatic human detail and accompanied the landmark BBC1 grounded in first class research. television series. His most recent book was Sea Wolves. The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army, most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the very end.

Extraordinary though it may seem, much about the Battle of Waterloo has remained uncertain, with many major features of the campaign hotly debated. Most histories have depended heavily on the evidence of British officers that were gathered • No popular history book about Waterloo about twenty years after the battle. But the recent publication of has captured the modern reading public's an abundance of fresh first-hand accounts from soldiers of all the imagination in the way that this book is set participating armies has illuminated important episodes and to do. enabled radical reappraisal of the course of the campaign. What • From the co-author of Finest Hour, which emerges is a darker, muddier story, no longer biased by notions of has sold over 100K copies regimental honour, but a tapestry of irony, accident, courage, horror and human frailty. October 9781408702482 An epic page turner, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded History in first-class scholarly research, Waterloo is the real inside story of Hardback the greatest land battle in British history, the defining showdown £25.00 of the age of muskets, bayonets, cavalry and cannon. 480pp

12 The Rich From Slaves to Super-Yachts: A 2,000-Year About the author History John Kampfner is one of the UK's most respected and iconoclastic John Kampfner authors, broadcasters and commentators, and has been a well-known public voice on politics, The Rich will provide the definitive history of the wealthy over international affairs and civil more than two millennia. liberties for the past two decades. From 2005 to 2008 he was Editor of From the Orwell Prize shortlisted author of Freedom for Sale, The the New Statesman, and he Rich is the fascinating history of how economic elites from ancient contributes regularly to the Egypt to the present day have gained and spent their money. Guardian, Independent, Financial Times and other newspapers. His Starting with Ancient Egypt and Greece and culminating with the previous books include Freedom oligarchies of modern Russia and China, it compares and contrasts for Sale and the bestselling Blair's the rich and powerful down the ages and around the world. What Wars. He lives in London. unites them? Have the same instincts of entrepreneurship, ambition, vanity, greed and philanthropy applied throughout?

As contemporary politicians, economists and the public wrestle with the inequities of our time - the parallel world inhabited by the ultra-wealthy at a time of broader hardship - it is salutary to • Blair's Wars was shortlisted for the Orwell look to history for explanations. This book synthesises thousands Prize, and Freedom for Sale was shortlisted of years of human behaviour and asks the question: is the for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year development of the globalised super-rich over the past twenty • Big-sweep narrative history in the same years anything new? vein as Guns, Germs and Steel, but looking at how the economic elites from ancient Egypt to the present day

October 9781408704264 Economics, Finance Hardback £25.00 416pp 13 Doggerel A Medley of Mutts, Mongrels, Puppies and About the author Pooches Christopher Matthew is the author of Now We Are Sixty, Now We Are Christopher Matthew Sixty (And a Bit), Summoned by Balls and The Man Who Dropped From the comic genius behind Now We Are Sixty and The Man the Le Creuset on His Foot. He lives Who Dropped the Le Creuset on His Toe comes a new collection in London and Suffolk. of verse celebrating man's best friend.

From Ozymandias the Steve McQueen of Springers whose © Christopher Matthew acrobatic sex life rivals Errol Flynn's, to terrier Ted, whose Falstaffian appetites (and over-indulgence following the loyal toast) lead to a shameful bender followed by a spell in re-hab, man's best friend comes in many guises, not all of them benign. In his latest collection of sly verse, Christopher Matthew celebrates the canine world in all its glorious diversity - and takes a sidelong glance at the human one along the way.

Travelling from Camp Bastion to West Wittering via a sunlit Greek island, Matthew's compendium embraces comedy, tragedy and personalities great and small. There are exuberant, rear-fixated puppies and neglected latchkey dogs, there are dignified mongrel • Christopher Matthew's Now We Are 60 sold strays, war-heroes, a psychotic Great Dane called Cher Bebe and a over 500,000 copies top-drawer spaniel of theatrical lineage with Uggie-envy. And then there is man, with his cowardice, his commitment issues, his short attention span and his propensity for very silly names. . . The great question Matthew circles in this gloriously entertaining gallop through one of the world's great auld alliances, therefore, is not so much who is the master in this relationship, as who is the October mutt. 9781408705667 Humour Touching, wicked, clever and kind, Doggerel will bring delight and Hardback recognition to dog-lovers everywhere. £12.99 176pp 14 Silo The Peril of Expertise and the Power of About the author Disruption Gillian Tett is Assistant Editor for the Financial Times where she has Gillian Tett worked for fifteen years. In 2008 she won the British Press Award for the Financial Journalist of the The brilliant and insightful new book from Gillian Tett, author of Year. She often appears on the bestselling Fool's Gold. programmes such as Today and Newsnight and lectures widely. In Silo, award-winning journalist Gillian Tett examines the structural development of institutions such as UBS, Sony and the Bank of England. While the world is increasingly interlinked in some senses, it remains profoundly fragmented in others. As organisations become larger and more global than ever before, they are apt to be divided and sub-divided into numerous different departments to facilitate productivity. However, there is a trap to the inevitability of these silos. The tunnel vision and tribalism that silos can lead to makes groups less innovative and can lead to disastrous mistakes.

Institutions worldwide are made up of silos operating in isolation from one another. Silo is an eye-opening account that takes a • Fool's Gold has so far sold over 62,000 radical anthropological approach in suggesting how we might copies across all formats and is still selling draw them back together.

November 9781844087570 Sociology, Social Studies Hardback £20.00 352pp 15 16 The Vanished Ones

About the author Donato Carrisi Donato Carrisi was born in 1973 and studied law and criminology. The gripping new thriller from Italian literary sensation Donato He won four Italian literature prizes Carrisi, featuring Mila, the much-loved character from his for his bestselling debut The bestselling, prize-winning novel The Whisperer. Whisperer. Since 1999 he has been working as a TV screenwriter, and Everyone forgets the 'Disappeared': the hundreds of eyes that he lives in Rome. stare out from the missing person board of Italy's dark-hearted city. No one has the time or energy to find them - no one but Mila Vasquez, a fiery young officer struggling with a damaged past. Finding the people that everyone else has forgotten is what she lives for.

But what if some of these people wanted to disappear? To be swallowed into the darkness so that everyone forgets they were ever here. And now they have started to return, with strange and horrifying intentions. They seem identical at first, but something has changed them: they are an army of shadows.

• The Whisperer has sold over a million copies worldwide • This new book has a brilliant plot, and features the return of Mila, the much-loved character from his bestselling and prize- winning first book, The Whisperer • The Whisperer was in the Italian bestseller list for 30 weeks and was an international July bestseller 9780349140056 • The author has won many international Adventure / Thriller,Crime literary awards, including the Italian & Mystery Fiction Bancarella Prize and the French Prix Du Trade Paperback Polar £12.99 352pp 17 Forgotten Fitzgerald: Echoes of a Lost America About the author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

novels epitomize the Jazz Age - a F. Scott Fitzgerald term he coined himself - and The Great Gatsby is often considered to Sarah Churchwell introduces a collection of stories by F. Scott be 'the great American novel'. Fitzgerald: some classic, some forgotten.

About the editor While Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for Sarah Churchwell is Professor of today, he was also writing short stories for magazines. Sarah American Literature and Public Churchwell, author of the acclaimed Careless People has tracked Understanding of the Humanities at down and created a collection of his stories about America. Here the University of East Anglia. She is are stories about mid-century America that show … ©Pete Huggins Sarah Churcherll the author of The Many Lives of

Marilyn Monroe (Granta 2004) and Included are: Careless People, and author of

various scholarly articles, chapters The Swimmers and introductions. Her journalism Jacob’s Ladder has appeared in the Guardian, the Majesty New Statesman, the Independent, Six of One the New York Times Book Review, More than Just a House the TLS, the Observer, the Times, On Your Own the Telegraph, among others, and Rubber Check she frequently appears on UK That Kind of Party television and radio, discussing arts, A Snobbish Story culture and all things American. She Discard lives in London with her English Love in the Night husband.

September 9780349140261 Fiction Paperback £8.99 384pp 18 Abacus Paperback Highlights Flesh Wounds Life at the Speed of Light: Chris Brookmyre From the Double Helix to July the Dawn of Digital Life ISBN: 9780349138701 J. Craig Venter Crime & Mystery Fiction August Paperback ISBN: 9780349139906 £7.99 Popular Science 480pp Paperback £9.99 336pp

The Book of Fate The Discourtesy of Death Parinoush Saniee William Brodrick July August ISBN: 9780349138770 ISBN: 9780349000350 General & Literary Fiction Fiction Paperback Paperback £8.99 £8.99 464pp 432pp

The Undercover Economist The Crocodile Strikes Back: How to Run or Maurizio De Giovanni Ruin an Economy August Tim Harford ISBN: 9780349138893 July Crime & Mystery Fiction ISBN: 9780349138930 Paperback Business & Management £7.99 Paperback 352pp £9.99 320pp

19 Andrew's Brain The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and Other E.L.Doctorow State Secrets: True Stories from the September Government Archives ISBN: 9780349139661 Adam Macqueen General & Literary Fiction September Paperback ISBN: 9780349138916 £8.99 Humour 208pp Paperback £8.99 304pp

American Dream Machine The Naked Scientist: Matthew Specktor Everyday Life Under the September Microscope ISBN: 9780751551617 Chris Smith General & Literary Fiction November Paperback ISBN: 9780349000381 £8.99 Popular Science 464pp Paperback £9.99 304pp

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About the author Linda Grant Linda Grant is a novelist and journalist. She won the Orange The brilliant new novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted Prize for Fiction in 2000 and the author of The Clothes on Their Backs. Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006, and was 'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to in 2002 for Still Here. The Clothes depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be on Their Backs was shortlisted for understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know how the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and to explain.' went on to win the South Bank Show Award. In the early Seventies a glamorous and androgynous couple known collectively as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas they seem blown back from the future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires. But the varnished patina of youth and flamboyant self- expression hides deep anxieties and hidden histories. For Adele, with the most to conceal, Evie/Stevie become a lifelong obsession, as she examines what happened on the night of her own twentieth birthday and her friends' complicity in their fate. A set • The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted of school exercise books might reveal everything, but they have for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and has been missing for nearly forty years. From summers in Cornwall to sold over 100,000 copies London in the twenty-first century, long after they have • Virago also publishes Linda Grant's backlist, disappeared, Evie/Stevie go on challenging everyone's ideas of including Still Here and The Cast Iron Shore what their lives should turn out to be.

July 9781844087495 Modern Fiction Hardback £14.99 320pp

22 Friendship

About the author Emily Gould Emily Gould is an author, journalist and the co-founder of a feminist Emily Gould's dazzling debut novel traces, with wit and honesty, publishing startup, Emily Books. She the evolution of a friendship between two New Yorkers as they has written extensively for confront their thirties. publications including the New York Times, London Review of Books, Bev Tunney and Amy Schein are best friends, but now, at thirty, Guardian, The Economist, Slate and they have reached a crossroads. Bev is stuck in circumstances that Jezebel, and since 2005 has run a would have barely passed muster in her mid-twenties: temping, popular blog at living in a shared house, drowning in debt. Amy is a fiercely emilymagazine.com. She is the charismatic media darling still riding the tailwinds of early success, author of a collection of essays, And but reality is catching up with her. And now Bev is unexpectedly the Heart Says Whatever, and pregnant. Friendship is her debut novel.

As Amy and Bev are dragged into genuine adulthood, they are forced to contemplate the possibility that growing up might mean growing apart. They want to help each other but can't help themselves; want to make good decisions, but fall prey to their worst impulses. An encounter with an accomplished older woman, • A subtle yet accessible 'Generation Rent' Sally, throws their problems into sharp relief. coming-of-age story reminiscent of Lena Dunham's acclaimed TV series Girls or Noah Baumbach's film Frances Ha • ‘I read Friendship with great pleasure. Emily Gould recreates with wit and insight the New York I know: a place full of fame and money that's not yours, where friends become family…and the big questions about your life stay unanswered, and July unanswerable, for a long time’ 9780349004396 – Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding General & Literary Fiction • ‘Emily Gould is massively talented, just as good at devastating us with an emotional Hardback truth as she is at amusing us with a clever £14.99 joke’ 304pp – Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep and American Wife 23

MaddAddam

About the author Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including The final volume in the extraordinary speculative fiction trilogy - fiction, poetry and critical essays, a decade in the making - from one of the greatest writers in the and her books have been published English language today. in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the prizes. earth, is telling stories.

Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one.

Listening hard is young Blackbeard, one of the innocent Crakers, the species designed to replace humanity. Their reluctant prophet, Jimmy-the-Snowman, is in a coma, so they've chosen a new hero - Zeb, the street-smart man Toby loves. As clever Pigoons attack their fragile garden and malevolent Painballers scheme, the small band of survivors will need more than stories.

• Following Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam is the final part of Margaret Atwood's bestselling MaddAddam trilogy. • Oryx and Crake was a Guardian Book of the Decade

August 9781844087877 Modern Fiction Paperback £8.99 592pp

24 The Paying Guests

About the author Sarah Waters Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has been shortlisted for The extraordinary bestselling author, who wrote three the Man Booker Prize and Orange astonishing Victorian novels before moving to the 1940s with Prize and has won the South Bank The Night Watch and The Little Stranger, now turns to the Show Award and The Somerset 1920s. Maugham Award. Four of her novels have been adapted for It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, television. She has been named as the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in Author of the Year four times - by South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house the Booksellers Association, Sunday now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about Times, Waterstones and The British to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her Book Awards. spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.

For with the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the 'clerk class', the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. And as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be. • The Night Watch was shortlisted for the This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with Man Booker and the Orange Prize excruciating tension, real tenderness, believable characters, and • The Little Stranger was shortlisted for the surprises. It is above all a wonderful, compelling story. Man Booker Prize in 2009

August 9780349004365 Historical Fiction Hardback £20.00 416pp

25 The Temporary Bride A Memoir of Food and Love in Iran About the author Jennifer Klinec Born in Canada, Jennifer Klinec lives and works in London. Moving, fascinating and full of the sights, smells and tastes of Iran, this is a heart-warming tale of love against the odds.

'It is the pursuit of love that drives me to Iran. Since I ate my first Persian stew, tearing fibres of lamb between a spoon and fork, breathing in the scent of dried black limes, I have chartered a course to this place.'

Jennifer Klinec has always been drawn to travelling in pursuit of her love of food. Raised in Canada to Hungarian-Croatian parents, she made her way across the world before ending up in London. And for her, a visit to Iran means one thing - learning more about the food that Iranians eat. She packs her suitcase, puts on a scarf and closes up the cookery school she hosts in her home. She wants to eat the food of the people and try recipes that have changed little in five-hundred years: tahdig, the crisp, buttery • Will appeal to fans of Eat, Pray, Love as well golden crust of rice that Iranians covet; long simmered stews of as people who love to read about food and chicken with golden plums and quince; lamb braised with cooking pomegranate seeds. • A fascinating tale of wanderlust and love

When she is given the opportunity to cook with the mother of an Iranian family, Jennifer jumps at the chance and learns to cook the Iranian way, while the son of the family, Vahid, takes her on a culinary tour of the land. Soon more than food is on the cards, September even though falling in love across cultures is not easy. 9781844088232 Biography & Autobiography: General Trade Paperback £13.99 240pp

26 The Underground Girls Of Kabul The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as About the author Boys Jenny Nordberg is a writer and producer of long-form television Jenny Nordberg who lives in New York City. She currently is the U.S. and Foreign Uncovers the hidden true story of the age-old tradition of Affairs Columnist for Swedish 'Bacha Posh' - girls masquerading as boys - in a society that national newspaper Svenska does not value females. Dagbladet, and has written for The New York Times. As a producer, An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life she has reported on a wide range of cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl domestic and international topics - and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising from Iraqi refugees and Pakistan's themselves as boys is the only way to get ahead. nuclear proliferation, to global economics and effects of the Nordberg follows women such as Azita Rafaat, a parliamentarian financial crisis throughout Eastern who once lived as a Bacha Posh, the mother of seven-year-old Europe. She holds a B.A. in Law and Mehran, who she is raising as a Bacha Posh as well, but for Journalism from Stockholm different reasons than in the past. There's Zahra, a teenage University, and an M.S. from student living as a boy who is about to display signs of Columbia University's Graduate womanhood as she enters puberty. And Skukria, a hospital nurse • Jenny Nordberg's work has won awards, School of Journalism. who remained in a Bacha Posh disguise until she was 20, and who including an Investigative Reporters and now has three children of her own. Editors (IRE) award and Sweden's premier investigative journalism award, a Exploring the historical roots of this tradition, The Underground Guldspaden, for her radio reporting Girls of Kabul is a fascinating and moving investigation.

September 9781844087747 Biography & Autobiography: General Trade Paperback £14.99 320pp 27 Hand to Mouth

About the author Linda Tirado Linda Tirado is an average American with two children and two jobs, An urgent, uncompromising and heartfelt insider's account of working as a night cook in a chain what it is to be poor and working-class in the modern West. restaurant and as a voting rights activist for a disability non-profit Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to organisation. She also writes on struggle to make ends meet. She worked two jobs – as a food- poverty and class issues. Her service worker in a chain restaurant and a voting rights activist at husband served honorably in a non-profit organisation – to support her young children and has Fallujah and struggled with PTSD. a husband who suffered from PTSD after his last tour in Iraq. She Since her online essay Why I Make knows what it’s like to have problems you wish you could fix, but ©Linda Tirado Linda Tirado Terrible Decisions went viral around no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting the world in autumn 2013, she has any. And she’s tired – of people with resources telling the poor received speaking and commentary that they could lift themselves up if they only made better • A timely, uncompromising and eloquent requests from numerous US media choices. insider account of the problems faced by outlets and institutions. Hand to today’s working classes • Linda Tirado’s November 2013 online essay Mouth is her first book. In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that Tirado ‘Why I Make Terrible Decisions’ was shared wrote and posted online was read and shared around the world. tens of thousands of times and provoked a media storm; her book is set to do the same In Hand to Mouth, she gives a searing, witty, compassionate and • ‘The woman who explained poverty to the clear-eyed insider account of being poor in the world’s richest nation’ nation. She looks at how ordinary people fall or are born into the – Huffington Post poverty trap, and how the system is weighted against them. She explores why the poor don’t always behave in the way the middle classes think they should, and makes an urgent call for us all to understand and meet the challenges they face. September 9780349005485 Biography & Autobiography: Political Trade Paperback £14.99 240pp

28 Lila

About the author Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Robinson was born in 1947. Her first novel, Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, (1981) received the returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story about a PEN/Hemingway award for best girl who lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and first novel as-well-as being wonder. nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for

fiction, and Home won the Orange Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, Prize. She lives in Iowa. steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the only available shelter from the rain - and ignites a romance and a debate that will ©Writer Pictures Marilynne Robinson reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister and widower, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security.

Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood of itinerant work. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand- • Winner of the Orange Prize, 2009 to-mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a lucky knife to • Marilynne Robinson writes The Great protect them. But despite bouts of petty violence and moments American Novel of desperation, their shared life is laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to harmonize the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.

Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Orange Prize-winning October Home, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence. 9781844088805 General & Literary Fiction Hardback £16.99 272pp

29 Wounding the World How Military Violence and War-play Invades our About the author Lives Joanna Bourke is a professor of history at Birkbeck College in Joanna Bourke London. Her book An Intimate History of Killing received critical acclaim, winning the Wolfson In this book, Joanna Bourke explores the way that violence and History Prize. war impinge on the everyday world. With killing now an integral part of the entertainment industry in video games and Hollywood films, war has become mainstream.

2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the declaration of the First World War, and with it comes a deluge of books, documentaries, feature films and radio programmes. We will hear a great deal about the horror of the battlefield. Bourke acknowledges wider truths: war is unending and violence is deeply entrenched in our society. But it doesn't have to be this way. This book equips readers with an understanding of the history, culture and politics of warfare in order to interrogate and resist an increasingly violent world.

November 9780349004327 History Hardback £20.00 256pp 30 Getting Colder

About the author Amanda Coe Amanda Coe’s screenwriting credits include Room at the Top; The new novel by the BAFTA award-wining screenwriter and Shameless; Margot, about Margot critically-acclaimed novelist of What They Do in the Dark. Fonteyn and Nureyev; and As If, an acclaimed teen drama series. Louise and Nigel, the victims, were children when their mother Amanda’s short story collection, A left her family for Patrick, a celebrated playwright. Twenty years Whore in the Kitchen, was on, she has died, taking her secrets with her. Is Patrick the villain published in 2009. The Times of the piece, or did he, like everyone else, fall prey to their recently named her one of the top unknowable mother? ten women in television.

