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5 Charles Soule Katie Flynn Light of the Jedi A Mother's Joy

Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The brand new uplifting novel from Sunday Times The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High bestselling author Katie Flynn, about a young woman Republic, the noble and wise Jedi Knights must face a searching for hope in Liverpool during the second

January 2021 January 2021 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £20.00 368 pages 432 pages 9781529124644 9781529123890

______THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, AUTHOR KATIE FLYNN in the era of the glorious High Republic, the noble and wise Jedi Knights ______must face a frightening threat to themselves, the galaxy, and the Force itself…. Liverpool 1939: Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However, behind closed doors she lives in constant fear of her abusive Charles Soule is a Brooklyn, New York-based novelist, comic book writer, father, and has no support from her mother. musician, and attorney. His novels include The Oracle Year and Anyone: A Novel. While he has worked for DC and other publishers, he is best known Longing for love and affection she begins a relationship with Ted, a young for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine, and various Star Wars lad who works in her father’s factory. But her family disapprove of the comics from Marvel Comics (Darth Vader, Poe Dameron, Lando and more), relationship and forbid them from seeing each other. and his creator-owned series Curse Words (with Ryan Browne) and Letter 44 (with Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque). When war comes to Liverpool, Olivia seizes the opportunity to leave behind her unhappy life and join the WAAF. There she meets a fellow trainee, Maude and the two embrace their newly found independence. Soon Olivia meets the handsome Ralph, and all thoughts of Ted are brushed aside. Until he returns to her life with some shocking news that turns her world upside down . . . ______

Praise for Katie Flynn

‘Packed with romance and poignancy’ Woman

‘One of the best Liverpool writers’ Liverpool Echo

‘Heart-warming’ Take a Break

'A poignant war-time romance' Daily Express

Katie Flynn is the pen name of the much-loved writer, Judy Turner, who published over ninety novels in her lifetime. Judy’s unique stories were inspired by hearing family recollections of life in Liverpool during the early twentieth century, and her books went on to sell more than eight million copies. Judy passed away in January 2019, aged 82.

The legacy of Katie Flynn lives on through her daughter, Holly Flynn, who continues to write under the Katie Flynn name. Holly worked as an assistant to her mother for many years and together they co-authored a number of Katie Flynn novels, including Christmas at Tuppenny Corner.

Holly lives in the north east of Wales with her husband Simon and their two children. When she’s not writing she enjoys walking her two lurchers, Sparky and Snoopy, in the surrounding countryside, and cooking forbidden foods such as pies, cakes and puddings! She looks forward to sharing many more Katie Flynn stories, which she and her mother devised together, with

6 Tony Parsons Lisa Gardner Your Neighbour’s Wife Before She Disappeared

What do you do when your perfect life spins out of From the Sunday Times bestselling author Lisa control? A gripping psychological thriller that combines Gardner, a gripping thriller featuring an ordinary the emotional warmth of Man and Boy with the page- woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing

January 2021 January 2021 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £12.99 400 pages 400 pages 9781529124736 9781529124415

What do you do when your perfect life spins out of control? A From the Sunday Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a gripping gripping psychological thriller that combines the emotional thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to warmth of Man and Boy with the page-turning brio of The Murder find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten. Bag. Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than Tara Carver seems to have the perfect life. A loving mother and wife, and a belongings who spends her life doing what no one else will: searching for business woman who runs her own company, she’s the sort of person you’d missing people the world has stopped looking for. want to live next door to, who might even become your best friend. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, But what sort of person is she really? when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.

Because in one night of madness, on a work trip far from home, she puts all A new case brings Frankie to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough this at risk. And suddenly her dream life becomes a living nightmare when reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who the married man she spent one night with tells her he wants a serious vanished from her high school months earlier. relationship with her. And that he won’t leave her or her precious family alone until she agrees. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she’s on her own. And she soon learns she’s asking questions someone There seems to be only one way out. And it involves murder ... doesn’t want answered.

Tony Parsons left school at sixteen and his first job in journalism was at the But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the New Musical Express. His first journalism after leaving the NME was when next person to go missing will be her … he was embedded with the Vice Squad at 27 Savile Row, West End Central. The roots of the DC Max Wolfe series started here. Lisa Gardner started her writing career aged seventeen. Having caught her hair on fire while working in food service, crafting a novel seemed a safer Since then he has become an award-winning journalist and bestselling bet. A mere ten years later she became an overnight success with the novelist whose books have been translated into more than forty languages. publication of her first thriller, The Perfect Husband. The Murder Bag, the first novel in the DC Max Wolfe series, went to number one on first publication in the UK. All of the DC Max Wolfe novels have been Now an internationally bestselling author and winner of the International Sunday Times top five bestsellers. Thriller Writers Award for best suspense novel, Lisa lives in the mountains of New Hampshire with her family. Tony lives in London with his wife, his daughter and their dog, Stan. When not glued to her computer, she can be found hiking the mountains with her dogs and/or researching new and interesting ways to get away with murder.

7 Jonathan Kellerman James Patterson Serpentine The Russian (Michael Bennett 13)

A gripping new thriller featuring psychologist Alex A killer crashes Michael Bennett's wedding in the Delaware from the Number One New York Times thirteenth thrilling novel by James Patterson featuring bestselling master of suspense. the NYPD's finest detective

February 2021 February 2021 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £20.00 336 pages 400 pages 9781780899053 9781780899466

The electrifying new Alex Delaware thriller from the #1 New York A killer crashes Michael Bennett's wedding in the thirteenth Times bestselling master of suspense. thrilling novel by James Patterson featuring the NYPD's top detective Ellie Barker is a self-made millionaire by the age of forty, and is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases: the decades-old death of the mother A series of gruesome murders in New York City has Michael Bennett angry – she never knew. She hires LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis to help. but when he identifies similar cases in Atlanta and San Francisco, his anger escalates into all-out alarm. Twenty-five years ago Ellie's mother was found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland All of the victims are young women. And each one is killed in a horrifyingly Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no apparent motive. And a slew distinct fashion. of detectives have already worked the job and failed. In the midst of such devastating loss of life, Bennett’s longtime love, Mary This is a case that calls for the insight of brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. Catherine, is soon to become his wife. But just when New York’s top And as he and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. There are too investigator should be donning his wedding finery, he may be stepping into many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon a diabolical trap. discover, very real threats are lurking in the present... JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of Jonathan Kellerman is the Number One New York Times bestselling author all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He of more than forty crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – Butcher's Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, True the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Detectives, and The Murderer's Daughter. Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. With his son, bestselling novelist Jesse James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own Kellerman, he co-authored Crime Scene, The Golem of Hollywood, and The son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young Golem of Paris. readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to He is also the author of two children's books and numerous nonfiction independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult works, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children and With fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars. He has won the with his wife and son. Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association, and has been nominated for a Shamus Award.

Jonathan and Faye Kellerman live in California and New Mexico.

For more information please visit: http://jonathankellerman.com/ https://www.facebook.com/JonathanKellerman

8 Katie Fforde Vivianne Crowley A Wedding in the Country Wild Once Awake the witch within. Unleash your true

Romance, friendship, joy and the possibility of happy A powerful and inspiring memoir about discovering endings: the heartwarming new novel by number one inner wildness through witchcraft bestseller, Katie Fforde.

February 2021 March 2021 Hardback Hardback £14.99 £16.99 400 pages 320 pages 9781780897585 9781529124897

______This is a personal exploration of magic as it is practised around the world. ‘Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring It’s a book about traditions, stories, archetypes and communities that are comfort in difficult times. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel steeped in history and often shrouded in secrecy. good romance.’ AJ PEARCE ______Throughout history, communities, civilisations and individuals have known Romance, friendship, joy and the possibility of happy endings: the that there is something beyond the material – magic, if you like – and these heartwarming new novel by number one bestseller, Katie Fforde. powers can be harnessed to find true freedom: wildness. We all have a wild witch within; this book will inspire you to find her. Lizzie has just arrived in London, determined to make the best of her new life. This is a not self-help book, nor is it a book of spells; You Were Wild Once is the story of a life lived magically and an evocative, intricate account of a Her mother may be keen that she should have a nice wedding in the hidden world that is ready waiting to be discovered, if only you know where country to a Suitable Man chosen by her. And Lizzie may be going to to look... cookery school to help her become a Good Wife. Vivianne Crowley Ph.D. is a writer and psychologist who lectures in But she definitely wants to have some fun first. Psychology of Religion at the University of London. She is a renowned authority on Wicca and lectures all over the world. It is 1963 and London is beginning to swing as Lizzie cuts her hair, buys a new dress with a fashionably short hemline, and moves in with two of her best friends, one of whom lives in a grand but rundown house in Belgravia which has plenty of room for a lodger.

Soon Lizzie’s life is so exciting that she has forgotten all about her mother’s marriage plans for her.

All she can think about is that the young man she is falling in love with appears to be engaged to someone else ...

Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and is a true country girl at heart. Each of her books explores a different profession or background and her research has helped her bring these to life. She’s been a porter in an auction house, tried her hand at pottery, refurbished furniture, delved behind the scenes of a dating website, and she's even been on a Ray Mears survival course. She loves being a writer; to her there isn’t a more satisfying and pleasing thing to do. She particularly enjoys writing love stories. She believes falling in love is the best thing in the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers to share their stories. To find out more about Katie Fforde step into her world at www.katiefforde.com, visit her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @KatieFforde.

9 James Patterson Harlan Coben 21st Birthday Win (Women’s Murder Club 21)

The twenty-first thrilling instalment in James From the number one bestselling author and creator Patterson's globally bestselling Women's Murder Club of the Netflix hit series, The Stranger, comes a riveting series thriller starring a great new hero, Windsor Horne

March 2021 March 2021 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £20.00 400 pages 400 pages 9781529125290 9781529123845

The twenty-first thrilling instalment in James Patterson's globally ______bestselling Women's Murder Club series From the #1 bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix series The Stranger comes a riveting new thriller, starring the new hero JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of Windsor Horne Lockwood III – or Win, as he is known to his (few) all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He friends … is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – ______the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Over twenty years ago, heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors, and the items stolen from her family were never recovered. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young Until now. readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to On New York's Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer fiction in UK libraries for the past twelve years in a row. He lives in Florida painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials WHL3. For the first time in with his wife and son. years, the authorities have a lead not only on Patricia's kidnapping but also on another FBI cold case - with the suitcase and painting both pointing them towards one man.

Windsor Horne Lockwood III - or Win as his few friends call him - doesn't know how his suitcase and his family's stolen painting ended up in this dead man's apartment. But he's interested - especially when the FBI tell him that the man who kidnapped his cousin was also behind an act of domestic terrorism, and that he may still be at large.

The two cases have baffled the FBI for decades. But Win has three things the FBI does not:: a personal connection to the case, a large fortune, and his own unique brand of justice ...

With more than seventy million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the worldwide number 1 bestselling author of numerous thrillers, including Don't Let Go, Home, and Fool Me Once, as well as the multi-award-winning Myron Bolitar series. His books are published in forty-three languages around the globe and are bestsellers in more than a dozen countries.

Coben is also the creator and executive producer of many television shows, including the forthcoming Netflix Original drama Harlan Coben’s The Stranger starring Richard Armitage, Stephen Rea and Jennifer Saunders and the critically acclaimed Netflix Original drama Harlan Coben’s Safe starring Michael C. Hall.

Coben is currently developing 14 projects, including Run Away, with Netflix in the US and internationally. He lives in New Jersey.

10 Sam Lee James Patterson The Nightingale The Red Book Notes on a songbird

An illustrated miscellany of the nightingale, perfect The highly-anticipated sequel to Sunday Times for nature and bird lovers bestseller The Black Book

March 2021 April 2021 Hardback Hardback £14.99 £20.00 240 pages 400 pages 9781529124835 9781529125375

As featured on The Today Programme The highly-anticipated sequel to Sunday Times bestseller The Black 'Wondering and wonderful. The nature book of the year.' JOHN LEWIS Book -STEMPEL ______JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers arrival of Spring. For thousands of years, its sweet song has inspired including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. musicians, writers and artists around the world, from Germany, France and Italy to Greece, Ukraine and Korea. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young Passionate conservationist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee tells readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries the story of the nightingale. This book reveals in beautiful detail the bird's and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to song, habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult environmental issues that threaten its livelihood. fiction in UK libraries for the past twelve years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. From Greek mythology to John Keats, to Persian poetry and ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’, Lee delves into the various ways we have celebrated the nightingale through traditions, folklore, music, literature, from ancient history to the present day. The Nightingale is a unique and lyrical portrait of a famed yet elusive songbird. ______‘Sam Lee has brought the poetic magic that has long enchanted so many of his musical fans into the written word. Allow yourself to glimpse the world Sam sees, to be part of his love affair with the nightingale, and you will no doubt be delighted.’ LILY COLE

Sam Lee is a Mercury Prize-nominated and BBC Folk Award-winning singer, conservationist and curator. Trained in fine art but with a lifelong passion for wilderness studies and nature connection, Sam is a folk music specialist dedicated to collecting, sharing and interpreting ancient oral music from Britain and Ireland. He has combined these interests through his ‘Singing with Nightingales’ annual springtime concert series.

His singing has been heard in films and TV shows, from Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword to Peaky Blinders. Sam was musical director for the RSPB’s 2019 Top 20 birdsong single, ‘Let Nature Sing’ and his 2020 album Old Wow garnered five-star reviews. He has lectured at Goldsmiths, SOAS and Oxford University and was the first folk singer to teach at the Royal College of Music.

11 Heidi Perks James Patterson The Whispers Walk in My Combat Boots True Stories from the Battlefront

April 2021 April 2021 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £16.99 400 pages 9781529135305 9781529124255

Heidi Perks worked as a marketing director before leaving to become a full- JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of time mother and writer. Her first novel, Now You See Her, was a Sunday all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He Times bestseller and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Heidi is a voracious is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – reader of crime fiction and thrillers and endlessly interested in what makes the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and people tick. She lives in Bournemouth with her family, where she writing her Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers next thriller. including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past twelve years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

12 Abbie Greaves John Buckley The Ends of the Earth The Armchair General Can You Defeat the Nazis?

From the author of The Silent Treatment comes a Re-Write WWII History – Choose Your Own Adventure captivating new novel about a woman who cannot let Meets Risk. go of her greatest love - perfect for fans of Jojo

April 2021 May 2021 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £14.99 352 pages 304 pages 9781529123968 9781529125702

The breathtaking new novel from the author of The Silent AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW - Re-write the course of WWII Treatment - for fans of Jojo Moyes, Joanna Cannon and Ruth Jones. with this revolutionary new approach to history. Take the chair of Winston Churchill and other leaders. Make the decisions that will Mary O’Connor has been keeping a vigil for her first love for the past seven change the war - and the world. years.

Every evening without fail, Mary arrives at Ealing Broadway station and sets What might have happened if Poland was never invaded? Or if Hiroshima herself up among the commuters. In her hands Mary holds a sign which never happened? Or if the great evacutation at Dunkirk was scrapped? bears the words: ‘Come Home Jim.’ Would the war have turned out differently? Would Hitler have won?

Call her mad, call her a nuisance, call her a drain on society – Mary isn’t ARMCHAIR GENERAL airdrops you the reader into the key historical going anywhere. moments and turning points of WWII - from the outbreak of war to D-Day - and thrusts you into the role of decision-maker. That is, until an unexpected call turns her world on its head. In spite of all her efforts, Mary can no longer find the strength to hold herself together. Taking the chair of Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Montgomery, General She must finally face what happened all those years ago, and answer the Eisenhower and other leaders and soldiers from the Allied Forces, you will be question – where on earth is Jim? primed with the contemporaneous intelligence that real leaders would have been presented with during the war - including maps and secret dossiers. ______Once you have examined the evidence, you the reader will then have to make key decisions that have the power to affect the war - and the fate of PRAISE FOR ABBIE GREAVES: history. How far should you parachute behind enemy lines? Should you fight on or try to make peace? Will you send more troops in or hold them back? ‘A remarkable debut’ JOJO MOYES Do you wait or do you act? Each decision will take you to an alternate chapter in the book, and to either the truth, or to an alternate but highly ‘It’s beautiful, so moving and clever. I truly adored it.’ JOSIE SILVER plausible new reality.

