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52 60 64 70 EXPLORE NEW WORLDS WITH CIXIN LIU'S GRAPHIC NOVELS
An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 di erent 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. A er an unexpected o er 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 O cer 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 o ce, 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.
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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 o cer, 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 classi ed 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 edi ce 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.
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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 a er 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
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The Runaway Peter Ash 7 Nick Petrie ‘I began The Runaway Peter Ash’s life is on the line a er 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. A er 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. A er he o ers 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...
JANUARY 2022 • ARIES/THRILLER • 228x145mm • 432PP • Rights: UK/COM HB 9781801109109 £18.99 • E 9781801109116 NICK PETRIE received his MFA in ction from the University of Washington, won a Hopwood Award for short ction, and his story ‘At the Laundromat’ won the 2006 Short Story Contest in the Seattle Review.
‘Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack ‘The pace is like a sniper Reacher, but Petrie’s Peter round, extraordinarily fast nick.petrie.writer Ash is the real deal.’ and precisely calibrated.’ Fox © Troye nickpetrie.com @_NickPetrie_ Lee Child David Baldacci 16 Fiction/Science Fiction
The Shattered Skies Cruel Stars 2 John Birmingham
‘As much fun as it was to Space opera on an epic scale – as it should be. Part two of tear down an interstellar a violently energetic and energetically entertaining three- civilization, it’s been even part military SF extravaganza. better bringing my five Centuries a er they were defeated and exiled to Dark Space, favourite heroes together the Sturm have returned. Disgusted by the new technologies to punch space Nazis in the humankind have come to depend on, they intend to liberate us, by force if necessary. ruins and work through their many, many personal issues.’ With their advanced tech rendered null by the Sturm’s attack, humanity faces certain annihilation. eir only hope lies JOHN BIRMINGHAM with a few brave souls who survived the initial onslaught: the Commander of the Royal Armadalen Navy’s only surviving warship; a soldier sentenced to die; a young royal, forced to ee when her home planet is overrun and her entire family executed; the leader of an outlaw band; and the infamous hero of the rst war with the Sturm hundreds of years ago. If they are to stand any chance of survival, these ve heroes must shed their modern technology and become the enemy. eir resistance might be humanity’s only hope.
JOHN BIRMINGHAM was born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, but grew up in Ipswich, ueensland, Australia. Between writing books he contributes to a wide range JANUARY 2022 • AD ASTRA/SCIENCE FICTION • 228x145mm • 544PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) of newspapers and magazines on topics as diverse as HB 9781789545951 £18.99 • XTPB 9781789545968 £14.99 • E 9781789545944 biotechnology and national security. He lives on top of a hill with his wife, daughter, son, two cats and two dogs.
‘Recommended for all ‘This is what military science fiction readers.’ space opera should be.’ Publishers Weekly Booklist JohnBirminghamBooks cheeseburgergothic.com @johnbirmingham
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The Englishman: Betrayal Raglan 2 David Gilman ‘Betrayal began to take shape Someone’s going to start a war. And Raglan’s just walked after I was invited for a into the kill zone. e latest high-octane international private tour of the Pentagon, thriller from David Gilman. which gave me access to It has been many years since Dan Raglan served in the parts of the building usually French Foreign Legion, but the bonds forged in adversity denied to the public. This are unbreakable and when one of his comrades calls for help, Raglan is duty-bound to answer. fascinating insight, my time in Washington D.C. and An ex-legionnaire, now contracting for the Pentagon, has disappeared, leaving only the message that should he ever previous visits to Florida and go AWOL, to contact Raglan. But Raglan’s not the only Central America created the one looking for the missing man. From the backstreets of backdrop for this second Marseilles, Raglan nds himself following a trail of death novel in the series.’ that will lead him to Florida, to Washington D.C. and a knife ght in the upper echelons of the US intelligence community. DAVID GILMAN Tracked by the CIA, pursued by the FBI, Raglan’s search for the missing man will put him into the sites of an altogether more lethal organisation, on the trail of a deadly conspiracy, and on the road to a fatal confrontation deep in the Honduran rainforest.
DAVID GILMAN enjoyed many careers – including re ghter, paratrooper and photographer – before turning to writing full time. He is an award-winning author and FEBRUARY 2022 • ARIES/THRILLER • 228x145mm • 480PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) screenwriter. HB 9781838931438 £18.99 • XTPB 9781838931445 £14.99 • E 9781838931469
‘A sweat-inducing tour de force.’ ‘Relentless... A finely crafted thriller.’ The Times Financial Times davidgilman.author davidgilman.com @davidgilmanuk
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Sentinel Mesa Nora Kelly 3 Preston & Child
‘Another clever and Fan favourites Nora Kelly and Corrie Swanson return compelling tale... The in a new thriller from the international bestsellers. stellar writing is still in Forced to leave her post at the Santa Fe Archaeological abundance, and Preston Institute, Nora Kelly is le without a job and without any & Child balance the line prospects. So when billionaire Lucas Tappan invites her to between page-turning lead an excavation of the infamous Roswell landing site, she has to make a decision that could destroy her reputation. suspense and ancient history.’ When the preliminary scans of the area reveal suspicious shapes, it seems they could be standing on an ancient burial site. ASSOCIATED PRESS But it quickly becomes clear this is no burial site. It’s a crime scene – and a recent one at that. Nora uncovers two dead bodies, one with a bullet hole in its skull. Dead bodies mean this has become a case for the FBI, and Nora knows just the person to investigate: Special Agent Corrie Swanson. As Corrie and Nora dig deeper into the mystery, they will uncover more questions than answers. And the truth they seek will be even stranger than the conspiracy it hides behind.
DOUGLAS PRESTON writes about archaeology for the New Yorker and National Geographic magazines, as well as novels and non- ction works (such as e Lost City of the FEBRUARY 2022 • ARIES/THRILLER • 228x145mm • 416PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) Monkey God). With Lincoln Child, he writes international HB 9781801104265 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801104272 £14.99 • E 9781801104296 #1 bestsellers, including the Agent Pendergast adventures.
LINCOLN CHILD is a Florida resident and former book editor who has published seven novels of his own, including such bestsellers as and . With ‘There’s nothing ‘White-hot bestselling Full Wolf Moon Deep Storm Douglas Preston, he writes international #1 bestsellers, else like them.’ suspense. Simply brilliant!’ including the Agent Pendergast adventures. Washington Post Lisa Gardner
© Deborah Feingold PrestonAndChild @prestonchild
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The Last Commandment Scott Shepherd
‘I love stories about people A serial killer thriller with a twist of Biblical proportions. who (thank you, Bruce ou shalt have no other gods before me Springsteen) “are born into Christmas time in London: a period of joy and togetherness. this life paying for the sins Not for Metropolitan Police Commander Austin Grant, of someone else’s past”. I though. ree dead bodies have turned up on his patch, and also believe that good things the only thing they have in common is a number carved into their foreheads. come to those who wait, though you usually have to ou shalt keep the Sabbath day holy A professor of ancient mythology, a sculptor of curious go through hell to get there.’ idols, frontman of e Blasphemers. It seems the killer is SCOTT SHEPHERD meting out their own justice, biblically, punishing those who transgress the Ten Commandments. With seven commandments le , Grant sets the Met’s best detectives on the case before the zealot can strike again. ou shall not kill But soon enough, a fourth victim turns up. In New York City. It appears Grant has a transatlantic manhunt on his hands. He’s going to need all the help he can get from the NYPD if he’s to stop the killer – before he reaches the last commandment.
SCOTT SHEPHERD was born in New York City but moved to California around the time he rst started crawling. He has resided in the Golden State pretty much ever since. Growing up in Los Angeles, he saw plenty of movies and Dodger games before heading up north to get his B.A. in English at Stanford University.
FEBRUARY 2022 • ARIES/CRIME • 228x145mm • 320PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN)
HB 9781801104678 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801104685 £14.99 • E 9781801104708 Cohen Mitchell © Brad ScottShepherdAuthor
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Basil’s War Stephen Hunter
‘Early spring, 1943: SOE A daredevil British agent goes behind enemy lines to agent Basil St. Florian is search for a religious text that might hold the key to given a mission so dangerous ending the Second World War. only a drunk would accept Basil St. Florian is an accomplished agent in the British and only a genius could Army, tasked with dozens of dangerous missions for crown bring off. Fortunately, he’s and country across the globe. But his current mission, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during the Second both. But, could there be World War, might be his toughest assignment yet. He will be other, yet more sinister, searching for an ecclesiastic manuscript that doesn’t o cially issues in play?’ exist, one that genius professor Alan Turing believes may hold the key to a code that could prevent the death of millions and STEPHEN HUNTER possibly even end the war. But St. Florian isn’t your classic British special agent with a sti upper lip. He is a daredevil, whisky-drinking cynic and thrill-seeker who resents having to leave Vivien Leigh’s bed to set out on his crucial mission. Despite these proclivities, though, Basil’s superiors know he’s the best man for the job, carrying out his espionage with enough charm and quick wit to make any of his subjects lower their guards.
STEPHEN HUNTER is the author of 20 novels and the retired chief lm critic for the Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. His novels include e ird Bullet; Sniper’s Honor; I, Sniper; I, Ripper; and Point of Impact, which was adapted for lm and TV as Shooter. Hunter lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
FEBRUARY 2022 • ARIES/CRIME • 228x145mm • 320PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN)
HB 9781801104722 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801104739 £14.99 • E 9781801104753 Kirschbaum © Jed StephenHunterAuthor
26 Fiction/Romance
Take My Hand Dani Atkins
‘The premise of the best A dream wedding. A beautiful bride. An absent groom. day of your life suddenly e new life-a rming romance from award-winner Dani becoming the worst Atkins explores what happens a er a bride is le alone at intrigued me. What happens the altar on her wedding day. at a wedding when someone Everyone thinks Gemma has been jilted. It’s not long before is left at the altar? Take My snippets of gossip circulate among their guests. ey’d seemed Hand is a love story about like the perfect couple. ey were so ideally matched. It just a seemingly perfect couple shows: you never can tell, can you? But Gemma is certain Finn would never have done this to her. She knows deep whose happily-ever-after down he loves her too much for that. So where is he? goes terribly wrong.’ In the days a er what should have been their wedding, DANI ATKINS Gemma frantically searches for Finn. Her family and friends believe there must have been clues she missed, but Gemma is convinced there’s more to Finn’s disappearance than a groom who has simply changed his mind. Could Finn’s past once again have sabotaged his future? How long should you keep searching for someone you love, if they don’t want to be found?
