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ISBN: 9781409109464

July – December 2012

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Robert Ludlum’s The Ares Decision

Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves

Robert Ludlum, Kyle Mills

Matthew Reilly

July • 9780752883793 A format • £7.99 • H

July • 9781409103158 A format • £7.99 • H

In Northern Uganda an American Special Forces team is wiped out by a group of normally peaceful farmers. A video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries. Covert-One’s top operative, Army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it’s different. Who is keeping the infection alive? And why?

In an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic lies a weapon of terrible destructive force, a weapon that has just been re-activated by group of terrorists. But there are no crack units close enough to get to the base in time to stop the terrorists setting off the weapon. Except, that is, for a small equipment-testing team led by a Marine captain named Schofield, call-sign SCARECROW. His team is not equipped to attack a fortified island held by a small army. But it will go in anyway, because someone has to . . .

The Devil’s Elixir

Taken

Raymond Khoury

Robert Crais

July • 9781409117957 A format •£7.99 • H

September • 9781409120452 A format • £7.99 • H

FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin return . . .

When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter, she isn’t afraid. She knows the ransom demand is a fake. But she is wrong. The girl and her boyfriend have been taken by bajadores – bandits who prey on other bandits. Going undercover to find the two young people and buy them back, Cole himself is taken, and disappears. Now it is up to Joe Pike to retrace Cole’s steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers to find his friend. But he may already be too late.

What if there was a natural drug, previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous that it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization? What if powerful forces on both sides of the law got wind of that drug and launched a vicious pursuit to possess it? Reilly and Chaykin find themselves dragged into a race – against the clock, against a brutal drug kingpin, and even against government authorities – as humanity moves to the brink of self-destruction.

Defending Jacob

Gone Girl

William Landay

Gillian Flynn

September • 9781780222196 A format • £7.99 • H*

November • 9781780221359 A format •£7.99 • H

When a teenage boy is discovered stabbed to death in the woods adjoining the local high school, Assistant district attorney Andy Barber is put on the case. But as the kids appear to be stonewalling the cops and the investigation stalls, evidence emerges that ties Andy’s son Jacob to the crime – and suddenly Andy faces a very different challenge: preventing his son from being convicted of murder. He now faces every parent’s toughest questions: how well do you really know your own child, and how far would you go to save them?

The new novel from the CWA Award-winning author of Sharp Objects and Dark Places. Nick Dunne’s wife Amy suddenly disappears on the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy’s friends reveal that she was afraid of him. He swears it isn’t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren’t his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did really did happen to Nick’s beautiful wife? And what was in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed?

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Harlan Coben November • 9781409117247 A format •£7.99 • H

Megan is a suburban mom who once walked on the wild side. Now she’s got two kids, a perfect husband and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but now he’s in a dead-end job. Jack is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case: a local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Jack spends the anniversary every year visiting his house. Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn’t recede . . .

Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command Paul Garrison,Robert Ludlum November • 9781409121176 A format • £7.99 • H

Covert operative Paul Janson has a new mission. He takes the job to rescue a doctor who has been kidnapped by West African rebels during an ambush of an American oil service boat. At first, it appears that the doctor’s life was spared in order to treat the rebels’ wounded leader. But when the mission goes haywire, Janson realises he’s in the middle of something much bigger. The puppet dictator has anonymous backers with designs on the oil reserves of this struggling nation – and Janson may find he’s been fighting for the wrong side the whole time.

A Dark and Broken Heart

An Absolute Deception

R.J. Ellory

Lesley Lokko

November • 9781409137962 A format • £7.99 • H

December • 9781409137979 A format • £7.99 • H

Vincent Madigan is up to his neck in debts to Sandia, a Harlem drugslord. One last heist will free Madigan from Sandia’s control, and will finally give him the chance to get his life back on track. But when Madigan is forced to kill his co-conspirators, he finds that not only is the stolen money marked, but an innocent child has been wounded in the crossfire. Now both Sandia and the NYPD are looking for him. And the one person assigned to hunt down Madigan is the very last person in the world he could have expected . . .

Anneliese Zander de St Phalle is one of the world’s most celebrated fashion designers. Yet despite her success, she’s a mystery; a reclusive disciplined perfectionist who rarely grants interviews. Anneliese never talks about her past. She’s worked hard to leave it all behind her. Or so she thinks. Until, at an exclusive New Year’s Eve party at her glamorous island hideaway, a woman appears whom Anneliese has done her best to forget. To Anneliese’s horror, the past cannot be left behind . . .

Gods and Beasts

Talking to the Dead

Denise Mina

Harry Bingham


December • 9781409139348 A format • £7.99

A hold-up in a Glasgow post office. A grandfather volunteers to help the robber gather the money. Then he stands passively while the gunman raises the barrel and shoots him.

For detective constable Fiona Griffiths, her first major investigation promises to be a tough initiation into Cardiff’s dark underbelly. A woman and her sixyear-old daughter have been found murdered in a squalid flat, the single clue a platinum credit card belonging to a millionaire businessman who died in a plane crash six months before. For her fellow cops, it’s just another case of a prostitute meeting the wrong kind of client and coming to a nasty end, but Fiona is convinced that the deaths of this mother and daughter are part of a deeper, darker mystery . . .

Why did the grandfather offer his help? Was it an act of self-sacrifice, or did the old man and his killer share a dark past? The complicity of an old man in his own death, a promiscuous politician and a bag of untraceable money – one city, three crimes and a powerful connection that runs from Glasgow’s criminal underworld to the international spheres of the super rich.


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Gideon’s Corpse Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child July • 9781409135845 A format • £7.99 • H

Clash of Empires: The Great Siege

The Manual of Darkness

William Napier

Enrique de Hériz

July • 9781409102830 B format • £7.99

July • 9780753828168 B format • £9.99

Join Gideon Crew in his second adventure from the New York Times bestselling authors.

A brutal combat. A test of courage. A battle that will change history.

A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before. Tracking a mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, Gideon Crew has just ten days to prevent a major American city from being vaporized by a terrorist attack.

1565: As word comes from Constantinople that Malta is in the sights of the Ottoman Empire, all of Europe watches as a force of over 30,000 men besieges the island – itself peopled by only 500 knights and a few thousand local soldiers. On that small rock an epic struggle is played out – the story of individual men, warriors and slaves, but also the story of two worlds colliding.

The Talisman

Black House

Stephen King, Peter Straub

Stephen King, Peter Straub

July • 9781409103868 B format • £8.99 • H

July • 9781409103899 B format • £8.99 • H

A chilling tale from two of the greatest storytellers of our time . . .

Children are disappearing, lost to the world, horrifically murdered.

Twelve-year-old Jack spends his days alone in a deserted coastal town, his father gone, his mother dying. Then he meets a stranger – and embarks on a terrifying journey. For Jack must find the Talisman, the only thing that can save his mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories, a parallel world where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape.

The best clue the detectives have – a serial killer from a century ago.

The Black Echo Michael Connelly July • 9781409139485 B format • £7.99 • H

Jack Sawyer, retired from the LAPD at 35, plagued by visions of another world. As a child, Jack visited the Territories, a menacing place of violence and madness, to save his dying mother. Now, if the latest child victim is to be saved, Jack must retrieve his lost childhood memories, and revisit the one place he hoped never to see again.

Victor Losa has spent his life studying magic. But suddenly things change, just as he is proclaimed the world’s best magician. A light appears in his eye, but this is no magic trick – he is diagnosed with a rare degenerative condition of the optical nerve. In short, he is rapidly going blind. As he loses his sight, Victor finds that there are new ways to conjure the world through stories of the past, present and future. And finally he learns the secret behind his mentor’s teachings.

Down the Darkest Road Tami Hoag July • 9781409136354 A format • £7.99 • H

It is four years since the unsolved disappearance of Lauren Lawton’s sixteen-year-old daughter, and the world has given her up for dead. Lauren knows exactly who took her oldest child, but there is no evidence against the man. Looking for a fresh start, Lauren and her younger daughter Leah move to Oak Knoll. But when Lauren’s suspect turns up in the same city, it feels as if history is about to repeat itself. Leah will soon turn sixteen, and Oak Knoll has a cunning predator on the hunt.

Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Legacy

The Iliad

Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum

August • 9780753827772 B format • £9.99

Homer

August • 9781409138396 B format • £7.99 • H Film tie-in edition.

Anniversary edition of the first ever Harry Bosch novel. LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call out. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel. At first sight, it looks like a routine drugs overdose case, but Bosch is not convinced. Bosch recognises the victim. Billy Meadows was a fellow ‘tunnel rat’ in Vietnam, running against the VC and the fear they used to call the Black Echo. Bosch believes he let down Billy Meadows once before, so now he is determined to bring the killer to justice.

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Jason Bourne has come to realise who and what he really is – a strange amalgam of a man named David Webb, and a deadly killer.

A stunning new translation of the classic tale of Greeks, Trojans and the fall of Troy; An Iliad for the 21st century.

Now David Webb is living a peaceful life as a university professor. But someone is reaching out to take him out of the game for ever. A deadly assassin is on his trail and his former handler has been brutally murdered. David Webb must once again turn to Bourne to save his life and family.

Based on the recent, superb M.L. West edition of the Greek, this Iliad is more readable and moving than any previous version. Thanks to the scholarship and poetic power of the highly acclaimed Stephen Mitchell, this new translation recreates the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and continual thrust and pull of the original, while the Iliad’s ancient story bursts vividly into life.