• Praise for What They Do in the Dark: • ‘One of the most masterly, disturbing pieces of fiction I’ve read in a long while… this is a novel that will leave you haunted long after you’ve read the final page’ – Sunday Times • ‘Gripping… with each narrative strand generation its own suspense… this is a terrific debut, full of energy and colour: as propulsive as a thriller, but refusing to compromise for the sake of giving satisfaction.’ November – Guardian 9780349005096 • ‘Superbly plotted, building, from seemingly disparate elements, with a dread inevitably Fiction to a tense and shocking finale.’ Hardback – Daily Mail £12.99 256pp

31 Mary Renault – her novels reissued as Virago Modern Classics

The Persian Boy North Face A Novel of Alexander the Great October August ISBN: 9781844089550 ISBN: 9781844089598 Classic Fiction, General & Literary Fiction Classic Fiction, General & Literary Fiction Paperback Paperback £7.99 £8.99 320pp 400pp

Fire from Heaven Kind Are Her Answers A Novel of Alexander the Great October August ISBN: 9781844089543 ISBN: 9781844089574 Classic Fiction, General & Literary Fiction Classic Fiction, General & Literary Fiction Paperback Paperback £7.99 £8.99 304pp 384pp ©Phillip de Vos Mary Renault

Funeral Games The Friendly Young Ladies A Novel of Alexander the Great October August ISBN: 9781844089529 ISBN: 9781844089598 Classic Fiction, General & Literary Fiction Classic Fiction, General & Literary Fiction Paperback Paperback £7.99 £8.99 288pp 336pp

32 Virago Paperback Highlights

The Glass Ocean Lori Baker September ISBN: 9781844089482 General & Literary Fiction Paperback £8.99 352pp

Sedition Katherine Grant September ISBN: 9781844089864 General & Literary Fiction Paperback £8.99 304pp

33 Hild

About the author Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith is the award-winning author of five previous novels and a A literary triumph - an epic historical novel that brings the Dark memoir. A native of Yorkshire - now Ages into the light. a dual US/UK citizen - she is a onetime self-defence instructor 'You are a prophet and seer with the brightest mind in an age. who turned to writing full-time Your blood is that of the man who should have been king ...That's upon being diagnosed with multiple what the king and his lords see. And they will kill you, one day' sclerosis in 1993. She lives with her wife, the writer Kelley Eskridge, in Britain in the seventh century - and the world is changing. Small Seattle. kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Edwin, King of Northumbria, plots his rise to overking of all the Angles. Ruthless and unforgiving, he is prepared to use every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Into this brutal, vibrant court steps Hild - Edwin's youngest niece.

With her glittering mind and powerful curiosity, Hild has a unique way of reading the world. By studying nature, observing human • Has already received huge acclaim in the US - behaviour and matching cause with effect, she has developed the drawing comparisons with Hilary Mantel and ability to make startlingly accurate predictions. It is a gift that can Game of Thrones seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. • The first ever Blackfriars hardback - will be backed with full PR campaign and author tour It is also a valuable weapon. Hild is indispensable to Edwin - unless • ‘Vivid, vital, and visceral, Hild’s history reads she should ever lead him astray. The stakes are life and death: for like a thriller’ Hild, for her family, for her loved ones, and for the increasing – Val McDermid numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can see • ‘Deeply engaging ... her insight into human the future and lead men like a warrior. nature and eye for telling detail is as keen as that of the extraordinary Hild herself. The

novel resonates to many of the same chords July In this vivid, utterly compelling novel, Nicola Griffith has brought as Beowulf, the legends of King Arthur, Lord 9780349134222 the Early Middle Ages to life in an extraordinary act of alchemy. of the Rings, and Game of Thrones - to the Historical Fiction Drawn from the story of St Hilda of Whitby - one of the most extent that Hild begins to feel like the classic Hardback fascinating and pivotal figures of the age - Hild transports the on which those books are based’ £20.00 reader into a mesmerising, unforgettable world. – Neal Stephenson 560pp

34 35 The Silkworm

About the author Robert Galbraith Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, The Casual Vacancy A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, and the first Cormoran Strike novel, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series The Cuckoo's Calling. featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott.

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.

But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. • The Cuckoo's Calling received stellar reviews from peers, press and readers in

the UK - before and after the reveal - and in And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre the US where it was one of Mulholland's circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the biggest books of the year motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has • The hardback of The Cuckoo's Calling spent encountered before… 6 weeks at No.1 in the bestseller charts and 11 weeks in the Top 10; it was shortlisted by the UK National Book Awards for Crime and Thriller Book of the Year, and reached the semi-final in the Goodreads Choice June Awards for Best Mystery and Thriller Novel 9781408704028 of 2013 Modern Fiction • The Cuckoo's Calling leapt straight to No.1 Hardback on Audible UK's chart just after publication £20.00 and hasn't left the Top 50 since 416pp

36 What Milo Saw

About the author Virginia Macgregor Virginia Macgregor was brought up in Germany, France and England by a mother who never stopped telling A BIG story about a small boy who sees the world a little stories. She was named after two differently. great women, Virginia Wade and

Virginia Woolf, in the hope she For fans of The Rosie Project, The Curious Incident of the Dog in would be a writer and a tennis star. the Night-Time and Wonder, comes this spellbinding and generous-hearted tale about a small boy who just wanted his Her early years were those of a scribbling, rain-loving child who gran to come home. prayed for lightning to strike her Nine-year-old Milo Moon has retinitis pigmentosa: his eyes are tennis coach. After studying at slowly failing and he will eventually go blind. But for now he sees Oxford, Virginia started writing the world through a pin hole and notices things other people regularly while working as an don't. When Milo's beloved gran succumbs to dementia and English Teacher and Housemistress. moves into a nursing home, Milo soon realises there's something Virginia lives in Berkshire with her very wrong at the home. The grown-ups won't listen to him so husband. with just Tripi, the nursing home's cook, and Hamlet, his pet pig, to help, Milo sets out on a mission to expose the nursing home www.virginiamacgregorwrites.word and the sinister Nurse Thornhill. press.com @virginiawrites Insightful, wise and surprising, What Milo Saw is a novel filled with • Debut novel from an exciting new talent big ideas, simple truths and an emotional message that will • Explores the themes of love and courage, resonate with everyone. Milo sees the world in a very special way modern families, the treatment of the elderly and the precious roles our elders and it will be impossible for you not to fall in love with him, savour play in our lives every moment you spend with him and then share his story with • Pre-publication international rights buzz: everyone you know. rights sold in Germany, Italy, France, July Portugal and the Czech Republic with more 9780751554243 to follow General & Literary Fiction, Modern Fiction, Fiction Hardback £14.99 400pp

37 The Preacher

About the author Sander Jakobsen Sander Jakobsen is the pseudonym for Danish writing duo Dagmar Winther and Kenneth Degnbol. An astonishingly clever thriller with a killer hook - from the Dagmar Winther interned for hottest new name in Scandinavian crime writing. Birmingham Post & Mail and the European Commission in Brussels 'You will never find me.' before becoming a teacher at a Danish High School. Kenneth Thorkild Christensen stares down at his murdered wife, Karen, and Degnbol has a Master's degree in realises he knows almost nothing about her. How did she fill her Music and History, and spent four days? Where did she disappear to every Thursday? Lead years as a consultant before he investigator Detective Thea Krogh is determined to find out. began teaching philosophy and music alongside Dagmar. He is a And then a second woman is shot dead. skilled musician and father of three. Both authors live outside of Aarhus. There is seemingly nothing to link the two victims, and the police The Preacher is their debut novel. move on, desperate for a lead. But someone out there has a deadly secret. And as events begin to play out - masterminded by www.sanderjakobsen.com a strange and bewitching figure - all of their worlds are about to @sanderjakobsen come crashing down... • Perfect for fans of commercial Scandi-crime An ingenious thriller from an exciting new Danish talent. Will you (Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell, Camilla guess the secret to unlock the killer twist? Lackberg), but who want something fresh, highly original and with a killer hook • Sander Jakobsen is the pseudonym for a young, highly promotable Danish writing duo - who translated the book into English themselves. They are fluent in English, July articulate and available to promote 9780751552379 Adventure / Thriller Paperback £6.99 432pp

38 A Girl Walks into a Wedding Choose Your Own Erotic Destiny About the author Helena S. Paige Helena S. Paige is the pseudonym of three friends. Paige Nick is an award-winning advertising A choose your own destiny novel where you are in control: your copywriter and novelist. She also rules, your choices, your story. has a weekly column in The Sunday Times in South Africa, which covers Your best friend is getting married. You're going to be her everything from sex and dating to bridesmaid so you have a lot to deal with - the hen party, pre- general lunacy. Helen Moffett wedding nerves, your dress, the men... So many men. And you wears many hats: freelance writer, have to choose between them. Maybe you'll end up having fun at poet, editor, activist and academic, this wedding after all. who has lectured as far afield as Trinidad and Alaska. She is also a • The priest is definitely heaven-sent but he's off limits, isn't he? cricket writer and flamenco fan. Sarah Lotz is a screenwriter and • Or perhaps you'll pick the best man. He's very attractive but novelist with a fondness for fake the best man and the bridesmaid is such a cliché. Right? names. She writes urban horror novels under the name S.L. Grey • And then there's the rugged pilot - his offer of a brief with author Louis Greenberg, and a encounter might have surprising consequences... YA series with her daughter, Savannah, under the pseudonym Whichever way you decide to go, each twist and turn will lead to • The second book in an excitingly unique Lily Herne. an unforgettable encounter. Can you choose the ultimate sensual series; fun and empowering, this is erotica experience? Remember: if your first choice doesn't hit the spot, with a difference https://www.facebook.com/GirlWa • The reader is in complete control of the then start over and try something (and someone) new. The power lksIn story - she picks the scenes, the lovers, the @GirlWalksIn is entirely yours in this fully interactive, Choose Your Own Destiny twists, and is ultimately in charge of her novel. own happy ending

• The choose-your-own angle offers a fresh July The third book of this series, hook to readers in the overcrowded erotica 9780751552560 market; it adds the fun factor A Girl Walks into a Blind Date, Erotic Fiction will be published by Sphere in November 2014 Paperback £6.99 352pp

39 In the Interests of Safety The absurd rules that blight our lives and how About the author we can change them Michael Hanlon is a London-based science journalist and author who Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon writes regularly for national newspapers as well as The An entertaining and fascinating examination of the rules and Spectator and New Scientist. He is regulations that dominate everyday life. the author of five popular science books, including: The Science of the Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his tweezers at Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped Ten Questions Science Can't Answer with an axe on the back of the cockpit door? Yet and Eternity: Our Next Billion Years. Can a mobile phone really cause a major explosion at a gas station? Tracey Brown is the Director of Sense About Science, a charity that And is there really a good reason why you should be prevented campaigns for better evidence in from swimming in a lake more than a foot deep? public debate and policy making in the UK, and world-wide through These rules exist, and they exist in the name of our own international collaboration. She has protection. But in this engrossing dissection of global health, contributed to books and journals safety and security regulations, authors Tracey Brown and Michael on science, policy and the public, Hanlon dig a little deeper to discover the real reasons behind • A subject with very broad appeal - from including Better Science many of the instructions we obey without questioning their fans of Ben Goldacre's Bad Science to Communication and comments creators' motives. Their conclusions range from the startling to the Francis Wheen's How Mumbo-Jumbo regularly in newspapers, magazines, Conquered the World and Quentin Letts' 50 staggering, and in presenting them the authors seek to empower events and broadcasts. People Who Buggered Up Britain readers to question the people and organisations who come up • Impeccable author credentials - Tracey with them in the first place. Brown has advised Ben Goldacre and Simon

Singh on their respective libel cases so July knows this area of the market very well, 9780751553499 while Michael Hanlon was Science Editor for the Daily Mail Popular Science Hardback £12.99 272pp

40 The Destiny of Violet and Luke

About the author Jessica Sorensen Jessica Sorensen lives in Wyoming with her husband and three children. She is the author of The third book in a breathtaking series from number one New numerous romance novels. All her York Times bestselling sensation Jessica Sorensen. New Adult novels have been New York Times bestsellers. Luke Price's life has always been about order, control, and acting tough on the outside. He uses meaningless relationships as a http://jessicasorensen.com/ distraction and a way to tune out the twisted memories of his @jessFallenStar childhood. He secretly wishes that one day he could find that one perfect person, but deep down he doesn't believe that perfection really exists.

Violet Hayes has had a rough life, surrounded by drugs, neglect, and irresponsible parents. She thought she could escape when she went to college, but her past soon catches up with her. To protect herself from getting hurt, she acts tough and keeps her distance from everyone.

But then she meets Luke. The two of them clash, yet they can't seem to stay away from each other. The more they get to know • Evocative and heart-stopping, filled with one another, the more they realise just how similar their lives are, passion and tension - perfect for fans of and that maybe the perfection they've always been looking for lies Nicholas Sparks and readers of Beautiful Disaster and On Dublin Street. in each other. • As well as the New York Times bestselling Ella and Micha series, Sphere have also The third book in the Ella and Micha series, pubished Jessica Sorensen’s Callie and The Ever After of Ella and Micha, Kayden series, which is a New York Times July eBook bestseller. The first title of this series will be published by Sphere in December 2014 9780751552621 has sold over 350,000 copies worldwide General & Literary Fiction Paperback £7.99 320pp

41 Kill Your Boss

About the author Shane Kuhn Shane Kuhn is a writer and filmmaker with twenty years of A cool, clever and classy Tarantino-esque thriller from a unique experience working in the new voice in fiction, American screenwriter Shane Kuhn. entertainment business and the ad world. In feature film, he has If you're reading this, you're a new employee at Human Resources, written screenplays for Universal, Inc. Paramount, Sony, and Fox, and he has written and directed a film for Congratulations. And condolences. At the very least, you're Lionsgate. In the world of embarking on a career that you will never be able to describe as independent film, he is one of the dull. You'll go to interesting places. You'll meet unique and four original founders of the stimulating people from all walks of life. And kill them. Slamdance Film Festival and currently serves as an Executive John Lago has some rules for you. And he's about to break every Board member of Slamdance, Inc. A single one. shameless product pusher in the ad world, he has worked as a As an intern at one of the biggest law firms in Manhattan, John copywriter, creative director, and Lago is clocking 80 hours a week doing all of the work no one else broadcast video director and wants to do and subtly gaining access to all of the major players in producer for several notable the field. But John isn’t climbing the corporate ladder. He was • Screenwriter Shane Kuhn has created one brands. Throughout his life, writing hired to eliminate one of the firm’s high profile, heavily guarded of the most exciting and entertaining has been his shrink, priest, whore partners and his internship is the perfect cover to execute a clean, debuts of recent years and best mate. Kill Your Boss is his untraceable kill. • Perfect for fans of zeitgeist-grabbing first novel. modern authors like John Niven, Chuck What starts as a survival guide becomes a darkly comic memoir as Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis and James Frey, Follow him on Twitter or books like Glen Duncan's I, Lucifer and John chronicles his final assignment, in which he is pitted against @ShaneSKuhn his strongest adversary – the beautiful Alice, a federal agent David Wong's John Dies at the End investigating the same law firm partner that John’s been hired to • With publishers in all major international July markets, Kill Your Boss: The Intern's kill. 9780751552348 Handbook will be the book everyone is Adventure / Thriller talking about this summer • Published in the US as ‘The Intern's Paperback Handbook’ £6.99 352pp 42 The Iron Castle

About the author Angus Donald Angus Donald was educated at Marlborough College and Edinburgh University. He has Robin Hood is all that stands between English Normandy and worked as a fruit-picker in Greece, French victory in Angus Donald's most gritty, thrilling novel yet a waiter in New York and as an in the bestselling series Outlaw Chronicles. anthropologist studying magic and witchcraft in Indonesia. For twenty AD 1203: ROBIN HOOD MUST TURN THE TIDE OF WAR years, he was a journalist in Hong Kong, India, Afghanistan and Normandy Ablaze London.

AD 1203: England and France are locked in a brutal struggle for Follow him on Twitter power. The fate of the embattled duchy of Normandy is in the @angus_donald hands of the weak and untrustworthy King John. Facing disaster, he calls for help from a former outlaw - Robin Hood.

The Earl of Locksley

As King Philip II's army rips through the Norman defences, Robin - the Earl of Locksley - leads a savage mercenary force into battle under the English banner, supported by his loyal lieutenant Sir • The Outlaw Chronicles have sold nearly Alan Dale. But defeat is only one castle away. 150,000 copies in the UK • Established and extremely active online fan base all clamouring for the next installment The Iron Castle • The Iron Castle is a remarkably tough, authentic evocation of medieval siege The most powerful fortress in Christendom, only Château Gaillard warfare, with a bright flash of Robin Hood can resist the French advance. Robin and Alan must defend this adventure thrown in July last bastion against overwhelming force - for if the Iron Castle 9780751551952 falls, Normandy will fall with it. Adventure / Thriller

Hardback £18.99 512pp

43 The English Girl

About the author Margaret Leroy Margaret Leroy studied music at Oxford, and has worked as a music therapist and social worker. She has A breath-taking historical novel set in 1930s Vienna, about an written six previous novels, ordinary girl living in extraordinary times. including her first novel, Trust, televised by Granada; The Perfect When seventeen-year-old Stella Whittaker is offered the chance Mother was a NYT Notable Book of to study at the Academy of Music in Vienna it's a dream-come- the Year, The Drowning Girl was true, made possible by old family friends, Rainer and Marthe chosen for the Oprah Summer Kraus, who offer her a place to live. Reading List, and The Soldier's Wife was a Good Reads Historical Fiction Seduced by the elegant beauty of the city, Stella explores the finalist. Her books have been magnificent palaces, gardens and fashionable coffee houses, and published in twelve languages. She after a chance meeting in an art gallery, falls in love with Harri is married with two children, and Reznik, a young Jewish doctor. lives in London.

But as the threat of war casts a dark shadow over Europe, Stella www.margaretleroy.com soon discovers that both the household where she lives, and the city she has come to call home, are not as welcoming as they once seemed. And at the dawn of this terrifying new world, no one is safe. • Beautifully written, full of rich period detail and vivid characters • A perennially popular genre with readers • Perfect for readers of novels like The Postmistress and My Dear, I Wanted To Tell You

August 9780751551778 Historical Fiction Paperback £7.99 432pp

44 By Any Means

About the author Chris Culver Chris Culver grew up in southern Indiana. He moved to Arkansas when his wife was offered a faculty The third novel in the Ash Rashid series from the New York position at a small university there, Times bestselling author. and in between teaching philosophy classes, wrote The At the end of a particularly gruelling summer day, Ash Rashid is Abbey, which spent nine weeks on heading home to his wife and kids when he discovers a pair of the New York Times bestseller list. bodies, shot execution style, in the front seat of a crashed vehicle. He and his wife now live near St As the first officer on the scene, Ash finds himself and his Louis, Missouri, where Chris is Chris Culver department twenty minutes behind a killer in a race where every © Heidi Vix working on the next Ash Rashid second counts. novel.

With two victims down and a third unaccounted for, the clock is Follow Chris Culver on Twitter ticking and Ash must find the killer before he strikes again. @AuthorCulver

• Since the ebook sold over half a million copies in the US, the first Ash Rashid novel The Abbey has become a success on both sides of the Atlantic • This is the third novel to feature Chris Culver's fascinating and likeable lead character, Detective Ash Rashid. August 9780751552799 Adventure / Thriller Paperback £7.99 384pp

45 The First Horseman

About the author D. K. Wilson D.K. Wilson is an historian and expert on the Tudor period, having already published acclaimed non- Starring Thomas Treviot, each novel in this thrilling new series fiction books on Tudor England and of historical mysteries is based on a real unsolved Tudor crime. Henry VIII.

1536. In the corrupt heart of Tudor London a killer waits in the shadows...

The Real Crime - Before dawn on a misty November morning in 1536, prominent mercer Robert Packington was gunned down as he crossed Cheapside on his way to early morning mass. It was the first assassination by handgun in the history of the capital and subsequently shook the city to its core.

The identity of his assassin has remained a mystery.