‘An original and moving debut from a talented new voice.’ SANTA Written by John Buckley, professor of Military History and expert on strategy MONTEFIORE and war gaming, this book revisits the past in forensic and fascinating detail so that you can learn how every small action (or inaction) can create a 'This is an extraordinarily tense yet tender portrait of a marriage ... whole different history. Will your decisions follow the same course as WWII? written with assurance and agonising insight, and the characters of Maggie Or will you create a new future? and Frank will stay with me for a long time' Daily Mail John Buckley is Professor of Military History in the Department of History, 'Beautifully written in Greaves’s unique voice... Poignant, heart-breaking Politics and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is the and insightful.' Woman & Home author of a number of books on twentieth century military history including Air Power in the Age of Total War; British Armour in the Normandy ‘A must read’ Sunday Express Campaign 1944; Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation.

‘Heart-breaking secrets tenderly evoked with intelligence and depth. Maggie and Frank are unforgettable characters’ RACHEL HORE, author of The Memory Garden

'Empathetic, beautifully written ... will resonate with fans of Jojo Moyes, David Nicholls and Gail Honeyman.' Daily Express

'I adored this powerful, heart-breaking tale' The Sun

13 President Bill Clinton and James Emma Hughes Patterson No Such Thing As Perfect The President’s Daughter

From the authors of the global number one bestseller A smart, funny and uplifting debut novel about a The President is Missing comes the most explosive woman who uses an app which pools her entire digital new thriller of the new decade footprint to find her perfect match

June 2021 June 2021 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £12.99 528 pages 400 pages 9781529125665 9781529125818

From the authors of the global number one bestseller The Laura Morrison’s intuition has never failed to let her down. So President is Missing comes the most explosive new thriller of the what if love really *is* just a numbers game? new decade ______Laura’s twenties have delivered one consistent and troubling certainty: when it comes to love, she’s just not getting it. In possession of a disastrous There's a new administration in the White House. But it's the romantic history, Laura hits rock bottom when the one stable man in her life previous First Family who tops an international assassin's hit list. – her long-standing flatmate, substitute boyfriend (and ex) – falls in love with the latest addition to their household and moves out, just as her job as Michael Keating is a former Navy SEAL – and a former President of the a junior features editor is threatened by redundancy. Meanwhile, her United States, now relocated to rural New Hampshire after a brave but ill- parents’ marriage, which Laura has been refereeing for years, is crumbling. fated military mission cost him his second term. Sleeping on an air-mattress in her over-achieving, impossible older sister’s All he wants is to sink into anonymity with his family (and his Secret Service attic, Laura is approached by Cupid, an experimental new dating service, detail). But when he's briefed on an imminent threat against his daughter, which promises to use your digital footprint – the google searches, the Keating's SEAL training may prove more essential than all the power, shopping you’ve done, the videos you’ve viewed repeatedly at 3am – to connections and political acumen he gained as President. find the love of your life. In a last-ditch attempt to secure a splashy feature and save her job, Laura agrees to trial the service. Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States in 1992 and served two terms. After leaving the White House, he established the Clinton On paper – or in data – Adam is her perfect match. Off the charts on the Foundation, which helps improve global health, increase opportunity for girls compatibility scale, he’s handsome, kind, cares about climate change and and women, reduce childhood obesity and preventable diseases, create manages to win the approval of her perpetually judgmental sister. Even economic opportunity and growth, and address the effects of climate their parents’ ancient collie, who has long been the emotional barometer of change. He is the author of a number of non-fiction works, including My the family, is a fan. But when Laura starts to develop feelings for the Life, which was a number one international bestseller. With James charismatic data lead who designed the algorithm that led her to Adam in Patterson, he is co-author of the number one international bestselling novel the first place, those familiar doubts rear their head once again… The President is Missing.

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades - the Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past twelve years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

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15 Adrienne Herbert Chips Channon Power Hour The Diaries of Chips Channon Vol 1 How to Focus on Your Goals and Create a Life

From the popular podcast Power Hour, comes a book The first unexpurgated edition of one of the most about how to make the most of the first hour of your famous diaries of the twentieth century day in order to pursue your passion and achieve

December 2020 February 2021 Hardback Hardback £14.99 £35.00 304 pages 896 pages 9781786332691 9781786331816

How many times have you said, ‘I’d love to do that, but I don’t have time’? Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great The Power Hour message is simple: we all have an hour to dedicate to War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as creating the life we want, whether we think we do or not. Power Hour will Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His help you realise the importance of focusing on what you want during that career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, first essential hour, before the rest of the world wakes up and starts gossipy and bitchy by turns, they are the unfettered observations of a man competing for your attention. who went everywhere and who knew everybody. Whether describing the antics of London society in the interwar years, or the growing scandal Based on the popular podcast of the same name, Power Hour will help you surrounding his close friends Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson during the reclaim your time and unlock your full potential by taking the first hour of abdication crisis, or the mood in the House of Commons in the lead up to each day to focus on what you want to achieve – whether that’s writing a the Munich crisis, his sense of drama and his eye for the telling detail are book, running a marathon or starting a business. unmatched. These are diaries that bring a whole epoch vividly to life.

Stop waiting for the right time, or for more time. Start with just one hour A heavily abridged and censored edition of the diaries was published in today. 1967. Only now, sixty years after Chips's death, can the text be shared in all its unexpurgated and often shocking glory. As well as hosting the weekly Power Hour podcast, Adrienne Herbert is a leading wellness professional, TEDx speaker and a voice of inspiration, Sir Henry (Chips) Channon was born in Chicago in 1897 (although he encouragement and motivation. Adrienne delivers talks and workshops to claimed 1899 as the year of his birth, until the true facts were exposed – to some of the world’s largest organisations and she regularly hosts live events his embarrassment – in the Sunday Express). The son of a wealthy and panel discussions. She has partnered with brands such as Adidas, businessman, he accompanied the American Red Cross to Paris in 1917, was Origins, Virgin Sport, Google and Apple and has been featured in ELLE an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, and then settled in London magazine and the Telegraph, as well as being named a ‘New Face of where he mingled with society and enjoyed the high life. He married into Wellness’ by British VOGUE. the Guinness family, and became a Conservative MP for Southend from 1935 until his death. He knew or was friends with all the leading politicians and aristocrats of the period, wined and dined Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in the months before the Abdication crisis, and observed at first hand the last days of appeasement. He died in 1958. Elliot Templeton in Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge (1944) and the disappointed schoolmaster Croker-Harris in Rattigan's play The Browning Version (1948) were partly inspired by Channon.

16 Tish Delaney Grace Beverley Before My Actual Heart Breaks Working Hard, Hardly Working

While the Northern Irish troubles rumble in the From a young entrepreneur shaking up the business distance, one woman has a battle of her own, right on world comes a book about why productivity and self- the doorstep. care aren't on opposing sides, and how to find the

February 2021 April 2021 Hardback Hardback £14.99 £16.99 384 pages Cut-down crown 9781786331984 quarto 288 pages 9781786332851

'This is in many ways a familiar story but it is told in such a fresh, We all know the pressure of feeling like we should be grinding 24/7 while entertaining, funny and moving way, it felt like I was reading simultaneously being told that we should 'just relax' and take care of something brand new.' Roddy Doyle ourselves, like we somehow have to decide between success and sanity. It's ______a seemingly impossible choice, and one that doesn't reflect the complex working world we find ourselves in. ‘If I could go back to being sixteen again, I’d do things differently.' In Working Hard, Hardly Working, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed 'lazy workaholic' Grace Beverley confronts this unrealistic and unnecessary split, 'Everyone over the age of forty feels like that, you total gom,' says and offers a fresh take on how to navigate modern life. Full of practical my best friend Lizzie Magee. advice for helping you focus when you're finding it hard to get stuff done and for stepping back when you're on the edge of burnout, Working Hard, When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to fly. She was going to take Hardly Working provides a productivity blueprint for a new generation. off like an angel from heaven and leave the muck and madness of troubled Insightful, curious and refreshingly honest, it will make you reflect on what Northern Ireland behind. Nothing but the Land of Happy Ever After would do you want from your life and work - and then help you chart a path to get for her. there.

But as a Catholic girl with a B.I.T.C.H. for a Mammy and a silent Daddy, London's Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Natwest GBEA) and founder of things did not go as she and Lizzie Magee had planned. two brands (TALA and SHREDDY) that are paving the way in sustainability and ethics, Grace Beverley is a successful female entrepreneur shaking up Now, five children, twenty-five years, an end to the bombs and bullets, the archaic business world, with a global reach of over 1.5 million. Grace enough whisky to sink a ship and endless wakes and sandwich teas later, was named first in Forbes 30-under-30's retail and e-commerce list at age Mary’s alone. She’s learned plenty of hard lessons and missed a hundred 23 just eight months after graduating. Grace's honest and down-to-earth steps towards the life she'd always hoped for. approach has led to her being ranked as the 26th most influential online creator by the Sunday Times and featured in Glamour alongside Emma Will she finally find the courage to ask for the love she deserves? Or is it too Watson and Rihanna as one of 'the 10 amazing multihyphenates to be late? inspired by'. Working Hard, Hardly Working is her first book.

Tish Delaney was born and brought up in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles. Like a lot of people of her generation, she left the sectarian violence behind by moving to England. After graduating from Manchester University, she moved to London and worked on various magazines and broadsheets as a reporter, reviewer and sub-editor. She left the Financial Times in 2014 to live in the Channel Islands to pursue her career as a writer. Before My Actual Heart Breaks, her debut novel, will be published by Hutchinson in 2020.

17 Nicholas Schmidle Patrick McGrath Test Gods Last Days in Cleaver Square Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern

The story of the new generation of astronauts forging The brilliant new novel from Patrick McGrath. a world of commercial space travel

May 2021 May 2021 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £14.99 320 pages 216 x 135mm 9781786331854 320 pages 9781786332745

The story of the new generation of astronauts forging a world of It is 1975 and an old man, Francis McNulty, a veteran of the Spanish Civil commercial space travel War, is beset with sightings in his garden of his old nemesis, General Franco. The general is in fact in Spain, on his deathbed, but Francis is deeply When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, the goal was simple: troubled, as is his daughter Gillian, who lives with him in Cleaver Square. to offer civilian space travel by the end of the decade. Fifteen years, a dozen delays and one catastrophic rocket crash later, we are on the verge Francis' account of his haunting is by turns witty, cantankerous and of space tourism becoming a reality. nostalgic. At times he drifts back to his days in Madrid, when he rescued a young girl from a burning building and brought her back to London with him. New Yorker journalist Nicholas Schmidle has witnessed the fall and rise of There are other, darker events from that time, involving an American Virgin Galactic first-hand. Over the last five years, he has spent hundreds of surgeon called Doc Roscoe, and a brief, terrible act of betrayal. hours embedded in the heart of the company: spending countless hours with Branson, and befriending the pilots who are risking their lives to make When Gillian announces her forthcoming marriage to a senior civil servant, space tourism a reality. Francis realizes he has to adapt to new circumstances and confront his past once and for all. Highly atmospheric, and powerfully dramatic, rich in pathos Now, Schmidle offers the definitive inside story of the individuals building and humour, Last Days in Cleaver Square confirms a major storyteller at the this new world of commercial space travel. It is the story of Branson, who height of his powers. emerges as an excitable but often overoptimistic evangelist for the project; of Mark Stucky, the showboating chief pilot whose obsession with his job is '[W]onderfully sinister ... a delight ... you are in for a thrilling destroying his relationship with his son; and Mike Alsbury, the archly ride.' Spectator on The Wardrobe Mistress professional former engineer pilot who, as a result of a momentary miscalculation, crashed his plane into the California desert – becoming the Patrick McGrath is the author of two short story collections and nine first casualty of the new space race. novels, including the international bestseller, Asylum. He is also the author of Writing Madness, a collection of his short fiction and selected non-fiction. The result is a compelling examination of the inner lives of a new generation His novel Trauma was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and Spider was of astronauts. Theirs is a world where the line between lunacy and genius is filmed by David Cronenberg from McGrath's adaptation. He co-edited an blurred, and where no sacrifice is too great in pursuit of the dream of space influential anthology of short fiction, The New Gothic, and recent non-fiction travel. includes introductions to The Monk, Moby Dick and Barnaby Rudge. Patrick McGrath lives in Manhattan and London. Nicholas Schmidle joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 2012. His first article for the magazine, ‘Getting bin Laden’, was a National Magazine Award finalist. Since then, he has written about a Russian arms trafficker, an antiquarian book forger, a wrongful conviction in Chicago, the former national-security adviser Michael Flynn, and many others. The winner of a Kurt Schork Award for freelance journalism, he is a two-time Livingston Award finalist, and has received fellowships from the Institute of Current World Affairs and the New America Foundation. In 2017, he was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He lives in London.

18 Marc Morris Taylor Jenkins Reid The Anglo-Saxons Malibu Rising A History of the Beginnings of England

The glorious new novel from the international bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six

May 2021 May 2021 Hardback Hardback £25.00 £12.99 464 pages 384 pages 9781786330994 9781786331526

A history that spans more than half a millennium, The Anglo-Saxons is SOME PARTIES ARE MEANT TO BE CRASHED. nothing less than a quest for England's origins. This is the story of our island at its most strange and evocative period – the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s, Malibu Burning follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, Marc Morris’s brilliant new book will take its readers from an alien world of must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings slaves, temples, villas, druids and amphorae, to a familiar landscape of when they were young. shires and boroughs, villages, parish churches and minsters; from the worship of vanished gods like Thor and Woden to the veneration of saints – The story unfolds over 24 hours of preparing for the family's annual house Cuthbert, Alban, Edmund – who still recognised today; from a population party - which over the years has become legendary. Everyone who's who spoke Latin and Celtic, to one whose language was recognizably the anyone wants an invite. But this year, things get out of hand. There’s a ancestor of the English that is spoken today. threesome in the hot tub, the Lichtenstein is ripped off the wall, their long absent and serially unfaithful father turns up, along with a lost young Dr Marc Morris is a historian and broadcaster, specialising in the Middle Ages. woman who is their half-sister. He is the author of King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta, The Norman Conquest and A Great and Terrible King. They spent a lifetime holding it together. One party will have it all crashing down. In 2003 Marc presented the highly acclaimed TV series Castle for Channel 4 and wrote its accompanying book. He has also contributed to other history Taylor Jenkins Reid is the author of several novels, including Daisy Jones & programmes on radio and television. The Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Forever, Interrupted. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, their daughter, and their dog. An expert on medieval monarchy and aristocracy, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Marc has written numerous articles for History Today, BBC History Magazine and Heritage Today (now published together as an e- book, Kings and Castles).

19 Nancy Tucker The First Day of Spring

A gripping and dark book club debut with a compelling voice at its centre.

June 2021 Hardback £12.99 320 pages 9781786332387

When Chrissie was eight, she killed a child. Fifteen years later, she has one of her own.

I killed a little boy today. Held my hands around his throat, felt his blood pump hard against my thumbs. He wriggled and kicked and one of his knees caught me in the belly, a sharp lasso of pain. I roared. I squeezed. Sweat made it slippy between our skins but I didn’t let go, pressed and pressed until my nails were white. It was easier than I thought it would be.

Chrissie is eight years old, and she has just killed a two-year-old boy. Her playmates are tearful and their mothers are terrified, keeping them locked up indoors.

Chrissie knows how to steal sweets from the shop without getting caught, the best hiding place for hide-and-seek, the perfect wall for handstands. Now she has a new secret. It gives her a fizzing, sherbet feeling in her belly. She doesn’t get to feel power like this at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer.

Fifteen years later, Julia is working in a fish and chip shop and trying to mother her five-year-old daughter, Molly. She is always worried – about affording food and school shoes, about what the other mothers think of her. Most of all she worries that the social services are about to take Molly away. That’s when the phone calls begin. Julia is too afraid to answer, because it’s clear the caller knows the truth – that Julia is Chrissie, living under the new name given to her when she was released from prison eight years before.

Julia wants to give Molly the childhood she was denied, and that means leaving Chrissie in the past. But Chrissie doesn’t want to be left.

Nancy Tucker recently graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Experimental Psychology. She currently works in an NHS mental health unit. Her memoir of her childhood struggle with anorexia, The Time in Between, was published in 2015. Her follow-up, That Was When People Started to Worry, an examination of young women’s mental health, was published in 2018. The First Day of Spring is her first work of fiction.

