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HARPERCOLLINS UK INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS OCTOBER 2016 – MarCH 2017 CONTENTS Nujeen Mustafa Bernard Cornwell Dr. Seuss Lionel Shriver BESTSELLERS P.4 GIFT BOOKS P.12 FILM & TV TIE-INS P.16 Sabaa Tahir FICTION P.18 LITERARY FICTION P.19 POPULAR FICTION P.22 Oliver Jeffers Holly Smale CRIME & THRILLERS P.24 SCI-FI & FANTASY P.30 Tom Daley Lindsey Kelk YOUNG ADULT P.32 Children’s BOOKS P.38 Children’s FicTION P.39 PICTURE BOOKS P.44 NON-FICTION P.48 Lauren Child Fantastic Beasts Brian Cox James Gleick Gillian Anderson J.R.R. Tolkien Sophie Hannah BESTSELLERS Cecelia AHERN NON-FICTION Lyrebird Deep in the wilderness, a young Lyrebird leaves her peaceful woman lives alone in a small surroundings and assimilates into Michael Chabon David Walliams stone cottage. Then, into her the outside world, is she losing a peaceful landscape comes part of herself? Solomon and his documentary crew. Solomon soon discovers • Cecelia Ahern has sold over that she has an extraordinary 25 million books worldwide talent: an ability to mimic and is a No. 1 bestseller. sounds. It’s a gift that earns her Cecelia Ahern the nickname Lyrebird. • A thoughtful, deeply moving BEST love story full of memorable Solomon knows the world will characters, which will appeal love Laura, and soon her life is to fans and new readers alike. turned on its head. But as the SELLERS £12.99 / TPB OM / 24 OCtobER 2016 / 9780007501878 / HARPERFICTION Patricia Cornwell Michael CHABON Moonglow Veronica Roth Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed collapses an era into a single life confession. An old man, and a lifetime into a single week. tongue loosened by painkillers, tells stories to his grandson, An autobiography wrapped in Tracy Chevalier uncovering bits and pieces of a novel disguised as a memoir, a history long buried. From the Moonglow is Chabon at his most Jewish slums of pre-war South daring and his most moving. Philadelphia to the invasion Robin Hobb of Germany, from a Florida • The dazzling new novel retirement village to the penal from the author of utopia of a New York prison, The Amazing Adventures from the heyday of the space of Kavalier & Clay and The programme to the twilight of the Yiddish Policeman’s Union. American Century, Moonglow EARLY RELEASE FOR EXPORT Wilbur Smith £12.99 / TPB OM / 22 NOVEMBER 2016 / 9780008189808 / FOURTH ESTATE INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS | OCtoBER 2016 – MARCH 2017 5 BESTSELLERS FOR FANS OF STAR WARS AND DIVERGENT: THE STUNNING NEW SCIENCE-FICTION FANTASY SERIES FROM VERONICA ROTH. Veronica ROTH Carve the Mark On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favoured by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. Her currentgift gives her pain and power – something Sophie Patricia her brother exploits. Akos is from the peace-loving nation of HANNAH CORNWELL Thuvhe, and his loyalty to his family is limitless. Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Chaos When Akos is thrust into Cyra’s world, the enmity between their countries and families seems insurmountable. They must decide to help each other to survive – or to destroy one another. Following the phenomenal commercial and On a late summer’s evening, Dr. Kay Scarpetta critical success of The Monogram Murders, Sophie responds to a call about a dead cyclist who has • Veronica Roth is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Hannah returns with another brilliant Hercule been attacked with almost super human force. of the Divergent trilogy, which has sold 35 million copies Poirot murder mystery, which can only be solved worldwide and was adapted into an iconic movie series. by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little Meanwhile Scarpetta’s FBI agent husband grey cells’. receives a suspicious call from someone at £ 14.99 / HB / 17 JANUARY 2017 / 9780008157821 /HARPERCoLLINSCHILDREN’sBOOKS Interpol, but why would they be interested in • Written by an international best-selling crime the case? With breathtaking speed it becomes writer, this is Sophie Hannah’s second fully- apparent that an onslaught of interference and authorised Poirot novel. harassment might be the work of a hacker named Also available from Veronica Roth Tailend Charlie, who has already been sending • Published to mark the centenary of the creation cryptic communications to Scarpetta. Divergent series (books 1, 2 & 3) of Agatha Christie’s world-famous detective Hercule Poirot. When a second death occurs, Scarpetta and those close to her are confronted with something far bigger and more dangerous than they’d ever In a divided society where everyone must imagined. conform, Sixteen-year-old Tris does not fit. So she ventures out, alone, determined to find out • No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia where she truly belongs. Cornwell