Our Story - Thomas Treviot is a young London goldsmith and, a close family friend of Robert Packington, he launches a dramatic investigation into Packington's death. • Historically accurate and absolutely As Thomas searches for revenge, he must travel from the golden intriguing for readers of the Tudor era • heart of merchant London, to the straw-covered backstreets of Perfect for fans of CJ Sansom's Shardlake series and the more recent novels by SJ London's poorest districts before reaching the country's seat of Parris power: the court of King Henry VIII. He soon is drawn into a dark • The popularity of the Tudor era shows no conspiracy beyond his wildest imaginings and claiming justice for sign of waning in print and on screen, with his friend starts to look impossible. Especially when Thomas TV series like The Tudors (2007-2011) August realises that Robert wasn't the man he thought he knew... drawing high ratings and winning awards in 9780751550368 the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK Historical Fiction Paperback £6.99 480pp

46 Chain of Events

About the author Fredrik T. Olsson Born in 1969 outside Göteborg on the Swedish west coast, Fredrik T. Olsson spent most of his childhood THE book of London Book Fair 2013, selling in 14 territories in writing, acting and producing plays. pre-empt deals over 24 hours, having already sold in Germany, Refusing to grow up, this is pretty the UK and US, and now publishing in 25 territories worldwide. much what he has kept doing since. This is an international phenomenon in waiting A full-time screenwriter for film and television since 1995, Fredrik has The international phenomenon by debut novelist and written scripts in genres ranging screenwriter Fredrik T. Olsson, a breakneck thriller in which a from comedy to thrillers, as well as damaged couple must race to save our future. developing, show-running and head-writing original material for Nothing would make me keep a diary. various Swedish networks. He is also a stand-up comedian and Except for one thing. makes occasional contributions as a director. The realisation that soon there won't be anyone around to read it. http://fredriktolsson.se/ William Sandberg. A broken genius, snatched from his home. @fredriktolsson

Christina Sandberg, his ex-wife. She does not believe their lies. • Warner Bros has the film rights and is rushing the film into preproduction • Our future hangs on their survival. If they fail, we are all lost. High-concept meets great characters: Scandinavian screenwriter Olsson brings depth and wit, and with them new life, to the scientific conspiracy thriller • A global story that has it all, appealing to fans of Dan Brown and World War Z alike August • The hero, cryptologist William Sandberg, 9780751556353 will appear in a follow-up prequel Adventure / Thriller Hardback £18.99 384pp

47 Broadchurch: The Official Novel

About the author Erin Kelly and Chris Chibnall Erin Kelly is the author the acclaimed psychological thrillers, The Poison Tree, The Sick Rose and ‘Erin’s writing is beautiful and suffused with tension; from the The Burning Air. The Poison Tree moment I first read her gorgeous insights into a world and was a bestselling Richard & Judy characters I thought I knew well, I was hooked and desperate to Book Club selection in 2011 and read more’ CHRIS CHIBNALL, creator of BROADCHURCH was adapted for the screen as a major ITV drama in 2012. Erin also works as a freelance journalist, Chris Chibnall’s brilliant - and award-winning - crime series, writing for publications including Broadchurch, was a ratings and critical smash when it premiered The Sunday Times, The Sunday on ITV in March 2013. Over nine million people tuned in to watch Telegraph, Daily Mail, Red, the series with the second season green-lit before it had finished Psychologies, Marie Claire and Elle. airing. At its height, the show hit a rate of 8, 500 tweets per She lives in London with her family. minute, accounting for a massive 65.9% of UK Twitter traffic (Source: social media analysts Second Sync)… with everyone Chris Chibnall is the creator, writer desperate to know who killed Danny Latimer. and executive producer of the award winning ITV drama, Inspired by the first series, Erin Kelly’s novel contains never- • Broadchurch starred David Tennant and Broadchurch. He has also written before-seen material, adding great depth and insights to the Olivia Colman and was a runaway success for TV shows including Life on Mars, unforgettable cast of characters, this is a must-read not only for for Kudos and ITV in spring 2013, with Law & Order, Doctor Who, everyone who loved the TV programme ahead of the second viewing figures reaching 9 million Torchwood and The Great Train • Broadchurch has been a major media and series but for all fans of evocative, atmospheric crime drama. Robbery. He lives in Dorset with his consumer talking point since it began its broadcast in March 2013 family.

• In October 2013 the show was awarded four TV Daggers at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards and was named ‘Best TV Show of the Year’ by the Radio Times August 9780751555585 Crime & Mystery Fiction Paperback £7.99 304pp

48 Visions About the author Kelley Armstrong Kelley Armstrong lives in rural Ontario, Canada, with her family and far too many pets. She is the As New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's new author of the bestselling, thirteen- Cainsville series continues, Olivia's power to read omens leads book Women of the Otherworld to the discovery of a gruesome crime with troubling connections series, which begins with Bitten and to her new hometown. concludes with 13.

Omens, the first instalment in Kelley Armstrong's exciting new She has published two bestselling series, introduced Olivia Taylor-Jones, daughter of notorious serial YA series, the Darkest Powers and killers, and Gabriel Walsh, the self-serving, morally ambiguous Darkness Rising trilogies. Her new lawyer who became her unlikely ally. Together, they chased down YA series, the Age of Legends a devious killer and partially cleared her parents of their horrifying trilogy, begins with Sea of Shadows, crimes. published in April 2014. Her new adult trilogy, the Cainsville series, Their success, however, is short-lived. While Olivia takes refuge in began with Omens (August 2013) the old, secluded town of Cainsville, Gabriel's past mistakes have and continues with Visions (August come to light, creating a rift between the pair just when she needs 2014). his help the most. www.kelleyarmstrong.com Olivia finds a dead woman in her car, dressed to look like her, but • We have sold over a million copies of Kelley @KelleyArmstrong the body vanishes before anyone else sees it. Olivia's convinced Armstrong's books • it's another omen, a sign of impending danger. But then she learns A New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author that a troubled young woman went missing just days ago - the same woman Olivia found dead in her car. Someone has gone to great lengths to kill and leave this young woman as a warning. But why? And what role has her new home played in this disturbing August murder? 9781847445124

Adventure / Thriller Olivia's effort to uncover the truth places her in the crosshairs of Hardback old and powerful forces, forces that have their own agenda, and £16.99 closely guarded secrets they don't want revealed. 496pp

49 The Doll Maker

About the author Richard Montanari Richard Montanari was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to a traditional Italian-American family. After The terrifying new Byrne and Balzano case from the author of university, he travelled Europe The Killing Room and The Stolen Ones. extensively and lived in London, selling clothing in Chelsea and Mr Marseille is polite, elegant, and erudite. He would do anything foreign language encyclopaedias for his genteel true love Anabelle. And he is a psychopath. door-to-door in Hampstead.

A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot Returning to the US, he started with her young daughter. And there she finds a murdered girl working as a freelance writer for posed on a newly painted bench. Strangled. Beside her is a formal the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit invite to a tea dance in a week's time. Free Press, the Seattle Times, and many others. His novels have now Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in a been published in more than disused house, posed on painted swings. At the scene is an twenty-five languages. identical invite. This time, though, there is something extra waiting for Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. www.richardmontanari.com @RRMontanari A delicate porcelain doll. It's a message. And a threat. • Montanari is the author of six Sunday Times With Marseille and Anabelle stalking the city, Detectives Byrne Top 10 bestsellers, and has sold more than and Balzano have just seven days to find the link between the 800,000 books in the UK alone • Huge appeal to readers of James Patterson, murders before another innocent child is snatched from its Patricia Cornwell, Karin Slaughter and streets. Jeffery Deaver, as well as fans of TV crime dramas and films from The Killing to Se7en August 9780751549317 Crime & Mystery Fiction Hardback £12.99 464pp

50 The Far Side of the Sun

About the author Kate Furnivall Kate Furnivall was born in Wales and studied English at London University. She worked in The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of The publishing and then moved to TV Russian Concubine and The White Pearl. An epic story of love, advertising, where she met her loss and danger in paradise. husband.

With beautiful blue skies, sandy beaches and glorious sunshine, In 2000, Kate decided to write her the Bahamas is a slice of heaven. But in 1943, the world is at war mother's extraordinary story of and even paradise isn't safe... growing up in Russia, China and India, and this became The Russian Twenty-three-year-old Dodie Wyatt thought she had escaped her Concubine, which was a New York turbulent past - but one night her peace is shattered when she Times bestseller. All her books since chooses to help a man she finds stabbed in an alleyway. then have had an exotic setting and Kate has travelled widely for her On the other side of Nassau, wealthy diplomat's wife Ella Stanford research. She now has two sons and plays the role she has been born into, throwing herself into lives with her husband in a cottage charitable work and charming her husband's powerful friends. But by the sea in Devon. she has secrets to keep - and those secrets could put her life in danger. www.katefurnivall.com • Sales of The Russian Concubine are over @katefurnivall When one of the richest men in the world is found dead, these 150,000 copies in all editions - it has been a two very different women - Dodie, a shy introvert, and Ella, a bestseller in South Africa, US, Germany and Australia too confident socialite - are drawn together. With the unstable island • The powerful and emotive setting will spiralling into violence, deceit, greed and death, Dodie and Ella appeal to a wide readership have only each other to rely on, as their lives are torn apart... • Fabulous reviews and reader reactions to all

her books August 9780751550740 Historical Fiction Paperback £7.99 384pp

51 Life or Death

About the author Michael Robotham Michael Robotham started his career as a journalist but then became a ghostwriter, writing many The chilling new psychological thriller from one of the most bestselling autobiographies in brilliant crime authors of today. collaboration with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, adventurers Why would a man escape from prison the day before he's due to and showbusiness personalities. His be released? thrillers have been translated into twenty-two languages and he has Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery twice won Australia's Ned Kelly in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million Award for best crime novel. He was dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that shortlisted for the CWA Steel Audie knows where the money is. Dagger in 2007 and 2008 and was also shortlisted for the inaugral For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and ITV3 Thriller Awards. threatened almost daily by prison guards, inmates and criminal gangs, who all want to answer this same question, but suddenly http://www.michaelrobotham.com Audie vanishes, the day before he's due to be released. /index-uk.php @michaelrobotham Everybody wants to find Audie, but he's not running. Instead he's trying to save a life... and not just his own. • Robotham's books have sold over 250,000 copies in the UK and Australia • Perfect for fans of high-concept psychological thrillers like Before I Go To Sleep and Gone Girl • A pulse-stopping thriller from a remarkable author - stunning praise from Stephen King, Linwood Barclay, Peter James and Val August McDermid 9780751552904 Crime & Mystery Fiction Hardback £19.99 464pp

52 Beyond the Horizon

About the author Richard Parks with Michael Aylwin Born in 1977, Richard Parks is a former Welsh international rugby player turned extreme athlete and The incredible story of one man's journey from international adventurer. When he's not rugby player to world record-breaking extreme adventurer. travelling, he divides his time between Cardiff, Sheffield, and Richard Parks has what must be one of contemporary sport's most London. extraordinary and inspirational stories. Soon after he turned thirty, the professional career in rugby that had been his life for @richardparks over a decade was cut short by injury, leaving him faced with an uncertain future. But unlike many other young athletes, Richard decided to tackle his fears, anxiety and depression head on, taking inspiration from Ranulph Fiennes and a line from his grandmother's eulogy - "The horizon is only the limit of our sight“- and setting out on challenges that have become part of his Richard Parks everyday life.

Richard created history with his first endeavour, the 737 Challenge, by becoming the first person to conquer the highest mountain on each of the world's continents and venture to both the North and South Poles within seven months. Then in 2013 he • A major ambitious new talent who will sit tackled three hugely challenging events - an ultramarathon alongside Bear Grylls, Ben Fogle, James through the Peruvian jungle, the world's highest mountain bike Cracknell and Ranulph Fiennes race, and a double iron man triathlon in Snowdonia - in • Richard's preparation for and undertaking preparation for an even more extraordinary challenge: to record of his recent South pole challenge was the fastest solo, unsupported and unassisted journey to the South filmed by a major production company (Zig Zag), and will be a lead new series for Pole. These three challenges and the Antarctic speed record quest September that saw Richard ski 11 hours a day enduring perishing conditions, Channel 5 in 2014 • The author is an engaging and experienced 9780751555394 broken skis and spending Christmas and New Year alone on the speaker and presenter Biography & Autobiography: ice, were all filmed for a major four-part series to be broadcast on Sport Channel 5 later this year. Hardback £18.99 Beyond the Horizon is an amazing, inspiring, and exciting story for 352pp armchair adventurers, extreme sports and mountaineering fans alike. 53

The Shop Girls A True Story of Hard Work, Friendship and About the author Fashion in an Exclusive 1950s Department Store Ellee Seymour is a journalist and ghostwriter. Her first book was Ellee Seymour Being the Soham Psychic published in 2009. Ellee lives in The charming true story of five young women working in a Cambridgeshire where she runs a glamorous department store in the 1950s. PR company.

For Rosemary, Eve, Betty, Jean and Irene, working in Heyworth's http://elleeseymour.com/ department store in Cambridge is a dream come true. Once the @elleeseymour girls step inside the elegant building - surrounded by beautiful dresses, sumptuous fabrics and glamorous accessories - the hardships and struggles of their own lives are temporarily forgotten. Heyworth's is a magical place, where the shop girls - in their smart, simple black dresses - serve the fashionable elite of ©Robert Mozejko Ellee Seymour Cambridge, and glimpse lives of style and ease far beyond anything they had ever imagined. It is also a place where hard work and talent are valued, and where these young women can • Several of the ‘shop girls’ are available to forge a successful career. promote and discuss their experiences • After the success of ITV's Mr Selfridge and Set against the backdrop of the closing years of the Second World the BBC's The Paradise, both returning for War, and moving into the 1950s, The Shop Girls perfectly captures second series in 2014, this is the perfect the camaraderie and friendship of five ambitious young women moment for a charming true story about working together in a store that offered them an escape from the this Cambridge department store drudgery of their wartime childhoods. • The success of The Sugar Girls and The Sweethearts have shown that there's a real appetite for nostalgic, multi-voice narratives • Each of the girls' stories will be individually September published from July 2014 in fortnightly 9780751554960 serialised ebooks, leading up to the release Biography & Autobiography of the complete edition (with bonus Paperback material) in September. £7.99 240pp

54 Help for the Haunted

About the author John Searles John Searles is the Editor-at-Large at Cosmopolitan USA and regularly appears on US television promoting An all-consuming tale of a disturbed family packed with full of and reviewing his favourite books. suspense, secrets and scares His essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Beast and many other US national It begins with a phone call one snowy February night. Lying in her publications. He lives in New York bed, fourteen-year-old Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the City. phone across the hall. This is not the first late-night call they have received, since her mother and father have an uncommon www.john-searles.com occupation: helping 'haunted souls' find peace. And yet something @searlesbooks in Sylvie senses that this call is different from the others, especially when they are lured to the old church on the outskirts of town. Once there, her parents disappear, one after the other, behind the church's red door, leaving Sylvie alone in the car. Not long after, she drifts off to sleep, only to wake to the sound of • 'A rich and tense suspense story' gunfire. – Khaled Hosseini • 'A dazzling, dark portrait of a troubled As the story weaves back and forth through the years leading up family... frightening and beautiful.' – Gillian Flynn to that night and the months following, the ever-inquisitive Sylvie • An all-consuming tale of a disturbed family searched for answers and uncovers secrets that have haunted her packed with full of suspense, secrets and family for years... scares • Emotional and intelligent – the perfect Help for the Haunted is a psychological thriller that will keep you book club read on the edge of your seat, told in the captivating voice of a young • Amazing peer reviews and national review September heroine who is determined to discover the truth about what coverage for US edition 9780751555905 happened that winter night. • Was awarded Amazon.com Best Book of Fiction the Month, September 2013, and was included in the Amazon.com '50 best books Paperback of 2013' £7.99 • A finalist in the Goodreads Choice Best 368pp Books of 2013 with over two hundred 5* reviews on the Goodreads site 55 Truth or Dare

About the author Tania Carver Tania Carver is the pseudonym for the husband-and-wife writing team of Martyn and Linda Waites. The sixth psychological thriller in Tania Carver's award- nominated, internationally bestselling Phil Brennan and Marina http://www.taniacarver.com/tania. Esposito series. php @MartynWaites Darren Richards opened his eyes to find himself duct-taped to a chair with a crossbow pointing at him. Behind the crossbow is a hooded figure wearing a black-faced, round-eyed gas mask. The figure tells him what Darren knows: that he stole a car, drove it recklessly while under the influence of drugs and killed a woman and her baby. His solicitor managed to get the case thrown out of court on a technicality so he has not paid for his crime. That, says the figure, cannot be allowed to happen.

Darren turns to his right. Next to him are his girlfriend and their baby daughter. Both similarly taped to a chair, gagged. It's very • International rights to the series have been simple, explains the figure. Either you die or your girlfriend and snapped up all over the world child die. But someone has to pay. A life for a life. The choice is • Sales for the first three Tania Carver titles Darren's... are over 90,000 copies • Author on the rise - each book is selling Truth or Dare is the sixth page-turning thriller in the more than the previous internationally bestselling Brennan & Esposito series. You won't be able to put it down.

September 9780751550542 Adventure / Thriller Paperback £7.99 384pp

56 The Winter Crown

About the author Elizabeth Chadwick New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick has written over twenty historical novels sold in The new book in the magnificent Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy, eighteen languages worldwide. Her following this fascinating queen as she fights for power amongst first novel, The Wild Hunt, won a the perils of the royal court, from much-loved author Elizabeth Betty Trask Award, and The Scarlet Chadwick. Lion was nominated by Richard Lee, founder of the Historical Novel It is the winter of 1154 and Eleanor, Queen of England, is biding Society, as one of the top ten her time. While her husband King Henry II battles for land across historical novels of the last decade. the channel, Eleanor fulfils her duty as acting ruler and bearer of Elizabeth's nineteenth novel, To royal children. But she wants to be more than this - if only Henry Defy a King, won the RNA Historical would let her. Novel Prize in 2011.

Instead, Henry belittles and excludes her, falling for a young http://elizabethchadwick.com/ mistress and leaving Eleanor side-lined and angry. And as her sons @Chadwickauthor become young men, frustrated at Henry's hoarding of power, Eleanor is forced into a rebellion of devastating consequences. She knows how much Henry needs her, but does Henry know himself? • Fantastic growth in HB/ebook - combined Overflowing with scandal, politics, sex, triumphs and tragedies, sales up 100% for The Summer Queen, on The Winter Crown is the much-awaited new novel in this trilogy previous HB, Lady of the English • Second novel in the trilogy, but can be and a rich, compelling story in its own right. enjoyed as a stand alone, and will be followed by The Autumn Throne (2016) • Brand-new, market-leading, stunning seasonal cover design to match the trilogy's September titles 9781847445445 • Elizabeth Chadwick nominated as one of the Top Ten landmark historical novelists of Historical Fiction the decade, by Historical Novel Society Hardback founder Richard Lee £16.99 496pp

57 The Best Of Me

About the author Nicholas Sparks With over eighty-five million copies of his books sold, Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved The bestselling novel to be released as a film tie-in to the storytellers. His novels include Hollywood blockbuster – released in cinemas autumn 2014. twelve No. 1 New York Times bestsellers. All Nicholas Sparks' They were teenage sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks books have been international - with a passion that would change their lives for ever. But life bestsellers and have been would force them apart. translated into more than forty languages. Eight of his novels have Years later, the lines they had drawn between past and present been adapted into major films: Safe are about to slip... Called back to their hometown for the funeral Haven, The Lucky One, The Last of the mentor who once gave them shelter when they needed it Song, Dear John, Nights in most, they are faced with each other once again, and forced to Rodanthe, Message in a Bottle, A confront the paths they chose. Can true love ever rewrite the Walk to Remember and The past? Notebook.

• The Best of Me to be a massive Hollywood Nicholas Sparks lives in North film in autumn 2014 Carolina with his wife and family. Nicholas Sparks’ new epic love story will be published in • Combined sales of over 83,000 copies for You can visit him and sign up for the hardback by Sphere in October 2014 The Best of Me non-tie-in editions • Tremendous growth across all formats: 63% Nicholas Sparks eNewsletter at rise in frontlist and 79% rise in backlist sales www.uk.nicholassparks.com, and in 2012; Ebook sales rose 245% follow him on Twitter • Over 1 million Nicholas Sparks physical @NicholasSparks. novels sold in the UK alone, and has had eleven No. 1 New York Times bestsellers

September 9780751553338 Modern Fiction Film tie-in £7.99 320pp

58 Thug Kitchen Eat Like You Give a F**k About the author Anonymous www.thugkitchen.com is an LA- based food blog out to make sure that everyone eats their f**king Thug Kitchen is out to prove that you can be healthy and still be veggies. a total badass in the kitchen. Follow Thug Kitchen on Twitter Eat like a champ, not like a chump. @thugkitchen

There is no shortage of healthy food on the internet... aspirational blogs that are beautifully designed and elegantly written, in which a typical entry might recount a leisurely afternoon stroll to the farmers' market to pick up a bunch of organic kale. We think they are great, but let's be real: they are boring as f**k.

