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3 ‘The Octopus Man reminds us that behind the words ‘mental health’ lies a universe of wild creativity, humanity, and spanking big life. Now is the time for this book.’ DBC Pierre The Octopus Man tells the story of Tom, once an outstanding law student, now lost in the machinery of the British mental health system. Opening with a swirling, compulsive diatribe, Tom comes quickly to confirm what we readers suspect: that he is not entirely alone. He hears the voice of Malamock, the JANUARY Octopus God – part comforter, part autarch, part guide. Deeply moving and tragicomic, The Octopus Man takes us into the complex and disturbing world of voice-hearing in a bravura literary performance that asks the fundamental questions about belief, meaning and love.

JASPER GIBSON is the co-founder of thepoke.co.uk, Britain’s largest comedy site, and is the author of one previous novel, A Bright Moon for Fools.

The Octopus Man Contemporary Fiction Jasper Gibson HB: 9781474616072 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781474616089 Royal, 288 pp, £13.99 eBook: 9781474616102 £14.99 East Sussex, UK Audio: 9781474616119 10 hrs, £19.99

How Kim Philby, master-spy and double agent, became the mentor of CIA boss James Angleton, then his mortal enemy Kim Philby’s life and career has inspired an entire literary genre: the spy novel of betrayal. His dramatic escape to Moscow in 1963 was a sensation. Philby was the mentor of James Jesus Angleton, who became the long-serving chief of the counter-intelligence staff of the Agency. Angleton and Philby were friends for six years. They were then enemies for the rest of their lives. This is the story of their intertwined JANUARY careers, and the dramatic effect of these on the Cold War.

MICHAEL HOLZMAN is the author of James Jesus Angleton, the CIA and the Craft of Intelligence, as well as biographies Kim and Jim of Guy Burgess and of Donald and Melinda Maclean. Philby and Angleton, Friends and Enemies in the Cold War Espionage History Michael Holzman HB: 9781474617802 Royal, 256 pp, £20 TPB: 9781474617819 Royal, 256 pp, £12.99 eBook: 9781474617833 £20 Washington DC, USA Audio: 9781474617987 10 hrs, £19.99

4 The inspiring life stories of leading scientists as heard on BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4’s celebrated The Life Scientific has featured some of the world’s most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews included in this collection remind us that for the scientists working in the war against viruses, the arrival of Covid-19 came as no surprise. These pioneers have worked on the frontline tackling SARS, Ebola, HIV, swine flu and more, and their stories are as fascinating as they are inspiring. JANUARY ANNA BUCKLEY is the series producer of The Life Scientific Not final cover on BBC Radio 4. It is one of the most popular programmes on BBC Radio 4, attracting more than 2 million listeners every week.

The Life Scientific Virus Hunters Anna Buckley Popular Science HB: 9781474607469 Demy, 288 pp, £18.99 eBook: 9781474607476 £18.99 Richmond, UK Audio: 9781409187950 10 hrs, £19.99

A cross-country novel of sisterhood set across post- capitalist America: the Odyssey meets Thelma & Louise ‘It blew me away’ Emma Donoghue ‘Large in scope and heart’ Patrick deWitt On the day of their estranged father’s wedding, half-sisters Cheyenne and Livy, who haven’t seen each other in years, set off to claim their inheritance. Except: instead of money, their father gives them information – a name – that reveals a stunning family secret. JANUARY Moving from Seattle’s underground to the hideaways of the southern swamps, this is an epic tale of sisterhood and freedom, told with boundless verve.

VANESSA VESELKA is the author of Zazen, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for fiction. She has been, The Great at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union Offshore Grounds organiser, an independent record label owner and a mother. Vanessa Veselka Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781474614269 Royal, 448 pp, £14.99 Portland, USA TPB: 9781474614276 Royal, 448 pp, £13.99 www.vanessaveselka.com eBook: 9781474614290 £14.99 @VanessaVeselka Audio: 9781474614306 10 hrs, £19.99

5 A deeply researched investigation into depression arguing the case for embracing both art and science in our understanding and treatment of the condition In Mending the Mind, Oliver Kamm uses his own experience of illness and treatment as a jumping off point to investigate the mental disorder of depression. He uses the work of other writers who suffered from depression to illuminate the condition and explores the state of scientific remedies that have been devised in treating mental disorder. Oliver argues that cures for depression are attainable, and ulti- JANUARY mately that both art and science are essential to our understanding, and treatment, of a condition that affects one in ten of us at some point in our lives.

OLIVER KAMM is a leader writer and columnist for The Times. Mending the Mind His first book, Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic The Art and Science of Guide to English, was published by W&N in 2015. Overcoming Clinical Depression Oliver Kamm Popular Science HB: 9781474610827 Royal, 288 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781474610834 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 London, UK eBook: 9781474610858 £16.99 @OliverKamm Audio: 9781409186571 10 hrs, £19.99

‘A feminist Western about a world in which women’s worth is determined by the vagaries of fertility. A masterpiece’ R. O. Kwon In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. After a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, 17-year-old Ada must leave behind everything she knows. She joins the Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of female out- laws. The Gang hatches a treacherous plan to create a safe JANUARY haven for outcast women. Ada must decide whether she’s willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all.

ANNA NORTH is a journalist working for the New York Times, whose writing has previously appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Paris Review, Jezebel and Buzzfeed. She is Outlawed the author of The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. Anna North Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781474615341 Royal, 256 pp, £14.99 Brooklyn, USA TPB: 9781474615358 Royal, 256 pp, £13.99 www.annanorth.net eBook: 9781474615372 £14.99 @annanorthtweets Audio: 9781474615389 10 hrs, £19.99

6 An alternative history of humanity reflecting on how our relationship with dogs has changed over the centuries ‘Funny, fascinating and endearing’ Kate Humble In the last 200 years no inter-species relationship has come so far. Dogs accompany us in every walk of life, usually three times a day. How did this relationship begin? How has it changed over the centuries? Here we revisit the most important milestones in our shared journey. From ancient rock art to the first Labradoodle in Australia. From an ill-fated Poodle trainer to the mutniks of the Soviet space FEBRUARY programme. Dog’s Best Friend is all told with Garfield’s gift for witty and insightful storytelling.

SIMON GARFIELD is the author of twenty books, including the bestsellers Just My Type, On the Map and Mauve. His study Dog’s Best Friend of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset A Brief History of an Maugham Award. Unbreakable Bond Simon Garfield History HB: 9781474610735 Demy, 352 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781474610742 Demy, 352 pp, £13.99 London, UK eBook: 9781474610766 £16.99 www.simongarfield.com Audio: 9781409186564 10 hrs, £19.99

Walter Mosley’s infamous detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new mystery to solve on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California Ezekiel ‘Easy’ Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator willing to do what it takes in the racially charged underbelly of Los Angeles. When he’s approached by a young white man claiming to have gotten into a fight, he knows he shouldn’t take the case. But Easy feels a kinship form between them. FEBRUARY He embarks upon an investigation that takes him through South Central and into the homes of the fabulously wealthy - crossing paths with old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.

WALTER MOSLEY is one of America’s most celebrated and beloved writers. A Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of Blood Grove America, he has won numerous awards. Walter Mosley Crime Fiction New York, USA HB: 9781474616560 Royal, 320 pp, £20 www.waltermosley.com eBook: 9781474616577 £20

7 A kinetic, imaginative and sensuous Gothic novel inspired by traditional Canadian Metis legends ‘A rip-roaring read!’ Margaret Atwood Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for almost a year. One hung-over morning she is drawn to a revival tent in a nearby town – and there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus. Desperate to reclaim her husband, Joan sets out to remind FEBRUARY the Reverend Wolff of who he really is: his life, and the life of everyone she loves, depends upon her success.

CHERIE DIMALINE is a member of the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Ontario. Her 2017 book, The Marrow Thieves, continues to be an international bestseller three years after Empire of Wild its first publication.Empire of Wild was a no.1 bestseller. Cherie Dimaline Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781474621588 Royal, 320 pp, £14.99 Vancouver, Canada TPB: 9781474621595 Royal, 320 pp, £13.99 www.cheriedimaline.com eBook: 9781474621618 £14.99 @cherie_dimaline Audio: 9781474621670 5 hrs, £19.99

Past and present collide in this sharp and darkly funny crime novel set in Argentina

DEBUT Buenos Aires, 1981. Argentina is ruled by a brutal military regime. Inspector Alzada prefers to stay out of politics, but when his revolutionary brother Jorge is disappeared, Alzada knows he will stop at nothing to rescue him. Buenos Aires, 2001. Argentina is in the midst of yet another devastating economic crisis. This time Alzada is determined to remain FEBRUARY a detached bystander, but his plans are derailed when Not final cover a woman from one of the city’s wealthiest families goes missing.

ELOÍSA DÍAZ is a writer and lawyer from Madrid. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2013 with Ben Metcalf as her tutor. Repentance, which she wrote in English, is her debut novel.

Repentance Crime Fiction Eloísa Díaz HB: 9781474613835 Royal, 320 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781474613842 Royal, 320 pp, £13.99 eBook: 9781474613866 £14.99 Madrid, Spain Audio: 9781474613873 10 hrs, £19.99

8 From Richelieu to Kissinger: the great ambassadors and what their achievements tell us about the most important issues of our time History does not run in straight lines. The path of events and ideas does not stretch smoothly from Thucydides, through Machiavelli and thence to perpetual peace. This book is an attempt to think about diplomacy: it looks at where problems, personalities and ideas meet. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind allies, random events and good intentions that FEBRUARY go wrong. Robert Cooper’s incisive and elegantly written book pieces together history and considers the illuminating fragments it leaves behind.

The Ambassadors ROBERT COOPER is a British diplomat and adviser. His publi- Thinking about Diplomacy from cations include The Breaking of Nations, which won the Richelieu to Modern Times Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Robert Cooper History HB: 9780297608530 Royal, 544 pp, £25 London, UK eBook: 9780297608547 £25

An artful, emotionally incisive and beautifully written memoir about the unique place of almost-motherhood ‘Quite simply, the best book on its subject I have ever read. I have no doubt it is going to help a lot of people’ Nell Frizzell, author of The Panic Years Some people pass through the liminal space of ‘almost- motherhood’ without noticing; some never leave; some languish there, held safe, held prisoner, by the walls of not-knowing. In this searing, moving and timely memoir, Miranda Ward uses her own experiences of infertility as a FEBRUARY jumping off point for exploring what it is like to live in this very particular space, how much control we do and don’t have over our own bodies, and how water has become a way for her to make sense of it all.

Adrift MIRANDA WARD grew up on a cattle ranch in California. Fieldnotes from She is a writer, lecturer and editor and has a PhD in cultural Almost-Motherhood geography, where her research centred on the geographies Miranda Ward of lap swimming and the indoor pool.

Memoir Oxford, UK HB: 9781474614153 Demy, 288 pp, £16.99 www.mirandaward.co.uk eBook: 9781474614177 £16.99 @MirandaWardC Audio: 9781474614207 10 hrs, £19.99

9 Debut by an exciting young narrative historian – a revisionist history of medieval Palestine

DEBUT For all the many books written about the crusades and Christian states of ‘Outremer’ (‘Overseas’), one thing is conspicuously absent: the stories of women. Queens and princesses are often presented as passive transmitters of land and royal blood. In reality, women ruled, conducted diplomatic negotiations, made military decisions, forged alliances and rebelled. The lives of this trailblazing dynasty of royal women are the focus of Katherine Pangonis’s debut FEBRUARY book. It explores the role women played in the governing of the Middle East during periods of intense instability, and how they persevered to rule and seize greater power for themselves when the opportunity presented itself.

KATHERINE PANGONIS is a historian specialising in the medieval world of the Mediterranean and Middle East, with Queens of Jerusalem a particular interest in rewriting the voices of women into the historical narrative. The Women Who Dared to Rule Katherine Pangonis History HB: 9781474614078 Royal, 288 pp, £20 TPB: 9781474614085 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 London, UK eBook: 9781474614108 £20

‘A work of depth, sorrow and great beauty’ Molly McCloskey A profoundly beautiful story about two men separated by generations: Joe longs for a boyfriend and plays the violin magnificently. Edward falls in love with his best friend in a nettle-infested garden before starting a family and becoming a grandfather. When Joe is diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, his sister and grandfather, Edward, are left waiting for a miracle. A miracle that won’t come. Intensely moving, this book is FEBRUARY about love and loss, and about the beautiful and violent randomness of life.

ANNA BEECHER is an MFA candidate at the University of Here Comes the Virginia and a winner of the Henfield Prize for Fiction. She Miracle has also written widely for theatre and performance. Anna Beecher Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781474610629 Demy, 240 pp, £14.99 Virginia, USA TPB: 9781474610636 Demy, 240 pp, £14.99 www.annabeecher.com eBook: 9781474610650 £14.99 @AnnaBeecher Audio: 9781409186465 6 hrs 21 mins, £19.99

10 You’ve never met a detective like IQ . . . The latest instalment in the adventures of LA’s coolest new detective Soon to be a major TV series produced by Snoop Dogg ‘Writing so sharp you may cut your fingers on the pages’ Attica Locke In East Long Beach, California, the LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighbourhood’s high crime rate. But someone from the neighbourhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can’t or won’t touch – IQ. MARCH In this fifth book in the series, IQ is back, with the same larg- er-than-life characters and pulse-pounding action fans love.

JOE IDE grew up in South Central Los Angeles. His favourite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. Smoke Smoke is the latest in his IQ series of novels set in LA. Joe Ide Crime Fiction HB: 9781474612029 Royal, 320 pp, £14.99 Santa Monica, USA TPB: 9781474612036 Royal, 320 pp, £13.99 www.joeide.com eBook: 9781474612050 £14.99 @JoeIdeTweets Audio: 9781409189312 10 hrs, £19.99

The story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRA, from the acclaimed author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another IRA raid comes on the air. As the anchor requests the public’s help in locating those responsible, Tessa’s sister appears on the screen. Tessa watches in shock as Marian pulls a black mask over her face. When the truth of what has happened to Marian reveals MARCH itself, Tessa is forced between protecting her family and endangering the one person she loves more fiercely than her sister: her infant son.

FLYNN BERRY’S first novel,Under the Harrow, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. Her follow-up, A Double Life, was praised by Paula Hawkins and Northern Spy Clare Mackintosh among others. Flynn Berry Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781474607117 Royal, 320 pp, £14.99 California, USA TPB: 9781474607124 Royal, 320 pp, £13.99 www.flynnberry.com eBook: 9781474607148 £14.99 @flynnberry_ Audio: 9781409174745 9 hrs, £19.99

11 A dazzlingly original and ambitious women’s history by one of the most well-respected art writers at work today Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of extraordinary women artists from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, using their self-portraits as a springboard to examine how and why they became artists and what their self-representation reveals about the times in which they lived. Intertwining biography and cultural history, The Mirror and the Palette is packed with tales of rebellion, MARCH adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great Not final cover resilience, creativity and bravery. The Mirror and the Palette JENNIFER HIGGIE is the Australian-born editor-at-large of 500 Years of Women’s frieze and the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about Self-Portraits women in art history. Jennifer Higgie Art History HB: 9781474613774 Royal, 384 pp, £16.99 London, UK TPB: 9781474613781 Royal, 384 pp, £13.99 www.jenniferhiggie.com eBook: 9781474613804 £16.99 @JenniferHiggie Audio: 9781474613828 10 hrs, £19.99

A short, practical guide to the tools you need to understand the numbers we read in the news every day On most days we will read something in the media that is based on a statistic. Sometimes it’ll be obvious – ‘X people develop cancer every year’ – and sometimes less obvious – ‘red wine protects against cancer’. Statistics are an immensely powerful tool for understanding the world. But in the hands of unscrupulous, careless or clueless people, they can be used to tell stories that are misleading or simply false. This book is a guide to how and when to trust them MARCH – and when not to. Not final cover TOM CHIVERS is a prize-winning science writer and author How to Read Numbers of The AI Does Not Hate You. His cousin, DAVID CHIVERS, is A Guide to Statistics in an assistant professor of economics at Durham University. the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) Tom Chivers and David Chivers

London, UK Popular Science www.tomchivers.com HB: 9781474619967 Demy, 224 pp, £12.99 @TomChivers eBook: 9781474619981 £12.99 @dave_chivers Audio: 9781474620888 10 hrs, £19.99

12 From Kindertransport to becoming one of the first female Foreign Correspondents at the Guardian – the extraordinary life of Hella Pick One of the trailblazers of the modern female Foreign Correspondent, Hella Pick fled her native Austria as a Jewish child refugee in 1939. Over three decades she covered the volatile global scene. During her years with the Guardian, she reported on the Watergate scandal in Washington, Martin Luther King Jr’s march from Selma to Montgomery and the Gdańsk shipyard uprising in Poland. Invisible Walls is MARCH the dramatic story of how a Kindertransport survivor came to converse with and sometimes befriend world leaders.

HELLA PICK began work for the Guardian in 1961 and remained there as a foreign or diplomatic correspondent for more than thirty years. Invisible Walls A Journalist in Search of Her Life Memoir Hella Pick HB: 9781474613736 Royal, 288 pp, £20 TPB: 9781474613743 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 eBook: 9781474613767 £20 London, UK Audio: 9781474618946 10 hrs, £19.99

Three lives intersect in the darkness of a theatre as the world burns around them ‘A potent meditation on the private intensity of women’s lives’ Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend As bushfires rage outside the city, three women watch a performance of a Beckett play. Margot is a successful professor, preoccupied by her fraught relationship with her husband. Ivy is a philanthro- pist with a troubled past. Summer is a young theatre usher, MARCH anxious about the safety of her girlfriend in the fire zone. By the time the curtain falls, they will all have a new understanding of the world beyond the stage.

CLAIRE THOMAS is a Melbourne writer. Her acclaimed first novel was Fugitive Blue, which won the Dobbie Literary The Performance Award and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Claire Thomas Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781474616980 Demy, 320 pp, £14.99 Melbourne, Australia TPB: 9781474616997 Royal, 320 pp, £13.99 www.clairethomaswriter.com eBook: 9781474617017 £14.99 @claireet Audio: 9781474617024 10 hrs, £19.99

13 A gloriously celebratory and inspirational book about the women who broke from convention and cycled their way to freedom Simone de Beauvoir borrowed her lover’s bike to cycle around Paris in the 1940s. Alice Hawkins used her bicycle to recruit women to fight for women’s suffrage. Annie Kopchovsky, a 24-year-old Latvian immigrant living in Boston, became the first woman to cycle around the world. Many of these women were told they couldn’t or shouldn’t cycle, but they did so anyway. Revolutions introduces us to APRIL the women who are part of the rich and varied history of cycling, many of whom have been pushed to the margins or forgotten.

HANNAH ROSS is a dedicated cyclist who thinks nothing of cycling across the Alps. She works as the Director of Revolutions Publicity at Profile Books. She also volunteers for a charity How Women Changed the helping refugee women in London learn to ride bikes. World on Two Wheels Hannah Ross Women’s History/Sport HB: 9781474611367 Demy, 352 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781474611374 Demy, 352 pp, £14.99 London, UK eBook: 9781474611398 £16.99 @HannahVRoss Audio: 9781409186960 9 hrs 16 mins, £19.99

The candid account of the sudden loss of a life partner by Britain’s most popular priest Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife with parishioners or being called out to perform the last rites, death is part of the Reverend Richard Coles’ routine. But since his partner the Reverend David Coles died unexpectedly, much about death has taken Coles by surprise. Now the man that so often assists others is looking to others for guidance to steer him through grief. The flock is leading the shepherd. Richard Coles’ account APRIL of life after grief will resonate with the many thousands of his followers and listeners.

THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES is the presenter of Saturday The Madness of Grief Live on BBC Radio 4. He is the author of two memoirs, the bestselling Fathomless Riches and Bringing in the Sheaves. A Memoir of Love and Loss The Reverend Richard Coles Memoir Northamptonshire, UK HB: 9781474619622 Demy, 224 pp, £20 www.richardcoles.com eBook: 9781474619646 £20 @RevRichardColes Audio: 9781474619653 6hrs, £19.99

14 Two wildly different women – one a grifter, the other an heiress – are brought together by the scam of a lifetime Soon to be an Amazon Prime limited series, produced by and starring Nicole Kidman Nina is a college graduate turned grifter, stealing from rich kids in LA. Vanessa is a privileged young heiress – but behind the cov- etable façade is a life marked by tragedy. After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her family’s APRIL sprawling mountain estate, a place of dark secrets where Vanessa and Nina’s lives intertwine – not for the first time.

JANELLE BROWN is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Watch Me Disappear, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and This Is Where We Live. She now lives in Los Pretty Things Angeles with her husband and their two children. Janelle Brown Literary Thriller Los Angeles, USA MMP: 9781474619721 B format, 496 pp, £8.99 www.janellebrown.com eBook: 9781474619738 £8.99 @janelleb Audio: 9781474619776 16 hrs 06mins, £21.99

Can we be faithful to ourselves without betraying the people we love? The no.1 international bestseller, soon to be a Netflix series Carlo and Margherita. They are in love, but they also harbour secret desires: Carlo for one of his students, Sofia; Margherita for her physiotherapist, Andrea. Love, with its unassuming power, ultimately pulls them from the brink, aided by Margherita’s mother, Anna – a wise, proud seamstress hiding her own disappointments. APRIL But after eight years and the birth of a son, when the past resurfaces in the form of books sent anonymously, will love be enough to save them?

MARCO MISSIROLI was born in Rimini and lives in Milan. Fidelity was a no.1 bestseller in Italy and is currently being made into a Netflix limited series. Fidelity Contemporary fiction Marco Missiroli HB: 9781474613347 Royal, 256 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781474613354 Royal, 256 pp, £14.99 eBook: 9781474613378 £14.99 Milan, Italy Audio: 9781474613385 10 hrs, £19.99

15 A new look at Philip Larkin through his long-term partner Monica Jones, based on her never-before- seen letters Monica Jones was Philip Larkin’s partner for more than four decades. She was opinionated and outspoken, widely dis- liked by his friends, and Philip himself was routinely unfaith- ful to her. But Monica Jones was also a brilliant academic and an inspiring teacher. She wrote more than 2,000 letters to Larkin, and he in turn poured out his heart to her. Through his careful reading of Monica’s never-before-seen APRIL letters, and his own recollections, John Sutherland shows us a new side to Larkin’s story.

JOHN SUTHERLAND is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at UCL and one of the most eminent scholars, writers and Monica Jones, Philip critics at work in the UK today. He is the author of many Larkin and Me critically acclaimed books.

Her Life and Long Loves Biography John Sutherland HB: 9781474620185 Royal, 320 pp, £20 TPB: 9781474620192 Royal, 320 pp, £14.99 eBook: 9781474620215 £20 London, UK Audio: 9781474620222 10 hrs, £19.99

A work of startling talent – a debut novel from an award-winning poet about poets, plagiarism, love, technology and how writing really does alter reality DEBUT In a Travelodge bar near Waterloo Bridge, our narrator meets Solomon Wiese, a disgraced poet. Solomon Wiese’s story of his rise and fall takes him the entire night and the remainder of the novel to tell. It is a story that touches on childhood encounters with ‘nothingness’, brushes with data piracy and techno-anarchism, a retreat to the east of England, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, an entangle- MAY ment with a secretive poetry cult and plans for a triumphant return to the capital – plans in which the narrator discovers Not final cover he is implicated . . .

SAM RIVIERE is the author of three poetry books, 81 Austerities, Kim Kardashian’s Marriage and After Fame, all published by Faber, and a book of experimental prose, Safe Dead Souls Mode. He teaches at Durham University. Sam Riviere Contemporary fiction HB: 9781474617642 Demy, 352 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781474617659 Demy, 352 pp, £14.99 Edinburgh, UK eBook: 9781474617673 £16.99 @if_a_leaf_falls_press Audio: 9781474617680 10 hrs, £19.99

16 The incredible story of nuclear fusion, the quest to replicate a star on earth and solve the climate emergency What is nuclear fusion, and could it really be the answer to the climate emergency? Fusion exists already in the stars that fill our universe with light, but can we harness that power here on earth? This is the question The Star Builders seeks to answer. Filled with the remarkable stories of the scientists and entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to a seem- MAY ingly impossible dream, The Star Builders is an unmissable insight into the future of life on our planet.

DR ARTHUR TURRELL has a PhD in plasma physics from The Star Builders Imperial College London. He is also a senior research econ- Nuclear Fusion and the omist at the Bank of England, where he applies his scientific Race to Power the Planet knowledge to questions about the macro-economy. Arthur Turrell Popular Science HB: 9781474611589 Royal, 352 pp, £20 London, UK TPB: 9781474611596 Royal, 352 pp, £14.99 www.aeturrell.com eBook: 9781474611619 £20 @arthurturrell Audio: 9781409188186 10 hrs, £19.99

A family saga and a hymn to hope. A sophisticated, funny and wise novel by one of the masters of European literature, twice winner of the Premio Strega ‘Extraordinary’ Domenico Starnone, National Book Award finalist author ofTies Marco Carrera, born with a growth disorder, is ‘the hummingbird’: he lives a dramatic life, full of joys, despair, laughter and heartbreak, while remaining in perfect balance. In The Hummingbird we breathlessly follow his life, as he MAY navigates grief, love, friendship – and as he witnesses the birth of a ‘new man’, a vision of hope for an uncertain future.

SANDRO VERONESI was born in Florence in 1959. He is the author of nine novels and he is only the second author in the Premio Strega’s history to win the prize twice.

The Hummingbird Sandro Veronesi Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781474617468 Royal, 400 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781474617475 Royal, 400 pp, £13.99 Rome, Italy eBook: 9781474617499 £14.99 @SandroVeronesi Audio: 9781474617505 5 hrs, £19.99

17 The scandal of nineteenth-century Britain: the sensational trial of Caroline Norton for adultery with the first Victorian Prime Minister Poet, pamphleteer and beauty, Caroline Norton’s vivacity and intelligence attracted many friends and admirers. Among this cast was the widowed prime minister Lord Melbourne. Riven with jealousy, Caroline’s husband George Norton took her and Melbourne to court for adultery, alleging ‘criminal conversations’. Faced with the personal cruelties perpe- trated by husband and society, Caroline chose to fight. Over MAY the next years she achieved landmark victories we now take for granted. Antonia Fraser brilliantly portrays a woman who refused to be curbed by the limits of her time.

The Case of the ANTONIA FRASER is the author of many widely acclaimed Married Woman historical works that have been international bestsellers. She was made a DBE in 2011 for services to literature. Caroline Norton: A 19th-Century Heroine Antonia Fraser History London, UK HB: 9781474610926 Royal, 336 pp, £25 www.antoniafraser.com eBook: 9781474610940 £25

A history of historians: how the telling of history is influenced by the life and beliefs of the storyteller ‘Grave and witty, suave yet pointed - erudite yet engaging and full of energy’ Hilary Mantel ‘Provocative, funny but scrupulously fair’ Amanda Foreman The History Makers is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers – whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon MAY Schama – continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. Rich in character, complex truths and surprising anecdotes, the result is a unique exploration of both the aims and craft of history-making that will lead us to think anew about our past and ourselves.

The History Makers RICHARD COHEN is the author of Chasing the Sun, How to 2,500 Years of Who We Are Write Like Tolstoy and By the Sword. Richard Cohen History HB: 9781474615778 Royal, 736 pp, £25 New York, USA TPB: 9781474615785 Royal, 736 pp, £14.99 @aboutrichard eBook: 9781474615808 £25

18 A journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to understand the mercurial genius of William Blake Blake’s work has a reputation for being difficult. Yet his genius is widely declared, and his appeal endure. In this radical new biography, John Higgs visits figures ranging from Albert Einstein to Allen Ginsberg, looks at movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explores the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum gravity and compar- MAY ative religion. Taking us on a wild and unexpected journey to understand this most singular artist, we are ultimately brought closer to an understanding of ourselves.

JOHN HIGGS is the author of I Have America Surrounded, William Blake vs The KLF, Stranger Than We Can Imagine, Watling Street, The the World Future Starts Here and William Blake Now. John Higgs Biography Brighton, UK HB: 9781474614351 Royal, 384 pp, £20 www.johnhiggs.com eBook: 9781474614375 £20 @johnhiggs Audio: 9781474614382 10 hrs, £19.99

A mash-up of Max Porter, Kafka’s Metamorphoses and It’s a Wonderful Life, Nothing is a short, strange, unforgettable novel and a deeply humane portrait of a disintegrating mind Michael N wakes up from a coma – after a head injury – believing that he can imagine things out of existence: every- DEBUT thing from his children’s involvement in terrible accidents to his colleague’s eyeballs. He is incredulous to find that he lives in a suburb with this woman, who calls herself his wife, and their children. As he JUNE struggles to piece together an identity from memories others give to him, his belief in his new powers escalates. And the world around him begins to fray at the edges . . .

DANIEL O’CONNOR was born in Middlesbrough in 1987. He is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool. Nothing is his first novel.

Nothing Contemporary Fiction Daniel O’Connor HB: 9781474615303 Demy, 224 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781474615310 Demy, 224 pp, £13.99 eBook: 9781474615334 £14.99 Liverpool, UK Audio: 9781474615440 10 hrs, £19.99

19 The heart-rending story of a Brahmin family living in 1940s Delhi during India’s Independence and DEBUT subsequent Partition.The debut novel by a spellbinding new talent ‘Stunning’ Anna Hope, author of Expectation ‘I loved it’ Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures Delhi, 1946. Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals and both teach at Delhi University.Their 14-year-old daughter, Alma, is soon to JUNE be married to a fair-haired boy; Ma and Bappu are uneasy about their clever daughter marrying so young, but political Not final cover unrest is brewing and times are bad for girls in India. When Partition happens, this wonderful family is torn apart. But the resilience of the human spirit is an extraordinary thing.

MELODY RAZAK completed an MA in creative writing at Birkbeck in 2016 and has had short stories published in the Bath Short Story Anthology and the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. Moth is her debut.

Moth Historical Fiction Melody Razak HB: 9781474619233 Royal, 400 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781474619240 Royal, 400 pp, £13.99 eBook: 9781474619264 £14.99 London, UK Audio: 9781474619462 9 hrs, £19.99

The tragic story of Ethel Rosenberg, the first woman in America sent to her death for a crime other than murder ‘Masterful’ Philippe Sands Ethel Rosenberg’s story is a catastrophic failure of humanity, and probably also of justice, that continues to haunt the conscience. In 1953, Rosenberg became the first woman to be executed by the US government in almost a century – the only woman to be executed for a crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven years old and the mother of two small children. Ethel’s story lays bare a nation once again deeply JUNE divided and unable to live at peace with itself. Not final cover ANNE SEBBA is one of Britain’s most distinguished biogra- Ethel Rosenberg phers, mostly about iconic women, including the international bestseller That Woman. An American Tragedy Anne Sebba Biography HB: 9780297871002 Royal, 384 pp, £20 TPB: 9781474619615 Royal, 384 pp, £14.99 Richmond, UK eBook: 9780297871019 £20 www.annesebba.com Audio: 9781474614214 10 hrs, £19.99

20 A global story of the power of price and how chaotic markets create a chaotic world Price Wars chronicles Rupert Russell’s investigation into the global forces that made the 2010s the chaotic decade. Travelling to nine countries across five continents, he traces a butterfly effect, finding the origins of the Arab Spring and Syrian Civil War, the war in Ukraine, the collapse of Venezuela, and the US border crisis to all come from the same source – commodity prices. It is the chaos in these markets that has created chaos in the real world. And JUNE through interviews with Nobel Prize-winning economists, hedge fund managers and whistle-blowers, the financial forces behind this new volatility is exposed.

RUPERT RUSSELL is a writer and documentary filmmaker. He has a Double-Starred First in the Social and Political Sciences from Jesus College, Cambridge, and an MA and Price Wars PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. Rupert Russell Economic Science HB: 9781474613972 Royal, 320 pp, £20 London, UK TPB: 9781474613989 Royal, 320 pp, £14.99 www.rupertrussell.com eBook: 9781474614009 £20 @rupert_russell Audio: 9781474614016 10 hrs, £19.99

Set on a sun-kissed island off the coast of France, this is a take on classics like Agatha Christie and Donna Tartt – with a deliciously meta twist In 1999, after publishing three cult novels, famous author Nathan Fawles withdraws to Beaumont, a beautiful island off the Mediterranean coast. Autumn 2018. Mathilde Monney, a young Swiss journalist, arrives on the island, determined to unlock Fawles’s secrets. That same day, a woman’s body is discovered on the beach and the island is cordoned off by the authorities. JUNE And so begins a dangerous face-off between Mathilde and Nathan, in which the line between truth and fiction becomes increasingly blurred . . .

GUILLAUME MUSSO is the no.1 bestselling author in France, The Secret Life and his novels have been translated into forty languages of Writers and have sold over 33 million copies worldwide. Guillaume Musso Crime Fiction HB: 9781474619127 Royal, 320 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781474619134 Royal, 320 pp, £13.99 Paris, France eBook: 9781474619158 £14.99 www.guillaumemusso.com/en Audio: 9781474619479 10 hrs, £19.99

21 Trans Latinx NYC comes alive in this cocktail of bleakness and joie de vivre ‘The American dream as seen from the height of a good pair of heels’ Pedro Almodóvar With an introduction by Pedro Almodóvar. With cheeky and honest attitude, Iván Monalisa Ojeda explores the life of Latin American transsexuals and trans- vestites who walk the streets of the Big Apple, attend beauty contests, look for clients on huge heels, and fall prey to the JUNE new immigration policies of Trump’s America. A world where laughter, death, survival and love are intertwined, in a city that can offer hope and devastation – often in the space of the same day.

IVÁN MONALISA OJEDA is a Chilean transgender writer and artist based in New York. The Biuty Queens Iván Monalisa Ojeda LGBTQ+ Fiction TPB: 9781474621793 256 pp, £12.99 New York City, USA eBook: 9781474621816 256 pp, £12.99 @IvanMonalisa Audio: 9781474621823 10hrs, £19.99

A vivid and sprawling family saga following Maria Theresa of Austria and her daughters, including the infamous Marie Antoinette Maria Theresa was only twenty-three years old and four months pregnant with her second child when she ascended to the Austrian throne in 1740. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds. Despite her youth and inexperience, Maria Theresa went on to complete one of the longest and most successful reigns in history. In a sprawling family saga, Nancy Goldstone tells the thrilling story of one of the most JUNE courageous leaders in history and of three of her remarkable daughters.

NANCY GOLDSTONE is a historian and the author of several books, including The Rival Queens and Daughters of the Winter Queen. In the Shadow of the Empress Nancy Goldstone History HB: 9781474609890 Royal, 400 pp, £25 New York, USA eBook: 9781474609913 £25 www.nancygoldstone.com Audio: 9781409181736 12 hrs, £19.99

22 A groundbreaking new story of women’s journey through medicine, exposing the historic origins of the gender pain gap Women’s bodies have always been a battleground. In Unwell Women Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women’s bodies, and traces the journey from the ‘wander- ing womb’ of ancient Greece, through the dawn of Hysteria, to the emergence and now dismantling of the NHS. Packed with character studies of women who have suffered, chal- JUNE lenged and rewritten medical orthodoxy – and drawing on her own experience – this is a groundbreaking and timely exposé of the medical world.

DR ELINOR CLEGHORN has a background in feminist history. Unwell Women She also has a personal connection to the subject, having suffered from lupus herself, which went undiagnosed A Journey Through Myth and for years. Medicine in a Man-Made World Elinor Cleghorn History HB: 9781474616850 Royal, 352 pp, £20 TPB: 9781474616867 Royal, 352 pp, £13.99 Devon, UK eBook: 9781474616881 £20 @elinorcleghorn Audio: 9781474616898 10 hrs, £19.99

The hugely anticipated new novel from the author of the three-million copy global bestseller The Silent Patient – one of the must-read books of the year A mesmerising page-turner which weaves together psychology, Greek myth, and the secrets of a Cambridge college campus. Expect another deeply atmospheric, intelligent, and riveting read from the brightest new star in literary thriller writing.

ALEX MICHAELIDES was born in Cyprus, read English at JUNE Cambridge, and became a Hollywood screenwriter. The Silent Patient, his debut novel, broke all pre-publication records for debut Rights sales and went on to sell three- million copies worldwide.

Title to be Revealed Alex Michaelides Psychological Thriller HB: 9781409181668 Royal, 320 pp, £12.99 TPB: 9781409181675 Royal, 320 pp, £12.99 London, UK eBook: 9781409181699 £12.99 @AlexMichaelides Audio: 9781409181705 10 hrs, £19.99

23 A child says his mother isn’t his real mother but only one person believes him Malone, a child barely four years old, claims that his mother isn’t his real mother. It seems impossible. The school psychologist is the only one who believes him and he’s in a race against time to find out the truth. He approaches Marianne Augresse, a police captain with better things to do with her time. Hot on the heels of a major criminal, she has little interest in the stories of a child.

JULY But what if she’s wrong?

MICHEL BUSSI is the author of many bestselling novels, including After the Crash, Black Water Lilies, Don’t Let Go, Time Is a Killer and Never Forget. He is one of the most successful French authors of all time.

The Wrong Mother Michel Bussi Thriller HB: 9781474606714 Royal, 448 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781474606721 Royal, 448 pp, £13.99 Rouen, France eBook: 9781474606745 £14.99 @michelbussi Audio: 9781409173120 10 hrs, £19.99

An atmospheric new group biography of seven authors (including George Orwell and Dylan Thomas) writing together in wartime London As the street lamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sit- ting rooms, London’s young writers and artists faced being sent to the front, trading their paintbrushes and pens for the weapons of war. In Writing in the Dark, Will Loxley conjures up this brooding world and tells the story of the defiant mag- JULY azine Horizon, which sprung up against the odds.

WILL LOXLEY studied at Newcastle University before join- ing the Creative Writing course at the University of Oxford. He now writes about the strange and wonderful worlds of modern British literature.

Writing in the Dark Will Loxley Biography HB: 9781474615709 Royal, 256 pp, £20 TPB: 9781474615716 Royal, 256 pp, £12.99 London, UK eBook: 9781474615730 £20

24 Hilarious, heartbreaking, warm and compelling – the debut novel from a much-loved comedian DEBUT Jane is bright, funny and very anxious. Jane is in her late thirties but living with her parents. Jane is back in the sticks – having left London after a traumatic break-up with a boyfriend, prompted by their struggles to conceive and his infidelity. Jane is working part-time in an eccentric local bookshop, having left a successful career behind. Jane doesn’t know what to do next – but she is really, really trying!

JULY ISY SUTTIE is a comedian, actress and writer. Her TV acting credits include Dobby in Peep Show and Esther in Shameless, and she has been nominated for three British Comedy Awards. Jane is Trying Isy Suttie Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781474600019 Demy, 288 pp, £16.99 London, UK TPB: 9781474620697 Demy, 288 pp, £14.99 www.isysuttie.com eBook: 9781474600002 £16.99 @Isysuttie Audio: 9781409170969 8 hrs, £19.99

From an astonishing new voice in contemporary literary fiction, about a young woman who cleans people’s ears in a shopping centre In Gunk Baby, we join narrator Leen just as she opens an ear-cleaning and massage salon at the Topic Heights Shopping Centre. After meeting Huy, an engineering student, and Jean-Paul, a pharmacist, she finds herself involved in a group that seeks to actively disrupt systems and power through ‘psychologically violent’ acts. Soon Leen starts to notice increasingly odd behaviour JULY around her – and people are going missing. In nonstop prose, Gunk Baby takes aim at capitalism and class, orientalism and the Zen movement, violence, fash- ion and all the neutral, ecru tones of aesthetic minimalism.

