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September to December 2011 UK CATALOGUE HARPERCOLLINS Sell what you love Fiction or non-fi ction, biography or self-help, debut novel or seasoned classic—expose readers to talent on the page. Th e top hand-seller will receive $500 and the bookstore will receive $1000 in co-op. Quantity of sales is not the only determining factor— we want to know your hand-selling story. To fi nd out more, visit www.harpercollins.ca/handsellingaward Managers can email submissions to [email protected] Contents Adult fi ction and non-fi ction 2 J.R.R. Tolkien 19 Inspirational Stories 34 Games 38 Language Skills 40 Cartographic 41 Additional adult titles 43 Children’s 46 Additional children’s titles 67 Index 69 Contacts 72 The Time of My Life Cecelia Ahern Dear Lucy Silchester, You have an appointment for Monday 27th July, 2011. Yours sincerely, Life. ucy Silchester has received an appointment card. Actually, she’s been invited along a few times to Lthis appointment, but she keeps brushing the gold embossed envelope under the shag pile carpet. She’s taken her eye off the ball and has busied herself with work (a job she doesn’t love), helping out friends, fi xing her car, feeding her cat, seeing her family and devoting her time to their life dramas. But Lucy is about to fi nd out that this is one appointment that she can’t miss. And she can’t escape it either. Her Life is about to catch up with her in the most surreal of ways… Before embarking on her writing career, Cecelia Ahern completed a degree in journalism and media studies. Her fi rst novel, PS, I Love You was one of the biggest-selling debut novels of 2004 and a number one bestseller. Her successive bestselling novels are Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Now, A Place Called Here, Thanks for the November Memories, The Gift and The book of Tomorrow. FICTION/General PS, I Love You, starring Hilary Swank, was a box FIC000000 offi ce hit. Cecelia has also co-created the hit $19.99 978-0-00-735044-5 American television comedy series Samantha Who?. TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 | 336 pp In 2008 Cecelia won the award for Best New Writer at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards. Cecelia Also available in hardback and audio: lives in County Dublin. $28.99 | 978-0-00-735043-8 | HB $32.99 | 978-0-00-743064-2 | CD (unabridged) 2 HarperCollins UK Girl in the Mirror: Two Stories Available now from Cecelia Ahern Two powerful and unforgett able stories from the Number One bestselling author. In the title story, a secret from her family’s past comes to light on her wedding day and a bride’s destiny changes in the most unexpected of ways, while ‘Th e Memory Makers’ shows that when cherished memories start to fade, some people will do anything to hold onto the past. April | FICTION/Romance/General | FIC027000 | $9.99 | 978-0-00-742503-7 | HB | 4 3/8 x 7 | 96 pp Also available from Cecelia Ahern: The Book of Tomorrow $15.99 | 978-0-00-723371-7 | PB The Gift $10.99 | 978-0-00-725892-5 | MM PS, I Love You $15.95 | 978-0-00-725892-5 | PB Where Rainbows End $15.95 | 978-0-00-726082-9 | PB Thanks for the Memories $15.95 | 978-0-00-723369-4 | PB General 3 The Kashmir Shawl Rosie Thomas panning decades and moving from the stark beauty of nal art the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, not fi Sthis is a story of bravery, courage and love… a lifetime of secrets spun into the fi nest of yarns. Newlyweds Nerys and Evan Watkins leave Wales behind them to take up a missionary posting in India in the 1930s. In the Kashmir lakeside town of Srinagar – home to the British, rosewood houseboats and the Club – Nerys gets caught up in a world of dancing and gossip, which is a million miles from her life as a preacher’s wife. With her husband away on mission work in the snow-capped Himalayas, she is inexorably drawn to the enigmatic German mountaineer, Rainer Stamm. As the beating drums of war draw nearer, the women who are left behind in Srinagar form an extraordinary bond. But by the time the men return life has changed beyond measure for all of them. Years later, when Mair Ellis clears out her father’s house, she fi nds an exquisite antique shawl. Wrapped within it is a lock of child’s hair. Tracing her grandparents’ roots back to India and Kashmir, Mair att empts to unlock the secrets of the past – a journey that changes her life forever. Rosie Thomas is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including