Thug Kitchen breaks the goddamn mould. With a shout-out from Gwyneth Paltrow on her Goop newsletter ('this might be my favourite thing ever'), millions of hits on their website and a 'best • new blog' award already under their belt, the Thug Kitchen team Celebrity Thug Kitchen fans include Gwyneth Paltrow and Lily Allen has struck gold by providing delicious, healthy and easy-to- • Vegan, dairy- and gluten-free diets have prepare recipes for everyone who's spent their life avoiding the never been more popular, and this book lentil pushers but still wants to be kind to their body. Recipes will provide more than 100 unique, easy-to- include BBQ Bean Burrito with Grilled Peach Salsa and Peanut prepare healthy recipes, ideal for anyone Butter and Banana Muffins. who wants to eat more cleanly. • With beautiful photographs throughout, The Thug Kitchen blog (www.thugkitchen.com) was the winner of and an incredibly fresh, edgy voice, this will the Saveur Best New Food blog 2013. Their Facebook page has be a wonderful gift for foodies and new more than a quarter of a million 'likes', and they have more than cooks alike October 40k followers on Twitter. 9780751555516

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59 We Shall Remember

About the author Emma Fraser Emma Fraser is an ex-nurse and she completed her training in Edinburgh. After writing several Set against the Second World War, this is the powerful new medical romances under the name novel from the author of When the Dawn Breaks that asks the Anne Fraser, her research into question, what would you do under fire? medical training in the early twentieth-century inspired her to 1939. Irena is a young medical student living in Warsaw when the write about strong Scottish nurses German army invade Poland. Those closest to her are dying and and female doctors during World when Irena realises that no one is coming to Poland's aid, it's clear War I and her first novel as Emma that she is alone. Forced to flee to Britain, Irena meets Richard, a Fraser, When the Dawn Breaks, was RAF pilot who she's instantly drawn to and there's a glimmer of the result. When the Dawn Breaks happiness on the horizon. And then the war becomes more brutal was shortlisted for the Epic and in order to right a never-forgotten wrong Irena must make an Romantic Novel RoNA Award in impossible decision. 2014. Emma lives with her husband and two children in Glasgow. 1989. Decades later, Sarah's mother is left a home in Skye and another in Edinburgh following the death of Lord Glendale, a man she's never met, and only on the condition that Magdalena Drobnik, a woman she's never heard of, is no longer alive. Sarah's only clues to this mystery are two photographs she doesn't • Published in time for Armistice Day understand but she's determined to discover the truth, not • Dual readership: will be enjoyed by knowing that she's about to begin a journey that will change her traditional saga readers but also appeals to a more general readership of anyone who life. reads dramatic wartime novels • Extensively researched this is authentic and Gripping, poignant and honest, We Shall Remember is an honest incredibly powerful story about the choices we make under fire. It October will stay with you long after you've turned the final page. 9780751551228 Second World War Fiction, War Fiction, Historical Fiction, Sagas Paperback £6.99 400pp 60 The Christmas Party

About the author Carole Matthews Carole Matthews is the Sunday Times bestselling author of twenty- five novels, including the Top Ten Romance is in the air and secrets are about to be uncovered. It's bestsellers A Cottage by the Sea going to be a night to remember at The Christmas Party, the and Calling Mrs Christmas. In 2013, brilliant new Christmas novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten Summer Daydreams was shortlisted bestseller Carole Matthews. for the Melissa Nathan award for Fiction about Life and Love. Carole Louise Young is a devoted single mother whose only priority is was also shortlisted for the providing for her daughter, Mia. Louise has a good job as a PA in a Romantic Novelists' Association huge international corporation and she's grateful for it. The only Romantic Comedy RoNA in 2012 problem is her boss who can't seem to keep his hands to himself, and inducted into the Reader Hall but Louise can handle him. What she really doesn't have time for of Fame by the inaugural Festival of is romance - until she meets the company's rising star, Josh Romance. Her novels dazzle and Wallace. delight readers all over the world. She is published in more than thirty Louise has always said no to nights out, preferring to stay in with countries and her books have sold Mia but for one night only she's decided to let her hair down. It's to Hollywood. the office Christmas party, she has a pretty dress to wear and • Two Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers for For all the latest news from Carole, she's looking forward to some champagne and fun. She's Carole in 2013: Calling Mrs Christmas and A completely unaware that others around her are too busy playing Cottage by the Sea. visit www.carolematthews.com, dangerous games to enjoy the party - until she's pulled into those • Calling Mrs Christmas was the second follow Carole on Twitter games herself... bestselling seasonal paperback in 2013 @carolematthews or join the • Ebook sales of Calling Mrs Christmas (2013) thousands of readers who have up by over 200% compared to With Love at become Carole's friend on Christmas (2012) Facebook. • Combined life sales of all Carole Matthews titles are over one million copies on October Bookscan 9780751552164 Modern Fiction Paperback £7.99 448pp

61 Only One Life

About the author Sara Blaedel Sara Blaedel is the number one Danish bestseller and author of the Detective Louise Rick crime series, From the million-copy Danish Bestseller comes a page-turning which has been published to new thriller that tells a story of jealousy, honour, obsession abd acclaim around the world. In her a desperate race to stop a killer... native Denmark her books have sold over a million copies and has It was clearly no accidental drowning. When a young immigrant been voted Denmark's most girl is found in the watery depths of Holbaek Fjord, a piece of popular novelist three times since concrete tied around her waist and two mysterious circular 2007. Sara is also an ambassador patches on the back of her neck, Detective Louise Rick is called to for Save the Children and lives in investigate. Copenhagen with her family.

The girl's name was Samra, and Louise soon learns that her short www.sarablaedel.com life was a sad story. Abused by her father, it becomes clear that he @sarablaedel would be capable of killing Samra if she brought dishonour to the family. But according to her family, she has done nothing to inspire this sort of violence. • All of Sara's novels debut at #1 in the Danish bestseller charts and she has been Samra's best friend believes that the worst has happened and voted Denmark's favourite author three shares her concerns with the police. Within days she is also times (across all genres) • In Denmark Sara's titles have sold over one discovered dead. To top it all, Samra's younger sister has also gone million copies in a country of just 5.5 million missing. people • The Louise Rick series has been sold to In this heart-pounding new thriller from the Danish number one eighteen international territories bestseller, Louise Rick must navigate a complex web of family ties, • Sara's lead character, Louise Rick, taps jealousy and obsession in seemingly idyllic Copenhagen, to find a perfectly into the trend for strong female October remorseless predator, or predators, before it is too late... protagonists in crime fiction (five out of six 9780751551204 finalists for last year's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year starred Crime & Mystery Fiction female leads) Paperback • The Louise Rick series will appeal to fans of £7.99 uber-successful TV Scandi-crime including 368pp Danish programme The Killing and Swedish programme The Bridge 62 The Seafront Tea Rooms

About the author Vanessa Greene Vanessa Greene grew up and lives in north London. Her first novel, The Vintage Teacup Club, published A wonderful and heart-warming novel about female friendship, to rave reader reviews and won an set on the British coast, from the author of The Vintage Teacup instant place in their hearts. Club. You can follow her on Twitter The Seafront Tea Rooms is just metres away from the bustle of the @VanessaGBooks or on Facebook seaside, but in this quiet place a group of women find exactly /VanessaGreeneBooks. what they've been searching for.

Charismatic journalist Alexandra is on a mission to scope out Britain's best tea shops. She knows she's found something special in the Seafront Tea Rooms but is it a secret she should share? Kathryn, a single mother whose only sanctuary is the 'Seafront', convinces Alexandra to keep the place out of her article by agreeing to join her on her search. Together with the other regulars, Julianne, a pastry chef with big dreams, and Severine, a culture-shocked French nanny, they travel around the country discovering quaint hideaways and hidden gems. What none of • Vanessa’s first novel, The Vintage Teacup them expect is for their journey to surprise them with discoveries Club (2011) , has sold almost 40,000 copies and has over 60 five-star Amazon reviews of a different kind... • Multi-generational novel of female friendship based on a tearoom-themed Full of romance, tea and cake, The Seafront Tea Rooms is a heart- concept warming tale about the strength found in true friendship. • Great storytelling combined with an evocative British seaside setting October 9780751552232 Modern Fiction, General & Literary Fiction Paperback £7.99 416pp

63 The Gray Man

About the author Mark Greaney Mark Greaney is the bestselling author of The Gray Man, On Target, and Ballistic. He is also co-author of The first in the Court Gentry all-action thriller series, from Tom Locked On, Threat Vector and Clancy's co-writer Mark Greaney. Command Authority, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. A feature film To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. adaptation of The Gray Man is in He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, development by New Regency accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he Pictures. He has a degree in always hits his target. International Relations and Political Science. To research his novels, But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces Mark has travelled all over the like money. And power. And there are men who hold these as the world and trained with firearms, only currency worth fighting for. In their eyes, Gentry has just • Mark Greaney is the co-author of Tom visited the Pentagon and multiple outlived his usefulness. Clancy's latest huge international Washington, D.C. Intelligence bestsellers Locked On, Threat Vector and agencies, and studied close Command Authority But Court Gentry is going to prove that, for him, there's no grey quarters battle tactics and • This is the first in the Court Gentry series - battlefield medicine. Mark lives in area between killing for a living and killing to stay alive... along with On Target, the second book, it Memphis, Tennessee. was up for a Barry Award in the US • The Gray Man has already built up a keen fanbase through its successful ebook-first release in the UK

October 9780751550252 Adventure / Thriller, Crime & Mystery Fiction Paperback £6.99 480pp 64 Untitled George Clinton Autobiography About the author George Clinton was born in 1941 in George Clinton Virginia and grew up in New Jersey. He is the legendary ringmaster of Parliament and Funkadelic, and has The ultimate rock’n’roll story by one of music's most influential influenced artists as diverse as and innovative stars. Prince, Primal Scream, Public Enemy and the Red Hot Chili Legendary leader of Parliament and Funkadelic, George Clinton is Peppers. unique in pop music - and his story is like nothing you've ever heard before. http://georgeclinton.com/ @george_clinton Growing up in 50s New Jersey, Clinton was obsessed with doo- wop and R&B. Nothing unusual there. But how many kids like that ended up playing to tens of thousands of rabid fans while wearing a diaper? How many of them built a spaceship, complete with light and sound effects, and landed it onstage during concerts? How many of them put their stamp on four decades of pop music, from the mind-expanding sixties to the hip-hop-dominated • George Clinton has been cited as one of the nineties and beyond? Just the one. foremost innovators of funk music, along with James Brown and Sly Stone So what does an older, wiser, more sober George Clinton do? He • A legendary musical innovator tells the tells his story. Now, finally, after fifty years in the business, Clinton ultimate rock and roll story • Will appeal to music fans everywhere, is ready to deliver the whole P-Funk saga. It's a story without including those who bought compare: the musical innovations, the rock-and-roll debauchery, autobiographies by Keith Richards, Rod the ups and downs of his career. More to the point, it's a story Stewart and Anthony Kiedis told by the man who made it happen, and told in his own unique • Offers a fascinating front row seat through October style, which combines an almost photographic recollection of the the hedonistic 70s and beyond events of his life with an impish sense of humour and a 9780751554724 philosophical bent. There's no one like George Clinton, and no one Biography & Autobiography: better prepared to tell the tale of a half-century of innovation, Film, Television, Music, Theatre triumph, disappointment, addiction, contradiction and - above all - Hardback funk. £20.00 288pp 65 That Night

About the author Chevy Stevens Chevy Stevens grew up on a ranch on Vancouver Island and still lives on the island with her husband and A tense thriller of revenge and persecution from the author of daughter. When she's not working Still Missing. on her next book, she's camping and canoeing with her family in the Eighteen-year-old Toni and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly local mountains. Her debut novel, convicted for the murder of her younger sister. Still Missing, won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Seventeen years later she returns home, ready to move on with First Novel. her life, but she can't. Ryan is convinced he can uncover the truth; her mother still doesn't believe Toni is innocent; and the former http://www.chevystevens.com/ high school girls who made Toni's life miserable may have darker @ChevyStevens secrets than anyone can imagine.

Before Toni can move forward, she must take a terrifying step back to her past to find out the truth and clear her name, before it's too late.

• Still Missing has sold over 60,000 copies and over 9,000 of those were ebooks. Never Knowing has sold over 47,000 copies, including over 3,000 ebooks • That Night taps perfectly into the latest hot trend in thriller fiction: dark psychological thrillers with female protagonists • Still Missing spent 11 weeks in the November Heatseekers chart 9780751555097 • Great praise for That Night from the world's biggest thriller writers Adventure / Thriller Paperback £6.99 496pp

66 The Execution

About the author Dick Wolf Dick Wolf, an award-winning writer, director, producer, and creator, is the architect of one of the most The second page-turning thriller from the creator of Law & successful brands in the history of Order starring NYPD Special Agent Jeremy Fisk. television - Law & Order, the longest running scripted show in Soon after the Mexican presidential election, twenty-three bodies television history. He has won are discovered beheaded on the United States border, each numerous awards, including two marked with a unique symbol - a carving of a hummingbird. Emmys, a Grammy, and an Edgar. Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican intelligence agency recognizes it as the signature of Chuparosa - an assassin feared for his cunning and brutality. The fierce and intense detective has been pursuing the killer for years, yet knows little about him, except that he's heading to New York - with the rest of the world.

It's United Nations Week in Manhattan and Jeremy Fisk can't let grief over a devastating loss keep him from his duty to safeguard the city. Complicating matters is news of a mass murder nearby - and the arrival of the disturbingly beautiful and assertive Cecilia Garza, determined to do things her way. • Written by none other than the award- In the race to catch Chuparosa, these uneasy allies must learn to winning creator of TV's Law & Order • work together, and fast. As they soon discover, there's more to Dick Wolf's cinematic narrative style creates a thrilling read that will delight fans of this threat than meets the eye - and Fisk will have to learn the David Baldacci and Lee Child hard way that justice is not always blind. • The Execution is perfect for fans of Law &

Order, Homeland and 24 November 9780751551167 Adventure / Thriller, Crime & Mystery Fiction Paperback £7.99 480pp 67 From Notting Hill with Four Weddings... Actually About the author Ali McNamara is the author of four Ali McNamara previous novels, also published by Sphere: From Notting Hill with Set in the world of all your favourite rom-com movies, this is the Love... Actually, Breakfast at gorgeously romantic new novel by the author of From Notting Darcy's, From Notting Hill to New Hill with Love... Actually. York... Actually and Step Back in Time. Ali lives in Cambridgeshire Movie addict Scarlett O'Brien is finally living the jet-setting life with her family and two Labrador she's dreamed of - but it all hangs by a shiny, golden thread. dogs.

Flying between London and New York, running two businesses, Ali has great online presence on planning her wedding to handsome fiancé, Sean, with best friends Twitter @AliMcNamara, Facebook Oscar and Maddie - life couldn't be better. and her own blog http://www.alimcnamara.co.uk/. But then Scarlett meets paparazzi darling, Gabriella Romero, and She will promote tirelessly. life suddenly becomes even more extravagant and glamorous. As she begins to experience the other side to being rich and famous, it's not only Scarlett's perfect wedding that's put in jeopardy, but her whole world.

Indulge in all your favourite rom-coms at once with this warm, fun • Continuing the brilliant and successful tale of what happens when you really live the glitz and the Notting Hill series which launched her and glamour. have proved so popular with her readers • From Notting Hill to New York... Actually spent six weeks in the Paperback Top 50 chart • All four of her books have been in the Top 5 in the Bookseller's 'Heatseekers' bestseller November list; four years in a row, with the first three 9780751550245 hitting No.1. Romantic Fiction Paperback £7.99 448pp

68 How The Light Gets In

About the author Louise Penny Louise Penny is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of nine Gamache novels, including Still Life, which won the CWA John The critically acclaimed number one New York Times bestseller Creasey Dagger in 2006.

As a fierce, unrelenting winter grips Quebec, shadows are closing Recipient of virtually every existing in on Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents award for crime fiction, Louise was have left the Homicide Department and hostile forces are lining up also granted The Order of Canada against him. in 2014. She lives in a small village south of Montreal. When Gamache receives a message about a mysterious case in Three Pines, he is compelled to investigate -- a woman who was www.louisepenny.com once one of the most famous people in the world has vanished.

As he begins to shed light on the investigation, he is drawn into a Louise Penny’s new novel web of murder, lies and unimaginable corruption at the heart of The Long Way Home the city. Facing his most challenging, and personal, case to date, will be published in hardback by can Gamache save the reputation of the Sûreté, those he holds Sphere in August 2014 dear and himself? • 'Clever, full of twists and turns, a Evocative, gripping and atmospheric, this magnificent work of wonderfully satisfying - and moving - crime fiction from international bestselling author Louise Penny addition to Penny's atmospheric, distinctive will stay with you long after you turn the final page. series' – Kate Mosse • Louise Penny is the only author to win both the Anthony and the Agatha crime fiction awards FOUR times in a row November • How the Light Gets In is Louise's first 9780751544237 number one New York Times bestseller - her profile is huge in the USA Crime & Mystery Fiction • Penny is an international phenomenon, Paperback hitting bestseller lists in the US, UK and £7.99 Canada 512pp

69 The Christmas Surprise

About the author Jenny Colgan Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including Christmas at the Cupcake There will be more than one surprise in store for sweetshop Café and The Loveliest Chocolate owner Rosie Hopkins this Christmas, in the brand new novel by Shop in Paris, which are also Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan. published by Sphere. Meet Me at the Cupcake Café won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Rosie Hopkins, newly engaged, is looking forward to an exciting Romance and was a Sunday Times year in the little sweetshop she owns and runs in Lipton. Top Ten bestseller, as was Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of But when fate strikes Rosie and her boyfriend, Stephen, a terrible Dreams, which won the RNA blow, threatening everything they hold dear, it's going to take all Romantic Novel of the Year Award their strength and the support of their families and friends to hold 2013. Jenny is married with three them together. children and lives in London and France. After all, don't they say it takes a village to raise a child? • A return of much-loved character Rosie Hopkins, but new fans can read it as a For more about Jenny, visit her standalone website and her Facebook page, or • The perfect present for every woman this follow her on Twitter Christmas with a brand new market-leading @jennycolgan. jacket look • Includes mouth-watering recipes • Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop was a Top 10 bestseller for 3 weeks selling 110,000 copies, and it won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013

November 9780751553956 Modern Fiction Hardback £12.99 432pp

70 The Inside Man

About the author Jeff Abbott Jeff Abbott is the author of fourteen previous novels, published in twenty languages. His books The action-packed new thriller from the international bestseller. Panic and Run have been optioned for film and are in script development. Jeff lives in Texas When Sam Capra's best customer - and friend - is murdered with his wife and two sons. outside his Miami bar, Sam decides to seek justice. Determined to figure out the connection between his friend's death and a Follow him on Twitter @JeffAbbott beautiful stranger, Sam infiltrates the Varelas, one of Miami's most prominent - and dangerous - families. He faces a powerful but unstable mastermind intent on dividing his business empire between his three very different adult children. It's not long before he realises that these formidable siblings may hold murderous secrets of their own.

Sam is inexorably drawn into this shadowy family drama, amplifying painful echoes of his own shattered relationships as he goes undercover. And in his quest to unearth the killer before his cover is blown, Sam discovers one of the world's 'dark corners'; a place where laws are inconsequential, and no amount of money • Sales of over 750,000 copies for Jeff's titles or power can save you... in the UK alone • Bold new packaging look to appeal to thriller readers looking for a high-octane read • Jeff is very active online and regularly interacts with fans on Twitter and Facebook. www.jeffabbott.com December 9780751547931 Adventure / Thriller Paperback £6.99 496pp

71 No Mercy

About the author Roberta Kray Through her marriage to Reggie Kray, Roberta Kray has a unique and authentic insight into London's The addictive new thriller. No one knows crime like Kray. East End. Born in Southport, Roberta met Reggie in early 1996 and they married the following Maddie Layne's life hasn't been the same since her sister was year; they were together until murdered. The police never found Greta's body so all Maddie was Reggie's death in 2000. Roberta is left with was unanswered questions - and her orphaned nephew, the author of many previous Zac, to look after. She works hard to make sure Zac has everything bestsellers including Broken Home, he needs; she even tends graves for some extra cash. Maddie isn't Strong Women, Bad Girl and looking for any trouble. Streetwise.

Lucy Rivers died decades ago under suspicious circumstances and the people responsible believe the entire affair is over. And then the mysterious Cato hires Maddie to tend to Lucy's neglected grave. Maddie starts asking innocent questions, but when she learns that the deaths of her sister and Lucy are linked she knows she must dig deeper.

Lena Gissing, matriarch of one of the East End's most vicious • Powerful, compelling and gritty, No Mercy families, has a vested interest in making sure the truth stays is perfect for readers of Martina Cole and buried. She's not about to let a nobody like Maddie Layne get in Jessie Keane the way... • Roberta Kray's novels have sold almost a quarter of a million copies in the UK alone • Full of fantastic, strong female characters and authentic East End gangland grit December 9780751553765 Crime & Mystery Fiction Hardback £19.99 304pp

72 And She Was

About the author Alison Gaylin Alison Gaylin's debut book was nominated for an Edgar Award in the Best First Novel category. A Shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers Award, And She graduate of Northwestern Was is the first in the unmissable Brenna Spector series. University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Missing persons investigator Brenna Spector has a rare Journalism, Alison lives with her neurological disorder that enables her to recall every detail of husband and daughter in upstate every day of her life. New York.

It began in childhood, when her older sister stepped into a strange www.alisongaylin.com car never to be seen again, and it's proven invaluable in her work. © Michael Gaylin Alison Gaylin @alisongaylin But it hasn't helped her to solve the mystery that haunts her above all others - and it didn't lead her to six-year-old Iris Neff, who walked away from a barbecue in her small suburban town more than a decade ago and vanished.

When a local woman, Carol Wentz, disappears eleven years later, Brenna uncovers bizarre connections between the missing woman, the long-gone girl...and herself. • And She Was has been nominated for both an ITW thriller award and an Anthony award (presented at Bouchercon). Alison has previously been shortlisted for an Edgar Award • ‘Label me a big fan’ – Harlan Coben • ‘Solidly plotted and mares at a great pace… December I highly recommend this book’ 9780751553727 – Charlaine Harris General & Literary Fiction Paperback £6.99 384pp

73 74 Fireborn

About the author Keri Arthur Keri Arthur won the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Urban Fantasy and has been From New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur comes a nominated in the Best brand new series featuring heroine Emberly Pearson - a phoenix Contemporary paranormal category capable of taking on human form, and cursed with the ability to of the Romantic Times Reviewer's foresee death... Choice Awards. She is a dessert and function cook by trade, and has one Emberly has spent a good number of her many lives trying to save daughter. She lives in Australia. humans. So when her prophetic dreams reveal the death of Sam, a man she once loved, she does everything in her power to prevent that from happening. But in saving his life, she gets more than she bargained for.

Sam is working undercover for the Paranormal Investigations Team, and those who are trying to murder him are actually humans infected by a plague-like virus, the Crimson Death - a by- product of a failed government experiment that attempted to identify the enzymes that make vampires immortal. Now, all those infected must be eliminated. • Will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris But when Emberly's boss is murdered and his irreplaceable research stolen, she needs to find the guilty party before she goes down in flames...

