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2021 NEW BOOKS & COMPLETE BACKLIST FICTION FEBRUARY 2021 ‘Myriad publishes books that are both nourishing and inspiring, Elizabeth Haynes and a gift to any reader. What a huge achievement to publish challenging, impressive literature in a climate like this.’ You, Me & the Sea Kerry Hudson Compelling, moving and teeming with feral desire – a contemporary story of love and ‘Escapism in the best redemption from the bestselling author of CONTENTS possible way...Immersive, Into the Darkest Corner and The Murder of affecting – I absolutely Harriet Monckton. loved it!’ Rachel is at crisis point. A series of disastrous decisions Marian Keyes NEW BOOKS ............................3 has left her with no job, no home, and no faith in herself. But an unexpected job offer takes her to a remote Scottish island, and it feels like a chance to RECENTLY PUBLISHED recover and mend her battered self-esteem. The island’s other inhabitants are less than welcoming. FICTION . .15 Fraser Sutherland is a taciturn loner who is not happy MEMOIR & NONFICTION ...............23 about sharing his lighthouse – or his precious coffee beans – and Lefty, his unofficial assistant, is a scrawny, GRAPHIC NOVELS ....................28 scared lad who isn’t supposed to be there at all. Homesick and out of her depth, Rachel wonders whether she’s made another mistake. But, as spring COMPLETE BACKLIST ....................40 turns to summer, the wild beauty of the island captivates her soul. ISBN: 978-1-912408-75-7 eISBN: 978-1-912408-76-4 February 2021 Elizabeth Haynes is a former police intelligence £8.99 | $14.95 analyst whose debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, 129mm x 198mm was Amazon’s Best Book of the Year, a New York Times www.myriadeditions.com 432 Pages bestseller and published in 37 countries. Her most recent Paperback novel The Murder of Harriet Monckton was selected as Rights held: World one of The Times 100 Best Books (see also pp.18-19). 3 DEBUT GRAPHIC MEDICINE MAY 2021 MEMOIR MAY 2021 Zara Slattery Kathryn Heyman Coma Fury: A Memoir In May 2013 Zara Slattery’s persistent sore A roadmap of recovery and transformation, throat failed to respond to the paracetamol this is the story of becoming heroic in a and ice pack prescribed by her GP. Instead culture which doesn’t see heroism in the it turned into a deadly bacterial infection. shape of a girl. SHORTLISTED ‘Gripping and brilliantly written Myriad First Graphic Novel The world of Zara’s 15-day drug-induced coma, which ...up there with the very best At the age of 20, after a traumatic sexual assault trial, Competition 2018 she describes as ‘being trapped in a nightmare state of adventure memoirs such Kathryn Heyman ran away from her life and became a that you can’t wake up from’ is rendered as a full- as The Salt Path by Raynor deckhand on a fishing trawler in the Timor Sea. SHORTLISTED colour fantasy, with mythological creatures appearing Winn or Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. Coming from a family of poverty and violence, The Arts Foundation Futures out of nowhere as she battles to protect her three This is a literary work that will she had no real role models, no example of how to Awards 2020 children against the forces of evil that threaten to stand the test of time and has create or live a decent life, how to have hope or engulf her. Meanwhile, her husband Dan tries to international bestseller written expectations. But she was a reader. She understood LONGLISTED keep family life going as he faces the most difficult all over it.’ story, and the power of words to name the world. This LDComics Awards 2019 task of all: preparing the children for the likely loss of Louise Doughty their mother. His diary, and that of the nurses in the was to become her salvation. Intensive Care Unit, who kept a record of Zara’s illness, After one wild season on board the Ocean Thief, the interweave to make a heartbreaking graphic memoir. only girl among tough working men, facing storms, Coma is an exploration of the mind’s response to treachery and harder physical labour than she had trauma. It is an urgent call for awareness of the ever known, Heyman was transformed. Finally she symptoms of severe infection that can lead to life- could name the abuses she thought had broken her. threatening sepsis. And, above all, it is a love story. After a period of enforced separation from the world, ISBN: 978-1-912408-64-1 she was able to return to it newly formed, determined eISBN: 978-1-912408-65-8 to remake the role she’d been born into. ISBN: 978-1-912408-66-5 Zara Slattery is an illustrator, comics artist and teacher. May 2021 May 2021 She runs workshops and teaches drawing and painting £8.99 £18.99 | $25.95 to adult learners. She studied at Edinburgh College 129mm x 198mm Kathryn Heyman was raised in Australia and studied in 170mm x 240mm of Art, and has an MA from Manchester Metropolitan 240 pages Sheffield. She is the author of six novels, including The 272 pages University. Alongside her own work creating small press Paperback Breaking (longlisted for the Orange Prize). She is Director Paperback with flaps comics, she has collaborated with others to create Rights held: World English of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program and Rights held: World anthologies and short story comics. language ex-ANZ teaches on the Faber Academy programme. 