NO EXIT PRESS 1 WHEN WE FALL CAROLYN KIRBY A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR England, 1943. Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can’t get him out of her mind. In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German officers in her father’s guest house, while secretly gathering intelligence for the Polish resistance. Mourning her lover, Stefan, who was captured by the Soviets at the start of the war, Ewa is shocked to see him on the street one day. Haunted by a terrible choice he made in captivity, Stefan asks Vee and Ewa to help him expose one of the darkest secrets of the war. But it is not clear where everyone’s p h loyalties lie until they are tested... o t o : m o Based on the WWII war atrocity that became known as the r e t h Katyn Massacre, When We Fall is a moving story of three a n i m lives forever altered by one fatal choice. a g e s . c o . u ‘A poignant story of love, betrayal and impossible k moral choices’ – SUNDAY TIMES CAROLYN KIRBY is the author ‘A terrific World War II novel’– DAILY MAIL of The Conviction of Cora Burns and ‘A gripping wartime thriller, driven by two When We Fall. The Conviction of Cora memorable heroines’ – TIMES Burns was begun on a writing course at Faber Academy and went on to win the Blue Pencil Agency Award for JULY 2021 noexit.co.uk/whenwefall unpublished novels. Subsequently PB 978-0-85730-397-4 £8.99 // FORMAT B (198 x 129mm) published by No Exit Press, the novel PAGE EXTENT 320pp // EB (available now) 978-0-85730-396-7 £4.99 was longlisted for the HWA Crown CATEGORY Historical Fiction // RIGHTS UK & Comm ex Canada Award. The Conviction of Cora Burns OTHER PUBLISHERS Swiat Ksiazki – Poland and When We Fall were both critically AUTHOR LOCATION Oxfordshire, UK acclaimed and selected as Times Books of the Month. Before being a full-time writer, Also by CAROLYN KIRBY Carolyn worked in social housing and as a teacher. She has two grown-up THE CONVICTION OF CORA BURNS daughters and lives with her husband Longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award in Oxfordshire. PB 978-0-85730-327-1 £8.99 carolynkirbyauthor.com EB 978-0-85730-295-3 £4.99 @novelcarolyn 2 NO EXIT PRESS BILLY R AGS TED LEWIS A fascinating window in on life in a British maximum security prison, Billy Rags is crime fiction at its best: lean, mean, and full of startling psychological depth. AUGUST 2021 noexit.co.uk/billy-rags DIGITAL FIRST // EB 978-0-85730-509-1 £4.99 // PB 978-0-85730-508-4 £9.99 (March 2022) // CATEGORY Crime Fiction // RIGHTS UK & Comm ex Canada // OTHER PUBLISHERS Soho Syndicate (PRH) – US & Canada JACK CARTER’S LAW TED LEWIS The author of Get Carter returns to his greatest invention, a smooth- operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant... AUGUST 2021 noexit.co.uk/jack-carters-law DIGITAL FIRST // EB 978-0-85730-507-7 £4.99 // PB 978-0-85730-506-0 £9.99 (March 2022) // CATEGORY Crime Fiction // RIGHTS UK & Comm ex Canada // OTHER PUBLISHERS Soho Syndicate (PRH) – US & Canada ‘Ted Lewis cuts to the bone’ – JAMES SALLIS Also by TED LEWIS GBH PLENDER PB 978-0-85730-293-9 £12.99 PB 978-0-85730-281-6 £12.99 EB 978-0-85730-284-7 £4.99 EB 978-0-85730-282-3 £4.99 Born in Manchester, TED LEWIS (1940-1982) spent most of his youth in Barton- upon-Humber in the north of England. After graduating from Hull Art School, Lewis moved to London and first worked in advertising before becoming an animation specialist, working on the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. His novels are the product of his lifelong fascination with the criminal lifestyle of London’s Soho district and the down-and-out lifestyle of the English factory town. He authored nine novels, the second of which, Jack’s Return Home, was famously adapted in 1971 as the now iconic Get Carter, which stars Michael Caine. noexit.co.uk/ted-lewis NO EXIT PRESS 3 BECOMING MR NICE THE HOWARD MARKS ARCHIVE AMBER MARKS WELCOME TO THE PERSONAL ARCHIVES OF BRITAIN’S BIGGEST DOPE SMUGGLER For 40 years Howard Marks traversed the globe: an international businessman who became an inmate in America’s toughest penitentiary before standing for election in the United Kingdom. Becoming Mr Nice reveals unseen material from his roller- coaster life, interwoven with his daughter’s incisively researched and deadpan commentary. It includes extracts from an unpublished account of Howard’s years on the run together with transcripts from his trial at the Old Bailey (in which he successfully claimed that his involvement was on behalf of the secret services), surveillance photographs, intelligence reports, phone transcripts and cryptic faxes from the Far East. But more than that, it offers a vista onto his many and varied escapades, through notebooks, personal items and correspondence with the bizarre, wonderful, comic or downright suspicious characters who surrounded him. Peppered with comic observations from Howard’s private letters, this book provides a uniquely personal insight into one of