January–June 2012 CONTENTS 3–21 Simon & Schuster HIGHLIGHTS 22–64 Simon & Schuster FICTION 65–118 Simon & Schuster NON-FICTION 119-125 Simon & Schuster ILLUSTRATED 126–127 Index 128 Contacts FICTION Highlights Karen Thompson Walker THE AGE OF MIRACLES KEY TO RIGHTS CODES – EXCLUSIVE TERRITORIES W World What if our 24-hour day grew longer, WEL World English Language first in minutes, then in hours, until day BC British Commonwealth including Canada becomes night and night becomes day? BCE British Commonwealth including Canada, EU What effect would this slowing have UK United Kingdom, Ireland and European Open Market on the world? On the birds in the sky, BXC British Commonwealth excluding Canada the whales in the sea, the astronauts in BXCA British Commonwealth excluding Canada, Australia, New Zealand space, and on an eleven-year-old girl, BEXCA British Commonwealth including EU, excluding Canada, Australia, New Zealand grappling with emotional changes in her BEXC British Commonwealth including EU, excluding Canada own life? BCXA British Commonwealth including Canada, excluding Australia, New Zealand One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in WXUSA World excluding USA their modest suburban home in California to WXUSI World excluding USA and India discover, along with the rest of the world, that the FICTION rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The JUNE enormity of this development is almost beyond Hardback 978-0-85720-723-4 comprehension. And yet, even if the world is, in 234x153 mm fact, coming to an end, as some assert, day-to-day 400 pp £12.99 life must go on. Julia, facing the loneliness and Agent: William Morris Agency (UK) Ltd. Rights: BXC despair of an awkward adolescence, witnesses the Ebook: 978-0-85720-726-5 impact of this phenomenon on the world, on the Export TPB: 978-0-85720-724-1 / £12.99 community, on her family and on herself. KAREN THOMPSON WALKER graduated with an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and recently won the 2011 Sirenland Fellowship for her novel in progress. She is a Commissioning Editor at Simon & Schuster, Inc., and lives in Brooklyn. The Age of Miracles is her first novel. 3 FICTION Highlights FICTION Highlights ‘Sex, power and intrigue – Jackie Collins no one does it Jackie Collins GODDESS OF VENGEANCE better than Jackie’ THE POWER TRIP HEAT MAGAZINE Lucky Santangelo is back – in a tale of power, passion, revenge and raging family dynamics Lucky Santangelo rules with her high profile casino and hotel A Russian billionaire and his state of the art yacht. complex – The Keys in Las Vegas. Lennie, her ex-movie star His beautiful and sexy supermodel girlfriend. And husband, is directing successful independent movies, while Max, five dynamic, powerful and famous couples invited her wild and gorgeous teenage daughter, is about to celebrate her 18th birthday, and her son, Bobby, owns a string of hot clubs. on the yacht’s maiden voyage. WOMEN’S FICTION Lucky has everything. Family. Love. Life. When billionaire A senator and his lovely but unhappy wife. A very businessman Armand Jordan is told that the one property he APRIL attractive movie star and his needy ex-waitress Paperback covets more than anything, The Keys, is not for sale, he is girlfriend. A famous footballer and his interior 978-1-84983-144-4 shocked. That a mere woman would turn down his offer is 198x130 mm designer wife. A male Latin singing sensation and 480 pp unthinkable and Armand vows to force Lucky’s hand whatever £7.99 it takes. And so the battle for power begins… his older English boyfriend. And a maverick writer Agent: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Rights: BXC with his Asian journalist female friend. Ebook: 978-1-84737-984-9 Export A format: 978-1-84983-145-1 Could this be the trip of a lifetime? Or could this be the trip from hell? CHANCES Simon & Schuster are thrilled to have acquired Whatever happens on the high seas doesn’t Jackie Collins’s entire backlist. Jackie regained WOMEN’S FICTION necessarily stay there. her rightful place at the top of the hardcover APRIL Hardback The Power Trip – take it if you dare. bestseller list in 2011 with ; 978-1-84737-979-5 Goddess of Vengeance 234x153 mm and in 2012 we are revitalizing her classic titles 448 pp JACKIE COLLINS is one of the world’s top- £18.99 with stunning new packages Agent: Andrew Nurnberg Associates selling writers, with more than 400 million copies Rights: BXC Starting with the first book in the ‘Lucky’ series, Chances of her books sold in more than forty countries. Her Ebook: 978-1-84737-981-8 sweeps you from the sophisticated playgrounds of Europe to the Export TPB: 978-1-84737-980-1 / £12.99 twenty-eight bestselling novels have never been out glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas. It