JAMIE MARINA LAU is a writer and artist. Her first novel, Gunk Baby Pink Mountain on Locust Island, was shortlisted for the Jamie Marina Lau Stellar Prize. Her music can be found under the pseudonym ZK king.

Melbourne, Australia Contemporary Fiction www.jm-lau.com HB: 9781474620901 Demy, 240 pp, £14.99 @catalog03 eBook: 9781474620925 £14.99 @babyzzks Audio: 9781474620932 10 hrs, £19.99

25 A sweeping and operatic portrayal of a feuding Texan family DEBUT When March Briscoe returns home from self-imposed exile after having had an affair with his brother’s wife, it doesn’t take him even a day to sleep with her again. After all, it runs in the family: his father has six grown children and only three of them with his long-suffering wife, June. But over the course of a week in Olympus, Texas, there will be a shooting, a funeral and more betrayal, and March will JULY turn out to be the sanest of the bunch.

STACEY SWANN is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She grew up in a small town near Houston. Olympus, Texus is her debut novel.

Olympus, Texus Stacey Swann Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781474612425 Royal, 416 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781474612432 Royal, 416 pp, £13.99 Texas, USA eBook: 9781474612456 £16.99 @StaceySwann Audio: 9781474612463 10 hrs, £19.99

We pride ourselves on bringing provocative, award-winning and lasting works of fiction to a popular audience

26 Launching in January 2021, W&N Essentials is a delightfully varied list of literary jewels. The list will be home to fiction and non-fiction; to books that are already studied on university syllabi; and to cult classics ahead of their time, ripe for mainstream recognition. Each one will be a book of the highest quality, will be adored by those that have already discovered it, will have stood the test of time, and will burn as brightly – or even more brightly – as it did on first publication. Each book will be published as a paperback original, with an introduction from a contemporary author. We have a subtle series look, but each will have an elegant, distinctive cover of its own.

JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH Happy All the Time In the Cut Toddler Hunting and Laurie Colwin Susanna Moore Other Stories Taeko Kono

APRIL MAY JUNE JULY Troubles Speedboat Eustace Meridian J.G. Farrell Renata Adler and Hilda Alice Walker L. P. Hartley

27 Artwork from Monolithic Undertow by Harry Sword, published by White Rabbit (p. 30)

28 Fiction and Non-Fiction

WHITE RABBIT is an imprint dedicated to publishing the most innovative books and voices in music and literature. Building on the uniquely successful publishing he was responsible for at Faber Social, Lee Brackstone’s titles for his Orion imprint indicate the range and personality of a list that encompasses memoir, history, fiction, translation, illustrated books and high-spec limited editions.

Authors include: Lenny Kaye, Kim Gordon, Sinéad Gleeson, Chris Frantz, Annie Nightingale, Richard Russell, Mark Lanegan, Jennifer Lucy Allan, and Simon Price.

29 The epic first ever history of drone music Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub-bass, avant-garde eccentricity, sound weaponry and fervent spiritualism. From Neolithic beginnings to bawdy medieval troubadours, Sufi mystics to Indian raga masters, cone- shattering dubwise bass, Hawkwind’s Ladbroke Grove to the outer reaches of Faust and Ash Ra Tempel, Monolithic FEBRUARY Undertow explores the power of the drone – an audio carrier vessel capable of evoking womb-like warmth or cavernous dread alike.

HARRY SWORD is a Cambridge-based writer. He is a contributor to The Quietus, Vice, Record Collector, Munchies Monolithic Undertow and the Guardian. Monolithic Undertow is his first book. In Search of Sonic Oblivion Harry Sword Music History & Criticism HB: 9781474615235 Royal, 400 pp, £20 Fulbourn, UK TPB: 9781474615242 Royal, 400 pp, £14.99 @HarrySword eBook: 9781474615266 £20

Remains of the Day with cocaine and amplifiers; a novel about ageing men who refuse to grow up resulting in tragic consequences Kitchenly 434 is set in a sprawling Tudorbethan mansion, Kitchenly Mill Race, in Surrey in the late 1970s, before the arrival of Margaret Thatcher. It is narrated by Crofton, a half-demented butler to a famous rockstar of the time, Marko Morrell. A novel about male fantasy and delusion, opening and closing curtains, self-awareness, loneliness, the end of innocence at the close of the 1970s and ‘getting MARCH it together in the country’.

ALAN WARNER is one of Scotland’s most celebrated literary figures. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize and many other awards, and his debut, Morvern Callar, and The Sopranos have both been made into famous films.

Kitchenly 434 Alan Warner Literary Fiction Aberdeen, UK HB: 9781474619530 Royal, 272 pp, £18.99 www.alanwarner.net eBook: 9781474619554 £18.99

30 Part memoir, part travelogue, part history of the foghorn: a uniquely ambitious new kind of nature book What does the foghorn sound like? It sounds huge. It rattles. It rattles you. A booming, lonely sound echoing into the vastness of the sea. When Jennifer Lucy Allan hears the foghorn’s colossal bellow for the first time, it marks the beginning of an obsession and a journey deep into the history of a sound that has carved out the identity of coastlines around the world. An odyssey told through the people who lived with it and loathed it, and one MAY woman’s intrepid voyage through the howling loneliness of nature.

The Foghorn’s Lament JENNIFER LUCY ALLAN has been a journalist for over a The Disappearing decade, writing for publications including the Guardian, The Music of the Coast Quietus, and the Wire. She is currently a presenter on BBC Jennifer Lucy Allan Radio 3’s Late Junction.

Southend-on-Sea, UK Memoir, Travelogue & History www.jenniferlucyallan.co.uk HB: 9781474615037 Demy, 304 pp, £16.99 @JenniferLAllan eBook: 9781474615051 £16.99 @jenniferlucyallanr Audio: 9781474615068 10 hrs, £19.99

The new novel by one of the most exciting and entertaining writers to have emerged from Scotland in the past decade Monument Maker is a monumental modernist novel in the tradition of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jestand Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Detailing a lost summer’s romance, the book expands into a meditation on the history of religious art, and the power of love to redeem suffering. Set in the region of the great cathedrals of France, the book flits between voices and JUNE genres, now contemporary romance, now art history, now historical rendering, now science fiction epic.

DAVID KEENAN is the author of the cult classic This Is Memorial Device, which won the London Magazine Collyer Bristow Prize for Debut Fiction 2018, and For the Good Times, which won the Gordon Burn Prize in 2019. Monument Maker David Keenan Literary Fiction HB: 9781474617093 Royal, 912 pp, £30 Glasgow, UK eBook: 9781474617116 £30 @reversediorama Audio: 9781474617123 35 hrs, £25

31 The unlikely story of a six-time World Snooker Champion turned techno DJ and his relationship with a psychedelic True Believer and their adventures as emerging underground music legends, The Utopia Strong Part sonic memoir, part Socratic dialogue, part gonzo mission to the heart of what makes music truly psychedelic, this book is the first work of joint autobiography to ever trace the evolution of a life-changing friendship through the discographies of Gentle Giant, Magma and Voivod. From the chip shops of Plumstead to the fleshpots of the Pacific JULY Rim and the outer reaches of Glastonbury’s underworld, it’s a funny and fearless buddy movie of the soul, with a soundtrack that will make your eyes bleed.

STEVE DAVIS first metKAVUS TORABI – guitarist with Gong, Guapo, Cardiacs and Knifeworld – in the mid-2000s at a Paris gig by French underground rock legends Magma. Since that moment, as The Utopia Strong – and on NTS Medical Grade Music Radio (as Fire Shuffle) and dancefloors across the country Steve Davis and – they have become one of the most eccentric and trusted Kavus Torabi pairings in alternative music.

Music history & Memoir London, UK Trade Paperback: 9781474619493 Royal, 304 pp, £20 @SteveSnooker eBook: 9781474619509 £20 @Knifeworld Audio: 9781474621847 8 hrs, £19.99

Carl Cox is one of the most celebrated British techno and house DJs. This is his story, and the story of how British club culture took over the world From warm-up DJ on the acid house scene and unlicensed rave DJ, to a global headline artist playing across two continents at the millennium, Carl has been everything from a recording artist and producer to a label owner, and a radio DJ to a broadcaster. This is the true insider story of the man known as ‘the three-deck wizard’ and the King of Ibiza, a DJ who continues to innovate and thrill music lovers on the JULY world’s biggest stages. Oh Yes, Oh Yes CARL COX is one of the most celebrated British techno and house DJs. Carl Cox Memoir Brighton, UK and Australia HB: 9781474616270 Royal, 320 pp, £20 Special Edition HB: 9781474616287 Royal, 320 pp, £75 www.carlcox.com TPB: 9781474616294 Royal, 320 pp, £14.99 @Carl_Cox eBook: 9781474616317 £20 carlcoxofficial Audio: 9781474616324 10 hrs, £19.99

32 Future classic pop cultural history of the 1980s, told through ten defining songs of the decade From The Sugar Hill Gang to Public Enemy, via Prince, Madonna and Springsteen: the first big history of the decade when all the pop narratives collided. Dylan Jones’s masterful new survey tracks the way in which the 1980s were colonised by wildly exciting and eclectic music by choosing one song from each year, and then using that as a prism and a springboard to discuss not just what happened musically that year, but also culturally and JULY sociologically. A narrative history of a decade defined by some of the most memorable singles ever recorded.

DYLAN JONES OBE has for five years been the editor ofGQ , The Eighties the most successful upmarket men’s magazine in Britain. Ten Moments of Pop Genius Previously he was Editor-at-Large of the Sunday Times. That Defined the Decade Dylan Jones Music History HB: 9781474620055 Royal, 400 pp, £20 London, UK TPB: 9781474620062 Royal, 400 pp, £14.99 @dylanjonesgq eBook: 9781474620086 £20 @DylanJonesGQ Audio: 9781474620093 9 hrs, £19.99

Dedicated to publishing the most innovative books and voices in music and literature

33 Artwork from Mixed/Other by Natalie Morris, published by Trapeze (p. 41)

34 Fiction & Non-Fiction

Launched in October 2016 with a mission to publish books that start conversations, TRAPEZE has established itself as one of the most vibrant, dynamic – and commercially successful – imprints in the industry. Publishing both fiction and non-fiction, and already the home of eighteen Sunday Times bestsellers, our books reflect the world around us, tapping into the things that readers want to talk about now. Trapeze was nominated for Imprint of the Year at the British Book Awards 2019.

Trapeze is innovative in our publishing: we explore new publishing models – being format- flexible and innovative in how we reach our readers; we are the home of brand partnerships, working with the Ordnance Survey, Historic Royal Palaces, ITV and the Natural History Museum; and we are creative in our commissioning, finding talent through traditional and non-traditional channels, including writing competitions, IP, and partnerships.

Our non-fiction authors include the no. 1 bestsellers Adam Kay (Dear NHS)Sarah Millican (How To Be Champion) and the Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick(Listening to the Animals); Glastonbury Festival’s Michael and Emily Eavis; comedy legend Alan Partridge; Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper, writers and stars of the three-time BAFTA nominated BBC comedy This Country; and the biggest podcast networks in the world, Stuff You Should Know and My Favourite Murder.

Trapeze fiction is home to award-winning writers including Candice Carty-Williams, whose Sunday Times bestselling novel Queenie was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and longlisted for the Women’s Prize. We publish crime and thrillers with something to say, including Sunday Times bestselling crime writers Sharon Bolton and Daniel Cole, and our list includes debut stars Leaf Arbuthnot, Robin Morgan-Bentley and Rhiannon Ward.

35 A conversation-starting novel about long-term relationships, infidelity, friendship and family It’s New Year’s Eve, and Iris has just found out that her husband, Adam, is cheating on her. Furious, she kicks him out, and enlists her dad to move in and help with the children while she tries to mend her broken heart. As she juggles work and family life, Iris realises that Adam wasn’t the only one taking their marriage for granted. Against the advice of her friends, she decides to set some ground rules and a deadline of one year to save their marriage. But JANUARY when she scratches the surface, is it actually worth saving? And is it braver to stay or to run?

HELEN WHITAKER is a journalist and mum-of-one living in I Give It a Year Walthamstow. She is the former Entertainment Director of Should She Stay or Glamour magazine, and has written for a number of publica- Should She Go? tions including Stella, the Telegraph, BA High Life magazine Helen Whitaker and Fabulous magazine

Romance London, UK MMP: 9781409195474 B format, 304 pp, £8.99 www.helenwhitaker.me eBook: 9781409195481 £8.99 @helbobwhitaker Audio: 9781409195658 10 hrs, £19.99

An empowering guide that provides women with real tools and insights to strategically navigate the workplace and become leaders at their organisations Written by professional career coach and founder of devel- opment organisation Ladies Get Paid, Claire Wasserman provides the tools and talking points women can use to successfully navigate gender power dynamics in the workplace. The goal? Rise up and get paid. Filled with personal stories and straightforward advice, this is a must-read for anyone who wants to take their career to the JANUARY next level. If you’re looking to get a raise, navigate a promotion or break the glass ceiling, Ladies Get Paid will show you how.

Ladies Get Paid CLAIRE WASSERMAN is a career coach dedicated to helping Breaking Barriers, Owning Your women thrive at work. Claire has collaborated with Nike, Worth and Taking Command of WeWork and Squarespace, and was chosen as one of Your Career Bumble’s 100 Most Inspiring New Yorkers. Claire Wasserman Self-help New York City, USA HB: 9781409192718 Royal, 288 pp, £12.99 www.clairewasserman.com eBook: 9781409192725 £12.99 @clairewasserman Audio: 9781409192732 10 hrs, £19.99

36 Erin Brockovich meets Dallas Buyers Club; the true story of a young mother who risks everything to help AIDS victims in the 1980s All the Young Men is a gripping and triumphant true story of human compassion, and tells of how 26-year-old Ruth Coker Burks cared for people with AIDS when no one else in her deeply conservative community would. Ruth kept her story a secret for years, but at a time when it’s more important than ever to stand up for those who can’t, she has found the courage to have her voice – and JANUARY the voices of those who were stigmatised, rejected and abandoned – heard.

RUTH COKER BURKS has been an advocate for the LGBTQ All the Young Men community for thirty years, and helped to bury roughly a How One Woman Risked It thousand men abandoned by families and neglected by All to Care for the Dying medical professionals. Ruth Coker Burks

Memoir Arkansas, USA HB: 9781409189107 Royal, 368 pp, £16.99 @citizenruth eBook: 9781409189138 £16.99 @citizenruth Audio: 9781409189145 10 hrs, £19.99

An anthology of love stories written by women of colour, collated by editor and author Sareeta Domingo Who’s Loving You is a collection of short stories celebrating desire and love in all its guises, written by and reflecting the experiences of women of colour in an authentic way. The stories are authored by some of the best storytellers working in the UK today, with the full line-up of contributors to be announced shortly.

SAREETA DOMINGO is the author of The Nearness of You, FEBRUARY the upcoming If I Don’t Have You, as well as numerous Not final cover erotic short stories and an erotic novella. She also writes YA under the name S.A. Domingo, works as an Editor at Harlequin Mills & Boon, and occasionally reviews contem- Who’s Loving You porary romance on her blog, The Palate Cleanser. She lives Love Stories by in South East London. Women of Colour Sareeta Domingo Anthology HB: 9781409193722 Demy, 272 pp, £14.99 London, UK TPB: 9781409193739 Demy, 272 pp, £14.99 www.sareetadomingo.com eBook: 9781409193753 £14.99 @SareetaDomingo Audio: 9781409193760 10 hrs, £19.99

37 Poems of resilience, healing and hope from Instagram sensation and voice of a generation Nikita Gill In Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light, Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill returns to her roots with her most personal collection yet. Sharing a number of poems that she wrote when the world went into lockdown, this fully illustrated collection by NikIta will include the phenomenal ‘Love in the Time of Coronavirus’, which was shared across social media over 20,000 times, as well as her poems of strength and hope, ‘How to Be Strong’ FEBRUARY and ‘Silver Linings’.

NIKITA GILL is a British-Indian writer and poet with a huge Where Hope online following (578k followers on Instagram and 40k on Comes From Twitter). Her words have entranced hearts and minds all Poems of Resilience, over the world. Healing and Light Nikita Gill

Poetry St Albans, UK HB: 9781398702769 B format, 240 pp, £14.99 @nktgill eBook: 9781398702776 £14.99 @nikita_gill Audio: 9781398702899 3 hrs, £9.99

An emotional story of one mother’s impossible choice between her two daughters, with a delicious side of tension. Perfect for fans of Linda Green and Amanda Prowse Two Girls. One Chance. When Lizzie’s car crashes with her two daughters inside, she faces a terrible choice. And when she recovers from her injuries, she has to deal with the police investigation into it. As Lizzie and her family struggle to come to terms with FEBRUARY the events of that night, things take an even darker turn. Just what did happen on that remote country road? Who is responsible? And can the family get through this together . . . Or will the truth finally tear them apart?

LAURA JARRATT is a Carnegie Medal and Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize- nominated author. She is a head- Mother teacher at a special needs school and has written four YA books to date. Laura Jarratt Thriller MMP: 978 1 409 19379 1 B Format, 288 pp, £7.99 Cheshire, UK eBook: 9781409193807 £7.99 @LauraJarratt Audio: 9781409193814 10 hrs, £19.99

38 A stunning coming-of-age memoir of obsession, passion and manipulation, shining a bright light on our shifting perceptions of consent, vulnerability and power A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing and in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr North. Mr North gives Alisson a copy of Lolita to read, telling her it is a beautiful story about love. The book soon becomes the backdrop to a relationship that blooms from a simple crush into a forbidden romance. But as time progresses and his FEBRUARY hold on her tightens, Alisson is forced to evaluate how much of that narrative is actually a disturbing fiction.

ALISSON WOOD is a graduate of New York University, where she now teaches creative writing to undergraduates. She also leads advanced Creative Non-Fiction workshops with Being Lolita Sackett Street Writers in Brooklyn. Alisson Wood Memoir HB: 9781398701205 Demy, 352 pp, £16.99 New York, USA TPB: 9781398701199 Demy, 304 pp, £12.99 www.alissonwood.com eBook: 9781398701229 £16.99 @literarytswift Audio: 9781398701502 10 hrs, £19.99

A sweeping love story about a couple kept apart for fifty years who reunite when he has only months to live It’s been fifty years since Elizabeth fell in love with Tom, and just as many since she saw him, yet thanks to the blue crocus delivered to her every year, she’s sure he still loves her too. But when on the fiftieth anniversary the flower fails to arrive, she fears the worst. With only a little time left, she vows to fulfil as many of his MARCH wishes as she can. But Elizabeth is scared that her efforts risk uncovering the secret she has been keeping her whole life . . .

MICHELLE ADAMS is the author of two psychological thrillers, My Sister and Between the Lies, which have been translated into fifteen languages. Little Wishes Michelle Adams Romance MMP: 9781409195047 B format, 304 pp, £7.99 Cyprus eBook: 9781409195054 £7.99 @MAdamswriter Audio: 9781409195085 10 hrs, £19.99

39 A beautiful collection of poems about motherhood, from acclaimed anthologist Ana Sampson DEBUT Night Feeds and Morning Songs is a beautiful gift book con- taining 150 poems about motherhood from classic and contemporary poets. From poems on pregnancy through to birth and beyond, this anthology explores what it means to be a mother, and examines the many conflicting emotions that this entails. It is the perfect gift for mothers, and reveals to the reader that they are not alone.

