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3 Fiction New Titles 4 January 9 February 14 March 21 April 28 May 36 June

41 Non-fiction New Titles 42 January 49 February 53 March 56 April 62 May 65 June

67 Paperback Fiction

75 Paperback Non-fiction

80 Open Market Paperback Editions

81 Children’s New Titles

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92 Audio Title Information 93 Ebook Title Information 96 Key Backlist Titles 104 Children’s Backlist Titles 105 Contact Us and Quercus Online 106 UK Sales Representatives 107 Overseas Distribution

108 Index

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FICTION The Demi-Monde: Winter ROD REES | JANUARY The Demi-Monde: Winter introduces readers to a richly detailed futuristic world, where history’s most fascinating figures and cruellest tyrants rub shoulders

The Demi-Monde is the most advanced simulation ever devised. Thirty million people ruled by history’s cruellest tyrants, locked in eternal civil conflict. The intention: to create the closest thing to hell, and prepare soldiers for the nightmarish environment of war. But something has gone badly wrong inside the Demi-Monde. Heydrich. Beria. Torquemada. Science fiction Robespierre. History’s most notorious mass- On-sale date: 6 January 2011 murderers – or at least simulacrums of these Hardback £16.99 monsters – plot to escape their virtual world; 978 1 84916 302 6 their sights set on planet Earth once again. Export/Airside TPB £12.99 The Real-World’s hopes of stopping them rest on the 978 1 84916 303 3 unlikely shoulders of Ella Thomas. Eighteen-year-old Royal format | 544 pages Ella must enter the Demi-Monde, and infiltrate this World perverse reality where little is as it seems, and everything is potentially lethal. A novel of breathtaking scope and imagination, See p. 92 The Demi-Monde: Winter is the first instalment in what will become a classic four-part series. Rod Rees has spent his life travelling throughout Africa, the Middle East, Bangladesh and Russia, and consequently found himself living in Qatar, Tehran and Moscow. He has built pharmaceutical factories in Dhaka, set up a satellite communication network in Moscow, and conceived and designed a jazz-themed hotel in the UK. The Demi-Monde: Winter is his first novel. Rod lives near Derby with his wife Nelli and their two children. His website can be found at www.thedemi-monde.com.

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The Legacy FICTION KIRSTEN TRANTER | JANUARY A sophisticated and intelligent debut reminiscent of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

What has happened to Ingrid? Beautiful Ingrid inherits a fortune. She leaves Australia and her friends Julia, and Ralph, who loves her, to marry the cold and intellectual Gil Grey and set up home with him and his daughter amid the New York art world. She enrolls at Columbia University while forgetting those who miss her in Sydney.

Fiction But at 9am on September 11th 2001 Ingrid has an appointment with her financial advisor downtown. On-sale date: 6 January 2011 And is never seen again. Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 060 9 Or is she? Royal format | 464 pages A year later Ralph, heartbroken and sick, sends UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Julia to New York to try and piece together Ingrid’s Australia & NZ) & open markets life away from them. What she finds in Ingrid’s friends and unsettling haunts adds layers of mystery, deception and even tragedy; and Julia comes to See p. 92 realize more about her own nature and desires than she could ever have imagined. ‘A sophisticated work of fiction, introducing a formidable Both an unputdownable mystery and story on the new Australian writer’ nature of art, truth, friendship and love, The Legacy announces the arrival of a major new talent. The Age Kirsten Tranter is the daughter of poet John and literary agent Lyn Tranter. She has published fiction, poetry and literary criticism. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and son.

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FICTION The House at Sea’s End ELLY GRIFFITHS | JANUARY Fast-paced crime fiction with a quirky, engaging heroine – the third novel in the acclaimed series featuring forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway

Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North Norfolk, investigating coastal erosion, finds six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff, she is immediately put on the case. DCI Nelson is investigating, but Ruth finds this more hindrance than help – Ruth and Nelson Fiction/Crime have unfinished business. On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Forensic tests prove that the bodies are from Hardback £14.99 Southern Europe, killed sixty years ago. Police 978 1 84916 367 5 investigations unearth records of Project Lucifer, Export/Airside TPB £12.99 a wartime plan to stop a German invasion. A further 978 1 84916 368 2 discovery reveals that members of the Broughton Sea’s End Home Guard took a ‘blood oath’ to conceal Royal format | 368 pages some deadly wartime secret. World When a body washes up on the beach, Ruth and Nelson realise that someone is still alive who will kill to keep See p. 92 this secret. Can they discover the truth in time to stop another murder? ‘A promising series with clever plots and beguiling characters’ Elly Griffiths lives near Brighton. She is also the author of The Crossing Places and The Janus Stone. Sunday Times Her website can be found at www.ellygriffiths.co.uk.

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The Rembrandt Secret FICTION ALEX CONNOR | JANUARY When a man discovers the darkest secret of Rembrandt’s life, his days are numbered. And when his son discovers his body, he’s on a mission to find justice – whatever the cost

History's biggest conspiracy is about to be revealed, unless a brutal murderer can do something about it. Marshall Ziegler's father runs a gallery in London, which Marshall has always ignored. But when his father is beaten to a pulp, disembowelled and left to die, Marshall suddenly needs to know every last Fiction/Thriller detail of his life. On-sale date: 20 January 2011 He discovers that his father knew a dark secret at Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 346 0 the heart of Rembrandt's life, one with the potential to bring down one of the world's most lucrative B format | 448 pages industries. But a sadistic murderer is on the case, World killing in increasingly brutal ways to keep it hidden. Will Marshall beat the killer to the truth? Who can See p. 92 he trust? Will he stay alive long enough to reveal the greatest secret never told? ‘Everybody should be Alex Connor is also known as Alexandra Connor, under forced to take a spoonful of which name she has written a number of historical Alex Connor every day’ novels. This is her first crime thriller. Also an artist Daily Telegraph and a motivational speaker she regularly appears on television and on radio. She lives in Sussex. Her website can be found at www.therembrandtsecret.co.uk.

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FICTION The Breakers CLAUDIE GALLAY |

JANUARY Translated from the French by Alison Anderson

Chosen by Le Monde and by readers of Elle as their Novel of the Year – a beautiful, resonant narrative set on Normandy’s Cotentin coast

In the storm-swept landscapes of Normandy’s coastline lies a village that might just be at the ends of the earth. A woman has recently arrived to seek healing for some deep sorrow, and spends her days MACLEHOSE PRESS cataloguing migrating birds. On the day of a battering storm a stranger appears in the village's bar, arousing Fiction her curiosity. He stirs up suspicion elsewhere too, On-sale date: 6 January 2011 looking to answer questions about his family lost long ago in an accident at sea. How was it, he chiefly Trade Paperback Original £12.99 needs to know, that the lighthouse did not guide 978 1 90669 469 2 them safely to shore? Royal format | 416 pages The eccentric inhabitants of this desolate place World seem riveted to old hatreds, determined to leave secrets buried. Gradually the bird-watcher succeeds See p. 92 in unravelling a tragedy at the heart of a community in which many are suffering still from the loss ‘A gem of a book! 400 pages at sea of those they loved. And in the process, which crack like a whip, she finds her own peace. slap you in the face and The Breakers is an immensely satisfying and ultimately explode, leaving evocative mystery. Claudie Gallay unpeels the you stunned and blissful’ emotions of her unforgettable characters with such subtlety that the reader is captivated. François Busnel, Express Claudie Gallay is a teacher living in Provence. The Breakers was a runaway bestseller in France. Alison Anderson’s translations include Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog. She is the author of two novels, Hidden Latitudes and Darwin’s Wink.

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The Blackhouse FICTION PETER MAY | FEBRUARY A page-turning murder-mystery that explores the darkness in our souls, and just how difficult it is to escape the past

The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people’s fear of God. But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge. When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north Fiction/Crime to investigate. But since he himself was raised on On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Lewis, the investigation also represents a journey Hardback £12.99 home and into his past. 978 1 84916 384 2 Each year the island’s men perform the hunting of Export/Airside TPB £12.99 the gugas, a savage custom no longer necessary for 978 1 84916 385 9 survival, but which they cling to even more fiercely in Royal format | 432 pages the face of the demands of modern morality. For Fin World the hunt recalls a horrific tragedy, which after all this time may have begun to demand another sacrifice. Peter May was an award-winning journalist in his See p. 92 native Scotland, then left newspapers for television ‘A masterwork of and screenwriting, creating three prime-time British drama series. He is the author of fifteen novels sheer momentum’ including The Enzo Files and The China Thillers. Glasgow Herald on He won the French Prix Intramuros in 2007, and The Fourth Sacrifice the 'Prix des Lecteurs' at the Le Havre festival of crime writing 2009.

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FICTION Breach of Trust DAVID ELLIS | FEBRUARY A gritty tale of political corruption and murder at the highest levels of government

In this second instalment of the Jason Kolarich series, Jason investigates the murder of a key witness in a criminal case that he tried. Jason had forced the witness to testify and believes that this led to his murder. When the evidence points to an obscure agency in state government, guilt-stricken Jason goes to work for the agency to dig deeper. Before he knows it, he finds himself square in the middle of Fiction/Thriller a high-level conspiracy of fraud and corruption – as well as a covert federal investigation into these crimes. On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £20.00 David Ellis was the House Prosecutor who 978 1 84916 199 2 convicted Governor Rod Blagojevich in the sensational impeachment trial before the Illinois Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 200 5 Senate in 2009. In this riveting thriller, Ellis calls upon his experience and expertise to deliver Royal format | 352 pages a gritty tale of political corruption and murder UK, Commonwealth at the highest levels of government. (exc Canada) & open markets David Ellis's previous novels include Line of Vision, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. See p. 92 An attorney from Chicago, Ellis currently serves as counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House ‘Ingenious and surprising’ of Representatives. The Sun

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The Thing on the Shore FICTION TOM FLETCHER | FEBRUARY The much-anticipated second novel in the series that began with The Leaping, set in a malevolent call-centre that might just be alive

Arthur was twelve when he watched his mother jump from the cliff into the sea. Wasted by grief, he and his father stayed at the family home in Whitehaven, as life became more meaningless. Years later, Arthur works in a call centre, run by the enigmatic Artemis Black, and dreams of something extraordinary to change it all. Fiction/Horror On-sale date: 3 February 2011 All Arthur’s nightmares will come true when an experimental new system implemented by Artemis Paperback £7.99 Black starts to take its toll. Inspired by the isolation 978 1 84916 136 7 of Cumbria’s bleak coastline and determined to reach B format | 400 pages ever better levels of efficiency, Artemis has brought World in cutting-edge AI technology to operate the automated answering machines.

See p. 92 But inside this new technology lurks an otherworldly consciousness; one that Arthur begins to believe ‘Frankly brilliant… everything will bring his mother back. Consumed with this idea, that good horror should be’ Arthur lets every other aspect of his life – his father, his job and his home – deteriorate around him, until Mark Morris on there’s almost nothing left. The Leaping Tom Fletcher has become well-known for his spine- chilling readings at live literary events. His website can be found at http://fellhouse.wordpress.com.

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FICTION Love Virtually DANIEL GLATTAUER |

FEBRUARY Translated from the German by Katharina Bielenberg and Jamie Bulloch

A funny, fast-paced and absorbing experience, with many twists and turns, about a love affair conducted exclusively by e-mail

Write to me, Emmi. Writing is like kissing, but without lips. Writing is kissing with the mind.

MACLEHOSE PRESS It begins by chance: Leo receives emails in error from an unknown woman called Emmi. Being polite he Fiction replies, and Emmi writes back. A few brief exchanges are all it takes to spark a mutual interest in each other, On-sale date: 3 February 2011 and soon Emmi and Leo are sharing their innermost Hardback £9.99 secrets and longings. The erotic tension simmers, and 978 1 90669 497 5 it seems only a matter of time before they will meet B format | 256 pages in person. But they keep putting off the moment – the World prospect both unsettles and excites them. And after all, Emmi is happily married. Will their feelings for each other survive the test of a real-life encounter? See p. 92 And if so, what then? ‘One of the cleverest and most Daniel Glattauer was born in Vienna and is magical love-dialogues in a columnist for Standard. Every Seventh Wave, modern literature’ the bestselling sequel to Love Virtually, will be published by MacLehose Press in Autumn 2011. Volker Hage, Spiegel Katharina Bielenberg (Emmi) is an editor and translator. Jamie Bulloch (Leo) is a translator and historian. They are husband and wife.

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The Folded Earth FICTION ANURADHA ROY | FEBRUARY A brilliant novel by the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing – a many-layered and powerful narrative, by turns poetic, elegiac and comic

In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. She teaches in a school and at night types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with him, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might forge a new existence away from the devastation MACLEHOSE PRESS of her recent past. As Maya finds out, no place is remote or small enough. Fiction The world she has come to love is endangered by On-sale date: 3 February 2011 the town’s new administration; impending elections Hardback £18.99 are hijacked by powerful outsiders who threaten 978 0 85705 043 4 the future of her school. Charu begins to behave Export/Airside TPB £12.99 strangely, and soon Maya understands that a new 978 0 85705 044 1 boy in the neighbourhood may be responsible. Royal format | 368 pages When Diwan Sahib’s nephew arrives to set up his trekking company on their estate, she is despite World herself drawn to him, and finally she is forced to confront bitter and terrible truths. See p .92 Anuradha Roy is an editor at Permanent Black, an ‘Roy’s prose does not hit a single independent publishing press in New Delhi. She was the winner of the Picador-Outlook Non-fiction Prize wrong note: its restrained in 2004. Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, beauty sings off the page’ has been translated into thirteen languages. Neel Mukherjee, Time magazine

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T Tiny Sunbirds Far Away I O N CHRISTIE WATSON | M A

R Set in the Niger Delta, Tiny Sunbirds Far C

H Away explores the world of twelve-year- old Blessing and her family

‘Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.’ Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger- than-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos, where they attend the International School for Future Leaders. All that changes when their father leaves them Fiction for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel – only married woman On-sale date: 3 March 2011 can work there – and soon they have to quit their Trade Paperback Original £12.99 apartment in the Better Life Executive Homes 978 1 84916 374 3 development in Lagos to go and live with their Demy format | 416 pages maternal grandparents in a compound in UK, Commonwealth the bush. Adapting to life with a poor countryside (exc Canada) & open markets family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged cosmopolitan upbringing in Lagos.

