The literary event of 2020
Six years after The Bone Clocks comes a new novel from bestselling David Mitchell Lead Titles General Fiction Literary Fiction
State Highway One Hideaway Heatstroke The Women Who Ran Away An Inventory of Losses $ 34.99 TPB $34.99 TPB Sam Coley Nora Roberts Hazel Barkworth $34.99 TPB Sheila O’Flanagan $34.99 TPB Judith Schalansky $50.00 HB
It’s been years since Alex was in New Zealand Caitlyn Sullivan is just nine years old when At the beginning of a stifling, sultry summer, Thrown together by chance, Deira and A collection of stories about things that are and years since he spent any one-on-one time a game of hide and seek at a family party everything shifts when Lily, Rachel’s student Grace are soon motoring down the French irretrievably lost to the world, including the with his twin sister, Amy. When they lose will change her life forever. The betrayal she and daughter’s best friend, doesn’t come highways, sharing intriguing stories of their island of Tuanaki, the Caspian Tiger, the Villa their parents in a shock accident, it seems like experienced that night will shape her life, and home one day. Rachel becomes fixated on pasts. An unlikely friendship is formed as Sacchetti in Rome, Sappho’s poems, Greta the perfect time to reconnect as siblings and for years she runs, hiding from the aftermath of Lily’s absence, breaking fragile trusts and they face up to shocking truths about the Garbo’s beauty, a painting by Caspar David with their home country. As they journey the the trauma. But Caitlyn comes to realise that facing impossible choices. men they’ve loved and as they make decisions Friedrich and the former East Germany’s length of State Highway One, they will scratch if she wants to not just survive but thrive, she about what to do next. Palace of the Republic. at wounds that have never healed, and Alex must return to the family home to face up to Utopia Avenue will be forced to reckon with what coming her past. David Mitchell $37.99 TPB home really means.
The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half The Jane Austen Society This Happy The Paris Library The Extraordinaries Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. Brit Bennett $34.99 TPB Natalie Jenner $34.99 TPB Niamh Campbell $37.99 TP B Janet Skeslien Charles $34.99 TPB TJ Klune $24.99 TPB Utopia Avenue might be the most improbable British The Vignes twin sisters will always be Eight villagers are brought together by When Alannah was twenty-three, she met a In Nova City, there are extraordinary people, band you’ve never heard of. The band produced only Odile is obsessed with books, and her new identical, but as adults their families, their their love for Jane Austen when the famous married man who was older than her, and she capable of feats that defy the imagination. two albums in two years, yet their legacy lives on. This is job at the American Library in Paris is a dream communities and their racial identities author’s cherished former home is in danger fell in love. Six years later, when Alannah is And then there’s Nick who... well, being the story of Utopia Avenue’s brief, blazing journey from come true. When war is declared, the Library couldn’t be more different. Still, even of being auctioned off. As friendships form newly married to another man, memories of the most popular fanfiction writer in the is determined to remain open. But then the separated by so many miles and just as many and the pain of the past begins to heal, can those days spent in bliss, then torture, return Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, Nazis invade Paris, and everything changes. lies, the fates of the twins and their families they find a way to preserve Austen’s legacy to her. of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding right? Based on the true Second World War story of remain intertwined. before it’s too late? into something much darker - a kaleidoscopic tale of the heroic librarians at the American Library dreams, drugs, love, madness and grief; of stardom’s in Paris, this is an unforgettable novel of wobbly ladder and fame’s Faustian pact; and of the romance, friendship, family and heroism. collision between idealism and reality as the Sixties drew to a close. Above all, this captivating novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul. Crime/Thriller Sci-fi/Fantasy Non-fiction Cooking
The Disappearance of Alpha Night Women Don’t Owe You Pretty Stephanie Mailer Bowls of Goodness: Grains + Greens Nalini Singh $34.99 TPB Florence Given $29.99 HB Nina Olsson $39.99 HB Joël Dicker $37.99 TP B New York Times best-selling author This book will tell you to love sex (but hate Twenty years after two young police officers Nalini Singh returns to her breathtaking sexism); to protect your energy; that life is Nina Olsson’s stunning new book showcases crack a complicated murder case, journalist Psy-Changeling Trinity series with a short (so dump them); and that you owe whole grains and fresh greens. These two Stephanie Mailer confronts the officers and mating that shouldn’t exist... men nothing, least of all pretty. Explore the food types are the foundation of some of tells them she thinks they got it wrong. When feminist conversation with artist, writer and the most healthy and delicious vegetarian she goes mysteriously missing, they wonder if influencer Florence Given’s debut book. food and together form a key part of a her suspicions were horribly true. nourishing diet.