DANI ATKINS is an award-winning novelist. Her 2013 debut, Fractured, has been translated into 16 languages and has sold more than half a million copies since rst FEBRUARY 2022 • ARIA/ROMANCE • 228x145mm • 448PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) publication in the UK. Dani is the author of six other HB 9781800246546 £18.99 • XTPB 9781800246553 £14.99 • E 9781800246577 bestselling novels, one of which, is Lo e, won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2018. Dani lives in a small village in Hertfordshire with her husband, one Siamese cat and a very soppy Border Collie. ‘Beautifully written.’ ‘A stunning, heartfelt story.’ Heat Alice Peterson
DaniAtkinsAuthor @AtkinsDani
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One Bad Thing M.K. Hill
‘Everybody’s got a secret. She thought she’d got away with it. She was wrong... Perhaps they once acted e chilling new psychological thriller from M.K. Hill harshly, or were unkind, explores how the mistakes of the past catch up with us in the present. and someone got hurt… and maybe that person is Hannah Godley is a treasured agony aunt on a London now an agony aunt, whose radio show. Renowned for her warmth and empathy, her catchphrase is ‘Always be kind’. catchphrase is “Always be kind”. One Bad Thing is But when a stranger phones in with a tragic story about her brother killing himself a er becoming the victim of a about a woman whose single terrible prank, Hannah goes cold. She remembers Diane’s night of bad behaviour brother well. In fact, all these years later, he still haunts her comes back to haunt her dreams. All because of that one bad thing she did when she in ways she could never was young… imagine.’ Is Diane just a sad, lonely woman looking for advice, or is M.K. HILL she looking for revenge for what she knows Hannah did? As Diane insinuates herself into her life and family, Hannah is going to discover that you can never truly escape that one bad thing you did. Sooner or later, you have to pay the price.
M.K. HILL was a journalist and an award-winning music radio producer before becoming a full-time writer. He is also the author of the Sasha Dawson series of crime novels, the FEBRUARY 2022 • ARIES/CRIME • 228x145mm • 368PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH rst of which, e Bad Place, was described as ‘everything a HB 9781788548342 £18.99 • XTPB 9781788548359 £14.99 • E 9781788548373 police procedural should be’ by e Times, who also named it as their crime book of the month. e second, e Woman in the Wood, was published by Head of Zeus in 2021. He lives in London. ‘Absorbing ‘Sharp, funny, moving and and twisty.’ tremendously exciting.’ Mark Edwards The Times markhillauthor @markhillwriter markhillauthor.com markhillwriter
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The Lawless Land Knight’s Cross 1 Boyd Morrison & Beth Morrison
‘After writing a dozen First in a fast-paced Templar Knight adventure series, bestselling thrillers, I loved from New York Times bestselling author Boyd Morrison the challenge of combining and expert art historian Beth Morrison. my pacing and action with Canterbury, 1351. e Pestilence has ravaged England. my sister’s historical expertise Villages lie abandoned but for crows and corpses. Highways to create an epic medieval are unpatrolled but for marauders and murderers. In these dark and dangerous times, the wise keep to themselves. adventure.’ But disgraced knight Gerard Fox cannot a ord to be wise. BOYD MORRISON He has been robbed of his ancestral home, his family name tarnished. To regain his lands and redeem his honour, he sets ‘Having studied the Middle forth to petition the one man who can restore them. Ages for my whole career, Fate places Fox on the wrong road at the wrong time. Riding I was excited to team up deep into the wild woods, he hurtles towards a chance with my brother on this post- encounter. It will entangle him with an enigmatic woman, Black-Plague adventure, eerily a relic of incalculable value and a dark family secret. It will set him on a collision course with one of the most ambitious paralleling the 2020 pandemic and dangerous men in Europe – a man on the cusp of seizing that shook the modern world.’ Christendom’s highest o ce. BETH MORRISON And now, Fox is the only one standing in his way...
BOYD MORRISON is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twelve thrillers, including six collaborations with Clive Cussler. His rst novel, e Ark, has been translated into over a dozen languages. @boydmorrison BoydMorrisonWriter boydmorrison.com
BETH MORRISON is Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She has curated major exhibitions and has a PhD in the History of Art from Cornell Universtiy. FEBRUARY 2022 • ARIES/HISTORICAL • 228x145mm • 432PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH HB 9781801108638 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801108645 £14.99 • E 9781801108669
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The Patient DS Cross 1 Tim Sullivan
‘It seems an obvious case of Introducing your new crime x: Bristol detective DS a mother refusing to accept George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless her addict daughter died and the dispossessed. either by suicide or from an DS George Cross can be rude, di cult and awkward with accidental heroin overdose. people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the But George Cross makes a truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force. An outsider himself, having been diagnosed with Autism deliberate habit of ignoring Spectrum Disorder, DS Cross is especially drawn to cases the obvious.’ concerning the voiceless and the dispossessed. TIM SULLIVAN Now, Cross is untangling the truth about a young woman who died three days ago. With no evidence whatsoever, the Bristol Crime Unit are about to close the case, believing that the woman’s long history of drug abuse indicates suicide. But her mother is convinced it was murder: her daughter has been clean and sober for over two years. DS Cross is determined to defy his bosses and re-open the case, even if it costs him his career. Soon he is mired in a labyrinth of potential suspects – but can he solve the case before his superiors shut it down for good?
TIM SULLIVAN is an acclaimed screenwriter and director who has worked on A Handful of Dust, Sherlock Holmes, Cold Feet and Shrek. He has now embarked on a series of crime novels featuring the eccentric and socially awkward, but brilliantly persistent DS George Cross. Set in Bristol, Cross’s methods o en infuriate his colleagues and superiors – ‘not so much a thorn in my side as a pain in my arse,’ according to his boss. Tim lives in North London with his wife, Rachel.
MARCH 2022 • ARIES/CRIME • 228x145mm • 416PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH TimJRSullivan @TimJRSullivan HB 9781801107723 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801107730 £14.99 • E 9781801107761 timsullivan.uk timsullivannovelist
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A Night of Flames A Time For Swords 2 Matthew Har y
‘In this adventure, I In the wild lands of Norway, Hunlaf must quell a vicious continue investigating the slave uprising in Matthew Hary’s latest historical powerful impact religion adventure. and superstition had on the Northumbria, AD 794. ose who rule the seas, rule the people of the Viking Age. land. None know the truth of this more than the Vikings. Here, Hunlaf faces warriors To compete with the sea-faring, violent raiders, the king of Northumbria orders the construction of his own longships with sharp steel, and foes under the command of oath-sworn Norseman, Runolf. who threaten to corrupt his When the Northern sea wolves attack for the second year, the very soul.’ king sends cleric-come-warrior, Hunlaf, on a mission across MATTHEW HARFFY the Whale Road to persuade the king of Rogaland into an alliance. But Runolf and Hunlaf have other plans: old scores to settle, kin to seek out, and a heretical tome to nd in the wild lands of the Norse. eir voyage takes them into the centre of a violent uprising. A slave has broken free of his captors, and, with religious fervour, he is leading his fanatical followers on a rampage – burning all in his path. Hunlaf must brave the Norse wilderness, and overcome deadly foes to stop this madman. To fail would see too many die…
MATTHEW HARFFY grew up in Northumberland where the rugged terrain, ruined castles and rocky coastline had a huge impact on him. He now lives in Wiltshire, England, MARCH 2022 • ARIES/HISTORICAL • 228x145mm • 400PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES with his wife and their two daughters. HB 9781801102278 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801102285 £14.99 • E 9781801102308
‘A master of the Dark Age thriller.’ ‘Terrific white-knuckle action.’ Theodore Brun Angus Donald MatthewHarffyAuthor @MatthewHarffy
© Stephen Weatherly © Stephen matthewharffy.com beobrand
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The Sea Rises Form & Void 3 A.J. Smith
‘I enjoyed writing this one. e epic conclusion to a new trilogy from one I knew the ending of the of the most exciting voices in British fantasy. trilogy before I wrote a e glass breaks, the sword falls, the sea rises. single word of the first Ages end and the sea rises. As the sea rises, so too does book, so there was a the old world. pleasing simplicity to the Lord Marius Cyclone faces an unimaginable danger. e way it all came together. mighty legions of Santago Cyclone – known as the Bloodied It’s an ending – a proper Harp – and King Oliver Dawn Claw will be upon the Dark ending – in more ways than Harbour in less than a day, and truce seems impossible, even one. I hope you all enjoy it.’ as the end of the world of Form creeps ever nearer. A.J. SMITH But the tide waits for no man. Marius has only one choice if his people are to survive: ight, into the Void. All the while, a primal power awakens. e Sunken God has lived through many ages and watched countless civilizations rise and fall. And he will not let his quarry ee without a ght.
A.J. SMITH is the author of the Long War series, as well as the rst two books in the Form & Void trilogy: e Sword Falls and e Glass Breaks. When not writing ction, he MARCH 2022 • AD ASTRA/FANTASY • 228x145mm • 496PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH works in secondary education as a youth worker. HB 9781786696960 £20 • XTPB 9781786696977 £14.99 • E 9781786696953
‘British fantasy writing at ‘One of British fantasy’s its most entertaining.’ most innovative voices.’ Guardian Bookseller @smith23aj
38 Fiction/Horror
The Soul Stealer Graham Masterton
‘In the words of The Soul A Native American demon is unearthed in the present Stealer himself: “Tonight day. Original, disturbing and terrifying, this is the new you will witness the standalone from the master of horror. supernatural influence that Nemo Frisby used to be a detective. Now he drives an Uber Native Americans still hold between billionaire mansions in California. But he never over this land. You will see lost the nose for the case – and when his house cleaner, Trinity Fox, discovers a young woman lying dead in her power physically extracted neighborhood, she persuades him to help her prove it from a female donor and wasn’t suicide. given to a man whose eir investigation leads them to the Bel Air home of a creativity and flair deserve wealthy movie producer who built his mansion over a Native all the energy that a woman’s American burial site. Ancient mythology tells of a demon spirit can give him.”’ who, if unearthed, can imbue evil men with terrible power. But only if the demon is fed by the sacri ce of innocent lives... GRAHAM MASTERTON Graham Masterton is a master of the horror genre, famous for his original, disturbing, and utterly terrifying novels. e Soul Stealer will stand alongside Masterton’s most famous novel, e Manitou as one of horror’s most chilling explorations of the native magic of the ancients.