See p. 92 Tiny Sunbirds Far Away is told in Blessing’s own beguiling voice. It is at times hilarious, always poignant, occasionally tragic, and peopled with unforgettable characters. Christie Watson trained as a paediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and worked as a nurse, educator and senior sister for over ten years. She lives in South London with her Nigerian partner and their large dual heritage, multi-faith family.

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Killed at the Whim of a Hat FICTION COLIN COTTERILL | MARCH The start of an exciting new series from CWA Dagger in the Library winner Colin Cotterill

When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her family from Chiang Mai to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she’s convinced her career is over. Her journalism will surely dwindle to reports on the annual monsoon-induced floods, for what crimes could possibly occur in such an out-of-the-way place? When a local palm oil plantation owner is excavating a well, he digs down six feet and hits metal. It turns Fiction/Crime out to be the roof of an old Volkswagen combi, which On-sale date: 3 March 2011 is found to contain two skeletons – one of them wearing a hat. Hardback £16.99 978 0 85738 151 4 A monk is murdered in Lang Suan, the nearest town. Export/Airside TPB £11.99 There is apparently no motive for the killing and no 978 1 84916 552 5 suspects are found. But there are odd connections Demy format | 384 pages between this killing and several others around the world. Suddenly Jimm’s new life becomes somewhat World more promising – and a great deal more dangerous. Colin Cotterill was born in London. He has taught See p. 92 in Australia, the USA and Japan and lived for many years in Laos where he worked for non-governmental ‘Witty dialogue and social service organizations. He now writes full-time engaging characters ... and lives in Chumphone, Thailand. His website can combination of humour, be found at www.colincotterill.com. social commentary and clever mystery’ Sunday Telegraph

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FICTION Madame Tussaud MICHELLE MORAN | MARCH A young Madame Tussaud experiences the French Revolution at first hand when she goes to Versailles to teach Marie Antoinette to make waxwork masks

Marie has grown up in her step-father’s waxwork museum, learning the ways of crafting human statues for the rich and famous of Paris. But all is not well in the French capital – the people are going hungry while the king and queen enjoy increasingly lavish lives. Surrounded by her father’s friends, Marie learns of their plans for revolution, which she Historical Fiction shares with her childhood sweetheart, Jack. On-sale date: 3 March 2011 A visit from Marie Antoinette results in Marie being Trade Paperback Original £12.99 offered a job in the palace, teaching the reviled queen 978 1 84916 137 4 how to make waxwork masks. Wary at first, Marie Royal format | 432 pages soon discovers the most hated woman in France to be charming, and she becomes a dear friend. When the UK, Commonwealth revolution comes, Marie is thrown into jail and only (exc Canada) & open markets has one method of survival – to make death masks of the key figures of the revolution and buy her way See p. 95 See p. 92 out. But will Jack have waited, or lost patience with her friendship with the queen? ‘Hugely enjoyable’ Michelle Moran’s experiences at archaeological Daily Express sites around the world inspired her to write historical fiction. She lives in California with her husband. Her website can be found at www.michellemoran.com.

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I Love the 80s FICTION MEGAN CRANE | MARCH When Jenna Jenkins is jilted, she buries herself in memories of her favourite rockstar, who died in 1987, until a freak accident sends her back in time to meet the man himself

Jenna Jenkins was getting married to her boyfriend, Adam, and she was sure her life was all coming together. Until Adam left her for a twenty-three-year- old yoga instructor. To ease the pain, Jenna throws herself into her teenage memories of the late, great Tommy Seer, killed when his car crashed off a bridge Fiction in 1987, when she was just twelve. On-sale date: 17 March 2011 One evening, as Jenna is thinking about Tommy, Paperback £6.99 a freak accident sends her back to 1987. It's a few 978 1 84916 999 8 months before Tommy will die and Jenna is working B format | 304 pages as his assistant. But Tommy is not the guy she imagined. He's rude and obnoxious, even if he is UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets deliciously good-looking. When Tommy takes her into his confidence, she starts to see the real him again and finds herself more in love than ever. He suspects See p. 92 someone is trying to kill him – and she knows it won't be long before they succeed. Why is she here? ‘Frenemies is a hugely Is she meant to save his life? How can she without enjoyable novel with brilliant, revealing the bizarre, unbelievable truth? convincing characters and Megan Crane lives in Los Angeles with her husband. dialogue. It’s romantic, She is also the author of English as a Second Language, funny, intelligent, believable Frenemies, Names My Sisters Call Me and Everyone and gripping. I couldn’t Else’s Girl. Her website can be found at www.megancrane.com put it down’ Marian Keyes

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FICTION The Delta TONY PARK | MARCH Ex-soldier turned mercenary Sonja Kurtz is running for her life in this brilliant action thriller

After an assassination plan goes horribly wrong, Sonja ends up alone in the African wilderness. Elsewhere, groups of revolutionaries are plotting to destroy the dam being erected on the Delta and simultaneously bring about a regime change in Zimbabwe. American TV heartthrob and wildlife documentary presenter ‘Coyote’ Sam Chapman is desperate to cover the story, but finds himself stranded in the Fiction/Thriller jungle after his entire crew disappears. His path On-sale date: 3 March 2011 crosses with Sonja’s and he is immediately attracted Hardback £20.00 to her. But right now Sonja has got other things 978 0 85738 112 5 on her mind – blowing up the dam for one. Export/Airside TPB £12.99 This colourful, pulse-pounding African thriller, 978 0 85738 290 0 executed with Tony Park’s trademark talent to Royal format | 416 pages entertain and seduce, will leave you breathless. UK, Commonwealth Australian writer Tony Park was born in 1964. He fell (exc Canada, Australia & in love with South Africa on a short trip in 1995 and New Zealand) & open markets he and his wife now divide their time between their home in Sydney and a tent in the Kruger Park. He See p. 92 is a qualified military parachutist and a major in the Australian Army Reserve. He has worked in journalism ‘Well, move over Wilbur and PR, including six months in Afghanistan in 2002 is all I can say’ as PR officer for the Australian ground forces. His website can be found at www.tonypark.net. Northern Star

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The Mayan Prophecy FICTION STEVE ALTEN | MARCH On 21 December 2012 the ancient Mayan calendar will complete its thirteenth cycle – it is the beginning of the end

For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel studied the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma that predicts the Apocalypse. His research led him to believe that ancient legacies – from the pyramids of Mexico and Egypt to the Nazca desert drawings – form part of an interlinking fail-safe system designed to save humanity from annihilation. Julius Gabriel dies, and his theories have perished Fiction/Thriller with him, discredited and ridiculed. On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Eleven years later, Julius’ son, Michael, must escape Paperback £6.99 from an insane asylum, where he has been falsely 978 0 85738 169 9 incarcerated. With the help of part-Mayan psychiatric B format | 512 pages intern, Dominique Vazquez, he must travel to the UK, Commonwealth Yucatan Peninsula. Here, Michael believes, lies (exc Canada) & open markets the evidence he needs to prove his father’s theory, and to convince the world of the fast-approaching global catastrophe. See p. 92 In Mexico, at the autumn equinox, a serpent’s ‘A chilling, deeply researched shadow appears over the northern face of the Temple peek into our ancient past. of Kukulcán, as it has done for a thousand years. But this time it is different – mankind’s time is up... Jarring, frightening, thrilling’ Steve Alten is the New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, author of of Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, The Loch and Goliath. The Doomsday Key He lives with his family in Boca Raton, Florida.

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FICTION Child Wonder ROY JACOBSEN |

MARCH Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw

A glorious evocation of childhood in the early sixties, by 2009 Dublin Impac Award shortlisted author

Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women', the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful MACLEHOSE PRESS and stubbornly social-democratic. One day a mysterious half-sister appears 'with an atom-charge in a light blue Fiction suitcase', and she turns his life upside-down. On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Over an everlasting summer, Finn attempts to grasp Hardback £15.99 the incomprehensible adult world and his place within 978 0 85705 018 2 it. His mother appears to carry a painful secret, and it Export/Airside TPB £12.99 is one which pushes them ever further apart. And why 978 0 85705 019 9 is his new sister so different from every other child? Demy format | 276 pages Child Wonder is a powerful and unsentimental portrait World of childhood, a prodigiously uplifting coming-of-age novel that shines with humanity. Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the See p. 92 Nordic Council’s Literary Award: for Seierherrene in ‘A book that makes you 1991, and Frost in 2003. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out laugh and cry – what more Town of Miracles. can you wish for? ... Child Wonder is nothing less Don Bartlett is the translator of Jo Nesbø, K.O. Dahl and Pernille Rygg. Don Shaw is a teacher of Danish than a perfect masterpiece’ and the author of the Danish-Thai dictionary. Dagsavisen

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Island of Wings FICTION KARIN ALTENBERG | APRIL An astounding first novel about the trials of marriage which marks the arrival of a new literary talent

July, 1830. On the ten-hour sailing west from the Hebrides to the islands of St Kilda, everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders and bright, beautiful and devoted Lizzie, his new wife, is pregnant with their first child.

© Paula Tranströmer © Paula As the two adjust to life on an exposed archipelago on the edge of civilization, where the natives live in Fiction squalor, and babies perish mysteriously in their first On-sale date: 31 March 2011 week, their marriage – and their sanity – is threatened. Is Lizzie a willful temptress drawing him away from Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 232 0 his faith? Is Neil’s zealous Christianity unhinging into madness? And who, or what, is haunting Royal format | 304 pages the moors and cliff-tops? UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is more than just an account of a marriage in peril – it is also a richly imagined novel about See p. 92 two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of terrible hardship and ‘Island of Wings captures a tumultuous beauty. world that disappears in the act Karin Altenberg was born and brought up in southern of description, and the love, so Sweden, but moved to Britain to study in 1996. She inescapable and elusive, of the holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of outsiders who try to tame it. Reading. She is currently senior advisor to the Swedish With scrupulous attention National Heritage Board and is a Fellow of the Linnean to place, history and the Society of London. Island of Wings is her first novel and she is currently working on her second. natural world, it tells a story washed by a clean and lovely kind of sorrow’ Anne Enright

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FICTION Toploader ED O'LOUGHLIN | APRIL A darkly comic masterpiece in the tradition of M*A*S*H, Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse 5

Spying inside the Embargoed Zone is risky business. Agent Cobra has been doing just this, and is now due his payment. But there’s a snag: his spymaster, Captain Smith, is broke. All Smith can offer Cobra is the mysterious Toploader. Discontent with this arrangement, Cobra quickly offloads the device, and returns to haranguing Smith for cash. Fiction Yet senior military personnel soon learn that Toploader On-sale date: 31 March 2011 is no longer in their possession. Panic ensues, and Trade Paperback Original £12.99 a frantic operation is launched to retrieve it. 978 0 85738 291 7 Royal format | 300 pages Caught in the ensuing crossfire are Flora, a plucky teenage orphan; Cooper, a reporter with a penchant for World the wrong end of the stick; and Moon, a hapless drone pilot. The Toploader is about to make all of their lives a lot more dangerous, and a hell of a lot more bizarre. See p. 92 Toploader is a wonderfully original novel that serves ‘A simply brilliant debut by an as a razor-sharp satire on the absurdity of war, author of great poise and power’ and how the depersonalization of death and injury Tim Butcher, author of is meant to make it acceptable. Blood River, on Ed O’Loughlin was born in Toronto and raised in Not Untrue & Not Unkind Ireland. He reported from Africa for the Irish Times, and was Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald. His first novel, Not Untrue & Not Unkind was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.

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Flashback FICTION DAN SIMMONS | APRIL Dan Simmons casts his unique vision of a terrifying not-too-distant future

America, 2036: a wasteland in economic ruin. Terrorism and ultra-violence plague a once powerful society, whose only escape is to numb itself on flashback – a euphoric yet cripplingly addictive drug that allows its users to re-visit their happier, past experiences. Ex-cop Nick Bottom is about to receive a proposition. Flashback dependency has taken his badge, his reputation, and the love of his son. All he has left Science Fiction are the flash-induced memories of his beloved wife, Dara, taken from him in a tragic car accident. On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £16.99 Now powerful magnate Hiroshi Nakamura needs 978 0 85738 124 8 Nick’s services, and, in particular, his memories. Export/Airside TPB £12.99 As head of the original investigation into the murder 978 0 85738 346 4 of Nakamura’s son – an unsolved and seemingly Royal format | 600 pages impossible mystery – Nick’s flashbacks now, UK, Commonwealth six years later, hold the key to solving what was (exc Canada) & open markets the toughest case of his career. But as Nick delves deeper, the harder it becomes See p. 92 to trust those around him. And when he uncovers a connection to Dara’s death, it is not only Hiroshi ‘I am in awe of Dan Simmons’ Nakamura who wants answers. Stephen King Dan Simmons has won the Hugo award, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus award (three times) and the Bram Stoker award. He lives in Colorado. His website can be found at www.dansimmons.com.

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FICTION The Watermen PATRICK EASTER | APRIL Thrillingly authentic historical crime novel set against the backdrop of the 18th Century docklands

A cruel villain holds sway in the Port of London. His name is Boylin. His face is scarred by lime and his soul by the two hundred lashes he received following a naval court martial. He holds Captain Tom Pascoe responsible. They meet again when Pascoe becomes River Surveyor for the newly formed marine police. They’ve had orders to investigate a sudden fall in government revenue. Pascoe knows that Historical Fiction Boylin is behind it, but he can’t prove anything, yet. On-sale date: 31 March 2011 The Watermen follows these two adversaries across Hardback £14.99 London as they try to outwit one another. Working 978 0 85738 054 8 alongside Pascoe is Sam Hart, a Jewish immigrant with his own agenda. Pascoe throws the rule-book out Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 055 5 the window, scouring East London and the docklands in search of information. But fate takes a cruel twist Royal format | 368 pages when the two men find themselves involved with UK, Commonwealth the same woman and there’s much more at stake (exc Canada) & open markets than the fate of the nation. Patrick Easter was a police officer in the Met for See p. 92 thirty years and during that time was part of the Marine Police force. His love of 18th Century history and his knowledge of London's waterways make him the perfect author for this subject.

