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SPRING 2014 | @Hoz Books HEAD OF ZEUS HEAD OF | SPRING 2014 SPRING HEAD OF ZEUS HEAD OF ZEUS 45-47 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0HT [email protected] | www.headofzeus.com | @HoZ_Books NEW TITLES +44 (0) 207 253 5557 JANUARY 2014 – JUNE 2014 ISBN 978-1-78185-825-7 HEAD OF ZEUS JANUARY 2014 – JUNE 2014 NEW TITLES 2 PAPERBACKS 62 DIGITAL 74 AGENTS & DISTRIBUTORS 80 3 CUSTARD TARTS & BROKEN HEARTS & BROKEN HEARTS TARTS CUSTARD I WAS BORN IN Bermondsey and was inspired to use it as the backdrop for my novel when I realized that the once tight-knit community I grew up in had vanished forever. Although a work of fiction, I’ve drawn on many of my parents’ and grandparents’ stories of their lives in Bermondsey. My grandmother started work as a teenager in Pearce Duffs custard factory before World War I and worked there for most of her life. Reading about / MARY GIBSON MARY the Bermondsey women’s strike of 1911 gave me the starting point for the story and the ending was inspired by my grandfather’s experiences during World War I. It seems fitting that the story of the custard tarts and their men who marched away will be published during the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War. MARY GIBSON Heartwarming and gritty, the life and loves of a factory girl in Bermondsey through World War 1. Nellie Clark is a custard tart – a factory girl packing custard powder in London’s east end. Conditions are poor, and srikes are frequent. Nellie must support her family after her mother’s death – often going hungry to feed her little brothers. Two men vie for Nellie’s love. One is flamboyant, confident and a chancer. The other is steady, truthful and loyal. But the choice is not as easy as it might seem. Looming over them all – over Bermondsey, over the factory, over the custard tarts and their lives and loves – is the shadow of the First World War. And that will change everything and everyone. MARY GIBSON grew up in Bermondsey, where both her grandmother and great aunt worked in the Pearce Duff factory. This is her first novel. 02 JANUARY 2014 Fiction/Saga * 228x145 mm * 416 pages E 9781781855751 * FTP 9781781855782 £12.99 Territories: WORLD XUSA * Rights: Audio, Large Print ‘With Jay, there are no sacred cows, no punches pulled 5 and no laugh left on the cutting room floor. So skip the blurbs CHANNEL BLUE and just start reading this very funny book.’ MICHAEL MOORE / JAY MARTEL JAY ‘Jay Martel has written a funny, thought-provoking novel that’s one part Waugh, one part Vonnegut, one part Truman Show, all mixed together in one outlandish cocktail.’ TOM PERROTTA ‘Channel Blue is so entertaining, inventive, bawdy and sly that the acid of its social critique sort of sneaks up on you. Months after reading it, I still think about this book regularly as I watch the world’s absurdities unfold, wondering if maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t fiction at all…’ PEGGY ORENSTEIN ‘A laugh-out-loud look at the absurdities Alien TV execs are planning an explosive finale to their reality TV show, in which Earth is the star. Only one man can save our planet from of modern-day America in the tradition of total destruction, and he’s hardly a hero... Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut.’ LOUIS THEROUX Perry Bunt has just learnt the best-kept secret in history. For years, Earth has been a hit reality TV show broadcast to a nation of ETs in a galaxy far far away. To this advanced race, humans are nothing more than fuel for their entertain- ment. So, when ratings start to drop, the network decides to go out with a bang by manipulating these foolish humans into destroying their own planet. With the help of Amanda Mundo, the most beautiful alien in the universe, Perry takes on the most important job of his life. Saving planet Earth. JAY MARTEL is an award-winning writer and producer. He collaborated with Michael Moore on his acclaimed documentary Farenheit 911 and was contributing editor at Rolling Stone for six years. This is his first novel. 02 JANUARY 2014 Fiction/SF * 228x145 mm * 384 pages E 9781781855799 * TPBO 9781781855805 £10.