The Geometry of Holding Hands The Last Druid The Greatest Beer Run Ever Aegean Alexander McCall Smith $34.99 TPB Terry Brooks $37.99 TP B John Donohue $37.99 TPB Marianna Leivaditaki $50.00 HB Isabel Dalhousie applies her moral The final book in the triumphant four-part to philosopher’s mind to wrongdoings in the Fall Of Shannara series, from one of the An incredible true story of how, in 1967 − Derived from the sea, the land and the Edinburgh and will have to call upon her all-time masters of fantasy. having seen students protesting against the mountains, these inspirational recipes marry powers of deduction to unravel another Vietnam war − Chickie Donohue and his authentic Cretan culture and food with mystery in the new novel from the bestselling friends decided to go to Vietnam to take contemporary flavour combinations that author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective their soldier pals a beer and show them that embrace the ingredients and influences of Agency series SOMEONE appreciates what they’re doing the wider Mediterranean. out there. Kids/YA New into Paperback
Rainbow Magic: Jacinda the Wonderland The Damned Peace Fairy Juno Dawson $19.99 PB Renee Ahdieh $24.99 TPB Daisy Meadows $14.99 PB Alice lives in a world of privilege and In this sumptuous, sultry and romantic Jacinda the Peace Fairy helps to maintain luxury, but none of it means anything sequel to The Beautiful, Celine and peace and harmony in Fairyland and when her own head plays tricks on her Bastien have paid the high price for the real world. But when her special reality. When her troubled friend Bunny loving each other. War among the magnifying glass goes missing, people goes missing, Alice becomes obsessed immortals is imminent, and just as lose the ability to see things from each with finding her. But what happens Bastien and Celine begin to uncover the other’s point of view, and everyone when she falls down the proverbial danger around them, they learn their starts to argue... rabbit hole? love could tear them apart.
There’s a Lion in the Library! The Paper & Hearts Society: Cats React to Science Facts Read with Pride Dave Skinner $19.99 PB Izzi Howell $23.99 PB Lucy Powrie $19.99 PB Little Lucy Lupin is sweet and dimpled A vast cast of feline friends take us − and a dreadful LIAR. The trouble is, Olivia is excited for her last year at on a tour of the core areas of science, it’s impossible not to believe her – she’s secondary school, but when a parent from outer space and the human body, so perfectly cute – three times the library complains about LGBTQ+ content in to forces and materials. Bitesize text, is evacuated when Lucy says there’s a a book, the library implements a new fun photos, diagrams, humour and a terrifying lion on the loose. But what will policy. Can Olivia juggle two book react-o-meter all help to make science happen when Lucy’s lie comes true...? clubs, exams and a girlfriend while memorable and fun. campaigning #ReadWithPride, or will she burn out? JUNE 2020 ORDER FORMS
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ISBN TITLE AUTHOR RRP FMT
9781444799439 Utopia Avenue David Mitchell 37.99 TPB
9780349421964 Hideaway Nora Roberts 34.99 TPB Janet Skeslien 9781529335453 The Paris Library 34.99 TPB Charles 9781869714260 State Highway One Sam Coley 34.99 TPB
9781473693050 The Extraordinaries TJ Klune 24.99 TPB
9781472265616 Heatstroke Hazel Barkworth 34.99 TPB
9780349701455 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 34.99 TPB
9781472254795 The Women Who Ran Away Sheila O’Flanagan 34.99 TPB
9781409194118 The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner 34.99 TPB
9780857059253 The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer Joël Dicker 37.99 TPB Alexander McCall 9781408712788 The Geometry of Holding Hands 34.99 TPB Smith 9781529400793 An Inventory of Losses Judith Schalansky 50.00 HB
9781474611671 This Happy Niamh Campbell 37.99 TPB
9781869714154 Alpha Night Nalini Singh 34.99 TPB
9780356510262 The Last Druid Terry Brooks 37.99 TPB
9780857838070 Aegean Marianna Leivaditaki 50.00 HB
9780857838582 Bowls of Goodness: Grains + Greens Nina Olsson 39.99 HB
9781913183301 The Greatest Beer Run Ever John Donohue 37.99 TPB
9781788402118 Women Don’t Owe You Pretty Florence Given 29.99 HB
9781408362969 Rainbow Magic: Jacinda the Peace Fairy Daisy Meadows 14.99 PB
9781408353523 There’s a Lion in the Library! Dave Skinner 19.99 PB
9781786541055 Wonderland Juno Dawson 19.99 PB
9781444949254 The Paper & Hearts Society: Read with Pride Lucy Powrie 19.99 PB
9781529368352 The Damned Renee Ahdieh 24.99 TPB
9781526311160 Cats React to Science Facts Izzi Howell 23.99 PB
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9780708899427 The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead PB
9781780221182 Inland Tea Obreht PB
9781472248473 It Started With a Secret Jill Mansell PB
9781473684478 The Guardians John Grisham PB
9780733645167 The Secrets She Keeps TV Tie-In Michael Robotham PB
9781409196068 Westwind Ian Rankin PB
9781529361360 Tall Tales & Wee Stories Billy Connolly PB
9781841883113 Journeys In the Wild Gavin Thurston PB
9781474608213 Chanel’s Riviera Anne de Courcy PB
9781529353211 A Game of Birds and Wolves Simon Parkin PB
9781472130594 Checkpoint Charlie Iain MacGregor PB David Mitchell is
Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner, the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 2018 Finalist, Costa Novel Award Considered one of the greatest novelists of his generation, his novels sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide combined