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Who’s Afraid of Mr Wolfe? FICTION HAZEL OSMOND | APRIL The funny and heart-warming story of a young woman trying to get her life back on track after the arrival of a new boss

Jack Wolfe is about to become Ellie Somerset's boss. Heathcliff In Jeans is about to be stalking her corridors, with his trademark scowl, his demanding deadlines and his redundancy plan. This is not good news. Ellie likes flying under the radar. She knows she's good at her job, if they'd just let her get on with it. She and her creative partner, Leslie, have been working away at the advertising firm for Fiction years, and they have great ideas. It's just that Ellie On-sale date: 14 April 2011 can't see the point of dressing up for work or trying Paperback £6.99 to impress her colleagues. Jack Wolfe is determined 978 1 84916 418 4 to change all that. It's time for Ellie to prove herself. It's also time for her to find her long-term boyfriend B format | 400 pages in bed with his German colleague. UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets As she tries to come to terms with this, she can't help but be drawn to the sexy man who keeps calling her into meetings then giving her brooding looks. See p. 92 But Ellie's not the only one recovering from something. And Jack Wolfe has an awful lot to hide... Hazel Osmond has been an advertising copywriter for nearly twenty years. She won the 2008 Woman and Home short story competition sponsored by Costa. She lives in Northumberland with her husband and two children and two cats.

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FICTION The Goldsmith’s Secret ELIA BARCELÓ |

APRIL Translated from the Spanish by David Frye

A ghostly, seductive love story, and a mesmerizing reflection on a Spain that is long gone

One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories intertwine and collide. Returning to the village in Spain where he grew up, he hopes that MACLEHOSE PRESS he will encounter Celia, 'the Black Widow', a beautiful and mysterious friend of his mother with whom he Fiction had a passionate affair when he was a teenager. But On-sale date: 31 March 2011 instead he meets a young woman who opens doors into a strange world, and takes him back in time. Hardback £12.00 978 0 85705 005 2 The Goldsmith’s Secret is a remarkable story of 190 x 135 mm | 144 pages a love trapped between two parallel times, set in Spain in the fifties, seventies and in the last year World of the twentieth century. Elia Barceló’s novel is filled with intense nostalgia, See p. 92 memories and desires. She has come to be known across Europe as a truly original voice, and her books ‘A sad and magical story ... the as poetic works of great subtlety. novel moves in perfect rhythm, and its readers move with it’ Elia Barceló teaches Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Innsbruck. Maria José Obiol, El Pais, David Frye’s translations include Thine Is the Kingdom on Heart of Tango by Abilio Estévez and The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi.

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Monsieur Linh FICTION and His Child |

PHILIPPE CLAUDEL APRIL Translated from the French by Euan Cameron

A beautifully cadenced story of two cultures by the 2010 winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his MACLEHOSE PRESS arms to safety. The other refugees in the detention centre are unsure how to help the old man; his Fiction case-workers are compassionate but overworked. On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Struggling beneath the weight of his sorrow, Monsieur Hardback £12.00 Linh becomes increasingly bewildered and isolated, 978 1 90669 499 9 but then he encounters Monsieur Bark. They do not 190 x 135 mm | 144 pages speak each other’s language, but Monsieur Bark is World sympathetic to the Linh’s need to care for the child. Recently widowed and equally alone, he is eager to talk, and Monsieur Linh knows how to listen. See p. 92 Monsieur Linh and His Child is a remarkable novel ‘A book of extraordinary with an extraordinary twist, a subtle portrait of power, one that combines friendship and a dialogue between two cultures. moments of transcendent Philippe Claudel is a novelist, film director and natural beauty and human- university lecturer. He wrote and directed the generated horror to create a BAFTA-winning film I’ve Loved You So Long. potent, sustained spell’ Euan Cameron’s translations include works by Stephanie Cross, Julien Green, Simone de Beauvoir and Paul Morand. Daily Mail,on Brodeck’s Report

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FICTION Blossoms and Shadows LIAN HEARN | MAY A rich and atmospheric tale of love and war, women and men, and the rise of modern Japan

Japan, 1857. For centuries Japan has been on its own; isolated by choice from the rest of the world. But now the Western powers are at its shores demanding to be let in, the government is crumbling and revolution is building. The age of the samurai is ending and in its place a new Japan will be born. Amid the upheaval, a young woman is readying herself for marriage. Tsuru, a doctor’s daughter, has been Historical Fiction working alongside her father and learning the ways On-sale date: 28 April 2011 of medicine. When he allows her to marry the man Trade Paperback Original £12.99 she chooses – a fellow doctor – she believes she 978 0 85738 297 9 will spend her life working among men, as an equal. Royal format | 400 pages But Japanese society does not work this way. The men UK, Commonwealth of the times are determined to expel the foreigners, (exc Canada, Australia & using violence and whatever else they need to make New Zealand) & open markets their message heard. The women are expected to be hidden at home, or behind the paper walls of the tea houses. Tsuru is far too able to accept this and she See p. 95 See p. 92 is drawn into a shadowy world of subversion, political intrigue and a dangerous love. ‘The writing is beautiful, packed with authentic, Lian Hearn's internationally renowned Tales of the atmospheric detail’ Otori books have sold in excess of four million copies. She lives in Australia with her husband. Her website Daily Mail on can be found at www.lianhearn.com. The Harsh Cry of the Heron

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Lex FICTION JAMES MYLET | MAY The funny, bright and pitch-perfect story of a seventeen-year-old leaving home and figuring out what he wants from life

Lex is all but finished growing up in Clifden, Connemara, where he runs a radio station from his bedroom and makes plans to go to university in London. As he shares his views on life, music and Michelle, the best girl in town, Lex is absurdly acute and brilliantly entertaining. Michelle is not only older than Lex, but she's dating the town thug, someone Lex would do well to avoid, but where's the fun in that? Fiction Surrounded by his adoring family and constantly On-sale date: 28 April 2011 taking the flak for his crazy best friend, Davey, he's caught between modesty and an edge of cool. But he Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 067 8 finds himself in trouble when a friend uses Lex's own radio station to announce to the entire town that Lex Royal format | 300 pages is still a virgin and asks some nice young girl to help UK, Commonwealth him out before he heads to London in the same state, (exc Canada) & open markets especially when Lex accidentally lets slip he'd like that nice girl to be Michelle.

See p. 92 Being seventeen is the stuff of rollercoasters – from one period of angst to boundless joy and on to another crisis – and Lex's summer is set to be typical. He's organised a major music festival in Clifden, or so he's told his favourite band, Toots and the Maytals. But when Davey's mother gets sick and he loses his temper one too many times, Ireland's answer to Glastonbury may not happen at all. With all his dreams falling around his ankles, Lex is determined to go out with a bang. And he will, but it might not be quite what he had in mind. James Mylet lives in South London with his wife and son. This is his first novel.

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FICTION Valdez ANDREW NICOLL | MAY A novel about love and greed from the Saltire First Novel Award-winning author of The Good Mayor

Only a few weeks after it happened, Luciano Hernando Valdez was almost unable to believe that he had ever been a murderer. Chano Valdez is a celebrated writer. He pens not just novels, but works of such astounding quality that he is known throughout his minor South American country and the world as the finest of his generation. He teaches at the university and lives a life of luxury, Fiction taking any woman he’d like to bed, and living on On-sale date: 28 April 2011 the joys of fame. Trade Paperback Original £12.99 But then two things happen to unsettle his life. He 978 1 84916 471 9 gets writer’s block and can only come up with ‘the Royal format | 368 pages scrawny yellow cat crossed the road’ for his next World oeuvre and he meets Caterina. She is the answer to everything. Young, beautiful, talented and – best of all – she writes. Convinced she will unlock his See p. 92 mind and help him to succeed, Chano finds himself falling for this wonderful girl. ‘A triumph of tone, very moving, completely convincing’ That is, until he murders her. Andrew Marr on Andrew Nicoll has spent his working life as a journalist. His first novel, The Good Mayor, won the The Good Mayor Saltire First Book Award and has been translated into twenty languages. He is married with three children.

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Trieste FICTION DAŠA DRNDIC´ |

Translated from the Croatian by MAY Ellen Elias-Bursa´c

A novel that exposes the abduction of young children during the Second World War, through the extraordinary story of a mother’s search for her son

Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, MACLEHOSE PRESS fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen from her by the German authorities during the War as part Fiction of Himmler’s clandestine “Lebensborn” project, On-sale date: 28 April 2011 which strove for a “racially pure” Germany. Hardback £18.99 Haya’s reflection on her Catholicized Jewish family’s 978 0 85705 022 9 experiences deals unsparingly with the massacre Export/Airside TPB £12.99 of Italian Jews in the concentration camps of 978 0 85705 025 0 Trieste. Her obsessive search for her son leads Royal format | 384 pages her to photographs, maps and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials and interviews World English with second generation Jews, as well as witness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep. See p. 92 Written in immensely powerful language, and employing a range of astonishing conceptual devices, Trieste is a novel like no other. Daša Drndic´ has produced a shattering contribution to the literature of our twentieth-century history. Daša Drndic´ is a distinguished Croatian novelist and playwright. She also translates and teaches at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka. Ellen Elias-Bursac´ is the leading translator of Serbo-Croat into English. Her translation of David Albahari's novel Gotz and Meyer was awarded the National Translation Award by the American Literary Translators Association.

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FICTION The Bone Yard A Body Farm Thriller |

MAY JEFFERSON BASS

Dr Bill Brockton investigates the murky past of a reform school for boys, when a number of shallow graves are unearthed

Early summer brings warm weather to the Body Farm in East Tennessee, but Dr Bill Brockton’s about to get more heat than he’s bargained for. A former student who’s now an agent with the Department of Law Enforcement seeks his help in identifying a partial skull found in the woods in rural Florida. The victim appears to have been a young male who died from Fiction/Crime fatal blows to the head. On-sale date: 28 April 2011 While leading a search for the remaining bones, Hardback £18.99 Brockton and his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady 978 1 84916 059 9 find a series of shallow graves on the overgrown Export/Airside TPB £12.99 grounds of a shuttered reform school for boys. 978 1 84916 060 5 According to local lore, the school’s poor, troubled Royal format | 352 pages students understood that one wrong move could land UK, Commonwealth them in their own plot in the de facto cemetery. As (exc Canada) & open markets Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets, and learn that the ghosts of the past are ever present. See p. 92 Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Dr Bill Bass ‘The real deal’ and Jon Jefferson. Dr Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, founded the Body Farm Kathy Reichs twenty-five years ago. Jefferson is a journalist, writer and film-maker. Their website can be found at www.jeffersonbass.com.

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Memoirs of a Bitch FICTION FRANCESCA PETRIZZO |

Translated from the Italian by MAY Silvester Mazzarella

The unique story of Helen of Troy – the woman whose face launched a thousand ships – told from her own perspective

The bitch. That’s what the crew call me. The bitch. They say it behind my back. But I can hear them. My name’s Helen, I was born in Sparta, but I went away for love. They used to say I was the most beautiful woman in the world. Historical Fiction The minstrels are already making up stories about On-sale date: 12 May 2011 how little I’ve won and how much I’ve lost. Lying tales. Paperback £7.99 They weren’t there, after all. But I was. 978 0 85738 066 1 From her childhood in Sparta, through the turbulent B format | 304 pages years of her marriage, and her disappearance with World Paris and its consequences, Helen of Troy tells her own story. In a lyrical and musical style, Helen sheds her legendary persona and walks from the page as See p. 92 a real woman of flesh and blood; the archetype of all ‘Memories of a Bitch is a the women who, throughout history, have followed their hearts, forsaking wealth and power. book that stands out. A truly modern female character’ Francesca Petrizzo is nineteen. She is on her way to university to study Classics and is hoping to La Repubblica spend a year of her degree in the UK on an exchange. This is her first novel. Silvester Mazzarella has been translating Swedish and Italian literature professionally since 1997. He learned English from his mother, Italian from his father, and Swedish in Finland, where he taught English for many years at the University of Helsinki. He now lives in Canterbury.

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FICTION The Gardener PRUE LEITH | MAY The perfect summer read – a woman, recovering from divorce, rebuilds a lost garden and finds healing and romance in the process

Under the bracken, under the soil, under the forest, under the water, the garden’s history is there. It needs an ardent lover to find it. Lotte is in unfamiliar territory. After a divorce and a great deal of soul-searching, she has abandoned her successful career as an architect for a degree in Garden History, and uprooted her three children Fiction to take up a job as head gardener to millionaire On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Brody Keegan at Maddon Park in Oxfordshire. Paperback £7.99 Brody is as ignorant about gardens as Lotte is 978 0 85738 299 3 knowledgeable, his tastes as loud as hers are quiet. B format | 320 pages They have little in common except a passion for World Maddon Park and a determination to get their own way. As Lotte locks horns with her boss and his spoilt young wife, she finds herself on an emotional rollercoaster. See p. 92 She knows what is right for the garden, but – raw from divorce, anxious about the children and frightened of ‘An engaging and entanglement – she is less sure of what is right for her. well-crafted tale’ Prue Leith is a cook, restaurateur, food writer and Sue MacGregor business woman. She has played a key role in the revolution of Britain’s eating habits. She has also written five acclaimed novels, including Choral Society and A Serving of Scandal. Her website can be found at www.prue-leith.com.

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Sixkill FICTION ROBERT B. PARKER | MAY A villainous movie star, a soft-spoken assassin, and a new sidekick all await Spenser, Robert B. Parker’s legendary private eye

A girl has been found dead, seemingly strangled, in the hotel room of movie star Jumbo Nelson. Jumbo’s lawyers want Spenser to find out whether Jumbo did it – not because they care either way, but because the knowledge will help them work out how to block his conviction. Jumbo is a sufficiently repulsive individual that Fiction/Crime Spenser finds it hard to contain his distaste. On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Then there is his bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, a Cree Hardback £18.99 Indian who squandered his pro-football career thanks 978 0 85738 211 5 to an inability to control his temper, and turned his Export/Airside TPB £12.99 attentions to alcohol instead. 978 0 85738 212 2 Also involved in Jumbo’s case, for reasons that remain Royal format | 304 pages unclear, is a cold-blooded assassin who just might UK, Commonwealth be the most dangerous enemy Spenser has faced yet. (exc Canada) & open markets But if he can persuade Sixkill to turn his life around, Spenser might just have the ally he needs … See p. 92 Robert B. Parker began writing his Spenser novels in 1971. He was named Grand Master of the 2002 ‘Sharp, witty dialogue … Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America. fast-paced plots, comfortingly He passed away in January 2010. reminiscent of the hard-boiled era of mystery writing … Parker delivers yet again’ The Times on Rough Weather

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FICTION The Dinosaur Feather SISSEL-JO GAZAN |

JUNE Translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund

A truly unique crime novel that interweaves a murder investigation with the central mystery of the theory of evolution

Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found dead in his office, his severed tongue on his bloodied shirtfront and a copy of her thesis in his lap.