MARCH ANA SAMPSON has worked in publicity in publishing for almost twenty years and has been editing poetry anthol- Not final cover ogies since 2009. Night Feeds and Morning Songs Ana Sampson

Poetry Surrey, UK HB: 9781398702400 Demy, 240 pp, £12.99 www.anasampson.co.uk eBook: 9781398702424 £12.99 @AnaBooks Audio: 9781398702523 3 hrs, £6.99

An ambitious, thrilling manifesto, setting out a new relationship between the individual and the state and how to get there Should we abolish Mondays? Is it time to stop poor people being poor by . . . giving them money? Should we let 14-year-olds vote? Former government advisor James Plunkett sets out his argument for the ten ways that our relationship with the MARCH state isn’t fit for purpose and how it needs to change. Cov- ering a dizzyingly ambitious and global range of references, from London’s eighteenth-century sewage systems to the future of digital education, this is a thrillingly iconoclastic manifesto for navigating the future, and required reading. End State JAMES PLUNKETT is the Executive Director of Advice and 10 Ways That Society Is Broken Advocacy at Citizen’s Advice. He was Director of Policy at and What We Can Do to Fix It the Resolution Foundation and worked at 10 Downing Street James Plunkett and the Cabinet Office as an advisor to Gordon Brown. Social Responsibility HB: 9781398702189 Demy, 288 pp, £14.99 London, UK eBook: 9781398702202 £14.99 @jamestplunkett Audio: 9781398702219 10 hrs, £19.99

40 An exploration of what it means to be mixed race in the UK today The mixed-race population is the fastest-growing ethnic group in the UK. Despite the plethora of backgrounds that are encompassed by the term ‘mixed’, through the course of her work as a journalist, it became clear to Natalie Morris that there is a collec- tive identity; recurring themes and experiences that suggest a commonality of mixed-race existence. Natalie will explore themes such as identity struggles, the openness and close- MARCH ness of family life, the complexities of dating, the feelings of cultural guilt and disconnect and many more.

NATALIE MORRIS is a senior lifestyle writer at the Metro and her work has appeared in Gal-dem, the Independent and Digital Spy. Mixed/Other Natalie Morris Society and culture HB: 9781409197140 Royal, 304 pp, £16.99 London, UK eBook: 9781409197164 £16.99 @Nmozz Audio: 9781409197164 8 hrs, £19.99

The fascinating and awe-inspiring stories of Britain’s first female bomb disposal expert Imagine having to choose – the red wire, or the blue wire. Remember, your life depends on it. In this extraordinary memoir, Lucy Lewis reveals the hidden world of bomb disposal training and how she came to be the UK’s first female bomb disposal expert. Full of high stakes and tense situations, her story is also a deeply inspirational one as she joins the military in the 1980s, when being a woman in this space was no easy feat. MARCH This is how one ordinary woman made history.

LUCY LEWIS became the first female bomb disposal officer to operate in the Armed Forces. In 2018, she became Lighting the Fuse Cambridge University’s first female marshal. Stories from Britain’s First Female Bomb Disposal Expert Lucy Lewis Memoir HB: 9781841883939 Demy, 336 pp, £18.99 Cambridge, UK eBook: 9781841883953 £18.99 @Loobyloot Audio: 9781841883984 10 hrs, £19.99

41 An original and timely multigenerational novel of family, identity and race in America, for readers of Tayari Jones and Britt Bennett What’s Mine and Yours is a sweeping, rich tapestry of familial bond and identity, and a sharp, poignant look at the ways race affects even the closest of relationships. This is not just one love story, but many: it’s the all-consuming volatile passion of young lovers and the quieter comfort of steady companionship; ‘the often tenuous but unbreakable bond between siblings; and it’s the unconditional love that APRIL runs between parent and child and encompasses adoration, contempt and forgiveness.

NAIMA COSTER’s debut, Halsey Street, was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Naima has also been selected for the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Honorees, a selection of five fiction writers under the age of 35 whose What’s Mine and Yours debut work promises to leave a lasting impression on the Naima Coster literary landscape.

Literary Fiction New York City, USA HB: 9781398703322 Royal, 304 pp, £14.99 www.naimacoster.com eBook: 9781398703353 £14.99 @zafatista Audio: 9781398703360 10 hrs, £19.99

A beautifully curated anthology from writers past and present, these poems will provide the perfect tonic for whatever ails you From grief to toothache, heartbreak to homesickness, the power of finding solace in the words of another cannot be overstated. Whether it was written 300 years ago or in our present day, poetry provides a comforting light in the dark. Joy is Coming is a ready-made toolkit to reach for in times of need. Combining poems from literary classics to new, cutting-edge voices, this extraordinary collection proves APRIL that we are never alone in the suffering we endure and in our capacity to overcome it.

Joy is Coming CECILIA KNAPP is a writer, poet and playwright, and has Poems for When performed her work all over the UK and internationally. She You Need Them is an ambassador for CALM (the Campaign Against Living Cecilia Knapp Miserably).

Poetry London, UK HB: 9781398702554 Demy, 304 pp, £14.99 www.ceciliaknapp.com eBook: 9781398702561 £14.99 @ceciliaknapp Audio: 9781398702646 10 hrs, 19.99

42 What would you do if you found your name on a hitlist? And your late husband put it there? Things go from bad to worse for Marianne when she discovers that not only had her seemingly ordinary late husband, Greg, been accessing the dark web, but that her name is also on a hitlist on his laptop. Marianne must figure out whether Greg was trying to protect her or whether he was complicit in the conspiracy to murder her.

APRIL As she is pulled deeper into an underworld that Greg was seemingly hostage to, she gets closer to meeting Sam – the assassin hired to kill her.

HOLLY SEDDON is the international bestselling author of Try Not to Breathe, Don’t Close Your Eyes and Love Will Tear Us Apart. The Hit List Holly Seddon Thriller MMP: 9781409195504 B format, 400 pp, £8.99 London, UK eBook: 9781409195511 £19.99 @hollyseddon Audio: 9781409195665 11 hrs, £19.99

A searing and powerfully written exploration of rape culture and the author’s experiences as a survivor of sexual violence Sexual violence is an epidemic happening across all inter- sections of society, impacting every one of us. In the aftermath of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, a cultural conversation has been ignited about the prevalence, imme- diate impact and long-term effects that sexual violence has on people.

APRIL Bringing her voice to the fore, in The Way We Survive, Catri- ona Morton offers up a cultural critique of rape culture in the UK, along with personal, intimate insights into how survivors live with and cope in the aftermath of such a violation.

The Way We Survive CATRIONA MORTON is a writer, activist and podcaster based Notes on Rape Culture in London. Catriona is the host of the BBC Sounds podcast Catriona Morton After: Surviving Sexual Assault. Self-Help London, UK TPB: 9781398700550 Demy, 304 pp, £12.99 www.lifecontinuesafter.com eBook: 9781398700574 £12.99 @tacriona Audio: 9781398700826 9 hrs, £19.99

43 Four friends wanting to reconnect go on holiday to a festival in their hometown, but not all of them will leave alive . . . Orly, Lenny, Mel and Thea have been best friends since school. But now it is twenty years later and inevitably they have drifted apart. It is Lenny’s fortieth birthday, plus Orly and Mel need cheer- ing up, so Thea suggests a weekend away at a festival in their hometown. It’s a chance for them all to reconnect.

APRIL But their holiday soon takes a sinister turn, and not all of the friends will leave the festival alive . . .

SARAH J. NAUGHTON is the bestselling author of The Other Couple and Tattletale. Her debut children’s thriller, The The Festival Hanged Man Rises, was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Sarah J. Naughton Children’s Book Award.

Crime London, UK MMP: 9781409184690 B format, 304 pp, £7.99 www.sarahjnaughton.com eBook: 9781409184706 £7.99 @SarahJNaughton Audio: 9781409193784 10 hrs, £19.99

A rom-com with a twist from the internationally bestselling author of Calling Major Tom, David M. Barnett Daisy is the night security guard at the Manchester Museum of Social History. Nate works the day shift, though he’d be more suited as a museum guide the way he chats with the visitors. Daisy doesn’t approve. Daisy and Nate don’t have much to do with each other APRIL except for the five minutes when their shifts overlap at handover. It’s the only interaction they have . . . until strange things begin to happen at the museum. They soon discover they have a lot more in common than they realised . . .

DAVID M. BARNETT is the author of the critically acclaimed Gideon Smith series of Victorian fantasies, published by Tor The Handover Books, and the writer of the Punks Not Dead comic series David M. Barnett from Black Crown/IDW.

Romance Bradford, UK TPB: 9781398702615 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 www.davidmbarnett.com eBook: 9781409185253 £14.99 @davidmbarnett Audio: 9781409185260 10 hrs, £19.99

44 A sweeping new saga novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Douglas, set in Yorkshire during the Second World War Spring, 1941. The families of Jubilee Row are still reeling from the loss of one of their own. As the street braces itself, capable mum Ruby Maguire takes charge as usual, bolstering spirits and lending a hand, as well as keeping her flighty sister Pearl on the straight and narrow. But the unexpected appearance of a face from her past threatens Ruby’s future far more than Hitler’s bombs. APRIL Meanwhile, the other inhabitants of Jubilee Row are finding love – and hope – in the most unexpected places . . .

DONNA DOUGLAS is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Nightingale Girls series and The Nurses of Steeple Street series. A Sister’s Wish Donna Douglas Saga York, UK MMP: 9781409190929 B format, 304 pp, £6.99 www.donnadouglas.co.uk eBook: 9781409190936 £6.99 @DonnaAuthor Audio: 9781409190943 10 hrs, £19.99

A wartime saga that highlights the role of women at Kew Gardens, in partnership with heritage brand Kew Gardens It’s 1940 and for newlywed Daisy Turner, Kew Gardens is a haven away from the bombs that are falling nightly on her East End home. Beth Sanderson works with Daisy, but she dreams of being a doctor while juggling her gardening job with nursing shifts. And there’s the added complication of her forbidden romance with her Jamaican colleague, Gus Campbell. MAY When tragedy strikes and Daisy’s life is changed forever, it falls to her friends at Kew Gardens to step in and save her and her family.

The Kew Gardens POSY LOVELL is a pseudonym for author Kerry Barrett, who has written several historical fiction novels published by Girls at War HarperCollins. Posy Lovell

Saga London, UK HB: 9781409193319 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 @kerrybean73 eBook: 9781409193333 £14.99 @kerrybean73 Audio: 9781409193340 10 hrs, £19.99

45 That summer, one of their lives was changed forever ‘I’m a huge fan of Sharon Bolton and this is her best yet’ Lee Child on The Split A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures. But after a dare-devil game goes horribly wrong, a woman and two children are killed. Eighteen-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a ‘favour’, payable on her release from prison.

MAY Twenty years later, it’s payback time. A gripping mystery of betrayal, privilege and revenge.

SHARON BOLTON is a Sunday Times bestselling author and has won a host of awards, including the CWA Dagger in the Library, for her entire body of work, among many more. The Pact Sharon Bolton Crime HB: 9781409198307 Royal, 304 pp, £12.99 Lancashire, UK TBP: 9781409198314 Royal, 304 pp, £12.99 www.sharonbolton.com eBook: 9781409198338 £12.99 @authorSJBolton Audio: 9781409198505 10 hrs, £19.99

From the winner of the eHarmony Write Your Own Love Story competition DEBUT When Alec asks Jess out, she knows it won’t work. Jess has inherited Huntington’s disease from the mother that she cares for. Falling in love would just mean condemn- ing someone to the heartbreak that she feels every day. When she finally tells Alec why they have no future together, he proposes that they forget the future and live for the moment. JUNE But as Jess begins to fall for Alec, she knows she has to end it. It’s better that he is hurt now rather than heart- broken later . . . isn’t it?

SUZANNE EWART is the winner of the eHarmony Write Your Own Love Story competition. One Month of You Suzanne Ewart Romance MMP: 9781409194378 B format, 304 pp, £7.99 London, UK eBook: 9781409194385 £7.99 @SuzanneEwart1 Audio: 9781409194507 10 hrs, £19.99

46 Quirky and fantastical historical crime debut for fans of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle London, 1958: concealed beneath the city’s streets lies the elusive world of Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries – a confounding maze of tunnels and halls, home to a myriad of curious gadgets. When 23-year-old apprentice detective Marion Lane arrives at Miss Brickett’s for a day of training after another dreary weekend with her aunt, she learns that Michelle White, a fil- ing assistant, has been murdered in a restricted room just JUNE outside the library. Marion embarks on a perilous journey to find out who really killed Michelle White, and why . . . Marion Lane and the T.A. WILLBERG was home-schooled until she was sixteen, Midnight Murder then spent the next two years in competitive horse riding An Inquirers Mystery and represented South Africa. She now divides her time T.A. Willberg between chiropractic and writing. Historical Fiction Malta HB: 9781409196631 Royal, 368 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781409196648 Royal, 368 pp, £13.99 www.tawillberg.com eBook: 9781409196662 £14.99 @Tess_Amy_ Audio: 9781409196679 10 hrs, £19.99

A hilarious, fresh take on the trials and tribulations of being a woman in your twenties When Briony has a colossal panic attack at work, she is signed off for a month on mental health leave. To make matters worse, her boyfriend is being distant, her best friend seems to have replaced her and her dad needs a lift home from jail – again. Briony decides that she needs to make a change and signs up to a local social anxiety support group. It is there that she JUNE meets Jordan and Sarah, two new friends who might just show Briony that she is ‘enough’ already.

MARY HARGREAVES enjoys writing and reading things that cleverer people have written. She hates waiting, musicals Enough Already and Pinot Grigio. Mary Hargreaves Romance Manchester, UK MMP: 9781409194675 B format, 304 pp, £8.99 www.maryhargreaves.co.uk eBook: 9781409194682 £8.99 @MKHarg Audio: 9781409194996 10 hrs, £19.99

47 A hilarious, moving and utterly compelling collection of stories from a third-generation Essex firefighter Leigh Pickett has seen it all. He’s battled blazing fires and pulled people from the wreckage of terrible accidents, but the closest he ever came to death was the time an Essex hen do mistook him for the stripper. Now he’s here to tell us the funniest, saddest, most exciting stories from a life among the smoke. From fires started by sex toys, to what to do when you find yourself in the middle of an enormous fire at a cannabis farm and, yes, there will be cats up trees. JUNE LEIGH PICKETT is a third-generation firefighter and campaigner.

Up in Smoke Stories from a Life on Fire Leigh Pickett Memoir HB: 9781409198857 Demy, 304 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781409198864 Royal, 304 pp, £14.99 London, UK eBook: 9781409198888 £16.99 @Hosy_Pickett Audio: 9781409198895 10 hrs, £19.99

A brand-new detective series from international bestseller Simon Beckett Lost is the beginning of a new crime series, and introduces readers to Jonah Colley, an armed response officer with the Met Police. Ten years ago, the abduction of Colley’s young son ended his career as a police detective and almost destroyed him. A plea for help from an estranged friend leads Jonah to a brutal attack of which he’s the only survivor.

JULY Discharged from the force and under suspicion himself, his search for the truth throws doubt on everything he thought he knew.

SIMON BECKETT is the no.1 international bestselling author of the David Hunter series. His books have been translated Lost into twenty-nine languages, and sold over 10 million copies Simon Beckett worldwide.

Crime Sheffield, UK TPB: 9781409192770 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 www.simonbeckett.com eBook: 9781409192794 £14.99 @BeckettSimon Audio: 978140919280 10 hrs, £19.99

48 Screen-free fun for every occasion with classic games repurposed, rebooted and remixed for the twenty-first century A brilliant way to have more fun with your family. Everything Is a Game will be the book you take with you in the boot of the car, in the side pocket of your hand luggage, to provide screen-free fun in any context, from filling in the wait for food at a restaurant to a delayed plane at an airport. From remixing classic games like blind man’s buff and cha- JULY rades into Room Defence or Moustache!, or taking household objects and making up entirely new games, this will be the perfect way of having better-quality family time.

KEVAN DAVIS is a designer of board, street, web and escape Everything Is a Game room games. VIV SCHWARZ is an award-winning author Quick, Easy Games for and illustrator. She lectures in illustration and game design Every Occasion at university level. Viv Schwarz and Kevan Davis Games HB: 9781398701830 B format, 192 pp, £9.99 London, UK eBook: 9781398701847 £9.99

Books that start conversations

49 Artwork from Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore, published by Gollancz (p. 52)

50 Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

GOLLANCZ is the oldest specialist Science Fiction & Fantasy publisher in the UK. Founded in 1927, and with a continuous Science Fiction publishing programme dating back to 1961, it is home to a galaxy of award-winning and bestselling authors.

Through the long-running Science Fiction & Fantasy Masterworks programme, and a major digital initiative, the Science Fiction Gateway, Gollancz has one of the largest ranges of Science Fiction & Fantasy of any publisher in the world. Authors include Ben Aaronovitch, Joe Abercrombie, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Aliette de Bodard, Arthur C. Clarke, Dhonielle Clayton, Philip K. Dick, Stephen Donaldson, Charlaine Harris, Joanne Harris, Joe Hill, Ursula K. Le Guin, Scott Lynch, Terry Pratchett, Alastair Reynolds, Justina Robson, Brandon Sanderson, Andrzej Sapkowski and Nalini Singh.

Mission: To publish the very best authors in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, to re-present the classics of the genre to a new audience and to discover the stars of tomorrow. To boldly go, dare we say it, where no publisher has gone before.

51 A razor-sharp debut Science Fiction thriller. Inscape holds a mirror up to our reality by exploring just where our sinister corporation-led world might lead Tanta’s very first mission is a code red: to take her team into the unaffiliated zone just outside InTech’s borders and retrieve a stolen hard drive. It should have been quick and simple, but a surprise attack kills two of her colleagues and Tanta barely makes it home alive. Determined to prove herself and partnered with a colleague whose past is a mystery even to himself, Tanta’s investiga- JANUARY tion uncovers a sinister conspiracy that makes her question her own loyalties and the motives of everyone she used to trust.

LOUISE CAREY has co-written two novels for Gollancz, The City of Silk and Steel and The House of War and Witness, as Inscape well as a graphic novel, Confessions of a Blabbermouth, for Louise Carey DC Comics. Science Fiction Welwyn Garden City, UK TPB: 9781473232747 Royal, 432 pp, £14.99 www.louise-carey.com eBook: 9781473230002 £7.99 @Louisecarey25 Audio: 9781473230057 15 hrs, £19.99

The brand-new Graceling novel from Kristen Cashore! Something is rotten at the heart of Winterkeep . . . A new land has been discovered to the east. Winterkeep is a land of miracles, a democratic republic run by people who like each other, where people speak to telepathic sea creatures and fly across the sky in ships attached to bal- loons. But when Bitterblue’s envoys to Winterkeep drown under suspicious circumstances, she must set off to discover the truth. JANUARY KRISTIN CASHORE’s novels have won many awards and high praise, including Booklist Editors’ Choice, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Graceling was shortlisted for the William C. Morris Debut Award.

Winterkeep Kristin Cashore Fantasy HB: 9781473232778 Royal, 544 pp, £18.99 Boston, USA TPB: 9781473232785 Royal, 544 pp, £14.99 www.kristincashore.blogspot.com eBook: 9781473232808 £9.99 @kristincashore Audio: 9781473232860 15 hrs, £21.99

52 The first new Science Fiction novel from leading author Adam Roberts in over three years, combining space opera with fast-paced near-future thriller A spaceship has reached its destination: an abandoned planet dominated by a conical mountain whose summit is high above the atmosphere. The crew hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossus, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art? Meanwhile, a neurotoxin is causing the collapse of the United States. And for Ottoline Barragão, a regular kid jug- FEBRUARY gling school and her friends, things are about to get dangerous, chased across the country by people willing to do anything to access her private network and recover the secret inside.