GRAHAM MASTERTON is best known as a writer of horror and thrillers, but his career as an author spans many genres, including historical epics and sex advice books. His MARCH 2022 • ARIES/HORROR • 228x145mm • 480PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH rst horror novel, e Manitou, became a bestseller and was HB 9781801103930 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801103947 £14.99 • E 9781801103961 made into a lm starring Tony Curtis. In 2019, Graham was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association. He is also the author of the Katie Maguire series of crime thrillers, which have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. ‘God, it’s good.’ ‘A true master Stephen King of horror.’ James Herbert @GrahamMasterton grahammasterton.co.uk GrahamMasterton
40 Fiction/Thriller
The Night Shift Alex Finlay
‘The Night Shift brings From the author of Every Last Fear, comes a breakneck back a reader favorite, FBI new novel about a pair of small-town murders 15 years Agent Sarah Keller, in a apart – and the ties that bind them. thriller with twists and It’s New Year’s Eve of 1999 when four teenagers working turns – a story about healing late are attacked at a video store in New Jersey. Only one – and making sense of life inexplicably – survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who ees and is never seen in the aftermath of two again. unthinkable crimes.’ 15 years later, four more teenagers are attacked at an ice cream ALEX FINLAY store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. In the a ermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who’s forced to relive the horrors of her tragedy; the brother of the fugitive accused, who’s convinced the police have the wrong suspect; and FBI agent Sarah Keller who must delve into the secrets of both nights – stirring up memories of teen love and lies – to uncover the truth about murders on the night shi .
ALEX FINLAY is the pseudonym of an author who lives in Washington, D.C. Born in the American South, Alex spent years traversing the globe, from a tropical island in the Paci c MARCH 2022 • ARIES/THRILLER • 228x145mm • 240PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) to a small village in the UK to a remote region in the Far East. HB 9781800245303 £18.99 • XTPB 9781800245310 £14.99 • E 9781800245327
‘Prepare yourself for ‘Explosive! A knife- twist after exciting twist.’ edged thriller!’ Karin Slaughter Lisa Gardener AlexFinlayAuthor
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42 Fiction/Historical
The Marsh House Zoë Somerville
‘I wanted to write a Two women, separated by decades, are drawn together by dark tale with hints of one mysterious house in this gripping ghost story set on the supernatural; a cross- the North Norfolk coast. genre novel set in a liminal December, 1962. Desperate to salvage something from a place, about two female disastrous year, Malorie rents a remote house on the Norfolk characters in two eras coast for Christmas. But once there, the strained silence between her and her daughter, Franny, feels louder than ever. whose lives are connected Digging for decorations in the attic, she comes across the by a mysterious house.’ notebooks of the teenaged Rosemary, who lived in the house ZOË SOMERVILLE years before. ough she knows she needs to focus on the present, Malorie nds herself inexorably drawn into the past... July, 1930. Rosemary lives in the Marsh House with her austere father, surrounded by unspoken truths and rumours. So when the glamorous La erty family move to the village, she succumbs easily to their charm. Dazzled by the beautiful Hilda and her dashing brother, Franklin, Rosemary fails to see the danger that lurks beneath their bright façades... As Malorie reads on, the boundaries between past and present begin to dissolve in this haunting novel about family, obligation and deeply buried secrets.
ZOË SOMERVILLE is a writer and English teacher. Born and raised in Norfolk, she has lived all over the world – Japan, France, Washington – and now lives in Bath with her family. MARCH 2022 • APOLLO/HISTORICAL • 228x145mm • 352PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) Her debut novel, e Night of the Flood, was inspired by the HB 9781838934644 £18.99 • XTPB 9781838934651 £14.99 • E 9781838934675 devasting North Sea ood of the 1950s and is also published by Head of Zeus.
‘A gem for lovers ‘An excellent of historical fiction.’ debut thriller.’ Evening Standard Independent @zessomerville
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44 Fiction/Fantasy
Speaking Bones Dandelion Dynasty 4 Ken Liu
‘I first conceived of the e conclusion to Ken Liu’s Dandelion Dynasty – one of Dandelion Dynasty more Time Magazine’s Greatest Fantasy Series of all Time. than a decade ago, and the Stalked by foes and dogged by betrayal, Princess éra is very last scene of the series pursued across a continent vaster than she could ever have was actually the first scene imagined, to the hidden valleys of the World’s Edge Mountains, that took shape in my head. into the barrows and subterranean halls of the City of Ghosts, across the ice oes of the far north. She breached the Wall of It’s a great privilege for a Storms intent on taking war to the Lyucu homelands, but how creator to find a world so can you conquer the unconquerable? absorbing as to spend such Empress Jia, Prince Phyro and Pékyu Tanvanaki nd them- a big portion of a lifetime selves bound to paths they never would have chosen. Amid laboring in it.’ atrocity and subterfuge, they will discover that the Courage of Brutes is no substitute for the Grace of Kings, and that little KEN LIU separates the Grace of Kings from the Madness of Tyrants. On both sides of the Wall of Storms, defeat’s bitter tears mix with the fruits of knowledge new and ancient as two empires bound by blood and bone, by writ and iron, by time and custom, face a force that threatens to utterly consume them. e teeth, as they say, are on the board.
KEN LIU is the winner of the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, Sidewise, and Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards. He is the author of the epic series, the Dandelion APRIL 2022 • AD ASTRA/FANTASY • 228x145mm • 512PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) Dynasty, and short story collections e Paper Menagerie HB 9781838931650 £20.00 • XTPB 9781838931667 £14.99 • E 9781838931681 and e Hidden Girl. He is also the translator of Cixin Liu’s Hugo-winning and Nebula-nominated e ree-Body Problem.
‘Impossibly exciting.’ ‘A triumph in storytelling.’ Evening Standard Starburst
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46 Fiction/Crime
The Fall Rachael Blok
‘I’ve always loved elements DCI Maarten Jansen, of St Albans police, unearths of the Gothic in novels, and long-buried secrets in the new haunting thriller the idea of a death from from Rachael Blok. the cathedral tower, in the When a man falls from the tower of St Albans cathedral in dead of night, seemed like a the dead of night, DCI Maarten Jansen is called upon to great way to open a murder investigate the suspected suicide. mystery. The Fall unravels e death was witnessed by two strangers, one of whom is history, literally carved in deeply a ected by what she has seen. When her family history and the case begin to entwine, the local community is rocked secrets in cathedral stone...’ by what is revealed... RACHAEL BLOK e Fall is a novel about loss, mental trauma, being silenced, and how our past shapes who we are.
RACHAEL BLOK grew up in Durham and studied Literature at Warwick University. She taught English at a London Comprehensive and is now a full-time writer living APRIL 2022 • ARIES/CRIME • 228x145mm • 400PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH in Hertfordshire with her husband and children. Her thrillers HB 9781838931742 £18.99 • XTPB 9781838931759 £14.99 • E 9781838931773 Under the Ice, e Scorched Earth and Into the Fire have been widely acclaimed.
‘A modern-day ‘Gripping, twisty and Agatha Christie.’ immensely satisfying.’ The Times Daily Mail rachaelblokwriter rachaelblok.com @MsRachaelBlok
48 Fiction/Crime
Night, Neon Joyce Carol Oates
‘Everything Joyce Carol A new collection of short stories – by turns dark and Oates writes, in whatever disturbing, poignant and powerful, haunting and at times genre, has an air of humorous – from literary icon Joyce Carol Oates. dread, because she deals ese are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the in vulnerabilities and expectations of everyday life – from a woman who gets lost inevitabilities, in the on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger’s house, to a rst-person account of a desperate needs that cloned 1940s, magazine pin-up girl being sold at auction and drive people.’ embodying America’s ideals of beauty and womanhood. NEW YORK TIMES Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of BOOK REVIEW regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, o en with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories de ly weave in and out of a stream- of-consciousness to reect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader. e stories comprising Night, Neon showcase Oates’s mastery of the suspense story – and her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity.
JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of over 70 books and the winner of a host of prizes including the National Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Oates is Professor of APRIL 2022 • APOLLO/CRIME • 228x145mm • 320PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) the Humanities at Princeton University. HB 9781801104630 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801104647 £14.99 • E 9781801104661
‘Both haunting ‘A writer of and sublime.’ extraordinary Literary strengths.’ Review Guardian @JoyceCarolOates
50 Fiction/General
Shadow Girls Carol Birch
‘My old school – I hated it Combining psychological suspense with elements of but was filled with nostalgia the ghost story, Shadow Girls is a literary exploration when I looked round the old of girlhood by Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author, Carol Birch. building and wanted to nail how dark and forbidding it Manchester, 1960s. Sally, a cynical een-year-old schoolgirl, had seemed fifty years ago. is much too clever for her own good. When partnered with her best friend, Pamela – a mouthy girl who no-one else Shadow Girls, almost a ghost much likes – Sally nds herself unable to resist the temptation story, is the result.’ of rebellion. e pair play truant, explore forbidden areas of CAROL BIRCH the old school and – their favourite – torment posh Sylvia Rose, with her pristine uniform and beautiful voice that wins every singing prize. One day, Sally ventures (unauthorized, of course) up to the greenhouse on the roof alone. Or at least she thinks she’s alone, until she sees Sylvia on the roof too. Sally hurries downstairs, afraid of Sylvia snitching, but Sylvia appears to be there as well. Amidst the resurgence of ghost stories and superstition among the girls, a tragedy is about to occur, one that will send Sally more and more down an uncanny rabbit hole…
CAROL BIRCH is an award-winning writer of twelve novels, including Jamrach’s Menagerie, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011. Her rst novel, Life in the APRIL 2022 • APOLLO/GENERAL • 228x145mm • 352PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH Palace, won the David Higham Award for Fiction (Best First HB 9781838939458 £18.99 • XTPB 9781838939465 £14.99 • E 9781838939441 Novel of the Year), and her second novel, e Fog Line, won the Geo rey Faber Memorial Prize. Her latest novel, Cold Boy’s Wood, was published by Head of Zeus in 2021. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Lancaster. ‘A naturally literary ‘Her words sing on the page.’ writer who can evoke the Financial Times deepest emotion.’ Guardian © Johnny Bean © Johnny
52 Fiction/General
Edgware Road Yasmin Khan
‘A love letter to London, A wide-ranging and aecting debut novel about family Edgware Road fizzles with and identity, wealth and corruption, the ties that bind us life and characters so real I and the ones we have no idea we’ve severed, set between London and Karachi. half expected to bump into them on the District Line. 1981. Khalid uraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works I can’t wait for readers to nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful wife and daughter. He’s a world away get to know the charming from Karachi and the family he le behind. Khalid and Alia.’ But Khalid likes to gamble, and he likes to win. Twenty CLARE GORDON, EDITOR pounds on the fruit machine, y on a sure-thing horse, a thousand on an investment that seems certain to pay out. Now he’s been o ered a huge opportunity, a chance to get in early with a new bank, and it looks like he’ll nally have his big win. 2003. Alia uraishi doesn’t really remember her dad. A er her parents’ divorce she hardly saw him, and her mum refuses to talk about her charming ex-husband. So, when he died in what the police wrote o as a sad accident, Alia had no reason to believe there was more going on. Now almost twenty years later, she’s not so sure.