Alison McQueen August • 9781409135517 B format • £7.99 • H

In 1920s India, where do two little girls belong? Born of two cultures, belonging to neither . . . So starts the story of Mary and Serafina. Born of two worlds, accepted by neither. Growing up beloved but hidden away, their childhood is one of contradiction. It is only as the shadow of war falls and the turmoil of Indian partition begins that the girls must face the truth about their parents and begin the search for somewhere to belong.

The Other Child Charlotte Link September • 9781409139294 A format • £6.99

A suspenseful psychological crime novel from one of Germany’s most popular authors. In the seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found murdered. For months, the investigators are in the dark, until they are faced with a copy-cat crime. Ambitious detective Valerie Almond clings to the all-too-obvious connection: a rift within the family of the second victim. But there is far more to the case than first appears and Valerie is led towards a dark secret, inextricably linked to the evacuation of children to Scarborough during World War II.

The Translation of the Bones

A Half Forgotten Song

Francesca Kay

Katherine Webb

August • 9781780220147 B format • £7.99 • H

August • 9781409109747 A format • £7.99 • H

In a church in Battersea, Mary-Margaret O’Reilly sees blood on her hands and believes she has witnessed a miracle. The consequences are both profound and devastating – not just for her but for others, too: Father Diamond, the parish priest, struggling with his own faith. Stella, adrift in her marriage and aching for her ten-year old son, away at boarding school. Alice, counting the days until her soldier son comes home. And Mary – Margaret’s mother, imprisoned in a tower block with nothing but her thoughts for company . . .

England, 1937. In the village of Blacknowle on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a lonely upbringing. The arrival of artist Charles Aubrey, along with his exotic mistress and their daughters, is like a breath of fresh air. Almost seventy-five years later a young man in an art gallery looks at a hastily-drawn portrait and wonders at the intensity of it. The questions he asks will lead him back to Blacknowle, and draw him to the truth about those fevered summers in the 1930s.

A Drop of the Hard Stuff

Beat the Drums Slowly

Lawrence Block

Adrian Goldsworthy

September • 9781409135166 B format • £7.99 • H


Matt Scudder and Jack Ellery were at school together. Twenty years later, when Scudder was a detective and Jack was standing the other side of the one-way glass in a police line-up, it was clear their lives had taken very different paths. What they shared, however, was a battle with alcohol. Now Jack is getting clean and it’s time to make amends to the people he’s wronged over the years. But when he ends up shot in the head, it’s up to Scudder to find the killer.

The second novel in a brilliant new Napoleonic series from the acclaimed historian Adrian Goldsworthy. Beat the Drums Slowly takes our heroes through the winter snows as Sir John Moore is forced to retreat to Corunna. Faced with appalling weather, and pursued by an overwhelming French army led by Napoleon himself, the very survival of Britain’s army is at stake. But while the 106th Foot fights a desperate rearguard action, for the newly promoted Hamish Williams, the retreat turns into an unexpectedly personal drama.

Secrets of the Tides

The Diamond Chariot

The Virgin Cure

Hannah Richell

Boris Akunin




The Tides are a family full of secrets. Returning to Clifftops, the rambling family house high on the Dorset coastline, youngest daughter Dora hopes for a fresh start, for herself and the new life she carries. But can long-held secrets ever really be forgiven? And even if you can forgive, can you ever really learn to love again? A spellbinding debut from Hannah Richell, a rich and compelling family drama with a dark thread of suspense at its heart.

The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Erast Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin’s arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later. He becomes embroiled in a shocking finale that interweaves the two stories and ties up the series as a whole.

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The Secret Children

Ami McKay

New York, 1871. Moth is a young child when she is abandoned by her parents. These betrayals lead her into the murky world of the Bowery, where she eventually meets Miss Everett, the owner of a brothel. Miss Everett caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for companions, and the most desirable of them all are young virgins like Moth. Yet Moth begins to question the world around her and dreams of answering to no one but herself. But there is a high price for such independence . . .


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Alys, Always

The Candle Man

Flesh and Blood

Harriet Lane

Alex Scarrow

Mark Peterson

October • 9781780220017 B format • £7.99 • H

October • 9781409137948 A format • £7.99 • H

October • 9781409139300 A format • £7.99

Frances is a desk editor at The Questioner. Her job is unchallenging and her personal life is dull. Then one night, she witnesses a car crash and the death of the driver, Alys Kyte.

1912. In a dining room on the Titanic, a mysterious man tells a girl his life story as the ship begins to sink. Starting in Whitechapel, London in 1888 . . .

Alys’s family get in touch with Frances, the last person to talk to Alys. The relationships Frances builds with the grieving family will have an impact on her own life. And gradually Frances begins to wonder whether she at last might become a player in her own right.

One night young Mary Kelly discovers a man who has been seriously injured and is almost unconscious. Two days later, an American gentleman wakes in a hospital bed with no memory of who he is or how he got there.

When a police officer is killed and a shipment of heroin hits land, it looks as though the operation to bring down Brighton’s biggest drug dealer is compromised. But the investigation is in more trouble than either DS Minter or his boss could ever imagine. Pulled back into his own troubled past, Minter finds himself pitted against the only family he has ever known – the police family – as he fights to uncover the truth.

Alexander: God of War

Jasmine Nights

The White Devil

Julia Gregson

Justin Evans

Christian Cameron




The ultimate historical adventure novel: the life of Alexander the Great in a single, epic volume.

A World War II love story from the author of East of the Sun.

The story of how Alexander the Great conquered the world – first crushing Greek resistance to Macedonian rule, then destroying the Persian Empire in three monumental battles, before marching into the unknown and final victory in India – is a truly epic tale that has mesmerised countless generations of listeners. Now for the first time a novelist will tell the tale in a single suitably epic volume.

Saba Tarcan is a young singer who leaves Wales – and a burgeoning love affair with, Dom, an RAF pilot – to join a group entertaining the troops in the Middle East. Dom follows Saba to Cairo. But when it becomes clear that Saba is uniquely qualified for a secret mission of international importance, she must conceal her new role from him – jeopardizing not only her own safety but also the love of her life.

Misery Bay

Mission to Paris

Steve Hamilton

Alan Furst



A teenage boy is found hanging from a tree. There’s no evidence of foul play. But then something about the scene starts nagging at Alex McKnight’s cop-brain, and when the cop on the case mentions another teenage suicide – again involving the son of a cop – Alex finds that he’s become involved in a full-blown mystery. As what seems like a suicide turns out to be the first of a bizarre series of killings, a dark family history is uncovered and the hunt for the killer begins . . .

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Back on the Titanic, the man is about to reveal a momentous secret – the identity of Jack the Ripper.

The first novel in a new crime series starring Detective Sergeant Minter.

Paris, 1939. Europe is in the clutches of the Phony War. Behind closed doors, operatives are engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Frederick Stahl, an American matinee idol, arrives in Paris to shoot a film. His celebrity status allows him to cross Europe’s closed borders, and as the continent teeters on the verge of destruction, he becomes a man very much in demand . . . ‘In the world of espionage thrillers, Alan Furst is in a class of his own’ William Boyd

Fleeing expulsion and the death of a close friend, Andrew Taylor is sent by his father to spend his final year at the prestigious public school Harrow. Shortly after he arrives, Andrew senses a malevolent presence in the school. Then a classmate dies and another falls ill. Andrew discovers old letters hidden in a bricked-up basement and realises he must discover the secret history behind the letters to prevent further deaths . . .

Winter at Death’s Hotel Kenneth Cameron December • 9781409109587 B format • £7.99

New York, January 1896. Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, arrives at the Britannic Hotel with his wife, Louisa, ready to begin his first American tour. While he prepares his lectures, Louisa becomes mesmerised by this vibrant city, especially when a woman’s butchered corpse is found in an alley. Left to her own devices, Louisa starts to piece together a story of madness and murder – which leads back to the hotel itself and a madman who is watching her every move.


Win, Lose or Die August • 9781409135692 B format • £7.99 • H

A fantastic series of official, original James Bond books written by the acclaimed thriller writer, John Gardner. Originally published between 1981 and 1996, all titles on the list have been out of print until now, and includes two titles that were made into highly successful Bond films.

Licence to Kill

Death is Forever

Goldeneye

August • 97814091357600 B format • £7.99 • H

August • 9781409135722 B format • £7.99 • H

November • 9781409135777 B format • £7.99 • H

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Ubik

Paperback Fiction

John Gardner

Philip K. Dick Six classic Philip K. Dick titles, from the master of science fiction. Now reissued with dazzling new cover artwork.

February • 9781780220383 B format • £7.99 • H

A Scanner Darkly June • 9781780220420 B format • £7.99 • H

Valis June • 9781780220390 B format • £7.99 • H

February • 9781780220376 B format • £7.99 • H

Flow, My Tears, The Policeman Said

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch




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Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Imperative

The Prisoner of Heaven

Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum

June • 9780297868101 TPB • £11.99 • H

June • 9781409116462 TPB • £12.99

The third in the cycle of novels that began with The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game.

When Jason Bourne pulls a drowning man from a lake, he discovers that the man is bleeding from a gun-shot wound. He wakes as an amnesiac, with no memory of who he is or why he was shot – and Bourne is eerily reminded of his own past. Back in the US, Treadstone operatives Peter Marks and Soraya Moore discover a new man assigned to their team: Dick Richards. But can they trust him? Everything turns on the mysterious amnesiac. Will Bourne learn his identity or will other, powerful forces get to him first?