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21 John Marrs Alexander Freed The One Star Wars: Shadow Fall Soon to be a Netflix original drama

A unique and heart-stopping psychological thriller perfect for fans of Michelle Richmond's The Marriage Pact and Shari Lapena's The Couple Next Door

February 2021 February 2021 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £9.99 416 pages B Format 9781529101034 368 pages 9781529101447

Alphabet Squadron's hunt for the deadliest TIE fighters in the Soon to be a major Netflix Original series and perfect for fans of galaxy continues in this Star Wars adventure! Caroline Kepnes's You. HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO FIND THE ONE? News of the New Republic's victory still reverberates through the galaxy. In its wake, the capital ships of the newly legitimized galactic government A no 1 EBook bestseller and featured on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 book club. journey to the farthest stars, seeking out and crushing the remnants of Perfect for fans of TM Logan's Lies and C.L. Taylor's The Fear. imperial tyranny. But some old ghosts are harder to banish than others. And none are more dangerous than Shadow Wing. One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner – the one you’re genetically made for. Yrica Quell's ragtag Alphabet Squadron still leads the search for Shadow Wing, but they're no closer to their goal-and the pressure to find their quarry A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just before it's too late has begun to shake them apart. Determined to finish the one other person, millions have taken the test, desperate to find true love. fight once and for all, Quell works with New Republic Intelligence's Now, five more people meet their Match. But even soul mates have contentious Caern Adan and the legendary General Hera Syndulla to prepare secrets. And some are more shocking – and deadlier – than the riskiest gambit of her starfighting career-a trap for Shadow Wing that others... could finish the chase once and for all.

***** But in the darkness, their enemy has evolved. Soran Keize, last of the Imperial aces, has stepped into the power vacuum at the head of Shadow With over 600 5* reviews, this is what real readers are saying Wing, reinvigorating the faltering unit in their hour of need. Once adrift in about this addictive, page-turning thriller: the aftershocks of the war, Keize has found meaning again, leading the lost soldiers of his unit through to safety. The only thing standing in his way? 'I just couldn't stop reading' The most mismatched squadron in the New Republic Navy, led by his former mentee: the traitor Yrica Quell. 'Brilliant twists that I didn't see coming' Alexander Freed is the author of Star Wars: The Old Republic: The Lost 'One of the most gripping stories I've read for a long while' Suns, as well as many short stories, comic books, and videogames. Born near Philadelphia, he endeavours to bring the city's dour charm with him to 'I was hooked and didn't want it to end' his current home of Austin, Texas.

(Note: Previously published as A Thousand Small Explosions)

John Marrs is a freelance journalist based in London, England, who has spent the last 20 years interviewing celebrities from the world of television, film and music for national newspapers and magazines.

He has written for publications including The Guardian's Guide and Guardian Online; OK! Magazine; Total Film; Empire; Q; GT; The Independent; Star; Reveal; Company; Daily Star and News of the World's Sunday Magazine.

22 Alexander Freed Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Star Wars: Victory’s Price Hogan The Hollow Ones

From the Oscar-winning director of PAN'S LABYRINTH, THE SHAPE OF WATER, and HELLBOY, comes a new paranormal thriller - X-FILES meets Ben Aaronovitch.

March 2021 April 2021 Hardback Paperback £20.00 £8.99 234 x 153mm 400 pages 400 pages 9781529100969 9781529101386

The aces of Alphabet Squadron have one final chance to defeat the A horrific crime that defies ordinary explanation. A rookie FBI darkness of Shadow Wing in this thrilling conclusion to the Star agent in dangerous, uncharted territory. An extraordinary hero for Wars trilogy! the ages.

In the wake of Yrica Quell's shocking decision-and one of the fiercest battles Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her of their lives-the remnants of Alphabet Squadron seek answers and closure partner, Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent who turns suddenly, inexplicably across a galaxy whose old war scars are threatening to reopen. violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core. Devasted, Odessa is Soran Keize has returned to the tip of Shadow Wing's spear. Operation placed on desk leave pending a full investigation. But what most troubles Cinder, the terrifying protocol of planetary extermination which began in the Odessa isn't the tragedy itself-it's the shadowy presence she thought she twilight of the Imperial era, burns throughout the galaxy. Shadow Wing is no saw fleeing the deceased agent's body after his death. longer wounded prey fleeing the hunters of the New Republic. With its leader, its strength has returned, and its Star Destroyers and TIE squadrons Questioning her future with the FBI and her sanity, Hardwicke accepts a low lurk in the darkness between stars, carrying out the fallen Emperor's final -level assignment to clear out the belongings of a retired agent in the New edict of destruction-as well as another, stranger mission, one Keize has York office. What she finds there will put her on the trail of a mysterious championed not for the dying Empire, but for its loyal soldiers. figure named John Silence, a man of enormous means who claims to have been alive for centuries, and who is either an unhinged lunatic, or Alphabet Squadron's ships are as ramshackle and damaged as their spirits, humanity's best and only defense against unspeakable evil. but they've always had each other. Now, as they face the might of Keize's reborn juggernaut, they aren't even sure they have that. How do you catch Guillermo del Toro was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1964. He is the a shadow? How do you kill it? And when you're finally victorious, who pays director of the films Cronos, Mimic, The Devil's Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy, the price? Hellboy II, Pacific Rim and Pan's Labyrinth, which garnered enormous critical praise worldwide and won three Academy Awards, and The Shape of Water, Alexander Freed is the author of Star Wars: The Old Republic: The Lost which won the 2018 Oscar Award for Best Picture. Suns, as well as many short stories, comic books, and videogames. Born near Philadelphia, he endeavours to bring the city's dour charm with him to Chuck Hogan is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Devils in his current home of Austin, Texas. Exile and Prince of Thieves, which won the 2005 Hammett Award, was named one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King, and was the basis of the motion picture The Town.

23 Andy Weir Ava Reid Project Hail Mary The Wolf and the Woodsman From the bestselling author of The Martian

The thrilling and hilarious third title from the Sunday A dark, evocative fantasy debut steeped in Hungarian Times Bestselling author of The Martian: The only folklore, perfect for fans of Naomi Novik, Katherine surviving astronaut on a space ship must find a way to Arden and Laini Taylor.

May 2021 May 2021 Hardback Hardback £16.99 £14.99 448 pages 448 pages 9781529100617 9781529100730

When astronomers notice the sun is losing its brightness, Earth realises it Stories don't have to be true to be real... only has thirty years before the planet freeze. A mission is mounted to save the planet, but something goes seriously wrong, and a scientist wakes up in When the Woodsmen come to claim a sacrifice, Évike has little fear that she a spaceship with amnesia, and his two colleagues dead. will be chosen. As the only girl in her isolated pagan village unable to heal, forge or summon fire, her lack of magic keeps her safe. ANDY WEIR built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his But when the villagers surrender her to the soldiers, Évike is thrust into a dream of writing full-time. hostile world that has abandoned her gods. Determined to protect her people despite their betrayal, she strikes a reluctant bargain with her captor, He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as the disgraced prince Gáspár Bárány. In exchange for the pagans’ safety and relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. her freedom, she will help him seek out a powerful creature of myth and He also mixes a mean cocktail. win back his father’s favor.

He lives in California. Their journey takes them from the Far North, where the terrifying magic of the old gods run wild, to the political mire of the capital, where the growing power of a vengeful cleric threatens to destroy them both. As their fates grow ever more entangled, Évike and Gáspár must learn to trust each other – or neither of them will survive.

A dark, spellbinding literary fairy tale inspired by Hungarian folklore, The Wolf and the Woodsman is perfect for readers of Katherine Arden, Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern.

24 Beth Cartwright Robert Dinsdale The Keymaker Paris By Starlight

A spellbinding literary fable of loss, forgiveness and A magical new novel from the acclaimed author of THE healing, perfect for fans of The Binding and The Night TOYMAKERS which will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman Circus. and Erin Morgenstern.

June 2021 June 2021 Hardback Paperback £12.99 £8.99 368 pages 480 pages 9781529100693 9781529100471

What would you give for the chance to say goodbye? Every city has its own magic...

High on a hill, beneath a tumble of snowflakes, sits an old, faded house Every night on their long journey to Paris from their troubled homeland, above a beautiful garden which blooms bright from tears of grief. Rooms Levon’s grandmother has read to them from a very special book. Called The cannot be rented here and visits are by invitation only. It is a place for Nocturne, it is a book full of fairy stories and the heroic adventures of their people haunted by the memory of loss. It is the chance to say goodbye to people who generations before chose to live by starlight. the person you love. And with every story that Levon’s grandmother tells them in their new When Liesl receives an invitation to the house, she thinks there must be home, the desire to live as their ancestors did grows. And that is when the some mistake. The letter instructs her to bring three objects with her: one magic begins… belonging to her, and two from the person she has lost - only Liesl has never experienced the loss of a loved one. Her curiosity stirred, she decides Nobody can explain why nocturnal water dogs start appearing at the heels to accept the offer, and makes her way to the house. of every citizen of Paris-by-Starlight like the loyal retainers they once were. There are suddenly night finches in the skies and the city is transforming: When she arrives, she meets Miltos, the enigmatic key maker; Vivien, a the Eiffel Tower lit up by strange ethereal flowers that drink in the light of beautiful, austere woman whose glare leaves Liesl unsettled; and Amos, the the moon. old gardener who tends the flowers that grow in the garden. Liesl must discover why she has been called to this place – but the house won’t give But not everyone in Paris is won over by the spectacle of Paris-by-Starlight. up its secrets so easily… There are always those that fear the other, the unexplained, the strangers in our midst. How long can the magic of night rub up against the A magical novel about grief and healing from the author of ordinariness of day? How long can two worlds occupy the same streets and Feathertide. squares before there is an outright war?

Beth Cartwright has taught English in Greece and travelled around South A magical new novel from the critically acclaimed bestselling East Asia and South America, where she worked at an animal sanctuary. A author of THE TOYMAKERS which will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman love of language and the imaginary led her to study English Literature and and Erin Morgenstern. Linguistics at Lancaster University, and she now lives on the edge of the Peak District with her family and two cats. Robert Dinsdale was born in North Yorkshire and currently lives in Leigh-On- Sea. He is the author of three previous critically acclaimed novels: THE Feathertide is her debut novel. HARROWING, LITTLE EXILES and GINGERBREAD.

His bestselling novel THE TOYMAKERS was his first venture into magic.

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26 Tom Bergin Sarah Frier Free Lunch Thinking No Filter How Economics Ruins the Economy How Instagram transformed business, celebrity

Why most economic assumptions made by The extraordinary inside story of how Instagram governments are wrong became the world’s most successful app

January 2021 February 2021 Hardback Paperback £20.00 £9.99 320 pages 320 pages 9781847942739 9781847942548

Over the past few decades, certain economic theories have achieved the ‘Deeply researched and highly entertaining.’ The Times status of fundamental economic truths among many of the world's ‘Vivid reporting and electric story-telling.’ Ashlee Vance, author of governments: that high spending is always dangerous, for example; that Elon Musk taxing corporations less makes them more productive; that the way to stop ‘Clear-eyed and objective.’ New York Times people doing things you don't want them to do (drinking, smoking and so) on is to make them pay more for the privilege. The extraordinary inside story of how Instagram became the world’s most successful app In Free Lunch Thinking economist and journalist Tom Bergin takes ten of the most prevalent economic mantras and assesses how they play out in In just ten years, Instagram has gone from being a simple photo app to a practice in the real world. He studies the Irish experience with free trade to $100-billion company. The journey has involved ground-breaking establish whether open markets are always desirable. He scrutinises the US innovations, a billion-dollar takeover, and clashes between some of the belief that high tax rates lead to lower tax revenue (the 'Laffer curve'). He biggest names in tech. But it’s a story that has never been told – until now. looks at Italy's flirtation with the view that employment must be wholly flexible if jobs are to be created. And he considers the realities of the 'big' vs In No Filter, Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier reveals how Instagram became the 'small' government debate in countries that range from Brazil to Sweden to hottest app in a generation, reshaping our culture and economy in the Japan. Again and again, he shows how common assumptions are rarely process. With astonishing access to all the key players – from Instagram’s co rooted in observed outcomes, and how countries frequently pursue -founders to super-influencers like Kris Jenner – Frier offers behind-the- economic courses that have more to do with faith than facts. His book both scenes glimpses of every moment in the company’s life: from its launch, to challenges lazy thinking and sets out a path for more considered future. its unlikely acquisition by Facebook, to its founders’ dramatic disputes with their new boss, Mark Zuckerberg. Tom Bergin has reported on the energy industry for over twelve years, having previously worked as an oil broker. He is in charge of Reuters's But this is not just a Silicon Valley story. No Filter explores how Instagram coverage of the oil industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and his has reshaped global business, creating a new economy of ‘influencers’ and work has been published in The New York Times, The Times, The Wall pioneering a business model that sells an aspirational lifestyle to all of us. Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Globe and Mail and the And it delves into Instagram’s effects on popular culture, rewiring our Shanghai Daily, as well as in dozens of newspapers and magazines around understanding of celebrity and placing mounting pressure on all of us to the world. He is a regular television and radio commentator, appearing on perform online – to the point of warping our perception of reality. CNBC, ITV, the BBC and other outlets as far away as New Zealand. In 2013, he was named Business Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. The resulting book connects one company’s rise to a global revolution in technology, culture and business. Facebook’s decision to buy Instagram was Apart from the oil industry, Tom has reported on financial scandals, including the best investment it ever made. But we’re still learning about what it has the rise and fall of Enron, environmental issues, EU politics and terrorist cost the rest of us. attacks. He lives in London with his wife, a former Reuters reporter turned investment banker, and two young sons. Sarah Frier reports on social media companies for Bloomberg News from San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. She is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. No Filter is her first book. @sarahfrier

27 Javier Blas and Jack Farchy Cade Metz The World for Sale Genius Makers Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the The Mavericks Who Brought A.I. to Google,

The inside story of how commodity traders supply the The Genius Makers is a ground-breaking account of the world with oil, metal and food – no matter how race to create Artificial Intelligence corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source . . .

February 2021 March 2021 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £20.00 416 pages 320 pages 9781847942654 9781847942135

When it comes to trading in raw materials, there are no rules. The Genius Makers tells the story of AI from pioneering days to current achievements to future potential. At the same time it takes the lid off what Commodity traders make a living by supplying the world with raw goods has effectively become an arms race between Google, Microsoft, Facebook like oil, grain and metal – no matter how war-torn, famine-stricken or and OpenAI, in which Google may be the clear frontrunner at present, but corrupt the country of origin. These are the men who bought oil from Libyan Facebook has shown itself to be both nimble and innovative, and OpenAI, rebels in the midst of the Arab Spring; who took sugar from the Cuban the company recently founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman, has made government at the height of the Cold War; who helped Saddam Hussein itself the confident upstart of the pack. Each of these companies represents illicitly sell his resources to the west. It is an industry that affects us all, but something unique in the development of a technology that offers both whose workings have been deliberately concealed from our view. extraordinary potential and extraordinary risks. Their personalities and business strategies are already changing the tech landscape in dramatic Now, two Bloomberg journalists tell the full, inside story of how raw ways. And they will continue to do so. materials are bought and sold in the twenty-first century. They risk everything to meet the tribe of billionaires responsible for keeping the planet As well as explaining and exploring artificial intelligence and showing how stocked with raw materials, uncovering a world of big egos and even bigger individuals and companies are reaching for it, The Genius Makers also poses pay cheques. And they travel the globe – from the oil fields of Kazakhstan, serious ethical questions about the technology. Should we even be pursuing to the copper mines of the Congo, to the gleaming skyscrapers of New York it? How will strong AI change humanity? Will it carve out a giant hole in our – to recount the most shocking tales from this hidden world of multi-million job market? Are these companies blinded by the riches this technology will pound deals. bring? Are they forgetting the existential realities of creating machines that behave like humans? If you have ever felt uneasy about how petrol gets from the Middle East to your tank, or wondered where the metal in your phone comes from, this Written by an expert who has exclusive access to each of these companies book offers the answers. It reveals a ruthless underbelly to the world – and others who are working in this field – this is a rich, character-driven economy – one that no consumer can afford to ignore. narrative that captures an extraordinary moment in the history of technology. Javier Blas and Jack Farchy are two of the world’s best-known journalists covering energy, commodities and trading houses. They both work for Cade Metz is a Senior Staff Writer with Wired, the Condé Nast-owned Bloomberg News, where Blas is chief energy correspondent and Farchy is a technology, business, and culture magazine headquartered in San Francisco, senior reporter covering natural resources. where he covers Google, Facebook, artificial intelligence, bitcoin, and other cutting-edge stories. Previously, he was the US Editor of The Register, the Blas and Farchy have interviewed most of the key figures in the commodity London-based website that’s among the world’s most popular science and trading industry – in many cases the first interviews the traders had ever technology news publications. His Wired features on Google’s race to solve given. They’ve published the financial accounts of many of these secretive the ancient game of Go through artificial intelligence and on how Mark companies for the first time. And they’ve travelled extensively to nearly 100 Zuckerberg and Facebook are changing the face of disaster response were countries, reporting on oil, food and war from countries as diverse as both cover stories. He has also appeared on NPR, CNBC and MSNBC. Kazakhstan, Ivory Coast, and Libya.

