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2 3 General Fiction General Fiction HALF A WORLD AWAY A KEEPER Mike Gayle Graham Norton

The stunningly heartfelt new novel from the author From the bestselling author of Holding comes a of The Man I Think I Know. masterly tale of secrets and ill-fated loves set on the coast of Ireland. Kerry Hayes knows exactly who she is: a single mum, a cleaner and Mariah Carey’s biggest fan. Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, intent only on wrapping up that Noah Martineau thinks he knows who he is: a dismal part of her life. There is nothing here for successful barrister, with a wife, daughter and big her; she wonders if there ever was. The house of house in Primrose Hill. her childhood is stuffed full of useless things, her mother’s presence already fading. And perhaps, But it wasn’t always this way . . . and Noah and had she not found the small stash of letters, the Kerry are about to discover just who they really are. truth would never have come to light.

Praise for The Man I Think I Know: 40 years earlier, a young woman stumbles from Hodder & Stoughton ‘Mike is always wise and wonderful, but this is Coronet a remote stone house, the night quiet but for the a whole new departure for him – read it!’ Jenny tireless wind that circles her as she hurries further UK Pub: June 2019 Colgan UK Pub: October 2018 into the darkness away from the cliffs and the sea. She has no sense of where she is going, only UK Editor: Nick Sayers ‘That rarest of things; a moving, beautifully written UK Editor: Hannah Black that she must keep on. novel about male friendship . . . I absolutely loved MS Available / 120k words it’ Lisa Jewell PDF Available / 230pp Praise for A Keeper: ‘Magnificent . . . his writing is evocative and Rights sold in Previous About the Author: Rights sold: perfect. His grasp of human loneliness and Titles: Mike Gayle was born and raised in Birmingham. Germany (Rowohlt) longing is beautiful and comforting.’ Marian Netherlands (Meulenhoff After graduating from Salford University with a Norway (Juritzen) Keyes Boekerij) degree in Sociology, he moved to London to US (Atria Books) pursue a career in journalism and worked as a ‘I raved about Holding two years ago . . . A Features Editor and agony uncle. He has written Rights sold in Previous Title: Keeper is even better. A powerful, very sad for a variety of publications including The Sunday France (Bragelonne) story, beautiful writing, two time frames that are Times, the Guardian and Cosmopolitan. Germany (Rowohlt) perfectly balanced. Outstanding. Will easily be Netherlands (The House of one of my books of 2018.’ John Boyne Mike became a full time novelist in 1997 following Books) the publication of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller Norway (Juritzen) About the Author: My Legendary Girlfriend. Since then he has written US (Atria Books) Graham Norton is one of the UK’s best loved thirteen novels including Mr Commitment, Turning broadcasters. He presents The Graham Norton Thirty and Wish You Were Here. His books have Show on BBC1, has a weekly show on BBC Radio been translated into more than thirty languages. 2, and writes a column for the Telegraph. He is the winner of eight BAFTA awards.

4 5 General Fiction General Fiction THE SINGLE LADIES OF JACARANDA THE SEALWOMAN’S GIFT RETIREMENT VILLAGE Sally Magnusson Joanna Nell Uplifting, moving, and witty, The Sealwoman’s Gift A moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and speaks across centuries and oceans about loss, friendship, for anyone who loved The Unlikely love, resilience and redemption. Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Keeper of Lost Things and Three Things about Elsie. SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN 2018

It’s never too late to grow old disgracefully . . . 1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people The life of 79-year-old pensioner Peggy Smart is into slavery in Algiers. Among them a pastor, his as beige as the décor in her retirement village. wife, and their children. Her week revolves around aqua aerobics and appointments with her doctor. The highlight of In her acclaimed debut novel Sally Magnusson Peggy’s day is watching her neighbour Brian head imagines what history does not record: the out for his morning swim. experience of Àsta, the pastor’s wife, as she faces Hodder & Stoughton Two Roads her losses with the one thing left to her – the stories Peggy dreams of inviting the handsome widower - from home – and forges an ambiguous bond with UK Pub: January 2019 treasurer of the Residents’ Committee and one of UK Pub: June 2018 the man who bought her. the few eligible men in the village – to an intimate UK Editor: Kimberley Atkins dinner. But why would an educated man like Brian, UK Editor: Lisa Highton Praise for The Sealwoman’s Gift: a chartered accountant no less, look twice at ‘A remarkable feat of imagination . . . I enjoyed PDF Available / 350pp Peggy? As a woman of a certain age, she fears Page Extent: 384pp and admired it in equal measure’ Sarah Perry, she has become invisible, even to men in their author of The Essex Serpent Rights sold: eighties. Rights sold: Germany (Rowohlt) Iceland (Tindur) ‘A powerful tale of Barbary pirates . . . richly But a chance encounter with an old school friend Serbia (Vulkan) imagined and energetically told.’ Sunday Times she hasn’t seen in five decades – the glamorous fashionista Angie Valentine – sets Peggy on an ‘An extraordinarily immersive read . . . examining unexpected journey of self-discovery. themes of motherhood, identity, exile and freedom’ Guardian Can she channel her ‘inner Helen Mirren’ and find love and friendship in her twilight years? About the Author: Broadcaster and journalist Sally Magnusson has About the Author: written 10 books, most famously, her Sunday Times Joanna Nell was born in the Midlands and bestseller, Where Memories Go (2014) about her graduated from Oxford University with a medical mother’s dementia. degree in 1991. Half-Icelandic, half Scottish, Sally has inherited a She moved to Australia in 2003 where she now rich storytelling tradition. Sally is now writing her works as a GP with a passion for women’s health second novel. and care of the elderly.

