1 2 CONTENTS Contacts | 4 Century | 5 Hutchinson | 15 Del Rey | 21 Random House Business | 26 William Heinemann | 33 #Merky Books | 36 Windmill | 40 Arrow | 47 3 CORNERSTONE CONTACTS Charlotte Bush – Director of Publicity and Media Relations [email protected] | 020 7840 8613 Najma Finlay – Publicity Director, Hutchinson [email protected] | 020 7840 8614 Laura Brooke – Publicity Director, Cornerstone Imprints [email protected] | 020 7840 8695 Klara Zak – Publicity Director, Century & Arrow [email protected] | 020 7840 8548 Rachel Kennedy – Senior Publicity Manager [email protected] | 020 7840 8893 Isabelle Ralphs – Senior Press Officer [email protected] | 020 7840 8388 Alice Spencer – Senior Press Officer [email protected] | 020 7840 8624 Anna Hibberd – Senior Campaigns Executive [email protected] | 020 7840 8772 General Enquiries: Georgia Williams – Publicity Assistant [email protected] | 020 7840 7323 Lydia Spooner – Publicity Assistant [email protected] | 020 7840 8673 4 CENTURY 5 Charles Soule Katie Flynn Light of the Jedi A Mother's Joy Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The brand new uplifting novel from Sunday Times The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High bestselling author Katie Flynn, about a young woman Republic, the noble and wise Jedi Knights must face a searching for hope in Liverpool during the second January 2021 January 2021 Hardback Hardback £20.00 £20.00 368 pages 432 pages 9781529124644 9781529123890 __________________________________________ THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, AUTHOR KATIE FLYNN in the era of the glorious High Republic, the noble and wise Jedi Knights _____________________ must face a frightening threat to themselves, the galaxy, and the Force itself…. Liverpool 1939: Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However, behind closed doors she lives in constant fear of her abusive Charles Soule is a Brooklyn, New York-based novelist, comic book writer, father, and has no support from her mother. musician, and attorney. His novels include The Oracle Year and Anyone: A Novel. While he has worked for DC and other publishers, he is best known Longing for love and affection she begins a relationship with Ted, a young for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine, and various Star Wars lad who works in her father’s factory. But her family disapprove of the comics from Marvel Comics (Darth Vader, Poe Dameron, Lando and more), relationship and forbid them from seeing each other. and his creator-owned series Curse Words (with Ryan Browne) and Letter 44 (with Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque). When war comes to Liverpool, Olivia seizes the opportunity to leave behind her unhappy life and join the WAAF. There she meets a fellow trainee, Maude and the two embrace their newly found independence. Soon Olivia meets the handsome Ralph, and all thoughts of Ted are brushed aside. Until he returns to her life with some shocking news that turns her world upside down . _____________________ Praise for Katie Flynn ‘Packed with romance and poignancy’ Woman ‘One of the best Liverpool writers’ Liverpool Echo ‘Heart-warming’ Take a Break 'A poignant war-time romance' Daily Express Katie Flynn is the pen name of the much-loved writer, Judy Turner, who published over ninety novels in her lifetime. Judy’s unique stories were inspired by hearing family recollections of life in Liverpool during the early twentieth century, and her books went on to sell more than eight million copies. Judy passed away in January 2019, aged 82. The legacy of Katie Flynn lives on through her daughter, Holly Flynn, who continues to write under the Katie Flynn name. Holly worked as an assistant to her mother for many years and together they co-authored a number of Katie Flynn novels, including Christmas at Tuppenny Corner. Holly lives in the north east of Wales with her husband Simon and their two children. When she’s not writing she enjoys walking her two lurchers, Sparky and Snoopy, in the surrounding countryside, and cooking forbidden foods such as pies, cakes and puddings! She looks forward to sharing many more Katie Flynn stories, which she and her mother devised together, with 6 Tony Parsons Lisa Gardner Your Neighbour’s Wife Before She Disappeared What do you do when your perfect life spins out of From the Sunday Times bestselling author Lisa control? A gripping psychological thriller that combines Gardner, a gripping thriller featuring an ordinary the emotional warmth of Man and Boy with the page- woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing January 2021 January 2021 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £12.99 400 pages 400 pages 9781529124736 9781529124415 What do you do when your perfect life spins out of control? A From the Sunday Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a gripping gripping psychological thriller that combines the emotional thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to warmth of Man and Boy with the page-turning brio of The Murder find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten. Bag. Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than Tara Carver seems to have the perfect life. A loving mother and wife, and a belongings who spends her life doing what no one else will: searching for business woman who runs her own company, she’s the sort of person you’d missing people the world has stopped looking for. want to live next door to, who might even become your best friend. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, But what sort of person is she really? when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. Because in one night of madness, on a work trip far from home, she puts all A new case brings Frankie to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough this at risk. And suddenly her dream life becomes a living nightmare when reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who the married man she spent one night with tells her he wants a serious vanished from her high school months earlier. relationship with her. And that he won’t leave her or her precious family alone until she agrees. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she’s on her own. And she soon learns she’s asking questions someone There seems to be only one way out. And it involves murder ... doesn’t want answered. Tony Parsons left school at sixteen and his first job in journalism was at the But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the New Musical Express. His first journalism after leaving the NME was when next person to go missing will be her … he was embedded with the Vice Squad at 27 Savile Row, West End Central. The roots of the DC Max Wolfe series started here. Lisa Gardner started her writing career aged seventeen. Having caught her hair on fire while working in food service, crafting a novel seemed a safer Since then he has become an award-winning journalist and bestselling bet. A mere ten years later she became an overnight success with the novelist whose books have been translated into more than forty languages. publication of her first thriller, The Perfect Husband. The Murder Bag, the first novel in the DC Max Wolfe series, went to number one on first publication in the UK. All of the DC Max Wolfe novels have been Now an internationally bestselling author and winner of the International Sunday Times top five bestsellers. Thriller Writers Award for best suspense novel, Lisa lives in the mountains of New Hampshire with her family. Tony lives in London with his wife, his daughter and their dog, Stan. When not glued to her computer, she can be found hiking the mountains with her dogs and/or researching new and interesting ways to get away with murder. 7 Jonathan Kellerman James Patterson Serpentine The Russian (Michael Bennett 13) A gripping new thriller featuring psychologist Alex A killer crashes Michael Bennett's wedding in the Delaware from the Number One New York Times thirteenth thrilling novel by James Patterson featuring bestselling master of suspense. the NYPD's finest detective February 2021 February 2021 Hardback Hardback £12.99 £20.00 336 pages 400 pages 9781780899053 9781780899466 The electrifying new Alex Delaware thriller from the #1 New York A killer crashes Michael Bennett's wedding in the thirteenth Times bestselling master of suspense. thrilling novel by James Patterson featuring the NYPD's top detective Ellie Barker is a self-made millionaire by the age of forty, and is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases: the decades-old death of the mother A series of gruesome murders in New York City has Michael Bennett angry – she never knew. She hires LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis to help. but when he identifies similar cases in Atlanta and San Francisco, his anger escalates into all-out alarm. Twenty-five years ago Ellie's mother was found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland All of the victims are young women. And each one is killed in a horrifyingly Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no apparent motive. And a slew distinct fashion. of detectives have already worked the job and failed. In the midst of such devastating loss of life, Bennett’s longtime love, Mary This is a case that calls for the insight of brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware.