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HEAD OF ZEUS | SPRING 2014

HEAD OF ZEUS

HEAD OF ZEUS

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NEW TITLES J A N UA RY 2 014 – J U N E 2 014

ISBN 978-1-78185-825-7

HEAD OF ZEUS J A N UA RY 2 014 – J U N E 2 014 NEW TITLES 2 PA P E R B AC K S 6 2 D I G I TA L 74 AG E N T S & D I S T R I B U T O R S 8 0

3 CUSTARD TARTS & BROKEN HEARTS / MARY GIBSON

I WAS BORN IN Bermondsey and was inspired to use it as the backdrop for my novel when I realized that the once tight-knit community I grew up in had vanished forever. Although a work of fiction, I’ve drawn on many of my parents’ and grandparents’ stories of their lives in Bermondsey. My grandmother started work as a teenager in Pearce Duffs custard factory before World War I and worked there for most of her life. Reading about the Bermondsey women’s strike of 1911 gave me the starting point for the story and the ending was inspired by my grandfather’s experiences during World War I. It seems fitting that the story of the custard tarts and their men who marched away will be published during the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War. MARY GIBSON

Heartwarming and gritty, the life and loves of a factory girl in Bermondsey through World War 1. Nellie Clark is a custard tart – a factory girl packing custard powder in London’s east end. Conditions are poor, and srikes are frequent. Nellie must support her family after her mother’s death – often going hungry to feed her little brothers. Two men vie for Nellie’s love. One is flamboyant, confident and a chancer. The other is steady, truthful and loyal. But the choice is not as easy as it might seem. Looming over them all – over Bermondsey, over the factory, over the custard tarts and their lives and loves – is the shadow of the First World War. And that will change everything and everyone. MARY GIBSON grew up in Bermondsey, where both her grandmother and great aunt worked in the Pearce Duff factory. This is her first novel.

02 JANUARY 2014 Fiction/Saga * 228x145 mm * 416 pages E 9781781855751 * FTP 9781781855782 £12.99 Territories: WORLD XUSA * Rights: Audio, Large Print

‘With Jay, there are no sacred cows, no punches pulled and no laugh left on the cutting room floor. So skip the blurbs and just start reading this very funny book.’ MICHAEL MOORE

5 CHANNEL BLUE / JAY MARTEL

‘Jay Martel has written a funny, thought-provoking novel that’s one part Waugh, one part Vonnegut, one part Truman Show, all mixed together in one outlandish cocktail.’ TOM PERROTTA ‘Channel Blue is so entertaining, inventive, bawdy and sly that the acid of its social critique sort of sneaks up on you. Months after reading it, I still think about this book regularly as I watch the world’s absurdities unfold, wondering if maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t fiction at all…’ PEGGY ORENSTEIN ‘A laugh-out-loud look at the absurdities of modern-day America in the tradition of Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut.’ LOUIS THEROUX

Alien TV execs are planning an explosive finale to their reality TV show, in which Earth is the star. Only one man can save our planet from total destruction, and he’s hardly a hero... Perry Bunt has just learnt the best-kept secret in history. For years, Earth has been a hit reality TV show broadcast to a nation of ETs in a galaxy far far away. To this advanced race, humans are nothing more than fuel for their entertainment. So, when ratings start to drop, the network decides to go out with a bang by manipulating these foolish humans into destroying their own planet. With the help of Amanda Mundo, the most beautiful alien in the universe, Perry takes on the most important job of his life. Saving planet Earth. JAY MARTEL is an award-winning writer and producer. He collaborated with Michael Moore on his acclaimed documentary Farenheit 911 and was contributing editor at Rolling Stone for six years. This is his first novel.