6 7 General Fiction General Fiction THE FRANK BUSINESS Where There’s a Will: Can love find a Olivia Glazebrook way? Beth Corby A novel about family, love and other battlefields Twenty-five-year-old Hannah has spent the last After Frank drops down dead in Heathrow Arrivals few years jumping from degree to degree, from on Christmas Eve, his estranged daughter Jem is job to job, searching for her passion in life – but called in to identify the body and is left wondering nothing seems to be going her way. So when her why he was travelling to London in the first rich, eccentric great-uncle Donald leaves her place, the day before Christmas, with no bags or a mystery bequest in his will, she’s gobsmacked. belongings – just his wallet, passport and car key. But there’s a catch: in order to find out what she’s inherited, she must undertake a series of unknown But as Jem impulsively travels back to Frank’s house tasks alongside Donald’s (rather gorgeous) PA, in France – a house she hasn’t been in since she Alec. As the tasks progress and she and Alec grow was a child - she puts together the same realisation closer, Hannah begins to think that Donald’s real that Frank had, shortly before his death. Frank has gift to her might have more to do with love than a son, too, who he had never known about. Jem money . . . John Murray Press has a brother. Hodder & Stoughton But not everything is as rosy as it should be. UK Pub: March 2019 Frank has died of a congenital heart defect. A UK Pub: September 2019 Hannah’s pretty, overbearing sister Lauren turns up defect he may have passed onto his daughter - or and makes a determined beeline for Alec, and her UK Editor: Mark Richards onto his son. She must tell him, and she wants to UK Editor: Thorne Ryan cousin Nick, furious that he’s been overlooked meet her brother, but in attaining her own family, in the will, is prepared to go to any lengths to get PDF Available / 280pp she will rip apart another. MS due November 2018 his hands on what he sees as rightfully his – even if it means exposing his family’s deepest, darkest Praise for Olvia Glazebrook: secrets along the way. ‘A talented, witty writer with a sharp eye for social observation’ Daily Mail Can Hannah overcome all the obstacles being thrown in her way by her nearest and dearest, and About the Author: finally find the happiness Donald wanted for her? Olivia Glazebrook was born in 1976 and brought up in Dorset. She studied English literature at About the Author: University College London and has written as a Beth Corby lives in Wales with her husband and journalist, screenwriter, film critic and book critic. children Her previous novels include The Trouble With Alice and Never Mind Miss Fox. The Frank Business is her third novel. She lives in London.

8 9 General Fiction General Fiction THE END OF TIME MEET ME BY THE CHRISTMAS TREE Gavin Extence Genevieve Herr

An unforgettable new novel from literary sensation Meet Me by the Christmas Tree is the perfect winter Gavin Extence that brings to life the human romantic getaway, for fans of Veronica Henry, condition, with insight, tenderness and humour. Jenny Colgan, and Karen Swan.

Two young Syrian brothers swim the Mediterranean Journalist Jane Brooke is getting over a career Sea to Turkey to escape their war-torn home. On high . . . and love life low. When Jane’s editor arriving in Turkey, they meet an Iraqi man who nominates her to join some glamorous bloggers smells strongly of whiskey, with no shoes on his feet, and cynical journalists on a trip to Norway for a and whose name, they are told, is Jesus Christ. feature on the story behind the famous Norwegian Christmas tree, dubbed the Queen of the Forest, About the Author: and its journey to London’s Trafalgar Square, she Gavin Extence lives in Sheffield with his wife, feels only annoyance to be assigned such a puff children and cat. He has written three previous piece. But Jane hasn’t anticipated discovering novels, The Universe Versus Alex Woods, The Mirror a moving story behind this historic gift – and she Hodder & Stoughton World of Melody Black and The Empathy Problem. Hodder & Stoughton certainly isn’t expecting to find love amidst all that His fourth novel, The End of Time publishes in June snow. UK Pub: June 2019 2019. UK Pub: October 2019 This trip could turn out to be the perfect Christmas UK Editor: Emma Herdman UK Editor: Melissa Cox present after all.

MS due November 2018 MS Available in November About the Author: 2018 Genevieve was born and grew up in London, Rights Sold in Previous Titles: and began working in publishing after university. Bulgaria (Gnezdoto) She studied for a Creative Writing MA at University Czech Republic (Argo Spol) College Birkbeck alongside her day job as a children’s book editor, and her dissertation was awarded the Sophie Warne Memorial essay prize for outstanding emerging writer. Genevieve lives in Scotland with her family. Meet Me by the Christmas Tree is her first novel.