Daniel is minding the Sempere & Sons bookshop when a mysterious figure enters. He spots one of their most precious volumes, The Count of Monte Cristo, and wants to buy it. Then, to Daniel’s surprise, the man inscribes the book with the words ‘To Fermin Romero de Torres, who came back from the dead and who holds the key to the future’. This visit leads back to a story of imprisonment, betrayal and the return of a deadly rival.

The Truth

Bloodline

Michael Palin

James Rollins

July • 9780297860228 TPB • £12.99 • H

August • 9781409113881 TPB • £11.99 • H

Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime – to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a highly influential activist and humanitarian – he seizes the chance to write something meaningful.

Sigma Force returns in the new page-turning, high concept adventure from the king of the genre.

Mabbut’s research takes him to Orissa and the environmental hotspots of India. The more he discovers about Melville, the more he admires him – and the more he connects with an idealist who wanted to make a difference. But is his quarry really who he claims to be?

When a group of Somali pirates kidnaps the president’s daughter, Sigma Force and army ranger Captain Tucker Wayne embark on a dangerous rescue mission. Meanwhile, a firebomb in the US lays bare a horrifying experiment at a fertility clinic where a baby is born with an impossible triple helix of DNA. Now Commander Gray Pierce and Tucker Wayne must combine forces to uncover an ancient conspiracy.

Trust Your Eyes

Citadel

Linwood Barclay

Kate Mosse

September • 9781409115038 TPB • £12.99 • H

September • 9781409101284 TPB • £12.99 • H

No.1 bestseller Linwood Barclay delivers another masterclass in suspense.

Following on from the worldwide success of Labyrinth and Sepulchre comes the final part of the Languedoc trilogy.

A schizophrenic man spends his days and nights on a website called Whirl360, believing he’s employed by the CIA to store the details of every town and city in the world in his head. Then one day, he sees something that shouldn’t be there: a woman being murdered behind a window on a New York street. Suddenly Thomas has more to deal with than just his delusions, as he gets drawn into a deadly conspiracy.

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Set during WWII in the south of France, Citadel is a powerful, actionpacked mystery that reveals the secrets of the resistance under Nazi occupation. While war blazed in the trenches at the front, back at home a different battle is waged, full of clandestine bravery, treachery and secrets. And as a cell of Maquis resistance fighters, codenamed CITADEL, fight for everything they hold dear, their struggle will reveal an older, darker combat being fought in the shadows.


Seconds Away

Justin Cronin

Harlan Coben

October • 9780752897882 TPB • £13.99 • H

October • 9781409124498 TPB • £11.99 • H

THE TWELVE Death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts and no future.

Following his first brilliant young adult novel, Shelter, Harlan Coben’s second novel featuring Mickey Bolitar is sure to delight an increasing wave of younger readers as well as his existing adult fans.

THE TWELVE Until they were selected for a secret experiment. THE TWELVE To create something more than human. THE TWELVE Now they are the future and humanity’s worst nightmare has begun. THE TWELVE The epic sequel to THE PASSAGE

‘Like all Coben’s work, it’s slick and skilfully assembled’ Sunday Times on Shelter

Harlan Coben is an international No. 1 bestselling thriller author. He is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards – the first author to receive all three. His books are published in forty languages, with over forty-seven million copies in print worldwide.

A Week in Winter

The Black Box

Maeve Binchy

Michael Connelly

October • 9781409114000 TPB • £12.99 • H

November • 9781409134329 TPB • £12.99 • H

A new collection of linked short stories from the No.1 bestselling author.

In a case that spans two decades, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but the case was handed to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch realises that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the ‘black box’, the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together.

A new Maeve Binchy is always a treat. This novel will be full of Maeve’s trademark warmth, humour and characters you want to spend time with. Whether she is writing about relationships, about families or about friendship, her novels are always ‘Warm, witty and with a deep understanding of what makes us tick . . . it’s little wonder that Maeve Binchy’s bewitching stories have become world-beaters’ OK Magazine. ‘She is the Queen of Fiction . . .once you read Maeve you are hooked for life’ Irish Times

New Ian Rankin

New Raymond Khoury

Ian Rankin

Raymond Khoury

November • 9781409144724 TPB • £12.99 • H

December • 9781409143819 TPB • £12.99 • H

The gripping new novel from international bestselling author Ian Rankin.

Sean Reilly returns in this fast-paced adventure thriller to satisfy the millions of fans that Raymond has built up through his brilliant combination of Templar and standalone novels.

‘Rankin has taken his well-earned place among the top echelon of crimewriters’ Observer

Ian Rankin’s books have been translated into thirty-six languages and are bestsellers worldwide. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America’s celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Award in the USA, won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis.

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The Twelve

Packed with dramatic character revelations, chase scenes, gun fights and more twists than ever before, this new Khoury novel will not disappoint! ‘A world-class writer of pure-bred thrillers’ Daily Telegraph on The Devil’s Elixir ‘The novel works thanks to Khoury’s expert handling of plot and detailed knowledge of FBI tradecraft, and Sean and Tess make convincing travelling companions’ Guardian on The Devil’s Elixir


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All Woman and Springtime

Clash of Empires: The Red Sea

Gone in Seconds

B.W. Jones

William Napier

May • 9780297868330 TPB • £12.99

July • 9781409105350 TPB • £12.99

July • 9781409142683 TPB • £11.99

In the tradition of A Thousand Splendid Suns, a sweeping tale of friendship, hardship and redemption set in North Korea. Gi and Il-sun are orphans living behind North Korea’s iron curtain. Their struggle against hunger and fear is only made bearable through a friendship which grows as deep as the bond between sisters. But when a man comes into their world, and they are spirited across the border to the South, tender Gi and headstrong Il-sun begin a journey that will change everything . . .

Gods and Beasts Denise Mina July • 9781409140696 TPB • £11.99 • H

A hold-up in a Glasgow post office. A grandfather volunteers to help the robber gather the money. Then he stands passively while the gunman raises the barrel and shoots him. The complicity of an old man in his own death, a promiscuous politician and a bag of untraceable money – one city, three crimes and a powerful connection that runs from Glasgow’s criminal underworld to the international spheres of the super rich.

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The Mediterranean, 1571. The armies of the Turk are picking off colonies and small islands, and if the Mediterranean falls, then finally perhaps the balance of power between crescent and cross will tip. Now, as the sun rises on one October day, history will be written in blood. Countries all over Europe have sent ships and men. Caught up in it are two young British soldiers who have survived the siege of Malta and are living on borrowed time. Now, it seems the debt must be repaid . . .

A.J. Cross

When the skeleton of a young woman is found near a West Midlands motorway, forensic psychologist Dr Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit are called in to re-investigate the case of a teenage girl who went missing five years ago. The clues all point to a repeater: a killer who will adapt, grow and not stop until they are caught. Will Dr Hanson manage to unravel the tangle of clues that the killer has left behind before he has a chance to take another innocent victim?

A Half Forgotten Song

Dark Room

Katherine Webb

July • 9781409141907 TPB • £11.99 • H

July • 9781409131441 TPB • £11.99 • H

England, 1937. In a small village on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a lonely upbringing. The arrival of renowned artist Charles Aubrey comes as welcome relief and as Charles’s muse, Mitzy develops a deep bond with the Aubrey household. Gradually, a powerful love is kindled in her; a love that will grow from childish infatuation to something far more complex. Moving from Dorset to Morocco, A Half Forgotten Song explores the quixotic nature of memory and the perils of obsessive love.

Creole Belle

Where We Belong

James Lee Burke

Emily Giffin

July • 9781409108979 TPB • £12.99 • H

August • 9781409114482 TPB • £11.99 • H

Steve Mosby

When a woman is found bludgeoned to death, DI Andrew Hicks suspects a crime of passion and focuses on her possessive ex-husband. Then a second body is found which forces Hicks to reconsider: this is a homeless man with no links to the other woman. As more murders take place, Hicks realises he is dealing with a killer who fits nowhere within his logic. He must search for patterns where none appear to exist. Then the letters begin to arrive . . .

Send Me Safely Back Again Adrian Goldsworthy August • 9780297866640 TPB • £12.99 • H

Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed.

The third novel in a brilliant new Napoleonic series.

Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the song Creole Belle on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister. Meanwhile, there has been an oil well blowout on the Gulf, threatening the cherished environs of the bayous.

Marian Caldwell is living her dream in New York City but one night, she answers the door to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off for ever.

The men of the 106th Foot are severely tested at the battles of Medellin and Talavera, but if Napoleon is to be ejected from Spain, war must also be waged in more covert ways. While Hanley descends into the murky world of politics and partisans, Ensign Williams meets the mysterious ‘Heroine of Saragossa’, and also finds himself up against powerful conspirators bent on revenge . . .

As Marian and Kirby embark on a journey to find the one thing missing in their lives, each will come to realise that where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves.


Babylon

Lady of the Shades

Nicky Pellegrino

Camilla Ceder

Darren Shan

August • 9781409133773 TPB • £12.99 • H

August • 9780297866701 TPB • £12.99 • H

August • 9781409143611 TPB • £12.99 • H

Be transported to Rome in the 1950s. The piazzas full of life in the day, the cafes and bars full of music and laughter by night . . . This is where Serafina calls home. At night Serafina and her sisters go singing in the nearest piazza and dream of love and Hollywood. But the girls will grow up quickly and each must make a choice that will lead them to lives they’d never have imagined.

‘A woman’s take on Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander’ The Times. The rising star of Scandicrime returns with a stunning tale of jealousy and greed, starring Inspector Christian Tell.