ADAM ROBERTS is commonly described as one of the UK’s most important writers of Science Fiction. He is the author Purgatory Mount of numerous novels and literary parodies. Adam Roberts Science Fiction HB: 9781473230941 Royal, 320 pp, £16.99 London, UK eBook: 9781473230965 £8.99 @arrroberts Audio: 9781473230972 10 hrs, £19.99

This New Zealand thriller takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of a sprawling forest Nina Rai’s disappearance was just another trophy wife growing tired of her wealthy husband. But now her bones have turned up in the forest surrounding her elite neighbourhood. The rich live here, along with those whose job it is to make their lives easier. And somebody knows what happened. Nina’s son Aarav heard a chilling scream, and he’s determined to uncover the ugly truth . . . but no one is ready for FEBRUARY the murderous secrets about to crawl out of the dark.

NALINI SINGH was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. She has previously worked as a lawyer, librarian, candy factory general hand, bank temp and an English teacher! Quiet in Her Bones Nalini Singh Thriller Auckland, New Zealand TPB: 9781473229570 Royal, 400 pp, £14.99 www.nalinisingh.com eBook: 9781473229594 £7.99 @NaliniSingh Audio: 9781473229600 15 hrs, £19.99

53 A breathtaking collection of new science fiction from the South Asian subcontinent, collected together for the very first time The citizens of Karachi wake up and discover the sea missing from their shores, the last Parsi on Earth must escape to other worlds when debt collectors come knocking and a family visiting a Partition-themed park gets more entertainment than they bargained for. These stories and others showcase the epic scope of science fiction from the South Asian subcontinent. Offering a FEBRUARY fresh perspective on our hyper-global, alienating and para- noid world, New Horizons brings together tales of masterful imagination that, more than anything, ask questions about what it means to be human.

TARUN K. SAINT is an independent writer born in Kenya, and New Horizons the editor of New Horizons. His research interests include the literature of the Partition of India and science fiction. The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Various Science-Fiction MMP: 9781473228689 B format, 432 pp, £9.99 eBook: 9781473228696 £5.99

What if you had all the power of a god . . . but found out too late: that god was evil . . . Annev wanted, more than anything, to become an avatar. One of the select few skilled enough to leave the Academy to steal dangerous magical artifacts from those who would misuse them, and keep them safe. Only his world has been destroyed – levelled with magic – and worse, Annev was the one who tore it apart. Now he has to find a new place in a world filled with danger, with the few other survivors, and test their skills in ways they could never have imagined. FEBRUARY JUSTIN CALL graduated from Harvard University in 2012 with a Master’s in Literature and Creative Writing. He currently lives in Utah with his wife, two sons and their Great Dane.

Master Artificer Justin Call Fantasy HB: 9781473222908 Royal, 592 pp, £18.99 Utah, USA TPB: 9781473222915 Royal, 592 pp, £14.99 www.justintcall.com eBook: 9781473222939 £9.99 @Justin_T_Call Audio: 9781409176077 12 hrs, £19.99

54 Ghost hunter, fox whisperer, troublemaker. Ben Aaronovitch’s next Rivers of London novella is here . . . It is the summer of 2013 and Abigail Kamara has been left to her own devices. Teenagers around Hampstead Heath have been going missing but before the police can get fully engaged, the teens return home – unharmed but vague about where they’ve been. Aided only by her new friend, Simon, her knowledge that MARCH magic is real and a posse of talking foxes that think they’re spies, Abigail must venture into the wilds of Hampstead to discover who is luring the teenagers and more impor- tantly – why?

What Abigail Did BEN AARONOVITCH was a screenwriter for Doctor Who and a bookseller at Waterstones. Every book in his Rivers of That Summer London series has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Ben Aaronovitch Fantasy London, UK HB: 9781473224346 B format, 208 pp, £12.99 www.benaaronovitch.com eBook: 9781473224360 £6.99 @Ben_Aaronovitch Audio: 9781409181569 4 hrs, £12.99

Superhuman. Immortal. Prince in a galactic empire. There has to be a catch . . . Khemri learns the minute he becomes a prince that princes need to be hard to kill – for they are always in danger. Their greatest threat? Other princes. There are also mysteries. Khemri is dispatched on a secret mission for the Empire, and in the ruins of a space battle he meets a young woman called Raine. Raine will cause him to challenge everything he knows. But MARCH Khemri is a prince, and even if he wanted to leave the Empire, certain forces have very definite plans for his future.

GARTH RICHARD NIX is the multiple bestselling Australian writer of the Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series. He has twice won the Aurealis Award. A Confusion of Princes Garth Nix

Sydney, Australia Fantasy www.garthnix.com MMP: 9781473231306 B format, 320 pp, £8.99 @garthnix eBook: 9781473231313 £4.99

55 The second novel in the critically acclaimed Legacy of the Mercenary King series, which Brandon Sanderson has labelled ‘excellent’ Michael Kingman thought he was going to die by the executioner’s axe, forever labelled as a traitor. Still alive, and under the protection of the Orbis Mercenary company, he and his friends are mired in the seemingly rival conspiracies tearing The Hollows apart. For the king is dead, and both the Corrupt Prince and his MARCH sister Serena are vying for the throne. Meanwhile the Rebel Emperor is spreading lies among the people. Worst of all: everyone wants Michael to die.

NICK MARTELL was born in Ontario, Canada, before moving to the United States at the age of seven. His debut novel, The The Two-Faced Queen Kingdom of Liars, sold when he was twenty-three years old. Nick Martell Fantasy HB: 9781473225657 Royal, 544 pp, £16.99 Allentown, USA TPB: 9781473225664 Royal, 544 pp, £14.99 www.nickmartell.com eBook: 9781473225688 £8.99 @MacMartell Audio: 9781409184270 15 hrs, £19.99

Vakov has been to hell and back, but he’s never faced anything like this . . . Stormtech is the most powerful drug out there. Derived from dangerous, alien DNA, it was used to create supersoldiers – like Vakov himself. But now it’s on the streets, it’s incred- ibly addictive . . . and it’s lethal. Worse: Harmony – the out- fit which dosed Vakov to begin with – needs help to end the epidemic on the streets, before it spirals out of control. Continuing the story begun in Stormblood, this high-octane military Science Fiction story will keep fans of Altered Car- APRIL bon on the edge of their seats.

JEREMY SZAL was the editor for the Hugo-winning StarShipSofa until 2020. He loves watching weird movies, collecting boutique gins, exploring cities, and dark humour. Blindspace Jeremy Szal Science Fiction Sydney, Australia TPB: 9781473227477 Royal, 320 pp, £16.99 www.jeremyszal.com eBook: 9781473227491 £8.99 @JeremySzal Audio: 9781473227507 15 hrs, £19.99

56 The Argeneau vampires are back, in another steamy encounter . . . Contrary to belief, vampires (or as they prefer – immor- tals) can be killed. When Mac Argeneau’s house goes up in flames– with him still inside – he knows it was not an acci- dent. But why would anyone want to kill him? CJ Cummings – from the Special Investigative Unit – is pulled into the case due to a lack of police officers. She too is convinced that Mac is in danger, but she’s also convinced he’s hiding something. If only she wasn’t so distracted by APRIL the way her body seems to crave his . . . Not final cover LYNSAY SANDS is the bestselling author of the Argeneau Vampire series, as well as numerous historicals and anthologies. Meant to Be Immortal Lynsay Sands

Ontario, Canada Urban Fantasy www.lynsaysands.net MMP: 9781473230545 B format, 384 pp, £8.99 @LynsaySands eBook: 9781473230552 £5.99

A collection of dark, captivating fairy tales from the bestselling author of Chocolat That’s the beauty of stories; you never know where they will take you. The toymaker who wants to create the perfect wife; the princess whose heart is won by words, not actions; the tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs his size; and the sinister Lacewing King who rules over the Silken Folk. These are just a few of the weird and wonderful creatures who populate Joanne Harris’s first collection of fairy tales. Dark, gripping APRIL and brilliantly imaginative, these magical tales will soon have you in their thrall.

JOANNE HARRIS is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat and many other bestselling novels. Her hobbies are listed in Who’s Who as ‘mooching, lounging, strutting, Honeycomb strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion’. Joanne Harris Fantasy HB: 9781473213999 Royal, 320 pp, £25 Huddersfield, UK TPB: 9781473214002 Royal, 320 pp, £16.99 www.joanne-harris.co.uk eBook: 9781473214026 £12.99 @Joannechocolat Audio: 9781409160960 10 hrs, £19.99

57 What would you do to protect your family if the world stopped working? A remarkable debut praised as ‘hugely impressive’ by David Nicholls DEBUT Not long from now, in London, Signy and Matthew lead a dull, difficult life. They’ve only really stayed together for their 6-year-old son, Jed. But they’re surviving, just about. Until the day the technology that runs their world stops working. Then people start going missing. Soldiers are on the streets. London is no longer safe.

APRIL Soon, Signy and Jed are on the run. Signy will do almost anything to get Jed to safety. But she has no idea what is Not final cover waiting for them outside the city . . .

SUSANNAH WISE is an actor and writer who grew up in London and the Midlands.

This Fragile Earth Susannah Wise Science Fiction HB: 9781473232327 Royal, 400 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781473232334 Royal, 400 pp, £12.99 London, UK eBook: 9781473232358 £7.99 @susannahwise Audio: 9781473232365 10 hrs, £21.99

This is the book many Alastair Reynolds readers have been waiting for: a return to the Revelation Space Universe And this epic, stand-alone Science Fiction adventure is well worth the wait. Welcome to Michaelmas. An airless, crater-pocked world whose caverns shelter a tiny band of humans. They’re hiding, like the other last survivors. And they’re being hunted. One man has given them hope, guiding them through the hardest of times: Miguel de Rutyer. MAY But those times are about to get harder still.

ALASTAIR REYNOLDS was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. Inhibitor Phase Alastair Reynolds Science Fiction HB: 9780575090712 Royal, 488 pp, £18.99 Glamorgan, Wales TPB: 9780575090729 Royal, 488 pp, £14.99 www.alastairreynolds.com eBook: 9780575090750 £9.99 @AquilaRift Audio: 9781473228429 10 hrs, £19.99

58 In the third instalment in the USA Today bestselling Heirs of Chicagoland series, the vampires in Elisa Sullivan’s world are out for blood Elisa Sullivan is the only vampire ever born, and she bears a heavy legacy. After a sojourn with the North American Cen- tral Pack of shifters in the wilderness –where she turned a young woman into a vampire to save her life – Elisa returns to Chicago. But no good deed goes unpunished. The ruling body of vampires, the Assembly of American Masters, is furious that MAY Elisa turned someone without their permission, and they’re out for her blood.

CHLOE NEILL was born in the south of the USA and currently resides in Nebraska. Some Girls Bite was her debut novel Shadowed Steel and the first in theChicagoland Vampires series. Chloe Neill

Nebraska, USA www.chloeneill.com Urban Fantasy @chloeneill MMP: 9781473230606 B format, 352 pp, £9.99 @authorchloeneill eBook: 9781473230613 £5.99

An original, irreverent and beautifully written fantasy trilogy: dark, with heart, and packed with adventure A traveller walks down a forest road alone. A thief waits by the roadside. But today, Kinch has chosen the wrong mark. Galva is a knight, and a survivor of the brutal goblin wars. She is searching for her missing queen, whom no one has seen since her city fell to giants. After Kinch’s failed robbery, his fate becomes locked to MAY Galva’s. Thief and knight must traverse lands where goblins hunger for kynd flesh, krakens hunt in dark waters and the gods only laugh when you ask them for help.

CHRISTOPHER BUEHLMAN’s first novel, Those Across the River, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for best novel in 2012. The Blacktongue Thief Christopher Buehlman Fantasy HB: 9781473231153 Royal, 432 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781473231160 Royal, 432 pp, £12.99 Florida, USA eBook: 9781473231184 £8.99 @Buehlmeister Audio: 9781473231191 10 hrs, £19.99

59 “The science fiction debut from the acclaimed author of The Red Knight and Cold Iron. For fans of Alastair Reynolds and James S.A. Corey Midshipper Nbaro has enlisted on a spaceship for the very first time. It’s something she’s trained for her whole life, and she’s more than capable of rising through the military ranks. But she’s also being blackmailed by her jealous, manipula- tive shipmate. So begins a cat-and-mouse game, as Nbaro uses her every JUNE skill and ability to serve her shipmates . . . while passing on the credit to others and waiting for the perfect moment to strike back. And there’s also the issue of a very real impostor on board . . .

MILES CAMERON is a full-time writer who lives in Canada with Artifact Space his family. He also writes historical fiction under the name Miles Cameron Christian Cameron. Science Fiction Toronto, Canada TPB: 9781473232600 Royal, 400 pp, £16.99 www.christiancameronauthor.com eBook: 9781473232624 £8.99 @Phokion1 Audio: 9781473232631 15 hrs, £21.99

In another world, a queen has been killed. Her investigators: a thief with a mythical sword, and a librarian who doesn’t believe in magic Ebbie, the local librarian of a small English town, is about to lose his job. Meanwhile, in another realm entirely, the Queen of House Wood Bee has been murdered, throwing the Realm into chaos. The sword stolen by Bek Rana might just hold some answers, but all Bek wants to do is sell it – she’s no hero. As the Realm tumbles into anarchy, Ebbie and Bek must JUNE face their destinies, stop the destruction of House Wood Bee and just maybe save themselves as well. But all victories have a cost . . .

EDWARD COX has a Master’s in Creative Writing, has published several short stories and has published one three- The Wood Bee Queen part novel: The Relic Guild. Edward Cox Fantasy Colchester, UK TPB: 9781473226869 Royal, 400 pp, £16.99 www.edwardcox.net eBook: 9781473226883 £8.99 @EdwardCox10 Audio: 9781473226890 15 hrs, £19.99

60 This stunning stand-alone from James Barclay is a fantastic adventure, underpinned by the question: will she execute the Queen, or not . . . ? Her life is dedicated to healing, on the battlefield and off. The troops love her. Her ability is nothing short of miraculous . . . because it’s magical. Which is a problem, in a country where anyone with her powers has been killed. And now her secret has been discovered, she has a choice: be revealed, tortured and executed. Or go to court, to be the Queen’s personal physician. The same Queen who JULY ordered her family killed. A Queen whose life will now be in her hands . . .

JAMES BARCLAY is the author of the Chronicles of the Raven and Legends of the Raven series, which have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Queen’s Assassin James Barclay

Fantasy Teddington, UK TPB: 9781473202467 Royal, 416 pp, £16.99 www.jamesbarclay.com eBook: 9781473202481 £8.99 @barculator Audio: 9781473232433 12 hrs, £21.99

The fourth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy. In this fourth instalment of the epic series, we see the legendary figure, as he finally finds – and is at once -cap tured by – the mysterious alien Cielcen, in a story which will delight fans of Dune.

CHRISTOPHER RUOCCHIO is a novelist writing in the tradition JULY of Dune and The Book of the New Sun. He is also an editorial assistant, and lives in North Carolina, USA.

Kingdoms of Death Christopher Ruocchio Science Fiction North Carolina, USA TPB: 9781473218352 Royal, 688 pp, £18.99 www.cruoochio.wordpress.com eBook: 9781473218376 £9.99 @CPRuocchio Audio: 9781409168225 14 hrs, £19.99

61 Line of Duty meets Rivers of London – a brand-new supernatural crime debut in which the dead investigate murders the police can’t solve DEBUT Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus always believed he could solve any murder, until it came to his own. When Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire farmhouse, he expects to bring down the drug gang inside; instead, he discovers his own bleeding-out body and a spirit-guide called Daisy-May. She’s there to enlist him to The Dying Squad, a spectral JULY police force who solve crimes their flesh and blood colleagues cannot. Now it’s up to Lazarus to discover the identity of his killer – before they kill again.

ADAM SIMCOX is a London-based filmmaker who’s shot commercials for brands such as McLaren, Primark and Vice. The Dying Squad is Adam’s debut novel. The Dying Squad Adam Simcox Urban Fantasy HB: 9781473230743 Royal, 320 pp, £18.99 TPB: 9781473230750 Royal, 320 pp, £13.99 London, UK eBook: 9781473230774 £9.99 @adamsimcox Audio: 9781473230897 10 hrs, £19.99

62 Mission: To publish the very best authors in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, to re- present the classics of the genre to a new audience and to discover the stars of tomorrow. To boldly go, dare we say it, where no publisher has gone before

63 Artwork from Careless by Kirsty Capes, published by Orion Fiction (p. 79)

64 Fiction

ORION FICTION is a heartland for brilliant commercial fiction, and many of our authors have been with us since our inception. Our ambition is to take brand authors to even greater heights, to build authors with a growing platform in a creative and strategic way, and to launch new authors with impact beyond that first book.

Authors include Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, Cathy Kelly, Joanne Harris, James Lee Burke, Maureen Lee, Adrian McKinty, Veronica Henry, Ben Kane, Victoria Aveyard,Mari Hannah and Cathy Bramley.

65 He doesn’t get mad. He gets even. Jeremiah O’Connell moved to LA for a quiet life. So when an DEBUT altercation sees a young girl caught in the crossfire, he has to make amends with her. But little does he know that his actions are embroiling him in the business of one of LA’s biggest drug cartels. The only way out is to draft in the help of his old Essex crew. But can they all be trusted? And will Jeremiah and his men ever be a match for LA’s most violent gang? JANUARY Having ‘worked the doors’ of Essex’s most violent clubs, DANNY O’LEARY went on to organise the security at Waterstones celebrity book signings and, eventually, the personal security of several celebrities.

A Violent Gentleman Danny O’Leary Gangland Fiction HB: 9781409198819 Royal, 320 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781409198826 Royal, 330 pp, £13.99 Los Angeles, USA eBook: 9781409198840 £16.99 @MrBigDanny Audio: 9781409199267 10 hrs, £19.99

DCI Kate Daniels is back – the new novel from award- winning writer Mari Hannah. A plane en route from London to New York has disappeared out of the sky. The love of DCI Kate Daniels’ life was on that aircraft, but she has no authority to investigate. This major disaster is outside of her jurisdiction and she’s ordered to walk away. But Kate can’t let it lie. She has to find out what happened to that plane – even if it means going off book. No one is safe. JANUARY And there are some very dangerous people watching her . . .

A former probation officer living in Northumberland, MARI HANNAH was Reader in Residence for Harrogate International Crime Writing Festival in 2019 and won the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2017. Without a Trace Mari Hannah Police Procedural Northumberland, UK MMP: 9781409192374 B format, 400 pp, £7.99 www.marihannah.com/ eBook: 9781409192381 £20.99 @mariwriter Audio: 9781409192398 10 hrs, £19.99

66 Weaving. Witchcraft. Wonder. A gripping, evocative mystery from the author of The Botanist’s Daughter When Thea Rust takes up a post at an exclusive boarding school, she discovers that she is to live among the girls in the Silk House – a converted eighteenth-century factory, where centuries of secrets are woven into the fabric of the building itself. Secrets that spool back to the dangerous world of the silk trade, and the tangled fates of two young women . . . JANUARY Intoxicating and haunting, The Silk House is a sumptuous ghost story inspired by the author’s own history.

KAYTE NUNN is a former book and magazine editor and The Silk House features writer, and the author of two internationally best- Kayte Nunn selling historical novels, The Botanist’s Daughter and The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant. Sydney, Australia www.Kaytenunn.com @KayteNunn Historical Women’s Fiction MMP: 9781398700185 B format, 384 pp, £8.99 @kaytenunnauthor eBook: 9781398700192 £8.99 Kaytenunn2 Audio: 9781398701250 10 hrs, £19.99

Join one of the world’s greatest adventure writers on a new thrill ride in this internationally bestselling series Against all the odds, Jack West Jr found the Three Secret Cities. With his rivals far ahead, Jack must reach one of the five iron mountains – two of which have never been found – and perform a mysterious feat known as ‘The Fall’. Then Jack discovers that a new player has entered the race; a general so feared by the four legendary kingdoms they had him locked away in their deepest dungeon.