10 11 General Fiction General Fiction THE REST OF ME FOUR Katie Marsh Andy Jones

The poignant and emotive new novel from Katie A thought-provoking, controversial and Marsh, the Number 1 e-book bestseller. immediately gripping story with a tangled and messy moral dilemma at its heart. Alex Fox knows there are lots of things she should be. Sally, Al and Mike have shared – well, almost everything. Sally and Al have been married for She should be the perfect wife to her chronically seven years, though now their relationship is ill husband Sam, and the perfect mother to their hanging by a thread. Sally and Mike have been two daughters. She should be excelling in her best friends since university and on many occasions high-stress job. And she should be completing the something more. Mike and Al have been friends demanding to-do lists she makes to keep herself and colleagues for many years. Yet with Al poised on track. to become Mike’s boss, their friendship comes under threat. And now there’s Mike and Faye. When Sam’s condition worsens and Alex donates They haven’t been together long, but Mike’s pretty Hodder & Stoughton a kidney to save his life, her carefully scheduled Hodder & Stoughton sure that, this time, it’s the real deal. existence starts to unravel – eventually forcing her UK Pub: July 2018 to face up to a past that she has buried for years. UK Pub: July 2018 As the three old friends sit on a train heading towards Brighton to meet Faye, little do they know UK Editor: Kimberley Atkins As the family she has fought so hard for threatens UK Editor: Emma Herdman that after this weekend, the four of them will have to fall apart, can Alex finally confront the mistakes shared . . . everything. Page Extent: 400pp that have shaped her – and rediscover what is Page Extent: 288pp most important in life? They all know they have made a mistake. But they Rights Sold in Previous could never have imagined the consequences. Titles: Praise for The Rest of Me: Czech Republic (Mlada ‘I laughed, I identified, I shed a tear. A lovely story Praise for Four: Fronta) that deserves to fly. I loved it.’Amanda Jennings ‘Secrets and lies have a nasty habit of coming out France (Bragelonne) at the least appropriate time . . . moving, thought- Germany (Diana Verlag) ‘This is a book that will make you stop and think’ provoking and beautifully written’ Daily Mail Israel (Kinneret-Zmora Dvir) Fabulous Magazine Norway (Cappelen About the Author: Damm) About the Author: In one form or another, Andy has always been Poland (Proszynski Media) Katie lives in London with her family. Before being a writer. At school, he passed notes in class and Serbia (Laguna) published she worked in healthcare, and her scribbled rude words on lampposts. At University, Turkey (Olimpos Yayincilik) novels are inspired by the bravery of the people he wrote a PhD in biochemistry and forged tickets she met in hospitals and clinics across the country. to various balls. But it wasn’t until he was well into Her first novel My Everything is a 2018 World Book his thirties that Andy stared writing fiction.Four is his Night pick, and her second A Life Without You was fourth novel, but should probably be his tenth. a huge e-book bestseller.

12 13 General Fiction General Fiction FALLING SHORT THE TWO HOUSES Lex Coulton Fran Cooper

A witty, charming and moving novel about finding A novel of buried secrets and the people who hide things where you least expect them. them, from the author of These Dividing Walls.

Frances Pilgrim’s father went missing when she The Two Houses sit grey and brooding beneath a was five, and ever since all sorts of things have pale sky. They cling to the hillside, cowering from been going astray: car keys, promotions, a series the wind, because always, before everything up of underwhelming and unsuitable boyfriends. here, there is the wind. Now here she is, thirty-bloody-nine, teaching Shakespeare to rowdy sixth formers and still losing After an acclaimed career in ceramics making things. things and breaking things, it is now Jay herself who has cracked. Recovering from a breakdown, But she has a much more pressing problem. Her she and her husband Simon move to the desolate mother, whose odd behaviour Frances has long edges of the Yorkshire moors, where they find put down to eccentricity, is slowly yielding to and fall in love with the Two Houses: a crumbling John Murray Press Alzheimer’s, leaving Frances with some disturbing Hodder & Stoughton Victorian property whose central rooms were questions about her father’s disappearance, and supposedly so haunted that a previous owner had UK Pub: June 2018 the family history she’s always believed in. Frances UK Pub: September 2018 them cut out from the building entirely. could really do with someone to talk to. Ideally UK Editor: Mark Richards Jackson: fellow teacher, dedicated hedonist, UK Editor: Emma Herdman But on uprooting their city life and moving to the erstwhile best friend. Only they haven’t spoken sheltered grey village of Hestle, Jay and Simon Page Extent: 304pp since that night last summer when things got Page Extent: 304pp discover it’s not only the Two Houses that seems complicated . . . to be haunted by an obscure past. It becomes Rights Sold: increasingly clear that the villagers don’t want As the new school year begins, and her mother’s Germany (Heyne) them there at all – and when building work to make behaviour becomes more and more erratic, the two houses whole again starts, a discovery is Frances realises that she might just have a chance made that will unearth decades-old secrets . . . to find something for once. But will it be what she’s looking for? About the Author: Fran Cooper grew up in London before reading About the Author: English at Cambridge and Art History at the Lex Coulton studied English and later creative Courtauld Institute of Art. She spent three years writing at Oxford. She spent fourteen years in Paris writing a PhD about travelling eighteenth- teaching English in secondary schools before century artists, and currently works in the curatorial taking a sabbatical year in Paris, to focus on her department of a London museum. writing. Lex grew up in Herefordshire, and has recently returned to live there with her husband, John, and their dogs Bazil and Sadie.

14 15 General Fiction General Fiction THE SCARLET NIGHTINGALE THE VISITOR Alan Titchmarsh Zoe Miller

The new novel from Alan Titchmarsh is a sweeping Izzie Mallon planned to spend Christmas alone - story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, set in she hadn’t counted on a visitor. But is he who he wartime London and Paris. says he is?