Britain’s most remarkable characters. Becoming Mr Nice is the essential companion volume to Marks’ million- copy-selling autobiography Mr Nice and a comprehensive, illustrated introduction to Howard Marks for a new generation. ‘Becoming Mr Nice is a brilliant read with so much that I didn’t know’ – TIM BURGESS AMBER MARKS is a writer, ‘Funny, brave and deeply personal, this remarkable researcher and barrister. Her non-fiction book,Headspace , was book records the tenderness of father and daughter published in 2008. She has also written and the lives beyond the legend’ – SALENA GODDEN articles for the Guardian, The Times, Wired, The Register and the Big Issue and has performed at several literary venues. She lectures on the law of evidence at Queen Mary, University of AUGUST 2021 noexit.co.uk/becoming-mr-nice London, has contributed to numerous initiatives to legalise cannabis and has HB 978-0-85730-393-6 £19.99 published several academic articles on FORMAT Crown Quarto (246 x 189mm) // PAGE EXTENT 192pp criminal evidence and on drug law. EB 978-0-85730-394-3 £12.99 // CATEGORY Biography RIGHTS World // AUTHOR LOCATION Mallorca noexit.co.uk/ambermarks 4 NO EXIT PRESS DEEP COVER LEIGH RUSSELL When a sex worker dies in suspicious circumstances in York, Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel struggles to remain focused on the murder investigation. She is distracted by her worries about her colleague and life partner, Ian Peterson, who has disappeared. She is unaware that Ian is working under cover in London, helping to identify a criminal gang who have been targeting Geraldine. As a second victim is discovered in York, Ian’s life is threatened by a psychopath. If he fails in his mission, both he and Geraldine may die... PRAISE FOR LEIGH RUSSELL ‘A million readers can’t be wrong!’ – HOWARD LINSKEY ‘A brilliant talent in the thriller field... you’re just plain going to love DI Geraldine Steel’ – JEFFERY DEAVER ‘Taut and compelling’ – PETER JAMES ‘Brilliant and chilling, Leigh Russell delivers LEIGH RUSSELL is the author a cracker of a read!’ – MARTINA COLE of the internationally bestselling ‘Unmissable’ – LEE CHILD Geraldine Steel series. The series has sold over a million copies worldwide. ‘Leigh Russell has become one of the most Cut Short was shortlisted for the impressively dependable purveyors of the English Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) John police procedural’ – TIMES Creasey New Blood Dagger Award, and Leigh has been longlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. Her books have been #1 on Amazon Kindle and iTunes with Stop Dead and Murder Ring selected as finalists for The People’s Book Prize. Leigh is chair of the CWA’s Debut Dagger Award judging panel and is a Royal Literary Fellow. Leigh studied at the University of Kent, gaining a Masters degree in AUGUST 2021 noexit.co.uk/deep-cover English and American Literature. She is married with two daughters and a PB 978-0-85730-464-3 £9.99 // FORMAT B (198 x 129mm) granddaughter, and lives in London. PAGE EXTENT 320pp // EB 978-0-85730-465-0 £4.99 CATEGORY Crime Fiction // RIGHTS World leighrussell.co.uk AUTHOR LOCATION London, UK @leighrussell NO EXIT PRESS 5 GUILT EDGED LEIGH RUSSELL THE NEW NOVEL IN THE MILLION-COPY SELLING DETECTIVE GERALDINE STEEL SERIES An inoffensive man is murdered in a seemingly motiveless attack. Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel and her team are baffled, until DNA from an apparent stranger is discovered on the victim’s body. Geraldine is not convinced the suspect is guilty. When a witness comes forward to offer the suspect an alibi, Geraldine lets him go. That night, a second murder is committed. The evidence points to the suspect who has just been released. As Geraldine attempts to make sense of the suspect’s complex history, he goes on the run. Even his wife appears to condemn him. Only Geraldine still doubts that he is to blame for the murders. As the story races towards a breathtaking twist, Geraldine is tormented by self-doubt, and struggles to focus all her attention on the case. Someone is lying and the police must uncover the truth before anyone else is killed... JANUARY 2022 noexit.co.uk/guilt-edged PBO 978-0-85730-477-3 £9.99 // FORMAT B (198 x 129mm) / PAGE EXTENT 320pp // EB 978-0-85730-478-0 £4.99 CATEGORY Crime Fiction // RIGHTS World // AUTHOR LOCATION Pinner, UK Latest GERALDINE STEEL MYSTERIES EVIL IMPULSE DEADLY REVENGE DEATHLY AFFAIR ROGUE KILLER PB 978-0-85730-422-3 PB 978-0-85730-305-9 PB 978-0-85730-301-1 PB 978-1-84344-938-6 £9.99 £8.99 £8.99 £9.99 EB 978-0-85730-423-0 EB 978-0-85730-306-6 EB 978-0-85730-302-8 EB 978-1-84344-939-3 £4.99 £4.99 £4.99 £4.99 6 NO EXIT PRESS NICK BY MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this exhilarating imagination of his life before The Great Gatsby Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby’s world, he was at the centre of a very different story – one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I.