With the darkness of John Connolly and the quirkiness of Neil Gaiman, Lady of the Shades is a dark supernatural thriller for adults from the number one bestselling YA author, Darren Shan.

Inspector Christian Tell is confident that Rebecca, a jealous young woman, murdered her boyfriend, Henrik and his lover, university lecturer Ann-Marie Karpov. But when Rebeccas’s flat is burgled, and artefacts stolen from Iraqi museums are found among Henrik’s possessions, Tell is forced to cast the net wider than he had ever imagined.

When an American novelist visits London to work on his next novel he finds himself falling for a woman married to an abusive London gangster.

Trade Fiction

When in Rome

The situation is surreal at best, and then he finds out that she’s been dead for ten years . . .

Robert Ludlum’s The Janus Reprisal

Elijah’s Mermaid

The Wine-Dark Sea

Essie Fox

Christian Cameron

Robert Ludlum, Jamie Freveletti

September • 9781409123354 TPB • £12.99 • H

September • 9781409114123 TPB • £12.99 • H

September • 9781409101697 TPB • £13.99 • H

A new novel in Robert Ludlum’s international bestselling Covert-One series.

Essie Fox’s new novel follows the success of her highly acclaimed debut, The Somnambulist.

Jon Smith is attending a WHO conference in The Hague and wakes up to chaos. Bombs are exploding across the city and Oman Dattar, a Pakistani warlord being held captive, escapes.

Since she was found as a baby floating in a basket on the Thames on a foggy night, Pearl has grown up in a notorious Chelsea brothel. Now, on her thirteenth birthday, Pearl is to be sold to the highest bidder.

Dattar has heard that a new strain of deadly bioelectric bacteria will be shown at the conference. He plans to steal it and use it to bring down the West once and for all. Can Jon Smith stop him?

Peopled with writers and artists, abandoned children, black-veiled syphilitic madams and dandy pimps, Elijah’s Mermaid is a dark and sensual novel which explores different kinds of love: selfless and pure, sexual, cruel or obsessive.

Summer Lies

Dexter’s Debut

Bernhard Schlink

Jeff Lindsay

September • 9780297867005 HB • £12.99

October • 9781409144915 TPB • £12.99

From the bestselling author of The Reader, a mesmerising book about love in all its guises. In Bernhard Schlink’s beautifully crafted collection of stories, a conversation between strangers will change lives forever, one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart and a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance . . . Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, Schlink asks what it means to love, to deceive and ultimately, to be human.

Dexter Morgan is asked to be an advisor to the filming of a new cop show, on top of his regular job as Miami PD’s blood-spatter analyst. But things take a distinctly dark turn when the leading actress on the show keels over from a very real bullet on set in front of him. With the press going crazy, Dexter and Debs are under pressure to wrap the case. When their lead suspect turns up dead, Dexter knows he’s well and truly met his match . . .

The third title in the Long War series, which follows Killer of Men and Marathon. Christian Cameron, one of the most exciting voices in historical fiction, continues the epic story of Arimnestos, tracing the conflict between the Greeks and Persians. Christian Cameron is a writer and military historian. He is a veteran of the United States Navy where he served as both an aviator and an intelligence officer in the first Gulf War, Somalia, and elsewhere. He lives in Canada.

The Space Between Diana Gabaldon October • 9781409144489 TPB • £12.99 • H

Utterly engaging and original stories in their own right, these tales are also intimately woven into the Outlander universe her fans are addicted to. Diana Gabaldon is the internationally bestselling author of many historical novels including the multi-million selling Outlander and Lord John series. She lives with her family in Scottsdale, Arizona.


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Trade Fiction

The Adventuress

The Demonologist

Nicholas Coleridge

Andrew Pyper

October • 9781409111474 TPB • £12.99

October • 9781409122586 TPB • £12.99 • H

Nicholas Coleridge returns with another delightfully wicked tale about the British class systems. No one forgets Miss Cathy Fox in a hurry. From her scorpion tattoo to her other more worldly charms she’s a woman on a mission to get what she wants. From her humble beginnings folding knickers as a matron’s assistant at a top girls’ boarding school, Cathy embarks on a journey that will take her from a Portsmouth backstreet to the boardrooms of the global empires.

Linwood Barclay November • 9781409141426 TPB • £12.99 • H

The unsettling, unique and utterly compelling new novel from bestselling horror writer Andrew Pyper.

A chilling story of double-dealing, violence and murder from the No. 1 bestseller.

Demonology expert Professor David Ullman travels to Venice with his teenage daughter to be a consultant on a case study. He is not a believer, but when David witnesses a living example of demonic possession who speaks in his dead father’s voice, he is terrified and desperate to flee the city. But now he has the unshakable feeling that he is no longer alone . . .

Keisha Ceylon passes herself off as a psychic, but really she takes advantage of families who have recently lost a loved one.

The 9th Girl Tami Hoag

New Lawrence Block

December • 9781409109600

Lawrence Block

TPB • £12.99 • H

December • 9781409124856 TPB • £12.99 • H

‘The 9th Girl’ is the ninth unidentified body to turn up in Minneapolis in 2012. When Kovac and Liska take on the case, they must delve deep into the life and death of a teenage girl who wanted nothing more than to be ‘normal’. They will come perilously close to the bullies who tormented her, the twisted family dynamics that may have contributed to her death, and ultimately to the haunting details of a young love that just may hide the secret of Jane Doe 9’s terrible fate.

Never Saw It Coming

A new novel by one of America’s greatest contemporary crime writers. ‘Block has so perfected a pared-down, hard-boiled style that this story – about good intentions that backfire, fatally – seems to tell itself’ Washington Post on A Drop of the Hard Stuff

Lawrence Block is a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, has won multiple Edgar and Shamus Awards and countless international prizes. The author of more than 50 books, he lives in New York City.

Keisha’s latest mark is a man whose wife disappeared a week ago, so she goes to visit to the husband and tells him her vision. The trouble is, her vision just happens to be close enough to the truth that it leaves this man rattled. And it may very well leave Keisha dead . . .

Two Graves Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child December • 9781409133223 TPB • £12.99 • H

This is the final book in a three-book arc featuring Special Agent Pendergast and his quest to uncover the truth behind his wife’s murder. The New York Times No. 1 bestselling authors return with a dramatic, page-turning adventure thriller that concludes Agent Pendergast’s search for his long-lost wife, Helen. ‘Preston and Child have crafted an electrifying, riveting thriller on which I could continue to heap praise, but instead I will just offer this: Read the book!’ David Baldacci on Gideon’s Sword

Also Available

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Heavenly’s Child

The Vanishing

Christmas in Burracombe

Brenda Reid

Tom Winship

Lilian Harry

July • 9781409114741 • TPB • £12.99

November • 9781409133643 • TPB • £12.99

November • 9781409122340 • HB • £14.99

A Village in Jeopardy

The Orchardist

Invisible

Rebecca Shaw

Amanda Coplin

Carla Buckley

August • 9781409123026 • TPB • £12.99

August • 9780297867913 • Export PB • £12.99

November • 9781409113119 • TPB • £12.99

The Boot Camp

The Beauty of Murder

Western Approaches

Kate Harrison

A K Benedict

Graham Hurley

August • 9781409115519 • TPB • £12.99

November • 9781409144526 • Export TPB • £12.99

December • 9781409131533 • Export TPB • £12.99


Bitterblue

Charlaine Harris

Kristin Cashore

May • 9780575096585 TPB • £13.99 • H

May • 9780575097186 TPB • £12.99 • H

The brand new Sookie Stackhouse novel. Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Now the vampires and the shapeshifters are ‘out’, you’d think the supernaturals would get on with each other. But nothing is that simple in Bon Temps! Charlaine Harris is a No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and a superstar in the paranormal romance/urban fantasy field.

A new novel from Kristin Cashore, set in the same world as Graceling and Fire. Eight years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue, and her country, were saved from the vicious King Leck. Now Bitterblue is the queen of Monsea, and her land is at peace. But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. Princess Bitterblue realises that her only chance to move forward is to revisit the past. Whatever that past holds.

The Black Mausoleum Stephen Deas August • 9780575100497 TPB • £12.99

Skorl is an Ember, a soldier trained from birth to fight dragons. He is a living weapon, saturated with enough dragon-poison to bring down a monster all on his own. Rat is an Outsider. He’s on the run and he’s stumbled onto something that’s going to make him rich beyond all his dreams. Kataros is an alchemist, one of the order responsible for keeping the dragons in check. One of the order that has just failed, and disastrously so. Two men, one woman. One chance to save the world from a storm of dragons . . .

Iron Winter

Black Opera

The Fractal Prince

Stephen Baxter

Mary Gentle

Hannu Rajaniemi

August • 9780575089280 TPB • £14.99 • H

August • 9780575083509 TPB • £14.99

September • 9780575088924 TPB • £12.99 • H

An astonishing new historical epic fantasy from the author of Ash.

Jean le Flambeur is out of prison, but still not free. To pay his debts he has to break into the mind of a living god. But when the stakes are revealed, Jean has to decide how far he is willing to go to get the job done.

The final volume in the millennia-spanning trilogy about an England with a very different history to our own . . . In a world where Britain and Europe have never been separated, Stephen Baxter brings us an eyeopening look into what could have been. ‘One of the few SF writers for whom comparisons with Arthur C. Clarke are completely warranted’ SFX

Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan.