plunges you into of print, and have all been international bestsellers. the reckless, dangerous world of the Santangelo crime family. It Jackie lives in Los Angeles. WOMEN’S FICTION introduces you to Gino Santangelo, the street kid who makes it JUNE all the way to the top. And then brings you Lucky – his sensual, Trade Paperback stunningly beautiful and passionate daughter; a woman who 978-1-84983-612-8 234x153 mm dares to win her father’s empire for herself; a woman unafraid of 480 pp taking…chances. £12.99 Agent: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Rights: BXC Poor Little Bitch Girl Married Lovers Drop Dead Beautiful Lovers & Players Deadly Embrace Lethal Seduction Hollywood Wives Hollywood Divorces Ebook: 978-1-84983-611-1 978-1-84983-546-6 978-1-84983-423-0 978-1-84983-544-2 978-1-84983-422-3 978-1-84983-545-9 978-1-84983-421-6 The New Generation 978-1-84983-547-3 4 978-1-84983-522-0 5 FICTION Highlights FICTION Highlights ‘Without doubt one of the Lynda La Plante best writers Lynda La Plante THE LITTLE ONE working today’ BACKLASH KARIN SLAUGHTER A Quick Read from Number One bestselling author Are you scared of the dark? Barbara needs a story. A struggling journalist, she tricks her way The brilliant new novel from one of the into the home of former soap star Margaret Reynolds. Desperate UK’s foremost crime writers for a scoop on the actress and her return to stardom, she finds instead a terrified woman living alone in a creepy manor house. Praise for Lynda La Plante: A piano plays in the night, footsteps run overhead, doors slam in THRILLER dark corners. The nights are full of strange noises. Barbara thinks ‘Shades of The Silence of the Lambs, but with FEBRUARY there may be a child living upstairs, unseen. Who looks after her? La Plante’s characteristic ability to ramp up the Paperback And why is she kept out of sight? 978-0-85720-920-7 tension’ times education supplement magazine 198x130 mm Little by little, Margaret’s haunting story of broken promises is 150 pp £1.99 revealed, and Barbara is left with a chilling discovery. ‘The queen of British crime fiction’ stylist Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White Rights: BXC This spooky tale from bestselling author Lynda La Plante will ‘As ever La Plante excels when it comes to police Ebook: 978-0-85720-921-4 make you want to sleep with the light on. procedure and the minutiae of the investigation. BLOOD LINE The compulsive plot whizzes along, twisting and turning, with clues being dropped like litter. It’s a The Number One Bestseller great read and another well-deserved notch on La Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis is back, THRILLER Plante’s bestseller list’ sunday express recently promoted and leading her first murder JUNE Hardback ‘Best-known for creating TV’s Prime Suspect, enquiry 978-0-85720-183-6 234x153 mm Lynda La Plante writes fantastic crime novels, Under the watchful eye of Detective Chief Superintendent 512 pp £18.99 including the addictive Anna Travis series’ express James Langton, Anna is given her first case. But is it a full- Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White blown murder investigation or purely a missing person’s case? Rights: BXC LYNDA LA PLANTE was inducted into the An ominous pool of blood and no victim lead Anna on a Ebook: 978-0-85720-185-0 desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. TPB: 978-0-85720-184-3 Crime Thriller Award Hall of Fame in 2009. As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details, THRILLER Langton fears that she is losing control of the case. They still have no body and Anna is under increasing pressure to make JUNE Paperback an arrest… 978-1-84983-335-6 198x130 mm LYNDA LA PLANTE’s Anna Travis series, Above Suspicion, 512 pp £7.99 is currently being dramatized on ITV and has garnered an Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White audience of over 8 million viewers. Her novels have all been Rights: BXC international bestsellers. Ebook: 978-0-85720-182-9 Above Suspicion The Red Dahlia Clean Cut Deadly Intent Silent Scream Blind Fury 6 Export A format: 978-1-84983-340-0 / £6.99 978-1-84983-433-9 978-1-84983-434-6 978-1-84983-435-3 978-1-84983-436-0 978-1-84983-006-5 978-1-84983-099-7 7 FICTION Highlights FICTION Highlights ‘As warm and sweet as Southern Lloyd Shepherd Comfort’ Adriana Trigiani THE ENGLISH MONSTER ELLE THE SHOEMAKER’S WIFE Based on the real-life story of the A sumptuous, epic new novel set gruesome Ratcliffe Highway murders, between the Italian Alps and the USA The English Monster takes us on a thrilling Like threads of delicate gold, the lives of two voyage through the Age of Empire young Italian lovers, Enza Ravanelli, a practical girl born into poverty, and Ciro Amadei, a dreamer London, 1811.