YASMIN KHAN is a historian and broadcaster. She is the author of e Great Partition (for which she won the Gladstone Prize for History) and e Raj at War, and has written for the Guardian, Observer and the New York Times. She was born in West London in 1977 and now lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and young family. Edgware Road is her rst novel.
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54 Fiction/Historical
Legion XXII: The Capsarius Legion XXII 1 Simon Turney
‘Where the pragmatic Warrior and combat medic, Titus Cervianus, must lead world of ancient Rome a legion and quell the uprisings in Egypt in a new Roman blurs with the mystic and adventure from Simon Turney. even more ancient Egyptian Egypt. 25 BC. Titus Cervianus and the Twenty Second culture lies a milieu I simply Deiotariana have been sent to deal with uprisings and chaos could not resist. And when in Egypt. Yet the Twenty Second is no ordinary legion. Founded as the private royal army of one of Rome’s most I read of a warrior queen to devoted allies, the king of Galatia, their ways are not the same rival Boudicca, I was sold as the other legions, a factor that sets them apart and causes on the story.’ friction with their fellow soldiers. SIMON TURNEY Cervianus is no ordinary soldier, either. A former surgeon from the city of Ancyra, he’s now a capsarius – a combat medic. Cervianus is a pragmatist, a scientist, and truly unpopular with his legion. Marching into the unknown, Cervianus will nd unexpected allies in a local cavalryman and a troublesome lunatic. Both will be of critical importance as the young medic marches into the searing sands of the south, nding forbidden temples, dark assassins, vicious crocodiles, and worst of all, the warrior queen of Kush…
SIMON TURNEY is from Yorkshire and, having spent much of his childhood visiting historic sites, he fell in love with the Roman heritage of the region. His fascination with the ancient world snowballed from there with great interest in Rome, Egypt, Greece and Byzantium. His works include the Marius’ Mules and Praetorian series, as well as the Tales of the Empire series and e Damned Emperor series.
APRIL 2022 • ARIES/HISTORICAL • 228x145mm • 432PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH SJATurney @sjaturney HB 9781801108928 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801108935 £14.99 • E 9781801108911 simonturney.com simonturney_aka_sjaturney
56 Fiction/Science Fiction
Furious Heaven The Sun Chronicles 2 Kate Elliott
‘The Sun books give me Non-stop action, space battles and intrigue abound in the all the things I love while second in a galactic-scale, gender-swapped space opera writing: characters who play trilogy inspired by the life of Alexander the Great. off each other’s strengths and Princess Sun and her formidable mother, ueen-Marshal weaknesses, and a chance to Eirene, have defeated and driven out an invading eet of build worlds with no holds the Phene Empire. eir joint command has proven e ective and their enemy appears cowed, though success barred.’ is not without its price. KATE ELLIOTT eir once-mighty eets depleted, Sun and Eirene must work together to rebuild and consolidate their victory. But on the eve of a bold attack, an unexpected tragedy strikes. Princess Sun will have to step out of her mother’s shadow and take charge, or lose the throne for good. But, will she be content with the pragmatic path laid out by her mother? Or will she forge her own legend despite all the forces arrayed against her? All the while, the Empire remains strong and undeterred. eir rulers are determined to squash the upstart republic once and for all – by any means necessary.
KATE ELLIOTT has been writing stories since she was nine years old, which has led her to believe that writing, like breathing, keeps her alive. Writing science ction and APRIL 2022 • AD ASTRA/SCIENCE FICTION • 228x145mm • 528PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) fantasy, her particular focus is immersive world building HB 9781800243248 £18.99 • XTPB 9781800243255 £14.99 • E 9781800243231 and centering women in epic stories of adventure, amid transformative cultural change. Kate was born in Iowa, raised in Oregon and now lives in Hawaii, where she paddles outrigger canoes and spoils her schnauzer. ‘The kind of space opera ‘Breathtaking and that I love best.’ mindblowingly good.’ Ann Leckie Aliette de Bodard
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58 Fiction/Science Fiction
The Key to Fury The Key 2 Kristin Cast
‘The perfect cure for anyone For fans of Vox, e Handmaid’s Tale and e Power with The Handmaid’s Tale comes the second book in Kristin Cast’s dystopian withdrawl, The Key to Fury series. is another darkly compelling Safety comes with a price. Change comes with a cost. story packed full of action e Key Corporation has kept Westfall safe from pandemics and sizzling characters. The for the last 50 years. But that’s not all they’ve done... parallels of this dystopian A er discovering the shocking truth behind the Key world and 2020 are enough Corporation, Elodie and Aiden have managed to escape in to take your breath away.’ search of New Dawn – the stronghold for the Eos resistance movement. ere, they can ght for a better world, one where HANNAH SMITH, everyone can decide their own futures. PUBLISHER But things aren’t always as they seem, and as they navigate the tricky paths between perception and reality, freedom and ghting for survival, the two young rebels must discover who they can trust, even as they learn more about who they really are…
KRISTIN CAST attends college in Oklahoma and has won awards for her poetry and journalism as well as co-writing the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling House of APRIL 2022 • AD ASTRA/SCIENCE FICTION • 228x145mm • 384PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) Night series. HB 9781838933944 £18.99 • XTPB 9781838933951 £14.99 • E 9781838933975
‘Easy to read and hard to put down... ‘In this propulsive series starter, powerful and satisfying.’ human touch is highly regulated.’ Grimdark Publishers Weekly
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60 Fiction/Saga
A Wicked Woman The Bellfont Legacy 1 Nadine Dorries
‘A Wicked Woman marks From Sunday Times bestseller Nadine Dorries – the rst in an ambitious departure a tremendous new six-book series, reminiscent of Jerey for Nadine. She drew Archer’s e Cli on Chronicles and Barbara Taylor Bradford’s . on her Liverpool Irish A Woman of Substance childhood for The Four is tale of two families linked by one historic secret and the Streets and Tarabeg, and lies that hide it, but separated by hatred and a deadly rivalry, begins just a er the Battle of Waterloo and spans the great on her experiences as a heyday of the cotton industry in Lancashire. Here, two boys young nurse for Lovely are growing up in the mill town of Bellfont, unaware of the Lane. Now she launches secret legacy which will come to haunt their lives, turn them the first in a magnificent into bitter enemies and fuel the rise of two dangerously strong sequence of novels about women from di erent ends of the social spectrum. is spectacular novel marks an ambitious and exciting departure the deadly rivalry between for one of our most brilliant storytellers. two powerful 19th-century Lancashire mill-owning families. I could not be more excited.’ ROSIE DE COURCY, PUBLISHER
NADINE DORRIES grew up in a working-class family in Liverpool. She spent part of her childhood living on a farm with her grandmother, and attended school in a small remote MAY 2022 • ARIA/SAGA • 228x145mm • 512PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES village in the west of Ireland. She trained as a nurse, then HB 9781838939090 £12.99 • XTPB 9781838939106 £12.99 • E 9781838939083 followed with a successful career in which she established and then sold her own business. She is an MP, presently serving as a Minister of State in the Department of Health and Social Care, and has three daughters. ‘Moving and engaging… ‘A funny and Vibrancy and colour sometimes shocking saga. warm the pages.’ I couldn’t put it down.’ LoveReading Cristina Odone nadinedorriesauthor @nadinedorries nadinedorries.co.uk nadinedorries
62 Fiction/Fantasy
Equinox David Towsey
‘I wanted to explore the Everyone is not as they seem in this fantasy novel, feeling of being at war with replete with war, witchcra and secrets. yourself; the kind of conflict Christophor Morden lives in a world where one changes with that ranges from major life the rising and setting of the sun. For every person contains decisions to what to wear two distinct identities – a day sibling and a night sibling. each day. It seems to me we One never sees the light, the other nothing of night. rarely get on with ourselves.’ Early one evening, Christophor, one of the king’s special unit of witch hunters, is woken early by a call to the city DAVID TOWSEY prison. A young woman has torn her own eyes out, and the police suspect supernatural causes. e investigation takes Christophor far from home, to a village on the edge of the kingdom. ere, he will nd his witch – and his night brother will nd himself desperate to save her. And as this battle of the self rages, the witch’s ancient and apocalyptic ritual comes ever closer to completion…
DAVID TOWSEY is a graduate of the Creative Writing programmes at Bath Spa University and Aberystwyth University. Born in Dorset, he now lives in Cardi with his girlfriend. Together, they write the Tales of Fenest trilogy under the pseudonym of D.K. Fields. David’s rst novel, Your Brother’s Blood, was published by uercus, and was the rst in e Walkin’ Trilogy. He is also one half of the indie games company, Pill Bug Interactive, who have released three titles across PC and Nintendo Switch™.
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64 Fiction/Historical
The House with the Golden Door The Wolf Den 2 Elodie Harper
‘The frescoes in Pompeii e life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering but portray courtesans as precarious, as Elodie Harper explores in the second unimaginably beautiful instalment of e Wolf Den trilogy. and seductive, but it was Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town’s most also a life fraught with risk. notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the For Amara, her freedom a ections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as she once thought. might come at the cost of someone else’s. And what At night she dreams of the wolf den, still haunted by her past. Amara longs for the women she was forced to leave behind would any of us do then?’ and, worse, nds herself pursued by the man who once owned ELODIE HARPER her. In order to be free, she will need to be as ruthless as he is. Amara knows her existence in Pompeii is subject to Venus, the goddess of love. Yet nding love may prove to be the most dangerous act of all. We return to Pompeii for the second instalment in Elodie Harper’s Wolf Den trilogy, set in the town’s lupanar and reimagining the lives of women long overlooked.
ELODIE HARPER is a journalist and writer. She is currently a reporter and presenter at ITV News, and before that worked as a producer for Channel 4 News. MAY 2022 • APOLLO/HISTORICAL • 228x145mm • 400PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) Elodie studied Latin poetry both in the original and in HB 9781838933579 £18.99 • XTPB 9781838933586 £14.99 • E 9781838933609 translation as part of her English Literature degree at Oxford, instilling a lifelong interest in the ancient world.