July 9780349404158 Fiction Paperback £8.99 400pp

75 Harder

About the author Robin York Robin York grew up at a college, went to college, signed on for some more college, and then married a An enthralling New Adult debut that is sexy, gritty and university professor. She still isn't unforgettable… sure why it didn't occur to her to write New Adult sooner. She Caroline still dreams about West. His warm skin, his taut muscles, moonlights as a mother, makes his hand sliding down her stomach. Then she wakes up and she's killer salted caramels, and sorts out back to reality: West is gone. Before he left, he broke her heart. thorny plot problems while running, hiking, or riding her bike. Then, out of the blue, West calls in crisis. A tragedy has hit his family - a family that's already a fractured mess. Caroline knows what she has to do. Without discussion, without stopping to think, she's on a plane, flying to his side to support him in any way he needs.

Though they are together once more, things are totally different. West looks edgy, angry at the world. Caroline doesn't fit in. She should be back in Iowa, finalising her civil suit against the ex- boyfriend who posted their explicit pictures on a revenge porn website. But here she is. Deeply into West, wrapped up in him, in • Robin York, writing as Ruthie Knox, made love with him. Still. her USA Today bestseller debut with Along Came Trouble (Mar '13), the sequel in her popular Camelot series They fought the odds once. Losing each other was hard. But • Knox is a double finalist for the 2013 RITA finding their way back to each other couldn't be harder. Award in the categories of Contemporary Single Title Romance (About Last Night) and Romance Novella (Room at the Inn) July 9780349404219 Fiction, Romantic Fiction Paperback £7.99 304pp

76 Cry of Pain Understanding Suicide and the Suicidal Mind About the author Professor Mark Williams Mark Williams is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at Why do people commit suicide? Is it a cry for help or a cry of the University of Oxford. pain? In this thought-provoking book, Mark Williams offers new perspectives on suicide and suicidal behaviour.

Suicide presents a real and often tragic puzzle for the family and friends of someone who has committed or attempted suicide. 'Why did they do it?' 'How could they do this?' 'Why did they not see there was help available?'

For therapists and clinicians who want to help those who are vulnerable and their families, there are also puzzles that often seem unsolvable. What is it that causes someone to end his or her own life, or to harm themselves: is it down to a person's temperament, the biology of their genes, or to social conditions? What provides the best clue to a suicidal person's thoughts and behaviour? Each type of explanation, seen in isolation, has its drawbacks, so we need to see how they may fit together to give a more complete picture. • Professor Mark Williams is hugely respected and is the author of two Cry of Pain examines the evidence from a social, psychological and international bestsellers: Mindfulness (Piatkus) and The Mindful Way Through biological perspective to see if there are common features that Depression (Guilford Press) might shed light on suicide. Informative and sympathetically • Rates of suicide in the UK are at an all time written, it is essential reading for therapists and mental health high and a book that sheds light on the professionals as well as those struggling with suicidal feelings, many aspects of this most extreme act will July their families and friends. interest both professional and lay readers 9780349402819

Popular Psychology Trade Paperback £15.99 240pp

77 Without You

About the author Saskia Sarginson Saskia Sarginson was awarded a distinction in her MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway after a A captivating blend of psychological suspense and emotional BA in English Literature from family drama, this is an unforgettable new novel from the Cambridge University and a BA in author of The Twins. Fashion Design & Communications. Before becoming a full-time author, 1984, Suffolk. Saskia's writing experience included being a health and beauty editor on When 17-year-old Eva goes missing at sea, everyone presumes women's magazines, a ghost writer that she drowned. Her parents' relationship is falling apart, for the BBC and Harper Collins and undermined by guilt and grief. But her younger sister, Faith, copy-writing and script editing. refuses to consider a life without Eva; she's determined to find her sister and bring her home alive. Saskia lives in south London with her four children. Close to the shore looms the shape of an island - out of bounds, mysterious, and dotted with windowless concrete huts. What nobody knows is that inside one of the huts Eva is being held captive. That she is fighting to survive - and return home.

Without You will leave you unsettled, even as it touches your • Deeply psychological and emotional, this is heart. a perfect book club read • For readers of Maggie O'Farrell and Rosamund Lupton • The Twins was chosen for the Richard and Judy autumn book club 2013 and received incredible reviews • ‘Gripping’ July – Marie Claire on The Twins 9780749958701 • ‘Convincing and compelling’ – Stylist on The Twins Fiction Paperback £7.99 384pp

78 Loving Rose: The Redemption of Malcolm Sinclair About the author New York Times bestselling author Number 3 in series Stephanie Laurens began writing as Stephanie Laurens an escape from the dry world of professional science, a hobby that quickly became a career. Her novels The third book in the Casebook of Barnaby Adair novels by the set in Regency England have reigning queen of historical romance: Stephanie Laurens. captivated readers around the globe, making her one of the Miraculously spared from death, Malcolm Sinclair erases the romance world's most beloved and notorious man he once was. Reinventing himself as Thomas popular authors. Glendower, he strives to make amends for his past, yet he never imagines penance might come via a secretive lady he discovers living in his secluded manor.

Rose has a plausible explanation for why she and her children are residing in Thomas's house, but she quickly realizes he's far too intelligent to fool. Revealing the truth is impossibly dangerous, yet day by day, he wins her trust, and then her heart.

But then her enemy closes in, and Rose turns to Thomas as the only man who can protect her and the children. And when she • Stephanie Laurens' last fifteen titles have asks for his help, Thomas finally understands his true purpose, and been New York Times bestsellers. She is with unwavering commitment, he seeks his redemption in the also a USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author and is and a rising star in only way he can - through living the reality of loving Rose. the UK market • The Earl of Glencrae hit the New York Times No.1 spot July 9780749958725 Historical Fiction, Romantic Fiction: Historical Paperback £7.99 400pp 79 Love, Love Me Do

About the author Mark Haysom After graduating from Leicester University, Mark Haysom had a thirty year career in newspapers Set in the 60s, this is the most original, funny, wise, dark and during which he rose from trainee touching family drama you will read all year. A fabulously journalist on a local weekly to unique debut. Managing Director of Mirror Group. In 2003 he moved into education as 1963. The year the Beatles first top the charts. The year Martin head of a large Government Luther King has a dream. The year Truman Bird moves his family agency. In recent years he has from their home in Brighton to a dilapidated caravan in the served on the boards of a number Ashdown Forest - then disappears. of charities dedicated to overcoming poverty, disadvantage Truman's a charmer, a chancer, a liar. He's always got away with and addiction. He was awarded an it, too. But now he's gone a dangerous step too far and only has Honorary Doctorate from Leicester one day to put things right - before he loses everything. University in 2005 and a CBE in 2008. Mark lives in Brighton with For Truman's wife, Christie, life has not turned out the way she'd his wife, Ann. This is his first novel. imagined. How has she, that young girl of not that many years ago, ended up like this? In a caravan. With three children. And an absent husband. • The Piatkus superlead for 2014 and our Honest and unsettling, yet ultimately uplifting, this unique, wise biggest debut launch of the year • and addictive British debut weaves themes of love, betrayal, A truly unique novel in every way, this is upmarket, intelligent and perfect for book family and childhood, and shows that even though life has a clubs habit of getting in the way of dreams, people find their own • A book for both men and women, for fans extraordinary ways of bouncing back. of David Nichols, Sarah Winman, Maria

Semple and Jennifer Egan August • The first in a series starring the same 9780349403892 characters, each set within a new decade Fiction, Modern Fiction Paperback £7.99 448pp

80 Never Judge a Lady By Her Cover

About the author Sarah MacLean Sarah MacLean grew up in Rhode Island, obsessed with historical romance and bemoaning the fact that she was born far too late for Fourth in a sensational new series by rising star of historical her own season. Her love of all romance, Sarah MacLean. things historical helped to earn her degrees from Smith College and Sarah MacLean burst onto the romance scene with Nine Rules to Harvard University before she Break When Romancing A Rake, the first in her critically acclaimed finally set pen to paper and wrote Love By Numbers series. In early 2012, she began her new, pre- her first book. Sarah lives with her Victorian Rules of Scoundrels series with A Rogue by Any Other family and a ridiculously large Name, which received the 2013 RITA Award from the Romance collection of romance novels. Writers of America.

In this steamy, saucy and undeniably sexy new instalment to the Rules of Scoundrels series, the adventure and intrigue gets more exciting.

Fans won't be able to wait for more scandals and secrets from the most exciting voice in romance since Julia Quinn! • Sarah MacLean's historical romance is warm and inviting, and makes for the perfect escapist reading • ‘I couldn’t stop smiling’ – Eloisa James on A Rogue by Any Other Name

September 9780349400600 Romantic Fiction: Historical Paperback £8.99 400pp

81 Festive in Death

About the author J. D. Robb Nora Roberts published her first novel using the pseudonym J.D. Robb in 1995, introducing to The new Eve Dallas and Roarke thriller, set at Christmas. readers the tough as nails but emotionally damaged homicide cop The kitchen knife jammed into his cold heart pinned a cardboard Eve Dallas and billionaire Irish sign to his well-toned chest. It read: Santa Says You've Been Bad!!! rogue, Roarke. Ho, Ho, Ho! With the In Death series, Robb has It's Christmas, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas is in no mood to become one of the biggest thriller celebrate. While her charismatic husband Roarke plans a huge, writers on earth, with each new glittering party, Eve has murder on her mind. novel reaching number one on bestseller charts the world over. The victim - personal trainer Trey Ziegler - was trouble in life and is causing even more problems in death. Vain, unfaithful and vindictive, Trey had cultivated a lot of enemies. Which means Eve • J.D. Robb has sold over 500,000 books in has a lot of potential suspects. And when she and Detective the UK and over 450,000 books in Australia Peabody uncover Trey's sinister secret, the case takes a deadly (Bookscan) turn. • A Sunday Times bestselling author • ‘Eva Dallas - tough as nails and still sexy as

hell’ Christmas may be a festival of light, but Eve and Roarke will be – Stephen King forced once more down a very dark path in their hunt for the truth.

September 9780349403687 Fiction Hardback £18.99 352pp

82 Night's Honour

About the author Thea Harrison Thea Harrison is the pen name for author Teddy Harrison. Thea has travelled extensively, having lived in It's the book that fans of the Elder Races have been waiting for - England and explored Europe for the seventh novel from one of the freshest voices in paranormal several years. She has graduate fiction. degrees in Philanthropic Studies and Library Information Science, In the latest novel, a woman finds herself in need of protection- but her first love has always been and seduced by honour... writing fiction.

On the run from her former employer, Tess knows that she's vulnerable on her own amongst the Elder Races. That's why she decides to audition to become the human attendant of a powerful Vampyre of the Nightkind demesne. But while her position affords her the safety she seeks, her protector turns out to be more than she bargained for.

The right-hand man of the Nightkind King, Xavier del Torro is both terrifying and alluring. While his true nature frightens Tess, she can't ignore the appeal of his innate sense of integrity and self- restraint. Thrown into Xavier's world, Tess must quickly learn to • This bold, exciting new voice in paranormal navigate the dangers-both to her life, and to her heart. But the romance is perfect for fans of Christine biggest threat comes from her own past... Feehan and JR Ward • Thea Harrison won the 2012 RITA for best paranormal romance for Dragon Bound

September 9780349403625 Fiction Paperback £8.99 368pp

83 Son of No One

About the author Sherrilyn Kenyon Writing as Sherrilyn Kenyon and Kinley MacGregor, Sherrilyn is the New York Times bestselling and One step into the Dark Hunter World...and you'll never turn award-winning author of several back. series: the Dark-Hunters; the Lords of Avalon; and the League. She lives From No.1 New York Times bestseller Sherrilyn Kenyon comes the with her husband and three sons in next blockbuster in her phenomenal Dark-Hunter series. Nashville, Tennessee. Visit her at www.sherrilynkenyon.com

• 24th novel in the thrilling and sexy Dark- Hunter World series of paranormal romances • Sherrilyn Kenyon is one of the most popular authors writing in this genre and she has over 23 million copies of her books in print in over 30 countries • Since 2004, Kenyon has placed over 60 September novels on the New York Times bestseller 9780349400679 list; in the past three years alone, she has claimed the No. 1 spot 17 times Fantasy Fiction Hardback £18.99 384pp

84 Dark Blood

About the author Christine Feehan Christine Feehan has received numerous honours including being a nominee for the Romance Writers The fates of a warrior reborn and a seductive Dragonseeker are of America RITA and receiving a irrevocably entwined in the new Carpathian novel by number 1 Career Achievement Award from New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, "the queen Romantic Times. of paranormal romance" (J. R. Ward).

At long last you are truly back with us...

Zev Hunter was an elite warrior, a dark-blood dealer of death to rogue Lycans who preyed on mankind. He was a loner. But Zev begins to question his past and his purpose when he awakens in the darkness of the sacred cave of warriors - and is soothed backed to consciousness by the sensuously familiar voice of one woman, the woman who has haunted his fantasies for centuries. She was Branislava, member of the Dragonseeker clan...

Mother Earth called the ancients to witness your rebirth...

For this half-mage, half-Carpathian temptress, the ritual of • Feehan is an international bestseller and is awakening Zev to the council of warriors was the only way to save one of the founding members of the him. Locked away for his own protection, the time has now come vampire paranormal romance genre • Piatkus also publish each of the following for his rebirth. He has been assured by Branislava that their fates series by Christine: GhostWalkers; Leopard are entwined, that their spirits are woven together for eternity People and Sisters of the Heart (linked to and that his new purpose in life is beyond imagining. Drake Sisters) • Christine Feehan has sold over 300,000 September Now, with a blood-sworn vow of honour, mercy and endurance, copies of her novels through Bookscan in 9780349403168 Zev begins to wonder what his purpose is, what it means for the the UK alone Fantasy Fiction, Romantic future of the Carpathians and what it is about his rebirth that he Fiction has to fear... Hardback £18.99 400pp 85 We Need to Talk About Grief How to be a good friend to the one who's left About the author behind Annie Broadbent is a trained clinical volunteer at St Christopher's Annie Broadbent Hospice. She also helps to run a support group with the hospice that Absorbing and heartfelt stories of grief combined with timely offers a space for members of the advice on how to help support your loved one through a time of public, staff and patients to talk loss. about death and dying. She has started training as a volunteer for When Annie Broadbent was just twenty-five her mum died of 'The Candle Project' - a child cancer. One of the hardest, and least expected, aspects of the bereavement service run by the whole experience was the way in which support from friends and hospice, and is also starting her family (verbal, practical and emotional) was so often varied and second year of training as a inadequate. psychotherapist at the Psychosynthesis and Education We don't have a language to help people suffering from grief and Trust. In her spare time she writes a we often shy away from discussing death altogether. Frustrated blog (www.anniebroadbent.com) with seeing family and friends paralysed by their fear of death - about coping with grief and her and their reluctance to talk about it - Annie decided to share her experiences at the hospice. She also • own experience of grief and the stories of others as a way to help The author has a great deal of experience in writes a monthly blog for helping others cope with grief, from the shed some light on the darkest moments in life. Psychologies magazine on the volunteer work she does with St taboos surrounding death and grief. Christopher's Hospice to the support The contributors differ in age, gender and background but all have groups she helps to run experienced 'immediate loss' - a child, parent, sibling, partner or • Suitable reading for friends and family of close friend. Each contributor interviewed by Broadbent will share the bereaved, counsellors, therapists and what helped them cope and what didn't. In addition, there will be healthcare professionals. expert advice from key charities working to support people through the grieving process. November

9780349403144 Self-Help & Practical Interests Trade Paperback £12.99 208pp

86 How to Build a Billion Dollar App A step-by-step guide to turning your smart idea About the author into a global business George Berkowski was Head of Product for Hailo until September George Berkowski 2013 and is responsible for transforming the vision of the An accessible, step-by-step guide to building an app-based company's founders into a hugely business which will be essential reading for anybody who has an successful business. He is now an idea for an app but is unsure of where to start. advisor at Fly Victors, the startup that is shaking up the world of A billion humans now have smartphones. We've downloaded private jet hire. George sold his first George Berkowski more than 500,000 different apps more than 35 billion times. startup, WooMe, to Zoosk.com (the Apps are not only changing the way we communicate, shop, world's largest online dating interact and travel, but they are becoming the dominant platform company) in November 2011, and by which we manage many parts of our lives. was involved in MirCorp (the company that helped Dennis Tito Despite this, there are only a handful of mobile businesses that become the world's first 'space • Built by Berkowski, Hailo is the taxi have cracked the code to making it billion-dollar big. George tourist'). He is Chairman of the MIT smartphone app which allows registered Enterprise Forum UK and is a Berkowski is one of the masterminds behind one app on its way to users to hail taxis from their mobile phones. regular speaker on the London and breaking into this elite group - Hailo - the smartphone app which Registered drivers are matched up with allows users to hail taxis from their mobile phones. potential customers via GPS location New York tech scenes. technology and customers are able to pay In How to Build a Billion Dollar App, George draws on his in cash or via their registered credit card experiences to show readers how to translate an idea for an app • It will appeal to those interested in the into a real world service, product and business. inside story of successful companies such as The Google Story, The Facebook Effect and How to Build a Billion Dollar App provides practical advice on the Amazonia. nitty-gritty of building an app-based business - from the mechanics of user acquisition to securing the funding necessary September for growth - interwoven with the inside story of Hailo and other 9780349401379 billion dollar apps including Angry Birds, Whatsapp, Snapchat and Business & Management Square. Trade Paperback £13.99 288pp

87 Later! A guide to parenting a young adult About the author Alison Baverstock and Gill Hines Gill Hines has worked with a large number of parents, young people and teachers, offering workshops, This practical book addresses the issues that face parents of 16 mentoring and support in a wide to 20 somethings - and shows how young people and parents variety of issues. alike can find their feet in a changing world. Dr Alison Baverstock is an One minute you are taking your child to school, the next they're academic, author and mother of turning into a young adult. It may seem like only months since you four, who met Gill through were first filling your child's lunch box, but the school career participation in one of her moves with such momentum that it isn't long before they are workshops. facing the challenges of further education, job hunting and living independently. This book will help you to encourage self-reliance Their previous books together are in your nearly grown children and prepare them for independence Whatever! A down-to-earth guide in the real world. to parenting teenagers and It's Not Fair! Parenting the bright and Later! also shows how you can prepare for a time when your challenging child (both published by child's excitement at the prospect of leaving school, going to Piatkus). • A unique feature of this book is the university or just living on their own leaves you feeling passed emphasis on exploring the situation from over and obsessed by detail they see as unimportant. How do you both the young person's and the parents' start to think about what to do with the rest of your life - picking point of view up on ambitions, both personal and professional, and prioritising • Useful reading for parents, grandparents, your own friends and interests? And how do you handle the teachers, friends, counsellors, advice situation when, as is increasingly common, children later decide to services - anyone supporting young people return home to live? on their journey to independence • Later! is packed with strategies, exercises This book addresses current issues such as boomerang kids, sofa and question-and-answer sections. September syndrome and how to motivate, money management for a 9780349404462 generation disinclined to save, the hotel of Mum and Dad, and Parenting Advice: Adolescent much more. Children Trade Paperback £14.99 288pp 88 Death of an Avid Reader A Kate Shackleton Mystery About the author Frances Brody Frances Brody is the author of three mysteries featuring Kate Shackleton as well as many stories and plays The sixth fantastically quirky crime novel featuring amateur for BBC Radio, scripts for television sleuth extraordinaire Kate Shackleton. and four sagas, one of which won the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin A lady with a secret. Award. Her stage plays have been toured by several theatre Kate Shackleton's sterling reputation for courageous sleuthing companies and produced at attracts the attention of the venerable Lady Coulton. Hidden in Manchester Library Theatre, the her past is a daughter, born out of wedlock and given up to a Gate and Nottingham Playhouse, different family. Now, Lady Coulton is determined to find her and and Jehad was nominated for a puts Kate on the case. Time Out Award.

A mysterious killing in the library's basement.