The pair frequently appear on TV and radio as experts on commodities. Blas has been interviewed on BBC News, CNN and Al Jazeera, and Farchy frequently appears on BBC Radio 4 Today. The World for Sale is their first book.

28 James Temperton Matt Burgess The Future of Medicine Artificial Intelligence How We Will Enjoy Longer, Healthier Lives How Machine Learning Will Shape the Next

The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to the The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to AI future of medicine and healthcare

March 2021 March 2021 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £8.99 178 x 129mm 178 x 129mm 112 pages 112 pages 9781847943255 9781847943231

By the end of this century, living beyond 100 will be the rule rather than the The past decade has witnessed extraordinary advances in artificial exception. What medical breakthroughs and new technologies will make this intelligence. But what precisely is it and where does its future lie? possible? In this brilliant, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Burgess explains In this brilliantly wide-ranging, one-stop guide WIRED journalist James everything you need to know about AI. He describes how it works. He looks Temperton outlines the medical revolutions that are transforming healthcare. at the ways in which it has already brought us everything from voice He looks at the burgeoning immune therapies that could one day cure such recognition software to self-driving cars, and explores its potential for further life-threatening diseases as cancer. He explores the science - and ethics - of revolutionary change in almost every area of our daily lives. He examines genetic engineering and its potential to create 'designer babies'. He the darker side of machine learning: its susceptibility to hacking; its considers the role that cutting-edge medical research could play in the tendency to discriminate against particular groups; and its potential misuse treatment of mental and neurological disorders ranging from depression to by governments. And he addresses the fundamental question: can machines autism. And he addresses the fundamental question: could medical become as intelligent as human beings? technology become so sophisticated that we witness the end of ageing? Matt Burgess is the deputy digital editor at WIRED UK. James Temperton is the digital editor at WIRED UK. WIRED is the world's most authoritative and respected publication reporting WIRED is the world's most authoritative and respected publication reporting on the emerging trends, ideas and technologies shaping our world. Our on the emerging trends, ideas and technologies shaping our world. Our mission is to tell the stories of the people who are driving this change and to mission is to tell the stories of the people who are driving this change and to understand its impact on business, society and individuals. WIRED has understand its impact on business, society and individuals. WIRED has become synonymous with informed and intelligent analysis of these become synonymous with informed and intelligent analysis of these transformational forces and the significance of them for industries and transformational forces and the significance of them for industries and individuals and is a consistently reliable predictor of change. individuals and is a consistently reliable predictor of change.

29 Bianca Nogrady Ram Charan Climate Change Rethinking Competitive Advantage How We Can Get to Carbon Zero (WIRED New Rules for the Digital Age

The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to A revelatory guide to getting ahead in the age of big climate change tech, from the bestselling author of Execution

March 2021 April 2021 Paperback Trade paperback £8.99 £14.99 178 x 129mm 234 x 153mm 112 pages 224 pages 9781847943248 9781847943477

Man-made global warming is advancing inexorably. Are there ways to halt *From the million-copy-bestselling author of Execution* it? 'The most influential consultant alive.' Fortune In this invaluable, one-stop guide Bianca Nogrady analyses the science of climate change and offers a concise overview of the ways in which our Welcome to the age of big tech. The old rules no longer apply. carbon emissions might be reduced. She examines the challenges posed by food and energy production and the cutting-edge technologies that could How do companies get ahead in the digital age? In this lively, accessible mitigate their polluting effects. She looks at initiatives to create green guide, Ram Charan - bestselling author and advisor to some of the world's industry and transport. She explains the economics of emissions trading top CEOs - reveals that the tech giants have radically rewritten the rules of schemes and the practicalities of geoengineering plans to trap greenhouse business. If you want to be competitive, you need to learn to play a new gases. And she addresses the fundamental question: is it possible to game. safeguard our future before it's too late? Drawing on behind-the-scenes stories from the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Bianca Nogradyis a freelance science journalist and regular contributor to Alibaba, Charan sketches out a map of today's business landscape. He WIRED UK. shows that the biggest companies succeed because they adhere to a simple rule: pick a single customer experience, then build a platform that WIRED is the world's most authoritative and respected publication reporting transforms it from start to finish. It's a principle that has already on the emerging trends, ideas and technologies shaping our world. Our revolutionised how the world watches movies (Netflix), goes shopping mission is to tell the stories of the people who are driving this change and to (Amazon) and browses the internet (Google). understand its impact on business, society and individuals. WIRED has become synonymous with informed and intelligent analysis of these But this approach needn't be the preserve of Silicon Valley. By studying the transformational forces and the significance of them for industries and tech giants' methods, Charan has uncovered the eight principles that any individuals and is a consistently reliable predictor of change. company can use to tap into their ecosystems: from homing in obsessively on individual customers' experiences, to using big data to inform every decision, to forging an ambitious culture among employees. And he offers a practical toolbox for implementing these lessons in your business, starting today.

Whether you're a C-suite executive or a fledgling entrepreneur, your company can beat the competition in the era of big tech. This book will show you how.

'One of the world's most renowned management consultants and authors.' Fast Company

Widely acclaimed as one of our greatest business strategists, Ram Charan is the author of over a dozen books, including the perennial bestseller Execution. Formerly an award-winning professor at Harvard Business School, he has advised the CEOs of some of the world's most successful companies - including Coca-Cola, Bank of America, Tata, 3M, GE and Verizon.

30 Ali Goldsworthy, Laura Osborne, Azeem Azhar Alex Chesterfield Exponential Poles Apart How the next digital revolution will rewire life on

A roadmap to understanding why our present has A revelatory model explaining how exponential become so polarised and how we can become open to technology is eroding our societies changing our own minds and those of others.

April 2021 May 2021 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £20.00 320 pages 384 pages 9781847942951 9781847942906

Humans may violently disagree with one another, but there are We are entering the exponential age. ways to bring them together. New inventions are created at a dazzling speed; our homes and workplaces Poles Apart is based on interviews with leaders on both sides of the Atlantic are remade by technological forces we barely understand; centuries-old and the latest academic research. It explains why we are so tribal, the tenets of politics and economics are upturned by new technologies. It all advantages and disadvantages of being so, its often-unknown effects on points to a world that is getting faster at a dizzying pace. our politics, businesses and social groups, and what we can do to halt excessive polarisation. It’s a brilliantly insightful – and very practical – book Azeem Azhar knows this better than most. Over the last three decades he on a timeless subject that also happens to be very topical. It acts as the has served as the Economist’s first ever internet correspondent, founded ideal primer for those who have ever had to negotiate or resolve a conflict – companies bought by Amazon and Microsoft, and created Britain’s leading in other words, all of us. tech newsletter and podcast, The Exponential View.

Alison (Ali) Goldsworthy, the first of the book’s trio of authors, hit on the Now, Azhar offers a revelatory new model for understanding how idea while a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University. In a panel discussion with technology is changing the world. His analysis is rooted in the idea of an Trump supporters on the largely Democrat leaning campus a student asked: ‘exponential gap’, in which technological changes outpace our society’s “when did you last change your mind and why?” The panel took a deep ability to deal with them. Azhar shows that this divide can explain many of breath as they reached for an answer. But their candid responses unlocked a the social problems of our time – from political polarisation, to ballooning new willingness to engage with an opposite viewpoint. inequality, to unchecked corporate power. With stunning clarity of vision, he delves into how the exponential gap is a near-inevitable consequence of the This became the question behind the Changed my Mind podcast, with Ali’s rise of AI, automation and big data. And he offers set of policy solutions that former colleagues Laura Osborne and Alexandra (Alex) Chesterfield coming can prevent the exponential gap destroying our societies. onboard. Dubbed by Rory Sutherland, founder of Ogilvy’s Behavioural Science Practice, ‘the best question he has ever heard’, it has been gaining The result is a wholly new way of thinking about technology. It will plaudits and listeners from its inception. Guests to date have included Peter transform your understanding of the economy, politics and the future. Gabriel, Professor Tali Shalot and Jonathan Haidt. Distributed with openDemocracy, a second series is set to appear this summer. Azeem Azhar is the creator of the Exponential View, Britain’s leading platform for in-depth tech analysis. His weekly newsletter is read by 45,000 As our identities increasingly align under political labels of convenience, now people from around the world, and his chart-topping podcast has featured this is the perfect time for a reflective book that shines light on the world guests including Yuval Noah Harari, Reid Hoffman and Tony Blair. The around us and how we can correct course from excessive political founder of a number of successful tech companies, Azhar is a member of polarisation. the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council, a senior advisor at PwC, and a contributor to publications including the Financial Times, Ali Goldsworthy has spent over 20 years active in politics and Prospect and the MIT Technology Review. campaigning. A former Deputy Chair of the Liberal Democrats, she led the team that built the fastest growing campaigning organisation in the UK. In 2017 she was a Sloan Fellow at Stanford, creating its first depolarisation course and claiming numerous awards for her work. Ali has written for the Telegraph, Independent, New Statesman and Financial Times.

Laura Osborne is a professional communicator and change maker, with a background in public affairs and government communications. Currently Communications Director and a spokesperson at London First, the voice of London's largest businesses, she was the UK Consumer Association's first Head of Corporate Affairs, working with some of the UK's biggest corporates to directly intervene to improve the banking, energy and telecoms markets for consumers.

31 Gillian Tett TBC Anthro-Vision Quantum Computing Using anthropology to make sense of business How It Works and How It Could Change the

A new wave of anthropological research is The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to transforming how the world does business. This book quantum computing reveals how.

June 2021 June 2021 Hardback Paperback £20.00 £8.99 320 pages 112 pages 9781847942876 9781847943262

To understand business, you need to think like an anthropologist. Quantum computing has been hailed as a technological game-changer. But what precisely is it and what is its true potential? In a career spanning three decades, Gillian Tett has established a reputation as one of Britain’s most astute financial journalists. But before joining the In this superbly insightful, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Amit Katwala Financial Times, Tett completed a PhD in anthropology at Cambridge – and tells you everything you need to know about the next computer revolution. it is her anthropological training that gives her such a razor-sharp insight into He explains the highly complex science that lies behind it. He describes the global business. competing efforts of the likes of Google, Microsoft and Chinese companies Tencent and Alibaba to create a viable quantum computer, and the different Anthropologists have a unique view of the world. Instead of building their routes they have taken to meet the immense technical challenges involved. arguments on data or written sources, they undertake ethnographies – He considers the technology's potential application in spheres as diverse as meaning they go inside groups of people and seek to understand, from medicine, cyber security and clean energy. And he addresses the within, how they think. This once involved besuited Victorians going to live fundamental question: how close are we to seeing quantum computers alongside Amazonian tribespeople for years on end. But these days become a widespread reality. anthropologists are just as likely to undertake ethnographies in the boardrooms of law firms, or on the trading floors of investment banks. Amit Katwala is a senior editor at WIRED UK.

In her new book, Tett will reveal what anthropology can teach all of us WIRED is the world's most authoritative and respected publication reporting about business. She will recount the most fascinating findings from a recent on the emerging trends, ideas and technologies shaping our world. Our wave of ‘business anthropology’, telling stories from inside the likes of the mission is to tell the stories of the people who are driving this change and to London Stock Exchange, JPMorgan and Adidas. She will explore the hidden understand its impact on business, society and individuals. WIRED has rituals that underpin how businesses work: from the invisible norm that become synonymous with informed and intelligent analysis of these explains why we are all so happy to sign away our data, to the unspoken transformational forces and the significance of them for industries and laws that govern the behaviour of the world’s best coders. individuals and is a consistently reliable predictor of change.

Above all, Tett will reveal how you too can learn to think like an anthropologist. Once you understand the power of business anthropology, it will revolutionise how you buy, work and think – starting today.

Gillian Tett is the chairman of the editorial board and editor-at-large at the Financial Times. Her work for the FT has taken her around the world – from Brussels to Tokyo to Moscow – and won her numerous awards, including Columnist of the Year at the 2014 British Press Awards. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge.

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33 Jenni Fagan Ethan Hawke Luckenbooth A Bright Ray of Darkness

The hugely-anticipated third novel - ambitious, ferocious and gripping - from the prize-winning author of The Panopticon.

January 2021 February 2021 Hardback Hardback £16.99 £16.99 Demy Octavo 216 x 135mm 352 pages 256 pages 9780434023318 9781785152597

Stories tucked away on every floor. No. 10 Luckenbooth Close is an The first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed archetypal Edinburgh tenement. actor/writer/director, A BRIGHT RAY OF DARKNESS is a book about art and love, fame and heartbreak -- a blistering story of a The devil’s daughter rows to the shores of Leith in a coffin. The year is 1910 young man making his Broadway debut just as his marriage and she has been sent to a tenement building in Edinburgh by her recently implodes. deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fiancée. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing – a curse that will last for the rest of the century. power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel Over nine decades, No. 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair; and a passionate love letter to a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous the world of theatre, A Bright Ray of Darkness showcases Ethan Hawke's Beat poet, a coal miner who fears daylight, a psychic: these are some of gifts as a novelist as never before. the residents whose lives are plagued by the building’s troubled history in disparate, sometimes chilling ways. The curse creeps up the nine floors and Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after an enraged spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would the building’s longest kept secret to be heard. allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whisky Luckenbooth is a bold, haunting and dazzlingly unique novel about the and sex. What saves him is the theatre: in particular, the challenge of stories and secrets we leave behind, and the places that hold them long performing Shakespeare in his Broadway debut under the leadership of a after we are gone. brilliant director. Searing, raw, and utterly transfixing, A Bright Ray of Darkness is a novel about shame and beauty and faith, and the moral Jenni Fagan was born in Scotland. She graduated from Greenwich University power of art. and won a scholarship to the Royal Holloway MFA programme. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Edinburgh. A published A four-time Academy Award nominee, twice for writing and twice for acting, poet and novelist, she has won awards from Creative Scotland, Dewar Arts ETHAN HAWKE has starred in the films Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, and Scottish Screen among others, and has twice been nominated for the Gattaca and Training Day, as well as Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise Pushcart Prize. Jenni was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British trilogy and Boyhood. He is the author of Rules for a Knight, The Hottest Novelists after the publication of her debut novel, The Panopticon, which State and Ash Wednesday. He lives in Brooklyn with his four children and his was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. wife. Her adaptation of The Panopticon was staged by the National Theatre of Scotland to great acclaim. The Sunlight Pilgrims, her second novel, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award and the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award, and saw her win Scottish Author of the Year at the Herald Culture Awards. She lives in Edinburgh with her son.

