NEW BOOKS JANUARY-OCTOBER 2020 NO EXIT PRESS - VERVE BOOKS - CRIME & MYSTERY CLUB - OLDCASTLE BOOKS - CREATIVE ESSENTIALS NO EXIT PRESS MARKING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF GBH, PLENDER 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF TED LEWIS JACK’S RETURN HOME AND 80TH ANNIVERSARY Haunted by a humiliation from childhood, private investigator Brian OF TED LEWIS’ BIRTH Plender spots his old friend Peter Knott one night with a girl way too young to be his wife. He decides to follow the pair and see what happens. What follows is an edge-of-your-seat trip into a nightmare story that manages to be both incredibly creepy and eerily profound. ‘Lewis is one of the great postwar writers’ – BENJAMIN MYERS JANUARY 2020 noexit.co.uk/plender PB 978-0-85730-281-6 £9.99 // FORMAT B (198 x 129mm) // PAGE EXTENT 288pp EB 978-0-85730-282-3 £5.99 // CATEGORY Crime Thriller RIGHTS UK & Comm ex Canada Born in Manchester, TED LEWIS (1940-1982) spent most of his youth in Barton-upon-Humber in the north GBH of England. After graduating from Hull TED LEWIS Art School, Lewis moved to London and first worked in advertising George Fowler heads a lucrative London-based criminal syndicate before becoming an animation that specialises in illegal pornography, but someone is undermining specialist, working on the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. His novels are the his empire from within. Fowler becomes increasingly ruthless in his product of his lifelong fascination pursuit of the unknown traitor, trusting an ever-smaller set of advisers. with the criminal lifestyle of London’s Just as it seems possible for his empire to rise again, another trigger may Soho district and the down-and-out cause his total, irreparable unravelling. lifestyle of the English factory town. Lewis’ novels pioneered the British JANUARY 2020 noexit.co.uk/gbh noir school. 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Wilson’s family and the press are demanding answers, suspecting the CIA of foul play, and men in the CIA, FBI, and White House conspire to make sure the truth doesn’t get out. PAUL VIDICH has had a Enter agent Jack Gabriel, an old friend of the Wilson family distinguished career in music and who is instructed by the CIA director to find out what really media. Most recently, he served happened to Wilson. It’s Gabriel’s last mission before he retires as Special Advisor to AOL and was from the agency, and his most perilous as he finds a continuing Also by PAUL VIDICH Executive Vice President at the Warner cover-up that reaches to the highest levels of government. Key Music Group, in charge of technology witnesses connected to the case die in suspicious causes, and and global strategy. He serves on the Board of Directors of Poets & Gabriel realises that the closer he gets to the truth, the more he Writers and The New School for Social puts himself and his family at risk. Research. A founder and publisher of the Storyville App, Vidich is also an ‘A breathless Cold War thriller in the mode of award-winning author of short fiction. John le Carré’ – JOHN COPENHAVER An Honorable His previous novels, FEBRUARY 2020 noexit.co.uk/coldest-warrior Man and The Good Assassin, are also available from No Exit Press. PBO 978-0-85730-333-2 £8.99 // FORMAT B (198 x 129mm) // PAGE EXTENT 256pp PB £8.99 PB £9.99 EB 978-0-85730-334-9 £5.99 // CATEGORY Spy Thriller 978-1-84344-958-4 978-0-85730-110-9 paulvidich.com RIGHTS UK & Comm ex Canada // AUTHOR LOCATION New York, USA EB £5.99 EB £5.99 a @paulvidich 978-1-84344-959-1 978-0-85730-112-3 4 NO EXIT PRESS BLACKWOOD IS A TIMELESS, MYTHICAL, SPIRITUAL TALE BLACKWOOD OF LOVE AND HARM, OF MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH UNFORGIVING JUSTICE AND ELUSIVE GRACE. ‘Every once in a while an author comes along who’s in love with art and written language and imagery... writers like William Faulkner and Cormac p h McCarthy and Annie Proulx. You can add Michael o t o : L Farris Smith’s name to the list’ – JAMES LEE BURKE u i s a P o r t e r The small town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, but now seems stuck in a black-and-white photograph from days gone by. Unknowing, the town and its people are about to come alive again, awakening to nightmares, as ghostly whispers MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH have begun to fill the night from the kudzu-covered valley that is the author of The Fighter, Desperation sits on the edge of town. Road, Rivers, and The Hands of Strangers. He has been awarded the When a vagabond family appears on the outskirts and twin Mississippi Author Award for Fiction, boys and a woman go missing, disappearing beneath the vines, Transatlantic Review Award, and Brick a man with his own twisted past struggles to untangle the Streets Press Story Award. His novels secrets in the midst of the town trauma. Also by MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, Southern Living, Book This is a landscape of fear and ghosts, of regret and violence. Riot, and numerous others, and have It is a landscape transformed by the kudzu vines that have been named Indie Next List, Barnes & enveloped the hills around it, swallowing homes, cars, rivers, Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of and hiding terrible secrets deeper still. BLACKWOOD is the the Month selections. He has been a evil in the woods, the wickedness that lurks in all of us. finalist for the Southern Book Prize, the Gold Dagger Award in the UK, and the Grand Prix des Lectrices in France. He MARCH 2020 noexit.co.uk/blackwood lives with his wife and daughters in Oxford, Mississippi. 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