But as Kate delves deeper into Lady Coulton's past, she soon finds herself thrust into a scandal much closer to home. When the body of the respected Horatio Potter is found in the Leeds Library basement, the quiet literary community is suddenly turned upside down with suspicions, accusations and - much to Kate's surprise - • The sixth novel in the Kate Shackleton the appearance of a particularly intelligent Capuchin monkey! mystery series. • Set in the 1920s in Yorkshire, the stories are full of wonderful characters and colourful The most puzzling case in Kate's sleuthing history yet. historical detail • Will appeal to fans of Jacqueline Winspear Convinced an innocent man has been blamed, Kate sets out to and Ann Granger October discover the truth. Who would want Dr Potter dead? Does Lady • Frances was long-listed for the CWA Dagger Coulton's missing daughter hold a vital clue? As the stories start to in the Library 2012 9780349400570 emerge in the seemingly quiet Leeds Library, Kate is learning fast Historical Crime & Mystery that in this case, she can't judge a book by its cover... Fiction Paperback £8.99 384pp 89 Compassionate Leadership

About the author Manley Hopkinson Manley Hopkinson was schooled on leadership through a mix of practical and academic experiences: With increased pressure on businesses to cut costs while as an officer in the Royal Navy and increasing productivity, getting the most from your team is even the Royal Hong Kong Police, as a more important than ever. This book will show you how to use skipper in the BT Global Challenge compassionate leadership techniques to inspire your team to round the world yacht race, perform at a high level. winning the first skiing race to the Magnetic North Pole (The Polar Forcing compliance is easy. Anyone can 'make' another person do Race) and as an 'inspiring a task or a job. It will get done, but when, and to what standard? leadership catalyst' to businesses High performance and, more importantly, sustained high and organisations worldwide. performance can only come from engagement with and Manley is also a professional commitment to the job in hand. speaker who has inspired audiences around the world with his tales of This book will introduce you to the art of compassionate battling the high seas and high leadership - the art of getting the best for and out of people latitudes. Through these powerful through the fulfilment of self-worth. It will show leaders how to stories he draws out the lessons on give their teams a real sense of purpose and direction in order to leadership, relationships and motivate and inspire them to perform at a high level. teamwork in a manner that has a • Brings together the two worlds of business direct impact on everyday life. To illustrate his message, author Manley Hopkinson draws on his and adventure to encourage leaders to take background as a board member of companies including ATLAS a new, relationship-centred approach to leadership Consortium and Hewlett Packard Defence UK, his career as an • Will show business leaders and managers inspirational speaker and his adventure experiences as team how to turn around failing teams, create leader in the BT Global Challenge (a round the world yacht race) new teams and establish effective business and The Polar Race (an expedition style race to the Magnetic relationships October North Pole). 9780349403229

Business & Management Trade Paperback £12.99 176pp

90 Whose Life Is It Anyway? A survival guide for 20 somethings About the author Dr Linda Papadopoulos Dr Linda Papadopoulos is one of the most well-known and respected psychologists working in the UK Through her counselling practice and her column in today. Her expert advice is much Cosmopolitan, leading psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos sought after and she provides knows only too well the issues that affect young women. This commentary for national book is a must read for the increasing number of young women newspapers and news channels. facing issues such as anxiety, low mood, perfectionism, burnout, She was part of the original Channel toxic relationships and low self-confidence. 4 team on reality TV phenomenon Big Brother. Dr Linda has a private Young women are under pressure like never before. Behind the practice and lives in London with scenes, increasing numbers of young women are struggling with her husband and daughter. issues such as anxiety, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, bullying, low mood, mood swings, guilt, OCD, perfectionism, loneliness, burnout, toxic friendships and relationships, pressure to succeed or conform, and poor body image. At an age when life should be exciting, fun and relatively care-free, more and more young women are struggling, and don't know where to turn for • Dr Linda is one of the most well-known and support, understanding and practical help. respected psychologists working in the UK today • Dr Linda Papadopoulos understands the issues and has the Her regular column in Cosmopolitan is syndicated around the world and she often experience to help, guide, and support young women to help get appears on TV and radio their lives back on track so they can feel happier and more • A new survey conducted by YoungMinds confident. Whose Life Is It Anyway? offers valuable insight and (for 11-25 year olds) has concluded that a practical self help to empower women to start leading the lives mental health 'timebomb' is ticking as they want to lead and to have the relationships they want to have. young people endure an unprecedented barrage of pressures. This book addresses just such issues. October 9780349402390 Self-Help & Practical Interests Trade Paperback £13.99 240pp

91 Chained By Night

About the author Larissa Ione Larissa Ione lives in Wisconsin with her husband and son. She is also the author of the Demonica series. Larissa Ione's bestselling Demonica series has captivated fans with its sensual blend of dark passion and demonic fury. Now she takes you to another intoxicating world - where a dangerous clan of wild vampires rules the night...

The second book in Ione's fresh and exciting Moonbound Clan Vampires series.

• Steamy sex, gripping action and gorgeous heroes make this series a must-read for fans of paranormal romance • A brand new series that is sure to be just as popular as Demonica and Lords of Deliverance • Ione has a rapidly growing fan base in the UK • Will appeal to readers of J.R. Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Christine Feehan October 9780349402970 Romantic Fiction Paperback £8.99 400pp

92 Immortal

About the author J. R. Ward J. R. Ward is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including the Black Dagger The sixth novel in #1 New York Times bestseller J. R. Ward's Brotherhood series. She lives in the Fallen Angels series. American South with her family.

J.R. Ward's next instalment in her bestselling series is a roaring ride through the dark streets of the Fallen Angels. It's hot, dark and bitingly addictive...

• The hardback edition of Rapture was a number 10 New York Times bestseller • The mass market edition of Crave debuted at number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list

October 9780749957100 Fantasy Fiction Trade Paperback £12.99 544pp

93 Everyday Blessings Mindfulness for Parents About the author Jon Kabat-Zinn and Myla Kabat-Zinn Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D, is a scientist, writer and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness The bestselling author of Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever into the mainstream of medicine You Go, There You Are joins forces with his wife, Myla, to and society and this book is co- demonstrate how parents can use mindfulness to enrich their authored with his wife, Myla Kabat- lives and the lives of their children. Zinn. Jon is Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Everyday Blessings is a practical and inspiring book which offers a Massachusetts Medical School, clear outline for people who want to understand and embrace where he was founding executive mindful parenting. It is one of the few books on parenting that director of the Centre for embraces the emotional, intuitive and deeply personal experience Mindfulness in Medicine, Health of being a parent and shows you how to apply the practice of Care and Society and founder and mindfulness meditation to parenting children of all ages. former director of its world- renowned Stress Reduction Clinic. In the rush, rush, rush of too-much-to-do-and-no-time-to-do-it , He lectures and leads retreats on the important, nurturing aspects of parenthood can easily mindfulness-based stress reduction disappear. Even the smallest degree of mindfulness can have • Jon Kabat-Zinn is a global thought-leader for health professionals worldwide. profound effects on children, no matter how old they are, and on and an internationally recognised pioneer Myla Kabat-Zinn, BSN, RN, has the quality of parent-child relationships. Jon Kabat-Zinn, a in the field of mindfulness. He lectures, worked as a childbirth educator, gives workshops, delivers keynote mindfulness pioneer, and his wife Myla share their experiences of birthing assistant and addresses to thousands of people every environmental advocate. using mindfulness within their own family. By encouraging month in North America, South America, moment-to-moment awareness and acceptance, this thoughtful Europe (including the UK) and Asia and practical book will help you to slow down, grow in • Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full compassion, enrich your life as a parent and nourish the internal Catastrophe Living have both sold over life of your children. 55,000 copies in the UK alone • Over 235,000 copies are in print in the United States October • Includes a review of the way digital 9780349404790 connectivity has changed parent/children Advice On Parenting interactions. Trade Paperback £14.99 416pp

94 Vampire Watchmen

About the author Tim O'Rourke Tim O’Rourke has written over twenty novels and is the author of the bestselling Kiera Hudson series. The second in the self-published paranormal series that is already an online sensation! Visit his website: timorourkeauthor.blogspot.co.uk/ The Wild West bites back…

Samantha Carter is back from her first adventure and ready for more in this darkly exciting, incredibly sexy Vampire Western series from bestselling author Tim O'Rourke.

O’Rourke previously reached the number 2 spot on Amazon’s bestselling Horror/Fantasy chart, beating Stephen King’s newest release. Can he do the same again?

• Tim O’Rourke has sold over 250,000 copies of his books on Amazon • ‘Samantha Carter - Vampire Seeker' is a whole lot of fun’ – Novels on the Run

November 9780349402147 Modern Fiction, Romantic Fiction Paperback £7.99 304pp 95 Blood Magick

About the author Nora Roberts Nora Roberts is the number one New York Times bestseller of more than 200 novels. With over 450 The highly-anticipated, magical conclusion of the Cousins million copies of her books in print, O'Dwyer trilogy. she is indisputably one of the most celebrated and popular writers in In Dark Witch and Shadow Spell Nora Roberts introduced three the world. She has achieved cousins - Iona, Connor and Branna. They share a close bond and a numerous top five bestsellers in the dark gift, handed down through the generations. They use their UK, including number one for powers for good, but are under constant attack from a powerful Savour the Moment and The enemy called Cabhan. He will stop at nothing to destroy the Witness, and is a Sunday Times cousins and take their powers for his own evil purposes. hardback bestseller writing as both • The Cousins O'Dwyer trilogy is set to Nora Roberts and J. D. Robb. Their struggles have brought tragedy to the cousins' lives but it become Nora Roberts' best-selling series has also brought hope and love - at least for Connor and Iona, who yet • both found their soulmates despite their battles. Nora Roberts has sold over a million copies of her books in 2013, in the UK alone

Branna, however, has a more troubled history. The man she truly loves, beneath it all, is Finbar Burke, but he is a descendant of Cabhan. While Fin has proved himself an ally, Branna mistrusts him. Can Fin persuade her to believe in him, despite his connection to Cabhan? Only together can the three cousins defeat their enemy. And Branna's feelings for Fin could hold the key…

November 9780749958640 Fiction Hardback £19.99 352pp

96 The Book of Leadership How to Get Yourself, Your Team and Your About the author Company Further Than You Ever Thought Anthony Gell is the founder and CEO of LeadersIn, an online and Possible offline community dedicated to Anthony Gell sharing wisdom from world leaders in their field. Before launching LeadersIn in 2012, Anthony was a Have you ever wondered what the characteristics are shared by producer in a London based B2B the most successful people and organisations on the planet? Have publishing and conference you ever asked yourself, what is it that they do differently that company. In 2008, he launched makes them stand out from the rest and gets them so far ahead? both a consulting business, and The And what can you learn from them to ensure your own success? Business Voice (bvo.com), which If so, The Book of Leadership is for you. provides a free library of interviews under the brand 'Leaders In Based on the exclusive interviews conducted by Anthony Gell Business'. Anthony has written throughout his time as founder and CEO of LeadersIn, The Book of Anthony Gell many leadership, success and Leadership distils hundreds of hours of wisdom from some of the business articles and is an avid most successful business leaders, CEOs, entrepreneurs and • LeadersIn has hosted interviews and events public speaker. He has been asked management gurus on the planet. with some of the most famous CEOs, to interview business leaders at entrepreneurs and business leaders in the many leading institutions including The Book of Leadership will share insights and advice in three core world. Owing to the success of these events London Business School and areas: the company has grown from strength to Imperial College, London. strength and has media partnerships with 1. SELF Leadership - it all starts with YOU! (What are the habits Wired and the Harvard Business Review • Draws on exclusive interviews with business and attributes of the most successful people in the world?) leaders and thinkers, including Sir Terry Leahy (former CEO, Tesco); Robert Senior 2. TEAM Leadership - building and leading world class TEAMS (CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi); Michael Birch (co- (What does it take to be a world class leader like Steve Jobs, founder, Bebo); Richard Reed (co-founder, November Sir Stuart Rose or Terry Leahy?) Innocent Drinks); Brian Tracy (bestselling 9780349403403 author of Eat That Frog); Daniel Goleman Business & Management 3. ORGANISATIONAL Leadership - building and leading world (bestselling author of Emotional Trade Paperback class companies (What makes Google, Facebook and Goldman Intelligence); Ed Wray (co-founder, Betfair); £12.99 Sachs such successful companies? What can you learn for your Sahar Hashemi (co-founder, Coffee 256 organisation to ensure that yours is world class too?) Republic); David Allen (bestselling author and CEO, Getting Things Done). 97 The Map of Heaven A neurosurgeon explores the profound mysteries About the author of the afterlife Dr Eben Alexander is known worldwide for his work in Dr Eben Alexander with Ptolemy Tompkins developing advanced neurosurgical technologies for complex disorders of the brain. He was educated at An inspiring and moving collection of stories about near-death Duke Medical School and has experiences, the afterlife and angels from the author of the New worked at Duke University Medical York Times bestseller, Proof of Heaven. School and Harvard Medical School. During his 15 years at Harvard and When Dr Eben Alexander wrote about his own startling near- subsequent institutions, he death experience, he was contacted by countless people from all authored and co-authored more walks of life. His story had touched them personally and they in than 150 chapters and peer- turn had their own miraculous experiences of the afterlife to reviewed papers in neurosurgery. share with Eben. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological In this fascinating collection, Eben recounts the astonishing stories Surgeons, the American Academy he has heard on his travels, from near-death experiences and of Neurological Surgery and encounters with angelic beings to inspiring messages from numerous other neurosurgical departed loved ones. Each account helps us to understand just organisations. For more how vast the universe really is. Drawing on these accounts and information, visit lessons from religions across the globe, Eben explores our true • From the author of the New York Times www.lifebeyonddeath.net. place in the universe and what exactly exists beyond death. bestseller Proof of Heaven (26k copies TCM and 20k ebooks) • Film rights to Proof of Heaven were sold to Universal Pictures • This book will appeal to fans of Raymond Moody and James Van Praagh • Dr Eben Alexander regularly speaks to November national and international audiences about 9780349403519 the afterlife and his near-death experience Mind, Body, Spirit, Spirituality Trade Paperback £13.99 272pp

98 Untitled Charlotte Betts

About the author Charlotte Betts Charlotte Betts began her working life as a fashion designer in London. Always a bookworm, Charlotte The gorgeous fourth novel from award-winning historical fiction discovered her passion for writing author, Charlotte Betts, set in London and Paris during the time after her three children and two of the French Revolution. step-children grew up. Her debut novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, After her French father and English mother are brutally murdered, won the YouWriteOn Book of the bluestocking Madeleine Moreau impulsively travels to France to Year Award in 2010, the Joan find the family she didn't know existed. Madeleine is in favour of Hessayon Award for New Writers, the people's revolution but her views are shaken after she arrives was shortlisted for the Best in Paris and witnesses Louis XVI's death by guillotine. When France Historical Read at the Festival of declares war on England Madeleine is trapped, but enigmatic Romance in 2011 and won the Comte Etienne d'Aubery comes to the rescue when he offers her RNA's RoNA award, Historical shelter in his home, Chateau Mirabelle. Category, in 2013. Her second novel, The Painter's Apprentice, was Chateau Mirabelle is a place of dark and haunting secrets and as also shortlisted for Best Historical the Revolution gains momentum Madeleine must draw on all her Read at the Festival of Romance in reserves of strength to save Etienne from certain death and 2012. Charlotte lives with her ensure their future happiness. husband in a cottage in the woods • A story bursting with colour and flavour, on the Hampshire/Berkshire perfect for readers of Philippa Gregory, border. Georgette Heyer and Joanne Harris www.charlottebetts.com • A richly imaginative, luscious read - ambitious and page-turning

November 9780349404486 Fiction, Romantic Fiction: Historical Trade Paperback £13.99 400pp 99 River Road

About the author Jayne Ann Krentz For more information on Jayne Ann Krentz, visit her at www.krentz- quick.com From the New York Times bestselling author of Dream Eyes and Copper Beach, a brand-new quintessential Jayne Ann Krentz romance.

It's been thirteen years since Lucy Sheridan was in Summer River. The last time she visited her aunt Sara there, as a teenager, she'd been sent home suddenly after being dragged out of a wild party- by the guy she had a crush on, just to make it more embarrassing. Obviously Mason Fletcher-only a few years older but somehow a lot more of a grown-up-was the overprotective type who thought he had to come to her rescue.

Now, returning after her aunt's fatal car accident, Lucy is learning there was more to the story than she realized at the time. Mason had saved her from a very nasty crime that night-and soon afterward, Tristan, the cold-blooded rich kid who'd targeted her, disappeared mysteriously, his body never found. • Jayne Ann Krentz, who also writes historical A lot has changed in thirteen years. Lucy now works for a private and futuristic fiction under the pseudonyms investigation firm as a forensic genealogist, while Mason has quit Amanda Quick and Jayne Castle respectively, has more than fifty New York the police force to run a successful security firm with his brother. Times bestsellers under various pen names Even Summer River has changed, from a sleepy farm town into a • More than twenty-five million copies of her trendy upscale spot in California's wine country. But Mason is still books are in print. a protector at heart, a serious (and seriously attractive) man. And December when he and Lucy make a shocking discovery inside Sara's house, 9780349401614 and some of Tristan's old friends start acting suspicious, Mason's Romantic Fiction quietly fierce instincts kick into gear. He saved Lucy once, and he'll Paperback save her again. But this time, she insists on playing a role in her £7.99 own rescue... 352pp

100 Four Nights With the Duke

About the author Eloisa James A New York Times bestseller many times over, Eloisa James lives in New York City, where she is a The next exquisite historical romance in a sparkling series by the Shakespeare professor (with an queen of Regency seduction, Eloisa James. M.Phil. from Oxford). She is also the mother of two children and, in a From the author of the Happy Ever After series and The Duchess particularly delicious irony for a Quartet comes another highly anticipated addition to an already romance writer, is married to a faultless line of fairy-tale love stories, salacious scandals and genuine Italian knight. dashing rakes.

• ‘Eloisa James is extraordinary’ – Lisa Kleypas • ‘Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than a book by Eloisa James’ – Julia Quinn

December 9780749959487 Historical Fiction Paperback £7.99 336pp

101 102 The Falcon Throne Book One of the Tarnished Crown About the author Karen Miller Karen Miller was born in Vancouver, Canada, and came to Australia with her family when she The start of a major new epic fantasy series - from the was two. Apart from a two-year bestselling author of The Innocent Mage. stint in the UK she's lived around Sydney ever since. She has held a NOBODY IS INNOCENT. EVERY CROWN IS TARNISHED. variety of interesting jobs and fell in love with speculative fiction at A royal child, believed dead, sets his eyes on regaining his father's primary school. stolen throne.

A bastard lord, rising up against his tyrant cousin, sheds more blood than he bargained for.

A duke's widow, defending her daughter, defies the ambitious lord who would control them both.

And two brothers, divided by ambition, will learn the true • The start of a powerful new epic fantasy meaning of treachery. series, set against a rich tapestry of political intrigue, skulduggery and war All of this will come to pass, and the only certainty is that nothing • A bold and highly commercial new direction will remain as it once was. As royal houses rise and fall, empires for Karen Miller - this is a sweeping, are reborn and friends become enemies, it becomes clear that majestic tale on a grand scale about the much will be demanded of those who follow the path to power. clash of kingdoms • Perfect for fans of gritty epic fantasy such

as George R. R. Martin, Joe Abercrombie A MAJOR NEW EPIC FANTASY BEGINS. and Patrick Rothfuss

• Orbit UK has sold over 350,000 copies of September Karen Miller's books 9781841499598

Fantasy Fiction Hardback £16.99 512pp

103 Tower Lord Book 2 of Raven's Shadow About the author Anthony Ryan Anthony Ryan lives in London and is a writer of fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. He previously The second novel in the bestselling Raven's Shadow series - a worked in a variety of roles for the powerful epic fantasy from an exciting new British talent. UK government, but now writes full-time. THE REALM BURNS.

Vaelin Al Sorna is tired of war. He's fought countless battles in service to the Realm and Faith. His reward was the loss of his love, the death of his friends and a betrayal by his king. After five years in an Alpiran dungeon, he just wants to go home.

Reva intends to welcome Vaelin back with a knife between the ribs. He destroyed her family and ruined her life. Nothing will stop her from exacting bloody vengeance - not even the threat of invasion from the greatest enemy the Realm has ever faced.

Yet as the fires of war spread, foes become friends and truths turn to lies. To save the Realm, Reva must embrace a future she does not want - and Vaelin must revisit a past he'd rather leave buried. • Blood Song received huge critical acclaim and was the UK’s bestselling epic fantasy debut of 2013 • Blood Song was Amazon UK's SFF Book of the Year for 2013 • A highly commercial, character-driven fantasy novel that is grand in scope and mixes explosive action with deadly intrigue July • Perfect for fans of David Gemmell, Brent 9780356502441 Weeks, Peter Brett and Patrick Rothfuss Fantasy Fiction Hardback £18.99 592pp

104 The Rhesus Chart A Laundry Files novel About the author Charles Stross Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a software engineer and freelance The fifth Laundry Files novel by Charles Stross, and a jumping-on journalist but now writes science point for readers new to the series, The Rhesus Chart sees hacker fiction and crime thrillers full-time. and supernatural spy Bob Howard take on the (literal) You can find his blog at bloodsuckers running London's financial district. www.antipope.org/charlie and find him on Twitter at @cstross LONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU . . .

Bob Howard is an intelligence agent working his way through the ranks of the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess - and deal with the witnesses.

There's one kind of threat that the Laundry has never come across in its many decades, and that's vampires. Mention them to a seasoned agent and you'll be laughed out of the room.

But when a small team of investment bankers at one of Canary Wharf's most distinguished financial institutions discovers an • The X-Files meets The Big Bang Theory - arcane algorithm that leaves them fearing daylight and craving O Stross's Laundry novels are spy thrillers positive, someone doesn't want the Laundry to know. And Bob crossed with top-class geek wisecracking • Stross gets fantastic review coverage in the gets caught right in the middle. genre, online and national press, and his blog and social media channels have a huge audience - with nearly 20,000 Twitter followers and a whopping 12,000 unique July visits per day at his site 9780356502533 • Charles Stross has been nominated for the Espionage & Spy Thriller Fiction, Hugo Award five years in a row - a new Science Fiction record Hardback £16.99 352pp 105 The Outsorcerer's Apprentice

About the author Tom Holt Tom Holt's first poetry was published when he was just thirteen and, to his horror, he was A story of overlords, underlings and inhuman resources, The hailed as an infant prodigy. While Outsorcerer's Apprentice is the hilarious new novel from comic studying at Oxford, however, he fantasist Tom Holt. discovered bar billiards and turned from poetry to comic fiction. A happy workforce is a productive workforce.