34 Karla Neblett Daniel Sloss King of Rabbits Everyone You Hate is Going to Die And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family,

A stunning debut about the magic and confusion of A first book from one of the hottest young comedians childhood. A beautiful, painful, at times funny novel working today – a hilariously transgressive book about about how a little boy perceives the world, and how his relationships

March 2021 May 2021 Hardback Hardback £14.99 £14.99 256 pages 272 pages 9781785152481 9781785152566

Kai lives in a mixed-race family on a rural council estate in Somerset where Daniel Sloss’s comedy engages, offends and makes people uncomfortable, he and his three older sisters have three different dads, and his mum is and it is utterly hilarious – all at the same time. In this book, Sloss lays out being led into crack addiction by his petty-thief father. He idolises his dad, his views on just about every conceivable kind of relationship between two adores his friend Saffie and the school rabbit Flopsy, and is full of ambition people – with lovers, ex-lovers, ex-lovers who you hate, ex-lovers who to be the fastest runner in Middledown Primary – like Linford Christie. He hate you, parents, best friends (male and female), not-best friends, and Saffie build a secret world of friendship in the school garden. But Kai’s children, and siblings – and even with countries (‘Countries are People Too, natural optimism, imagination and energy run up against adult behaviour he Just Bigger and Even Worse’ is a stand out chapter on Scotland and England, doesn’t understand: his parents’ on-and-off romance, his dad’s increasing and why the author is definitely NOT English). Every relationship gets the addiction and the limitations of poverty. Despite the people who try to look full, inimitable Sloss treatment as he explains why each one is fragile and out for him, notably his loving Nanny Sheila and his big sister Leah, Kai’s life ridiculous and awful – but, just maybe, also valuable and meaningful. In drifts towards a tragedy from which it is hard for him to recover. The refuge any case, one way or the other, under his pen they are all hilarious. he seeks in his love of nature, and the wild rabbits who have made their burrows in the woods, may not be refuge enough. Daniel Sloss is one of the hottest young comedians in the world. He’s toured more than 40 countries and sells out everywhere and was the youngest Drawing on her own upbringing but turning lived experience into compelling comedian (at 19) to have a solo show in London’s West End. He has two narrative, Karla Neblett has created a vivid language that is both crafted Netflix specials (Dark and Jigsaw) and his new stand-up special was and raw to tell a story of class, race and how our society fails working class premiered on HBO at the end of 2019 and is currently exclusively on release young men. in VUE cinemas in the UK. He lives in Edinburgh and loves it passionately.

Karla Neblett has worked in schools helping children struggling with learning and behaviour issues, as well as working with children who misuse alcohol and other substances, and supporting children who are carers in their family. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, where she won the Janklow & Nesbit Prize. She lives in Somerset.

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#MERKY

36 Bola Sol How To Save It How To Move It

A new pocket-sized series from #Merky Books: part A new pocket-sized series from #Merky Books: part memoir, part practical guide, in which readers can memoir, part practical guide, in which readers can learn a new craft, idea or skill om an established learn a new craft, idea or skill from an established

January 2021 January 2021 Paperback £6.99 £6.99 180 pages 96 pages 9781529118902 9781529118810

The #Merky Books How To... series is an empowering programme of short, Introducing the new 'How To...' series from #Merky Books: unlock your practical pocket-sized guides on a range of essential subjects, designed to potential with our short, practical pocket-sized guides. inspire and encourage readers to gain skillsets and unlock their potential. ______Creatively presented, packed with practical advice, and supported by the How to Move It: Be More Active might of #Merky Books, the 'How To...' series offers a new model in publishing, helping to break down barriers and uplift the next generation. Your own personal coach and cheerleader in your pocket! This book is about celebrating your body through positive movement. Focused on you as an individual, and not the ideal of fitness we see so often. Before you lift a How To Save It: Know Your Money/Save Your Money single weight, Nike Master Trainer Joslyn Thompson Rule will break down the keys to movement. Getting you to engage with your brain, your A personal and practical guide to taking control of your money. Learn from a breathing and your body for the better. Packed with motivation, and personal finance guru who unpicks our very personal relationship with practical core, strength, mobility and recovery exercise. This book will money, and will you work towards a positive money mindset. Each chapter change what you think about exercise and help you have a healthy will openly detail effective techniques for budgeting, debt management, relationship with fitness. demystifying common terminology and even creating a ‘fun fund’. This extremely important book will give you the motivation you need to thrive Written by Joslyn Thompson Rule financially on you own terms. Foreword by TBC ______Written by Bola Sol Designed to inspire and encourage readers to unlock their potential and provoke change, the How To series offers a new model in publishing, helping to break down knowledge barriers and uplift the next generation.

Creatively presented and packed with clear, step-by-step, practical advice, this series is essential reading for anyone seeking guidance to thrive in the modern world. Curate your bookshelf with these collectible titles.

37 Hafsa Zayyan How To Calm It We Are All Birds of Uganda

A new pocket-sized series from #Merky Books: part Moving between two continents over a troubled memoir, part practical guide, in which readers can century, We Are All Birds of Uganda is a multi-layered, learn a new craft, idea or skill from an established moving and immensely resonant novel of generational

January 2021 January 2021 £6.99 Hardback 176 pages £14.99 9781529118933 400 pages 9781529118643

Introducing the new 'How To...' series from #Merky Books: unlock your ______potential with our short, practical pocket-sized guides. ______‘You can’t stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will…’ How to Calm It: Relax Your Mind 1960s UGANDA. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following This is not your typical book about mindfulness. This book is an insight into the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way forward, a how we can learn to process what's going on inside our heads, heal our new regime seizes power, and a wave of rising prejudice threatens to bodies for the better, and learn to love ourselves. Full with tangible tools, sweep away everything he has built. creative exercises and tailored tips. This book is yours to read at your leisure and use when you want. The perfect accompaniment on your journey to Present-day LONDON. Sameer, a young high-flying lawyer, senses an detangling your mind, and making a commitment to value yourself each emptiness in what he thought was the life of his dreams. Called back to his and everyday. family home by an unexpected tragedy, Sameer begins to find the missing pieces of himself not in his future plans, but in a past he never knew. Written by Grace Victory ______Foreword by TBC ______Moving between two continents and several generations over a troubled Designed to inspire and encourage readers to unlock their potential and century, We Are All Birds of Uganda is a multi-layered, moving and provoke change, the How To series offers a new model in publishing, immensely resonant novel of love, loss, and what it means to find home. helping to break down knowledge barriers and uplift the next generation. Creatively presented and packed with clear, step-by-step, practical advice, It is the first work of fiction by Hafsa Zayyan, co-winner of the inaugural this series is essential reading for anyone seeking guidance to thrive in the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize, and one of the most exciting young modern world on their own terms. Curate your bookshelf with these novelists of today. collectible titles. Hafsa Zayyan is a writer and dispute resolution lawyer based in London. She Grace Victory is an award-winning digital-first creator, predominately known won the inaugural #Merky Books New Writers' Prize in 2019. We Are All for her inspiring words, powerful vulnerability and refusal to diminish her Birds of Uganda is her debut novel, inspired by the mixed background from self, values or voice, to suit societal expectations. Through her passion for which she hails. She studied Law at the University of Cambridge and holds a female advocacy, unflinching honesty and encouraging spirit, Grace talks masters' degree from the University of Oxford. openly about topics that are perceived taboo; therapy, sex, trauma, relationship dynamics, diet culture, self-awareness and spirituality. Grace's content focuses on healing the mind, body and spirit and the importance of self-development, alongside sharing her personal journey.

38 Rivers Solomon Jeremiah Emmanuel Sorrowland Dreaming in a Nightmare Finding a Way Forward in a World That’s Holding

A genre-bending work of gothic fiction that wrestles A moving and powerful account of the problems faced with the tangled history of racism in America and the and overcome by a new generation, from an marginalization of society’s undesirables. extraordinarily accomplished young activist and

May 2021 May 2021 Hardback Paperback £12.99 £8.99 400 pages 384 pages 9781529118735 9781529118629

Vern, a Black woman with albinism, is hunted after escaping a religious A moving and powerful account of the problems faced by a new compound, then she discovers that her body is changing and that she is generation, from crime to poverty to an increasingly divided developing extra-sensory powers. society, from an extraordinarily accomplished young activist and entrepreneur. Alone in the woods, she gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong – not with them, but My name is Jeremiah Emmanuel. I’m twenty years old. I’m an activist, an with her own body. It's itching, it's stronger, it's... not normal. entrepreneur, a former deputy young mayor of Lambeth and member of the UK Youth Parliament. I wanted to change the world, but the world I was To understand her body’s metamorphosis, Vern must investigate not just the born into changed me first. secluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of dehumanization, medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it. In Raised in south London, I lived in an area where crime and poverty were the course of reclaiming her own darkness, Vern learns that monsters aren’t everywhere and opportunities to escape were rare. Violence was accepted, just individuals, but entire histories, systems, and nations. prison was expected. Your best friend might vanish overnight, never to be seen again. That was the world I knew; the only one I thought was possible Rivers Solomon is an American author of the 2017 science fiction novel An for people like me. Unkindness of Ghosts and Sorrowland which is set to be published in 2021. In 2018, they received the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' But somehow, as I got older, I found my way to a different world: a place Firecracker Award in Fiction for their debut novel and were nominated for a where people listened to you, where opinions were heard, where doors Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the debut novel category. They live in the were opened, where there were opportunities around every corner. UK. Everything had stayed the same and everything had changed.

This is the story of how I did it, the people who helped me get there, and the huge hurdles I – and my entire generation – have to learn to face and overcome. It’s the story of how to move forward in a world that’s holding you back.

Jeremiah Emmanuel is a youth activist, public speaker and entrepreneur. He started working within his local community at the age of four, campaigning around several issues that affected young people with the Nelson Mandela School Foundation. In 2011 he was elected into the UK Youth Parliament becoming an MYP, and later became a young mayor within London. Aged fifteen, he founded the BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra Youth council, and created a youth consultancy enterprise, EMNL, which has recently worked with organisations including Rolls-Royce, Nike and the Queens Commonwealth Trust. He is also a member of the Gates Foundation, a youth ambassador for the Big Change Charitable Trust, a Founding Member of the Conduit London. In 2017, he was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM).

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WINDMILL

40 John Niven Alissa Nutting The F*ck-it List Made for Love

Part political satire, part compulsive thriller, The F*ck- A gloriously absurd and hugely entertaining satire it List is John Niven at his coruscating best. about intimacy and love from the provocative writer of the acclaimed novel Tampa. Soon to be a HBO

January 2021 February 2021 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £7.99 256 pages B Format 9780099592167 320 pages 9781786091536

‘Gripping, terrifying and hilarious – John Niven is our Hunter S. Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father Thompson.’ ADAM KAY, author of This Is Going to Hurt and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with Hazel's father is strained at ______best, but it's got to be better than her marriage to dominating tech You're terminally ill. billionaire, Byron Gogol. For over a decade, Hazel has been quarantining in Who do you kill? Byron's family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. So when Byron demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips, Set in a near-future America, an America that has borne two terms of a turning Hazel into a human guinea pig, Hazel makes a run for it. Will Hazel Trump Presidency and is now in the first term of Donald’s daughter as be able to free herself from Byron's virtual clutches before he finds her? president, Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, lives in a world where the populist policies Trump is currently so keen to pursue have been Alissa Nutting is an assistant professor of English at Grinnell College. She is a reality for some years and are getting even more extreme – an erosion of the author of the story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, as well abortion rights, less and less gun control, xenophobic immigration policies. as the novel Tampa.

Frank, a good man, has just been given a terminal diagnosis. Rather than compile a bucket list of all the things he’s ever wanted to do in his life, he instead has at the ready his ‘fuck-it list’. Because Frank has had to endure more than his fair share of personal misfortune. And he has the names of those who are to blame for all of the tragedies that have befallen him.

But eventually, as he becomes more accustomed to dishing out cold revenge and the stakes get higher and higher, and with a rogue county sheriff on his tail, there only remains one name left at the bottom of his fuck-it list.

Part political satire, part compulsive thriller, The F*ck-it List is John Niven at his coruscating best. ______'It's F**KING TERRIFYING and brilliant and gripping and tragic and humane. Such a well-written book, with such vivid efficient prose, a powerful political plea disguised as a revenge novel. It's brilliant.' MARIAN KEYES

John Niven was born in Irvine, Ayrshire. He is the author of ten novels and has written for a wide range of publications, including a weekly column for the Scottish Sunday Mail. He lives in Buckinghamshire.

41 Ani Katz Anika Scott A Good Man The German Heiress a page-turning epic set in the aftermath of

In her shocking and utterly compelling debut novel, A A haunting debut full of moral ambiguity for fans of Good Man, Ani Katz tackles the fragile world of toxic THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ and THE masculinity. POSTMISTRESS

February 2021 February 2021 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £8.99 224 pages 336 pages 9781786090829 9781786090775

______'Our lives were good – great, even. We were happy and secure. We 'FINDING CLARA is the kind of novel we need now more than ever, had everything we needed. There was no way for anyone to know – [and] achieves what the best historical fiction can . . . pushing us least of all me – that it would all end the way it did.’ to see ourselves in that past, demanding: Who would you have been then? What would you have done? Unflinching and Thomas Martin is everything a man is supposed to be. He has a beautiful absorbing, [it] does not let you look away.' Sarah Blake, New York wife and a loving daughter, a good house on Long Island, a flourishing Times bestselling author of THE POSTMISTRESS career at a prestigious Manhattan advertising firm. He’s a good son and ______brother, taking it upon himself to support his ailing mother and adult sisters. 1946. The ruins of Essen, Germany. A place that can't quite believe He knows it’s his God-given duty to shield them, his girls, from the the Second World War has been lost. everyday horrors of the world. There's Clara. Once a wartime icon and heiress to the Falkenberg iron But he has failed, and unspeakable tragedy has befallen his family. works, she now finds herself on the run from the Allied authorities, accused by the zealous Allied occupiers of complicity in her father's war crimes. Now, Thomas struggles to come to terms with what has become of his life. If only he can tell the story as he saw it, he believes he might find out how There's Jakob. A charming black marketeer, badly wounded in the war but and why things unravelled so horribly; how he failed so disastrously. determined to help what's left of his family survive the peace.

Because Thomas Martin is a good man. There's Willy. A teenage boy diligently guarding a mine full of Wehrmacht supplies, his only friend a canary named Gertrud. Convinced the war isn’t A Good Man is a dark and gripping novel of psychological suspense about a over, he refuses to surrender his post. family man, in the wake of a horrifying act, trying to work out where he went wrong. It is the debut of a bold and brilliant new talent. When Clara returns to her hometown expecting to find her best friend, she ______finds everything she once knew in ruins. But in war-ravaged Germany, it’s ‘Ani Katz has created an edgy debut with a disturbingly unforgettable not just the buildings that are scarred: everyone is changed, everyone lives ending.’ The Skinny in the wreckage of their own past.

Ani Katz is a writer, photographer, and teacher. She was born and raised on To survive, Clara must hide who she is. But to live, she must face up to the the south shore of Long Island, and holds an MFA in Photography from truth of what she’s done. Columbia College Chicago and a BA from Yale. She lives in Brooklyn. ______‘What a great debut! It still haunts me, days after finishing it.’ Liz Trenow, author of The Poppy Factory and The Silk Weaver

‘Anika Scott’s finely drawn characters in FINDING CLARA bring to life not only the struggle to rise from the ashes of war, but also the depth of resolve often required to gain redemption. Illuminating and beautifully rendered.' Susan Meissner, author of The Last Year of the War

‘Meticulously researched and plotted like a noir thriller, Finding Clara tells a different story of WWII — of characters grappling with their own guilt and driven by the question of what they could have done to change the past.’ Jessica Shattuck, author of The Women in the Castle

‘Anika Scott’s epic novel offers a captivating tour through the reckoning years that followed WWII when clarifying identities, unearthing truths, and facing judgements was the only way to

42 Jason Hickel Eley Williams Less is More The Liar's Dictionary How Degrowth Will Save the World

A groundbreaking exploration of the best possible The eagerly anticipated, playful, and profound debut solution to the climate crisis: a new economic model, novel from an utterly original, award-winning writer. and a new way of viewing our relationship with the

February 2021 March 2021 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £8.99 320 pages 254 pages 9781786091215 9781786090591

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown ______and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause: mountweazel, noun: a fake entry deliberately inserted into a capitalism. Our economic system is based on perpetual expansion, dictionary or work of reference. Often used as a safeguard against which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution copyright infringement. that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: degrowth. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth has If we want to have a shot at surviving the Anthropocene, we need to reached the letter ‘S’, toiling away for the much-anticipated and multi- restore the balance. We need to change how we see the world and our volume Swansby’s New Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Overwhelmed at his desk place within it, shifting from a philosophy of domination and extraction to and increasingly uneasy that his colleagues are attempting to corral one that’s rooted in reciprocity with our planet’s ecology. We need to evolve language and regiment facts, Winceworth feels compelled to assert some beyond the dusty dogmas of capitalism to a new system that’s fit for the sense of individual purpose and exercise artistic freedom, and begins twenty-first century. inserting unauthorised, fictitious entries into the dictionary.