Black Opera is Mary Gentle’s take on opera, volcanoes and the Mind of God, set in a sumptuous, lush alternate Italy where music has magical power. Opera is the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders can be nothing short of magical. ‘When she’s got you hooked, there’s no beating Mary Gentle’ SFX

Alcatraz

A Red Country

Brandon Sanderson

Joe Abercrombie

September • 9780575131347 TPB • £16.99 • H

October • 9780575095830 TPB • £14.99 • H

An omnibus of four books by the bestselling author of the Mistborn and Wheel of Time series.

Violent, bloody and fast paced; this is the new bestseller from Joe Abercrombie.

On his thirteenth birthday, a chain of events leads foster-child Alcatraz to realise that his family is part of a group of freedom fighters who resist the Evil Librarians – the secret cult who actually rule the world.

Joe Abercrombie is the most successful genre novelist of his generation, with a remarkable, cynical and powerful voice cutting through the clichés of the fantasy genre to create something compelling and exceptionally commercial.

Displaying a wry sense of humour and with crossover appeal for YA and adult audiences, the four Alcatraz books have never before been available in the UK.

‘Joe Abercrombie is probably the brightest star among the new generation of British fantasy writers . . . His action scenes are cinematic in the best sense, and the characters are all distinct and interesting’ The Times

Gollancz Trade Highlights

Deadlocked

The sequel to Hannu Rajaniemi’s extraordinary debut novel, The Quantum Thief, is set to build on the extravagant promise of one of the most exciting new voices to come out of the genre this century.

The Time of Contempt Andrzej Sapkowski December • 9780575085084 TPB • £12.99

Geralt, the witcher of Riva, is back in another exciting adventure from the superstar author of The Last Wish, inspiration for the internationally bestselling computer game, The Witcher. Geralt was always going to stand out, with his white hair and piercing eyes, his cynicism and lack of respect for authority . . . but he is far more than just a striking-looking man. He’s a witcher . . . ‘Like a complicated magic spell, a Sapkowski novel is a hodgepodge of intellectual discourse, dry humour and economics’ Time


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Gollancz PAPERBACK HIGHLIGHTs

The Heroes

By Light Alone

All Clear

Joe Abercrombie

Adam Roberts

Connie Willis

May • 9780575083851 B format • £8.99 • H

June • 9780575083660 B format • £7.99 • H

July 9780575099326 B format • £8.99 • H

The new novel from the ‘enfant terrible of British SF’ Guardian

The thrilling sequel to Blackout, and a superb World War Two novel.

Curnden Craw, the last honest man in the North, has gained nothing from a life of warfare but swollen knees and frayed nerves.

In a world where we have been genetically engineered so that we can photosynthesise sunlight with our hair, hunger is a thing of the past, food an indulgence. The poor grow their hair, the rich affect baldness and flaunt their wealth by still eating. But other hungers remain . . .

Award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds – great and small – of ordinary people who shape history.

Over three bloody days of battle, the fate of the North will be decided. But with both sides riddled by intrigues, it is unlikely to be the noblest hearts that prevail.

Adam Roberts’ new novel is yet another amazing melding of startling ideas and beautiful prose, charting his progress as one of the most important writers of his generation.

Bremer dan Gorst, disgraced master swordsman, has sworn to reclaim his stolen honour on the battlefield. Prince Calder isn’t interested in honour. All he wants is power, and he’ll do anything to get it.

The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age

Connie Willis has won, among other awards, ten Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards for her writing. ‘A novelist who can plot like Agatha Christie and whose books possess a bounce and stylishness that Preston Sturges might envy’ Washington Post

Bronze Summer

Fire and Thorns

Stephen Baxter

Rae Carson

July • 9780575089242 B format • £7.99 • H

August • 9780575099159 B format • £7.99 • H

Robert Rankin July • 9780575086388 B format • £7.99 • H

Robert Rankin is one of the great British eccentrics, standing alongside Viv Stanshall, Spike Milligan and Neil Innes, amongst others. The newest opus from the Master of Far-Fetched Fiction will enhance his reputation even further: it’s time to stop Rankin being a hidden gem and make him the National Treasure his fans already believe him to be. ‘He is an author best read in large doses. His impressively individual style means that he becomes funnier the more you read him’ Independent

The Cold Commands Richard Morgan August • 9780575084896 B format • £7.99 • H

Fantasy: harder, faster, bloodier. The king of noir SF takes on Fantasy. In this sequel to The Steel Remains Richard Morgan continues to bring his trademark visceral writing style, turbo-driven plotting and thoughtprovoking characterisation to the fantasy genre and produces a landmark work with his follow-up to his first foray into fantasy. Follow the brutal adventures of Ringil, Egar and Archeth in the fight against the Durenda.

An epic wall has been built to keep the sea out. And the history of the world has been changed. Centuries have passed. The wall that Ana’s people built has long outlasted her. The British Isles are still one with the European mainland and Doggerland has become a vibrant and rich land. So rich that it has drawn the attention of the Greeks. An invasion is mounted and soon Greek Biremes are grinding ashore on a coastline we never knew and the world will be changed for ever.

The Islanders Christopher Priest September • 9780575088641 B Format £7.99 • H

Reality is illusory and magical in the stunning new literary SF novel from the multiple award-winning Christopher Priest. From the author of The Prestige, The Islanders is a tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an elegant game with you.

Princess Elisa is a disappointment to her people. Although she bears the Godstone in her navel, a sign that she has been chosen for an act of heroism, they see her as lazy and useless. On her sixteenth birthday, she is bartered off in royal marriage and sent to a kingdom in turmoil. As an invading army threatens to destroy her new home, Elisa must try to uncover the Godstone’s secret history before her enemy steals the destiny nestled in her core.

In the Mouth of the Whale Paul McAuley October • 9780575100756 B format • £8.99 • H

A war between human and posthuman civilisations is about to erupt . . . . . .and it will determine not only the future of the human species, but also its past! From one of Britain’s best writers of hard SF, In the Mouth of the Whale is a brilliant novel that shares and extends the same future history as The Quiet War and the critically acclaimed Gardens of the Sun.

Richard Morgan has won the Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick Awards.

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The Alloy of Law

Alastair Reynolds


Brandon Sanderson


The first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history . . .out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society. Reynolds has won the British Science Fiction award and been shortlisted three times for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. ‘It’s rare to find a writer with sufficient nerve and stamina to write novels that are big enough to justify using words like “revelation” and “redemption”. Reynolds pulls it off’ Publishers Weekly

A brand new Mistborn story, set years after the events of Hero of Ages. The heir to Robert Jordan returns to the world that established his reputation. In a world recovering only slowly from evil, a world where allomancers wield immense power through their ability to unleash the magic bound up in common metals, someone who can burn metals that no-one has burned before can tip the balance . . . Brandon Sanderson is a New York Times bestselling author.

Whispers Under Ground Ben Aaronovitch December • 9780575097667 B format • £7.99 • H

Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And it’s just as well – he’s already had run-ins with the supernatural children of the Thames and a terrifying killer in Soho. Progression in the Police Force is less easy. Especially when you work in a department of two. Now something horrible is happening in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up the tube system under London. Time to call in the Met’s Economic and Specialist Crime Unit 9, aka ‘The Folly’. Time to call in PC Peter Grant, Britain’s Last Wizard.

Dead Reckoning

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion

Charlaine Harris September • 9780575131408 B format • £7.99 • H

Charlaine Harris September • 9780575097155 B format • £7.99 • H

The essential fan’s guide to the No. 1 bestselling Sookie Stackhouse True Blood books. The book will feature a brand-new Sookie story and Charlaine’s own map of Bon Temps, plus: • An introduction by Charlaine. • A large section on the award-winning HBO series True Blood. • Detailed summaries of each novel and entries on every important character, event and setting in the series. • An overview of Sookie’s world. • Interviews with Charlaine Harris and Alan Ball. • A selection of favourite Bon Temps recipes.

The brand-new eleventh True Blood novel, starring the irrepressible Sookie Stackhouse! There’s a reckoning on the way . . . . . . and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble’s way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be twonatured, suspicion immediately falls on the antishifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but before she can investigate something else – something even more dangerous – comes up.

Crimes by Moonlight

Death’s Excellent Vacation

Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner

Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner

June • 9780575097902 B format • £7.99 • H

Thirteen new and original vampire tales of Birthdays with Bite! Meet Sookie Stackhouse, who, as the only nonvampire at a ‘Dracula’s birthday ball’ soon finds that she’s the one on the menu.

Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. An all-new mystery anthology edited by No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Charlaine Harris – featuring a brand new Charlaine Harris short story!

In P.N. Elrod’s ‘Grave-Robbed’, which mixes pathos Other authors include: Steve Brewer, Dana Cameron, Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane, and comedy, vampire PI Jack Fleming busts a Barbara D’Amato, Brendan DuBois, Terrie Farley phony medium mid-seance. Moran, Jack Fredrickson, Tanya Huff’s ‘Blood Wrapped’ has Henry Fitzroy Parnell Hall, Carolyn Hart, S. W. Hubbard, Toni L. P. searching for the ideal gift for a vampire’s 40th Kelner, Lou Kemp, William Kent Kreuger, Harley mixing with his pursuit of a human kidnapper. Jane Kozak, Margaret Mahon, Martin Meyers, Jeffrey Somers, Elaine Viets and Mike Wiecek.

August • 9780575097926 B format • £7.99 • H

An all-new anthology of vampire stories edited and with an introduction by the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling writer Charlaine Harris and the award-winning mystery writer Toni L.P. Kelner. It includes a new Sookie Stackhouse (the series which inspired HBO’s True Blood) story by Charlaine Harris, as well as short fiction by: Jeff Abbott; L.A. Banks; Jeaniene Frost; Christopher Golden; Chris Grabenstein; Toni L.P. Kelner; Katie MacAlister; A. Lee Martinez; Sharan Newman; Lilith Saintcrow; Sarah Smith and Daniel Stashower.


