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Now in Paperback – the Fi Rst Two Octonaut Adventures! Contents Adult fiction and non-fiction 2 Cookbooks 32 Collins Business Secrets 38 Secrets of the Masons 39 Cartographic 40 Additional adult titles 42 Children’s 46 Children’s audiobooks 62 Additional children’s titles 63 Index 64 Contacts 68 An Autobiography Agatha Christie ver the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most Ocompelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography, writt en mainly in the 1960s, modestly ignores the fact that she had become the best-selling novelist in history and concentrates on her fascinating private life. From early childhood at the end of the nineteenth century, through two marriages and two World Wars, Christie shares the details of her varied and sometimes complex life with real passion and openness. In 2008, Christie’s grandson made a remarkable discovery: a box of old tape reels containing the recordings of Christie dictating her Autobiography for her typist. Th ese remarkable recordings are not only an amazingly rare example of her voice, but also reveal a normally reclusive woman telling her own story in a lively, spontaneous and oft en conspiratorial way. Th is new edition ofAutobiography comes complete with a CD of highlights from these priceless tapes, giving fans the opportunity to hear the Queen of Crime’s story in her own words and rediscover her remarkable story. September BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ General BIO000000 $32.95 978-0-00-731428-7 HB | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 | 544 pp Includes CD Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-00-635328-7 | MM (2001) 2 HarperCollins UK The Stone Cutter Camilla Läckberg or the fi rst time in English, the third psychological thriller from No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Läckberg. FTh e remote resort of Fjällbacka has seen its share of tragedy, though perhaps none worse than that of the litt le girl found in a fi sherman’s net. But the post-mortem reveals that this is no case of accidental drowning… Local detective Patrik Hedstrom has just become a father. It is his grim task to discover who could be behind the methodical murder of a child both he and his partner, Erica, knew well. He knows the real question – and answer – lies with why. What he does not know is how this case will reach into the dark heart of Fjällbacka and the town’s past, and tear aside its idyllic façade, perhaps forever. Born in 1974, Camilla Läckberg worked as an economist before a course in creative crime writing triggered a change of career. Her fi rst four novels all became Swedish No. 1 bestsellers. She lives in a suburb of Stockholm. New in paperback: The Preacher April April FICTION/Mystery & Detective/General FICTION/Mystery & FIC022000 Detective/General $22.95 FIC022000 978-0-00-725398-2 $17.95 TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 | 480 pp 978-0-00-725394-4 PB | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 | 400 pp Also available in hardback: $34.95 | 978-0-00-730593-3 Also available: The Ice Princess $17.95 | 978-0-00-725392-0 | PB General 3 Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape 100 of My Favourite Indian Recipes Gordon Ramsay n his new Channel 4 series, TV chef Gordon Ramsay embarks on a culinary journey around India, discovering the breadth and depth of cooking of the Icountry. His new cookbook is packed with the best recipes from his travels, showing you how to cook authentic dishes that are bursting with fl avour. Th ree-star chef Gordon Ramsay’s favourite food is one that he shares with a lot of Britain – curry. But, until now, he’s never been to India see how the real thing is cooked. Accompanied by a Channel 4 fi lm crew, Gordon takes the culinary trip of a lifetime to discover real Indian cuisine and share this collection of over 100 of his favourite Indian dishes. As you’d expect from a Michelin-starred chef, Gordon brings his eye for perfection and ability to judge fl avours perfectly to his exploration of Indian food and shows us how to cook authentic, mouth-watering dishes from all over this huge and varied country. He visits Kerala deep in the South of India to bring us spicy, coconut-based curries and travels to colourful Rajasthan to learn about the creamy, fl avourful Gordon Ramsay is known to millions of dishes of the North. Along the way Gordon experiences the fans as the star of the successful television hugely diff erent fl avours and spices from the diff erent regions series Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Hell’s and absorbs local cooking styles and traditions. Kitchen, and The F Word