Fiction/Crime Police Superintendent Søren Marhauge is assigned On-sale date: 26 May 2011 to unravel a multitude of intrigues. Helland had been deliberately infected with a rare parasite that only Trade Paperback Original £12.99 an expert in the field would have access to. But when 978 0 85738 033 3 Anna Bella’s fellow graduate and close friend is also Royal format | 400 pages killed, the murders seem to be linked to Anna herself. UK, Commonwealth As Marhauge investigates he comes up against vicious (exc Canada) & open markets competition for academic success and dark secrets in the faculty.

See p. 92 Set against the fabulous backdrop of palaeontology’s age-old mysteries, The Dinosaur Feather unveils a ‘Sissel-Jo Gazan has sparkling mosaic of related destinies and a sinister mastered the arts of web of lies. suspense and revelation’ Sissel-Jo Gazan is a biology graduate from the Kristeligt Dagblad University of Copenhagen. The Dinosaur Feather is her breakthrough novel, having sold in twelve countries to date. Charlotte Barslund is the translator of the Inspector Sejer novels by Karin Fossum.

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Pilgrims FICTION WILL ELLIOTT | JUNE The first book in the Pendulum Trilogy, from one of genre fiction’s most exciting new voices

Eric Albright, a twenty-six-year-old unemployed journalist, and Stuart Casey, a homeless old drunk, discover a door in a graffiti-covered wall that leads them into the strange world of Levall. Here it is said a mountain-sized dragon with the powers of a god lies sleeping beneath a great white castle. In the castle the sinister Lord Vous rules with an iron fist, and the Project, designed to effect Fiction/Fantasy his transformation into an immortal spirit, nears On-sale date: 26 May 2011 completion. But Vous’s growing madness is close Hardback £18.99 to consuming him, together with his fear of an 978 0 85738 137 8 imaginary being named 'Shadow'. And soon Eric may lend substance to that fear. Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 138 5 An impossibly vast wall divides Levall, and no one Royal format | 512 pages has ever seen what lies beyond. But otherworlders World (exc USA, Canada, Eric and Casey, known as Pilgrims, possess Australia & New Zealand) powers that no one in either world yet understands, and soon the Wall may be broken. What will enter from the other side? See p. 92 Pilgrims is no ordinary alternate-world fantasy: ‘I couldn’t put Elliott’s debut Will Elliott’s brilliantly subversive and creative novel down. It’s fantastic’ imagination twists the conventions of the genre for an unforgettable, visionary experience. Independent on Sunday on Will Elliott was a struggling novelist with five The Pilo Family Circus unpublished manuscripts when The Pilo Family Circus won the $10,000 ABC prize for new writing.

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FICTION As Though She Were Sleeping |

JUNE ELIAS KHOURY Translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

An enchanting hymn to the Middle East, infused with the richness and beauty of classical Arabic poetry

Beirut in the 1930s: a young woman has the gift of seeing the past in her dreams, and she can also predict the future. Over the course of three nights, Milia recalls her love affair with Mansour, between MACLEHOSE PRESS Beirut and Nazareth, and dreams of episodes in the lives of her family: of a grandmother who regains her Fiction virginity after the birth of her son; of the bizarre death On-sale date: 26 May 2011 of an uncle, who accidentally hangs himself by a Hardback £18.99 church-bell rope; of her relationship with her mother. 978 0 85705 051 9 Milia’s visions also foretell transformations to come: Export/Airside TPB £12.99 Jewish immigration to Palestine, the influence of 978 0 85705 052 6 Christian missions and the Westernization of morality. Royal format | 368 pages As Though She Were Sleeping is a reminder of what life UK, Commonwealth once was in the Middle East; Elias Khoury has again (exc Canada) & open markets crafted a compelling narrative of great sensuality. Elias Khoury is Professor of Middle Eastern and See p. 92 Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author of twelve novels and three plays. ‘Los Angeles has Joan Didion Humphrey Davies has been awarded the Banipal Prize and Raymond Chandler, for his translation of Khoury’s Gate of the Sun, and and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. the Best Translation of 2007 prize by the Society of The beautiful, resilient city of Authors for Alaa Al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building. Beirut belongs to Khoury’ Laila Lalami, Los Angeles Times

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Foxes in the Night FICTION and Other Stories |

CEES NOOTEBOOM JUNE Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke

Seductive, fascinating and wise stories of love and loss, by the author of The Following Story

Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in Foxes MACLEHOSE PRESS in the Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect Fiction and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, On-sale date: 26 May 2011 and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the Hardback £12.00 detail of a photograph. 978 0 85705 023 6 In 'Paula', the narrator evokes the mysterious, 190 x 135 mm | 192 pages brief life of a woman he once loved; in 'Paula II', UK, Commonwealth the same woman is aware of the man thinking of her. & open markets No longer a body, she is slowly fading into the distance, remembering the time they spent together, and his fear of the black night when the foxes appear. And See p. 92 yet the tone of these stories is far from pessimistic; death, it seems, is nothing to be afraid of. ‘One of the greatest modern novelists’ Nooteboom is a superb stylist who observes the world with a combination of melancholy and astonishment. A. S. Byatt These stories are textured with humour, pathos and vast knowledge – the hallmarks of this outstanding and highly respected European writer. Cees Nooteboom is a poet, novelist and travel writer whose books include Rituals, The Following Story, Roads to Santiago and All Souls’ Day. Ina Rilke is the prize-winning translator of books by Erwin Mortier, Tessa de Loo, Dai Sijie and Margriet de Moor.

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FICTION Trashed ANNA SMITH | JUNE A gritty take on the dark side of Glasgow, by an author who knows the story from the inside out

The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on the beach near Glasgow. This stark event barely captures a headline in the cynical world of tabloid newspapers. This is Glasgow in the 1990s and she’s just another dead heroin addict. But Tracey Eadie was only fourteen-years-old and living in a children’s home. How did she get from there to where she is now? One of Tracey’s friends on the street contacts Rosie Fiction/Crime Gilmour, a tabloid journalist. She gives Rosie a tip-off On-sale date: 26 May 2011 that’s dynamite, too hot to print but impossible to Paperback £7.99 ignore. Her investigation exposes a sordid tale of 978 0 85738 295 5 corruption and child abuse that leads from the murky city streets to the very top of the establishment. For B format | 304 pages Rosie, it is the only story worth telling, but she soon UK, Commonwealth discovers that the forces united against her will stop (exc Canada) & open markets at nothing to make sure nobody ever gets to the truth. Anna Smith is the author of two previous novels. See p. 92 Trashed is her first crime novel, and the first in a proposed series featuring crime journalist ‘Smith writes with a tight, Rosie Gilmour. effortless prose that pushes the As a reporter Anna has covered major news stories story and characters to the fore’ from Dunblane to Kosovo to the events of September Glasgow Herald 11th 2001. She writes a regular column in the Scottish News of The World.

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NON-FICTION Soul Dust The Magic of Consciousness NICHOLAS HUMPHREY | JANUARY Not only an evolutionary history of consciousness but also an attempt to explain the ‘Meaning of Life’

How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, returns to the front-line with a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a Non-fiction/Popular Psychology magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves On-sale date: 6 January 2011 inside our own heads. This self-made show lights up the world for us, making us feel special and transcendent. Hardback £19.99 978 1 84916 237 1 Tightly argued, intellectually gripping and a joy to read, Royal format | 288 pages Soul Dust is a keenly anticipated book that provides answers to the deepest questions. It dovetails the UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets 'hard problem of consciousness' with the matters that obsess us all: the fear of death, how life should be lived. Resting firmly on neuroscience See p. 93 and evolutionary theory, it is an uncompromising yet life-affirming work that never loses sight ‘There are few scientists who of the majesty and mystery of consciousness. think so originally, provoke Nicholas Humphrey is a theoretical psychologist, so consistently or write so based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on elegantly as Humphrey’ the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. Sunday Telegraph His books include Consciousness Regained, The Inner Eye, A History of the Mind, Leaps of Faith, The Mind Made Flesh, and Seeing Red.

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Endless Forms NON-FICTION Most Beautiful The New Science of

Evo Devo and the Making | of the Animal Kingdom JANUARY SEAN B. CARROLL

How evolution has shaped nature’s wondrous complexity and diversity

Striped horses, gigantic grey mammals with six-foot- long noses, and spotted cats that can outrun a Jeep? If these creatures did not exist, they would be almost Non-fiction/Science too incredible to believe. On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Our planet is filled with an astonishing multiplicity Paperback £8.99 of strange and beautiful animal forms. For all the 978 1 84916 048 3 advances in our knowledge made by Darwin and B format | 288 pages pioneers in many different scientific fields since, how these forms are created has remained something UK, Commonwealth of a mystery. Thanks to evolutionary development (exc Canada) & open markets biology – dubbed Evo Devo – we now understand this process. The answer, it turns out, lies in an ancient See p. 93 genetic toolkit common to all species. Sean B. Carroll takes us on a fascinating journey ‘Sean B. Carroll is the ideal through this groundbreaking field, showing how all author to lead the curious forms – from the humble fruit fly to Homo sapiens – on this intellectual adventure – are a result of old genes learning new tricks. he is the acknowledged Sean B. Carroll is a Professor of Genetics at the leader of the field’ University of Wisconsin-Madison. His discoveries Lewis Wolpert have been featured in Time and The New York Times. His website can be found at www.seanbcarroll.com.

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NON-FICTION Treblinka A Survivor’s Memory CHIL RAJCHMAN |

JANUARY Translated from the Yiddish by Solon Beinfeld

A devastating account of the Treblinka death camp by one of its few survivors

Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas MACLEHOSE PRESS chambers but Rajchman escaped execution, working for ten months under incessant threats and beatings Non-fiction/Biography as a barber, a corpse-carrier, a puller of teeth from On-sale date: 6 January 2011 those same corpses. In August 1943 there was an Hardback £16.99 uprising at the camp, and Rajchman was among the 978 1 90669 420 3 handful of men who managed to escape. Even before Demy/A5 format | 224 pages the war was over, he set down this unembellished and exact record of the raw horror endured every World day. This unique testimony has remained in the sole possession of his family ever since, and has never See p. 93 before been published in English. For its description of unspeakably cruelty, Treblinka is a memoir that ‘In its poignant simplicity, will not be superseded. Rajchman’s account opens This volume will include the complete text of Vasily new horizons in our perception Grossman’s “The Hell of Treblinka”, a powerful and of evil ... an important, harrowing document written only weeks after the camp heart-rending contribution was dissolved, and an introduction by Samuel Moyn, Professor of History at Columbia University. to our search for truth’ Chil Rajchman Elie Wiesel was born in Lodz and was an active member of his Jewish community. After the Treblinka trials he emigrated to Uruguay, where he died in 2004. Solon Beinfeld taught Modern European and Jewish History at Washington University in St. Louis and he has written and consulted extensively on the Holocaust. Samuel Moyn is the author of A Holocaust: the Treblinka Affair in Postwar France.

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Gautama Buddha NON-FICTION The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

VISHVAPANI BLOMFIELD | JANUARY

An insightful biography of one of the great global spiritual figures

The words and example of Gautama, often known by the title, 'Buddha’, have affected billions of people. But what do we really know about him? While there is much we cannot say for certain about the historical Gautama, this persuasive new biography provides the fullest and most plausible account yet. Non-fiction/Biography Weaving ancient sources and modern understanding On-sale date: 6 January 2011 into a compelling narrative, Gautama Buddha places Hardback £20.00 his birth around 484 BCE, his Enlightenment in 978 1 84916 409 2 449 BCE and his death in 404 BCE, a century later than the traditional dates. Placing Gautama in a Royal format | 400 pages credible historical setting, this book draws on the World myths and legends that surround him to illuminate the significance of his life. It traces Gautama’s investigations of consciousness, his strikingly See p. 93 original view of life and his development of new forms of religious community and practice. An insightful and thought-provoking biography, this will appeal to anyone interested in history and religion, and in the Buddha as a thinker and seminal cultural figure. Vishvapani Blomfield has taught meditation for over eighteen years. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's ‘Thought for the Day’.

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NON-FICTION Words of Wisdom Philosophy’s Most Important Quotations and their Meanings

| GARETH SOUTHWELL JANUARY

A remarkable anthology of memorable, uplifting and thought-provoking quotations from the greatest philosophers who have ever lived

Words of Wisdom is a stimulating compendium of philosophical quotations, from the 5th century BC to the present day. Arranged chronologically, each Non-fiction/Reference of the 350 quotations is accompanied by a brief essay that tells the story of the speaker or explains On-sale date: 6 January 2011 the circumstances that gave rise to the quotation. Hardback £9.99 978 0 85738 231 3 The pages of this book contain the greatest insights 200 x 135 mm | 384 pages of the wisest men and women, those whose words are used to describe the human condition, offering World instruction and inspiration: • ‘I know that I know nothing’ Socrates • ‘What does not destroy me makes me stronger’ Nietzsche • ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ de Beauvoir

Gareth Southwell is a freelance philosopher, writer and illustrator. He is the author of an ongoing series of introductory philosophy books. He lives in Swansea with his wife and two children.

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50 Literature Ideas You NON-FICTION Really Need to Know JOHN SUTHERLAND | JANUARY The ultimate guide to the most important ideas in literature

Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand Non-fiction/Literature them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of On-sale date: 6 January 2011 great writers? And what can we hope to learn from Hardback £9.99 apparently difficult ideas such as 'hermeneutics', 978 1 84866 060 1 'affective fallacy' and 'bricolage'? 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know is World the essential guide to all the important concepts and movements in literature. It provides a clear, opinionated and thorough overview of theories about ‘I can’t think of anyone the nature of language, and outlines the thinking better qualified, anyone with behind key literary concepts such as postmodernism, quite the same combination of semiology and structuralism. It is a book that will delight anyone who has ever been mystified by literary pizzazz, technical know-how jargon and wants to gain a deeper, more thorough and sheer enthusiasm as enjoyment of reading and writing. Professor Sutherland’ John Sutherland is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Independent on Sunday on Professor of Modern English Literature at University How to Read a Novel College London. His previous works include The Boy Who Loved Books and How to Read a Novel. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian, and is a former Chairman of the Booker Prize.