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US 6 THE LIE OF YOU / JANE LYTHELL I will have what is mine... An obsessive woman stalks her boss in this chilling psychological thriller. To the outside world, Kathy is the very picture of a happy and fulfilled modern woman. She has a beautiful baby boy, a clever, handsome husband and a glamorous, high-powered job. Not everybody is fooled. Her employee, Heja, knows the truth: the cracks in Kathy’s marriage, her crippling self-doubt. Heja is perfectly placed to destroy Kathy’s life. And if she succeeds, she can claim the one thing she wants most… I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN attracted by the bad characters in This is a chilling psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy, and lying to those you love. fiction and films. Watching Disney’s Sleeping Beauty with my young daughter I found the witch Maleficent perversely magnificent JANE LYTHELL was a television producer and Deputy Director of the BFI because she was clever and powerful as well as wicked. before deciding to write full time. This is her first novel. In my character Heja I hope I have created someone who will fascinate and divide readers. I wanted to ask the question: Can you 16 JANUARY 2014 have sympathy for a woman who is trying to destroy another woman? Fiction/Thriller * 228x145 mm * 320 pages E 9781781855270 * FTP 9781781855294 £9.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US JANE LYTHELL WHEN I WAS SEVENTEEN I was madly in love. We were fearless, we thought we could do anything, be 9 anything we wanted; we were ripe THE BOAT for this world. Then we hitched a / lift on a yacht with an ex-copper and CLARA SALAMAN his family across the Mediterranean Sea and I soon had the sweetness sucked right out of me. It was too late when I finally understood what was going on – there was nowhere to run to, the boat was becalmed for two weeks, leaving the five of us in horrible proximity, bonded now by our own doings. When I look back, my own behaviour stuns me. Youth, for all its beauty and bravado, is as vulnerable as an open wound. I wanted to capture this. CLARA SALAMAN A sweet young couple become trapped in a nightmare when they board a stranger’s boat. A hypnotic thriller for fans of The Beach. Johnny and his new bride Clem have arrived in Turkey for a year’s honeymoon. Young, blissfully happy but very poor, they are surviving on love, luck and a spirit of adventure. So when a boat appears out of a raging storm, crewed by a bohemian couple who represent everything Johnny and Clem want to be, they do not think twice about stepping on board. But all is not as it seems. And when they finally open their eyes to the truth, the boat is in the middle of the vast open sea... Based on the author’s real life experience, this chilling story will keep you hooked long into the night. CLARA SALAMAN is a novelist, screenwriter and actress. She was nominated for a Best Actress award for her role as DS Clare Stanton in The Bill. 30 JANUARY 2014 Fiction * 228x145 mm * 352 pages E 9781781855836 * FTP 9781781855843 £9.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US 10 BELOVED ENEMY JACK MCCLURE BEREAVED FATHER – PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR AGENT FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT / ERIC VAN LUSTBADER ERIC VAN ‘Rarely have I read a book that grabs you so fast in the opening scene, then keeps up the pace until the very last page.’ JEFFERY DEAVER ‘I’ve long been a fan of Eric Van Lustbader, and he’s at his heart-pounding best with First Daughter. Here are the chills you’ve been looking for.’ TESS GERRITSEN ‘The master of the smart thriller.’ NELSON DEMILLE ‘Action, suspense and politics blended to perfection by a master. An automatic buy-today-read-tonight author for me.’ From the million-copy-selling co-author of the Bourne series, LEE CHILD the next electrifying thriller starring FBI agent Jack McClure. Dennis Paull, Secretary of Homeland Security, has been shot dead – and Special Agent Jack McClure has been accused of his murder. Someone must have framed him, someone who would do anything to forestall his next move. For before Paull died, he had tasked McClure with a mission as secret as it is deadly. Find the mole in the FBI, and track down his spymaster, The Syrian. If McClure is to complete his mission now, he must evade the CIA officers on his tail. And he must find Annika Dementieva, the woman he once loved and lost... DON’T MISS THE FIRST FOUR EPISODES ERIC VAN LUSTBADER is the author of 25 novels, which have been translated into over twenty languages. He is the author of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne series, which have sold millions of copies worldwide. 30 JANUARY 2014 Fiction/Thriller * 228x145 mm * 368 pages E 9781781856178 * HB 9781781856185 £17.99 * XTPB 9781781856192 £12.99 Territories: World XCAN XUSA * Rights: Audio, Large Print REVIEWS FOR EMMA BURSTALL ‘Fun, funny and fast – 13 THE DARLING GIRLS a really lovely novel.’ PENNY VINCENZI / ‘What a terrific read! I loved this EMMA BURSTALL honest, absorbing story. I couldn’t put it down.
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