Charlaine Harris

Many Bloody Returns

July • 9780575098039 B format • £7.99 • H

Gollancz Paperback Highlights

Blue Remembered Earth

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Lynsay Sands URBAN FANTASY 16

Six titles from the Argeneau vampire series: sexy, romantic stories with real bite, featuring smouldering vampires and sassy dialogue. Perfect for True Blood fans and readers looking for a feel-good romance to get their teeth into. By the New York Times bestselling author, Lynsay Sands.

The Immortal Hunter

The Renegade Hunter

Lynsay Sands

Lynsay Sands

June • 9780575110793 B format • £7.99 • H

July • 9780575110816 B format • £7.99 • H

Born to Bite

Hungry for You

The Reluctant Vampire

Under a Vampire Moon

Lynsay Sands

Lynsay Sands

Lynsay Sands

Lynsay Sands

August • 9780575110847 B format • £7.99 • H




Biting Cold

Kitty Steals the Show

Archangel’s Storm

Tangle of Need

Chloe Neill

Carrie Vaughn

Nalini Singh

Nalini Singh

August • 9780575113428 B format • £7.99 • H

August • 9780575098701 B format • £7.99 • H


December • 9780575100169 B format • £7.99 • H

The sixth title in Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series.

Kitty Norville will be the keynote speaker for the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies. The conference brings together scientists, activists, protestors, and supernatural beings from all over the world – and Kitty is right in the middle of it.

Nalini Singh’s latest Guild Hunter book.

Adria, wolf changeling and resilient soldier, has made a break with the past. Now comes a devastating new complication: Riaz, a SnowDancer lieutenant.

Master vampires from dozens of cities have also gathered in London for a conference of their own, and Kitty gets a glimpse into the power struggle among vampires. But the conference has also attracted some old enemies who have set their sights on Kitty and her friends.

Earning Neha’s trust comes at a price – Jason must tie himself to her bloodline through the Princess Mahiya, a woman with dangerous secrets.

Turned into a vampire against her will, Merit found her way into the dark circle of Chicago’s vampire underground. Now Merit is on the hunt, charging across the stark American Midwest, tailing a rogue supernatural intent on stealing an ancient artefact that could unleash catastrophic evil on the world. But Merit is also the prey. An enemy of Chicagoland is hunting her, and he’ll stop at nothing to get the book for himself.

With wings of midnight and an affinity for shadows, Jason courts darkness. But now, with the Archangel Neha’s consort lying murdered, Jason steps into the light to unearth the murderer before it is too late.

With only their relentless hunt for a killer to unite them, Jason and Mahiya embark on a quest that leads to a centuries-old nightmare . . .

For Riaz, the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria, his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. Drawn into a cataclysmic Psy war that may alter the fate of the world itself, they must make a decision that might just break them both.


Anne de Courcy

Brazil Michael Palin September • 9780297866268 HB • £25.00 • H

July • 9780297868477 TPB • £13.99 • H

The untold stories of the young women who went out to India in search of marriage. From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain’s best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in Britain, followed in their wake. They were known as the Fishing Fleet. This book is their story.

Vintage Palin – The No. 1 bestseller and superstar explores an exotic country now a global superpower. Brazil is one the four new global superpowers, with its vast natural resources and burgeoning industries. Half a continent in size and a potent mix of races, religions and cultures, of unexplored wildernesses and bustling modern cities, it is also one of the few countries in which Michael Palin has never set foot. In this book and TV series for the BBC, he explores a vast and disparate nation.

The John Lennon Letters John Lennon October • 978029786634 HB • £25.00

First ever collection of the letters of John Lennon, an international publishing event. John Lennon wrote letters and postcards all of his life; to his friends, family, strangers, newspapers, organisations, lawyers and the laundry - most of which were funny, informative, campaigning, wise, mad, poetic, anguished and sometimes heartbreaking. For the first time, John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, has given permission to publish a collection of his letters. The editor is the Beatles’ official biographer, Hunter Davies, who knew John Lennon well.

AC/DC

Vikings

Lady In Waiting

Mick Wall

Neil Oliver

Pamela Hicks

October • 9781409115359 TPB • £14.99 • H

October • 9780297868071 TPB • £14.99 • H

October • 9780297864837 TPB • £13.99

Mick Wall penetrates the closed world of Aussie rock legends AC/DC. AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975. They weren’t really a band for guitar solos, and singer Bon Scott was the original bike-riding, speed-snorting, fighting man who lived life fast and short; he died just before ‘Back in Black’, their huge-selling album took off. ‘Back in Black’ has gone on to sell 45 million copies worldwide, and as the band have become a global phenomenon so their reclusiveness has increased.

Rococco Chantal Coady, Laurent Couchaux November • 9780297865193 HB • £30.00 • H

Rococo has been the pioneering hub of the noveau chocolat revolution for over 20 years. With its very own chocolate school, Rococo is renowned for exploring new boundaries. In this beautifully illustrated book, Chantal and Laurent will share their expertise with the home cook - from how to create the perfect ganache to a delicious crème Anglaise, Rococo will teach everyone from the chocolate novice to the sweettooth connoisseur all there is to know about gastronomy’s finest ingredient.

A new book from the well-known Scottish archaeologist, historian and broadcaster. To tie-in with a major BBC TV series.

A magical memoir about childhood in India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten.

Neil Oliver will use the latest archaeological and scientific discoveries to tell the story of the Vikings from the original Viking towns in Scandinavia to the majesty of Kiev to modernday Dublin and the moors of Northern England. Neil Oliver will go beyond the Vikings’ bloody reputation to search for the truth about the ancient Norsemen.

Lady Pamela Hicks was Lady in Waiting to the Queen both when she was a princess and following her coronation. In the 1960s she married the flamboyant designer David Hicks who became internationally celebrated. This memoir is a blend of nostalgia for a lost world and a snapshot of a key moment in history. It is also a glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the twentieth century’s leading figures.

Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World Steven Mithen

Trade non-Fiction Highlights

The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj

Tender Prey Mark Mordue November • 9781409122289 HB • £20.00

November • 9780297864806 TPB • £13.99

From the first flushing toilets in the Minoan centre of Knossos on Crete, to the viaducts of Petra, from the fountains of Jerash in what is now Jordan, to the bath houses of the Greeks and the Romans, water and its management has been the constant factor in an ever-evolving world. Steven Mithen, the renowned pre-historian, will use examples from a five year archaeological research project in the Jordan Valley to discover how water’s domestication changed society and civilisation at all levels.

Major biography of modern rock icon, written with Nick Cave’s input. Tender Prey, Mark Mordue’s doorstep of a biography, leaves no stone unturned. It’s written with the input of Cave and his close colleagues but retains an independent, critical spirit. In Mordue’s words the book tells ‘the story of a man on the run from himself and his demons, and how he has documented that journey in song; a movement through hell and high water with one of the world’s greatest musical artists.’


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paperback non-Fiction Highlights

Metallica: Enter Night

Looking for Adventure

Stieg and Me

Mick Wall

Steve Backshall

July • 9781409121671 B format • £9.99 • H

July • 9780753828724 B format • £8.99 • H

July • 9781409136620 B format • £7.99

The definitive biography of mega-band, Metallica. Alongside contemporaries Slayer, Megadeath and Anthrax, Metallica came to prominence in the 1980s as one of the ‘big four’ of thrash metal. Nearly 30 years on, their tale is one of alcohol, rule breaking and tragically early death. But allied to that are colossal sales figures for their records – they are the fifth-highest selling recording artists of all time. Metallica, in fact, have garnered more critical acclaim than any heavy rock band since Led Zeppelin.

Full of incredible wildlife, extraordinary wilderness, jungles, cannibals, pitfalls, triumph, danger and excitement, Looking for Adventure is the irresistible, inspiring story of a little boy who let his heart rule his head.

The Inner Man

The Art of Betrayal

John Baxter

Gordon Corera

July • 9780753828892 B format • £9.99

August • 9780753828335 B format • £9.99

There is only one person who can tell Stieg Larsson’s story other than himself – his lifelong companion and muse, Eva Gabrielsson. Here she tells the story of their 30-year romance, of Stieg’s upbringing, and how this shaped his morals and personality. She talks of his life-long struggle to expose Sweden’s Neo-Nazis, of his struggle to keep the magazine he founded alive, his difficult relationships with his immediate family, and the joy and relief he discovered writing the Millennium trilogy.

The Lost Empire of Atlantis Gavin Menzies August • 9780753828854 B format • £9.99 • H

An explosive and perceptive biography of the novelist J.G. Ballard.

The secret history of MI6 – from the Cold War to the present day.

To many people, J.G. Ballard will always be the schoolboy in Steven Spielberg’s movie Empire of the Sun, struggling to survive as an internee of the Japanese during World War II. Others remember him as the author of Crash, a meditation on the eroticism of the automobile and the car crash.

The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Gordon Corera draws on first-hand accounts of those who have spied, lied and in some cases nearly died in service of the state. Many of these accounts are based on exclusive interviews and access. These are the voices of those who have worked on the front line of Britain’s secret wars.

In this first biography, John Baxter draws on an admiration of and acquaintance with Ballard that began when they were writers for the same 1960s science fiction magazines.