It is the late 1930s when seventeen-year-old Is he who he says he is? Rosamund Hanbury leaves behind the endless summers of her coastal Devonshire home for the Izzie Mallon is looking forward to celebrating fast pace of high society London. Christmas on a relaxing yoga retreat. At least, that is what she’s telling her mother and colleagues. Under the expert guidance of her formidable aunt, In reality, she will be shutting herself away from the country mouse learns how to act like a lady, the festive season, and the snowstorm that has hosting dinner parties and rubbing shoulders with brought the city to a standstill, in her apartment on Britain’s most influential. And when the enigmatic Henrietta Square -- the beautiful home she shared Harry Napier sweeps her off her feet at London’s with her beloved husband Sam until his tragic Hodder & Stoughton famous Café de Paris she could almost forget that Hachette Books Ireland death a few months ago -- with only her grief for Britain has declared war. company. UK Pub: September 2018 UK Pub: October 2018 But the Phoney War ends. Harry is posted, London Then, there’s a knock at the door -- a stranger, UK Editor: Rowena Webb reels from the first bombings of the Blitz and UK Editor: Ciara Doorley stranded by the bad weather. Rosamund suffers a devastating personal loss that Page Extent: 336pp leaves her all the more determined to do her bit Page Extent: 400pp He tells Izzie that he’s Eli Sanders, her husband’s for the war effort. Joining the Special Forces she long-time friend. Izzie has never met him in person, Rights Sold in Previous Title: is sent to work alongside the Resistance on a top but feels she owes it to Sam to welcome Eli into Bulgaria (Obsidian) secret mission in France. It is here that her courage her home. Even though her instincts say that she Germany (Harper Collins) and loyalty are truly put to the test. And where she should do otherwise... learns that no one is what they seem: at home or abroad . . . As Izzie tries to reminisce with Eli about her husband, cracks in his story begin to show. But will she be About the Author: able to see clearly through her grief before it’s too Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through his late? career as a television presenter. He has written more than forty gardening books, as well as eight About the Author: best-selling novels and three volumes of memoir. Zoe Miller is married with three children. She lives He was made MBE in the millennium New Year in Dublin. Honours list and holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the Royal Horticultural Society’s highest award. Her novels include A Question of Betrayal, Someone New, A Husband’s Confession, The Compromise and A House Full of Secrets.

16 17 General Fiction General Fiction LISTEN FOR THE WEATHER THE BLAMED Justine Delaney Wilson Emily Hourican

Listen for the Weather is the story of a marriage. It’s It was the best summer of Anna’s life. The summer a story about consequences. And how we make she fell in love. The summer she found out who she our own weather. was, and felt for the first time the great, magnetic pull of life, and knew she could have all of it. Beth Rogers and her family have settled well into their new life in New Zealand, far from the stifling But she was wrong – and has been keeping a containment of the life they knew at home in painful secret ever since. Ireland. Now, fifteen years later, Anna is struggling to get Everything is idyllic. The children are happy and through to her troubled daughter – named Jessie settled. Beth’s marriage to Steve, and their love for in memory of Anna’s best friend. While once they each other, seems solid. were close, now Jessie keeps her mother at a distance, her every word and action a mystery. Until a bombshell lands, in the form of a letter Though, sometimes, Anna wonders if Jessie can Hachette Books Ireland Steve receives from a woman from his past. In the Hachette Books Ireland see right through her. envelope is a photograph of a three-year-old girl UK Pub: May 2018 – Beth and Steve’s papered-over past has caught UK Pub: June 2018 And when her daughter starts to ask questions up with them, in the shape of this child . . . about the past, and her namesake, Anna realises UK Editor: Ciara Doorley UK Editor: Ciara Doorley that the truth is threatening to escape and tip the Beth forgave Steve once before – can she do it delicate balance of their lives forever. Page Extent: 272pp again? Does Steve want her to? Page Extent: 352pp About the Author: About the Author: Emily Hourican is a journalist and author. She has Born in Dublin, Justine Delaney Wilson read written features for the Sunday Independent for English at Trinity College Dublin and completed ten years, as well as Image magazine, Conde Nast a post-grad in Journalism at the Dublin Institute of Traveler and Woman and Home. She was also Technology. She has been writing on a freelance editor of The Dubliner Magazine. basis ever since, and worked in television research and production for over a decade. Emily’s first book, a memoir titled How To (Really) Be A Mother was published in 2013. She is also the Her first book, The High Society (Gill & Macmillan, author of novels The Privileged and White Villa. 2007) was nominated in the Non-Fiction Book of the Year category at the BGE Irish Book Awards in The Blamed is her third novel. 2008. She is the author of two novels, The Difference and Listen for the Weather.

18 19 Literary Fiction Literary Fiction ASGHAR AND ZAHRA SIGHT Sameer Rahim Jessie Greengrass

Asghar and Zahra follows an unlikely couple SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION through the first year of their tumultuous marriage 2018

Asghar and Zahra are young British Muslims born In Jessie Greengrass’ superb debut novel, our in the same close-knit community in west London. unnamed narrator recounts her progress to They are both trying to accommodate their motherhood, while remembering the death of her home culture with the world around them. But the own mother ten years before, and the childhood superficial similarities between them do not tell summers she spent with her psychoanalyst the whole story. Their families are rivals involved in grandmother. running two different mosques: Asghar’s is more traditional, while Zahra’s is more liberal. Asghar Woven among these personal recollections are struggles with integrating: he is a shy, closed significant events in medical history: Wilhelm personality. Zahra is an ambitious and intelligent Röntgen’s discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud’s woman who can’t wait to leave her community development of psychoanalysis and the work that JM Originals behind. John Murray Press he did with his daughter, Anna; and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant UK Pub: June 2019 Their marriage was not arranged; in fact, the UK Pub: February 2018 bodies. unlikely couple had to appeal for the approval UK Editor: Mark Richards of their rivalrous parents. Asghar sees in Zahra an UK Editor: Mark Richards Praise for Sight: opening to a world he has never mastered; Zahra ’A stunning debut’ Guardian MS Available sees in Asghar the embodiment of the community Page Extent: 208pp she has guiltily abandoned. Each is attracted to ‘Precise and moving . . . The pages on the mother’s what they imagine the other to be – and each Rights Sold: decline are a masterclass in wrenching, pitiless truth discovers, to their cost, that their projections do not Germany (Kiepenheuer & . . . the potted stories of Röntgen, Freud and Hunter match reality. Witsch) form a fluid, richly associative historic narrative of Italy (Bompiani) investigation into the body and the mind, about About the Author: Turkey (Timas) seeking constantly to expand the borders of what Sameer Rahim has worked in literary journalism for US (Crown) we can see’ Daily Telegraph ten years, and is now managing editor of Prospect Magazine, having been formerly arts and books ‘The poise, intelligence and serious intent of editor. In 2013, his essay In the Shadow of the Scroll: Sight will be lauded, and rightly so. I would not reconstructing Islam’s origins won a William Hazlitt be surprised to see it on heavyweight prize lists’ essay prize. Sunday Times

About the Author: Jessie Greengrass was born in 1982. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and London. An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the PFD/Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.