the bestsellers Iris and September Ruby, Constance and Lovers and Newcomers. She FICTION/General lives in London. FIC000000 $19.99 Also available: 978-0-00-728596-9 Lovers and Newscomers TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 | 400 pp $15.99 | 978-0-00-728594-5 | PB 4 HarperCollins UK The Water Children Anne Berry our lives. Four defi ning moments which will bring them together. Owen is haunted by nightmares of the FMerfolk who he believes stole his litt le sister while he was meant to be minding her on the beach. Catherine’s perfect Christmas with her cousin was blighted when they went skating on thin ice and her cousin nearly died. Learning to swim was Sean’s way of escaping the bitt er poverty of his childhood, but it also incurred his father’s wrath. Unlike the other three, Naomi doesn’t fear the sea. Cruelly abused in a children’s home in Sheffi eld, the sea off ered her a way out and she revelled in its cruel power. When the ‘water children’ meet in London in the searing hot summer of 1976, Naomi uses her siren’s charm to lure Owen, Catherine and Sean into a tangled web of sexual charm and dangerous passion. A holiday in the Tuscan mountains with a fl ooded reservoir and its legend of the beautiful Teodora who drowned there brings this emotional drama to a powerful climax. A powerful tale of of family, trauma and redemption from the acclaimed author of Th e Hungry Ghosts. Anne Berry is the daughter of a former key fi gure in the British government in Hong Kong. She has worked as a journalist for the South China Morning Post, as a professional actress, as a drama and July English teacher and as a speech therapist. An FICTION/Literary award-winning public speaker, she has four children FIC019000 and lives in Surrey, England. $19.99 978-0-00-730347-2 TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 | 320 pp General 5 Far From My Father’s House Jill McGivering ooking out across the beautiful landscape of Peshawar, Layla knows the world around her is Lchanging. Th e Taliban have waged war on liberal values. Women are to be kept in confi nement, deprived of their freedom and education. At the hands of the ringleader Mohammad Bul Gourn, the Faithful Soldiers of Islam begin to drive out all non-believers. Aware that they face grave danger, Layla’s father, Ibrahim, journeys to a makeshift refugee camp, determined to secure support for his people. Ellen arrived in Peshawar to riots, anti-American sentiment and a rise in religious fundamentalism. At the same refugee camp she meets Britt a, a doctor who is desperately trying to prevent the spread of typhoid. Ellen learns that aid is coming from wealthy Englishman, Quentin Khan. Keen to secure a peerage, Khan has pledged to help his people and prevent the spread of the Taliban. As Ellen discovers more about the camp, she believes that terrorists have been placed within the confi nes in order to stir up anti-Western sentiment but her discoveries not only put her own life in danger but also risk the lives of those she cares most about. Jill McGivering has worked in journalism for 25 years. She is a senior foreign news correspondent September with the BBC. Her fi rst novel, The Last Kestrel, FICTION/Literary charted the lives of two women during the Afghan FIC019000 confl ict. This is her second novel. $19.99 978-0-00-733819-1 Also available from Jill McGivering: TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 | 284 pp The Last Kestrel Also available in hardback: $19.99 978-0-00-738814-1 | PB $28.99 | 978-0-00-733818-4 “A moving, compassionate and impressive fi rst novel” Daily Mail 6 HarperCollins UK A Noble Assassin Christie Dickason thrilling account of one of English history’s missing women set against the backdrop of the sumptuous A Jacobean court in the dark days leading up to the Civil War. An old man’s darling, a court beauty, the muse of poets, and chief lady-in-waiting to the queen of England, Lucy Russell (née Harrington) has it all. So why would she risk everything to save her friend, the princess, Elizabeth Stuart? Lucy fi nds herself caught in a world of rough men and fatal plots, including a plan to assassinate Elizabeth’s brother, the heir to the throne, and crossing paths with the darkly handsome Duke of Buckingham, thought by many to be the true ruler of England. Was Lucy Russell merely a bored young wife, desperate for a litt le excitement? Or did deep belief drive her to choose a dangerous double life? Christie Dickason was born in America.