and as the author of Th roughout his culinary journey, Gordon selects the ten bestselling recipe books. Since opening best of the vast array of Indian spices, now readily available his fi rst wholly-owned restaurant in 1998, in British supermarkets. He shows us how to use these Ramsay has gone on to launch a string of authentically to produce a beautifully fl avoured Indian dish. internationally celebrated restaurants around Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape includes over 100 recipes in the world. these sections: Everyday, Entertaining, Quick Lunches and Healthy Dishes. Once Gordon shows you how easy it is to put together authentic Indian dishes, you’ll never look back! 4 HarperCollins UK March COOKING/General CKB000000 $34.95 978-0-00-726705-7 HB | 7 3/4 x 9 7/8 | 272 pp 120 colour illustrations General 5 Bletchley Park Richard Aldrich Richard Aldrich provides the gripping inside story of Britain’s main code-breaking establishment, famed for deciphering the German Enigma and Lorenz machines and giving rise to GCHQ Th e code breakers of Bletchley Park off ered intelligence in ‘real time’ from intercepted enemy signals. In some cases, messages sent from Hitler to Rommel in the Western Desert arrived on Churchill’s desk before they were read by their intended recipient. April | HISTORY/Military/General | HIS027000 | $22.95 | 978-0-00-731265-8 | TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 | 448 pp Also available in hardback: $34.95 | 978-0-00-727847-3 Genius of Britain The Essential History of British Science Robert Uhlig, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, and Stephen Hawking Britain may only be a small island, but Britain’s great inventors and scientists have taken mankind to places and into worlds that we only dreamed possible. Th is essential book presents a compelling overview of those achievements, and the fascinating stories of the people who did it. Th ese are stories of obsession – of people who pushed the boundaries, who drank poison and blew themselves up – all in the name of discovery. Th e companion to the forthcoming British television documentary. February | SCIENCE/History | SCI034000 | $43.95 | 978-0-00-732067-7 | HB | 6 x 9 1/4 | 352 pp 6 HarperCollins UK I Heart Hollywood Lindsey Kelk ngela Clark can’t believe her luck – she’s an English girl living in New York with a dream job at hip magazine Th e Look and a sexy boyfriend. Her latest Aassignment takes her to Hollywood to interview hot actor and fellow Brit James Jacobs. Th rown in at the deep end she heads west with best friend Jenny dreaming of Rodeo Drive and Malibu beach. Soon Angela discovers that celebrity life in Hollywood is not all glamour, gloss and sunshine. Despite his lady-killer reputation, the only person who seems genuine is James. Th en a paparazzi snaps them in an uncompromising position and suddenly Angela is thrust into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons… Can she convince all those close to her – especially her boss and her boyfriend – not to believe everything they read? And will Hollywood ever win Angela’s heart? Lindsey Kelk has been writing since she was six, when she read all the books in her room and decided that the only course of action was to write a new one. The Adventures of Tellina theTeddy was tragically never published. Twenty-two years later, she works as a children’s book editor in London so that no one else has to resort to such drastic action. February When she isn’t writing, reading or watching more TV FICTION/General than is healthy, Lindsey likes to wear shoes, shop for FIC000000 shoes and judge the shoes of others. $15.95 978-0-00-734116-0 PB | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 | 336 pp Also available: I Heart New York $15.95 | 978-0-00-728838-0 | 500 pp General 7 The Death of Eli Gold David Baddiel s Eli Gold, a famous old writer, lies dying in a hospital in New York, his family gather around his bed. AHis fi rst wife Violet is too old to travel from London but Harvey, their son, who has never emerged from the shadow of his overpowering father, makes the journey. And there is also Colett e, a six-year old daughter from a second marriage, struggling to make sense of the fact her father is about to leave her. Th e Death of Eli Gold is a mesmerising family drama which confounds the expectations anyone might have that David Baddiel as a TV comedian. It is the work of a very fi ne novelist, writing at the peak of his powers. David Baddiel is one of Britain’s most popular television personalities and author of such critically- acclaimed novels as The Secret Purposes, Whatever Love Means, and Time for Bed.
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