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NON-FICTION Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know JOANNE BAKER | JANUARY An accessible introduction to the central ideas of astronomy and cosmology

For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness Non-fiction/Science of the cosmos come clearly into focus. On-sale date: 6 January 2011 The pace and sophistication of recent scientific Hardback £9.99 978 0 85738 123 1 discovery has been breathtaking, but breakthroughs are often difficult to understand and their impact 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages is hard to fully appreciate. In Universe: 50 Ideas 50 b&w line illustrations You Really Need to Know, Joanne Baker clearly World and concisely explains all of the essential concepts, major discoveries and latest thinking in astrophysics. From dwarf planets to dark energy, and from the Big Bang to the death of stars, this book is the perfect introduction to the cutting-edge science that is shaping our understanding of our place in the Universe. Joanne Baker studied Physics at the University of Cambridge and took her PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Sydney. She is also the author of 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know.

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The Victor’s Crown NON-FICTION A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium

DAVID POTTER | FEBRUARY

The ancient world brought vividly to life through a history of Greek and Roman sport

What is sport? And why do we love it? These questions form the driving force behind The Victor’s Crown – David Potter’s study of the western tradition of competitive athletics between 700 BC and 600 AD. The Victor’s Crown maps the emergence of popular Non-fiction/History sport, from its origins in the eighth century BC to the On-sale date: 3 February 2011 establishment of the great festival cycle of Classical Hardback £25.00 Greece in the sixth century AD. We see the popularity 978 1 84916 252 4 of ancient forms of entertainment through the eyes of Royal format | 352 pages their fans and competitors; we meet the great athletes of the past and discover what made them so great; 2 x 8pp colour plate sections and we witness ancient sport’s other key facets – World the training, the physiology, and the role it played in education. The Victor’s Crown is not just a comprehensive history of ancient sport, but also an examination of its abiding ability to provide a common cultural currency. David Potter is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. He is also the author of Emperors of Rome.

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NON-FICTION How to Think Like a Bat And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy

| PETER CAVE FEBRUARY

How do you know that you exist? Are you the same thing as your brain? What does it mean to be free?

A woman was advising her anguished friend, ‘Be philosophical – then you won’t need to think about it.’ Non-fiction/Philiosophy Well, being philosophical is sometimes taken to mean On-sale date: 3 February 2011 that you should adopt a resigned attitude to the world – Hardback £9.99 a quiet-ism – but the study that is western philosophy, 978 1 84916 481 8 starting with the ancient Greeks and continuing today in universities, bars and cafes – even bedrooms – is 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages far from quiet. Philosophers think – but not just that, 100 2-colour illustrations for they think about thinking and they think about how World we think about the world, about how we conceive of ourselves, about how we possess a sense of right and wrong, about how we find meaning in life (if we do). ‘One of the most entertaining How to Think Like a Bat might not help you to think and thought provoking books like a bat, but it will certainly help you to think like I’ve come across in years ... a philosopher. Smart, witty and engaging, this is a superb introduction to the subject by one of Britain’s give your brain a real treat most brilliant philosophical writers. by buying this book’ Peter Cave teaches philosophy at the Open University BBC Focus on and City University in London, UK. His articles appear Can a Robot Be Human? regularly in philosophy magazines and scholarly journals, and he is also a frequent broadcaster, having scripted the Paradoxical Fair series for BBC Radio 4.

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How to Live Forever NON-FICTION And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science

ALOK JHA | FEBRUARY

What does it take to create life? What do you need to build a brain? Will we ever talk to aliens?

How to Live Forever is the essential survival guide for anyone who has ever been baffled by science. Non-fiction/Science Embarking on a journey from the very small to the very big, readers will be taken on a glorious tour of On-sale date: 3 February 2011 the Universe, taking in cloned sheep, alien worlds, Hardback £9.99 bizarre life forms, quantum weirdness, parallel 978 1 84916 482 5 dimensions and dissected brains along the way. 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages You’ll discover how to travel through time, how to 100 2-colour illustrations start (and cure) a plague, how the mind works, how World to turn sunbeams into oak trees, how to boil a planet, how Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility works and much, much more. Informative, accessible and enjoyable, this is a rip-roaring tour through the wonders of the natural world, by one of the country’s most talented science writers. Alok Jha is a science and environment correspondent at the Guardian, specialising in green technologies. In addition to writing news and comment, he presents the Science Weekly podcast and looks after the guardian.co.uk science website. He graduated with a physics degree from Imperial College London.

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NON-FICTION Hotel K The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail

| KATHRYN BONELLA FEBRUARY

An internationally bestselling account of one of the world’s most notorious drug-smuggler jails

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the nickname for Bali’s most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it’s a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs and squalor. Non-fiction/True Crime Hotel K has been home to a procession of the infamous On-sale date: 3 February 2011 and the tragic. Muslim terror bombers, a Balinese Trade Paperback Original £12.99 King, Gordon Ramsay’s brother and unlucky tourists 978 0 85738 268 9 have all lived crushed together in Hotel K’s filthy and Royal format | 336 pages disease ridden cells. Petty thieves and small-time drug users share cells with killers, rapists, and gangsters. 8pp colour plate section Some are on death row waiting to be shot dead; others UK, Commonwealth are serving anything from life to several days – but (exc Canada) & open markets most westerners pay corrupt lawyers tens of thousands of dollars to try for a fast check-out. See p. 93 Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates, revealing the wild ‘sex nights’ organised by ‘An insightful and sharply corrupt guards, the rampant drug use, the killings observed account … a bleak made to look like suicides, the days out at the beach, reminder of the cruelty, the escapes. It takes you behind the grim white walls hypocrisy and injustice and exposes the jail’s role in supplying high-grade drugs to tourists and dealers on the outside, and the taking place in the heart of corruption that means anything is for sale – including one of our most popular a fully catered Italian jail wedding, or a cell upgraded holiday destinations’ with a plasma TV and Bose sound systems. The truth Sun Herald about the dark heart of Bali explodes off the page. Kathryn Bonella moved to Bali in 2005 to research and write Shapelle Corby’s bestselling autobiography, My Story.

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Dead Men Risen NON-FICTION The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain’s War in Afghanistan | MARCH TOBY HARNDEN

The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the Afghan War

This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their struggle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009, the bloodiest and most intense fighting the British had experienced in a generation. They were led into battle by Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, Non-fiction/True Military a passionate believer in the justness of the war who On-sale date: 3 March 2011 would be killed by an IED. Hardback £18.99 Dead Men Risen draws on secret documents written 978 1 84916 421 4 by Thorneloe, the first battalion commander to be Export/Airside TPB £12.99 killed in action since the Falklands war of 1982, 978 1 84916 422 1 which raise questions from beyond the grave that Royal format | 400 pages will unnerve politicians and generals alike. The Welsh Guards also lost Major Sean Birchall, commanding UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets officer of IX Company, and Lieutenant Mark Evison, a platoon commander whose candid personal diary was unnervingly prophetic. Not since the Second See p. 95 See p. 93 World War had a single British battalion lost officers at the three key levels of leadership. ‘Tremendous ... if you are to Dead Men Risen transports the reader into the heart read only one book about the of a conflict in which a soldier has to be prepared modern IRA, this should be it’ to kill and die, to ward off paralysing fear and watch Irish Times on comrades perish in agony. Given unprecedented access Bandit Country to the Welsh Guards, Harnden weaves the experiences of the guardsmen into a seamless and unsparing narrative. No other book about modern warfare succeeds on so many different levels. Toby Harnden has been the US Editor of the Daily Telegraph since 2006 and a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph since 2009. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh.

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NON-FICTION Warrior Women ROSALIND MILES AND ROBIN CROSS |

MARCH Extraordinary profiles of the lives and careers of great women war leaders

‘They fought like devils, far better than the men.’ So George Clemenceau, then mayor of Montmartre, recalled the women of the Paris Commune who manned the barricades at France’s republican uprising of 1871. Fighting to the last, they died like men, too. Non-fiction/History History has seen many such acts of courage, daring On-sale date: 3 March 2011 and self-sacrifice by women like these. These traits Hardback £20.00 are found today in such women as US Army helicopter 978 0 85738 077 7 pilot Major Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs when her Black Hawk was shot down in Iraq; and 246 x 185 mm | 320 pages Colonel Martha McSally who flew A-10 ground-attack 120 colour illustrations missions in Afghanistan and became the first woman World to command a US Air Force combat squadron. Warrior Women contains vivid portraits of over 100 extraordinary women, ranging from the ‘killer queen’ Boudicca who wreaked brutal vengeance on the Roman Empire for insults against her family, to modern-day warrior queens such as Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher. It restores women’s deeds in wartime to their rightful place of honour and prominence. Dr Rosalind Miles, author of Who Cooked the Last Supper?, is a critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling writer, lecturer and BBC broadcaster. Robin Cross is the author of more than thirty books, including Livia and Hitler: An Illustrated Life.

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The Big Questions: NON-FICTION Mathematics TONY CRILLY |

SERIES EDITOR: Simon Blackburn MARCH

Maths demystified – the answers to twenty questions anyone might ask

The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts address the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, and provides answers Non-fiction/Mathematics from history’s great thinkers. This ambitious project On-sale date: 3 March 2011 is a unique distillation of humanity’s best ideas. Hardback £12.99 In Big Questions: Mathematics, Tony Crilly answers 978 1 84916 240 1 the 20 key questions: What is maths for? Where do 210 x 145 mm | 208 pages numbers come from? Why are primes the atoms of maths? What are the strangest numbers? Are 100 illustrations imaginary numbers real? How big is infinity? Where do World parallel lines meet? What is the maths of the universe? Are statistics lies? Can maths guarantee riches? Is there a formula for everything? Why are three dimensions not enough? Can a butterfly’s wings really cause a hurricane? Can we create an unbreakable code? Is maths beauty? Can maths predict the future? What shape is the universe? What is symmetry? Is maths true? Is there anything left to solve? Tony Crilly is Reader in Mathematical Sciences at Middlesex University. He is the author of an acclaimed biography of the English mathematician Arthur Cayley.

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Stieg NON-FICTION JAN-ERIK PETTERSSON Translated from the Swedish by

Tom Geddes | APRIL

The definitive biography of Stieg Larsson

Whereas most mega-selling authors might be expected to live lives that seem utterly tame compared to the characters in their novels, the same cannot be said of Stieg Larsson. As a tireless campaigner against fascism in a nation where murder is a favoured tool of neo-Nazi thugs who wish to silence their opponents, he and his partner Eva Gabrielsson lived in constant fear for their lives, and saw several fellow activists killed by Non-fiction/Biography extremists. When a friend of theirs was found shot On-sale date: 31 March 2011 dead in a stairwell, police raided the killers’ hideout and found photographs of Stieg and Eva – chillingly, Hardback £16.99 978 1 84916 499 3 they were the next targets. Export/Airside TPB £12.99 Jan-Erik Pettersson has interviewed virtually everyone 978 1 84916 500 6 of note, from Eva to Stieg’s close family. From his Demy format | 368 pages impoverished childhood in the wild northern provinces to his globetrotting as an international expert on World fascism, and his writing of three books that would thrill millions, the story of Stieg Larsson resonates in a way See p. 93 that his innumerable fans cannot afford to miss. Jan-Erik Pettersson is editor-in-chief at Ordfront Forlag, in which role he published Stieg Larsson’s book on the right-wing party Sverigedemokraterna. Tom Geddes has translated over twenty novels and biographies.

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NON-FICTION Churchill ASHLEY JACKSON

| A brilliant new biography of

APRIL one of the greatest Britons

Winston Churchill attracted far more criticism alive than he has since his death. He was, according to Evelyn Waugh, ‘always in the wrong, surrounded by crooks, a terrible father, a radio personality’. Whatever one’s view of ‘the greatest Briton’, and despite the best efforts of an army of writers who have penned portraits of him, Winston Churchill remains splendidly unreduced. He also remains enormous fun. In this new biography Ashley Jackson ekes out the Non-fiction/Biography contours of Winston Churchill’s remarkable life and On-sale date: 31 March 2011 political career, whilst giving a fullsome sense of the man behind the dark eyes and bulldog features. Hardback £20.00 From thrusting subaltern to political pup in a hurry, 978 1 84916 547 1 from Cabinet outcast to Britain’s greatest war leader, Royal format | 352 pages from serial electoral loser to elder statesman on 16pp b&w plates the international stage in the years of Cold War World and imperial decline, this is the eternally fascinating story of Winston Churchill’s appointment with destiny. Dr Ashley Jackson is a senior lecturer in the See p. 93 Defence Studies Department at King’s College, ‘The first time you see Winston London. His research concentrates on the history of empire, particularly the British Empire. He is Churchill you see all his faults also the author of Mad Dogs and Englishmen. and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues’ Violet Asquith

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How to Destroy NON-FICTION the Universe And 34 Other Really

Interesting Uses of Physics | APRIL PAUL PARSONS

How do you generate a force field? Is time travel possible? Could you survive falling in a black hole?

If you thought physics was all about measuring the Non-fiction/Physics temperature of ice in a bucket or trying to fathom On-sale date: 31 March 2011 what E=mc2 means, think again. Hardback £9.99 In How to Destroy the Universe you’ll find out how to 978 1 84916 479 5 save the planet from energy shortages by mining the 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages vacuum of empty space, how to engineer the Earth’s World climate to reverse the effects of global warming, and how to fend off killer asteroids. You’ll learn essential survival skills such as how to live through a lightning ‘More effective than a dozen strike, how to tough it out during an earthquake and how to fall into a black hole without being squashed earnest and worthy schemes into spaghetti. to promote the public understanding of science’ So if you want to get to grips with the science behind antigravity or learn how to teleport or live forever, New Scientist on this is the perfect introduction to the amazing world The Science of Doctor Who of modern physics. Dr Paul Parsons is a contributor to the New Scientist and the Daily Telegraph. His The Science of Doctor Who was longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

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NON-FICTION How to Build a Brain And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics

| RICHARD ELWES APRIL

Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? How do you unleash chaos?

