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Fiction New Titles HEAD OF ZEUS FICTION NEW TITLES January–June 2022 NEW TITLES JANUARY–JUNE 2022 Fiction 2 Non-Fiction 84 Zephyr 110 Paperbacks 124 4 6 8 10 FICTION 18 32 34 44 52 60 64 70 EXPLORE NEW WORLDS WITH CIXIN LIU'S GRAPHIC NOVELS An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 dierent countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu's 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' (New Yorker) award-winning stories into graphic novels. AUGUST 2021 • GRAPHIC NOVEL/SCIENCE FICTION• 279x201mm • 144PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH xUSA xCAN CIXIN LIU'S THE WANDERING EARTH • FTPBO 9781801100007 £14.99 • E 9781801100014 CIXIN LIU’S SEA OF DREAMS • FTPBO 9781800249974 £14.99 • E 9781800249981 CIXIN LIU’S YUANYUAN'S BUBBLES • FTPBO 9781801100021 £14.99 • E 9781801100038 CIXIN LIU’S VILLAGE TEACHER • FTPBO 9781800249998 £14.99 • E 9781800240018 Fiction/General In Every Mirror She’s Black Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström ‘In Every Mirror She’s Black A fast-paced yet richly nuanced novel that explores class, organically developed after fetishization, tokenism, and what it means to be a Black years of living in Sweden woman navigating a white society. and observing how the Successful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi has reached voices of Black women the ceiling of her career, and her love life isn’t faring much resonate within society, better. Aer an unexpected oer from Jonny von Lundin, the CEO of Sweden’s largest marketing rm, she uproots her life which spaces we are invited and moves to Stockholm. But her role of Diversity Ocer is to occupy or not, and if beginning to look more and more like an empty title. those spaces allow us to When ex-model and ight attendant Brittany-Rae Johnson thrive or simply survive.’ chances upon Jonny on a routine business class ight, a LOLÁ ÁKÍNMÁDÉ ÅKERSTRÖM seemingly harmless dinner turns into a whirlwind, propelling her into a life of wealth and luxury. But her new reality in his country begins to feel like a gilded cage. Refugee Muna Saheed lost her entire family on the treacherous journey to Sweden. Now she’s rebuilding her life in Stockholm with two fellow refugees. She gets a job cleaning Jonny’s oce, but still she struggles to nd her place in a new city. LOLÁ ÁKÍNMÁDÉ ÅKERSTRÖM is a Nigerian-American author, speaker and photographer based in Sweden. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, BBC, CNN, Guardian, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New York Times, and Lonely Planet, amongst others. She is the author of award-winning and bestselling non-ction book Due North and bestselling LAGOM: Swedish Secret of Living Well. OCTOBER 2021 • APOLLO/FICTION • 228x145mm • 416PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) @LolaAkinmade HB 9781801108584 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801108591 £14.99 • E 9781801108614 Wikström © Jessica lolaakinmade.com lolaakinmade 8 Fiction/Thriller End of Days Taskforce 16 Brad Taylor ‘While in Rome, I stumbled e Taskforce and Mossad join forces to bring down a across this fascinating fanatical organization in this action-fuelled thriller from organization called the New York Times bestselling author and former special forces ocer, Brad Taylor. Knights of Malta – the only organization that has Taskforce operator, Pike Logan, has been trapped in international status as a Charleston, SC during COVID-19, so when Mossad agents, Aaron and Shoshana, show up with a new mission, he jumps state, its own passports and at the chance to assist them. An Iranian-funded militia a seat at the United Nations group operating in Iraq has recently claimed responsibility – but owns no terrain. I’ve for the ‘accidental’ deaths of key members of the American been waiting to use them in and Israeli governments. But something isn’t adding up, and a book for years, and I finally Logan is determined to uncover the truth. got the chance.’ He’ll have to wade deep into the contentious religious and political currents of the Israeli/Palestinian region. It’s a BRAD TAYLOR dangerous world where fanatics and legitimate organizations exist side by side, and it’s up to the Taskforce crew to determine who is pulling the strings. What they nd could have disastrous consequences not only for the Middle East, but for the entire world… JANUARY 2022 • ARIES/THRILLER • 228x145mm • 400PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) HB 9781838937799 £18.99 • XTPB 9781838937805 £14.99 • E 9781838937829 BRAD TAYLOR is the New York Times bestselling author of the Taskforce series, with nearly 3 million copies sold. He channels his decades of experience as a Special Forces Commander in the US army into his thrillers. In the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment—Delta, Taylor commanded multiple troops, a squadron and conducted operations in classied locations. Now he lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. ‘Pike ranks right up there ‘Fresh plot, great action, with Jason Bourne, Jack and Taylor clearly knows bradtaylorbooks @BradTaylorBooks Reacher and Jack Bauer.’ what he’s writing about.’ Marinesco © Claudio bradtaylorbooks.com bradtaylorbooks John Lescroart Vince Flynn 10 Fiction/General Roundabout of Death Faysal Khartash ‘This is Aleppo. I’m a A powerful and beautiful Syrian novel set in Aleppo witness to it all. But I during the early days of the civil war that followed the have only been able to Arab Spring. partially capture what 2012. In Aleppo, a city full of rich layers of history, home has taken place here in to Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, and Christians alike, war is this short novel, which breaking out. Everyday life is punctuated by the razing of entire neighbourhoods, the random dropping of barrel I consider to be a part bombs, the bewildering variety of militias and government of the very fabric of security forces and the arbitrary cruelties they mete out. my being.’ At its centre is a schoolteacher. rough his eyes we witness FAYSAL KHARTASH the disintegration and pulverizing of his beautiful native city. e wide-scale destruction wrought upon the monumental metropolis as it became the stage for a vicious struggle between warring powers. Death hovers ever closer as he roams Aleppo’s streets and byways, minutely observing the perils of urban life. Roundabout of Death is a literary edice erected as an uninching response to the erasure of a once-great city. It speaks eloquently of the fragmentation of human existence and the calamities of war. FAYSAL KHARTASH is a leading Syrian author. He lives in his native Aleppo, has written several novels and works as a schoolteacher while contributing to Syrian newspapers. MAX WEISS teaches the history of the modern Middle East at Princeton University. He has translated books by Nihad Sirees, Dunya Mikhail and Samar Yazbek. JANUARY 2022 • APOLLO/FICTION • 228x145mm • 176PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) HB 9781801107266 £14.99 • XTPB 9781801107273 £10.99 • E 9781801107303 12 Fiction/Historical Disappearance of a Scribe Dana Stabenow ‘For those who like Pharaoh Cleopatra’s plans for Alexandria are run awry mysteries with rich, when a body is found oating in the sea in the new idiosyncratic settings, historical crime novel from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. engaging characters, strong women and Egypt, 1st century BC. Two Alexandrian shermen come reasonably hot sex across a horrifying sight – a skeleton oating upright at the bottom of the sea, anchored in place by a cement on occasion, let me weight around his feet. In Alexandria’s rough-and-tumble recommend construction trade they call that ‘being tted with a pair Dana Stabenow.’ of Rhakotis sandals’ and what’s worse, he’s the second such victim in two years. DIANA GABALDON ueen Cleopatra is busy rebuilding her city aer the Alexandrian War and these murders are not to be allowed to interfere with this primary task, so she charges Tetisheri, her new Eye of Isis, with the task of nding out who these men were, when they were murdered, and, above all, why. DANA STABENOW was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised on a 75-foot shing tender. She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and found it in JANUARY 2022 • ARIES/HISTORICAL • 228x145mm • 272PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH writing. Her rst Kate Shugak book, A Cold Day for Murder, HB 9781800249776 £18.99 • XTPB 9781800249783 £14.99 • E 9781800249752 received an Edgar Award from the Crime Writers of America. ‘Stabenow is blessed ‘This promises to be an with a rich prose style and entertaining series.’ a fine eye for detail.’ BBC History Washington Post danastabenowauthor stabenow.com 14 Fiction/Thriller The Runaway Peter Ash 7 Nick Petrie ‘I began The Runaway Peter Ash’s life is on the line aer he rescues a stranded wanting to tell the story woman in the latest compulsive thriller from bestselling of a young woman on the author Nick Petrie. run and the troubled man Eight years a soldier, Peter Ash came home from Iraq and who tries to help her. The Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls ‘white result is an intimate tale static,’ a buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress. Aer years of living rough, he’s trying hard to get back to a of sex, obsession, jealousy, normal life, one where people aren’t trying to kill him. en and murder, set against the he meets Helene, a young pregnant woman stranded on a expansive and dramatic remote Nebraska road. backdrop of the American With her car out of service, Peter is Helene’s only chance of West.’ rescue. Aer he oers her a li, he quickly nds her angry NICK PETRIE ex-cop husband hot on their trail. It seems Helene has seen something she was never meant to see and protecting her will put both their lives on the line..
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