The bestselling author of 1421: The Year the Chinese Discovered the World uncovers the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis. Through an examination of documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, artefacts and DNA evidence, Menzies slowly and painstakingly reveals a trading empire that spanned from the Great Lakes in North America to Kerala in India. And in doing so finally explains the incredible reality behind the legendary civilisation described by Plato and its disappearance.

A History of Ancient Britain

18 Minutes

Arthur Miller

Peter Bregman

Christopher Bigsby

Neil Oliver


September • 9780753828472 TPB • £16.99


There has been human habitation in Britain, regularly interrupted by Ice Ages, for the best part of a million years but who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? Through what is revealed by the artefacts of the past, Neil Oliver weaves the epic story – half a million years of human history up to the departure of the Roman Empire in the Fifth century AD. It was a period which accounts for more than 99% of humankind’s presence on these islands.

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How do you become an explorer? It’s a question every child has asked. Steve Backshall was no different. But after a rainy-day visit to an exhibition of artefacts from Papua New Guinea, it was a question that began to obsess the sevenyear-old Backshall and eventually gave him his life’s vocation.

Eva Gabrielsson

How often do you get to the end of another long and frantic day and wonder why so many important things didn’t get finished?

The second volume of the definitive biography of one of the greatest modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005).

In 18 Minutes Peter Bregman shows how the best way to fight distracting interruptions is to create productive ones ourselves, a practice that can be easily implemented in 18 minutes a day. The result is a simple yet comprehensive approach to managing your life a year, a day, and a moment at a time.

In 1962, Miller’s legacy was incomplete. Ahead lay eighteen plays, five films, a novella and a handful of stories. That year also saw the death of his wife, Marilyn Monroe, and his marriage to Inge Morath. Shedding new light on Miller’s complexities, and revealing unknown facts about his life, this is the definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest playwrights.


Michel Roux Jr. September • 9780753828649 TPB • £16.99

River Monsters Jeremy Wade October • 9780753829196 B Format • £8.99

Bryan Appleyard September • 9781780220154 B Format • £9.99

Recipes from the new star presenter of MasterChef: The Professionals. Michel Roux has a justifiable reputation as someone who knows everything there is to know about food, how it should taste and how it should be cooked. He is very serious-minded about cooking and his masterly performances on MasterChef have created a wide and admiring fan base. Food has always been at the forefront of his life and the recipes in this book are a distillation of his vast knowledge and experience.

A tale of obsession, adventure, and very big fish . . .

Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants us to be simpler. From telephone call trees that simplify us into a series of ‘options’ to social networks that reduce us to our purchases and preferences, we are deluged with propaganda urging us to abandon our irreducibly complex selves.

For Jeremy Wade, outlandish freshwater predators have been an obsession all his adult life. In a quest that has taken him from the Amazon to the Congo, and from North America to the mountains of India, Wade has pursued the truth about these little known, often misunderstood animals. Along the way he’s survived a plane crash, malaria and a fishinflicted blow to the chest.

Part memoir, part reportage, part cultural analysis, The Brain Is Wider Than The Sky is a dire warning about what we may become and a lyrical evocation of what humans can be.

In River Monsters, Wade delivers a sometimes jawdropping blend of adventure, natural history, legend and detective work. These are fisherman’s tales like you’ve never heard before . . .

It’s So Easy (and Other Lies)

Never In A Million Years

Quantum

Duff McKagan

Ivor Baddiel and Johnny Zucker


October • 9780753828915 TPB • £10.99

Guns N’Roses bass guitarist tells his story. Duff McKagan was a co-founder of Guns N’Roses, with a 13-year tenure on bass in the biggest band on earth. Duff charts the rise of the group, and his own fall, as with success came heavy drinking and drug use. Forced to sober up by ill health, Duff started taking an interest in business, completing a degree in economics and making a killing on the stock market. He has since worked with other artists and with Slash in Velvet Revolver.

Jim Al-Khalili

October • 9781780220178 B format • £6.99

Why do people make predictions? What was the first prediction? And why do we give them any credence whatsoever?

From Schrodinger’s cat to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, this book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world.

From the authors of the bestselling Not the Highway Code comes a new book examining the history and inaccuracies of predictions on everything from the end of the world (nope, still hasn’t happened), to who is going to win the next World Cup ( . . . not England?).

Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet, it has been said that if you’re not shocked by it, you don’t understand it. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is reality really so strange? And just how can cats be halfalive and half-dead at the same time?

Informative and witty popular reference indicating how everyone got it wrong and still does.

Paperback non-Fiction Highlights

The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don’t Work in a Complex World

Cooking with The Master Chef

Three classic works of Second World War literature. The Great Escape: The famous true story of mass escape from a German Prisoner of War camp that inspired the classic film. Barbarossa: An account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans – the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen – written by the eminent military historian, diarist and politician Alan Clark.

The Great Escape

Barbarossa

Das Boot

Paul Brickhill

Alan Clark

July • 9780304356874 B format • £6.99

July • 9780304358649 B format • £10.99

Lothar Gunther Buchheim

Das Boot: Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, Das Boot is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second World War and an acclaimed film.

September • 9780304352319 B format • £9.99


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INDIGO

The Gathering Dark

Soul Fire

Leigh Bardugo

July • 9781780620237 TPB • £8.99 • H

May • 9781780621104 TPB • £8.99 • H

The Shadow Fold, a swathe of impenetrable darkness, crawling with monsters, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the world of the kingdom’s magical elite – the Grisha. Could she be the key to setting Ravka free? The Darkling, a creature of seductive charm and terrifying power is leader of the Grisha. If Alina is to fulfil her destiny, she must discover how to unlock her gift and face up to her dangerous attraction to him.

Dark Parties Sara Grant August • 9781780620350 B format • £6.99 • H

The second instalment in this trilogy for teens. Alice Forster regularly talks with her dead sister, Meggie, in the virtual world of Soul Beach - an online paradise where dead teenagers are held in limbo. Alice has learned that if she can solve the mystery of someone’s death in the real world, then that person is released from the Beach. Meggie needs Alice to solve her murder so she can be free, but as Alice is getting closer to discovering the murderer, the murderer is getting closer to Alice . . .

The Double Shadow Sally Gardner August • 9781780620367 B format • £6.99 • H

Arnold Ruben has created a memory machine, a utopia housed in a picture palace, where the happiest memories replay forever, a haven in which he and his precious daughter can shelter from the war-clouds gathering over 1937 Britain. But on the day of her seventeenth birthday Amaryllis leaves Warlock Hall and the world she has known and wakes to find herself in a desolate and disturbing place. Something has gone terribly wrong with her father’s plan.

Masque of the Red Death

Hollow Pike

Bethany Griffin


August • 9781780621197 TPB • £8.99 • H

In a nation isolated beneath the dome of the Protectosphere – which is supposed to protect, but also imprisons – Neva and her friends dream of freedom.

It’s 1870 and a deadly virus has decimated the population of North America. Masked corpsecollectors roam the streets, removing the bodies before the contagion can spread. Though Araby tries to escape it all with drugs and parties, even at her most intoxicated she can’t forget her brother’s death – or her guilt for causing it.

But life is becoming complicated for Neva. She’s falling for her best friend’s boyfriend – and she’s learning more than she ever wanted to know about what might be happening to The Missing . . .

And then a new contagion called the Red Death sweeps the city and a shocking revelation about the origin of the new virus puts Araby’s life in danger.

Neva keeps a list of The Missing – the people like her grandmother who were part of her life but who have now vanished.

James Dawson

When Lis London moves to Hollow Pike, she’s looking forward to starting afresh in a new town. Then she sees the local forest and realises she’s seen it before – in a recurring nightmare where someone is trying to kill her. Lis tells herself there’s nothing to her bad dreams, or to the legends of witchcraft and sinister rituals linked with Hollow Pike. She’s settling in and making friends – but then a girl is found murdered in the forest. Suddenly, Lis doesn’t know who to trust anymore . . .

The Iron Jackal

Red Glove

Ketchup Clouds

Chris Wooding

Holly Black

Annabel Pitcher

October • 9781780620855 B Format • £6.99


November • 9781780620305 HB • £9.99 • H

A big slice of non-stop, action-packed, wise-cracking fun from the Ketty Jay, and Captain Darien Frey. Things are finally looking good for Captain Frey and his crew. The Ketty Jay has been fixed up good as new. They’ve got their first taste of fortune and fame. And, just for once, nobody is trying to kill them. Join the crew of the Ketty Jay on their greatest adventure yet: a story of mayhem and mischief, roof-top chases and death-defying races, murderous daemons, psychopathic golems and a particularly cranky cat.

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Kate Harrison

The Curse-Workers: Book 2 Cassel has discovered the dark secret of his past, the secret that set him apart from his family. Now he must take his new knowledge and his new powers out into the world. A dark and twisting contemporary fantasy set in a beautifully rendered, subtly different world. This is a wonderfully nuanced and involving fantasy, at once melancholy, ironic and terrifying. It is perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman.

By the author of My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece. Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret she can’t confess to anyone she knows. But then one day she hears of a criminal, Stuart Barnes, locked up on death row in Texas. Zoe tells her story in the only way she can – in a letter to the man in prison. Armed with a pen and sitting on her bedroom carpet, Zoe takes a deep breath and begins her tale of love and betrayal on the back of a geography worksheet.