20 21 Literary Fiction Crime and Thriller JOTT A SINGLE SOURCE Sam Thompson Peter Hanington

Jott is a story about friendship, madness and Veteran BBC reporter William Carver is in Cairo – modernism from the author of the Man Booker- bang in the middle of the Arab Spring. ‘The only longlisted Communion Town. story in the world’ according to his editor. But it isn’t – there’s another story, more significant and In February of 1935, two young Irishmen walk in potentially more dangerous, and if no one else is the grounds of a London mental hospital. Arthur willing to tell it . . . then Carver will, whatever the Bourne, a junior psychiatrist, is about to jeopardise consequences. his future for his closest friend, an aspiring writer called Louis Molyneux. There are the dramatic, world-changing events across North Africa and the Middle East, as Arthur has been overshadowed since childhood protesters led by a new generation of tech-savvy by his brilliant, troubled friend. But after years of youngsters challenge the established order. Then playing the unassuming companion, he is learning there are the two Eritrean brothers, desperate to that loyalty has its costs: that old friendship may make their way up from the Horn of Africa across JM Originals thwart new love, and perhaps even blur distinctions Two Roads the continent to a better life in Europe. The horrors between the sane and the mad . . . they endure at the hands of people traffickers UK Pub: June 2018 UK Pub: May 2019 and others along the way test their endurance Praise for Jott: and humanity to its limit. Meanwhile in London UK Editor: Mark Richards ‘A complex, nuanced literary novel of extraordinary UK Editor: Lisa Highton there are powerful forces who look at these world- perception’ The Herald changing events and see not a bright new dawn, Page Extent: 288pp MS Available but a business opportunity. ‘Here is a new writer working out what he can do, and realising that he can do anything’ Daily The world is watching, but its attention span is Telegraph increasingly short. Carver knows the story is a complex one and, in the age of Facebook, Twitter ‘His writing is highly wrought and beautiful, with and rolling news, difficult stories are getting harder that sense of leisure and perfectionism one often to tell. If everyone is a reporter, then who do you finds hanging around the dreaming spires – he’s believe? incredibly intelligent and assumes you are too’ The Times Praise for A Dying Breed ‘Thoughtful, atmospheric and grippingly plotted’ About the Author: Guardian Sam Thompson was born in 1978. His first novel, Communion Town, was longlisted for the Booker ‘There are nods to John le Carre, but [this] Prize in 2012. Jott is his second novel. impressive debut is its own thing’ Sunday Times

About the Author: Peter Hanington is the author of A Dying Breed. He has worked as a journalist for over twenty- five years. A Dying Breed has been optioned by Company Pictures.

22 23 Crime and Thriller Crime and Thriller MISSING PERSON THIS IS GOMORRAH Sarah Lotz Tom Chatfield

They are a group of misfits who go online for fun. Bad people. Good Times. Their hobby is giving names to the missing dead. But a killer is online with them, and his game is in The Dark Web is everywhere – and those who know deadly earnest . . . where to look, and who to ask, can find anything. Drugs, guns, porn, ideologies, lives and deaths are Shaun Ryan’s brother, Teddy, died in 1989. Only he all up for sale . . . and everything must go. didn’t. Looking through his grievously ill mother’s personal effects, Shaun finds a postcard that Set in the technological underbelly of the 21st Teddy posted from New York, dated October 22nd century, this conspiracy thriller follows elite hacker 1990. And in his mother’s family Bible is a picture of Azi Bello on a journey of discovery into the dark an adult Teddy. Could Teddy somehow be alive? marketplace known as Gomorrah, within which And how do you find someone who has never the world’s worst people trade lives and influence. been declared missing and who vanished nearly Taking the reader between London, Berlin, Athens thirty years ago? and Los Angeles, as well as into terrorist-controlled Hodder & Stoughton Hodder & Stoughton Syrian cities, This is Gomorrah explores what it Missing-linc.com are an oddball assortment of means to win, and to lose, at the global game of UK Pub: July 2019 geeks and obsessives whose macabre hobby is UK Pub: July 2019 ideology and power. matching unidentified bodies with missing people. UK Editor: Oliver Johnson Ellie Caines’ first and biggest case was The Boy UK Editor: Melissa Cox A loner, charmer, idealist and connoisseur of other in the Dress, a corpse found not ten miles from people’s mistakes, Azi’s life is spun around by a MS due November 2018 where she lived in Minnesota, two years after MS due December 2018 mysterious approach from a young Muslim woman Teddy’s postcard. Her obsession nearly broke her called Munira, and before long his carefully crafted Rights Sold: marriage and she left the group – but when the Rights Sold: privacy comes crashing down. Munira is at her US (Little, Brown) Ryan’s enquiry is passed onto her she knows they Czech Republic (Euromedia) wits’ end, a fellow hacker whose cousin has been have likely matched the missing Teddy with that Finland (Bazar) recruited by terrorists, and who has unearthed a Rights Sold in Previous Titles: decades-old corpse. And that she will be sucked France (Hugo & Cie) terrible conspiracy in her struggle to bring him Arabic (Al Arabi) back into the old nightmare, where the dead are Germany (Rowohlt) home. She needs Azi’s help and connections to Brazil (Sextante) more real than the living. Netherlands (Luitingh- track him down. China (Guangxi Science and Sijthoff) Technology Publishing House) The unputdownable new thriller from Sarah Lotz, Norway (Aschehoug) But can she be trusted? Can Azi trust anyone when Hungary (Lettero Kiado) author of The Three and The White Road. Portugal (Editora 2020) identities can be changed with just a few clicks . . ? Finland (Karisto Oy) Slovakia (Ikar) France (Fleuve) About the Author: Sweden (Bazar) About the Author: Germany (Goldmann) Sarah Lotz is a screenwriter and novelist who pens US (Mulholland Books) Tom Chatfield took a doctorate and taught at St Italy (Casa Editrice Nord) novels under the name S.L Grey with author Louis John’s College, Oxford, before beginning work as Japan (Hayakawa) Greenberg; YA novels with her daughter, as Lily a writer and editor. His first book, on the culture of Netherlands (Bezige Bij) Herne; and is one third of pseudonymous author video games, Fun Inc., was published worldwide Poland (Muza) Helena S. Paige. Lauren Beukes calls her ‘a natural- in 2010, followed by further books exploring digital Russia (Family Leisure Club) born storyteller. Like the hand reaching up from culture. He is an associate editor at Prospect Spain (RBA Libros) the dark well, she’ll drag you into her thrall. You’ll magazine, Fellow at The School of Life and a Taiwan (Locus) come up gasping.’ Sarah lives in England with her columnist for the BBC. His work is published in over Turkey (Altin Kitaplar) family and other animals. two dozen languages. US (Little, Brown)

