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January–June 2011 CONTENTS 3–62 Simon & Schuster FICTION 63–130 Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION 131-145 Simon & Schuster ILLUSTRATED 146–153 Simon & Schuster MEDIA TIE-IN 154–155 Index 156 Contacts Key to Rights Codes – exClusive teRRitoRies W World WEL World english language BC British Commonwealth including Canada BCE British Commonwealth including Canada, EU UK United Kingdom, ireland and european open Market BXC British Commonwealth excluding Canada BXCA British Commonwealth excluding Canada, Australia, New Zealand BEXCA British Commonwealth including EU, excluding Canada, Australia, New Zealand BEXC British Commonwealth including EU, excluding Canada BCXA British Commonwealth including Canada, excluding Australia, New Zealand WXUSA World excluding USA WXUSI World excluding USA and india FICTION Simon & Schuster ‘Philippa Gregory is truly the mistress of the Philippa Gregory historical novel’ THE RED QUEEN SUNDAY EXPRESS The second novel in the spectacular The Cousins’ War series, The Red Queen continues the turbulent story of the Wars of the Roses, rich with intrigue and betrayal Married to a man twice her age, and a mother at only fourteen, Margaret Beaufort is determined to turn her lonely life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son Henry on the throne of England at any cost. In a novel of conspiracy, passion and cold- hearted ambition, Philippa Gregory has brought to life the story of a proud and HIStorical FICtIoN determined woman who believes that she alone AUgUSt is destined, by her piety and lineage, to shape Paperback / ebook 978-1-84739-465-1 (PB) the course of history. 978-1-84737-978-8 (EB) 198x130 mm 432 pp PHILIPPA GREGORY is an internationally £7.99 Imprint: Simon & Schuster renowned writer of historical novels, including Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Other Boleyn Girl which was made into a Rights: BXC major film in 2008. She lives in the North of England with her family. The White Queen was a UK No.1 paperback bestseller. Visit her website at www.philippagregory.com The White Queen 978-1-84739-464-4 3 FICTION Simon & Schuster ‘An author who artfully combines story with truth’ Christian Jacq GOOD BOOK GUIDE THE BROTHER OF FIRE The secrets of Mozart are revealed… Thamos, Count of Thebes, one of the members of a brotherhood keeping the secrets of the pharaohs, has been assigned the mission to find and protect the ‘Great Magician’, a genius whose works will save humanity. Believing that he has found the One in popular young musician, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he succeeds in initiating him in the Masonic rites inspired by the Egyptian Great Mysteries. Mozart’s career is advancing nicely, the commissions keep flowing in and famous singers knock on his door … until new menaces cast HIStorical FICtIoN a shadow over his future. Menace from those AprIL who fear the influence of the Masons, as well as hardback / trade Paperback 978-0-74329-523-9 (HB) jealous musicians. 978-0-74329-524-6 (TPB) 234x153 mm 384 pp Mozart resists and fights back, but will he £19.99 /£12.99 Imprint: Simon & Schuster survive when the greater threat of war with the Agent: XO Editions Ottoman Empire draws near? Rights: BXC CHRISTIAN JACQ is one of the world’s leading Egyptologists. The Son of The Great Magician The Judgement Tutankhamun: The Judge of The Queen of 4 Enlightenment 978-0-74329-520-8 of the Mummy The Last Secret Egypt Trilogy Freedom Trilogy 978-0-74329-521-5 978-1-84737-638-1 978-1-84737-370-0 978-1-84739-366-1 978-1-84739-367-8 FICTION Simon & Schuster ‘Beguiles with its dazzling imagining of the relationship between wolves Dorothy Hearst and mankind’ SECRETS OF THE WOLVES DAILY TELEGRAPH The second book in The Wolf Chronicles, which tells of the first fateful bonding of wolf and man, 14,000 years ago Set at the end of the Ice Age in what is now Southern Europe, Secrets of the Wolves follows the wolves and humans of the Wide Valley as they take tentative steps to learn to live alongside one another without fighting. With the help of the humans with whom they bonded in Promise of the Wolves, the visionary she-wolf Kaala and her companions from the Swift River pack infiltrate the human tribe and slowly win them over. Then, suddenly and without explanation, their prey begins to leave the valley. Disaster threatens, HIStorical FICtIoN for when resources are scarce, conflict inevitably January hardback / trade Paperback / ebook follows. How long before wolf and man are once 978-1-84737-326-7 (HB) 978-1-84737-210-9 (TPB) again sworn enemies, and the killing begins? 