JANUARY Only now he has escaped, and he has a horrifying plan of his own . . .

MATTHEW REILLY is an internationally bestselling author The Two Lost whose books have been published in over twenty languages Mountains and have sold over 7.5 million copies worldwide. Matthew Reilly

Adventure Fiction Los Angeles, California HB: 9781409194392 Royal, 368 pp, £20 www.matthewreilly.com TPB: 9781409194408 Royal, 368 pp, £14.99 @matthew_reilly eBook: 9781409194422 £20 @OfficialMatthewReilly Audio: 9781409194484 10 hrs, £19.99

67 Power, politics and a devastating fight for the crown: gripping historical fiction following the rise of Oliver Cromwell’s youngest daughter It is the year 1657. Following her father’s unprecedented ascent to de facto ruler of the country, Frances Cromwell has moved from her rural childhood home to the sumptuous surroundings of the palaces of Hampton Court and Whitehall. But these are uncertain times, and after an assassination attempt on her whole family Frances realises that her for- FEBRUARY tune is no longer in her hands. When Cromwell is officially offered the crown, Frances’s future suddenly assumes diplomatic and dynastic importance. Can she be more than a political pawn . . .?

MIRANDA MALINS is a writer and historian specialising in the history of Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum. She received her PhD from Cambridge and is a Trustee of the The Puritan Princess Cromwell Association. Miranda Malins Historical Fiction HB: 9781409198819 Royal, 320 pp, £16.99 MMP: 978 1 4091 9481 1 B, 448, £8.99 Hampshire, UK eBook: 978 1 4091 9482 8 £20.99 @MirandaMalins Audio: 978 1 4091 9483 5 10 hrs, £19.99

A quirky, modern love story to sweep you off your feet! Perfect for fans of The Flatshare and Our Stop Hannah and Si are in love and on the same track - that is, until their train divides on the way to a wedding. The next morning, Hannah wakes up in Paris and realises that her boyfriend (and her ticket) are 300 miles away! DEBUT But then Hannah meets Léo on the station platform, and he’s everything Si isn’t. Spending the day with him in Paris forces Hannah to question whether, sometimes, you need to go in the wrong direction to find everything you’ve been FEBRUARY looking for . . .

LORRAINE BROWN previously trained as an actress and is about to complete a postgraduate diploma in psychody- namic counselling. She lives in London with her partner and Uncoupling their son. Uncoupling is her first novel. Lorraine Brown Commercial Fiction HB: 9781409198383 Royal, 368 pp, £14.99 TPB: 9781398700734 Royal, 368 pp, £13.99 London, UK eBook: 9781409198406 £14.99 @LorraineBrown23 Audio: 9781409198468 10 hrs, £19.99

68 Heart-warming fiction about the little kindnesses that make the world a better place, from the author of The Little Village Library A little kindness can go a long way . . . Veronica’s cottage is the neatest house on Mapleberry Lane. But within her wisteria-covered walls, Veronica has a secret: she hasn’t left her perfect home in years. Then her granddaughter Audrey arrives on her doorstep, and Veronica’s orderly life is turned upside down. Audrey forms a FEBRUARY plan to help her gran reconnect with the community: a kindness club, helping the residents of Mapleberry Lane – and perhaps each other at the same time . . .

The Kindness Club on HELEN ROLFE writes contemporary women’s fiction and Mapleberry Lane enjoys weaving stories about family, friendship, secrets and Helen Rolfe community – above all, with a happy ending.

Berkhamsted, UK www.Helenjrolfe.com Commercial Women’s Fiction @HJRolfe MMP: 9781398700246 B format, 368 pp, £7.99 @helenjrolfewriter eBook: 9781398700253 £7.99 @helen_j_rolfe Audio: 9781398701250 10 hrs, £19.99

The new standalone thriller by Michelle Davies – think The Ice Twins meets Then She Was Gone The whole world believed 8-year-old Cara killed her younger brother. But she blamed it on a paranormal entity she swears was haunting her house. Nobody believed her and after two years of treatment in a psychiatric unit for delusional disorder, Cara was shunned by her remaining family and put into foster care. Now she’s being forced to return to the family home for the FEBRUARY first time since her brother’s death, but what if she’s about to rediscover the evil that was lurking inside its walls?

When she’s not turning her hand to crime, MICHELLE DAVIES writes as a freelance journalist for women’s magazines, including having been editor-at-large at Grazia.

Shadow of a Doubt Michelle Davies Psychological Thriller MMP: 9781409193432 B format, 320 pp, £7.99 London, UK eBook: 9781409193449 £7.99 @M_Davieswrites Audio: 9781409193609 10 hrs, £19.99

69 The mission was simple: prove his friend was dead Former war photographer Stroud left the front line before his luck ran out. His best friend, Vincent Raphael, wasn’t so fortunate. His body was never recovered. But then Stroud gets a call from his old editor. Two months ago, Raphael was photographed in Istanbul. Stroud sets out to prove he’s dead, but the more he looks, the harder that becomes. Stroud’s journey puts him on the trail of a shadow. A FEBRUARY man who not only should be dead – but may have never existed . . .

RJ ELLORY is a critically acclaimed author whose novels have been translated into twenty-six languages and have won a number of prestigious industry awards. Proof of Life RJ Ellory Spy Fiction Birmingham, UK HB: 9781409198567 Royal, 320 pp, £20.99 www.rjellory.com eBook: 9781409198581 £20.99 @rjellory Audio: 9781409198598 10 hrs, £19.99

Blake’s dead. His wife killed him. The question is: which one? The only thing the three women had in common was their husband. And now, they’re each accused of his murder. There’s Rachel, the chief wife, obedient and doting to a fault. Tina, the other wife, who’s everything Rachel isn’t. And Emily, the youngest wife, who has known almost nothing else. But what are these women to each other now that their FEBRUARY husband is dead? Will the police uncover the secrets they’ve spent their lives hiding? And is one of them capable of murder . . .?

CATE QUINN was a travel and lifestyle journalist for many of the UK’s top publications, as well as the author of several Black Widows historical novels. Black Widows is her first modern thriller. Cate Quinn Psychological Thriller HB: 9781409196952 Royal, 480 pp, £12.99 TPB: 9781409196969 Royal, 480 pp, £12.99 Totnes, UK eBook: 9781409196983 £12.99 @CathWritesStuff Audio: 9781409196990 10 hrs, £19.99

70 A heartbreaking World War II novel of one mother’s search for her daughter against all odds, for fans of Kristin Hannah and Suzanne Kelman On the cusp of World War II, Vera discovers her wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the country. After receiving notice that all foreigners must report to an internment camp, Vera has just a few hours to make an impossible choice: does she subject Lucie to the conditions of the camp, or put her into hiding with her trusted governess until Vera can retrieve her? FEBRUARY So begins a heartbreaking separation, and an extraordinary journey for mother and daughter . . .

ALEXIS LANDAU received an MFA from Emerson College and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Those Who Are Saved Empire of the Senses. Alexis Landau Historical Fiction HB: 9781398702783 Royal, 368 pp, £14.99 Los Angeles, USA Export Trade Paperback: 9781398702790 www.alexislandau.com eBook: 9781398702813 £14.99 @alexislandau Audio: 9781398702868 10 hrs, £19.99

No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Kelly brings you a refreshingly honest and funny story about marriage and friendship Three friends come together to navigate the complications of married life, family dramas and romantic entanglements – all told with Cathy Kelly’s trademark warmth and wisdom. Cathy’s previous bestseller, The Year That Changed Every- thing, has sold over 100,000 copies, and this novel show- cases her fresh, compassionate, witty writing about modern women. FEBRUARY ‘Honest, funny, clever, it sparkles with wry observations on modern life. I loved it’ – Marian Keyes on The Family Gift.

Other Women CATHY KELLY is a no. 1 bestseller in the UK, Ireland and Australia. She lives with her family and three dogs in County Cathy Kelly Wicklow, Ireland, and is an Ambassador for UNICEF Ireland.

Co Wicklow, Ireland Commercial Women’s Fiction www.cathykelly.com HB: 9781409179269 Royal, 320 pp, £12.99 @cathykellybooks TPB: 9781409179276 Royal, 320 pp, £12.99 @cathykellybooks eBook: 9781409179290 £12.99 @cathykellybooks Audio: 9781409179641 10 hrs, £19.99

71 The new gripping novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Walker They called it a “walk away.” The car abandoned. The note found. It happens all the time, they said. Women disappear, desperate to start over. For Molly, the night she disappears begins with a storm, and a man who offers her a ride. The man is not alone – with him is a little girl who reminds her of the daughter she lost. It feels like a sign.

MARCH But when the doors close, locking shut, Molly begins to suspect that she has made a terrible mistake.

WENDY WALKER has worked as an attorney specializing in family law. Her novels include Emma In The Night, All Is Not Forgotten and The Night Before. Don’t Look For Me Wendy Walker Psychological Thriller Connecticut, USA PB: 9781409190073 B Format, 352 pp, £7.99 www.wendywalkerbooks.com eBook: 9781409190080 £7.99 @Wendy_Walker Audio: 9781409190097 10 hrs, £19.99

Feel-good, escapist women’s fiction about friendship, family and love – for fans of Milly Johnson, Carole Matthews and Katie Fforde Flowers have always made Fearne smile. She treasures the memories of her beloved grandmother’s floristry and helping her to arrange beautiful blooms. But ever since a family tragedy, Fearne has been searching for contentment. When she’s inspired to write a happiness list, it seems that Fearne might just have found her answer . . . MARCH Sometimes the scariest path can be the most rewarding. Is Fearne ready to take the risk and step into the unknown? And what kind of happiness might she find if she does?

CATHY BRAMLEY is a Sunday Times top ten best-selling My Kind of Happy author. She turned to writing after running her own market- Cathy Bramley ing agency and as an avid reader has found her dream job!

Nottingham, UK www.CathyBramley.co.uk Contemporary Women’s Fiction @CathyBramley MMPP: 9781409186793 B format, 320 pp, £7.99 @CathyBramleyAuthor eBook: 9781409186809 £7.99

72 A charming story of one woman’s chance to change her life . . . thanks to a little red phone box After losing her beloved grandmother and her job at the local library, Jess finds herself in need of a fresh start. Packing up the ten boxes of books left to her, she moves to the picturesque village of Middlemas, where her new home comes with an old red phone box. Could it be the perfect tiny lending library? As each book finds the right reader, the community starts MARCH to come together. But is this somewhere Jess can finally call home?

POPPY ALEXANDER is the author of 25 Days in December, The Littlest Library and has worked in PR, campaigning, political lobbying and journalism. She lives with her family in West Sussex. Poppy Alexander

Arundel, UK Commercial Women’s Fiction @PoppyAlexanderBooks MMP: 9781409196396 B format, 368 pp, £8.99 @PoppyAlexanderBooks eBook: 9781409196402 £8.99 @PoppyAlexanderBooks Audio: 9781409196419 10 hrs, £19.99

A laugh-out-loud caper filled with Yorkshire humour, heart and charm, from the Comedy Women in Print prize 2019 nominee Will Harker has always believed the best things in life are free: the great outdoors, a good laugh, a perfectly steeped brew. He’s earning his keep as an apprentice farrier at Stan- ley Lampitt’s workshop – although his gaffer would say he makes half the money and causes double the trouble. Business isn’t exactly booming, but as every Yorkshireman knows, where there’s muck there’s brass. So just how dirty MARCH are Will’s hands going to get? Uproariously funny Yorkshire fiction, from the author of Forging On.

CATHERINE ROBINSON has always lived in Lancashire, teaching English and drama, farming Derbyshire Gritstone sheep and breeding horses. Forging On was longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print prize 2019. Where There’s Muck Catherine Robinson Humorous Commercial Fiction MMP: 9781409199939 B format, 320 pp, £8.99 eBook: 9781409199946 £8.99 Lancashire, UK Audio: 9781398700079 10 hrs, £19.99

73 A heart-rending story about motherhood, forbidden love, long-buried secrets, sacrifice and forgiveness, for DEBUT fans of Fern Britten and Rachel Hore One crisp and bright Mothering Sunday, Alexandra Abbott’s now elderly mother reveals a secret that she has kept buried for over 50 years . . . April 1963: Aspiring artist Kitty Campbell has recently given birth to her first child, intending to give her away for adoption. But when she meets another mother with her own heartache to bear, Kitty makes a decision that will MARCH change all their lives. Several decades later, can the truth Not final cover from that day finally right the past and bring a mother and daughter together?

SARA JAMES studied at St Martin’s School of Art and went on to write for national papers and women’s magazines. She is the director of bluepencilagency, an editorial consultancy working with both published and unpublished authors. Mothering Sunday Sara James Emotional Women’s Fiction MMP: 9781398704091 B, 336 pp, £7.99 eBook: 9781398704107 £8.99 Wiltshire, UK Audio: 9781398704114 10 hrs, £19.99

The second thrilling novel in the Lionheart series, by Sunday Times bestseller, Ben Kane 1189. Richard Plantagenet, the Lionheart, is crowned King of England and must deal with threats to the throne. But then he begins his incredible journey to the Holy Land. In the Holy Land, a bitter two-year-long siege awaits his army. Triumphant, Richard tries to continue his journey, but endless conflicts thwart his every move. The conditions are brutal, temperatures boiling.

APRIL On the dusty field of Arsuf, the Lionheart and his soldiers will face the ultimate test. Battle is inevitable, but victory is not . . .

BEN KANE’s passion for history led him to writing – ten of his thirteen novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers, and his Crusader books are published in twelve languages. Ben Kane Historical Fiction HB: 9781409197799 Royal, 432 pp, £14.99 Somerset, UK TPB: 9781409197805 Royal, 432 pp, £13.99 www.benkane.net eBook: 9781409197829 £14.99 @BenKaneAuthor Audio: 9781409197836 10 hrs, £19.99

74 The emotionally and psychologically impactful new thriller from Nikki Smith about a perfect family with a lot to hide . . . Sisters Jo and Caroline have had a difficult relationship growing up. When their father dies, his will raises more questions than answers. It’s clear he’s been hiding something. But Jo and Caroline have secrets too. APRIL And theirs might turn out to be even more lethal . . .

NIKKI SMITH studied English Literature at Birmingham before pursuing a career in finance. In 2017 she had a Look What You ‘now or never’ moment and decided to pursue her passion Made Me Do for writing. Nikki Smith Psychological Thriller HB: 9781409193029 Royal, 320 pp, £14.99 Horsley, UK TPB: 9781409193036 Royal, 320 pp, £13.99 www.nikkismithauthor.com eBook: 9781409193050 £14.99 @Mrssmithmunday Audio: 9781409193067 10 hrs, £19.99

It only takes a second for your life to change forever . . . A stunning love story for fans of Lucy Dillon and Miranda Dickinson Elena Goodwin could never have known that her dream holiday to Mexico would change her life forever. But on a gorgeous summer evening, her world is ripped from under her feet in a single moment. Ten years later, she still can’t forget the face of the stranger who held her as the earthquake destroyed everything she APRIL knew. Thrown back together, Elena starts to question whether she made the right decision to leave him behind. She only met him for a moment, but maybe it’s not too late . . .

DEBBIE JOHNSON is an award-winning author of feel-good The Moment I Met You emotional women’s fiction and has sold more than 750,000 Debbie Johnson books worldwide. Her bestsellers include The Comfort Food Café series.

Liverpool, UK Romantic Fiction www.debbiejohnsonauthor.com MMP: 9781409188032 B format, 368 pp, £7.99 @debbiemjohnson eBook: 9781409188049 £7.99 @debbiejohnsonauthor Audio: 9781409188056 10 hrs, £19.99

75 Laugh-out-loud and brilliantly relatable, this is sharp, funny women’s fiction for fans of Anna Bell and Louise Pentland Clare’s life is perfect . . . good job, loving family and beautiful house. Except her husband’s hasn’t listened to a thing she’s said since he landed his new TV gig, her daughter can’t stand the sight of her and her boss barely knows her name. No matter what she does, she seems to be invisible. So when Clare finds a way to make everyone sit up and take notice, she’s determined to find her true self. Can she make MAY her life more than just perfect on paper . . .?

GILLIAN HARVEY is a freelance journalist who has written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Independent and the New York Observer as well as lifestyle magazines, and is the author of Everything Is Fine. Perfect on Paper Gillian Harvey Commercial Women’s Fiction Limousin, France MMP: 9781409191896 B format, 368 pp, £7.99 www.gillianharvey.com eBook: 9781409191902 £7.99 @GillPlusFive Audio: 9781409191919 10 hrs, £19.99

The new, gritty, gangland thriller based on a true – and still unsolved – crime, from the author of I, Witness . . . Faith Diamond grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. With a family incapable of staying on the right side of the law, her future has always been about survival. Then a series of prostitutes are found murdered, their only connection the pimp, Marshall Vella – a man connected in more ways than one with the Diamond family. And Faith is forced to consider the possibility that the peo- MAY ple she loves might be entrenched in something more evil than even she could ever have imagined . . .

NIKI MACKAY studied Performing Arts at the BRIT School, and it turned out she wasn’t very good at acting but quite liked writing scripts . . . Loaded Niki Mackay Gangland Thriller Redhill, UK MMP: 9781409195269 B format, 320 pp, £8.99 www.nikimackay.com eBook: 9781409195276 £8.99 @NikiMackayBooks Audio: 9781409195627 10 hrs, £19.99

76 An electric new fantasy series, from Victoria Aveyard, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Queen series Year after year, Corayne watches her pirate mother sail away to adventures she’ll never share. But then a mysterious assassin appears, telling Corayne she’s the only one who can save the world. The planet is in grave, unimaginable danger; Corayne and her rag-tag group of allies are alone in a world that is slowly coming apart at the seams. MAY Now is not the age of heroes, but courage can bloom even in the darkest corners. And it just might be enough to save everything.

VICTORIA AVEYARD was raised in a small town and moved to Realm Breaker Los Angeles to earn a BFA in screenwriting. She spends too much time reading books and watching movies. Victoria Aveyard Fantasy Fiction HB: 9781409193944 Royal, 400 pp, £16.99 Los Angeles, USA TPB: 9781409193951 Royal, 400 pp, £13.99 www.victoriaaveyard.com eBook: 9781409193968 £16.99 @VictoriaAveyard Audio: 9781409193982 10 hrs, £19.99

Some moments you remember forever. But what if you could live them again? Fresh, funny and heart- wrenching fiction If Isla Pembroke could turn back time, she knows exactly which days of her life she would change. The day she started her dead-end job. The day her sister ran away from home. And, most of all, the day that turned her world upside down, when her mother’s death splintered her family in two.

MAY So when she’s given an impossible gift, Isla realises that she might be able to save the people she loves. But sometimes Not final cover the most surprising days are the ones that come after . . .

TAMSIN KEILY studied psychology and now juggles writing with her job as a primary school teacher. She is the author of Daisy Cooper’s Rules for Living. The Surprising Days of Isla Pembroke General Fiction Tamsin Keily HB: 9781409191063 Royal, 336 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781409191070 Royal, 336 pp, £14.99 eBook: 9781409191094 £16.99 Berkshire, UK Audio: 9781409191100 10 hrs, £19.99

77 A sweeping historical epic for fans of Conn Iggulden and those looking to cure their Game of Thrones itch – based on the multimillion-download hit podcast Tumanbay Tumanbay: the most magnificent city on earth. The beating heart of a vast empire. A city of dreams – where those who arrived as slaves now reside in the seat of power. A city at war – not only with a mysterious force, but also with itself. MAY A city of secrets – waiting to be revealed.