24 25 Crime and Thriller Crime and Thriller BEFORE I FIND YOU FRIENDS LIKE THESE Ali Knight Sarah Alderson

A thrilling new psychological suspense novel from A gripping thriller about fake friendships and the the author of Wink Murder, perfect for fans of Friend truth that lies behind the Facebook page, for fans Request, Close to Home and The Guilty Wife. of The Girlfriend and Friend Request.

Maggie is a husband watcher. A snooper, a There’s no such thing as a perfect life. Only a marriage doctor, a destroyer of dreams, a killer perfect lie. of happy-ever-afters. She runs her own private detective agency specialising in catching out in We all know someone like Becca. those who cheat. And she is bloody good at it. She has the job everyone wants, a designer Helene is a husband catcher. A beautiful wife, a wardrobe, a hot-shot lawyer boyfriend, holidays to doting step-mother, a perfect home maker and exotic locations. And she flaunts her perfect life all a dazzling presence at parties. She has landed over social media. herself with one of the most eligible bachelors Hodder & Stoughton in town – handsome property developer Gabe Mulholland Books It drove her colleague Lizzie mad, but she couldn’t Moreau. stop looking. They were never really friends – and UK Pub: March 2019 UK Pub: December 2018 yet Lizzie knew everything about her. Alice is just a teenager. A perfect daughter to UK Editor: Eve Hall Gabe, a kind stepchild to Helene, a tragic girl to a UK Editor: Ruth Tross Or did she? dead mother. She lives a sheltered but happy life, PDF Available / 350pp until she finds that handwritten note ‘You owe me. PDF Available / 310pp When chance, and a terrible mistake, pulls Lizzie I’m not going away.’ back into Becca’s orbit years after they lost touch, Rights Sold in Previous Title: Rights Sold: she’ll realise that you can’t always believe what Norway (Cappelen All three women suspect Gabe Moreau of keeping Germany (Goldmann) you see online . . . and that finding out the truth Damm) secrets and telling lies. But not one of them suspects might be the worst thing you can do. that these lies could end in cold-blooded murder Praise for Friends Like These: Praise for Ali Knight: ‘This cleverly plotted, well written book kept me ‘A suspenseful Hitchcockian tale . . . [one of the] engaged to the last page.’ Rachel Abbott top ten crime books to take on holiday’ Telegraph ‘Absolutely loved this’ Claire McGowan ‘Pacey and disquieting, Knight’s debut hints she might be a successor to Sophie Hannah’s queen About the Author: of suspense crown’ Stylist Sarah is a British born, LA based author and screenwriter. She has published her memoir Can About the Author: We Live Here? and seven young adult books. Ali Knight has worked as a journalist and sub-editor Sarah now balances screenwriting for TV and films at the BBC, Guardian and Observer and helped with writing novels. to launch some of the Daily Mail and Evening Standard’s most successful websites. She lives with She also has a successful career as a romance her family in London. author under the pen name Mila Gray.

26 27 Crime and Thriller Crime and Thriller HAVEN’T THEY GROWN DID YOU SEE MELODY Sophie Hannah Sophie Hannah

All Beth has to do is drive her son to his Under- The compelling standalone suspense novel from 14s away match, watch him play, and bring him Queen of Crime Sophie Hannah home. Did she really see Melody? Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the football ground, that doesn’t mean she Pushed to breaking point, Cara Burrows abandons has to drive past her house and try to catch a her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa glimpse of her. resort she can’t afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room Why would Beth do that, and risk dredging up and is shocked to find it already occupied - by a painful memories? She hasn’t seen Flora for twelve man and a teenage girl. years. She doesn’t want to see her today, or ever again. A simple mistake on the part of the hotel receptionist – but Cara’s fear intensifies when she works out Hodder & Stoughton But she can’t resist. Hodder & Stoughton that the girl she saw alive and well in the hotel room is someone she can’t possibly have seen: the UK Pub: August 2019 She parks outside the open gates of Newnham UK Pub: August 2018 most famous murder victim in the country, Melody House, watches from across the road as Flora and Chapa, whose parents are serving life sentences UK Editor: Carolyn Mays her children Thomas and Emily step out of the car. UK Editor: Carolyn Mays for her murder.