How to Build a Brain demystifies the astonishing world of maths in a series of intriguing, entertaining Non-fiction/Mathematics and often extraordinary scenarios that explain key concepts in plain and simple language. On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £9.99 You’ll find out how to unknot your DNA, how to count 978 1 84916 480 1 like a supercomputer and how to become famous for solving mathematics’s most challenging problem. 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages You¹ll learn how to survive in a whirlpool, how to win at World roulette and how to be alive and dead at the same time. So if you are struggling to fathom the great questions of number theory and geometry, the mysteries of ‘The author gave a real insight the prime numbers or Plato’s classification of regular into the process of doing polyhedra, or if you are really more interested in mathematics. This is the art of learning how to make a million on the stock market, good popular science writing’ this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of modern mathematics. Marcus du Sautoy on An Enormous Theorem Dr Richard Elwes is a writer, teacher and researcher in Mathematics and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds. He contributes to New Scientist and regularly appears at public lectures and on radio.

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The Dog Care Handbook NON-FICTION SOPHIE COLLINS

The ideal reference guide for all dog lovers |

The Dog Care Handbook covers every aspect of dog APRIL ownership with chapters on behaviour, choosing a dog, games, exercise and training, and diet and health. Information is presented in an accessible format with over 200 colour photos, case histories and checklists. Sophie Collins is a writer and editor specializing in dog behaviour. Included among her previous titles are Why Does My Dog Do That? and Tail Talk: The Secret Language of Dogs.

Flexi bound £8.99 978 1 84866 047 2 The Cat Care Handbook CATHERINE DAVIDSON

All the help you need in choosing and caring for your cat

Information and advice on understanding feline behaviour, choosing the right cat, simple training and daily routines, as well as essential information on food, health and basic care requirements. Illustrated with 200 colour photos, as well as case histories, checklists and notes on feline instinct. Catherine Davidson is the author of many illustrated reference books including Why Does My Cat Do That? and Cats: A Guide to Cat Breeds.

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NON-FICTION 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know BEN DUPRÉ | MAY The perfect introduction to the theory and practice of politics

At a time of popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater. The forces of religious extremism and Non-fiction/Politics terrorism endanger our security, while government responses to it pose a basic threat to liberty, On-sale date: 28 April 2011 democracy and human rights. Corruption, spin and Hardback £9.99 a suspect political culture arouse public indignation, 978 1 84916 254 8 which is further aggravated by an array of pressure 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages groups and the far-from-disinterested attentions World of the mass media. In 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know, Ben Dupré clears away the murk that obscures key concepts and provides the perfect introduction for anyone wanting to enhance their understanding of the theory and practice of modern politics. Topics include: Justice, Liberty, Human rights, Democracy, Tyranny, Federalism, Monarchism, Republicanism, Fascism, Conservatism, Liberalism, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, Presidential systems, Imperialism, Isolationism and Globalization. Ben Dupré read Classics at Exeter College, Oxford before pursuing a career in reference publishing. He has more than twenty years’ experience of bringing challenging concepts to the widest possible audience.

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World History: 50 Things NON-FICTION You Really Need to Know IAN CROFTON | MAY An essential guide to the events that shaped our world

People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics – the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis – and that they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To remedy this, Non-fiction/History World History: 50 Things You Really Need to Know offers brief and stimulating outlines of key developments On-sale date: 28 April 2011 in the history of the world. Hardback £9.99 978 0 85738 075 3 Ian Crofton brings his lively style to bear in a series 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages of essays ranging from the beginning of agriculture 10,000 years ago to the attack on the Twin Towers on World 9/11, from ancient Egypt to modern China, from the Vikings and the Mongols to the French Revolution and the Cold War, this book will appeal to those with a desire to enhance their understanding of world history. Each essay is accompanied by a detailed timeline of dates and events, and the flavour of the period concerned is brought to life by selected contemporary quotations from figures as diverse as Aristotle, Saladin, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and Winston Churchill. Ian Crofton’s authorial credits include Brewer’s Britain and Ireland and Brewer’s Cabinet of Curiosities. For Quercus he has written The Kings and Queens of England, History without the Boring Bits and Traitors and Turncoats.

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NON-FICTION Camp Z The Secret Life of Rudolf Hess

STEPHEN MCGINTY | MAY A riveting account of one of the forgotten episodes of the Second World War

On 10 May 1941 Rudolf Hess, then the Deputy Führer, parachuted over Renfrewshire in Scotland on a mission to meet with the Duke of Hamilton, ostensibly to broker a peace deal with the British government. After being held in the Tower of London, he was transferred to Mytchett Place near Aldershot on 20 May, under the codename of ‘Z’. The house was fitted with microphones and sound recording equipment, guarded Non-fiction/History by a battalion of soldiers and codenamed Camp Z. On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Churchill’s instructions were that Hess should be Hardback £16.99 strictly isolated, and that every effort should be taken 978 0 85738 070 8 to get any useful information out of him. During the Export/Airside TPB £12.99 ensuing thirteen months a psychological battle was 978 0 85738 071 5 waged between intelligence officers, using the new Royal format | 352 pages Freudian techniques, and the man who had been World a heartbeat away from Hitler. Stephen McGinty uses new documentation, contemporaneous reports, diaries, letters and See p. 93 memos to piece together an engrossing tale ‘The year’s most of the claustrophobia, paranoia and high-stakes gamesmanship played out in an English country house. unlikely page-turner’ Stephen McGinty is an award-winning journalist with Daily Telegraph on the Scotsman. He is also the author of This Turbulent This Turbulent Priest Priest, Churchill’s Cigar and Fire In The Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster.

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Born Liars NON-FICTION Why We Can’t Live Without Deceit IAN LESLIE | JUNE A fascinating journey which makes us question not only our own relationship with truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have

Born Liars is thought-provoking, anecdotally driven narrative non-fiction at its best. Ian Leslie’s intoxicating blend of anthropology, biology, cultural history, philosophy and popular psychology belies a serious central message, that Homo sapiens Non-fiction/Popular Psychology has evolved and thrived in large part because of his/her ability to deceive. On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Lying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but is Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 1 84916 424 5 also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. This book investigates how Demy format | 352 pages parents affect their children’s attitude to lying (and vice UK, Commonwealth versa). It queries the philosophical ambiguity of telling (exc Canada) & open markets the truth and presents the history of the lie detector. It interrogates both Bill Clinton’s presentational prowess and Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth, See p. 93 and tells us why we should be wary of anyone with more than 150 Facebook friends. Ian Leslie lives in London, combining careers in advertising and writing. His first book, To Be President, was extracted by Granta. He has written about politics, culture, marketing, and psychology for Prospect, the Guardian, The Times and the BBC.

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NON-FICTION Cosmos Close-up GILES SPARROW

| A unique view of the universe

JUNE – in beautiful panoramas and in stunning close-up

Non-fiction/Space Using a wealth of high-resolution images collected by a fleet of telescopes, satellites and inter-planetary On-sale date: 26 May 2011 probes, Cosmos Close-up embarks on a voyage across Hardback £14.99 the universe, pausing only to zoom in on the most 978 0 85738 345 7 spectacular planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae. 185 x 246 mm | 320 pages After a fly past of our planetary neighbours we 300 colour illustrations reach the edge of the solar system, emerging into World interstellar space and heading for the heart of our galaxy. Navigating through thick swarms of stars, we reach the galactic core, a gravitational maelstrom of exotic stars in the thrall of a supermassive black hole. Hundreds of thousands of light years must be covered to reach the Milky Way’s companions, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and millions more devoured before we cross true intergalactic space. Here we can discern the large-scale structure of the universe: massive conglomerations of galaxies warping space with their tremendous gravity. Having crossed 13.4 billion light years, we encounter a wall of radiation. Here our voyage into the cosmos must finally end, for we have reached the very edge of the visible universe: what stands before us is the afterglow of the Big Bang itself. Giles Sparrow is the author of The Universe and How to See it and Hubble: Window on the Universe.

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| World ‘This absolutely stunning first novel challenges all FICTION preconceived ideas about supposedly “ordinary” lives’ Kate Saunders, The Times See p. 94

Fiction Black Hills 6 January 2011 DAN SIMMONS Royal format £7.99 978 1 84916 090 2 A richly imaginative tale of alien cultures 464 pages set on a collision course from an author who UK & Comm continues to build on his substantial fan-base (exc Canada) to attain a wider readership. ‘I am in awe of Dan Simmons’ Stephen King

See p. 94

Fiction The Book Club 6 January 2011 MARJOLIJN FEBRUARI B format £7.99 978 0 85738 132 3 Translated from the Dutch by 224 pages Paul Vincent World A rich, deep and atmospheric story about what happens when you turn a blind eye once too often. See p. 94 ‘An extremely enjoyable book’ De Volkskrant

Fiction/Crime Classic Robert B. Parker 6 January 2011 B format £8.99 Looking for Rachel Wallace; 978 1 84916 289 0 Promised Land 416 pages ROBERT B. PARKER UK & Comm (exc Canada) Two of the finest early Spensers in a single volume – a must-have for Parker’s many fans. ‘One of the great series in the history of the American See p. 94 detective story’ The New York Times Book Review

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UK & Comm Kari Dickson |

(exc Canada) FICTION The powerful story of one man’s fight against the system he spent his life protecting.

See p. 94 ‘The pinnacle of the Swedish crime writing elite’ Mariestads-Tidningen

Fiction/Crime Evil in Return 17 February 2011 ELENA FORBES B format £7.99 978 1 84916 259 3 A chilling crime novel set in London featuring 320 pages detective Mark Tartaglia and his female UK & Comm (exc Canada, partner, DS Sam Donovan. Australia & NZ) ‘Elena Forbes hits the spot. A pleasure to read – tightly plotted, well-written and convincing’ Daily Mail See p. 94

Fiction/Crime The Broken Shore 3 February 2011 PETER TEMPLE B format £7.99 978 0 85738 349 5 A new and exciting re-issue of the 352 pages Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller, and UK & Comm (exc Canada, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. Australia & NZ) ‘The Broken Shore is a masterpiece, as good as any new novel I’ve read in the last ten years’ John Lanchester See p. 94

Fiction/Crime In the Evil Day 3 February 2011 PETER TEMPLE B format £7.99 978 0 85738 350 1 The stunning thriller from the bestselling 352 pages author of The Broken Shore and Truth. UK & Comm (exc Canada, ‘A truly international 21st century thriller Australia & NZ) with an exquisite denouement’ Guardian

See p. 94

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MACLEHOSE PRESS The Last Brother

Fiction NATHACHA APPANAH 3 February 2011 Translated from the French by B format £7.99 Geoffrey Strachan 978 1 84916 401 6 A poetic and infinitely moving novel – sure to 208 pages become a classic of literature about childhood. UK & Comm (exc Canada) ‘Sophisticated, confident and beautifully poetic writing that’s tender and poignant and consistently captivating’ Daniel Hahn, Bookseller See p. 94

Fiction/Crime A Capital Crime 3 March 2011 LAURA WILSON B format £7.99 978 1 84916 310 1 An outstanding historical crime thriller based 352 pages on the true story of the two most controversial UK & Comm murder trials of the 1950s. (exc Canada) ‘Laura Wilson writes beautifully, creates characters we believe in and applies a vivid imagination to well-researched facts ... convincing and exciting’ See p. 94 Literary Review

Fiction/Crime Split Image 3 March 2011 ROBERT B. PARKER B format £7.99 978 1 84916 075 9 Two ‘retired’ mobsters, two nymphomaniac 288 pages identical twins, one religious commune UK & Comm – more trouble in Paradise, Massachusetts (exc Canada) for Police Chief Jesse Stone. ‘If Spenser is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the See p. 94 flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity’ The New York Times

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MACLEHOSE PRESS Shadow Country

Fiction PETER MATTHIESSEN 3 March 2011 Winner of the National Book Award for B format £9.99 Fiction, a powerful, epic tale of America’s

978 0 85738 130 9 rise and descent, from the Civil War to |

892 pages the Great Depression. FICTION UK & Comm (exc Canada) ‘Shadow Country lives up to anyone’s expectations of great writing’ Richard Ford

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MACLEHOSE PRESS The Upright Piano Player

Fiction DAVID ABBOTT 31 March 2011 A beautifully observed, entirely compelling B format £7.99 novel of family fracture, loss and redemption. 978 1 84916 405 4 ‘This is a fine, sensitive, moving book ... 232 pages a remarkable first novel’ Justin Cartwright World

See p. 94

Fiction/Crime The Vintage Caper 31 March 2011 PETER MAYLE B format £7.99 978 1 90669 499 9 A wry and witty crime novel by the 240 pages renowned author of A Year in Provence. UK & Comm ‘The star of this caper is the vineyard-veined, (exc Canada) lavender-scented, sun-showered, garlic-seasoned setting itself: pure Provence’ National Geographic Traveler See p. 94

Fiction/Crime Field Grey 31 March 2011 PHILIP KERR B format £7.99 978 1 84916 414 6 An outstanding thriller set in Cuba, 384 pages a Soviet POW camp, Paris and Berlin. UK & Comm ‘The pace is cracking, the dialogue crisply (exc Canada) Chandleresque, the characterisation refreshingly stereotype-free. Kerr’s research, historical and geographical, is all but faultless’ The Times See p. 94

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| UK & Comm (exc Canada, newspaper in Rome. FICTION Australia & NZ) ‘The Imperfectionists is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching ... a cross between Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and See p. 94 Loathing adventure’ New York Times Book Review

Fiction A Watermelon, A Fish 31 March 2011 and a Bible B format £7.99 978 1 84916 130 5 CHRISTY LEFTERI 304 pages A lyrical, moving and beautiful tale UK & Comm of love lost and found set during the (exc Canada) Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. ‘So much more than another romantic beach read, this is a powerful piece of writing’ Sunday Telegraph See p. 94

Fiction/Crime Rendezvous 31 March 2011 ESTHER VERHOEF B format £7.99 978 0 85738 134 7 Translated from the Dutch by 336 pages Alexander Smith UK & Comm A woman’s carefully constructed life (exc Canada) unravels as she is arrested for murder in this powerful and intense psychological thriller.