4 5 DEBUT FICTION MAY 2021 NEW IN PAPERBACK JUNE 2021 Lisa Allen-Agostini Tammye Huf The Bread the Devil A More Perfect Knead Union This rich, raw and urgent domestic noir novel Based on the true story of the author’s LONGLISTED of sex and survival in Trinidad heralds an The Jhalak Prize great-great-grandparents, this is an epic exciting new voice in feminist fiction. tale of love and courage, desperation and BBC Radio 2 Book Club determination. Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. A fashionable, ‘Extraordinary and emotionally Henry O’Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape mixed-race boutique manager who lives and works in The Times Best Books immersive... The powerful poverty and famine in Ireland, only to find anti- Trinidad’s capital city, Port of Spain, she is feisty, fiercely themes that emerge are Irish prejudice awaiting him. Determined never to independent and morally ambiguous. Her secrets Stylist Best New Books both unpredictable and show only in her bruised skin and the occasional starve again, he changes his surname to Taylor and unforgettable, dealing with the glimpse into her shattered sense of self. heads south to Virginia, seeking work as a travelling masquerade of everyday love blacksmith on the prosperous plantations. ‘A riveting love story across as well as hidden secrets that As her story unfolds, we see her navigate a dangerous the challenges of race and Sarah is a slave. Torn from her family and sold to are the legacy of family.’ path between her abusive partner Leo, a failed poverty… Huf’s delicate blend Jubilee Plantation, she must navigate the hierarchy of Margaret Busby musician who wants to own her body and soul, and the spineless boss she sleeps with only to preserve of passion and compassion her fellow slaves, the whims of her white masters, and her personal power. But when she is reunited with is compelling, impressive and now the attentions of the mysterious blacksmith. her adopted brother, decades after they parted, never sentimental.’ Fellow slave Maple oversees the big house with memories and family secrets begin to unlock and she Andrea Stuart bitterness and bile, and knows that a white man’s starts to understand the person she has become. attention spells trouble. Given to her half-sister as a Alethea’s next step is to decide on the woman she wedding present by their white father, she is set on wants to be. ISBN: 978-1-912408-97-9 being reunited with her husband and daughter, at any eISBN: 978-1-912408-90-0 cost. ISBN: 978-1-912408-99-3 June 2021 eISBN: 978-1-912408-98-6 Lisa Allen-Agostini is a writer, editor and stand-up £8.99 Tammye Huf is a former teacher, and now works as a May 2021 comedian from Trinidad and Tobago. She has written 129mm x 198mm translator and copywriter. Her short stories have been £8.99 four Young Adult novels including Home Home, winner 352 pages published in various magazines, including Diverse 129mm x 198mm of a CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Paperback Voices Quarterly and The Penmen Review. She was 256 pages Literature. She has been a journalist and critic for over Rights held: World runner-up in the 2018 London Magazine Short Story Prize. Paperback 20 years, and writes and performs stand-up comedy as Rights sold: US & Canada, Originally from the USA, she moved first to Germany and Rights held: World ‘Just Lisa’ with her company FemCom TT. Netherlands then to the UK with her husband and three children. 6 7 DEBUT GRAPHIC REPORTAGE JUNE 2021 DEBUT FICTION JUNE 2021 Yvonne Bailey-Smith Florian Grosset The Day I Fell Off My ‘A very creative way of telling The Chagos Betrayal Island of a terrible and ongoing How Britain robbed an island and This captivating coming-of-age novel gives atrocity. It is impossible to made its people disappear voice to the reluctant immigrants – children explore this book and not feel ‘Brims with the pleasure of a the world over who have to deal with the the injustice, and then feel that A compelling graphic essay telling the story story well-told..