delivers the next engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical So begins Veronica Roth’s multi-million-selling examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. dystopian series, now a major movie series starring Shailene Woodley and Theo James. DIVERGENT: £7.99 / PB B / AVAILABLE NOW / 9780007420421 / HARPERCoLLINSCHILDREN’sBOOKS INSURGENT: £7.99 / PB B / AVAILABLE NOW / 9780007442928 / HARPERCoLLINSCHILDREN’sBOOKS £6.99 / PB A OM / 23 MARCH 2017 / 9780008134136 / HARPERFICTION ALLEGIANT: £7.99 / PB B / AVAILABLE NOW / 9780007534944 / HARPERCoLLINSCHILDREN’sBOOKS £12.99 / TPB OM / AVAILABLE NOW / 9780008134105 / HARPERFICTION £12.99 / TPB OM / 20 OCtobER 2016 / 9780008150631 / HARPERFICTION 6 INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS | OCtoBER 2016 – MARCH 2017 INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS | OCtoBER 2016 – MARCH 2017 7 Bernard CORNWELL Tracy CHEVALIER BESTSELLERS The Last Kingdom Series (10) — The Flame Bearer At the Edge of the Orchard Britain is in a state of uneasy • The latest novel in the bestselling In 1830s Ohio, the Goodenough sends Robert out alone across peace. The Vikings and Saxons Last Kingdom series, which has family barely scratch out a America, far from his sister, into a have agreed a truce. And so been adapted into a major new living in the inhospitable Black life dominated not by apple trees England’s greatest warrior, BBC TV show. Swamp. Robert and his sister but by the mighty redwoods and Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last Martha must watch as their sequoias of California. has the chance to take back the • Bernard Cornwell is the author parents’ marriage is torn apart home his traitorous uncle stole of 50 novels published in 30 by disputes over whether to • The sweeping and from him many years ago. countries and 28 languages; he grow sweet apples to eat or sour compelling new novel from is the most successful historical apples for cider and applejack. the bestselling author of But as enemies new and old novelist writing today. One particularly vicious fight Girl with a Pearl Earring. enter into the fight for England’s kingdoms, Britain’s precarious peace threatens to turn into a war of annihilation. EARLY RELEASE FOR £12.99 / TPB OM / 06 OCtobER 2016 / 9780007504220 / HARPERFICTION EXPORT £6.99 / PB A / 20 APRIL 2017 / 9780007504268 / HARPERFICTION £6.99 / PB A OM / 31 JANUARY 2017 / 9780008135300 / THE BOROUGH PRESS AL N Robin HOBB Wilbur SMITH FI not Fitz and the Fool (3) — Assassin’s Fate VER Co Fitz is determined to reach But Fitz and his followers are the corrupt city of Clerres and not the only ones with a deadly Pharaoh Predator War Cry take vengeance on the Servants grudge against the Four. If the of the Four, not just for the corrupt society of Clerres is to abduction of his daughter be brought down, Fitz and the Bee, but also for their torture Fool will have to form unlikely of the Fool. new allies, and make some From the glittering temples Two men are responsible for In a triumphant return to his profound and fateful sacrifices. of Luxor to the Citadel the death of Hector Cross’ much-loved Courtney series, Accompanied by FitzVigilant, son of Sparta, Pharaoh is an wife and only one is left alive: Wilbur Smith introduces us of the assassin Chade, Chade’s • The final book in the Fitz and intense and powerful novel Johnny Congo - psychopath, to the bravest new member protégé Spark and the stableboy the Fool trilogy. magnificently transporting extortionist and murderer. of the famed family, Saffron Perseverance, Bee’s only friend, you to a time of threat, blood He caught him before and Courtney. their journey will take them from • ‘Fantasy as it ought to be and glory. Master storyteller, let him go. Now, as Hector is the Elderling city of Kelsingra, written’ - George R.R. Martin Wilbur Smith, is at the very thrown into the bull pit once down the perilous Rain Wild peak of his powers. more, he will not stop until he River, and on to the Pirate Isles. has snared his prey. £20 / HB / AVAILABLE NOW / £6.99 / PB A OM / 17 NOVEMBER 2016 / £20 / HB / 23 MARCH 2017 / £20 / HB / 18 MAY 2017 / 9780007444250 / HARPER VoYAGER 9780007535811 / HARPERFICTION 9780008168902 / HARPERFICTION 9780007535866 / HARPERFICTION 8 INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS | OCtoBER 2016 – MARCH 2017 INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS | OCtoBER 2016 – MARCH 2017 9 Lindsey KELK NON-FICTION We Were on a Break Adam and Liv went on holiday, • One of the biggest new voices and were supposed to come in young women’s fiction, with back engaged. Instead, they’ve over a million copies of her come back on a very different I Heart and Girl books sold kind of break. One complication worldwide. leads to another as Adam and Liv try to muddle through in this • Will appeal to fans of Jenny There’s more to the film than