41344_Catalogue_2011_001-040.qxd:168x240 3/9/10 18:06 Page 1 41344_Catalogue_2011_001-040.qxd:168x240 3/9/10 18:06 Page 2 CONTENTS 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 91 Quercus Information 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 2 SPRING 2011 41344_Catalogue_2011_001-040.qxd:168x240 3/9/10 18:06 Page 3 41344_Catalogue_2011_001-040.qxd:168x240 3/9/10 18:07 Page 4 FICTION 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. 4 SPRING 2011 41344_Catalogue_2011_001-040.qxd:168x240 3/9/10 18:07 Page 5 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. SPRING 2011 5 41344_Catalogue_2011_001-040.qxd:168x240 3/9/10 18:07 Page 6 FICTION 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. 978 1 84724 958 6 978 1 84916 229 6 6 SPRING 2011 41344_Catalogue_2011_001-040.qxd:168x240 3/9/10 18:07 Page 7 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. SPRING 2011 7 41344_Catalogue_2011_001-040.qxd:168x240 3/9/10 18:08 Page 8 FICTION 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. 8 SPRING 2011 41344_Catalogue_2011_001-040.qxd:168x240 3/9/10 18:08 Page 9 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.