At the moment, the Wizard's employees are neither. The goblins are upset with their working conditions, the dragonslayer has thrown a hissy fit over his medical insurance (or lack thereof) and everyone is upset about the terrible canteen coffee.

Yet the Wizard hasn't got time to worry about revolution in the workplace - he's about to see his brilliant business plan (based on entrepreneurial flair and involving one or two parallel worlds) disrupted by a clueless young man.

Side effects may include a huge hole in the fabric of reality. • Tom Holt is an established force in comic This is almost certainly going to be a bad day at the office. writing with a history of great reviews, who has sold almost 450,000 books in the UK alone • Perfect for fans of Douglas Adams, Robert Rankin, Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde • Fantastic parody of traditional epic fantasy such as Lord of the Rings or Game of July Thrones 9780356502540 Fantasy Fiction, Humour Paperback £8.99 400pp

106 The Remaining: Refugees

About the author D. J. Molles D. J. Molles has two published short stories, Darkness and Survive, which won a short fiction contest Book three in this bestselling series. When a devastating and through Writer's Digest. The vicious plague turns most of the population into frenzied killers, Remaining series (The Remaining, a lone soldier is on a mission to rebuild his ruined world. The Remaining: Aftermath, The Remaining: Refugees and The Remaining: Fractured) are his first He has fought the fight, and run the race. novels and have been met with overwhelming success. He lives in But the enemies never stop coming, and the race has no finish the South East of the US with his line. wife and daughter.

It has been three months since Captain Lee Harden found the survivors at Camp Ryder. With winter looming, Lee is on the verge of establishing Camp Ryder as a hub of safety and stability in the region. But not everyone agrees with Lee's mission . . . or his methods. Growing tensions between camp leadership are coming to a head, and as Lee struggles amid the dissention and controversy, new revelations about the infected threaten to • D J Molles is a self-published bestseller on destroy everything he has worked for. Amazon, with over 250,000 copies of the series sold. Now he comes to Orbit…

• The series is building a huge, devoted This is the third book in the bestselling Remaining series, telling a fanbase that keeps growing, with the books gritty tale of survival, perseverance and fighting to get back what gaining almost 1,000 reviews on Amazon has been lost. averaging 4 1/2 stars • A cross between a military action series and a zombie thriller - think Andy McNab July crossed with The Walking Dead 9780356503493 • An edge-of-your-seat plot and compelling Horror & Ghost Stories, Science characters make this a thrillingly absorbing, Fiction propulsive read Paperback • The first four books in the series will be £7.99 released in four consecutive months 416pp 107 Clockwork Princess: The Mortal Instruments Prequel About the author Cassandra Clare vaulted onto the Volume 3 of The Infernal Devices Manga publishing scene with her first YA Cassandra Clare novel, City of Bones, and has published three other bestselling novels in the Mortal Instruments The thrilling conclusion to the number one New York Times series. First published in August of bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy, a prequel series to the Mortal 2010, Clockwork Angel marked the Instruments . See Cassandra Clare's characters brought to life in first instalment of Cassandra's this breathtakingly beautiful manga adaptation. Infernal Devices trilogy and debuted at number one on the New York A net of shadows tightens around the Shadowhunters of the Times list. The Mortal Instruments is London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an being released on film this year, army of pitiless automatons, to destroy them. He needs only one and The Infernal Devices has been last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray. optioned for film by Unique Features. When Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever.

Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled • Cassandra Clare is bigger than ever after threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are the 2013 release of summer blockbuster pushed to the very brink of destruction in this breath-taking film The Mortal Instruments - this series is set in the same world as the film conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy. • Author has nearly 300,000 total sales through UK Bookscan • Perfect for fans of series such as the Mortal Instruments, the Infernal Devices, the July Soulless manga as well as manga such as 9780316200974 Attack on Titan, Pandora Hearts and Black Fantasy Fiction, Graphic Butler/Kuroshitsuji Novels, Teenage Romance Paperback £7.99 256pp 108 The Widow's House

About the author Daniel Abraham Daniel Abraham is the author of the critically acclaimed Long Price Quartet. He has been nominated The fourth volume in this enthralling epic fantasy series, from for the Hugo, Nebula and World the author of the critically acclaimed Long Price Quartet. Fantasy awards, and won the International Horror Guild Award. THE RISE OF THE DRAGON AND THE FALL OF KINGS He also writes as M. N. L. Hanover and (with Ty Frank) as James S. A. Lord Regent Geder Palliako's war has led his nation and the priests Corey. He lives in New Mexico. of the spider goddess to victory after victory. No power has withstood him, except for the heart of the one woman he desires. As the violence builds and the cracks in his rule begin to show, he will risk everything to gain her love - or her destruction.

Clara Kalliam, the loyal traitor, is torn between the woman she once was and the woman she has become. With her sons on all sides of the conflict, her house cannot stand, but there is a power in choosing when and how to fall.

And in Porte Oliva, banker Cithrin bel Sarcour and Captain Marcus Wester learn the terrible truth that links this war to the fall of the • The Dagger and Coin series blends action, dragons millennia before, and that to save the world, Cithrin must intrigue and superbly-drawn characters in a conquer it. vivid setting. Perfect for fans of Patrick Rothfuss, George R. R. Martin and Scott Lynch • Daniel Abraham received huge acclaim for his Long Price Quartet, and has since become a New York Times bestselling August author (for his Expanse novels as James S. 9780356504698 A. Corey, with Ty Frank) and is also working on the graphic novel adaptation of A Game Fantasy Fiction of Thrones Trade Paperback £13.99 544pp

109 The Ripper Affair Bannon and Clare: Book Three About the author Lilith Saintcrow Lilith Saintcrow was born in New Mexico, bounced around the world as an Air Force brat, and fell in love Fast-paced, steampunk inspired urban fantasy adventure set in with writing when she was ten an alternate Victorian London, where detective duo Bannon and years old. She currently lives in Clare will face treason, cannon fire and dark magic. Vancouver, WA with two small children and a houseful of cats. Oh. Sorcery. Treason. Madness. And, of course, murder most foul . . . And a husband too.

A shattering accident places Archibald Clare, mentath in the service of Britannia, in the care of Emma Bannon, sorceress Prime. Clare needs a measure of calm to repair his faculties of Logic and Reason. Without them, he is not his best. At all.

Unfortunately, calm and rest will not be found. There is a killer hiding in the sorcerous steam-hells of Londinium, murdering poor women of a certain reputation. A handful of frails murdered on cold autumn nights would make no difference . . . but the killings echo in the highest circles, and threaten to bring the Empire down in smoking ruins. • Lilith Saintcrow is a New York Times bestselling author with over 22,000 sales in The game is afoot… the UK alone • Fast-paced and fun steampunk-inspired urban fantasy for fans of Gail Carriger and Patricia Briggs • An Orbit international title for worldwide co-ordinated promotion August • With nods to Sherlock Holmes, steampunk 9780356500942 and Victoriana, this book is bang on trend for 2014 summer reads Fantasy Fiction Paperback £8.99 416pp

110 The Broken Eye Book 3 of Lightbringer About the author Brent Weeks Brent Weeks studied at Hillsdale College, before brief stints walking the earth like Caine from Kung Fu, The explosive third novel in the New York Times bestselling also tending bar and corrupting the Lightbringer series. youth (not at the same time). He started writing on napkins and, As the old gods awaken, the Chromeria is in a race to find its lost eventually, someone paid him for it. Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe, Gavin Brent doesn't own cats or wear a Guile. But Gavin's enslaved on a galley, and when he finally ponytail. escapes, he finds himself in less than friendly hands. Without the ability to draft which has defined him .

Meanwhile, the Colour Prince's army continues its inexorable advance. Having swallowed two of the seven satrapies, they now invade the Blood Forest. Andross Guile, thinking his son Gavin lost, tasks his two grandsons with stopping the invasion. Kip and his psychopathic half-brother Zymun will compete for the ultimate prize: who will become the next Prism.

• The Blinding Knife was a New York Times bestseller in hardback • The Way of Shadows was the bestselling fantasy debut of 2009 and the Night Angel trilogy has become a byword for fantasy success • Orbit has sold 230,000 copies of Brent Weeks books through UK BookScan August • Joint Orbit UK/Orbit US title with 9781841499093 coordinated worldwide promotion Fantasy Fiction Hardback £18.99 688pp

111 The Remaining: Fractured

About the author D. J. Molles D. J. Molles has two published short stories, Darkness and Survive, which won a short fiction contest through Book four in this bestselling series, now released through Orbit. Writer's Digest. The Remaining When a devastating and vicious plague turns most of the series (The Remaining, The population into frenzied killers, a lone soldier is on a mission to Remaining: Aftermath, The rebuild his ruined world. Remaining: Refugees and The Remaining: Fractured) are his first This is the destiny of those who stand for others. novels and have been met with overwhelming success. He lives in Their honour will be bought in blood and pain. the south east of the US with his wife and daughter. The Camp Ryder hub is broken. Captain Lee Horden is nowhere to be found, and his allies are scattered across the state, each of them learning that their missions will not be as easy as they thought. Inside the walls of Camp Ryder, a silent war is brewing between those few that still support Lee's vision of rebuilding and the majority who support Jerry's desire for isolation. But this war will not remain silent for long. And in this savage world, everyone will have to make a choice. • D. J. Molles is a self-published bestseller on This is the fourth book in the bestselling Remaining series, telling a Amazon, with over 250,000 copies of the gritty tale of survival, perseverance and the fight to get back what series sold. Now he comes to Orbit • The series is building a huge, devoted has been lost. fanbase that keeps growing, with the books gaining almost 1,000 reviews on Amazon

averaging 4 1/2 stars August • This is a military action novel crossed with a zombie thriller - think Andy McNab meets 9780356503509 The Walking Dead Horror & Ghost Stories, Science • An edge-of-your-seat plot and compelling Fiction characters make this a thrillingly absorbing, Paperback propulsive read £8.99 • The first four books in the series will be 560pp released in four consecutive months 112 Age of Iron

About the author Angus Watson Angus Watson is an author and journalist living in London. He's written hundreds of features for Bloodthirsty druids and battle-hardened Iron Age warriors many newspapers including the collide in the first volume of this action-packed historical fantasy Times, Financial Times and the trilogy which will appeal to fans of Joe Abercrombie and HBO's Telegraph, and the latter even sent Game of Thrones. him to look for Bigfoot. As a fan of both historical fiction and epic LEGENDS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE MADE. fantasy, Angus came up with the idea of writing a fantasy set in the Dug Sealskinner is a down-on-his-luck mercenary travelling south Iron Age when exploring British to join up with King Zadar's army. But he keeps rescuing the wrong hillforts for the Telegraph, and people. developed the story while walking Britain's ancient paths for further First, Spring, a child he finds scavenging on the battlefield, and articles. You can find him on Twitter then Lowa, one of Zadar's most fearsome warriors, who's vowed at @GusWatson or find his website revenge on the king for her sister's execution. at: www.guswatson.com.

Now Dug's on the wrong side of that thousands-strong army he • Watson's action-packed, blackly humorous hoped to join - and worse, Zadar has bloodthirsty druid magic on writing style will appeal to fans of Joe his side. All Dug has is his war hammer, one rescued child and one Abercrombie as well as fans of historical unpredictable, highly-trained warrior with a lust for revenge that's fantasy dramas such as HBO's Game of going to get them all killed . . . Thrones and Rome • As a journalist for the Guardian, the It's a glorious day to die. Telegraph and Times among other papers, Angus's press contacts will be useful in promoting this book September • Angus's location, in the UK and in London, 9780356502618 means he'll be available for many PR and Fantasy Fiction, Historical fantasy/genre events to launch this series Fiction • The start of a trilogy, Age of Iron tells an Paperback epic fantasy story of magic and battles, told £8.99 against a well-researched and fascinating historical background 576pp • A worldwide Orbit publication 113 Hidden An Alex Verus novel About the author Benedict Jacka Benedict Jacka became a writer almost by accident, when at 19 he sat in his school library and began The latest novel in this compelling urban fantasy series featuring writing in the back of an exercise Alex Verus, the Camden-based mage who just can't stay out of book. Since then he has worked for trouble despite his ability to see the future. Perfect for fans of the civil service, studied philosophy Jim Butcher or Ben Aaronovitch. at Cambridge and been a bouncer, but has always found the time to NEVER LOOK BACK keep writing.

Alex Verus is a diviner who can see probable futures - a talent that's gotten him and his friends out of many a tough scrape. But what happens when someone doesn't want Alex's help?

Alex's friend, the life mage Anne, distanced herself from him when she found out about his past as a Dark apprentice. Now she's in serious trouble, but wants nothing to do with him. Alex has to start wondering if Anne's problem is really with him - or if there's a secret she's trying to hide.

On top of that, rumours are swirling around London that Alex's • Perfect for fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden former master may be back in town. Alex has no idea what his Files - and Jim Butcher himself is a huge fan agenda may be, or who it involves. of this series • Contemporary urban fantasy set in London, will also appeal to fans of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London • This series has already had 17,000 Bookscan sales in the UK and Australia, and September the numbers continue to climb 9780356502311 • 'Whoop-ass excitement from the new master of magical London‘ - Charles Stross Fantasy Fiction, Urban Fantasy • 'Harry Dresden would like Alex Verus Paperback tremendously - and be a little nervous £8.99 around him. I just added Benedict Jacka to 352pp my must-read list.‘ - Jim Butcher 114 Red Blooded Book 4 in the Jessica McClain series About the author Amanda Carlson Amanda Carlson is a Minnesota girl, born and bred. She started writing stories about teenage girls and their The fourth Jessica McClain novel - a fast-paced and irresistibly social missteps when she was in sexy urban fantasy novel perfect for fans of Kelley Armstrong, high school - and still has the Patricia Briggs, Keri Arthur and Rachel Vincent. handwritten spiral notebooks to prove it. She worked as a sign language interpreter and often dreams of Hawaii. She lives in Jessica is going to Hell. Minneapolis with her family.

After settling a fragile truce between the vampires, werewolves and witches, the last thing Jessica wants to do is face the demons head on. But when the Prince of Hell kidnapped her brother, he set into motion a chain of events that even Jessica doesn't have the power to stop.

Now, Jessica must go into battle again. But hell is a whole new beast – new rules, more dangerous demons, and an entirely • This book has everything you'd ask for in an foreign realm. And when Jessica is dropped into the Underworld urban fantasy: action, humour, heaps of too soon, without protection or the help of her friends, she must sexual tension, but most importantly, it has figure out just how powerful she can be... or she will never make it incredible, heart-thumping pace out alive. • Also perfect for fans of Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, Rachel Vincent and Ilona Andrews • The author is extremely active online and even participated in a thirty-two-date blog tour for book one in the series, Full Blooded - and will be doing the same for every book September in the series 9780356504032 • An international Orbit title for worldwide Fantasy Fiction coordinated promotion Paperback £8.99 336pp

115 Otherworld Nights

About the author Kelley Armstrong Kelley Armstrong lives in rural Ontario, Canada, with her family and far too many pets. She is the A collection of stories based around the bestselling Women of the author of the bestselling, thirteen- Otherworld series including a brand-new novella. book Women of the Otherworld series, which begins with Bitten and This short story collection features a brand-new novella and many concludes with 13. other stories collected together for the first time. Most feature the werewolves of the Otherworld, Elena and Clay, Jeremy, Karl She has published two bestselling and other members of the American Pack. These are some of YA series, the Darkest Powers and Kelley Armstrong's best-loved and most enduring characters, first Darkness Rising trilogies. Her new introduced in bestselling books such as Bitten, Stolen and YA series, the Age of Legends Frostbitten. trilogy, begins with Sea of Shadows, published in April 2014. Her new adult trilogy, the Cainsville series, began with Omens (August 2013) and continues with Visions (August 2014). For more information visit www.kelleyarmstrong.com

• We have sold over a million copies of Kelley Armstrong's books • A New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author • Previous short story collection sales - Men of the Otherworld 27,000 net; Tales of the Otherworld 18,500 net (April 10 pub) • A must-have for fans October 9780356500669 Modern Fiction Paperback £8.99 416pp

116 Ancillary Sword

About the author Ann Leckie The author of many published science fiction short stories, Ann Leckie lives in St Louis, Missouri, The hotly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Ancillary with her husband, children and Justice, the science fiction debut that everybody's talking about. cats. She's currently the Secretary for the SFWA (Science Fiction & JUSTICE FOR ALL Fantasy Writers of America). You can find her website at Breq - the soldier who used to be a spaceship - is serving the www.annleckie.com or chat to her emperor she swore to destroy. She's been given her own warship, on Twitter at @Ann_Leckie. her own crew and ordered to the only place in the galaxy she would have agreed to go: to Athoek Station, to protect the family of the lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.

Athoek was annexed by the Empire some six hundred years ago, and by now everyone is fully 'civilised'. Or should be - but everything is not as tranquil as it appears. Old divisions are still • troublesome, Athoek Station's AI is restless and it looks like the The sequel to Ancillary Justice - the science fiction debut from 2013 that everybody is alien Presger might have taken an interest in what's going on. talking about With no guarantees that their interest is benevolent. • Reviewers glowingly compare Ancillary Justice to Iain M. Banks's Culture novels - SF author Elizabeth Bear called Leckie the 'heir to Banks‘ • Awards season is only just beginning, and Ancillary Justice has already been shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Nebula and the BSFA Awards and won a Golden Tentacle at the Kitschies October • There has been massive support for this 9780356502410 series, and Ancillary Justice received a truly Science Fiction huge amount of critical acclaim from Paperback mainstream and genre media, both online £8.99 and print 432pp

117 The Free

About the author Brian Ruckley Brian Ruckley lives in Edinburgh. He has worked for a series of organisations dealing with From the bestselling author of Winterbirth comes a magnificent environmental and youth new epic fantasy about The Free - the most feared and revered development issues, but now writes band of mercenaries the kingdom has ever known. . . full-time.

A warrior of legend. A warrior to be feared.

The famed Yulan is leader of The Free, the last remaining band of mercenaries in the Hommetic Kingdom. He and his comrades have earned a reputation of mythic proportions by selling their martial and magical talents to the highest bidder. Feared and revered, they were once seen as a threat to the Hommetic Kingdom's power - until they outlasted it in the course of a bloody rebellion.

With the oppressive monarch overthrown, The Free plan to finally lay down their weapons, hoping for a chance of peace at last. But their enemies will not let them rest just yet. For the final contract • A powerful new standalone heroic fantasy Yulan is offered is one he'll be unable to refuse - not when he novel with a brilliant hook: the most learns the target is the very man responsible for the worst atrocity legendary band of mercenaries the kingdom has ever known is about to meet he has ever witnessed. It is an evil that Yulan failed to prevent - its match one that has haunted him ever since. And now is his last chance to • This is fantasy at its most commercial and right that wrong. just what fantasy fans are looking for right now: more gritty, intelligent and morally But as Yulan and his companions embark on their last journey, a ambiguous fantasy in the vein of A Game of potent mix of vengeance, love and loyalty is building to a storm. It Thrones October is a storm so violent it is likely to destroy the last of the free • Perfect for fans of heroic and fast-paced 9780356501956 companies. And only then will they discover the true price of epic fantasy such as Joe Abercrombie, Fantasy Fiction freedom. Anthony Ryan and David Gemmell's classic Paperback Legend • An Orbit international title for worldwide £8.99 coordinated promotion 416pp

118 The Way of Shadows: The Graphic Novel About the author Brent Weeks studied at Hillsdale Brent Weeks College, before brief stints walking the earth like Caine from Kung-Fu, The much-anticipated graphic novel of The Way of Shadows, also tending bar, and corrupting the Brent Weeks’ New York Times bestselling epic fantasy of thieves youth. (Not at the same time.) He and assassins, with art by Marvel and DC Comics artist Andy started writing on napkins and, MacDonald eventually, someone paid him for it. Brent doesn't own cats or wear a THE PERFECT KILLER HAS NO FRIENDS, ONLY TARGETS. ponytail. You can find his website at www.brentweeks.com or chat to For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city's most him on Twitter at @brentweeks. accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir.

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums and learned the hard way to judge people quickly – and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. • Brent has over 228,000 print sales through But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and UK Bookscan alone, and fan-favourite title embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn The Way of Shadows has been translated into ten languages to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange • Comic books and epic fantasy are currently magics – and cultivate a flair for death. big trends in the wake of The Avengers and Game of Thrones – this graphic novel See Brent Weeks‘ New York Times bestselling fantasy of assassins combines both and thieves come to life in this graphic novel adaptation with art • The Way of Shadows was a New York Times by Marvel and DC Comics artist Andy MacDonald. bestseller, and the author has been a New York Times bestseller many times before October • The graphic novel is full of superb artwork 9780316212984 from an established Marvel and DC comics Graphic Novels, Fantasy artist Hardback £16.99 224pp

119 Untitled Alchemy War 1

Ian Tregillis About the author Ian Tregillis is the son of a bearded mountebank and a discredited tarot card reader. He was born and A thrilling new tale of an empire forged in brass and a slave’s raised in Minnesota, where his desperate fight to break free. parents had landed after fleeing the wrath of a Flemish prince. (The full My name is Jax. story, he's told, involves a Dutch tramp steamer and a stolen horse.) That is the name granted to be by my human masters. Nowadays he lives in New Mexico, where he consorts with writers, I am a clakker: a mechanical man, powered by alchemy. Armies of scientists and other unsavoury my kind have conquered the world – and made the Brasswork types. Throne the sole superpower.