MS due December 2018 Except . . . Page Extent: 336pp Cara doesn’t know what to trust: everything she’s read and heard about the case, or the evidence There’s something terribly wrong. Flora looks the Rights Sold: of her own eyes. Did she really see Melody? same, only older. As Hilary would have expected. Brazil (Rocco) It’s the children. There’s something wrong with Czech Republic (Euromedia) And is she prepared to ask herself that question the children. Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily Estonia (Ersen) and answer it honestly if it means risking her own were five and three years old. Today, they look Netherlands (The House of life? precisely as they did then. Books) US (Harper Collins) Praise for Did You See Melody: They are still five and three. They are Thomas and ‘Outstandingly brilliant’ Clare Mackintosh Emily without a doubt - Hilary hears Flora call them by their names – but they haven’t changed at all. About the Author: Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling They are no taller, no older . . . crime fiction writer. Her crime novels have been translated into 34 languages and published in 51 WHY HAVEN’T THEY GROWN? countries. Sophie is also a bestselling poet who has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot award. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, two children and dog.

28 29 Crime and Thriller Crime and Thriller LONDON RULES SPOOK STREET Mick Herron WINNER OF THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AND IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER ‘Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven’t read him yet, you NEED to’ Mark Billingham London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Rights Sold: Germany (Diogenes Verlag)

Regent’s Park’s First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he’s facing attack REAL TIGERS from all directions himself. SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLDSBORO GOLD DAGGER AND THE Meanwhile, the country’s being rocked by an IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER apparently random string of terror attacks, and someone’s trying to kill Roddy Ho. ‘If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers’ The John Murray Press Spectator Over at Slough House, the crew are struggling ‘The finest new crime series this millennium’Mail on Sunday UK Pub: August 2018 with personal problems. But collectively, they’re about to rediscover their greatest strength – that Rights Sold: Germany (Diogenes Verlag), Norway (H Aschehoug) UK Editor: Mark Richards of making a bad situation much, much worse. DEAD LIONS Page Extent: 352pp About the Author: Mick Herron’s first Jackson Lamb novel, Slow WINNER OF THE 2013 CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD Horses, was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and picked as one of the best twenty A BBC Front Row best crime novel of the year spy novels of all time by the Daily Telegraph. The A Times crime and thriller book of the year second, Dead Lions, won the 2013 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger. The third, Real Tigers, was shortlisted Rights Sold: Germany (Diogenes Verlag), Italy (Feltrinelli Editore), for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Netherlands (Uitgeverij Prometheus), Norway (H Aschehoug) Year, and both the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. The fourth, Spook Street, was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger and Theakston Old Peculier and won the Steel SLOW HORSES Dagger. SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD

‘The UK’s new spy master’ Sunday Times ‘The most enjoyable spy novel in years’ Mail on Sunday

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30 31 Crime and Thriller Fantasy & Sci Fi SONG OF THE DEAD THE ORPHANAGE OF GODS Douglas Lindsay Helena Coggan

A dead man walks into a police station. He tells In the glass city of Amareth, on a hill above a river, a tale – bizarre as it is grotesque – of kidnap and is an orphanage patrolled by armed guards. Inside organ harvesting. John Baden’s story of being held are the children left behind by the long-ago war in prisoner for twelve years sounds far-fetched – but which humans all but wiped out their gods. it’s all about to get much, much stranger. Until they grow up, no one will know which are DI Ben Westphall has been given the case because human, and which are not. Children who reveal of his background in MI6. He also has a knack hidden powers vanish from their beds. The for getting inside people’s heads and seeing Guardsmen discover every god, in the end. No things others would miss. Westphall is no ordinary one has ever escaped – until now. detective and this is no ordinary case. One day Hero, a seventeen-year-old half-god, When his suspects start dying, Westphall realises breaks out of the orphanage and flees north with someone is killing to cover up the truth. But what her brother Joshua. But the murderous Guard are Mulholland Books exactly is the truth? To find out, he’ll have to Hodder & Stoughton on their tail, and they have something Hero wants question everything he’s been told, before there’s desperately: her sister Kestrel, held captive in a UK Pub: November 2018 no one left to ask. UK Pub: March 2019 towering stone prison in the northern sea.

UK Editor: Cicely Aspinall Praise for Douglas Lindsay: UK Editor: Thorne Ryan To survive and rescue Kestrel, Hero must outwit ‘Richly atmospheric . . . Lindsay solidifies his place more than just the Guard. Lying in wait for them PDF Available / 400pp as one of the rising stars of tartan noir’ Publishers MS Available / 120k words are a ragged band of gods-in-hiding, who promise Weekly help in exchange for eternal loyalty. Hero does Rights Sold in Previous not want to trust them – but as winter draws in and About the Author: Titles: even Joshua begins to turn against her, her world Lindsay was born in Scotland in 1964, at 2:38 am. US (Candlewick Press) starts to feel impossibly dangerous . . . Thirty-five years of little note ensued, before the world heralded the publication of his first book, About the Author: The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson. As he Helena Coggan wrote the first draft of her debut was leaving the house to undertake a public novel, The Catalyst, when she was thirteen. It was engagement for the first time, his wife kissed him published two years later and was named as one on the cheek and said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t of 2015’s Debuts of the Year by the Guardian be yourself...’ Sadly, Lindsay continues to ignore and Amazon, and featured by The Sunday Times, her advice to this day. the Observer, the Daily Mail, the Sun, the Daily Metro, the Sunday Express, Radio 4, NBC, and BBC Breakfast. This is her third novel.