See p. 94 ‘Excellent writing’ Literary Review

Fiction/Crime The Long Glasgow Kiss 28 April 2011 CRAIG RUSSELL B format £7.99 978 1 84724 970 8 A second brilliant thriller featuring 320 pages shady investigator Lennox as he stalks UK & Comm Glasgow’s tough streets. (exc Canada) ‘Craig Russell brilliantly uses the character of his tough, funny and hopeful man Lennox to give us the eyes and ears on a time and place. This is See p. 95 See p. 94 storytelling at its very best!’ Michael Connelly

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UK & Comm ‘What a wonderful, life-enhancing, | (with EU exclusive) truly funny writer she is’ Elizabeth Buchan FICTION

See p. 94

Fiction The Extinction Club 28 April 2011 JEFFREY MOORE B format £7.99 978 1 84916 143 5 The captivating, moving and evocative story 352 pages of two lost souls trying to change the world. UK & Comm ‘The Extinction Club is a tour de force, as (exc Canada) sophisticated as it is brutal’ Heather O’Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals

See p. 94

MACLEHOSE PRESS No-One Loves a Policeman

Fiction/Crime GUILLERMO ORSI 28 April 2011 Translated from the Spanish by B format £7.99 Nick Caistor 978 0 85738 147 7 A brilliantly reviewed Latin-American odyssey 368 pages – hard-boiled detective story, political novel World English and road movie rolled into one. ‘Wonderfully evocative and cynical, it captures Buenos Aires with a delicate precision’ See p. 94 Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail

Fiction All the Hopeful Lovers 26 May 2011 WILLIAM NICHOLSON B format £7.99 978 1 84916 390 3 A stylish romantic comedy and a brilliant 364 pages follow up to The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life World from the award-winning screenwriter. ‘William Nicholson is one of our most underrated novelists, a subtle and addictive writer who See p. 94 deserves to be a household name’ Observer

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See p. 95 See p. 94 ‘A whiff of the new Stephen King’ The Times

Fiction/Crime Scream 26 May 2011 NIGEL MCCRERY B format £7.99 978 1 84916 117 6 An abusive murderer is taking people 352 pages from the streets, making them terrified World enough to scream ... and if they’re lucky he’ll like the sound of it. ‘One of the most memorable monsters in crime fiction’ See p. 94 Daily Express

Fiction/Crime The Last Talk 26 May 2011 with Lola Faye B format £7.99 978 0 85738 150 7 THOMAS H. COOK 320 pages A historian is forced to rewrite his own history UK & Comm when the beautiful Lola Faye reappears. (exc Canada) ‘I have long been an admirer of Thomas H. Cook’s novels, and The Last Talk with Lola Faye is one of his best yet: an expertly plotted, beautifully written, See p. 94 compelling and suspenseful book’ Harlan Coben

Fiction/Thriller Freedom 26 May 2011 DANIEL SUAREZ B format £7.99 978 0 85738 122 4 Human freedom has one last hope 368 pages to survive the information revolution UK & Comm in the epic, apocalyptic sequel to the (exc Canada) international bestseller Daemon. ‘The best author of tech fiction since Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson. Buy everything he writes’ See p. 94 John Robb

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MACLEHOSE PRESS Wartime Notebooks

Non-fiction/Biography And Other Texts 6 January 2011 MARGUERITE DURAS B format £9.99

| 978 1 84724 733 9 Translated from the French by

NON-FICTION 400 pages Linda Coverdale UK & Comm The World War II notebooks of one of the (exc Canada) twentieth century’s renowned literary figures. ‘As fresh, as original and as mesmerizing as on the day they were written’ Carmen Callil, Guardian

Non-fiction/Sport Burning Rubber 3 February 2011 B format £8.99 The Extraordinary Story 978 0 85738 125 5 of Formula One 336 pages CHARLES JENNINGS World A turbo-charged account of 60 years of motor sport’s premier competition. See p. 94 ‘A funny and engaging tale of how the sport got where it is today’ Motorsport

Non-fiction At the Loch of 3 March 2011 the Green Corrie B format £8.99 978 0 85738 136 1 ANDREW GRIEG 352 pages A fishing trip honoring a dying man’s wish UK & Comm becomes a meditation on life, nature and (exc Canada) friendship, a literary biography and a celebration of the beauty of the Highlands of Scotland. ‘Moving and utterly memorable, a triumph’ See p. 94 The Times

Non-fiction/History Great British Speeches 3 March 2011 SIMON HEFFER B format £8.99 978 0 85738 327 3 A stirring anthology of 50 influential speeches 304 pages from every period of British history, from World the medieval era to the present day. ‘Simon Heffer has performed a useful service with this collection ... providing some fifty seminal texts, often of great interest’ Literary Review

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World ‘For anyone trying to find a way through the | myriad political byways of modern India and NON-FICTION Pakistan, Adams’s no-nonsense biography See p. 94 is as good a starting point as any’ Glasgow Herald

Non-fiction/History Macbeth: A True Story 31 March 2011 FIONA WATSON B format £8.99 978 0 85738 160 6 A respected historian of medieval Scotland 320 pages releases the authentic historical Macbeth World from a prison of literary and folkloric myth. ‘A lucid picture of a Celtic warrior-king of some sophistication who was respected and loved... See p. 94 A fascinating read through Scotland’s Middle Ages’ Big Issue

Non-fiction/Literature The Story of English 31 March 2011 PHILIP GOODEN B format £8.99 978 0 85738 328 0 The extraordinary story of the development 224 pages and spread of the English language, from World Dark Age Britain to the age of the Internet. ‘A fascinating tale of linguistic, social and cultural transformations, accessibly and authoratively told’ Business Destinations

Non-fiction/Sport A Last English Summer 28 April 2011 DUNCAN HAMILTON B format £8.99 978 0 85738 148 4 A portrait of a revolution in English 368 pages cricket by the twice William Hill Sports World Book of the Year winner. ‘The quality of his writing, so evident in his previous works, shines again’ Mike Atherton, The Times See p. 94

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| World ‘Hugely enjoyable. Confidence, elegance and brilliance’ NON-FICTION Times Literary Supplement on Cassell’s Chronology of World History

Non-fiction/History Days that Changed 28 April 2011 the World B format £8.99 978 0 85738 339 6 HYWEL WILLIAMS 256 pages A concise history of the world, told through World the stories of 50 momentous days. ‘Hywel Williams has thee wide learning of the academic and the mischief of the good journalist’ A. N. Wilson

Non-fiction/ Taming the Infinite Mathematics 28 April 2011 IAN STEWART B format £8.99 From ancient Babylon to the last great 978 1 84724 768 1 unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings 272 pages us his definitive history of mathematics. World ‘The author manages to demystify the subject while maintaining one’s sense of wonder’ Sunday Telegraph

Miss Shirley Bassey Non-fiction/Biography 26 May 2011 JOHN L. WILLIAMS B format £8.99 From ‘Hot from Harlem’ to ‘Goldfinger,’ 978 1 84724 975 3 the story of how a two-bit jazz singer 256 pages from Cardiff became an immortal icon. World ‘An essential history of race, sex and class in the sixties. One of the best biographies I’ve read in years’ Jake Arnott on Michael X See p. 94

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World English Colin Firth and Helena Bonham-Carter, |

this is the story of how an Australian NON-FICTION commoner saved the British monarchy. See p. 94 ‘One of the most extraordinary periods of the nation’s history’ Daily Mail

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Non-fiction/History The Third Reich: 26 May 2011 A Chronicle B Format £9.99 978 0 85738 175 0 RICHARD OVERY 408 pages Authoritative, informative and sumptuously World illustrated, The Third Reich brings the bloody realities of war vividly to life. ‘This country’s most distinguished historian of the Second World War’ Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard

HARDBACK REISSUE The Story of Archaeology Non-fiction/Archaeology JUSTIN POLLARD 26 May 2011 248 x 192mm £14.99 The fascinating tale of modern archaeology 978 0 85738 342 6 from its earliest beginnings to the present day. 256 pages ‘Amusingly and energetically told ... Pollard World has the QI knack of knowing what's interesting’ Spectator on Secret Britain

HARDBACK REISSUE The Story of Christianity Non-fiction/Religion DAVID BENTLEY HART 26 May 2011 248 x 192mm £14.99 The story of Christianity is a fascinating one, 978 0 85738 343 3 and this account does justice to the full range 256 pages of Christian tradition, belief and practice. World ‘I can think of no more brilliant work by an American theologian in the past ten years’ The Christian Century on The Beauty of the Infinite

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OPEN MARKET EDITIONS OPEN MARKET PAPERBACK EDITIONS | NEW TITLES

The Imperfectionists Three Seconds Field Grey TOM RACHMAN ROSLUND AND PHILIP KERR Charming and enthralling HELLSTROM Bernie Gunther’s most stories of life working for One man’s fight against atmospheric and exciting a newspaper in Rome. the very system he spent adventure yet. his life protecting. ‘Funny, poignant, occasionally ‘One of the great achievements breathtaking’ Financial Times ‘The pinnacle of the of contemporary crime fiction’ Swedish crime writing elite’ Observer 4 January 2011 • Fiction Mariestads-Tidningen £6.99 Open Market Edition 31 March 2011 • Crime 978 0 85738 326 6 3 February 2011 • Crime £6.99 Open Market Edition £6.99 Open Market Edition 978 0 85738 407 2 978 0 85738 406 5

OPEN MARKET EDITON BACKLIST STIEG LARSSON BOXED-SET Stieg Larsson £20.00 978 0 85738 371 6 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Stieg Larsson £6.99 978 1 84724 692 9 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO FILM TIE-IN Stieg Larsson £6.99 978 1 90669 466 1 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE Stieg Larsson £6.99 978 1 90669 415 9 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE FILM TIE-IN Stieg Larsson £6.99 978 1 84916 300 2 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST Stieg Larsson £6.99 978 1 84916 275 3 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST FILM TIE-IN Stieg Larsson £6.99 978 0 85738 051 7 THE VINTAGE CAPER Peter Mayle £6.99 978 0 85738 076 0 LENNOX Craig Russell £6.99 978 1 84916 320 0 THE LONG GLASGOW KISS Craig Russell £6.99 978 0 85738 052 4 BLACK DIAMOND Martin Walker £6.99 978 0 85738 053 1 SIX GRAVES TO MUNICH Mario Puzo £6.99 978 1 90669 442 5

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CHILDREN’S Entangled CAT CLARKE

| Cat Clarke evokes just how it feels to JANUARY be seventeen, in this gripping novel of dangerous secrets, intense friendships and electrifying attraction

The same questions whirl around and around in my head: What does he want from me? How could I have let this happen? Am I going to die? 17-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with table, pens and paper – and no clue how she got there. Children’s Fiction As Grace pours her tangled life onto the page, she is On-sale date: 6 January 2011 forced to remember everything she's tried to forget. Paperback £6.99 There’s falling hopelessly in love with the gorgeous 978 1 84916 394 1 Nat, and the unravelling of her relationship with her B format | 256 pages best friend Sal. But there’s something missing. As hard as she’s trying to remember, is there something UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets she just can’t see? Grace must face the most important question of all. Why is she here? Age range: Young Adult Entangled introduces a new and powerful British voice in YA fiction. The emotional intensity and compulsive See p. 93 plot will grip fans of stories about teen life and love, as well as fans of paranormal fiction. ‘I was glued to the page. Smiling one minute and getting Cat Clarke was born in Zambia and brought up in all choky the next. Grace’s Edinburgh and Yorkshire. She has written non-fiction books about cowboys, sharks and pirates, and now voice was so clear, tough and writes YA novels. She lives in South London with tender – I didn’t know if I her cats, Jem and Scout. wanted to shake her or hug her’ Simmone Howell, author of Everything Beautiful

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The Abused Werewolf CHILDREN’S Rescue Group CATHERINE JINKS | FEBRUARY Hamster-drinking vampires, vulnerable werewolves and accidental zombies? Welcome to the bizarre world of the Abused Werewolf Rescue Group

When Tobias Vandevelde wakes up in hospital with no memory of the night before, he is told that he was found unconscious. In a zoo pen. The doctor rules out epilepsy and Toby’s prank-loving friends are just as freaked out as he is. Then the Children’s Fiction wild-eyed Reuben turns up talking in hushed tones On-sale date: 3 February 2011 about Toby being a werewolf. Reuben’s pale, insomniac friends seem equally convinced and offer to chain Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 324 8 him up every full moon. They also claim to be part of some sort of vampire support group. This has B format | 206 pages to be a joke— right? UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & NZ) It’s only when he's kidnapped, imprisoned and & open markets in desperate need of rescuing that Toby begins Age range: 12+ to believe them… Catherine Jinks is the four-times winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBC) Award See p. 93 and has also won the Victorian Premier’s Literary ‘Young teens will devour it’ Award and the Australian IBBY Award. She now lives in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales The Sun on The Reformed with her husband and daughter. Vampire Support Group

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CHILDREN’S Belle’s Song K. M. GRANT

| A heady tale of intrigue, adventure and FEBRUARY forbidden love, centred around a young girl and one of England’s greatest poets

When Belle meets Luke, son of an alchemist and Scribe to the famous poet Chaucer, she is determined to travel with him to Canterbury on a pilgrimage. She hopes for a miracle: that her father will walk again. It is a time of unrest across the country and the young King Richard II is just hanging on to his throne. A malign character on the pilgrimage suspects Chaucer of treason and slowly winds Children’s Fiction Belle into a political intrigue. At the same time, On-sale date: 3 February 2011 the impulsive Belle is drawn towards both Luke Paperback £6.99 and Walter, the wealthy son of a Knight. But Walter 978 1 84916 408 5 is guarding his own romantic secret... B format | 272 pages As the uprising against the King starts to draw pace World and the web of intrigue around Belle and Chaucer tightens, Belle and her friends must risk everything Age range: 12+ to save their country, and themselves... K. M. Grant has written several books of historical See p. 93 fiction, including Blue Flame, White Heat and Paradise Red. She is a columnist on the Scottish Daily Mail and ‘A high-water mark lives in Glasgow with her husband and three children. in historical fiction’ Financial Times

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The Unknown Spy CHILDREN’S

EOIN MCNAMEE

A high-stakes spy adventure complete | MARCH with double-crossings, brilliant spy inventions and a hero who has everything to learn about who he really is

In the second instalment of The Ring of Five trilogy, Wilsons Spy Academy has called back its most brilliant trainee spy: Danny Caulfield. Danny is to be sent on an urgent mission: to find the treaty stone that protects the Upper World before the Ring of Five, leaders of the Cherbs, destroy it and wage war. Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Danny and his friend Dixie must set off to the Kingdom of Morne to save the stone. But the Cherb children Paperback £6.99 have got there first, and the King pits Danny against 978 0 85738 129 3 them in a contest for the stone. Lily, a Cherb, reveals B format | 416 pages to Danny that she is his sister: she urges him to join UK, Commonwealth her side. (exc Canada) & open markets Danny is locked into a battle between the two worlds Age range: 9+ and with himself. Who’s side is he on? Wilsons or the Ring of Five? And how much can he trust Lily? See p. 93 Eoin McNamee’s first children’s book, The Navigator, received significant critical acclaim on both sides of the ‘A riveting tale of good and evil’ Atlantic. His adult books have twice been longlisted for New York Times on the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Sligo, West Ireland. The Navigator

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CHILDREN’S Bracelet of Bones KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND

| The thrilling new adventure from APRIL a bestselling master storyteller

It is 1036. Halfdan is a Viking mercenary who is determined to travel to Constantinople and become one of the Viking Guard serving Empress Zoe. He promises to take his daughter, Solveig, but one morning she wakes up to find him gone. Setting off in her own tiny boat, Solveig vows to complete the journey as planned. Her boat may be washed up, but Solveig is undeterred. She finds passage with Viking traders and learns to fight. Children’s Fiction In this perilous and exciting world, Solveig is all too On-sale date: 31 March 2011 aware of the dangers that surround her. She witnesses Hardback £12.99 violent clashes against the new Christians and girls her 978 1 84724 939 5 age being forced into slavery. Will she live to see her B format | 272 pages father again, and if she survives, can she remain free? World Bracelet of Bones is a glittering novel that explores Age range: 12+ friendship and betrayal, the father-daughter relationship, the clash of religions and the journey from childhood to adulthood. It marks the start of See p. 93 a major new series from Kevin Crossley-Holland, his first since the acclaimed Arthur trilogy. ‘High imagination, and great gifts of storytelling Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Arthur trilogy was translated into 23 languages, and has sold over one million copies have gone into this; worldwide. Kevin has won the Carnegie Medal and I was spellbound’ the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. He is a patron Philip Pullman on of the Society of Storytelling, and a Fellow of the The Seeing-Stone Royal Society of Literature.