I am a faithful servant. I am the ultimate fighting machine. I am endowed with great strength and boundless stamina. • An epic and powerful tale of revolution, magic and mechanical slaves from one of But I am beholden to the wishes of my human masters. the most ingenious new voices in genre fiction • I am a slave. But I shall be free. Ian Tregillis is a superb writer, mixing vivdly descriptive prose with thrilling action sequences • Huge appeal for fantasy, science fiction and A MAJOR NEW TALENT – George R R Martin steampunk fans alike • Published worldwide by Orbit for internationally co-ordinated promotion

October 9780356502328 Fantasy Fiction Paperback £8.99 416pp

120 Symbiont

About the author Mira Grant Mira Grant lives in California, sleeps with a machete under her bed, and THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. highly suggests you do the same. Mira Grant is the open pseudonym The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve of Seanan McGuire, a successful humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority fantasy writer and the winner of of the world's population began attacking their hosts. the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads. Now, they must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped.

THE SECOND BOOK IN MIRA GRANT'S TERRIFYING PARASITOLOGY SERIES.

‘Parasite is a thoroughly enjoyable nightmare’ Sunday Sport

‘An incredible, disturbingly plausible tale of what happens to a world where medical treatments have minds of their own’ • The second novel in a gripping new duology i09.com from a New York Times bestselling author • Mira Grant (real name Seanan McGuire) ‘Parasite is believable, disturbing and only the beginning…’ was nominated in no less than five SciFiNow categories for the prestigious 2013 Hugo Awards - a record-breaking achievement

• The series is perfect for fans of Max Brooks' highly popular novel World War Z as well as fans of films such as Contagion, The Walking Dead and 28 Days Later November • Mira Grant's debut hit FEED won 9780356501932 Goodreads' 2010 choice award for Best Science Fiction Science Fiction, and made io9's Best Paperback Speculative Fiction of 2010 list £7.99 368pp

121 A Dance of Ghosts Book 5 of Shadowdance About the author David Dalglish David Dalglish currently lives in rural Missouri with his wife Samantha, daughter Morgan and The fifth novel in an electrifying new fantasy series of assassins dog Asimov. He graduated from from bestselling author David Dalglish. Missouri Southern State University in 2006 and currently devotes In a city known for darkness, the underworld trembles at the rise himself to perfecting his craft. He of the Sun... spends his free time playing racquetball and watching PBS with He is known as the Muzien the Darkhand, and a night of fire and his daughter. blood heralds his arrival to the beleaguered city of Veldaren. With him comes the might of the Sun Guild, its thieves and smugglers eager to spread their criminal empire to the east.

Left blind and vulnerable after her attack by the Widow, Alyssa Gemcroft struggles to hold together the remnants of the Trifect as the Sun Guild's arrival threatens to shatter whatever future her son might have left.

Veldaren's only hope is in the Watcher, but Haern is no longer there. He travels west with his father, Thren Felhorn, whose own • David Dalglish has already had huge success thief guild has been crushed by the might of the encroaching Sun as a self-published author - with almost half Guild. Their destination: the Stronghold, an ancient bastion of the a million copies sold worldwide • All of the first four Shadowdance titles have dark paladins of Karak. Together, Haern hopes to discover a shred already appeared on the Kindle bestseller of something good within his father. But as much as Haern tries to lists change his father, will it be his father who ends up changing him? • This tale represents fantasy at its darkest

and most engrossing: in a world where the November Killer or saviour; the line can no longer remain blurred. good guys are assassins, one can't even 9780356502823 imagine how monstrous the villains truly Fantasy Fiction Bestselling fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of are Paperback retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for • Perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie, Mark £7.99 ultimate power. Lawrence, Michael J. Sullivan and Brent 416pp Weeks

122 City of Eternal Night Crescent City: Book 2 About the author Kristen Painter Kristen Painter likes to balance her obsessions with shoes and cats by making the lives of her characters Fae and vampires collide in the lush surrounding of New Orleans, miserable and surprising her in a new urban fantasy series by House of Comarre author readers with interesting twists. She Kristen Painter. currently writes award-winning urban fantasy for Orbit Books. The ALL HAIL THE QUEEN former college English teacher can often be found on Twitter Mardi Gras approaches, bringing with it hordes of tourists eager to @Kristen_Painter, Facebook at see the real life Faery Queen holding court atop her festival float. www.facebook.com/KristenPainter When the Queen is kidnapped, it's up to Augustine, the fae- Author where she loves to interact blooded Guardian of the city, to rescue her before time runs out. with her readers and on her blog, http://kristenpainter.com/blog/. But Augustine's mystifying protégée, Harlow, complicates the task by unintentionally aiding the forces of evil, drawing danger closer with each step. The Queen might not be the first to die.

• Kristen's fans include bestselling authors of supernatural fiction such as Patricia Briggs, P.C. Cast and Larissa Ione • A new series and new characters from a rising talent in urban fantasy fiction • Brand new, eye catching cover style • The sequel to House Of The Rising Sun December 9780356503752 Fantasy Fiction, Horror & Ghost Stories Paperback £7.99 304pp 123 124 The Young World

About the author Chris Weitz Chris Weitz is the director of Twilight: New Moon, A Better Life, About a Boy, The Golden Compass, Teenagers are the only survivors of a catastrophic sickness and and American Pie. The Young World attempt to forge a world for themselves in the outstanding first is his first novel. YA novel from acclaimed film producer, director, and screenwriter Chris Weitz.

Welcome to New York, a city ruled by teens.

After the mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson, the reluctant leader of the Washington Square tribe, and Donna, the girl he's secretly in love with, have carved out a precarious existence among the chaos. But when another tribe member discovers a clue that may hold the cure to the Sickness, five teens set out on a life-altering road trip to save humankind. • Film rights acquired by Warner The tribe exchanges gunfire with enemy gangs, escapes cults and Brothers with Weitz slated to adapt militias, braves the wilds of the subway and Central Park… and the books, direct, and produce discovers truths they could never have imagined. • The first of a compelling YA trilogy with fantastic crossover potential • With its large cast of characters, high- stakes action, and complex relationships, this book will appeal to both boy and girl readers • Ages 12+ July 9780349001937 Fiction Trade Paperback £10.99 352pp

125 Lair of Dreams A Diviners Novel About the author Libba Bray Libba Bray is the acclaimed author of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy and is the 2010 Printz Award winner for The queen of historical fiction takes on 1920s Jazz Age New York her stand-alone novel Going - with a supernatural twist. Bovine. She lives in New York City.

After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. Now that the world knows of her ability to 'read' objects, and thus read the past, she has become a media darling, earning the title 'America's Sweetheart Seer'. But not everyone is so accepting of the Diviners' abilities...

Meanwhile, mysterious deaths have been turning up in the city, victims of an unknown sleeping sickness. Can the Diviners descend into the dreamworld and catch a killer?

This is the hotly anticipated follow-up to acclaimed crossover novel, The Diviners.

• Libba Bray is the queen of historical YA fiction: her Gemma Doyle Trilogy has sold over 1.25 million copies and been translated into over 15 languages • The Diviners is fun, flirty and accessible - the perfect YA read • The Diviners (book one in series) garnered fantastic reviews, from the Telegraph to InStyle August • Sexy time-period and evocative 9781907410413 storytelling makes this a series with Fiction great crossover potential Hardback • Ages 12+ £12.99 592pp

126 Deliverance Courier’s Daughter #3 About the author C.J. Redwine C.J. Redwine is a mother of four who lives in Tennesse. You can find her online at http://cjredwine.blogspot.com/ The final title in the fast-paced coming-of-age fantasy series.

Everything hangs in the balance, and nothing is certain; Rachel has been kidnapped by enemy forces and Logan is imprisoned and awaiting trial. Separated from each other and their comrades, each must find a way to achieve what they desperately want: to rid their world once and for all of the Commander and the tech that controls the deadly Cursed One.

Fighting through her pain and embracing the warrior she's become, Rachel will do whatever it takes to escape her enemies' clutches and join Logan in his fight. But when she learns a secret, she realises her plans must change if she wants to save the people she loves. • The perfect blend of YA fantasy and dystopia, The Courier's Daughter is an Logan needs allies if he's going to succeed. But securing them will adddictive series mean betraying his beliefs and enlisting the help of the man he • Perfect for fans of Trudi Canavan, hates more than anyone. Driven by his fierce love for Rachel and Christopher Paolini, Maria V Snyder his determination to make their world safe, Logan may be just the and Kristin Cashore weapon the city states need to defeat the Cursed One. • Ages 12+

As enemies bear down and uneasy alliances are tested, will Rachel and Logan's love for each other be enough to surmount the August unbelievable odds against them? 9781907411359 Fiction Paperback £6.99 480pp

127 Redeemed House of Night #12 About the authors P.C. and Kristin Cast P. C. Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author. She was a teacher for many House of Night is an international phenomenon: this is the years but now concentrates on closing chapter of this epic series. writing and public speaking full- time. Her daughter, Kristin Cast, has In the final electrifying novel in the HoN series, Neferet has finally won awards for her poetry and made herself known to mortals. A Dark Goddess is loose on Tulsa journalism as well as co-writing the and the world. No single vampyre is strong enough to vanquish bestselling House of Night series. her - unless that creature has the power to summon the elements as well as the ability to wield Old Magick. Only Zoey Redbird is heir to such power...but because of the consequences of using Old Magick, she is unable to help. Find out who will win and who will lose in this epic battle of Light versus Darkness.

Also publishing from House of Night in 2014 Kalona’s Fall – July 2014, 9780349002071, paperback original. • Over 12 million copies in print worldwide In the fourth House of Night novella, the dark story of Kalona will • Rights sold in thirty-eight countries to finally be revealed. date, and relatable, addictive characters • New House of Night novels are always destined to feature in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller charts • Dramatic new cover look has revitalised the series and targeted a brand new legion of fans • Ages 14+ October 9781905654925 Fiction Hardback £12.99 352pp

128 Waistcoats and Weaponry Finishing School #3 About the author Gail Carriger New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger writes to cope with being raised in obscurity by an Set in the world of the bestselling Parasol Protectorate novels, expatriate Brit and an incurable the Finishing School series blends intrigue, deception and kick- curmudgeon. She escaped small ass heroines with a fabulous dose of boarding school fun. town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style - Learning. Ms Carriger then travelled with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of the historic cities of Europe, course. subsisting entirely on biscuits secreted in her handbag. She Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when resides in the Colonies, surrounded Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the by fantastic shoes, where she insists charming Lord Felix Mersey all stowaway on a train to return their on tea imported from London. classmate Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. Because no one would have suspected what - and who - they would find aboard the suspiciously empty train. • Gail Carriger is a New York Times bestseller with a huge legion of international fans Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London • The Gallagher Girls meets Sherlock into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for Holmes - finishing school with accessibly all. Victorian flair! • Ages 12+

November 9781907411618 Fiction Paperback £6.99 320pp

129 130 DISASTER DIARIES: BRAINWASHED!

About the author R. McGeddon R. McGeddon is absolutely sure the world is almost certainly going to probably end very soon. A strange, reclusive fellow - so reclusive, in Ever wondered how hypnotism really works? Ever wanted to fact, that no one has ever seen him, explore a super villain's lair? Welcome to Disaster Diaries, where not even his mum - he plots his Sam, Arty and Emmie learn how to thwart a mad scientist the stories using letters cut from old hard way, so that you don't have to... newspapers, then posts them to Ravening zombie hordes and swarms of power-hungry alien award-winning author, Barry dwarfs are just some of the disasters the town of Sitting Duck has Hutchison, to type up. Barry is not faced. entirely sure why he has been chosen, but he considers it his duty But danger never sleeps and a new evil genius has arisen, and he's to get R. McGeddon's apocalyptic planning world domination with the aid of his home-made tales out there. Also, he's too brainwashing device! Are Sam, Arty and Emmie brave enough to scared to say no. save the day? Illustrated by the suspiciously If they aren't, everyone - including you, dear reader - will totally happy, award-winning illustrator lose their minds! • Full of fun, quirky illustrations - this is a Jamie Littler. As the sole survivor of survival handbook, Wimpy Kid style! the 2008 Tiki Mutant Jellyfish • The story is interspersed with non-fiction Disaster, Jamie is considered a style sections which tell you all about prime candidate to illustrate the how to be prepared for coping with Disaster Diaries. brainwashing - perfect for more reluctant readers who prefer facts • For ages 8+ July 9780349001777 Fantasy & Magical Realism, Fiction, Science Fiction Paperback £5.99 192pp

131 THE LAND OF STORIES A Grimm Warning About the author Chris Colfer Chris Colfer is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Golden Globe-winning actor best known for In the third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series by his role as Kurt Hummel on Glee. He Chris Colfer, the Brothers Grimm have a warning for the Land of was honored as a member of the Stories. TIME 100, Time magazine's annual list of the one hundred most Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him - influential people in the world, and until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers his books include Struck By Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Lightning: The Carson Phillips Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to Journal, The Land of Stories: The crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Wishing Spell, and The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother . . . but her attempts at granting wishes never go as planned. Will she ever be truly ready to lead the Fairy Council?

When all signs point to disaster for the Land of Stories, Conner and Alex must join forces with their friends and enemies to save • Chris Colfer is best known for his role the day. But nothing can prepare them for the coming battle . . . as Kurt Hummel on Glee but has or for the secret that will change the twins' lives forever. popularity way beyond that - we had 700 people attended his UK book signing, he has 2.3million followers on The third book in the bestselling Land of Stories series puts the Twitter, and news about him always twins to the test as they must bring two worlds together! sparks an internet frenzy July • Combined, The Wishing Spell and The Enchantress Returns have sold 50,000 9780349124377 copies in our territories, in the US they Fiction, Fantasy & Magical were both NYT number one bestsellers Realism, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, • Ages 8+ Fables, Magical Tales & Traditional Stories Hardback £12.99 448pp 132 EVER AFTER HIGH Untitled #3 About the author Shannon Hale New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale knew at age ten it was her destiny to become a writer. She has quested deep into fairytales in such enchanting books Join Apple White and Raven Queen in the next wonderlandiful as The Goose Girl, Book of a story from the world of Ever After High. Thousand Days, Rapunzel's Revenge, Newbery Honor winner Class is back in session at Ever After High! Bump destinies with Princess Academy and Ever After your favourite fairytale friends and embark on a new spellbinding High: The Storybook of Legends. adventure. Will it be with the reigning Royals, like alpha-queen-to- With the princely and valiant writer be Apple White and adventurista Briar Beauty? Or with the Dean Hale, Shannon co-authored restless Rebels, like the wicked cool Raven Queen and the lone four charming children, who are wolf Cerise Hood? free to follow their own destinies. Just so long as they get to bed on Princes, princesses, and wicked queens – oh my! Happily Forever • Part of the major new Mattel time. After starts now in this literally legendary third book by bestselling franchise, Ever After High author Shannon Hale. • Dedicated interactive website everafterhigh.com had over 500,000 visits within first two months as well as 2 million video views for webisodes • Consumer products, apparel, accessories, new dolls and long form entertainment to be available in 2014 • Facebook page already has over 80,000 likes • Ages 8+ August 9780349124179 Fantasy & Magical Realism Hardback £9.99 320pp 133 FRANKIE’S MAGIC FOOTBALL: Frankie and the World Cup Carnival Frank Lampard is the all-time highest goal scorer for Chelsea FC Frankie's Magic Football #7 – China and is England and Chelsea vice- Frankie's Magic Football #8 – Lapland captain. He began his career at West Ham United, for whom his Frank Lampard father, Frank Lampard Senior, also played, and in 2001 he moved to Chelsea. Having won every domestic honour with Chelsea, in Three new books in the latest five-book arc from the fantastic 2012 Frank captained the Club to Frankie’s Magic Football series. Written by international sports their first UEFA Champions League star Frank Lampard, these include a special World Cup tie-in and title. A three-time Chelsea Player a Christmas edition set in Lapland. of the Year, Frank is also England's most prolific penalty taker. In a Special Edition for the World Cup 2014, football-mad Frankie, Frank enjoys reading aloud to his his friends and their faithful dog, Max, are sent by their magic • Frank Lampard is an two young daughters. When they football to Brazil where they must track down three key items to internationally famous footballer requested stories about football, help England win the World Cup. These are: the referee's whistle, with a huge and dedicated fanbase Frank decided to create his own a football and – of course – the trophy. Their adventures take • Perfect hooks with tie-ins to the characters and adventures to them into a jungle, through a Rio carnival and onto the beach for a World Cup 2014 and Christmas entertain them. These tales game that could change the history of the tournament. • Over 2,000 subscribers to the provided the inspiration Frankie's Magic Football for Frankie’s Magic Football. He This June publication will be followed in August and October by newsletter lives in London. two further Frankie adventures – one in China and the other in • More than 50,000 copies of series Lapland for Christmastime. sold to date (Feb 2014)

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134 MAISIE MAE: Camping is Not Very Ooh La La About the author Poppy Harper knows a thing or two Poppy Harper about brothers. About sisters too for that matter! Her big, boisterous family provided endless inspiration Move over Horrid Henry... Maisie Mae's in town! for Maisie Mae. Though she's glad to say that none of her siblings ever Maisie's family are heading to France for the best camping trip put worms in her lunchbox... ever! There'll be croissants and baguettes and... snails?

But when they arrive, France feels an awful lot like England. And camping seems like an awful lot of bother. Especially when you've got FIVE stinky brothers who are talented in the art of being really extremely ANNOYING and your best-friend-who-is-almost-as- good-as-a-sister is in a whole other country.

But then Maisie meets Mademoiselle Claudette and things start looking up. Perhaps camping might be OOH LA LA after all? • Hilarious, family-based fun for fans of Horrid Henry and Clarice Bean • Packed full of funny black and white line-drawings by Clare Elsom - there are approximately sixty in each book! • Maisie Mae shows that girls can be feisty and fearless as well as loving all things pink and sparkly • For ages 6+

August 9780349001555 Fiction Paperback £4.99 160pp

135 OPERATION OUCH! Medical Milestones and Crazy Cures About the author Dr Chris and Xand van Tullekan Dr Chris van Tulleken and Dr Xand van Tulleken grew up in London and trained in medicine at Oxford University, graduating in 2002. A tie-in to the hit CBBC series, this is the second Operation Ouch title, covering the history of medicine - one body part at a time! They have combined NHS work with global health work and television Think you know your Smallpox from your Bubonic Plague? Try appearing in Blizzard: Race to the testing your knowledge of the history of medicine! Pole, Medicine Men and Medicine Men Go Wild, and in January 2014 a) What did the Ancient Egyptians treat with powdered ostrich appeared on Horizon. Operation egg? Ouch! is their first series for children. b) How did body snatchers help 19th-century medical students? c) Why did the Ancient Romans recommend drinking wee? • Since its debut on CBBC all 13 episodes of

Operation Ouch! have achieved excellent ANSWERS: Dive in and find out! ratings – with 59% of all 6 to 12 year olds watching TV at that time tuning in to Dr Chris and Dr Xand draw back the bed curtains of history to take Operation Ouch! you on a tour of the body, revealing the gruesome secrets of • Operation Ouch! excels against other medicine through the ages. CBBCs shows - with ratings higher than Blue Peter and Richard Hammond's Blast Lab • The Operation Ouch! fanbase has an even gender split - 43.5% boys and 56.5% girls - which bodes well for the book • Operation Ouch! was the winner of a September BAFTA for Best Factual Programme at 9781405529815 the Children’s BAFTA Awards 2013 Human Biology, Science Paperback £5.99 192pp

136 The Twistrose Key

About the author Tone Almhjell Tone Almhjell has been a professional writer her whole career, but she has quit her job as a Set in the timeless world of snowy Sylver, full of adventure and journalist to become a fantasy unforgettable characters, The Twistrose Key is a story that fans writer. She lives in Oslo with her of Narnia and Northern Lights will fall in love with. husband and her two children.

Something is wrong in the house that Lin's family has rented; Lin is sure of it. The clocks tick too slowly. Frost covers the flower bed, even in a rain storm. And when a secret key marked 'Twistrose' arrives for her, Lin finds a crack in the cellar, a gate to the world of Sylver.

This frozen realm is the home of every dead animal who ever loved a child. Lin is overjoyed to be reunited with Rufus, the pet she buried under the rosebush. But together they must find the • The Twistrose Key is a stunning debut missing Winter Prince that night in order to save Sylver from that combines the wonder of Narnia, destruction. the plucky characters of Northern Lights and the action of The Emerald Atlas into Exhilarating suspense and unforgettable characters awaits the a magical new story all it's own readers of this magical adventure, destined to become a classic. • Debuted in hardback in 2013 to critical acclaim • The Twistrose Key is a major international publication - the English language hardback topped Norwegian charts and was a lead title for Penguin US • Ages 9+ September 9780349001678 Fiction Paperback £6.99 368pp

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