‘Rich in historical detail, ‘Utterly spellbinding.’ beauty and brutality.’ Woman & Home Caroline Lea @ElodieITV elodieharper.com elodielharper
66 Fiction/Romance
The Rose Villa Leah Fleming
‘How can the painting of From the French Riviera between the wars to a terrifying a Riviera villa bring a lost endgame in Second World War occupied France, a lover back from the dead gripping story of doomed but triumphant love from the author of . or help a reunited couple A Wedding in the Olive Garden build a safe refuge in the High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands Pyrenees for hidden children a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now – in the a ermath of the First World in a time of war?’ War – it is a convalescent home for sick and wounded nurses. LEAH FLEMING Here Scottish Flora Garvie is recovering from four traumatic years on the ambulance trains. And here she will meet again charismatic but troubled Kit Carlyle, a regimental chaplain who no longer believes in his calling and certainly doesn’t believe himself worthy of Flora’s love. eir dramatic rollercoaster of a story will take them through death, separation and war, until a terrifying game of cat and mouse in occupied France seals their fate.
LEAH FLEMING found her true calling as a storyteller a er careers in teaching, catering, running a market stall and stress management courses in the NHS, as well as being a mother MAY 2022 • ARIA/ROMANCE • 228x145mm • 400PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH of four. She lives in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales but spends HB 9781801108799 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801108805 £12.99 • E 9781801108775 part of the year marinating her next tale on her favourite island of Crete.
‘A sunshine story that ‘An uplifting novel provides a warm glow.’ about love and friendship.’ Sunday Post Eastern Daily Press
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68 Fiction/Crime
The Companion Lesley omson
‘When Robert, single and In a grand old mansion in the middle of the Sussex on a low income, answers countryside, six people have seen more than they frail and elderly Rex Lomax’s should... e new chilling standalone thriller from Lesley omson. advert for a Companion, the arrangement appears perfect. Sally Robinson was obsessed with family tradition. at’s Until there is a serial killer why, on a scorching August day, she dragged her family out for a picnic on Dedman’s Heath. Sally imagined her at large and it’s clear that picturesque children posing against the purple heathers and nowhere is safe.’ owering yellow gorse of the South Downs: an envy-inducing LESLEY THOMSON post for her facebook page. Instead, the perfect mother and her perfect family were murdered. By a man who had murdered before, and will do so again. DI Toni Kemp, of Sussex police, must unravel a case which has shocked the county to its core. What she discovers will lead her to Bedford Hall, a grand country mansion, long ago converted into ats. Here in the middle of nowhere, where statues dot the lawn and peacocks scream in the bushes, six long-term residents have seen more than they should. But this is a community who are good at keeping secrets...
LESLEY THOMSON is the author of the Detective’s Daughter series of West London-set mysteries featuring private investigators Stella, a cleaner, and Jack, a tube driver. MAY 2022 • ARIES/CRIME • 228x145mm • 416PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) e rst novel, e Detective’s Daughter, became an ebook HB 9781801109260 £18.99 • XTPB 9781801109277 £14.99 • E 9781801109246 phenomenon in 2013, staying at number 1 in the digital charts for 3 months. Since then, the series has gone on to sell 800,000 copies worldwide. She lives in Lewes with her partner and her dog. ‘Lesley Thomson ‘Lesley Thomson’s gets better sense of place is and better’ remarkable’ Ian Rankin The Times lesleythomsonnovelist @LesleyjmThomson lesleythomson.co.uk lesleythomson
70 Fiction/Romance
Double Booked Lily Lindon
‘You’re in a happy long- What happens when the assumptions we make about term relationship when ourselves are wrong? A fresh, modern and laugh-out-loud you realize you’re bisexual. romantic comedy about a young woman in a long-term relationship with a man who realizes she’s bisexual. What next? Accept your straight future or leave for Georgina is a happy twenty-seven-year-old with her life the queer unknown? Or do gured out: 1) teach piano to inept children, 2) schedule dates with long-term boyfriend, 3) repeat until dead. But what Georgina does: repress one unusual night she ends up in a gay bar watching cult pop your feelings until they burst band, Phase. She realizes that: 1) she longs to be like them, into a double life? Like Jekyll 2) she’s only living half a life, 3) she’s bisexual. and Hyde, but less murder, Juggling her old routine while exploring her new identity, she more lesbians.’ can’t decide which life is the lie. Georgina is double booked. So she does what any sensible person would do: she splits LILY LINDON herself in two. By day, she’s the old predictable Gina; by night, she’s the exciting new George. Armed with a meticulous schedule, a horoscope app and a versatile wardrobe, maybe she really can have everything? Lily Lindon’s debut romantic comedy explores what it takes to come out – not just to everyone around you but, ultimately, to yourself.
LILY LINDON lives in London, and wrote her debut novel at twenty- ve. She is currently an editor at Vintage Classics, where she has published titles including e Lo e Letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Lily has a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and as a student she wrote, directed and acted in shows that were performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and across the USA. She hosts WIT LIT, an interview podcast about people’s favourite funny books.
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Katastrophe Spoils of War 7 Graham Hurley
‘Just sometimes a title has e new blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley set to stand guard over the against the nal stages of the Second World War. thrust of an entire series, and January, 1945. Wherever you look on the map, the ousand- Katastrophe does just that. Year Reich is shrinking. Even Goebbels has run out of lies Whoever told the Germans to sweeten the reckoning to come. An Allied victory is it would end like this?’ inevitable, but who will reap the spoils of war? Two years ago, Werner Nehmann’s war came to an abrupt end GRAHAM HURLEY in Stalingrad. With the city in ruins, the remains of General Paulus’s Sixth Army surrendered to the Soviets and Nehmann was shipped to Russia’s arctic gulags. But now he’s heading home with a message for the man who consigned him to the Stalingrad Cauldron. With the Red Army about to fall on Berlin, Stalin fears his sometime allies are conspiring to deny him his prize. He needs to speak to Goebbels — and who better to go between than Werner Nehamnn, Goebbels’ one-time con dante? Swapping the ruins of Stalingrad for the wreckage of Berlin, swapping Joseph Goebbels for Joseph Stalin, Nehmann’s war has taken a turn for the worse. e Germans have a word for it: Katastrophe.
GRAHAM HURLEY is the author of the acclaimed Faraday and Winter crime novels and an award-winning TV documentary maker. Two of the critically lauded series have JUNE 2022 • ARIES/THRILLER • 228x145mm • 400PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES been shortlisted for the eakston’s Old Peculier Award for HB 9781838938369 £18.99 • XTPB 9781838938376 £14.99 • E 9781838938390 Best Crime Novel. His thriller Finisterre, set in 1944, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
‘Historical fiction ‘Compelling and of a high order.’ richly entertaining.’ The Times Daily Mail grahamhurley.co.uk
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The White Hare Jane Johnson
‘I spend a lot of time walking e White Hare is a novel about Edens lost, found and the Cornish coast path remade; about displaced souls, betrayal and secrets. near where I live and one It is for those who seek a little magic in their lives. particular valley has a really In the valley above White Cove beach, a house has lain eerie feel to it. Down here, neglected since the war. It comes with a reputation and you grow up steeped in a strange atmosphere, which is why Magdalena and Mila manage to acquire it so cheaply in the fateful summer uncanny stories. Now it’s of 1954. my turn to tell one.’ Magda has grand plans for the place: to restore it to its former JANE JOHNSON glory as the venue for glittering parties. Her daughter Mila, however, just wants to escape the scandal in her past and make a safe and happy home for her little girl, Janey. With the White Valley comes a long, eventful and o en bloody history, laced with tall tales and local legends. ey say a white hare may be seen running through the woods there. Some say it’s superstitious nonsense; others say the hare is as real as you or me. And Mila, seeking a fresh new start, needs all the luck she can get.
JANE JOHNSON is a British novelist and publisher. She is the UK editor for George R.R. Martin, Robin Hobb and Dean Koontz and was for many years publisher of the JUNE 2022 • ARIA/HISTORICAL • 228x145mm • 448PP • Rights: UK/COM (xCAN) works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Married to a Berber chef she met HB 9781789545210 £18.99 • XTPB 9781789545227 £14.99 • E 9781789545197 while researching e Tenth Gi , she lives in Cornwall and Morocco.
‘Utterly romantic and ‘Beautifully written.’ page-turningly exciting.’ Santa Montefiore Katie Fforde @JaneJohnsonBakr janejohnsonbooks.com
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The City City of Victory 2 Adrian Goldsworthy ‘The City is all about a From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy comes community caught up in the action-packed sequel to e Fort, book two in the the rivalry between empires, profoundly authentic City of Victory trilogy. about how the Romans went 113, e Eastern Frontier. Eight years a er centurion about a siege, and takes an Flavius Ferox was rst sent to command an isolated fort unwilling Flavius Ferox to during the second Dacian war, he is faced with a new challenge. Tasked with besieging a desert city, he must the far eastern frontier of prepare his men for a battle like no other. But this is the least the empire.’ of Flavius’s worries. Separated from Claudia Enica a er she ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY is forced to ee for her safety, Flavius must quickly work out which of his Roman peers are treacherous and corrupt to protect himself from false accusations and harm. As the Romans take increasing risks to aid their commander’s ambition, Flavius’s investigations lead him to the heart of the imperial court, and closer to the emperor’s cousin, Hadrian. e City is the second book in the City of Victory adventure trilogy set on the frontier of the Roman Empire, from notable historian of the ancient world Adrian Goldsworthy.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY is a respected historian of the ancient world. He studied at Oxford, where his doctoral thesis examined the Roman army, and he went on to write JUNE 2022 • ARIES/HISTORICAL • 228x145mm • 464PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES acclaimed works of non- ction including Caesar, Hadrian’s HB 9781789545784 £18.99 • XTPB 9781789545791 £14.99 • E 9781789545777 Wall, and Philip and Alexander. His ction includes the authentic and action-packed Vindolanda Trilogy, set in Roman Britian as well as the City of Victory trilogy, set on Rome’s Danubian frontier. ‘A novel of explosive action ‘Great characters, great and profound authenticity.’ atmosphere, great read.’ Harry Sidebottom Weekend Sport
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The Drowned Land Doggerland 1 John eobald
‘I have always been e rst novel in an epic trilogy set 8,000 years ago fascinated by the lost history during the last days of Doggerland, the North Sea’s of Doggerland, and the men Stone-Age Atlantis. and women whose lives were e seasons falter, the sea rises, and tide-by-tide the world erased by the rising sea. How shrinks. As the land is poisoned, so too are the minds of men. did they understand and e young are pitted against the old. Tribe is pitted against tribe. Starvation and pestilence stalk the land. e old ways respond to climate change as are abandoned, society collapses and chaos rules. But worse is it destroyed their world?’ yet to come. JOHN THEOBALD e Drowned Land tells the story of a refugee who cannot deny her destiny, no matter how hard she tries; of a crippled young man searching for strength, courage and redemption; and of a warrior’s desperate will to survive… whatever the cost. It conjures the dying days of a land, the dying days of an ancient way of life. For this is a historical turning point – even as the sea consumes Doggerland, the Stone Age is waning and hunter-gatherers are giving way to farmers and metal workers, kings and empires. e only way to survive is to unite.