978-0-85720-069-3 (EB) 234x153 mm 353 pp Meticulously researched and thrillingly brought £19.99 / £12.99 Imprint: Simon & Schuster to life, this is a magical journey into the mind of Agent: Simon & Schuster, Inc. the wolf. Rights: BXC DOROTHY HEARST lives and writes in Berkeley, California. Visit www.dorothyhearst.com Promise of the Wolves 978-1-84739-230-5 5 FICTION Simon & Schuster Michael Jecks KING’s GOLD The stunning new novel from a master of historical crime As the year 1326 draws to a close, London is in flames. King Edward II is a prisoner, and the forces of his vengeful queen, Isabella, and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer, are in the ascendant. The Bardi family, bankers who have funded the King, must look to their future with the Queen, steering a careful course between rival factions – if, that is, they can keep HIStorical FICtIoN themselves alive. Others, too, find their loyalties torn. Guarding JUNE the deposed King on behalf of Mortimer, Sir Baldwin de hardback / trade Paperback / ebook 978-1-84737-902-3 (HB) Furnshill and bailiff Simon Puttock find themselves entangled 978-0-85720-111-9 (TPB) in a tightening net of conspiracy, greed, betrayal and murder. 978-1-84737-903-0 (EB) 234x153 mm 400 pp £18.99 / £12.99 ‘The detail of how life was lived … is Imprint: Simon & Schuster marvellously portrayed’ C.J. SANSOM Agent: Bell Lomax Rights: BXC THE OATH Set amid the turmoil of war comes a gripping mystery from a master of medieval crime 1326. England is riven with conflict and knight and peasant alike find their lives turned upside down by the warring factions of Edward II and Edward’s estranged queen Isabella and her lover. Yet even in such times the brutal slaughter of an entire family still has the power to shock. Three further murders follow, and bailiff Simon Puttock is drawn into a web of intrigue, vengeance, power and greed. HIStorical FICtIoN Michael Jecks brilliantly evokes the turmoil of fourteenth- century England, as his well-loved characters Simon Puttock January Paperback / ebook and Sir Baldwin de Furnshill strive to maintain the principles 978-1-84983-082-9 (PB) of loyalty and truth. 978-1-84737-901-6 (EB) 198x130 mm 528 pp £7.99 MICHAEL JECKS is the author of 29 novels in the Knights Imprint: Simon & Schuster Templar mystery series. He lives in Devon. Agent: Bell Lomax Rights: WEL 6 FICTION Simon & Schuster Sophie Hardach THE REGISTRAR’s MANUAL FOR DETECTING FORCED MARRIAGES This stunning debut introduces an unlikely hero who’ll prove impossible to forget… Mehmet’s first view of Europe is a vast carpet of digested pasta. Swimming through sewage towards traffickers on the Italian shore, he parts Europe’s soft defences with his bony Kurdish chest before collapsing on the sand. Mehmet is eventually unloaded in Germany, where he must plead his case for a bright new life in Europe. The clock starts ticking. He has until his eighteenth birthday to find a way to get his permanent residency permit, or face deportation LItErAry FICtIoN and imprisonment, torture or even death back AprIL hardback / trade Paperback / ebook in Turkey. 978-0-85720-118-8 (HB) 978-0-85720-119-5 (TPB) 978-0-85720-120-1 (EB) Fifteen years later, in a town hall in Paris, a 216x135 mm 352 pp Registrar receives an unsettling book in the £12.99 post. The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Imprint: Simon & Schuster Agent: Jenny Brown Associates Marriages only fuels her suspicions concerning Rights: WORLD an impending Kurdish wedding. Unsure how to intervene, her focus drifts to one person alone: Mehmet. SOPHIE HARDACH was born in 1979 and grew up in Germany. After graduating, she worked as a correspondent for Reuters in London, Milan, Tokyo and Paris, where she now lives. 7 FICTION Simon & Schuster ‘An outstandingly gifted writer’ Ian Holding SCOTSMAN OF BEASTS & BEINGS A searing, eye-opening novel from a major new African voice Political unrest has torn apart an African country. On the outskirts of a ransacked city, militia seize an innocent captive. Coerced into slavery, he is subjected to a nightmarish overland journey, not knowing where they are heading or if he will ever see freedom again. Meanwhile, a lonely white schoolteacher struggles with the hardships of everyday life in modern Zimbabwe, whilst wrestling shadows from the past and becoming an increasing outsider in the country he has always called home. As each attempts to survive these uncertain times, the LItErAry FICtIoN deeper effects of history and memory emerge, and a AprIL Paperback / ebook new terror breaks forth as each begins to realize his 978-1-84983-014-0 (PB) own part in the very crimes he abhors … 978-1-84737-824-8 (EB) 198x130 mm 256 pp IAN HOLDING is thirty-two and lives in Harare. £7.99 Imprint: Simon & Schuster His critically acclaimed debut novel, Unfeeling, was Agent: David Higham Associates Rights: BXC published in 2005 and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.