WALKER DRYDEN is the pseudonym for writing team Mike Walker and John Scott Dryden. Over the past few years, they have worked together bringing to life the world of Tumanbay.

The Poisoned Throne Walker Dryden Historical Fantasy HB: 9781409187066 Royal, 320 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781409187073 Royal, 330 pp, £14.99 London, UK eBook: 9781409187097 £16.99 @johnscottdryden Audio: 9781409187103 10 hrs, £19.99

A sweeping novel of passionate love, betrayal and redemption, set against the turmoil and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War 1936. As the shadow of war falls over his beloved country, Leonardo is drawn into a desperate, forbidden love affair. But risking everything for love is a dangerous gamble, where one mistake could destroy everything . . . 2019. When Mia Ferris learns that her beloved grandfather is in need of care, she immediately flies to Spain - leaving behind her new fiancé. But when she discovers a bundle of MAY old letters, Mia must untangle a terrible history that changes everything she thought she knew.

CAROLINE MONTAGUE was a model, mother and interior designer before becoming a full-time author of An Italian Shadows Over the Affair and A Paris Secret. She lives in Burnt Norton with Spanish Sun her family. Caroline Montague Psychological Thriller MMP: 9781409198079 B, 368 pp, £7.99 Gloucestershire, UK eBook: 9781409198086 £8.99 @CMontagueAuthor Audio: 9781409198154 10 hrs, £19.99

78 Orion Fiction’s lead debut launch for 2021 A coming-of-age novel celebrating female friendship and hope, for fans of Queenie, Normal People and Everything I Know About Love ‘The literary equivalent of gold dust’ Benjamin Zephaniah

DEBUT At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, fifteen-year-old Bess finds out that she’s pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he’s useless. She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won’t under- MAY stand. She really ought to tell Boy, but she hasn’t spoken to him in weeks. Bess knows more than anyone that love doesn’t come without conditions. But this isn’t a love story . . .

KIRSTY CAPES works in publishing and is a passionate spokesperson for the UK care system. She completed her PhD investigating female-centric care narratives in contemporary fiction, under Bernadine Evaristo’s supervision. Careless Kirsty Capes Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781398700086 Royal, 320 pp, £14.99 ETPB: 9781398700093 Royal, 320 pp, £13.99 London, UK eBook: 9781398700116 £14.99 @kirstycapes Audio: 9781398702530 10 hrs, £19.99

Eye-wateringly hilarious fiction about growing up, falling apart, and the friends that hold you together, from the author of Hot Mess Nat and Zoe have always shared everything. Hopeless crushes, emergency tampons, messy sex stories, work triumphs, those days where you can’t stop crying in the loos, those days where you can’t stop dancing on the bar. They even share the same birthday, FFS. The struggle is real, but they’re going to make it through together. Right?

JUNE But best friends forever is a hard promise to keep . . .

LUCY VINE is a freelance journalist and host of the Hot Mess Clubhouse podcast. Her debut novel Hot Mess was Bad Choices an eBook no.1 bestseller. Lucy Vine

Millennial Women’s Fiction Cambridge, UK MMP: 9781409180913 B format, 336 pp, £7.99 @Lecv eBook: 9781409180920 £7.99 @Lecv Audio: 9781409180937 10 hrs, £19.99

79 Two weeks in August with your family – and your best frenemy . . . DEBUT Perfect summer reading for fans of Fiona Gibson The Swifts and the Wellbeloveds have been friends since university – but only holidayed together once, five years ago. That week of misery is still freshly etched on Claire Swift’s mind, yet somehow, despite her best efforts, they’re all going to Cornwall this summer for a fortnight. Claire knows this time has to be different. So starts six JUNE months of secret preparation, as Claire attempts to transform into a domestic holiday goddess. But the first rule of holidays is that nothing ever goes to plan . . .

JO CLEGG was a producer in TV and radio comedy before becoming a scriptwriter for shows such as the Emmy-award winning Hey Duggee. This is her debut novel. The Summer Holiday Jo Clegg Contemporary Women’s Fiction MMP: 9781409198130 B format, 368 pp, £8.99 eBook: 9781409198147 £8.99 London, UK Audio: 9781409198154 10 hrs, £19.99

From the mind of the million-copy bestseller M. J. Arlidge comes his biggest and best D.I. Helen Grace thriller . . . A crimewave sweeps through society and no one is safe. The rising tide of crime threatens to drown the city and, along with it, D.I. Helen Grace. A vicious arson at the docks. A violent carjacking near the hospital. A fatal attack in a country park. Crimes without motive, without suspects and without any JUNE leads. Each crime is a piece of a puzzle – with many more pieces still to come. And as they all fall into place, Helen Grace will face the case that may be the end of her . . .

M. J. ARLIDGE is a screenwriter and producer on TV shows such as Innocent and Silent Witness. Each of his D.I. Helen Grace thrillers has been a Sunday Times bestseller and an Truth or Dare international bestseller in Europe. M. J. Arlidge Psychological Thriller HB: 9781409188452 Royal, 320 pp, £12.99 TPB: 9781409188469 Royal, 330 pp, £12.99 St Albans, UK eBook: 9781409188483 £12.99 @MJArlidge Audio: 9781409188490 10 hrs, £19.99

80 An uplifting and moving story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lido about how much bigger your world can become when you let people in . . . Lorna’s world is small but safe. She loves her daughter, and the two of them are all that matters. But life has different plans for them – and suddenly she and Ella are heading back to Kip, the tiny remote Scottish island where Lorna grew up, and where her sister-in-law, Alice, is eager to welcome them. But there are two decades, hundreds of miles and a life- JUNE time’s worth of secrets between Lorna and the island. So Not final cover can coming home mean starting again?

LIBBY PAGE’s debut novel, The Lido, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and has sold in over twenty languages. She lives in London, where she enjoys finding pockets of The Island community within the city. Libby Page Reading Group Fiction HB: 9781409188261 Short Royal, 384 pp, £12.99 London, UK TPB: 9781409188278 Royal, 384 pp, £12.99 @LibbyPageWrites eBook: 9781409188292 £12.99 @LibbyPageWrites Audio: 9781409188308 10 hrs, £19.99

Inspired by Veronica Henry’s bestselling novels, this collection of short stories and delicious recipes is a celebration of beach hut living Escape to the coast with this gorgeous collection of brand new short stories and seaside-inspired recipes from the bestselling author of the Beach Hut novels. From a tin mug of crab chowder after a bracing dip, to a pic- nic feast for friends and family, this is a celebration of sun- shine and sea air and salt spray: the beach hut life. From a blissful retreat to a beachfront Christmas, this is a little JUNE taste of the seaside to keep in your kitchen or by your bed for those days when you want to get away from it all. Because we all need an escape every now and then. A Day at the Beach Hut Short Stories and Recipes VERONICA HENRY is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Inspired By Seaside Life twenty-one novels. She was a scriptwriter for some of our Veronica Henry best-loved dramas, such as The Archers, Heartbeat and Holby City, before turning to novels.

Devon, England www.veronicahenry.co.uk Lifestyle Non-Fiction @veronica_henry HB: 9781409195818 B format, 160 pp, £12.99 @veronicahenryauthor eBook: 9781409195825 £19.99

81 The new sweeping adventure in the Chivalry series from the master of historical fiction 1368. Europe is on the brink of war on all fronts – France and Spain are harsh enemies to England, and in Italy the Pope and the Visconti princes battle for bloody supremacy. Men of war can’t stay out of battle for long, despite their best attempts, and William Gold’s alliances are torn on all sides after his pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago. The worst year of his life is about to begin.

JULY It’s time for Gold to choose who he will ultimately stand beside.

CHRISTIAN CAMERON is a writer and military historian. He participates in re-enacting and experimental archaeology, teaches armoured fighting and historical swordsmanship, and takes his vacations visiting battlefields, castles and Hawkwood’s Sword cathedrals. Christian Cameron Historical Fiction Toronto, Canada HB: 9781409180258 Royal, 320 pp, £19.99 www.christiancameronauthor.com eBook: 9781409180272 £19.99 @Phokion1 Audio: 9781409199960 10 hrs, £19.99

82 We pride ourselves on bringing provocative, award-winning and lasting works of fiction to a popular audience

83 Cover artwork from Speak Your Truth by Fearne Cotton, published by Orion Spring (p. 86)

84 Non-Fiction

ORION SPRING publishes books that make life brighter.

Orion Spring delivers books that help readers become the best versions of themselves. We offer the world-renowned experts and the life-changing advice that will inspire you to make a positive change for yourself, and the world around you.

Launched in 2016, the list offers a curated selection of books by health professionals, leading scientists and wellbeing ambassadors.

Always inspiring, never preaching, these books are for everyone, everywhere – for life.

85 Discover the power of your true, authentic voice Fearne Cotton’s voice is familiar to millions. So, when her doctor told her she was at risk of needing a throat operation followed by two weeks of being unable to speak, Fearne found herself facing a period of unexpected contemplation. Fearne began to think about other times her voice had gone unheard. Speak Your Truth dives into all the ways we learn to stay quiet for the wrong reasons, and explores how to find JANUARY your voice, assert yourself and speak out with confidence.

FEARNE COTTON is a Sunday Times bestselling author and one of the best-known broadcasters in the UK, and most Speak Your Truth recently the founder of the wellbeing brand Happy Place. Connecting with Your Inner Truth and Learning to Find Your Voice Fearne Cotton

London, UK Self-help www.officialfearnecotton.com HB: 9781409183174 Royal, 256 pp, £16.99 @fearnecotton eBook: 9781409183198 £16.99 @fearnecotton Audio: 9781409196341 6 hrs, £19.99

How to communicate with your angels to improve your relationship with money and enrich your life From the author of Talking with Angels of Light comes another empowering and life-changing book. Amanda Hart’s connection with her guardian angels has taught her how to unlock her power, purpose and voice when it comes to financial matters. Through practical exercises, meditations and real-life anecdotes, this book will guide you towards a healthy, revitalised relationship with money.

JANUARY AMANDA HART has been an intuitive consultant for over twenty years, helping people to overcome adversity. She has been a radio host and a columnist for Soul & Spirit magazine. Amanda was rescued by guardian angels as a child and Talking with Angels from then on they became a beacon of hope throughout her of Wealth turbulent journey into womanhood. She now dedicates her Receive Their Blessings life to helping others connect with their own angels, helping Amanda Hart them to find deeper meaning and happiness in their lives.

London, UK Mind, Body, Spirit www.amanda-hart.co.uk MMP: 9781409181064 B Format, 176 pp, £8.99 @amandaharthq eBook: 9781409181071 £8.99

86 ‘It wasn’t a conscious uncoupling. I had my heart ripped out and stamped on’ When Rosie Green’s husband walked out after twenty-six years together, he declined to leave a forwarding address. Instead, he left a devastated woman who turned into someone she barely recognised: unable to eat or sleep, and so desperate to keep her family together she’d sacrifice her sense of self – and her dignity. She thought she’d never get over it. But she did. And so can you. Let Rosie’s brilliantly honest handbook show how you FEBRUARY can heal faster, understand yourself better and move on.

How to Heal a ROSIE GREEN is an award-winning journalist and stylist. Broken Heart She’s worked and written for Elle, Vogue, The Times and From Rock Bottom to the Telegraph, and is currently contributing editor at Red Reinvention (via Ugly Crying magazine and a columnist for the Telegraph. on the Bathroom Floor) Rosie Green Self-help/Relationships HB: 9781398701298 Demy, 304 pp, £14.99 Oxfordshire, UK eBook: 9781398701311 £14.99 @lifesrosie Audio: 9781398701496 10 hrs, £19.99

Bestselling author Dr Josh Axe explains how to cure more than seventy diseases, lose weight and increase vitality with traditional healing practices In Ancient Remedies for Modern Life, Dr Axe explains the foundational concepts of ancient healing – concepts that stand in stark contrast to the approach we typically see in Western medicine – and how they can be used to cure more than seventy diseases, ranging from ADHD to diabetes, pneumonia, autoimmune disease and beyond. Readers will learn how traditional healers identified the root cause of FEBRUARY each patient’s illness, then treated it with natural approaches Ancient Remedies for derived from plants, flowers, mushrooms and herbs, all of Modern Life which they catalogued and studied over hundreds of years. Secrets to Healing with Herbs, DR JOSH AXE is the founder of the world’s no.1 most visited Essential Oils, CBD and natural health website, www.DrAxe.com. He’s also the best- the Most Powerful Natural selling author of Eat Dirt and Keto Diet. Dr Axe has written for Medicine in History Shape, HuffPost, Men’s Health and Well+Good. Dr Josh Axe Diet Nashville, USA TPB: 9781398701106 Royal, 304 pp, £14.99 www.draxe.com eBook: 9781398701113 £14.99 @drjoshaxe Audio: 9781398701274 10 hrs, £19.99

87 Everything you need to know to have the best sex according to your star sign Next time you have sex, you’ll be seeing stars . . . Harness the power of the zodiac to guide you to pleasure that’s out of this world. From what sex positions will have you ascending, to the turn-ons that’ll make more than just the moon rise, as well sex toys, masturbation tips and more! Let your ruling planet show you how to rule in the bedroom.

FEBRUARY This series consists of 12 books, one for each of the star signs.

ERIKA W. SMITH is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. She’s written on astrology and sex for several The Astrosex Series publications, including Refinery29 and BUST magazine, and How to Have the Best Sex is a Scorpio sun, Sagittarius moon, Virgo rising. According to Your Star Sign Erika W. Smith

Brooklyn, USA Gift/Astrology www.erikawsmith.com HB: Various Other, 144 pp, £6.99 @erikawynn eBook: Various £6.99

Psychologist and relationship expert Dr Gary Lewandowski exposes ten myths that are sabotaging your relationship and provides practical, science- backed tools for addressing them Blind spots are the key questions you aren’t asking, the signals you’re missing – the signs you aren’t seeing, qualities that you’re overvaluing or the indicators you’re misinterpreting. Award-winning professor, psychologist and relationship scientist Dr Gary Lewandowski leverages his twenty years of experience to provide readers with a way out of this self- FEBRUARY sabotage in this eye-opening look at their relationship’s good side. Stronger Than You Think Throughout his career as a relationship scientist and The 10 Blind Spots That teacher, DR GARY LEWANDOWSKI has empowered people Undermine Your Relationship to improve their lives through science. His TED Talk titled . . . and How to See Past Them ‘Break-Ups Don’t Have to Leave You Broken’ has garnered Dr Gary Lewandowski over 980k views.

New Jersey, USA Relationships www.garylewandowski.com TPB: 9781409190592 Royal, 304 pp, £14.99 @LewandowskiPhD eBook: 9781409190608 £14.99

88 From Dr Nicole LePera, creator of @the.holistic.psychologist – the online phenomenon with nearly 3 million Instagram followers – comes a revolutionary approach to healing that harnesses the power of the self to produce lasting change As a clinical psychologist, Dr Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psycho- therapy. Wanting more for her patients – and for herself – she began a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical and spiritual health that equips people with MARCH the interdisciplinary tools necessary to heal themselves. Now Dr LePera is ready to share her much-requested protocol with the world. In How to Do the Work, she offers both a manifesto for self-healing and an essential guide to creating a more vibrant, authentic and joyful life. How to Do the Work Recognise Your Patterns, DR NICOLE LEPERA is a holistic psychologist. She received Heal from Your Past and traditional training in clinical psychology at Cornell University Create Your Self and The New School of Social Research. Dr Nicole LePera Self-help TPB: 9781409197744 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 Los Angeles, USA eBook: 9781409197768 £14.99 @the.holistic.psychologist Audio: 9781409197782 10 hrs, £19.99

Understand your brain fog symptoms and feel better in just thirty days Often dismissed by doctors, we nonetheless all recognise the symptoms of brain fog: fuzzy thinking, trouble concen- trating, a sense of grasping for the right word, feeling like your brain is somehow slowed down. In truth, brain fog is not a diagnosis in itself, but a sign that things aren’t right in your body. In this book, Dr Sabina Brennan offers a thirty-day plan to tackle the lifestyle factors that can cause brain fog, help- MARCH ing you think faster, sharper and better in just one month.

DR SABINA BRENNAN is a research psychologist and Beating Brain Fog award-winning science communicator. She currently Your 30-Day Plan to Think works as a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute of Faster, Sharper, Better Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. Dr Sabina Brennan Health & Wellbeing Dublin, Ireland TPB: 9781409197720 Royal, 304 pp, £14.99 www.superbrain.ie eBook: 9781409197737 £14.99 @Sabina_Brennan Audio: 9781409197775 10 hrs, £19.99

89 The Speakmans’ powerful and life-changing guide to unlocking confidence and living a more positive life The world’s leading life-change therapists, the Speakmans, share a passion to help people lead happier and less inhib- ited lives. Based on the Speakmans’ unique coaching method, this book provides the key to achieving confidence, showing how to overcome obstacles and enjoy a healthy, fulfilled life.

THE SPEAKMANS are ITV’s resident TV therapists, treating APRIL many high-profile clients. They help people to overcome serious fears and issues through live workshops, tours, Everyday Confidence books, radio and TV. Ditch the Self-Doubt, Their podcast Making the Change is regularly in the iTunes Recognise Your Worth and Health and Fitness podcast charts. Achieve Your Life Goals Nik and Eva Speakman

Littleborough, Manchester Self-help www.speakman.tv TPB: 9781841883250 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 @the_speakmans eBook: 9781841883267 £14.99 @thespeakmans Audio: 9781409192572 8 hrs, £19.99

Marie Kondo meets Queer Eye – the life-changing magic of laundry Doing laundry is rarely anyone’s favourite task. But to Patric Richardson, laundry isn’t just fun – it’s a way of life. Sorting your laundry? It’s not all about whites and darks. Pondering the wash cycles? Every load, even delicates, should be washed using express or quick wash on warm. Facing expensive dry-cleaning bills? You’ll learn how to wash everything – yes, everything – at home. And those basically APRIL clean but pongy clothes? Richardson has a secret for fresh- ening those too (hint: it involves your drinks cabinet). How to Love Your Laundry PATRIC RICHARDSON owns the Mona Williams boutique Sort Your Smalls, Save the at Mall of America, where he holds Laundry Camp for all Planet and Never Dry-Clean those interested in learning his fun, easy and life-changing Anything Ever Again laundry lessons.

Patric Richardson and KARIN MILLER is an award-winning writer and editor. Karin Miller Cleaning TPB: 9781398700635 Demy, 240 pp, £14.99 Minnesota, USA eBook: 9781398700642 £14.99 www.laundryevangelist.com Audio: 9781398700819 9 hrs, £19.99

90 Bite-sized philosophy for busy lives Philosophy takes us by surprise. It challenges us, awakens us and opens our minds. Philosophy does not tell us to be ‘wise’, or to be a perfect being, but instead to nurture our own humanity. Let Fabrice Midal teach you the power of trusting in your own thoughts, as he guides us through the inspirational ideas of forty people from Baudelaire to Wittgenstein, Emily Dickinson to Toni Morrison, Pablo Picasso to APRIL James Baldwin.