JOHN THEOBALD was born and raised in Eastern Canada, and moved to the UK to study the poetry of Keats, and in 2009 received a PhD from the University of St Andrews. He lives in London, England.
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The Gone & The Forgotten Clare Whit eld
‘I wanted to explore how A taut psychological thriller from the author of ordinary families can People of Abandoned Character. condition themselves to keep Summer, 1993. In the a ermath of her mother’s suicide the darkest of secrets – until attempt, 16-year-old Prue must spend the summer holidays the truth forces its way out. on a remote island in the Shetlands with her favourite aunt, This is the story of a family’s Ruth, and Uncle Archie, a man she’s barely met since her aunt married him. Prue hopes to re-establish the relationship, and unravelling through the eyes that her aunt might help her understand some of the parts of of a confused and isolated the past she has been forbidden to discuss by her mother – 16-year-old girl, trying to including the identity of her father. make sense of the past.’ Prue soon nds out her uncle was the only suspect in the CLARE WHITFIELD disappearance of a local girl some twenty years ago. As she grows closer to him, she learns there are di erent views on how the beguiling Evelyn O’Hara disappeared, but is her uncle innocent? A single version of the truth seems impossible to lock down, and the truth is something Prue has always had a fractured relationship with.
CLARE WHITFIELD is a UK-based writer living in a suburb where the main cultural landmark is a home store/ Starbucks combo. She is the wife of a tattoo artist, mother JUNE 2022 • APOLLO/THRILLER • 228x145mm • 384PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES of a small benign dictator and relies on a black Labrador HB 9781838932770 £18.99 • XTPB 9781838932787 £14.99 • E 9781838932763 for emotional stability. She has been a dancer, copywriter, amateur re breather, buyer and mediocre weight li er. Her rst novel, People of Abandoned Character, was a Goldsboro Book of the Month. ‘Plenty of twists and turns.’ ‘An astonishing book.’ Woman’s Weekly M.W. Craven
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After Paris Nicole Kennedy
‘I wanted to explore the ree best friends take the same Eurostar to Paris, for limits of friendships – the a girls’ weekend, but take separate trains back. What decades-old ones in which happened that weekend? you grow together, lives Alice, Nina and Jules have been best friends for twenty entwined – their elasticity years. A er spending six months together in Paris as trainee and endurance. With solicitors, the three developed a special bond, despite their ostensible di erences. everything stacked against it, could twenty years of Jules is smart, funny and thin. e sort of person who always gets what she wants – and who traded a pressurized law friendship be undone in rm for investment banking because she needed a bigger one weekend?’ challenge. Nina is calm and con dent, happy being the only NICOLE KENNEDY single woman in their group of friends. She doesn’t even envy Alice, with her three beautiful children, and interior design business. But simmering beneath the surfaces of their seemingly wonderful lives are devastating failures: rounds of IVF; a gambling addiction; an unwanted pregnancy; an a air. A er their weekend together in Paris, the three women never speak again. Each of them claims the other two ghosted them. But what really happened that weekend?
NICOLE KENNEDY grew up in Essex and studied Law at Bristol University. She’s always loved to write but her e orts were waylaid by work as a corporate lawyer in London, Paris JUNE 2022 • ARIA/GENERAL • 210x130mm • 400PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH and Dubai. She completed her rst novel, Everything’s Perfect, HB 9781800240162 £18.99 • XTPB 9781800240179 £14.99 • E 9781800240193 during her third maternity leave (by then it was easier than leaving the house). Nicole lives in Kent with her husband and three sons.
‘Thought-provoking, fluid, vivid.’ ‘I can’t recommend it enough.’ Lia Louis Lucy Vine
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The Wrath to Come Gone with the Wind and the Myth of the Lost Cause Sarah Churchwell
‘Sarah Churchwell’s writing A razor-sharp examination of Gone with the Wind, the is fiercely intelligent and she emergence of ‘the Lost Cause’, and how they have in uenced always finds something new American culture – from race riots to Trump. to say. Her expert analysis Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel became an overnight bestseller of Gone with the Wind is no in 1936; the lm rights were snapped up before it was even exception and is the perfect published and the production would famously go on to win ten Academy Awards. Yet Mitchell’s early life, steeped in nostalgia mix of history, literary for the ‘good old days’ of slavery, shaped both the book’s plot criticism and current affairs.’ and racial politics. e heroine, Scarlett, is one of the rst GEORGINA BLACKWELL, modern portraits of complex womanhood; however, her agency is achieved at the expense of people of colour. Hattie McDaniel COMMISSIONING EDITOR became the rst black actor to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy, but was seated at a separate table from the white cast during the ceremony. Churchwell traces the novel and lm’s relationship to the myth of the Lost Cause and how they foreshadow the controversies in America today over the removal of Confederate statues, the rise of white nationalism and the Black Lives Matter movement; and the value of the story’s uses – and misuses – of national mythologies.
SARAH CHURCHWELL is a Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Behold, America: A History of America First and has contributed to the Guardian, New Statesman and Financial Times, and appeared on uestion Time and Newsnight. She judged the 2014 Man Booker Prize and 2017 Baillie Gi ord Prize for Non-Fiction, and was co- winner of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award.
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Dirty Work Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality Eyal Press
‘Richly reported and A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty disquieting... this book will work – labour that society considers essential, but morally prompt a public reckoning compromised. with inequality in work by Guards who patrol the wards and cells of America’s most revealing how we are all violent and abusive prisons. Undocumented immigrants implicated in the dirty work who man the ‘kill oors’ of industrial slaughterhouses. Roustabouts who drill for oil on o shore rigs. And drone we outsource to others.’ operators who kill people from thousands of miles away. MICHAEL J. SANDEL ese are the essential workers we prefer not to think about. eir morally dubious, o en physically violent and dangerous activity sustains modern society yet is concealed from our gaze. It is work that falls disproportionately to those living in deprived areas, on immigrants and people of colour, and entails a less familiar set of occupational hazards – stigma, shame and moral injury. Eyal Press reveals fundamental truths about the morality of work and the hidden costs of inequality. Striking, sophisticated and nuanced, Dirty Work will change the way you think about society.
EYAL PRESS is an author and journalist based in New York. His writing has appeared in e New Yorker, e New York Times, e London Review of Books and e Nation, and his previous books include Beautiful Souls and Absolute Con ictions. Press is a recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, an Andrew Carnegie fellowship, and a Cullman Centre fellowship at the New York Public Library.
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Forest School for Grown Ups Explore the Wisdom of the Woods Richard Irvine
‘Now more than ever, I Forest schools need not be just for children. Here is the feel that it is important for ultimate guide for how adults can enjoy the benets of everyone to get outside and outdoor learning too. make non-human nature Forest schools originated in Scandinavia as outdoor play- part of our lives. There is based learning groups. By the 1990s, forest schools had been so much to learn and joy to established in Germany, California and the UK, with the bene ts of nature play being internationally recognised. be experienced by pottering around in the forest, as well But why should kids have all the fun? Connecting with green spaces, trees and plants can li our spirits, lower our stress as mental and physical health levels and relax our brains – in short, playing outside is good benefits.’ for adults too. Forest School for Grown Ups is here to help. RICHARD IRVINE From nding your way in the woods to foraging for food, knowing your knots and whittling tools, you can learn new skills and practise forgotten ones. Beautifully designed and illustrated, Forest School for Grown Ups provides the perfect resource for anyone wanting to enjoy spending quality time outdoors.
RICHARD IRVINE is an experienced outdoor educator, trainer and writer specializing in experiential learning in woodlands. He has a passion for the power of outdoor learning and has a depth of understanding about the subject. He is the author of the award-winning Forest Cra and also Wild Days. He is Associate Lecturer in Outdoor and Adventure Education at Plymouth Marjon University. In his spare time, Richard can be found whittling, spoon-carving or practising archery at his home in Devon, England.
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Death by Nature? Understanding Wildlife Diseases Ben Garrod
‘As we farm more animals, When we make nature ill, it makes us ill. push more species towards With the ever-increasing impacts of climate change, habitat extinction and destroy more destruction, biodiversity loss and the unsustainable farming habitats, the ever-increasing of livestock, it seems all too likely that deadly zoonotic risk posed by wildlife disease diseases will shape the twenty- rst century. We think of is a ticking time bomb for dangerous widlife as the n of the shark cutting through the shallows or the tiger hunting its prey, but the greater threat humanity.’ comes from the microscopic killers passed from animals BEN GARROD to humans. Taking this major human health issue and exploring it from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist, Death by Nature? combs the natural world for causes, clues and cures to some of the greatest threats we face. Each chapter includes exclusive interviews with leading scientists, conservationists and virus hunters all on the front line of discovering and combatting these diseases. We need to understand wildlife diseases. Now may be our last chance to reset economies, restore degraded land, make our cities cleaner and conserve biodiversity.
BEN GARROD is Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement at the University of East Anglia. He broadcasts regularly on TV and radio and is trustee and ambassador of a number of key conservation organisations. His previous books include So You ink You Know About... Dinosaurs?, e Chimpanzee and Me and the Extinct series, published by Zephyr.
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Roald Dahl Teller of the Unexpected Matthew Dennison
‘Dennison tells his story From one of our nest contemporary biographers, a with great economy and concise life of Roald Dahl – much-loved author and insight, and with a clear- creator of numerous iconic literary characters. sightedness that allows Roald Dahl was one of the world’s greatest storytellers. us to see his subject with He conceived his vocation as one as intrepid as that of any uncommon intimacy.’ explorer and, in his writing for children, he was able to tap into a child’s viewpoint throughout his life. He cra ed tales IRISH TIMES ON OVER THE that were exotic in scenario, frequently invested with a moral, HILLS AND FAR AWAY and lled with vibrant characters that endure in public imagination to the present day. In this brand-new biography, Matthew Dennison re-evaluates the received narrative surrounding Dahl – that of school sporting hero, daredevil pilot, and wartime spy-turned- author – and examines surviving primary resources as well as Dahl’s extensive literary output to tell the story of a man who identi ed as a rule-breaker, an iconoclast and a romantic, both insider and outsider, hero and child’s friend.
MATTHEW DENNISON is the author of nine critically acclaimed works of non- ction, including Behind the Mask: e Life of Vita Sackville-West, a Book of the Year in e APRIL 2022 • APOLLO/BIOGRAPHY • 200x135mm • 272PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES Times, Spectator, Independent and Observer, and the much- HB 9781788549417 £18.99 • E 9781788549400 praised Eternal Boy: e Life of Kenneth Grahame. His most recent book is a new biography of Her Majesty e ueen.