32 33 Fantasy & Sci Fi Fantasy & Sci Fi RECORD OF A SPACEBORN FEW: THE BEAST’S HEART Wayfarers 3 Leife Shallcross Becky Chambers A richly magical retelling of the Beauty and the From the ground, we stand. From our ship, we live. Beast fairy tale, from the point of view of the Beast. By the stars, we hope: The incredible new novel by Becky Chambers, author of the beloved The Long I am neither monster nor man – yet I am both. Way to a Small, Angry Planet. I am the Beast. Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from The day I was cursed to this wretched existence but few outsiders have seen. Humanity has finally was the day I was saved – although it did not feel been accepted into the galactic community, so at the time. but while this has opened doors for many, those who have not yet left for alien cities fear that their My redemption sprung from contemptible roots; carefully cultivated way of life is under threat. I am not proud of what I did the day her father happened upon my crumbling, isolated chateau. Hodder & Stoughton Tessa chose to stay home when her brother Ashby Hodder & Stoughton But if loneliness breeds desperation then I was left for the stars, but has to question that decision desperate indeed, and I did what I felt I must. My UK Pub: July 2018 when her position in the Fleet is threatened. UK Pub: May 2018 shameful behaviour was unjustly rewarded.

UK Editor: Sam Bradbury Kip, a reluctant young apprentice, itches for UK Editor: Thorne Ryan My Isabeau. She opened my eyes, my mind and change but doesn’t know where to find it. my heart. She taught me how to be human again. Page Extent: 368pp Page Extent: 352pp Sawyer, a lost and lonely newcomer, is just looking And now I might lose her forever. Rights Sold: for a place to belong. Rights Sold: Czech Republic (Host) US (Berkley) Lose yourself in this gorgeously rich and magical German (S.Fischer) And when a disaster rocks this already fragile retelling of The Beauty and the Beast that finally US (Harper Voyager) community, those Exodans who still call the Fleet lays bare the Beast’s heart. their home can no longer avoid the inescapable Rights Sold in Previous Titles: question: Praise for The Beast’s Heart: Brazil (Darkside ‘The best fairy-tale retelling I have read’ - Read the Entretenimento) What is the purpose of a ship that has reached its Write Act Bulgaria (Art Line) destination? China (United Sky Beijing) About the Author: Czech Republic (Host) About the Author: Leife Shallcross lives at the foot of a mountain in France (L’Atalante) Becky Chambers is the author of the Wayfarers Canberra, Australia, with her family and a small, Germany (S.Fischer Verlag) scruffy creature that snores. She is the author Italy (Fanucci Editore) books, which currently include The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, of several short stories, including Pretty Jennie Japan (Tokyo Sogensha) Greenteeth, which won the 2016 Aurealis Award Poland (Zysk) and Record of a Spaceborn Few. Her books have been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Arthur for Best Young Adult Short Story. The Beast’s Heart Romania (Editura Herg Benet) is her first novel. Russia (Eksmo) C. Clarke Award, and the Bailey’s Women’s Prize Spain (Insolita Editorial) for Fiction, among others, and won the Prix Julia Turkey (Panama Basim) Verlanger in 2017. US (Harper Voyager)

34 35 Recent Highlights Recent Highlights DEVIL’S DAY THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD IN THE Andrew Michael Hurley MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT John Murray Press Jen Campbell Two Roads The second novel from the author of the award-winning bestseller The Loney The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night is a collection of twelve haunting stories; modern fairy tales Rights Sold: Brazil (Editora Intrinseca), Finland (WSOY), brimming with magic, outsiders and lost souls. France (Editions Denoel), Germany (Ullstein Buchverlage), Italy (Bompiani Giunti), Netherlands (Uitgeverij Prometheus), Rights Sold: China (Hunan Literature and Art Publishing Russia (RIPOL), Spain (Editorial Bernice), US (Houghton Mifflin House)

THE BLOOD MIRACLES THE WICKED COMETH Lisa McInerney Laura Carlin John Murray Press Hodder & Stoughton

The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize- Even in the darkest of times, you cannot bury the truth . . winning The Glorious Heresies . A debut historical novel that will appeal to fans of Sarah Waters and The Essex Serpent. Rights Sold: Czech Republic (Argo Spol), Denmark (Jensen & Dalgaard), France (Editions Joelle Losfeld), Italy (Bompiani/ Rights Sold: Czech Republic (Nakladatelstvi) and France Giunti), Spain (Alianza Editorial) (Bragelonne)

ELMET THE PRINCE AND THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS Fiona Mozley Saul David JM Originals Hodder & Stoughton

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 The long-awaited third novel featuring George ‘Zulu’ from An atmospheric and thrilling debut set in Yorkshire - perfect celebrated historian Saul David. for fans of The Loney and The Essex Serpent A brilliant standalone adventure based on detailed Rights Sold: Arabic (Hamed Bin Khalifa), China (Zhejiang research, this is a thrilling novel of suspense and a fascinating Literature & Art), Czech Republic (Euromedia), France new twist on the Jack the Ripper story. (Editions Joelle Losfeld), Germany (btb Verlag), Italy (Fazi Editore), Korea (Munhakdongne), Netherlands (Hollands Diep), Poland (Foksal) Portugal (Clube do Autor), Russia (Azbooka Atticus) Slovakia (Ikar), Turkey (Cinar), US (Workman)

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