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Defiance CHILDREN’S LILI ST. CROW

The heart-stopping fourth novel in | APRIL the much loved Strange Angels series

Sixteen-year-old Dru’s worst fears have come true – Sergej, the deadly nosferat, has kidnapped her best friend Graves and she must now go on a suicidal rescue mission to bring him back in one piece. That is, if she can put all of Christophe’s training to good use, defeat her mother’s traitor, Anna, once and for all, and manage to survive another day... Lili St. Crow is the author of Strange Angels, Betrayals and Jealousy. She lives with her children in Vancouver, Children’s Fiction Washington. Her website can be found at www.strange-angels.co.uk. On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Paperback £6.99 Praise for Lili St. Crow: 978 1 84916 996 7 ‘This cracking read is for youngsters and adults alike’ Sun B format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth ‘Dru Anderson is the toughest teen gal since Buffy (exc Canada, Australia & NZ) hung up her stake! Both books are gripping reads’ Mizz & open markets ‘An elegantly written thriller’ Bliss Age range: 12+ ‘If you prefer supernatural thrillers with a side of romance, as opposed to romance with a side of supernatural thrillers, See p. 93 Strange Angels is the perfect book for you’ Bookbag

‘Dark, dangerous and sexy!’ ‘Strange Angels is like Buffy and Supernatural thrown Richelle Mead together, which, for me, is a very good mix indeed … St. Crow’s writing is sharp and contemporary, with enough sarcasm to make even the snarkiest teen appreciate Dru’s voice’ Wondrous Reads

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CHILDREN’S Kill Fish Jones CARO KING

| A demon is after Fish Jones: he is armed MAY with a curse from beyond the grave. Where is there for Fish to run?

Grimshaw and Lampwick the Robber, a curse demon and his master, are stuck in Limbo. Grimshaw hasn’t had a chance to unleash any destruction in the Real World since Lampwick’s death bed curses years ago. When Lampwick has an unexpected opportunity to curse a whole new set of humans, Grimshaw can’t believe his luck!

Children’s Fiction Fish Jones is on Grimshaw’s list. But Fish has unworldly talents of his own. Unlike other humans, On-sale date: 28 April 2011 he can see Grimshaw. Why is Fish able to avoid Paperback £6.99 the demon’s curse? And when Grimshaw plans 978 0 85738 146 0 to wreak the ultimate destruction, not just on Fish, B format | 352 pages but on the world, will young Jones’ power be enough World to stop him? Age range: 9+ Full of humour and wild imagination, Kill Fish Jones is a devilish read.

See p. 93 Caro King’s first novel, Seven Sorcerers, was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Prize. ‘Truly moving and involving’ Caro regularly visits schools and finds that creative Sunday Times on ideas sessions with students help fuel her very imaginative storywriting. She lives in Croydon. Seven Sorcerers

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Trial by Fire CHILDREN’S JENNIFER LYNN BARNES

The action-packed sequel to the thrilling | JUNE YA werewolf novel Raised by Wolves

Bryn is now leader of the Cedar Ridge pack of werewolves and she’s convinced that her pack is different – it’s democratic and fair. Then Bryn finds a battered teenage Were, Connor, bleeding on her front porch. He begs Bryn to protect him from an abusive leader. But Bryn’s Were partner Chase doesn’t trust the new boy, and the more time she spends helping Connor, the more aggressive Chase becomes. Bryn is not Children’s Fiction sure if it’s jealousy, or Were possessiveness, but On-sale date: 26 May 2011 for the first time she starts to feel suffocated by the bond she and Chase share. Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 078 4 Filled with action, unlikely allies, and deadly B format | 304 pages conspiracies, Trial By Fire will change Bryn forever. She is soon to realise that to lead a pack of werewolves UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets she must give in to her animal instincts and become a little less human. And as hard as it’s going to be, Age range: 12+ Bryn is going to have to do it alone. There can only be one alpha. See p. 93 Jennifer Lynn Barnes has been, in turn, a competitive ‘Quite simply, the most cheerleader, a teen model, a dancer, a debutante and compelling YA werewolf is now a primate cognition researcher. She graduated book out there’ from Yale University with a degree in cognitive science. Her first book was published when she was nineteen- Melissa Marr years-old. Her website can be found at www.jenniferlynnbarnes.com.

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CHILDREN’S The Magic Thief: Found SARAH PRINEAS

| An order of exile, a dangerous foe JUNE and a powerful dragon: a truly moving finale to an exciting magical trilogy

Sneaking out of prison isn’t easy, unless you are a thief, or a wizard. Luckily, Conn is both! Trouble is, once he’s out, where does he go? His home is a pile of rubble since he blew it up doing magic. His master, the wizard Nevery, is furious. With a new order of exile, this time with a death penalty, Conn has never been in such a tight fix. Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 26 May 2011 But Wellmet is in danger from an evil predator coming to destroy the city. Conn must set off on a quest to Paperback £6.99 find something that will help him fight back. After 978 0 85738 131 6 an explosive experiment, he follows the call of his B format | 432 pages magic stone to a distant land. When Conn is swept UK, Commonwealth away in the mouth of a magnificent Dragon, he is to (exc Canada) & open markets face a power unlike any other ... but is he a match Age range: 9+ for it and can he save his city in time? Sarah Prineas lives in the midst of corn in Iowa City, See p. 93 Iowa, with her husband John and their children Maud and Theo. She holds a PhD in English Literature and ‘I couldn’t put it down. recently taught honours seminars on fantasy and Wonderful, exciting stuff’ science fiction literature. Her website can be found at www.sarah-prineas.com. Diana Wynne Jones

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INDEX INDEX

50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know 47 Clarke, Cat 82 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know 62 Classic Robert B. Parker 68 | BY TITLE AND AUTHOR Abbott, David 71 Claudel, Philippe 27 Abused Werewolf Rescue Group, The 83 Collins, Sophie 61 Adams, Jad 77 Connor, Alex 7 All the Hopeful Lovers 73 Conradi, Peter 79 Alten, Steve 19 Cook, Thomas H. 74 Altenberg, Karin 21 Cosmos Close-Up 66 Appanah, Nathacha 70 Cotterill, Colin 15 As Though She Were Sleeping 38 Crane, Megan 17 At Sea 73 Crilly, Tony 55 At the Loch of the Green Corrie 76 Crofton, Ian 63 Audio books 92 Cross, Robin 54 Baker, Joanne 48 Crossley-Holland, Kevin 86 Barceló, Elia 26 Davidson, Catherine 61 Barnes, Jennifer Lynn 89 Days that Changed the World 78 Barton, Laura 68 Dead Men Risen 53 Bass, Jefferson 32 Defiance 87 Belle's Song 84 Delta, The 18 Bentley Hart, David 79 Demi-Monde: Winter, The 4 Big Questions: Mathematics, The 55 Dinosaur Feather, The 36 Black Hills 68 Dog Care Handbook, The 61 Blackhouse, The 9 Drndi´c, Daša 31 Blomfield, Vishvapani 45 Dupré, Ben 62 Blossoms and Shadows 28 Duras, Marguerite 76 Bone Yard, The 32 Easter, Patrick 24 Bonella, Kathryn 52 Ebooks 93 Book Club, The 68 Elliott, Will 37 Born Liars 65 Ellis, David 10 Bracelet of Bones 86 Elwes, Richard 60 Breach of Trust 10 Emperor of the West 78 Breakers, The 8 Endless Forms Most Beautiful 43 Broken Shore, The 69 Entangled 82 Burning Rubber 76 Evil in Return 69 Camp Z 64 Extinction Club, The 73 Capital Crime, A 70 Februari, Marjolijn 68 Carroll, Sean B. 43 Field Grey 71 Cat Care Handbook, The 61 Flashback 23 Cave, Peter 50 Fletcher, Tom 11 Child Wonder 20 Folded Earth, The 13 Churchill 58 Forbes, Elena 69

SPRING 2011 109 41344_Catalogue_2011_091-112.qxd:168x240 6/9/10 07:19 Page 110 INDEX Foxes in the Night & Other Stories 39 King, Caro 88 FreedomTM 74 King's Speech, The 79 Gallay, Claudie 8 Last Brother, The 70 | Gandhi 77 Last English Summer, A 77 BY TITLE AND AUTHOR Gardener, The 34 Last Talk with Lola Faye, The 74 Gautama Buddha 45 Lefteri, Christy 72 Gazan, Sissel-Jo 36 Legacy, The 5 Glattauer, Daniel 12 Leith, Prue 34 Goldsmith's Secret, The 26 Leslie, Ian 65 Gooden, Philip 77 Lex 29 Graham, Laurie 73 Lindqvist, John Ajvide 74 Grant, K. M. 84 Logue, Mark 79 Great British Speeches 76 Long Glasgow Kiss, The 72 Grieg, Andrew 76 Love Virtually 12 Griffiths, Elly 6 Macbeth 77 Gunshot Road 70 Madame Tussaud 16 Hamilton, Duncan 77 Magic Thief: Found, The 90 Harbour 74 Matthiessen, Peter 71 Harnden, Toby 53 May, Peter 9 Hearn, Lian 28 Mayan Prophecy, The 19 Heffer, Simon 76 Mayle, Peter 71 Hellström, Börge 69 McCrery, Nigel 74 Hotel K 52 McGinty, Stephen 64 House at Sea's End, The 6 McNamee, Eoin 85 How to Build a Brain 60 Memoirs of a Bitch 33 How to Destroy the Universe 59 Miles, Rosalind 54 How to Live Forever 51 Miss Shirley Bassey 78 How to Think Like a Bat 50 Monsieur Linh and His Child 27 Humphrey, Nicholas 42 Moore, Jeffrey 73 Hyland, Adrian 70 Moran, Michelle 16 I Love the 80s 17 Mylet, James 29 Imperfectionists, The 72 Nicholson, William 73 In the Evil Day 69 Nicoll, Andrew 30 Island of Wings 21 No-One Loves a Policeman 73 Jackson, Ashley 58 Nooteboom, Cees 39 Jacobsen, Roy 20 O'Loughlin, Ed 22 Jennings, Charles 76 Open market editions 80 Jha, Alok 51 Orsi, Guillermo 73 Jinks, Catherine 83 Osmond, Hazel 25 Kerr, Philip 71 Overy, Richard 79 Khoury, Elias 38 Park, Tony 18 Kill Fish Jones 88 Parker, Robert B. 35, 68, 70 Killed at the Whim of a Hat 15 Parsons, Paul 59

110 SPRING 2011 41344_Catalogue_2011_091-112.qxd:168x240 6/9/10 07:19 Page 111 INDEX Petrizzo, Francesca 33 Twenty-One Locks 68 Pettersson, Jan-Erik 57 Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know 48 Pilgrims 37 Unknown Spy, The 85 | Pollard, Justin 79 Upright Piano Player, The 71 BY TITLE AND AUTHOR Potter, David 49 Valdez 30 Prineas, Sarah 90 Verhoef, Esther 72 Rachman, Tom 72 Victor's Crown, The 49 Rajchman, Chil 44 Vintage Caper, The 71 Rees, Rod 4 Warrior Women 54 Rembrandt Secret, The 7 Wartime Notebooks 76 Rendezvous 72 Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible, A 72 Roslund, Anders 69 Watermen, The 24 Roy, Anuradha 13 Watson, Christie 14 Russell, Craig 72 Watson, Fiona 77 Scream 74 Who's Afraid of Mr Wolfe? 25 Shadow Country 71 Williams, Hywel 78 Simmons, Dan 23, 68 Williams, John L. 78 Sixkill 35 Wilson, Laura 70 Smith, Anna 40 Words of Wisdom 46 Soul Dust 42 World History: 50 Things You Really Southwell, Gareth 46 Need to Know 63 Sparrow, Giles 66 Split Image 70 St Crow, Lili 87 Stewart, Ian 78 Stieg 57 Story of Archaeology, The 79 Story of Christianity, The 79 Story of English, The 77 Suarez, Daniel 74 Sutherland, John 47 Taming the Infinite 78 Temple, Peter 69 Thing on the Shore, The 11 Third Reich: A Chronicle, The 79 Three Seconds 68 Tiny Sunbirds Far Away 14 Toploader 22 Tranter, Kirsten 5 Trashed 40 Treblinka 44 Trial by Fire 89 Trieste 31

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