‘Fascinating.’ ‘A haunting TLS biography.’ i Newspaper
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España A Brief History of Spain Giles Tremlett
‘Spain has been shaped by Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and its geographical position varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in and, in turn, has played a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles. a crucial role in shaping other places. This fringe Spain’s position on Europe’s south-western corner has position, however, means exposed it to cultural, political and actual winds blowing from all quadrants. Africa lies a mere nine miles to the south. it is treated as a marginal e Mediterranean connects it to the civilizational currents player in Europe’s history of Phoenicians, Romans, Carthaginians, and Byzantines as when, in fact, from the age well as the Arabic lands of the near east. Hordes from the of exploration to the great Russian steppes were amongst the rst to arrive. ey would clash of twentieth-century be followed by Visigoths, Arabs, Napoleonic armies and many more invaders and immigrants. Circular winds and ideologies it has sometimes currents linked it to the American continent, allowing Spain been at the forefront of our to conquer and colonize much of it. continent’s story, if not a As a result, Spain has developed a sort of hybrid vigour. forerunner.’ Whenever it has tried to deny this inevitable heterogeneity, GILES TREMLETT it has required superhuman e ort to fashion a ‘pure’ national identity – which has proved impossible to maintain. In España, Giles Tremlett argues that, in fact, that lack of a homogenous identity is Spain’s de ning trait.
GILES TREMLETT is a British author, journalist and broadcaster based in Madrid, Spain. He has lived in, and written extensively about, Spain almost continuously since graduating from Oxford University twenty- ve years ago. He is Contributing Editor at the Guardian and Madrid Correspondent for e Economist magazine.
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The Dark Queens The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World Shelley Puhak
‘ ueen Brunhild and ueen A vivid double biography of two fearless Early Medieval Fredegund commanded queens, and an enthralling journey of discovery across the armies; negotiated with unfamiliar and blood-soaked historical landscape of sixth- century Merovingian France. emperors and popes; designed taxation policies Brunhild was a Visigothic princess, married o for the sake of and built roads, churches, alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet – in sixth-century Merovingian and hospitals. And they France, where women were excluded from noble succession engaged in one of history’s and royal politics was a blood sport – these two reigned over longest and bloodiest vast realms for decades. Brunhild and Fredegund led armies, rivalries. So why had I forged alliances and established infrastructure, all the time never heard of them?’ ghting a gruelling civil war with each other. Yet a er their deaths, their names were consigned to slander and legend. SHELLEY PUHAK From the tangled primary evidence of Merovingian sources, award- winning writer Shelley Puhak weaves a gripping and intricate tale, its characters driven by ambition and jealousy to acts of treachery and murderous violence. e Dark Queens resurrects these two women in all their complexity, painting a richly detailed portrait of a shadowy era and dispelling some of the stubbornest myths about female power.
SHELLEY PUHAK is a poet and writer whose work engages with history in unexpected ways. She has more than a decade of experience teaching literature and creative writing and is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, Guinevere in Baltimore and Stalin in Aruba. Shelley’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic and Virginia uarterly Review, been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, and featured in numerous editions of Best American Essays. e Dark Queens is her rst non- ction book.
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100100 Non-Fiction/Environment Water Always Wins Going with the Flow to Thrive in the Age of Droughts, Floods and Climate Change Erica Gies
‘Growing up in California A journey through time and around the world to uncover – where fighting over water water’s true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate is the unofficial state sport change. – launched my obsession Trouble with water – increasingly frequent, extreme oods with it. Now we’re faced and droughts – is one of the rst obvious signs of climate with climate change and change. Meanwhile, urban sprawl, industrial agriculture and engineered water infrastructure are making things worse. failed attempts to manage As our control attempts fail, we are forced to recognize an water, this book asks a bold eternal truth: sooner or later, water always wins. question: what does water Award-winning science journalist Erica Gies follows water want?’ ‘detectives’ as they search for clues to water’s past and present. ERICA GIES eir tools: cutting-edge science and research into historical ecology, animal life, and earlier human practices. eir discoveries: a deeper understanding of what water wants and how accommodating nature can protect us and other species. Modern civilizations tend to speed water away. We have forgotten that it must ex with the rhythms of the earth, and that only collaboration with nature will allow us to forge a more resilient future.
ERICA GIES is an award-winning journalist and National Geographic Explorer based in Victoria, British Columbia and San Francisco. She writes about water, climate change, plants and critters for the New York Times, Atlantic, Guardian, e Economist, Scientic American, New Scientist, Wired and other publications.
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Heaven on Earth The Lives and Legacies of the World’s Greatest Cathedrals Emma J. Wells
‘The Church was the A glorious illustrated history of twenty of the world’s most powerful medieval greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary institution, giving rise to stories of the people who built them. the awe-inspiring cathedrals Heaven on Earth covers an entire millennium of cathedral- we continue to visit today. building, from c. 500 to the sixteenth century. e central These Herculean organisms core of Emma Wells’s book focuses on the explosion of ecclesial construction that began with the emergence of the of stone were stages for Gothic style in twel h-century France, which produced historical soap operas, and such remarkable structures as the cathedrals of Notre-Dame, their fabric reveals the Canterbury, Chartres, Salisbury, St Mark’s Basilica in Venice stories of those responsible and the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. From Constantinople’s for their creation.’ Hagia Sophia to London’s Westminster Abbey, from Florence’s Duomo to St Basil’s in Moscow, Emma Wells tells EMMA J. WELLS the story of the feats of engineering that brought twenty great cathedrals into being. More than architectural biographies, these are human stories of triumph and tragedy that take the reader from the chaotic atmosphere of the masons’ yard to the cloisters of power. Together, they reveal how 1000 years of cathedral-building shaped modern Europe, and inuenced art, culture and society around the world.
DR EMMA J. WELLS is an award-winning academic, author and broadcaster. She is Lecturer in Ecclesiastical and Architectural History at the University of York. She holds a PhD from Durham University, for which she was awarded a British Archaeological Association Ochs Scholarship and a Society for Church Archaeology research grant. Emma is also a regular contributor to television and radio, and writes for publications including BBC Countryle, TLS, BBC History and History Today. Her last book, Pilgrim Routes of the British Isles, was published in 2016.
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The Book of the Barn Owl Sally Coulthard
‘Barn Owls inhabit a Few of us know what goes on a er dark, underneath the shadowy world we know so moon. Sally Coulthard shines a light on the Barn Owl, little about. Their mystery, one of the most mesmerising and elusive icons of the countryside. and their startling beauty, only make them more With its heart-shaped face and silent, graceful ight, the Barn intriguing. I’d be lying if I Owl regularly occupies a high position in lists of the nation’s favourite birds. A brief sighting of a Barn Owl is a thrill, but said I wasn’t completely and how much do we really know about this sublime tenant of utterly smitten.’ the night? We humans, ever the egocentrics, fancy we see SALLY COULTHARD ourselves in the Barn Owl’s big, baby eyes and quizzical tilt of the head. But the Barn Owl lives on a di erent plane, its existence a yearly see-saw of feast and famine, companionship and solitude. It’s a tough life – living in the shadows – but the Barn Owl has made it this far. Sally Coulthard, bestselling author of A Short History of the World According to Sheep, explores the hidden world of the Barn Owl. Full of fascinating facts, conservation advice and the latest research, this a ectionate and timely guide also tells the story of a Barn Owl’s early life – from the edgling’s rst pipping of the eggshell to its eventual leaving of the nest – a fascinating time in the life journey of this captivating creature.
SALLY COULTHARD is a bestselling author of books about natural history and rural life including A Short History of the World According to Sheep, e Book of the Earthworm, e Bee MAY 2022 • APOLLO/NATURE • 175x135mm • 208PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES Bible, e Hedgehog Handbook and over twenty more titles. HB 9781789544770 £14.99 • E 9781789544763 She lives on a Yorkshire smallholding where she keeps rare breeds of sheep and spends too long watching the horizon, hoping to catch a glimpse of the local Barn Owl.
‘Coulthard is a fine writer.’ ‘A smart little book.’ Yorkshire Times BBC Countryfile @SallyCoulthard sallycoulthard.co.uk salcoulthard
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A Feather at the Feast Thomas Morton, America’s First Nature Writer and Falconer Ben Crane
‘I started by writing a An homage to omas Morton, writer and satirist, lawyer straightforward historical and social reformer, outspoken critic of the Puritans, biography with falconry admirer of Native American culture and the rst falconer in the United States. as its central theme, but it slowly became apparent that In the early 1600s, omas Morton sailed to the New World, Thomas Morton’s life was far founded the settlement of Merrymount and introduced a great Asian and European art to American soil – falconry. more astonishing, complex and fascinating than I ever is legacy is what sets fellow falconer Ben Crane on a journey to tell Morton’s story, learning about his life and reconstructing expected.’ it. Crane visits the rugged Dartmoor landscape where Morton BEN CRANE learnt to y birds of prey and ies goshawks in the woods of Massachusetts. He travels through New England towns looking for the courtrooms where Morton was tried and imprisoned, and spends time with contemporary members of the Wampanoag Tribe, who were nearly wiped out by contact with the colonists. As Crane traces his way through Morton’s life, he realises there are profound lessons for the modern era. More than the biography of an iconoclast, this is a story about our profound relationship with other species and the natural world, and the ongoing threat to traditional cultures.
BEN CRANE is a falconer, writer and artist. He has travelled the globe researching and learning about birds of prey, and in 2018 published Blood Ties, a memoir of falconry JUNE 2022 • APOLLO/BIOGRAPHY • 234x153mm • 320PP • Rights: WORLD ENGLISH and fatherhood. He currently lives deep in the Shropshire HB 9781788546331 £20.00 • E 9781788546324 countryside with his hawk and two dogs.
‘Powerful.’ ‘A beautiful memoir.’ TLS Good Housekeeping
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The Book About Everything Edited by Declan Kiberd, Enrico Terrinoni and Catherine Wilsdon
‘We have commissioned To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, a colourful and eclectic the most important literary work of the twentieth century, group of people, each to eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. write an essay on a favourite episode of the book, which Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the connects with their special novel, but what brings them together is a common love of Ulysses. interests as writers or with Yanis Varoufakis writes about Mr Bloom’s economic ideas in the their expertise in another Eumaeus episode, Irish obstetrician Rhona Mahony responds to Oxen of the Sun, set in a maternity hospital, and journalist Lara discipline.’ Marlowe examines Aeolus, which takes place in a newspaper DECLAN KIBERD, o ce. Joseph O’Connor considers the music-saturated Sirens ENRICO TERRINONI AND episode, Mario Vargas Llosa writes about the bigotry and violence of nationalism on display in Cyclops, and Irish CATHERINE WILSDON philosopher Richard Kearney reects on the erudite musings of Stephen Dedalus as he walks along Sandymount strand. e Book About Everything counters the perception of Ulysses as the sole preserve of academics and instead showcases readers’ responses to the book. It is a vivid, even eccentric, collection, lled with life and Joycean spirit.