Cudweed in Outer Space

The Big Sticky Bun

Horrid Henry’s Sports Day

A Rainbow Shopping Day

Marcus Sedgwick

Vivian French

Francesca Simon

Vivian French

July • 9781444004830 B format • £4.99

July • 9781444005165 B format • £4.99

July • 9781444001167 B format • £4.99

August • 9781444005172 B format • £4.99

Miaow Miaow Bow Wow

The Haunted House of Buffin Street

Look at Me

The First Christmas

Francesca Simon

Georgie Adams

Francesca Simon

November • 9781444004687 B format • £4.99

November • 9781444006162 B format • £4.99

Francesca Simon August • 9781444004700 B format • £4.99

September • 9781444004694 B format • £4.99

Where’s Asterix?

Where’s Dogmatix?

Albert Uderzo, Rene Goscinny

Albert Uderzo, Rene Goscinny

July • 9781444005547 TPB • £5.99

September • 9781444005837 HB • £8.99


ASTERIX

Young Asterix fans will have hours of fun searching for their favourite characters amidst a variety of vibrant and fun-packed scenes.

EARLY READERS

Charming, funny tales with short, accessible text and full colour illustrations on every page. Perfect for beginner readers or for reading aloud. These are delightful stories that newly confident readers will return to time and time again.

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Children’s Highlights

In the Zone

The Tyrant King

Burning Sky

Allan Jones

Allan Jones

Allan Jones

July • 9781444005455 B format • £5.99 • H

July • 9781444005462 B format • £5.99 • H


Codename Quicksilver 1



When Zak Archer accidentally witnesses a murder he immediately finds himself in the firing line. Now some very dangerous people want him dead and he is on the run.

Zak’s training is cut short when he is sent on his first mission. The King of Montevisto and his family have been threatened and the secret services believe the attack will take place on the family’s forthcoming visit to the UK. It’s vital that the trip goes smoothly and Zak is in charge of protecting the king’s son. He soon finds he needs all his training and talents to outwit the enemy and save lives.

Zak must use all his skills to prevent a terrorist attack in the third book of this action-adventure series.

Luckily, running is something Zak is good at. In fact, when he’s ‘in the Zone’ he can run faster, jump further and fly higher than should be humanly possible. But will those skills be enough to save him? And in a world of spies, secrets and lies – who can he trust?

Zak is sent on a mission to the US, but the plan goes horribly awry for Zak and his fellow agents when their plane is hijacked. A harrowing flight turns into a desperate bid for survival. Zak is stranded on a desert island and can’t tell friend from foe.

Skeleton Island

The Ghost Ship

Kidnapped

Jan Burchett, Sara Vogler



June • 9781444005844 B format • £4.99 • H

June • 9781444005851 B format • £4.99 • H

August • 9781444005868 B format • £4.99 • H

Sam Silver Undercover Pirate: Book 1



How to become an Undercover Pirate . . . 1) Have a pirate captain as an ancestor 2) Find a message in a bottle and a magic gold doubloon 3) Get whisked back in time to join a pirate crew 4) When you get home DON’T TELL ANYONE. Remember – you’re undercover! Sam Silver enjoys beach-combing for pirate treasures. When he finds a message in a bottle he thinks it will make a great new relic for his collection, but the bottle holds a very special secret . . .

When Sam Silver and the crew of the Sea Wolf board a galleon looking for Spanish gold, they find it’s already been stolen – by a ghost ship! Can our pirate heroes outwit a ghostly crew or is the treasure gone for ever?

Sam Silver and his crewmates come under enemy attack as they sail the Caribbean Sea aboard their pirate ship, the Sea Wolf!

Raven Mysteries 6: Diamonds and Doom

An easy-to-read and collectable book with fun black and white illustrations throughout.

A fearsome encounter with enemy ships leads to a huge sea battle. When the smoke clears, Sam realises Charlie has vanished. Could his crewmate have been kidnapped? It’s Sam Silver to the rescue!

Marcus Sedgwick

Fright Forest Marcus Sedgwick

Marcus Sedgwick

July • 9781444004854 B format • £6.99 • H


Monster Mountains Marcus Sedgwick Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand. In the sixth of the Raven Mysteries, all manner of disaster descends on Castle Otherhand; weirdness abounds, the family are on the verge of being thrown out of their own home, and there’s still no sign of the fabled treasure of the Otherhand. Worse still, there’s no sign of Edgar, either. So will it be diamonds or doom for the Otherhands?

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Six-book series featuring new characters Raven-boy and Elf-girl who battle to save the world amid some funny, strange and gothic creepy goings-on. Raven-boy has short black spiky hair not unlike the feathers that adorn that sleek species of Corvus. Elf-girl is light of foot and sharp of mind and, well . . . elfish all over. She hadn’t expected to meet Raven-boy, nor he her. And before they know it they are plunged into some very strange, spooky and hilarious adventures as the two most unlikely heroes to save their world.


Horrid Henry’s Annual 2013

Horrid Henry’s A–Z of Everything Horrid

Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon

August • 9781444003475 HB • £7.99 • H

September • 9781444004465 TPB • £9.99 • H

July • 9781444006339 B format • £4.99 • H

Weird and wonderful, hilarious and horrid, welcome to Horrid Henry’s non-fiction guide to everything you ever wanted to know about . . . FOOD! Packed with freaky facts and random trivia, this is the perfect guide to everything you ever wanted to know (and lots of things you might never have wanted to know) about food – Horrid Henry style! The fourth Horrid Henry Factbook following BODIES, DINOSAURS and SPORTS.

Another whole year full of Horrid Henry in the most utterly wicked, totally brilliant annual yet. Horrid Henry’s most action-packed annual yet. Featuring brand new material from Francesca Simon, this is a fun-packed compilation of quizzes, puzzles, jokes, activities, extracts, and much more. All delivered with Henry’s hallmark humour and Tony Ross’ distinctive illustrations. Everybody’s favourite bad boy . . . Whatever Henry does he is perfectly dreadful and wickedly funny.

Welcome to Horrid Henry’s wicked world – a brand-new A-Z of all things hilarious and horrid, crazy and chaotic, fiendishly fantastic and utterly brilliant. A is for APRIL FOOLS’ DAY, Horrid Henry’s favourite day of the year (except his birthday, of course.) B is for BOGEY BABYSITTER, Rabid Rebecca, the toughest teen in town. C is for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, Father Christmas had better get it right this year! An encyclopaedia of absolutely EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about Horrid Henry.

Kidnap in the Caribbean

Kentucky Thriller

Lauren St John

August • 9781444000221 HB • £9.99 • H

Lauren St John

July • 9781444003277 B format • £6.99 • H

Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun

Children’s Highlights

A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry’s Food

Liz Kessler September • 9781444003505 B format • £6.99 • H

Laura Marlin Mysteries 2

Laura Marlin Mysteries 3

Eleven-year-old ace detective Laura Marlin cannot contain her excitement when she wins a trip to the Caribbean for herself and her uncle, Calvin Redfern, especially when her best friend, Tariq, and her three-legged husky, Skye, accidentally find themselves on board too. But when they dock at Antigua, they discover that Calvin Redfern has vanished, and Laura and Tariq are about to be kidnapped by the fearsome Straight A gang . . .

Laura Marlin is ecstatic when her uncle agrees to let her keep a horse after they rescue it, crazed with fear, from an overturned horsebox with no number plate. But he has a condition. Before he will allow her to adopt the horse they have to find its former owner, just to ensure that it hasn’t been stolen. A visit to Newmarket to investigate the thoroughbred’s origins leads Laura to the Kentucky Derby in the US and deep into the murky world of race-fixing.

Operation Bunny Sally Gardner October • 9781444003727 B format • £5.99 • H

Emily Windsnap’s fifth magical mermaid adventure. Emily and Aaron are sent on a secret mission by King Neptune. The king has been having nightmares he doesn’t understand and he knows only that Emily and Aaron must go to the Land of the Midnight Sun to avoid catastrophe. But when the friends arrive in this icy world of mountains and glaciers, they uncover a mystery more dangerous than they ever imagined. With the help of her best friends and a brave heart can Emily survive and fulfil her mission?

The Three Pickled Herrings

The Case of the Deadly Desperados

Sally Gardner

Caroline Lawrence


July • 9781444003253 B format • £6.99 • H

Wings & Co 1

Wings & Co 2

Emily Vole receives a mysterious inheritance: an old shop, a bunch of golden keys and a cat called Fidget. In the shop Emily discovers drawers full of fairy wings and the beginning of an adventure of a lifetime as the old Fairy Detective Agency comes back to life. It is up to Emily to reopen the shop, and recall the fairies to duty. Together they must embark on the quest to find Emily’s real parents and do battle with their great fairysnatching enemy, Harpula.

The second book in a brand-new fairy detective series brimming with mystery and magic by million copy selling author Sally Gardner. Emily Vole has her first proper case to solve. The Three Pickled Herrings combines the charm of traditional fairytales with unconventional fairies and a lively modern heroine, while stunning new illustrations bring the loveable cast of characters to life.

A whip-cracking new detective series, set in the Wild West. Virginia City in 1862 is a dangerous place, full of gamblers, hurdy girls and gunmen. When 12-yearold P.K. Pinkerton arrives there, homeless, penniless and hunted, things don’t look good. But P.K. soon finds allies in Sam Clemens, a newspaper reporter, Poker Face Jace, a gambler who can tell when someone is bluffing, and Ping, a Chinese photographer’s apprentice. With the help of these friends P.K. takes on the tricksters and desperados and tries to become a detective.

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Contents Paperback Fiction 2-7

24

Trade Fiction 8 - 12

Gollancz 13 - 16

Non-Fiction 17 - 19

Indigo 20

Early Readers 21

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Children’s 22 - 23

ISBN: 9781409109464

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