But what about jobs? What about health? What about progress? This book In the present day, young intern Mallory is tasked with uncovering these tackles these questions and offers an inspiring vision for what a post- mountweazels as the text of the dictionary is digitised for modern readers. capitalist economy could look like. An economy that’s more just, more Through the words and their definitions she finds she has access to their caring, and more fun. An economy that enables human flourishing while creator’s motivations, hopes and desires. More pressingly, she must also reversing ecological breakdown. By taking less, we can become more. field daily threatening anonymous phone calls. Is a suggested change to the dictionary’s definition of marriage (n.) really that controversial? What power Jason Hickel is an anthropologist at the London School of Economics and a does Mallory have when it comes to words and knowing how to tell the Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is originally from Swaziland and truth? And does the caller really intend for the Swansby’s staff to ‘burn in spent a number of years living with migrant workers in South Africa, hell’? studying patterns of exploitation and political resistance in the wake of apartheid. Alongside his ethnographic work, he writes about global As their two narratives combine, Winceworth and Mallory must discover how inequality, post-development and ecological economics, contributing to negotiate the complexities of an often nonsensical, untrustworthy, hoax- regularly to the Guardian, Al Jazeera and other outlets. He serves on the strewn and undefinable life. Labour Party task force on international development, works as Policy ______Director for /The Rules collective, and sits on the Executive Board of The Liar’s Dictionary explores themes of trust and creativity, naming the Academics Stand Against Poverty. His work has been funded by the unnameable, and celebrates the rigidity, fragility and absurdity of language. Fulbright-Hays Program, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren It is an exhilarating debut novel from a formidably brilliant young writer. Foundation, the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust. ______He lives in London. ‘This tale of lexical intrigues is an absolute joy to read! It’s gloriously inventive and playful, but with just the right amount of heart.’ LUCY SCHOLES

Eley Williams lectures at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her short story collection Attrib. and Other Stories won the James Tait Black Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. The Liar’s Dictionary is her debut novel.

43 Neil Blackmore Elizabeth Lee The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle Cunning Women

1764: Two brothers are sent off on a Grand Tour of A searing story of forbidden love and the curtailing of Europe to meet People of Quality. Instead they meet female wildness set amongst the long shadows cast by the man who will destroy everything. the Pendle Witch Trials.

April 2021 April 2021 Paperback Hardback £8.99 £14.99 320 pages 332 pages 9781786090997 9781786091161

‘Seductive, decadent, cruel and utterly thrilling – just like Horace Lee is a magnetic new voice in historical fiction and CUNNING Lavelle himself. This is The Talented Mr Ripley for the twenty-first WOMEN is sure to be loved by fans of The Essex Serpent and The century.’ Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths Mercies.

'Wildly entertaining and painfully heartbreaking … Neil Blackmore Spring of 1620 in a Lancashire fishing community and the memory of the writes with a fizzy wit that bounds his characters off the page.' slaughter at Pendle is tight around the neck of Sarah Haworth. A birthmark Ben Aldridge reveals that Sarah, like her mother, is a witch. Torn between yearning for an ordinary life and desire to discover what dark power she might possess, When Benjamin and Edgar Bowen embark on a Grand Tour of Europe, they Sarah’s one hope is that her young sister Annie will be spared this fate. are ready to meet People of Quality. They have trunks full of powdered silver wigs and matching suits, a hunger to experience the architectural The Haworth family eke out a meagre existence in the old plague village wonders of Ancient Rome and an ability to quote Voltaire (at length). They adjoining a God-fearing community presided over by a seedy magistrate. A will make connections and establish themselves in high society, just as their society built upon looking the other way, the villagers’ godliness is merely a mother has planned. veneer. But the Haworth women, with their salves and poultices, are judged the real threat to morality. But it soon becomes apparent that their outfits are not quite the right shade of grey, their smiles are too ready, their appreciation of the arts ridiculous. When Sarah meets lonely farmer’s son Daniel, she begins to dream of a Class, they learn, is not something that can be studied. better future. Daniel is in thrall to the wild girl with storms in her eyes, but their bond is tested when a zealous new magistrate vows to root out sins Benjamin’s true education begins when he meets Horace Lavelle. Beautiful, and sinners. In a frenzy of fear and fury, the community begins to turn on charismatic, seductive, Lavelle delights in skewering the pretensions and one another, and it’s not long before they direct their gaze towards the old prejudices of their milieu. He consumes Benjamin’s every thought. plague village … and does Daniel trust that the power Sarah wields over him is truly love, or could it be mere sorcery? Love can transform a person. Can it save them? Elizabeth Lee won the Curtis Brown Creative Marian Keyes Scholarship, and Neil Blackmore never had any intention of becoming a writer. He wrote his her work has been selected for the Womentoring Project and Penguin’s first novel at work to fill time at a boring job. He published his first novel in WriteNow Live. She lives in Warwickshire. his twenties but then spent most of his thirties travelling the world. THE INTOXICATING MR LAVELLE is his third novel. He lives in London.

44 Pandora Sykes Kevin Kwan How Do We Know We're Doing It Sex and Vanity Right?

From the co-host of The High Low comes the essential The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy first book on navigating our contemporary chaos. Rich Asians returns with the first novel in the new Cities Trilogy.

May 2021 May 2021 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £8.99 352 pages 400 pages 9781786091000 9781786091055

______‘Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.’ Dolly returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds Alderton herself torn between two men. ______Modern life is full of choices. We’re told that happiness lies within and we On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can’t stand him. She can’t stand of restlessness; like we’re somehow failing to live our best life. What does it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can doing it right even look like? And why do so many women feel like they’re have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can’t stand that he knows more getting it wrong? about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can’t stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa. From that Zara dress to millennial burnout, the explosion of wellness to the rise of cancel culture, Pandora Sykes interrogates the stories we’ve been The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New sold and the ones we tell ourselves. Wide-ranging, thoughtful and witty, York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself, and she How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right? explores the anxieties and myths adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when that consume our lives and the tools we use to muddle through. George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancé, she finds herself drawn to him again. Soon, Lucie is So sit back and take a breath. It’s time to stop worrying about the answers spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fiancé and ultimately – and start delighting in the questions. herself, as she tries to deny George entry into her world – and her heart. ______‘Like a very clever, lucid, charming friend unpacking all the messy Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent anxieties of modern existence with tremendous intelligence and food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, elan. Read this book. It will help your life.’ India Knight a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures. Pandora Sykes is a journalist and speaker. A former editor and columnist for ______the Sunday Times Style and a Contributing Editor at Elle, she has written for PEOPLE WATCHING HAS NEVER BEEN SO MUCH FUN. publications including Telegraph, Observer, GQ and Vogue. She is the co- host of the weekly pop-culture and current affairs podcast, The High Low. KEVIN KWAN is the author of the international bestsellers Crazy Rich Asians, This is her first book. China Rich Girlfriend, and Rich People Problems. Crazy Rich Asians was a #1 New York Times bestseller, a major motion picture, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Los Angeles and is trying to eat less pasta.

45 Liz Moore The Words of Every Song

The highly original debut novel set amid the New York music industry, from the author or HEFT and THE UNSEEN WORLD.

June 2021 Paperback £8.99 336 pages 9781786091147

'A remarkable novel, elegant, wise, and beautifully constructed.' Roddy Doyle

The Words of Every Song takes the form of fourteen linked episodes, each centering on a character involved with the music industry. There's the arrogantly hip, twenty-six-year-old A&R man; the rising young singer- songwriter; the established, arena-filling rock star on the verge of a midlife crisis; the type-A female executive with the heavy social calendar; and other recognizable figures.

Set in the sleek offices, high-tech recording studios, and grungy downtown clubs of New York, The Words of Every Song offers an authenticity drawn from Liz Moore's own experience and brings an insider's touch to its depiction of the music industry and its denizens.

Liz Moore is the author of the acclaimed novels Heft, recently optioned as a feature film, and The Unseen World, which was optioned for television. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia.

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47 Fiona McIntosh Gill Hornby The Tea Gardens Miss Austen the #1 bestseller and one of the best novels of

A sweeping, epic love story which follows one woman's A wonderfully original, emotionally complex ‘reading- journey from the cobbled streets of Brighton to the group’ novel that delves into why Cassandra burned a foothills of the Himalayan mountains, for fans of treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane

January 2021 January 2021 Paperback Paperback £6.99 £8.99 416 pages 400 pages 9781787466869 9781787462830

A passionate love affair. An impossible choice. ‘So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining – I adored it.' CLAIRE TOMALIN England, 1932: Dr Isla Fenwick has little interest in marriage, until a reunion with an old friend blossoms into to something more. But Isla is determined 'This is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me to fulfil a long-held promise to practice medicine in India. With her fiancé’s happy and weepy in equally copious amounts.' blessing she sails to Calcutta to set up a midwifery clinic – promising to KAREN JOY FOWLER return within the year. ______

There, Isla does her best to navigate a complex new world, and forms a A wonderfully original, emotionally complex ‘reading-group’ novel deep connection with one of her colleagues – against all better instincts. that delves into why Cassandra burned a treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane Austen – an act of destruction that has When a desperate rescue mission to save the one person who needs her the troubled academics for centuries. most takes her into the foothills of the Himalayas, Isla will be asked to pay the ultimate price for her passions. It’s 1840, twenty-three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, and Cassandra Austen – alone and unwed – returns to the vicarage in the village Fiona McIntosh is an internationally bestselling author of novels for adults of Kintbury. and children. There, in a dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, she discovers a treasure Originally from Brighton, Fiona McIntosh moved to Australia in her teens and trove of family letters – and within them secrets that she feels certain must went on to co-found an award-winning travel magazine with her husband, not be revealed. which they ran for fifteen years while raising their twin sons. She resolves to burn the letters, even those written by Jane herself. She now roams the world researching and drawing inspiration for her novels, and runs a series of highly respected fiction masterclasses. She calls South But why destroy so much of her sister’s legacy? Australia home. As Cassandra casts an eye back on her youth and the life of her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together long-buried truths from both her and Jane's pasts, and knows she must make a terrible choice: let the contents of the letters colour Jane’s memory for ever – or protect her reputation no matter the cost.

______

'Gill Hornby ingeniously imagines what Cassandra Austen's own life might have been like, both before and after Jane’s untimely death, casting a different light on the familiar biographical picture without in any way distorting it.' DEIRDRE LE FAYE, editor of Jane Austen's Letters

'Miss Austen is affecting, thought-provoking, and makes you think about both Jane and Cassandra Austen in a new light.' HELENA KELLY, author of Jane Austen, The Secret Radical

Gill Hornby is the author of the novels The Hive and All Together Now, as well as The Story of Jane Austen, a biography of Austen for young readers. She lives in Kintbury, Berkshire, with her husband and their four children.

48 Lisa Jewell Katie Fforde Invisible Girl A Springtime Affair Discover the bestselling new thriller from the Could new love lead to a happily ever after?

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE A wonderfully romantic novel from the Number One FAMILY UPSTAIRS and THEN SHE WAS GONE, comes bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A an engrossing twisty tale of betrayal when an outsider Country Escape.

January 2021 January 2021 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £7.99 432 pages 400 pages 9781787461512 9781784758288

PRE-ORDER NOW: FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR ______OF THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS and THEN SHE WAS GONE, comes an ‘Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring engrossing twisty tale of betrayal when an outsider is accused of comfort in difficult times. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel murder. good romance.’ AJ PEARCE ______A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling LONDON: On a fine avenue of grand houses, big cars and electronic author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape. gates, lies a neglected urban wasteland It’s the season of new beginnings for Helena and Gilly. It is nearly midnight, and very cold. Yet in this dark place of long grass and tall trees where cats hunt and foxes shriek, a girl is waiting... Gilly runs her own B&B business from her much-loved family home, which she doesn’t want to part with – at any price. When Saffyre Maddox was ten something terrible happened and she's carried the pain of it around with her ever since. The man who she thought But that's before she meets handsome estate agent Leo, and soon she was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides from him, invisible in the begins to wonder whether selling up might not be such a bad idea after all. shadows, learning his secrets; secrets she could use to blow his safe, cosy world apart. Meanwhile Gilly's daughter Helena has a budding romance of her own. A talented weaver, she's becoming very close to her new landlord, Jago, Owen Pick is invisible too. He's thirty-three years old and he's never had a who's offered to help her at an upcoming craft fair. girlfriend, he's never even had a friend. Nobody sees him. Nobody cares about him. It’s what friends do, and they are just friends. Aren’t they?

But when Saffyre Maddox disappears from opposite his house on Valentine's With spring in full bloom, Helena and Gilly begin to ask themselves the night, suddenly the whole world is looking at him. Accusing him. Holding him same question: responsible. Might their new loves lead to happily ever after? Because he's just the type, isn't he? A bit creepy? ______'Modern-day Austen' WOMAN AND HOME INVISIBLE GIRL: A story of secrets and injustices, and of how we ‘Katie’s writing is life-enhancing and, like the love affairs, look in the wrong places for the bad people while the real delicious. I enjoyed every minute!’ ELIZABETH BUCHAN predators walk among us in plain sight. Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and Lisa Jewell was born in London. Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was the is a true country girl at heart. Each of her books explores a different bestselling debut novel of 1999. Since then she has published another profession or background and her research has helped her bring these to sixteen novels, most recently a number of dark psychological thrillers, life. She’s been a porter in an auction house, tried her hand at pottery, including The Girls and Then She Was Gone (both of which were Richard & refurbished furniture, delved behind the scenes of a dating website, and Judy Book Club picks) as well as I Found You and Watching You. Lisa is a she's even been on a Ray Mears survival course. She loves being a writer; top ten New York Times and number one Sunday Times bestselling author to her there isn’t a more satisfying and pleasing thing to do. She particularly who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. She lives enjoys writing love stories. She believes falling in love is the best thing in in north London with her husband, two daughters, two cats, two guinea pigs the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers and the best dog in the world. to share their stories. To find out more about Katie Fforde step into her world at www.katiefforde.com, visit her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @KatieFforde.

49 James Patterson Tyson Fury Till Murder Do Us Part Behind the Mask (Murder Is Forever: Volume 6) My Autobiography – Winner of the 2020 Sports

Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is A redemption tale like no other: Behind the Mask is an Forever unflinching autobiography from the British People's Champion that details - for the first time ever - the

January 2021 January 2021 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £8.99 304 pages 304 pages 9781787465848 9781787465060

Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is Forever ______'Incredible stories… you don’t have to be a boxing fan to enjoy it’ JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of SCOTT MILLS, BBC RADIO 1 all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He 'One of sport’s most heart-warming stories’ SUNDAY TIMES, SPORTS is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – BOOK OF THE YEAR the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and ‘A must-read for any boxing fan.’ WORLD BOXING NEWS Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers ‘If you know someone who is a fan of the People’s Champion then including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. they’ll love this.’ TALKSPORT XMAS GIFT GUIDE

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own The extraordinary story of the rise and fall and rise again of Tyson son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young Fury… readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to THE GYPSY KING. independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past twelve years in a row. He lives in Florida A Manchester lad from Irish Traveller stock, born three months premature with his wife and son. and weighing just a pound at birth, Tyson (named after his father’s boxing hero) grew up to become one of the most unlikely heavyweight champions in history. This ‘dream come true’ soon turned to nightmare, however, as alcohol and cocaine abuse took hold and Tyson was stripped of his titles. What followed was the darkest moment of his life – detailed in this book for the first time – in which he came within seconds of ending everything.

THE PEOPLE’S CHAMPION.

Like all the greatest stories, though, there is redemption and Tyson defies all the odds and literally drags himself to his feet. 10 million people around the globe watched Fury fight Wilder in the biggest fight of the boxing calendar. Speaking candidly about his struggles with mental health, this is Tyson Fury as you have never seen him before.

A BRITISH ICON. ______

Behind the Mask is an unflinching autobiography from the greatest boxer of our time and a man who has demonstrated strength of a very different kind by conquering his demons. ______

‘It’s a great book, if I could read, I’d buy it’ BILLY JOE SAUNDERS, WBO World Super-Middleweight Champion

‘I didn’t believe boxers could be role models, but Tyson Fury has changed my mind… This 30-year-old Mancunian has made us all think twice about the possibilities of redemption.’ SIMON KELNER, INDEPENDENT

50 S K Sharp James Patterson I Know What I Saw 20th Victim A perfect memory. A perfect murder. Three cities. Three bullets. Three murders.

A thrilling twist on the classic memory thriller The Women's Murder Club face the fight of their lives in the latest thriller from the bestselling James Patterson series

January 2021 February 2021 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £8.99 400 pages 400 pages 9781787465312 9781787461956

She remembers everything. She understands nothing. The Women's Murder Club face the fight of their lives in the latest thriller from the bestselling James Patterson series Only a handful of people in the world have a truly perfect memory. Nicola is ______one of them. THREE CITIES. THREE BULLETS. THREE VICTIMS. With her condition proving to be more of a curse than a blessing, she has spent years trying to live a quiet life. Simultaneous murders hit LA, Chicago and San Francisco. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is tasked with uncovering what links these precise and But a body has been found, a discovery that threatens to tear the calculated killings. community apart. Lindsay discovers that the victims all excel in lucrative, criminal activity. As Nicola remembers the night with perfect clarity, but she never discovered the casualty list expands, fear and fascination with this shocking spree the truth of what happened. provoke debate across the country.

Now she must use her ability to solve the murder from decades ago Are the killers villains or heroes? And who will be next?

And save the man she loved from being wrongly convicted of the crime. JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He S.K. Sharp is the pseudonym for Stephen Deas. Stephen is the author of is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – over twenty works of sci-fi and fantasy. He lives in the South East of the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and England with his wife and two children. Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

51 Libby Ashworth Andrew Hunter Murray A Family Secret The Last Day The Sunday Times bestseller and one of their

The third novel in the Mill Town Lasses series set in HALF THE WORLD IS DARK. ONLY SHE CAN SAVE THE 1800s Lancashire during industrialisation about a LIGHT. A high-concept, utterly original debut thriller family coming to terms with the rise of the mills. which envisages a world on the edge of catastrophe,

February 2021 February 2021 Paperback Paperback £6.99 £8.99 400 pages 384 pages 9781787463585 9781787463615

THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE INSPIRATIONAL MILL TOWN LASSES ______SERIES. Perfect for fans of Val Wood and Catherine Cookson. 'A beautifully realised and thought-provoking thriller.' THE TIMES ______'A taut, thrilling runaround' GUARDIAN 'Reminiscent of Robert Harris's high-concept conspiracy thrillers' Lancashire, 1842 FINANCIAL TIMES ______Sixteen-year-old Bessie Eastwood works long hours as a weaver in A WORLD HALF IN DARKNESS. A SECRET SHE MUST BRING TO Blackburn, helping to support her family. Meanwhile older sister Peggy LIGHT. works as an apprentice at the Girls’ School, hoping for a more prosperous future as a schoolteacher. 2059. The world has stopped turning.

Jennet and Titus Eastwood have always decided what is best for their One half suffers an endless frozen night; the other, nothing but burning sun. daughters. But as they near adulthood the sisters are determined to choose their own futures. And with temptation in the way, will the girls find love, or Only in a slim twilit region between them can life survive. lust, leads them astray? In an isolationist Britain, scientist Ellen Hopper receives a letter from a dying When an unexpected but familiar face arrives in Blackburn, the family’s man. future is threatened, and a difficult decision will have to be made – love or family . . . It contains a powerful and dangerous secret.

One that those in power will kill to conceal… Libby Ashworth was born and raised in Lancashire, where she can trace her ______family back to the Middle Ages. It was while researching her family history that she realised there were so many stories about ordinary working people THE LAST DAY: an utterly original debut thriller, perfect for readers that she wanted to tell. She has previously written historical novels - The de who loved Robert Harris' Fatherland, Emily St. John Mandel’s Lacy Inheritance and By Loyalty Bound – as well as local history books. The Station 11, and The Wall by John Lanchester. Cotton Spinner is her first saga novel. ______'Wonderful: boldly imagined and beautifully written - the best future- Libby currently lives in Lancashire with her son. shock thriller for years.' LEE CHILD

‘A tantalizing, suspenseful odyssey of frustration, deceit, treachery, torture, hope, despair and ingenious sleuthing… Murray has so thoroughly thought through the ramifications of his conceit and conjured up such a dramatic plot and stellar cast of characters that he might have set a new standard for such tales.’ WASHINGTON POST

‘A stunningly original thriller set in the world of tomorrow that will make you think about what’s happening today.’ HARLAN COBEN

‘I read this hungrily ... Its intelligence and bravura characterisation will have you turning page after page. A fabulous achievement.’ STEPHEN FRY

52 Nancy Revell Paul Tough The Shipyard Girls on the Home The Inequality Machine Front How universities are creating a more unequal

The tenth novel in the brilliant Shipyard Girls series A damning exposé of how the university system from Sunday Times bestselling author, Nancy Revell. ingrains privilege and injustice at every level of American society.

February 2021 March 2021 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £8.99 400 pages B Format 9781787464285 320 pages 9781784756376

**PRE-ORDER NOW*** THE TENTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING SHIPYARD GIRLS SERIES Paul Tough's previous book, How Children Succeed, spent more than a year ‘Emotional and gripping’ Take a Break on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists and was ______translated into 27 languages. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to the public-radio programme Join the characters you have grown to love once again as they fight for their This American Life. You can learn more about his work at paultough.com country, their families and for each other. and follow him on Twitter: @paultough.

Nancy Revell is the author of the Shipyard Girls series, which is set in the north-east of England during World War II.

She is a former journalist who worked for all the national newspapers, providing them with hard-hitting news stories and in-depth features. Nancy also wrote amazing and inspirational true life stories for just about every woman’s magazine in the country.

When she first started writing the Shipyard Girls series, Nancy relocated back to her hometown of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, along with her husband, Paul, and their English bull mastiff, Rosie. They now live just a short walk away from the beautiful award-winning beaches of Roker and Seaburn, within a mile of where the books are set.

The subject is particularly close to Nancy’s heart as she comes from a long line of shipbuilders, who were well known in the area.

53 Merilyn Davies Katie Flynn If I Fall A Mother's Joy

A heart-stopping thriller from an authentic new voice The brand new uplifting novel from Sunday Times in crime writing – If I Fall will enthral fans of Helen bestselling author Katie Flynn, about a young woman Fields and Cara Hunter. searching for hope in Liverpool during the second

March 2021 March 2021 Paperback Paperback £6.99 £7.99 400 pages 400 pages 9781787461567 9781787463042

______THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING Former Crime Analyst Merilyn Davies brings to life a gritty, heart- AUTHOR KATIE FLYNN stopping crime thriller that will have you utterly obsessed. ______Liverpool 1939: Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. We were told to meet at a rooftop bar. However, behind closed doors she lives in constant fear of her abusive father, and has no support from her mother. Four friends, bound by one terrible secret. Longing for love and affection she begins a relationship with Ted, a young No one knew why we were there. lad who works in her father’s factory. But her family disapprove of the relationship and forbid them from seeing each other. Then we saw a woman, watched as she fell from the edge and plunged to her death. When war comes to Liverpool, Olivia seizes the opportunity to leave behind her unhappy life and join the WAAF. There she meets a fellow trainee, The police think it’s suicide, but I know better. Maude and the two embrace their newly found independence. Soon Olivia meets the handsome Ralph, and all thoughts of Ted are brushed aside. Until Someone is sending a message. he returns to her life with some shocking news that turns her world upside down . . . Now they’re coming for us. ______

Praise for Katie Flynn Praise for Merilyn Davies ‘Packed with romance and poignancy’ Woman 'Assured, fresh, engrossing' MEL SHERRATT ‘One of the best Liverpool writers’ Liverpool Echo 'Taut, authentic and sensitively told' CHRIS EWAN ‘Heart-warming’ Take a Break ‘Compassionately, confidently and beautifully written’ STEVE MOSBY 'A poignant war-time romance' Daily Express

‘A breath-taking, page-turning read’ CLARE MACKINTOSH Katie Flynn is the pen name of the much-loved writer, Judy Turner, who published over ninety novels in her lifetime. Judy’s unique stories were ______inspired by hearing family recollections of life in Liverpool during the early Readers can't stop talking about When I Lost You: twentieth century, and her books went on to sell more than eight million copies. Judy passed away in January 2019, aged 82. ‘An exciting and twisty police thriller’ ‘A very unusual but gripping storyline’ The legacy of Katie Flynn lives on through her daughter, Holly Flynn, who ‘I read this almost in one sitting as I was so gripped’ continues to write under the Katie Flynn name. Holly worked as an assistant ‘A first class debut, a mix of psychological thriller meets police procedural’ to her mother for many years and together they co-authored a number of ‘All the twists and turns kept me reading into the early hours’ Katie Flynn novels, including Christmas at Tuppenny Corner. ‘I love the two main characters - I really hope we see more of them.’ ‘Once I started, I couldn’t put it down.’ Holly lives in the north east of Wales with her husband Simon and their two children. When she’s not writing she enjoys walking her two lurchers, Sparky and Snoopy, in the surrounding countryside, and cooking forbidden foods such as pies, cakes and puddings! She looks forward to sharing many more Merilyn Davies is a former Crime Analyst for the Metropolitan Police and she Katie Flynn stories, which she and her mother devised together, with

54 James Patterson Paula Greenlees The Kennedy Curse The Rain Tree The shocking true story of America’s most

A revealing, fascinating account of America’s most A sweeping love story set against the vibrant famous family, as told by the world's most trusted backdrop of post-war Singapore. Perfect for fans of storyteller. Dinah Jefferies.

March 2021 March 2021 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £7.99 400 pages 400 pages 9781787465350 9781787466166

JAMES PATTERSON'S MASTERPIECE When Miranda’s husband Gerry secures a job in the British Foreign Office in ______Singapore, he insists that they take the opportunity to start a new life. However, when Miranda steps onto the pier she does so with a broken Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did – heart, grieving for the child she tragically lost. but the costs were unimaginable... The country may look like paradise but Miranda feels like an outsider, both Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of to the people of Singapore and the tight-knit community of British ex-pats charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel. Their name is who quickly close ranks against her. Gerry cannot understand how his wife synonymous with American royalty. Their commitment to public service is won’t simply embrace their new life, and the more he pushes, the more legendary. But, for all the successes, the family has been blighted by Miranda withdraws. Soon the terrible realisation dawns on Miranda that she assassinations, fatal accidents, drug and alcohol abuse and sex scandals. has moved half-way around the world for a man who doesn’t love her, and whom she no longer loves. To this day, the Kennedys occupy a unique, contradictory place in the world's imagination: at once familiar and unknowable; charmed and cursed. So when the kind (and curiously handsome) Dr. Nick Wythenshaw asks if The Kennedy Curse is a revealing, fascinating account of America’s most Miranda might like to lend a hand volunteering with the sick children at the famous family, as told by the world's most trusted storyteller. local hospital, it gives Miranda a purpose and through her work and her ______friendship with Nick, she slowly begins to feel something she hasn’t felt in a long time – true happiness, and perhaps something more… 'When I wrote my first novel after several non-fiction works about politics, James Patterson lovingly lambasted me for infringing on his thriller territory. Now I know how he feels as he crosses into non-fiction politics with this juicy and entertaining look at a political family that continues to wield power and influence. He's too good – it isn't fair!' JAKE TAPPER, CNN anchor and author of The Hellfire Club

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past twelve years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

55 Nick Pettigrew Lucy Dickens Anti-Social The Broken Hearts Honeymoon The secret diary of an anti-social behaviour A feel-good tale that will transport you to the

The spectacularly funny, moving and urgent memoir of EAT, PRAY, LOVE for the Instagram generation a disillusioned council worker

March 2021 April 2021 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £7.99 B Format 384 pages 304 pages 9781787466159 9781787464995

'Superb. This hysterically funny and moving memoir... is a real eye- ______opener that hits all the right notes' - Frankie Boyle When disaster strikes, adventure calls…

Has your life become unbearable because the person living above you has a Charlotte had a plan. The perfect country wedding, followed by a month- fondness for crack cocaine, the company of strangers and dance music? Or long honeymoon in Japan – but when her fiancé starts having second maybe you're a social worker, mental health nurse, police officer, firefighter, thoughts, she knows there's no choice but to call off the wedding. dog warden or vicar and you've been landed with someone who's a pain in the arse. Who are you going to call? That would be me: an anti-social Charlotte isn’t sure she knows how to be single, but she is going to try, behaviour officer. starting with taking that trip of a lifetime – alone.

Anti-Social is the diary of a council worker whose job is to keep his Will she find herself in the hills of Mount Fuji, or in the karaoke bars of community happy, or at least away from each other's throats. That's hard Tokyo? enough at the best of times but when government cuts mean that hospitals, social services and police are all at breaking point, the possibility of And will she be ready for romance by the time the cherry blossom flowers? complete chaos is never far away. ______The Broken Hearts Honeymoon is Eat, Pray, Love for the Instagram This is an urgent, timely but, most of all, hysterically funny true story of a generation. life spent working with the people society wants to forget and the problems that nobody else can resolve. This book will make you laugh, cry and boil Lucy Dickens is the pseudonym for Lisa Dickenson. Lisa lives by the Devon with rage within a single sentence. seaside with her husband and one incredibly boisterous Bernese Mountain dog. She spends her days writing the kind of hilarious women’s fiction that Perfect for fans of This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay and The Secret sets the world to rights. Barrister. ______

'A gruesome and darkly comic insight into the life of a ASB officer... a gloriously cynical read but it's also sympathetic and deeply empathetic' - Kathy Burke 'A funny, thoughtful look into one of the toughest jobs I can imagine' - Shappi Korsandi 'Riveting and brilliantly written... a potent cocktail of heartbreak and horror; wickedly funny, wearily endearing and absolutely enraging' - Caroline Sanderson, Bookseller

Nick Pettigrew was an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer for over a decade. From bothersome neighbours with a fondness for crack cocaine and loud dance music to those being racially abused every day, Nick's job involved keeping the community happy. Or at least away from each other's throats.

He has a background in comedy and was was a standup comedian for several years, taking two successful shows to Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His comedy writing has been published by Shortlist and The Telegraph. He was a regular writer for The Daily Mash for over eight years

56 James Patterson Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse Private Moscow Kellerman (Private 15) Lost Souls

Jack Morgan is battling to uncover a conspiracy that Bestselling writing duo, Jonathan and Jesse leads him all the way to Russia in the new novel in the Kellerman, return with a new unputdownable thriller. bestselling Private series

April 2021 April 2021 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £7.99 432 pages UK C/Wealth ex Can 9781787464438 336 pages 9781787461222

______The gripping new thriller from multi-bestselling author Jonathan NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER Kellerman and his son, Jesse, features a deputy coroner and a seemingly impossible case set against an atmospheric Californian Karl Parker, a former Marine and noted African-American telecoms magnate, backdrop. is killed during an attempted kidnapping that goes badly wrong. His wife, Victoria, hires Jack Morgan, an old comrade and friend, to get to the truth. ‘Storytelling at its best, I loved it’ Kathy Reichs

In Moscow, Yana Petrov, an unassuming office worker, is brutally murdered A DETECTIVE UNDER PRESSURE in what looks like a gangland execution. Dinara Orlov, the head of Private Moscow, is made an offer she can’t refuse and agrees to investigate Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is juggling a new baby who won’t sleep with Petrov’s death. working the graveyard shift. For once he’s trying to keep things simple.

Battling against the odds and compelled to face difficult truths, Jack and A HAUNTING DISCOVERY Dinara uncover old secrets and a geopolitical conspiracy that will permanently change the balance of global power. When infant remains are found by developers demolishing a local park, a devastating cold case is brought back to light. James Patterson (Author) JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – Clay has barely begun to investigate when he receives a call from a man the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and who thinks the remains could belong to his sister – who went missing fifty Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers years ago. Now Clay is locked in a relentless search that will unearth a web including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. of violence, secrets and betrayal.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own Because in this town, the past isn’t dead. It’s very much alive. And son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young it can kill. readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to Jonathan Kellerman is the Number One New York Times bestselling author independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult of more than forty crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The fiction in UK libraries for the past twelve years in a row. He lives in Florida Butcher's Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, True with his wife and son. Detectives, and The Murderer's Daughter.

Adam Hamdy (Author) With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored Double ADAM HAMDY is a British author and screenwriter who works with studios Homicide and Capital Crimes. With his son, bestselling novelist Jesse and production companies on both sides of the Atlantic. He is the author of Kellerman, he co-authored Crime Scene, The Golem of Hollywood, and The the Pendulum trilogy, an epic series of conspiracy thriller novels. Pendulum Golem of Paris. was a finalist for the Glass Bell Award for contemporary fiction, was selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club and chosen as book of the month by Goldsboro He is also the author of two children's books and numerous nonfiction Books. works, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children and With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars. He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association, and has been nominated for a Shamus Award.