DECLAN KIBERD is Professor of Irish Studies, English and Irish Language and Literature Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the author of In enting Ireland, Ulysses and Us, and A er Ireland.
ENRICO TERRINONI is Professor of English Literature at the University of Perugia, the Italian translator of Ulysses and Finnegans Wa k e and President of the James Joyce Italian Foundation.
CATHERINE WILSDON is Keough-Naughton Programme JUNE 2022 • APOLLO/ANTHOLOGY • 234x153mm • 416PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES Manager and Lecturer in Irish Literature at the University of HB 9781801104388 £20.00 • XTPB 9781801104395 £18.99 • E 9781801104401 Notre Dame.
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120 122 Extinct The Story of Life on Earth Ben Garrod & Gabriel Ugueto
‘Spanning the last billion TV scientist Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction years and following the events ever, told from the point of view of evolution’s dying days of a different superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. animal in each, this series is the definitive guide to the Megalodon: e super-predator, with the most powerful bite most destructive yet most force ever measured! Terrorizing the oceans, it hunted with stealth and skill, but even Megalodon died out, along with 50 creative force in nature.’ per cent of marine mammals, 2.5 million years ago. BEN GARROD ylacine: e super-hunted. Wiped out by humans. e last wild thylacine was shot in 1930; the last captive one died in 1936. We humans are the only species with the power to eliminate other species from the story of life. But who are the winners and losers? Hainan Gibbon: Can we make the Hainan gibbon a super- survivor? It’s one of our closest living relatives but among the most endangered animals. Can we change our role in the story of life, from being super-careless to being super-savers? e future depends on us.
BEN GARROD is Professor of Evolutionary Biology and ZEPHYR/NON-FICTION • 216x155mm • 128PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES Science Engagement at the University of East Anglia. He FEBRUARY 2022 • MEGALODON • HB 9781838935412 £14.99 • E 9781838935436 broadcasts regularly on TV and radio and is trustee and ambassador of a number of key conservation organisations. FEBRUARY 2022 • THYLACINE • HB 9781838935443 £14.99 • E 9781838935467 DrBenGarrod @ben_garrod MAY 2022 • HAINAN GIBBON • HB 9781838935474 £14.99 • E 9781838935498 bengarrod.co.uk ben_garrod
GABRIEL UGUETO is a scienti c illustrator, palaeoartist and herpetologist based in Miami, Florida. His work has appeared in books, journals, magazines, TV documentaries and museums. serpenillus gabrielugueto.com @serpenillus
114 DISCOVER THE SUPERSTARS OF THE STORY OF LIFE COLLECT ALL EIGHT BOOKS ABOUT ANIMALS WE HAVE LOST IN MASS EXTINCTIONS CAUSED BY ASTEROIDS OR MEGA-VOLCANOES, CLASHING CONTINENTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE. SUPER-SURVIVOR? HAINAN GIBBON
SUPER-INVADERS TRILOBITE
SUPER-WEIRD HALLUCIGENIA SUPER- MISUNDERSTOOD T-REX
SUPER-SNAPPY SUPER-HUNTED DUNKLEOSTEUS THYLACINE
SUPER-PREDATOR MEGALODON SUPER-SIZED LISOWICIA
Also includes: • Past brought to full-colour life by palaeoartist Gabriel Ugueto WHETHER YOU’RE 9 OR 90, BEN GARROD’S UNIQUE EXPLORATION OF THE MOST • Ask an Expert contributions from leading scientists DESTRUCTIVE, YET MOST CREATIVE, FORCE IN NATURE MAKES TOP LEVEL SCIENCE FUN. • Glossary and pronunciation guide Circus Maximus: Rivals on the Track Annelise Gray
‘Watching sporting greats Horses, history, mystery, thrilling entertainment and on TV was one of my sensational storytelling race neck and neck through the inspirations for Rivals on the second pulse-pounding adventure in Annelise Gray’s 9 + series set in Ancient Rome. Track. I’m fascinated by how they sustain their will to win Dido is the only girl ever to have won victory at the Circus when self-doubt, personal Maximus, the greatest chariot racing arena in the ancient world. But now the whole Empire wants to know her true demons and hungry rivals identity, and, as she has vanished with his favourite horse, the are chasing them down.’ Emperor Caligula is intent on wreaking revenge. ANNELISE GRAY Dido and her beloved horse, Porcellus, are in hiding in Utica, Africa, back at her uncle’s stables. But Scorpus, is in nancial trouble, so when big prizes are on o er at a new stadium, will Dido risk everything to return to the tracks?
ANNELISE GRAY was born in Bermuda and moved to the UK as a child. She grew up riding horses and dreaming of becoming a writer. A er gaining a PhD in Classics from MARCH 2022 • ZEPHYR/FICTION • 200x135mm • 320PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES (xUSA /CAN) Cambridge, she worked as a researcher for authors and TV HB 9781800240605 £12.99 • E 9781800240629 companies. She’s previously published a history of the women of the Roman Empire and a crime novel set in the Roman Republic. Annelise’s debut children’s novel, Circus Maximus: Race to the Death, was published by Zephyr in 2021. Annelise ‘Dazzling action, rich lives with her husband in Dorset where she teaches Latin. detail, fabulous horses and ‘Heart-stoppingly exciting.’ an unforgettable heroine.’ Gillian Cross The Bookseller
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118 Wolfbane Michelle Paver
‘In the ninth and final Wolf e grand nale to the prize-winning adventure series that Brother story, Wolf is swept has changed the lives of millions of readers. Breathtaking out to sea and hunted by an world building on an epic scale. Pure escapism at its best. ice demon bent on eating It is early spring, a turbulent, dangerous time of sudden his souls. If Torak and Renn storms, frozen river fractures and dri ing ice. Fleeing from a can’t find him in time, the demon intent on devouring his souls, Wolf is swept out to sea. bond between them will be Adri , far from the Forest and his pack, Wolf is more alone severed for ever...’ than he has ever been before. And the demon is gaining ground. Torak and Renn must race to save their pack-brother, MICHELLE PAVER battling the harsh, icy waves and merciless torrents. Run wild with Wolf Brother for the last time in a Stone Age world we all want to be part of, with million-copy-selling author Michelle Paver, Creator of Legends.
MICHELLE PAVER was born in central Africa but came to England as a child. A er gaining a degree in Biochemistry at Oxford University, she was a partner at a City law rm, APRIL 2022 • ZEPHYR/FICTION • 215x135mm • 288PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES until she gave that up to write full time. She is the author HB 9781789542448 £12.99 • E 9781789542462 • ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO of the bestselling, award-winning series that began with Wolf Brother. e series has sold over 3 million copies in 36 territories, with acclaimed audio editions read by Ian McKellen. ‘A magical, escapist adventure.’ ‘Top-class Sunday Times, storytelling.’ The Bookseller Best Summer Reads MichellePaverAuthor @MichellePaver
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120 Read Between the Lines Malcolm Du y
‘I discovered that one in Two very dierent boys, one new family, a shared struggle five people have dyslexia, and a big secret. Prize-winning Malcolm Duy’s third but many go undiagnosed. novel explores the joys and challenges of dyslexia in a story full of his hallmark heart and humour. This became the catalyst for my latest book, Read Ryan didn’t want a new mum, let alone a new brother! But , the when his parents split up and his dad moves in with Naomi, Between the Lines she comes with Tommy – one year older, chucked out of his story of a teenage boy old school and now joining Ryan’s class. Great. Suddenly whose efforts to read sharing a home and a classroom with a complete stranger lead him to a discovery that is a bit much. could destroy his family.’ Flung together, the two boys clash, but gradually realise MALCOLM DUFFY that they are more similar than they thought.
MALCOLM DUFFY is a Geordie born and bred, but now he lives in Surrey with his wife and daughters. His debut, Me Mam. Me Dad. Me., shortlisted for the Waterstones MAY 2022 • ZEPHYR/FICTION • 210x130mm • 320PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES Children’s Book Prize, also won the YA category of the HB 9781800241701 £12.99 • E 9781800241688 She eld Children’s Book Award 2019, the Redbridge Children’s Book Award 2019, the Bristol Teen Book Award 2019 and a host of other prizes. His second novel, Sofa Surfer, has been shortlisted for the Redbridge Children’s Book ‘Touching and Award 2021, longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2021 compelling to the end.’ ‘A crusading novel.’ and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2021. Sunday Times, Financial Times Children’s Book of the Week @malcolmduffyUK
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122 Glorious Poison Kat Dunn
‘For the final book in the e daring and dramatic conclusion to Kat Dunn’s epic trilogy, I’m so excited to see eighteenth-century French Revolution trilogy ‘with the Battalion reunited in lashings of lust, love, sacrice, betrayal and horror’. Paris – though neither the Robespierre is dead. e Reign of Terror is over. Battalion nor the revolution As Royalist strength grows, the Duc de L’Aubespine plots are the same as they once a coup that will consign the revolution to history. With were. Now, the explosive Olympe in his clutches, he believes nothing can stop him. final showdown with the But he’s reckoned without the intrepid Battalion of the Dead! Duc promises to change Once again in Paris, Ada is poised for action – but if she things for ever...’ plays her hand too soon, everything she’s sacri ced to gain his trust will be lost. Meanwhile, an unlikely alliance with KAT DUNN an old enemy might be Camille’s only option to save Olympe and stop the duc in his tracks. e glittering and macabre bals des victimes and the eerie catacombs make the perfect backdrop for the nal episode of the Battalion’s tale.
KAT DUNN grew up in London and has lived in Japan, Australia and France. She’s written about mental health for Mind and the Guardian, and worked as a translator for JUNE 2022 • ZEPHYR/FICTION • 210x130mm • 432PP • Rights: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES Japanese television. Her debut novel, Dangerous Remedy, HB 9781789543728 £12.99 • E 9781789543711 and her second novel, Monstrous Design, are both published by Zephyr. She lives in London.
‘A gripping adventure of ‘Your new YA obsession.’ daring escapades and Kiran Millwood Hargrave dazzling set-piece scenes.’ Kesia Lupo
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