FABRICE MIDAL is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the The Three-Minute University of Paris, Sorbonne, and teaches the dharma in Philosopher France and elsewhere in Europe. Inspiration for Modern Life Fabrice Midal

Philosophy Paris, France HB: 9781398701786 Demy, 224 pp, £12.99 www.fabricemidal.com eBook: 9781398701809 £12.99 @FabriceMidal Audio: 9781398701922 6 hrs, £19.99

The cutting-edge weight loss advice you haven’t heard before. The first major book on biohacking Davinia Taylor was overweight, depressed and unmotivated. In desperation she turned to biohacking to sort her head out – the unexpected bonus was that she lost three stone without cravings or willpower, and has kept it off for years through a series of health hacks from cold showers, to MCT oil, to ancestral eating. Her weight loss tips are ones you haven’t heard before: Why being vegan is unhealthy. Why your scented candles might MAY be making you fat. Why your anxiety is related to your sugar intake. What your genes have to do with your portion size. It’s Not a Diet Actress, presenter, fitness fanatic and health biohacker The No-Cravings, extraordinaire, DAVINIA TAYLOR started her career on C4’s No-Willpower Way to Get hit soap Hollyoaks, playing party girl Jude Cunningham. She Lean and Happy for Good . . . is currently studying to become a personal trainer. Davina Taylor

London, UK Health & Fitness TPB: 9781398703421 Royal, 256 pp, £12.99 @daviniataylor2 eBook: 9781398703438 £12.99 @daviniataylor Audio: 9781398703520 10 hrs, £19.99

91 What if everything you think you know about calories is wrong? For decades we have been told that weight loss is a simple matter of calories in vs calories out. If you burn more calories than you eat then you will lose weight – it’s scientific fact. Except it isn’t. We got the science of weight loss com- pletely wrong, and our focus on calories has led to the obesity epidemic we are currently experiencing. Dr Giles Yeo shows how all calories are not created equal, and corrects the weight loss myths that we have believed for too long. MAY GILES YEO is a geneticist with over twenty years’ experience dedicated to researching obesity and the brain control of food intake. Giles also moonlights as a science presenter for the BBC. He is also a much-loved TV personality and expert Why Calories who has presented a number of BBC health programmes Don’t Count including BBC Two’s Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, BBC One’s How We Got the Science Britain’s Fat Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and BBC of Weight Loss Wrong Two’s Horizon: Clean Eating – The Dirty Truth, which sparked a national debate. Dr Giles Yeo Diet TPB: 9781409199724 Royal, 368 pp, £12.99 Cambridge, UK eBook: 9781409199731 £12.99 @GilesYeo Audio: 9781398700062 10 hrs, £19.99

Bestselling author Dr Harry Barry explores how to cope with change – both expected and unexpected – and embrace it, so that we can live a fuller and happier life In his latest book, bestselling author Dr Harry Barry reveals his 5-step plan for coping with any type of change, drawing on his experience as a doctor and real-life case studies. Embracing Change is a practical, compassionate compan- ion for anyone looking to boost their resilience, adapt to life’s challenges and, by smoothly navigating through them, reach calmer waters. MAY DR HARRY BARRY is a highly respected Irish author and medic. Specialising in mental health and suicide preven- Embracing Change tion, Dr Barry is the bestselling author of numerous books addressing anxiety, depression and toxic stress. How To Build Resilience and Make Change Work For You Dr Harry Barry Self-help TPB: 9781409199892 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 County Louth, Ireland eBook: 9781409199908 £14.99 @DrHarryBarry Audio: 9781398700055 10 hrs, £19.99

92 Life lessons from the Perisher Submarine Command Course, the toughest leadership training course in the world The Perisher Submarine Command Course is the most demanding in the world. It teaches the elite of the British Navy to deal with astonishing pressure of every sort. Former submarine commander and Perisher instructor Ryan Ramsey is here to tell us how we can apply it in our lives. The choices we make, the way we deal with pressure, how we choose to lead and be part of a team impacts all our JULY lives massively: it’s time to learn from the best of the best.

RYAN RAMSEY was on active duty in the Submarine Service from 1991 until 2014. He served onboard four diesel- and six nuclear-powered attack submarines as a tutor on Perisher. The Pressure Points Life Lessons from the Perisher Submarine Course Ryan Ramsey Business & Leadership TPB: 9781398701748 Royal, 288 pp, £14.99 Surrey, UK eBook: 9781398701762 £14.99 @ryanramsey14 Audio: 9781398701779 10 hrs, £19.99

Calm and Bright Sleep Support founders Gemma and Eve help parents and children to sleep happier, better and longer From the founders of Calm and Bright Sleep Support, Love to Sleep is a ground-breaking new guide that enables both parents and children to unlock the power of solid sleep. Together with their team, C & B founders Paediatric Nurse & Mum-of-three Gem and accredited Sleep Consultant Mum- of-four Eve have helped thousands of families around the world. In their first book they explore everything from the JULY science of sleep, how to create the right sleep environment, the nap-gap dynamic, loving boundaries, the role the parent Love to Sleep plays in their child’s sleep and, ultimately, how to restore parents’ sleep alongside their child’s. The Guilt-Free Guide to a Good Night’s Sleep for Paediatric Nurse GEMMA FRYER and accredited Sleep You and Your Child Consultant EVE SQUIRES are the founders of Calm and Bright Eve Squires and Sleep Support – their book is the ultimate guide to happy Gemma Fryer sleeping for you and your baby.

Parenting Wimborne, UK TPB: 9781398702660 Royal, 240 pp, £14.99 www.calmandbright.co.uk eBook: 9781398702677 £14.99 @calmandbrightsleepsupport Audio: 9781398702875 5 hrs, £19.99

93 Artwork from The Little Book of Mum Hacks by Kate Murnane, published by Seven Dials (p. 97)

94 Non-Fiction

SEVEN DIALS is Orion’s bestselling commercial non-fiction imprint. It’s the home of big brands, beautiful cookbooks, entertainment stars, gift and humour, and inspiring true-life stories. Our authors are – or soon will be – household names, and our expert editorial team helps our authors to turn their vision into quality books with a broad reach. The Seven Dials list has a wide remit but remains unashamedly commercial at heart, with one eye always on the very top of the bestseller lists.

Seven Dials authors include Escape to the Chateau’s Dick and Angel Strawbridge, footballer and actor Vinnie Jones, budget food sensation Lorna Cooper, prison teacher Mim Skinner, heritage brand the National Railway Museum, Fearne Cotton and Mae West.

95 A mother’s heart-rending account of losing her daughters in the Hillsborough disaster and her thirty- year quest for justice On the morning of Saturday 15 April 1989, Jenni Hicks, her husband, and their two teenage daughters, Sarah and Vicki, went to watch a football match. That was to be their last day as a family. This is a story of what came before and after that day: of a mother’s love, her unimaginable bravery, a flame of hope that never died, and a quest for justice that has lasted FEBRUARY three decades. Not final cover As the final court cases come to a conclusion early 2020, One Day In April is the first time that Jenni has spoken about her story in full, and is a unique and poignant tribute to the lives that Sarah and Vicki lost, and the final word from the extraordinary mother they left behind.

One Day in April: JENNI HICKS is the longest-serving committee member of Hillsborough - the Hillsborough Families Support Group and continues to A Mother’s Story fight for justice for her daughters and the other ninety-four victims of the Hillsborough disaster. Jenni Hicks True Life Stories HB: 9781409196235 Royal, 304pp, £14.99 Liverpool, UK eBook: 9781409196259 304pp, £14.99 @JonathanITV Audio: 9781841884028 10hrs, £19.99

Over sixty unbelievably tasty and easy noodles recipes Slurp. Zing. Bang. Take your noodles to the next level with these sixty simple yet mouth-watering recipes. With dishes covering every type of noodle you can buy, easy swaps to help use the packets you already have and 5-minute dressings and toppings to bring the recipes you FEBRUARY already make to life – there’s never been a better time to get cooking. From store-cupboard time-savers to treat-yourself showstoppers, there’s a noodle dish for your every mood and occasion. Pimp Your Noodles Over 60 Kick-Ass Recipes SARAH COOK is a food writer, food stylist and former food for a Delicious Dinner editor at BBC Good Food magazine. She loves creating inno- Sarah Cook vative new dishes with big and bold flavours. Food & Drink London, UK HB: 9781841884257 Other, 112 pp, £9.99 @Sarah_Cooking eBook: 9781841884264 £9.99

96 A lifesaver for busy parents who want to help their children learn through play at home and in the garden, from Early Years specialist and playHOORAY! founder, Claire Russell The playHOORAY! Handbook by Early Years specialist and mum Claire Russell is a lifesaver for busy parents looking for activities to entertain babies, toddlers and little kids indoors and outdoors. The book includes over 100 ideas for activities, arts, crafts FEBRUARY and games using items from the house and garden. Covering everything from One Pound Play and No-Prep Play, to the benefits of positive screen time and making homework playful, this book offers a helping hand to parents and carers on the days you need it. The playHOORAY! Handbook CLAIRE RUSSELL launched playHOORAY! in 2015 after having 100 Fun Activities for Busy her baby and finding the days at home lovely but long. Parents and Little Kids playHOORAY! has grown to become an online community Who Want to Play of over 100,000 parents, carers and educators of babies and Claire Russell young children, with play at the heart of it. Parenting Nottingham, UK TPB: 9781398700703 Other, 181x226, 240 pp, £14.99 www.playhooray.co.uk eBook: 9781398700710 £14.99 @play.hoorayUK Audio: 9781398700727 3 hrs 35 mins, £19.99

The perfect gift for mums – over 150 hacks and inspiration for making your life easier and your home happier Whether you’re a mum-to-be or have children already, this practical guide contains everything you need to know about savvy parenting (and will wish someone had told you sooner!). From tips on cleaning and tidying to cooking and playing, plus with a section dedicated to those first few months MARCH taking care of a newborn, these small everyday changes will help keep you sane and your children happy, calm The Little Book of and healthy. Mum Hacks Everyday Tips for a Calm KATE MURNANE is a mum of two and a much-loved life- and Happy Home style and parenting YouTuber and influencer with over Kate Murnane 488k followers. She was named in Mother & Baby’s Mum List 2020.

Cheshire, UK Parenting Youtube: Kate Murnane HB: 9781841884684 Other, 208 pp, £12.99 Instragram: @katebowbow eBook: 9781841884691 £12.99

97 Plant-based cooking for a better world, inspired by Linda McCartney Over thirty years ago, Linda McCartney first blazed the trail for meat-free cooking, and around the table of the family home in East Sussex she shared the pleasure that eating compassionately could bring. Now Paul, Mary and Stella bring Linda’s kitchen up to date, reinventing her best-loved recipes for the plant-based cook, alongside their favourite family stories and the dishes that MARCH they now eat at home. Complete with intimate family photos spanning three decades, Linda McCartney’s Family Kitchen is not only good Linda McCartney’s for you, but for the planet too. Family Kitchen LINDA McCARTNEY believed in great-tasting, meat-free food 100 Plant-Based Recipes and the shared pleasure that eating well could bring. In this for All Occasions book, Paul McCartney and his daughters – Mary and Stella Linda, Paul, Mary, Stella – are dedicated to sharing Linda’s passion for wholesome McCartney cooking with everyone. Food & Drink London, UK HB: 9781841883632 Crown Quarto, 224 pp, £25 www.lindamccartneyfoods.co.uk eBook: 9781841883649 £25

The cookery sensation of 2019 is back to help you to feed the whole family for just £20 a week – and in under twenty minutes! Over half a million people have learned to cook for just £20 a week through Lorna Cooper’s popular blog and debut cookbook. And now she’s back to feed the nation on a budget, and in only twenty minutes! This is the cookbook that every time- and cash-stretched APRIL parent needs in their kitchen. From Peanut Butter Cookies to Chipotle Chicken, you’ll be amazed at what you can make in less than twenty minutes and for under £20 a week. Feed Your Family for Never has saving time AND money been so easy! £20 . . . in a Hurry! Deliciously Easy, Budget- LORNA COOPER is passionate that a limited budget shouldn’t Friendly Meals in be a barrier to good food. She has taught over half a million Under 20 Minutes people how to meal-plan, budget and cook for their families Lorna Cooper for just £20 a week.

Paisley, Scotland Food & Drink www.fyf20quid.co.uk TPB: 9781841884530 Crown Quarto, 224 pp, £16.99 @fyf20quid eBook: 9781841884554 £16.99

98 A powerful and searing account of love, loss and a mother’s relentless fight for justice Sarah Sak’s son, Anthony Walgate, was murdered by gay serial killer Stephen Port after they met on dating app Grindr. Stephen Port was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey in November 2016. The case received extensive press coverage not only because of the horrific nature of the crimes but also because the police refused to investigate Anthony’s death despite three more bodies being found in near-identical circumstances. It was not until Scotland APRIL Yard’s crime squad took over that Stephen Port was arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Not final cover It was Sarah Sak’s courage and perseverance that helped to achieve justice for her much-loved son.

SARAH SAK, alongside her full-time work as a facilities manager, continues to campaign for better policing, to A Life Stolen recognise and link crimes, support families, counter The Tragic True Story homophobia and raise greater public awareness of the of My Son’s Murder dangers of dating sites/apps. Sarah Sak True Life Stories HB: 9781841883991 Royal, 320 pp, £16.99 eBook: 9781841884011 £16.99 Hull, UK Audio: 9781841884028 10 hrs, £19.99

Over eighty quick and easy recipes for delicious, comforting pasta dishes at home – from pot to plate in under thirty minutes! Pasta Evangelists are here to share with you their all-time favourite recipes from across Italy’s twenty regions for easy- to-cook, authentic dishes that will make everyone happy. Beautifully illustrated with over eighty recipes, ‘Make Your Own’ spreads to help you use up the ingredients you have APRIL left in your fridge or cupboard, along with pages on the history of pasta shapes, regional traditions, interviews with Nonna and more for the real pasta lovers – this is a must- Perfect Pasta at Home have addition to any kitchen. Quick and Easy Recipes for Delicious Dishes Every Time PASTA EVANGELISTS is on a simple mission – to bring a taste of Italy’s fresh pasta culture to everyone’s kitchens. The Pasta Evangelists Beginning as a subscription box in 2016, Pasta Evangelists has since delivered over 1 million boxes. London, UK www.pastaevangelists.com Food & Drink @pastaevangelist HB: 9781841884752 Crown Quarto, 240 pp, £20 @pastaevangelists eBook: 9781841884769 £20

99 A thrilling account of a life spent fighting and what it can teach us in our own lives Over twelve rounds (chapters), former world champion boxer Tony Bellew takes the reader inside the world of fighting to reveal what he’s learned about elite performance. For the enormous readership who turn to books that explore the wisdom to be found when bullets are flying, this book will reveal the lessons to be found when fists are flying.

TONY BELLEW is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to 2018. He held the WBC cruiserweight MAY title from 2016 to 2017, and challenged for the undisputed cruiserweight championship in his final fight. At regional level, Bellew held the British and Commonwealth light- Everybody Has a heavyweight titles between 2010 and 2014, the European Plan Until They Get cruiserweight title from 2015 to 2016, and is a three-time Punched in the Face ABA heavyweight champion as an amateur. Outside of boxing, he was featured in the 2015 filmCreed . Since retiring 12 Things Fighting Teaches he has appeared regularly on the BBC and Sky Sports and You about Living has a social media following of 1.6m. Tony Bellew Memoir HB: 9781841884707 Royal, 320 pp, £20 Liverpool, UK eBook: 9781841884721 £20 @TonyBellew Audio: 9781841884738 10 hrs, £19.99

A practical and inspirational book revealing the twelve strategies you need to build an unbreakable mindset and accomplish any goal, from the UK’s fittest man Set goals. Overcome challenges. Achieve anything. Zack George knows just how important a resilient mindset is. As a child, Zack was severely overweight; now, he is the UK’s fittest man and he achieved this by following his nine principles. Whether your goal is related to work, fitness, relationships or another area of life, Start Where Others Stop is a practi- MAY cal and invaluable guide to better understanding yourself, learning how to deal with setbacks and, ultimately, getting to the place you want to be. Start Where Others Stop ZACK GEORGE (aka ‘Silverback’) is one of the world’s top Strategies for Optimising CrossFit athletes, a fitness influencer and officially the UK’s Your Mind and Body fittest man 2020. He has 167k followers on Instagram alone. Zack George Health & Fitness HB: 9781841885025 Royal, 304 pp, £16.99 TPB: 9781841885049 Royal, 304 pp, £13.99 Leicester, UK eBook: 9781841885032 £16.99 @zackgeorge Audio: 9781841885056 6 hrs, £19.99

100 A raw, uncompromising look at the harsh reality of life as a prison officer in HMP Parkhurst Assaults. Riots. Cell fires. Understaffed wings. Suicides. Hooch. Weapons. It’s all in a week’s work at HMP Parkhurst. David Berridge has spent 28 years working as a prison officer, with 22 years at Parkhurst. A tough character with a big personality and a dark sense of humour, David has seen it all. Inside Parkhurst is his raw, uncompromising look behind the menacing gates of one of Britain’s highest security prisons. AUGUST Reggie Kray, Gary Glitter, Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Brady and senior IRA leaders were among David’s most high-profile charges

DAVID BERRIDGE joined the prison service in 1992. He spent 22 years on the Parkhurst landings, dealing with serial killers, terrorists, armed robbers and other high-risk inmates in a protected witness unit.

Inside Parkhurst True Life Stories David Berridge MMP: 9781841884226 304pp, £7.99 eBook: 9781841884233 £7.99 Audio: 9781841884240 10 hours, £19.99

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101 Artwork from Fault Lines by Emily Itami, published by Phoenix (p. 104)

102 Fiction & Non-Fiction

Launching in 2021, PHOENIX is a bespoke new imprint for stories that make their mark, publishing fiction and memoir that combine literary merit and commercial potential. The list is curated by publisher Francesca Main, who has launched the careers of many bestselling and award-winning authors, including Jessie Burton, Adam Kay, AJ Pearce, Emma Flint and Cathy Rentzenbrink. Characterised by voice, storytelling and emotional resonance, Phoenix is a destination imprint for books you can’t put down and can’t forget.

A home for debut authors and rising stars, Phoenix will be publishing fiction from Emily Itami, Cathy Rentzenbrink and Sussie Anie, and non-fiction from David Whitehouse, Hope Wabuke and Alex Marzano-Lesnevich.

103 Brief Encounter is set in Tokyo – a funny, sharp and moving story of modern love from a writer to watch DEBUT Mizuki has a hard-working husband, a beautiful apartment, two adorable children and a crushing sense of loneliness. She loves her family but feels invisible in her marriage and trapped by the confines of domestic life. Then, one rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi, a successful restaurateur. In their affair she finds passion, excitement and freedom – but how long can it last, and at what cost?

MAY Alluring, compelling and darkly funny, Fault Lines is a bittersweet love story and a daring exploration of modern relationships.

EMILY ITAMI grew up in Tokyo before moving to London, where she now lives with her family. She has been published widely as a journalist and travel writer. This is her first novel. Fault Lines Emily Itami Contemporary Fiction HB: 9781474620246 B format, 176 pp, £12.99 TPB: 9781474620253 B format, 176 pp, £12.99 London, UK eBook: 9781474620277 £12.99 @EmilyItami Audio: 9781474620284 7 hrs, £19.99

The wise, witty and deeply moving debut novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink Juliet recently moved into her late mother’s house with her husband, Liam, and 5-year-old son, Charlie. Preoccupied by guilt, grief and working motherhood, Juliet can’t find her way into the local parents’ clique. But for writer Liam, the morning coffees and after-school playdates soon reveal the heartaches, fears and rivalries behind closed doors – all of which are going straight into his novel.

JULY When the rupture of a marriage sends shockwaves through the group, painful home truths are brought to light and life is suddenly overturned.

CATHY RENTZENBRINK is a writer, tutor and journalist. She is Everyone Is Still Alive the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love Cathy Rentzenbrink and two other acclaimed memoirs. This is her first novel. Contemporary Fiction Cornwall, UK HB: 9781474621120 Demy, 352 pp, £14.99 www.cathyreadsbooks.com TPB: 9781474621137 Demy, 352 pp, £13.99 @CatRentzenbrink eBook: 9781474621151 £14.99 @catrentzenbrink Audio: 9781474621168 10 hrs, £21.99

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