Jonathan and Faye Kellerman live in California and New Mexico.

57 Emma Kennedy S.K. Barnett The Never-Ending Summer Safe A missing girl comes home. But is it really her?

Fans of Ruth Hogan, Jojo Moyes and Ruth Jones will be A compelling thriller about a six-year old girl who captivated by this moving and involving exploration of disappears in small town America, only to reappear two women on life-changing journeys of discovery. twelve years later.

April 2021 April 2021 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £8.99 384 pages 400 pages 9781787463295 9781787464872

‘Emma Kennedy’s books are as funny, warm and life-inspiring as she is’ ______Jenny Colgan 'Fantastically good - dark yet compellingly upbeat, and insanely ______suspenseful ... even the twists have twists.' LEE CHILD

It’s never too late to find yourself. ‘Dark, compulsive, full of OMG moments. If you think you know where it’s going… YOU DON’T. This is one you won’t forget in a In the summer of 1971, best friends Agnes and Bea decide to embark on hurry.’ LISA JEWELL one last adventure before their adult lives begin. ______YOUR CHILD IS MISSING. For Agnes’s mother Florence, a fresh chapter is starting as her youngest flies the nest and her marriage settles into a new routine. But she can’t help She was only six years old when she disappeared. Posters went up, the feeling that something is missing. police investigated.

As Agnes travels to London and Florence follows her heart to Europe, both But no one could find her. will discover a world of possibilities they never could have dreamed of. Now, twelve years later, she’s home. Because wherever you are in life, there is always time to finally become the person you were always meant to be. And knocking at your door.

______You’re so happy to see her. But soon you start to wonder why she can’t answer your questions. Praise for Emma Kennedy and The Things We Left Unsaid: Where has she been? How did she find her way home?

‘A rich treat’ Jane Fallon And who is she?

‘Moving and magnificent’ Claire Balding S. K. Barnett is a pseudonym for a New York Times bestselling author whose previous thriller novel Derailed was turned into a major motion ‘A joyous book’ Ruth Jones picture featuring Jennifer Anniston and Clive Owen. He lives in New York State with his family. 'A beautiful novel... so tender and thoughtful. I loved it' Marian Keyes

‘Wonderful’ Mary Berry

Emma Kennedy is a bestselling author, TV writer, actress and presenter. She has written ten books including her bestselling memoirs, The Tent the Bucket and Me and I Left My Tent in San Francisco. She wrote the Wilma Tenderfoot series for children and has also adapted The Tent the Bucket and Me for the BBC, renamed The Kennedys. The Time of Our Lives is Emma’s second adult novel.

As an actress Emma has appeared in many award-winning comedies including Goodness Gracious Me, People Like Us and Miranda. Emma won Celebrity Masterchef in 2012 and is a Guinness World Record holder.

Emma lives in Surrey with her wife and their dogs, and is hard at work on

58 Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward James Patterson Really Saying Something The Coast-to-Coast Murders Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story A killer is on the road…

The first and only book from one of the most A stunning psychological suspense thriller with a twist influential girl groups of all time. you'll never see coming from the world's bestselling thriller writer

April 2021 April 2021 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £8.99 384 pages 400 pages 9781787466616 9781787465428

MUSIC, FAME AND A LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP. There's a killer on the road, and nobody is safe.

In the early eighties, best friends Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward arrived Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past. Both at the YWCA in London, with their sights set on careers in journalism and the adopted, and now grown – Michael is a long-haul truck driver, Megan a media... but that wasn’t to be. college student majoring in psychology -- they trust each other before anyone else. They've had to. London was the most vibrant and culturally innovative of places, and within the whirl of clubs, parties and new friends, a chance meeting with former When a young woman is found murdered in Michael's LA apartment, he Sex Pistol Paul Cook changed everything. Moving into Malcolm McLaren’s old becomes the chief suspect and is quickly apprehended. But then there's office, they started rehearsing and singing background vocals for Paul’s new another killing that is strikingly similar. And another. And not just in LA – as band, before teaming up with Sara’s college friend Siobhan, and forming the spree spreads across the country, the FBI become involved in a their own group. manhunt for a cold-blooded serial killer.

It wasn’t long before they’d made their first appearance on Top of the Pops, The murders are clearly linked, but the killer is more ingenious than anyone wearing clothes they’d made themselves, and not sure which camera to could expect, and false leads will leave the LAPD and FBI completely baffled look at. Who could have imagined that this would be the birth of one of the at how to prevent a string of murders that seem unstoppable. biggest-selling female bands of all time? Bananarama! JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of From a groundbreaking performance at The Brits, to sold-out world tours, all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He party games with George Michael, hanging out with Andy Warhol in New is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – York and a Guinness World Record, Bananarama’s DIY-style and attitude the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and inspired a generation, obliterating all previous notions of what a girl band Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers was or could be. Whether opening up about the challenges of making it in a including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. male dominated industry, balancing motherhood and fame, the hairstyles and TV interviews they’d rather forget, or the joys of writing and recording James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own new music, Sara and Keren are honest, revealing and hilarious. son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries Really Saying Something is the story of two friends who continue to pursue and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to their dreams their way – and have a great time doing it. It is a celebration independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult of determination and a lifelong friendship, with an unbeatable soundtrack. fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

59 Maisie Thomas Gilly Macmillan The Railway Girls in Love To Tell You the Truth A twisty thriller that’s impossible to put down

A new psychological thriller by Sunday Times bestselling author Gilly MacMillan for readers who loved THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and THE CHILD.

May 2021 May 2021 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £7.99 400 pages 400 pages 9781787463981 9781787462335

The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Nanny returns with a compulsive thriller that is a potent blend of atmosphere, tarnished Maisie Thomas was born and brought up in Manchester, which provides the memories, and twisty secrets. location for her Railway Girls novels. She loves writing stories with strong ______female characters, set in times when women needed determination and vision to make their mark. The Railway Girls series is inspired by her great Lucy Harper has a talent for invention… aunt Jessie, who worked as a railway clerk during the First World War. She was nine years old when her brother vanished in the woods near home. Maisie now lives on the beautiful North Wales coast with her railway As the only witness, Lucy’s story of that night became crucial to the police enthusiast husband, Kevin, and their two rescue cats. They often enjoy investigation. Thirty years on, her brother’s whereabouts are still unknown. holidays chugging up and down the UK’s heritage steam railways. Now Lucy is a bestselling thriller writer. Her talent for invention has given her fame, fortune, and an army of adoring fans. But her husband, Dan, has started keeping secrets of his own, and a sudden change of scene forces Lucy to confront some dark, unwelcome memories. Then Dan goes missing and Lucy’s past and present begin to collide. Did she kill her husband? Would she remember if she did?

Finally, Lucy Harper is going to tell us the truth.

Cross her heart. And hope to die.

______PRAISE FOR GILLY MACMILLAN:

'Pulses with tension until its shocking conclusion' SHARI LAPENA

'White-knuckled suspense' TESS GERRITSEN

‘From the first page I wanted to know all the dark secrets this family were hiding. It’s a seriously addictive read and I never knew who to trust’ AMY LLOYD, author of THE INNOCENT WIFE and ONE MORE LIE

‘A brilliant blend of missing person drama with some seriously spooky Gothic overtones.’ GLAMOUR MAGAZINE

‘Secrets, lies, jealousy and betrayal… Elegantly structured and infused with a creeping sense of dread’ SARAH VAUGHAN

‘The plot sucked me in and the insidious build had me turning the pages rapidly’ JANE SHEMILT

‘The Nanny will make you doubt everyone - including yourself. Some families are built on a bedrock of lies. This one is no

60 David Jason James Patterson A Del of a Life The Summer House If they don’t solve the case, they’ll take the fall…

A third volume of memoirs from the national treasure Four Army Rangers are accused of murdering seven and Number 1 Bestseller David Jason, following on civilians in cold blood in this scorching summer thriller from the success of his previous much-loved books My from the worldwide bestseller James Patterson.

May 2021 May 2021 Paperback Paperback £8.99 £8.99 336 pages 400 pages 9781787465367 9781787465381

PRE-ORDER NOW: the hilarious and heartfelt new autobiography ______from the national treasure Sir David Jason For seven unsuspecting victims, death comes in the dark . . .

In celebration of Sir David Jason’s 80th year, A Del of a Life: Lessons I've Once a luxurious getaway for a wealthy Southern family, the Summer Learned relives Jason’s extraordinary life and career from over 50 years in House has long since fallen into disrepair. Its fall from grace is complete entertainment. From a trainee electrician to one of Britain’s most revered when it becomes the scene of a horrific mass murder. and loved actors, Jason shares heartfelt and hilarious wisdom with readers on subjects ranging from family to work, resilience to ebullience. Told with Shocking evidence points to four Army Rangers recently returned from his characteristic warmth and wit, Jason shines a wonderful new light on the Afghanistan. The Army sends Major Jeremiah Cook, a war veteran and characters and shows that fans have come to love him for, from Del Boy to former NYPD cop, to investigate. Granville, Larkin to Frost. As Cook and his team struggle to put together pieces of evidence that just won’t fit, powerful forces rally against them to try to ensure that damning ‘In my first two books, I enjoyed sharing my life with the great British secrets are buried along with the victims. public, and I was overwhelmed by their support and kindness. In my new book, A Del of a Life, I am delighted to share with readers some of the hard -won lessons I’ve learned along the way – how to dream big, how to work JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of hard, and how not to fall through the gap in the pub bar… all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – Sir David Jason was born in 1940 in North London. His acting career has the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and been long and varied: from his theatre work in the West End to providing Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers the voices of Mr Toad from The Wind in the Willows, Dangermouse and The including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. BFG. From Open All Hours to The Darling Buds of May to his starring roles as Detective Inspector Frost in A Touch of Frost and, of course, Derek ‘Del Boy’ James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own Trotter in Only Fools and Horses. son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

61 Katie Fforde Tim Peake Saving the Day (Quick Reads Limitless: The Autobiography 2021)

Will Allie manage to turn her life around and save her The thrilling autobiography of the astronaut who local cafe from closure? A romantic, heartwarming inspired a generation, from the #1 bestselling author Quick Read from the number one bestselling author. of Hello, is this planet Earth? and Ask an Astronaut

May 2021 June 2021 Paperback Paperback £1.00 £8.99 180 pages 336 pages 9781787466241 9781787465961

Will Allie manage to turn her life around and save her local cafe The thrilling autobiography of the astronaut who inspired a from closure? A romantic, heartwarming Quick Read from the generation number one bestselling author. The #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this planet Earth? and Ask an Twenty-year-old Allie knows it’s time to make some changes in her life. Astronaut

She’s bored with her day-job and is beginning to wonder whether she even ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia likes her boyfriend, Ryan. flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over The high point in her day is passing a small cafe on her walk home from an hour. I had trained for this moment for years. But nothing can work. Filled with happy customers and with plates of biscuits and cakes prepare you for that feeling, for the full realisation that you are no stacked high on the counter, it is the sort of place where she’d really like to longer living on Earth. Staring into the inky blackness, I felt work. completely isolated from everything and everyone I had ever known. And yet at the same time I could not help feeling a strange sense of Then one day she sees an advert on the door: assistant wanted. But before belonging.' she can land her dream job, Allie knows she must achieve two things. In fascinating and personal detail, and based on exclusive diaries and audio 1. Learn to cook. recordings from his mission, Tim Peake takes readers closer than ever before to experience what life in space is really like: the sacrifice that 2. End her relationship with Ryan, especially as, through the window of the astronauts make in being apart from their families, the sights, the smells, cafe, she spies a waiter who looks much more like her type of man. the fear, the exhilaration and the deep and abiding wonder of the view from space. Limitless is a book about the power of following our dreams – And when she learns that the cafe is threatened with closure, Allie knows however unlikely they may seem – and of striving to reach our potential, she must do her very best to save the day... even when we might not believe in it ourselves.

Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and Limitless also charts Peake’s surprising road to becoming an astronaut, from is a true country girl at heart. Each of her books explores a different a shy and unassuming boy from Chichester who had a passion for flight, to profession or background and her research has helped her bring these to a young British Army officer, Apache helicopter pilot, flight instructor and test life. She’s been a porter in an auction house, tried her hand at pottery, pilot who served around the world. Peake’s extensive eighteen-year career refurbished furniture, delved behind the scenes of a dating website, and in the army included the command of a platoon of soldiers in Northern she's even been on a Ray Mears survival course. She loves being a writer; Ireland during the Troubles, deployment in Bosnia, and flying multiple high- to her there isn’t a more satisfying and pleasing thing to do. She particularly risk sorties as a test pilot, including operations in Afghanistan. After he was enjoys writing love stories. She believes falling in love is the best thing in selected by the European Space agency from over 8000 candidates, Peake the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers undertook six years of training to be an astronaut, tested physically, to share their stories. psychologically, emotionally and intellectually – from learning Russian language in St. Petersburg to coping with the darkness and claustrophobia of To find out more about Katie Fforde step into her world at living for days in caves in Sardinia and under the ocean off the United www.katiefforde.com, visit her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter States. @KatieFforde. Tim Peake is a European Space Agency astronaut. He finished his 186-day Principia mission working on the International Space Station for Expedition 46/47 when he landed back on Earth 18 June 2016.

He is also a test pilot and served in the British Army Air Corps. Tim is a Fellow of a number of UK science, aviation and space-based organisations. He is also a STEM ambassador. He is married with two sons.

62 James Patterson Sara Jafari The Last Days of John Lennon The Mismatch

From the break-up of the Beatles to his shocking A STUNNING COMING-OF-AGE DEBUT ABOUT FAMILY murder – this is the true story of John Lennon's DYNAMICS AND FINDING YOUR PLACE IN A SOCIETY dramatic last decade. THAT HAS TRADITIONAL EXPECTATIONS. For fans of

June 2021 June 2021 Paperback Paperback £7.99 £7.99 400 pages 400 pages 9781787465442 9781787465015

John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. When fitting in means losing who you are, how do you find yourself?

Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. Tehran 1973

By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade - a Twenty-something Neda lives in Iran. Her overbearing mother wants her to decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, get married, but she wants to concentrate on her studies. When a near songwriter, activist, burn out. But now, he declared, "it's the perfect time to abduction makes her reevaluate her faith and recommit to Islam, Neda be coming back". chooses to wear a hijab and hopes for a love match with a man who can respect her career ambitions. When Neda meets Hussein, she thinks her Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' prayers have been answered. controversial 1966 American tour, during which the band had feared for their safety, Lennon had complained, "You might as well put a target on me". London 2014 The Nixon administration did just that, putting Lennon under FBI surveillance. If only the agents hadn't been so intently focussed on the star As a new graduate, Soraya is ready to enter the world and make her mark. himself, they might have detected Mark David Chapman's powerful, ever- The only problem is, she doesn’t know what she wants to do, which makes growing obsession with the man he'd grown up idolising. finding a job so much harder. Going back home isn’t an option because there are secrets at the heart of her family that she has kept from almost Chapman, himself a tragic nowhere man, ultimately achieved the notoriety everyone in her life. he craved by making the target on Lennon very real - and single-handedly wounding the spirit of a generation. As Soraya struggles with her faith, mental health and family expectation, she decides to distract herself by having her first kiss. At twenty-one it’s JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of about time, isn’t it? Magnus is the perfect choice because she knows she can all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He never fall in love with him. So, it doesn’t matter that he’s the opposite of is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – everything her parents would approve of. the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers Neda and Soraya attempt to find their place in a world that wants including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. them to act a certain way. But will they overcome their challenges to find happiness, success and the love they desire . . . James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past twelve years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

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In the sixth book in James Patterson's NYPD Red series, the wedding of the century invites the most brazen kidnapper in New York City to make the bride

June 2021 Paperback £8.99 B Format 400 pages 9781787467576

At the wedding of the century, a brazen kidnapper steals the star of the show...

Erin Easton's wedding in one of New York's biggest venues may have a TV crew documenting every extravagant detail, but when the bride disappears from the reception, it's no diva turn. Her dressing room is empty except for a blood-spattered wedding dress.

Detective Kylie MacDonald of NYPD Red, already at the scene as a plus- one, brings in her partner, Detective Zach Jordan, to search for the missing bride. Unable to rule anything out, every A-list celebrity on the guest list has to be considered either a target of suspicion . . . or a target.

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades - the Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, Dog Diaries, Treasure Hunters and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the past thirteen years in a row. He lives in Florida with his family.

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