02 JANUARY 2014 Fiction/SF * 228x145 mm * 384 pages E 9781781855799 * TPBO 9781781855805 £10.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US

6 THE LIE OF YOU / JANE LYTHELL

I will have what is mine... An obsessive woman stalks her boss in this chilling psychological thriller. To the outside world, Kathy is the very picture of a happy and fulfilled modern woman. She has a beautiful baby boy, a clever, handsome husband and a glamorous, high-powered job. Not everybody is fooled. Her employee, Heja, knows the truth: the cracks in Kathy’s marriage, her crippling self-doubt. Heja is perfectly placed to destroy Kathy’s life. And if she succeeds, she can claim the one thing she wants most… This is a chilling psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy, and lying to those you love. JANE LYTHELL was a television producer and Deputy Director of the BFI before deciding to write full time. This is her first novel.

16 JANUARY 2014 Fiction/Thriller * 228x145 mm * 320 pages E 9781781855270 * FTP 9781781855294 £9.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN attracted by the bad characters in fiction and films. Watching Disney’s Sleeping Beauty with my young daughter I found the witch Maleficent perversely magnificent because she was clever and powerful as well as wicked. In my character Heja I hope I have created someone who will fascinate and divide readers. I wanted to ask the question: Can you have sympathy for a woman who is trying to destroy another woman? JANE LYTHELL

WHEN I WAS SEVENTEEN I was madly in love. We were fearless, we thought we could do anything, be anything we wanted; we were ripe for this world. Then we hitched a lift on a yacht with an ex-copper and his family across the Mediterranean Sea and I soon had the sweetness sucked right out of me. It was too late when I finally understood what was going on – there was nowhere to run to, the boat was becalmed for two weeks, leaving the five of us in horrible proximity, bonded now by our own doings. When I look back, my own behaviour stuns me.

9 THE BOAT / CLARA SALAMAN

Youth, for all its beauty and bravado, is as vulnerable as an open wound. I wanted to capture this. CLARA SALAMAN

A sweet young couple become trapped in a nightmare when they board a stranger’s boat. A hypnotic thriller for fans of The Beach. Johnny and his new bride Clem have arrived in Turkey for a year’s honeymoon. Young, blissfully happy but very poor, they are surviving on love, luck and a spirit of adventure. So when a boat appears out of a raging storm, crewed by a bohemian couple who represent everything Johnny and Clem want to be, they do not think twice about stepping on board. But all is not as it seems. And when they finally open their eyes to the truth, the boat is in the middle of the vast open sea... Based on the author’s real life experience, this chilling story will keep you hooked long into the night. CLARA SALAMAN is a novelist, screenwriter and actress. She was nominated for a Best Actress award for her role as DS Clare Stanton in The Bill.

30 JANUARY 2014 Fiction * 228x145 mm * 352 pages E 9781781855836 * FTP 9781781855843 £9.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US

JACK McCLURE

10 BELOVED ENEMY / ERIC VAN LUSTBADER

BEREAVED FATHER – PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR AGENT FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

‘Rarely have I read a book that grabs you so fast in the opening scene, then keeps up the pace until the very last page.’ JEFFERY DEAVER ‘I’ve long been a fan of Eric Van Lustbader, and he’s at his heart-pounding best with First Daughter. Here are the chills you’ve been looking for.’ TESS GERRITSEN ‘The master of the smart thriller.’ NELSON DEMILLE

From the million-copy-selling co-author of the Bourne series, the next electrifying thriller starring FBI agent Jack McClure.

‘Action, suspense and politics blended to perfection by a master. An automatic buy-today-read-tonight author for me.’ LEE CHILD

Dennis Paull, Secretary of Homeland Security, has been shot dead – and Special Agent Jack McClure has been accused of his murder. Someone must have framed him, someone who would do anything to forestall his next move. For before Paull died, he had tasked McClure with a mission as secret as it is deadly. Find the mole in the FBI, and track down his spymaster, The Syrian. If McClure is to complete his mission now, he must evade the CIA officers on his tail. And he must find Annika Dementieva, the woman he once loved and lost... ERIC VAN LUSTBADER is the author of 25 novels, which have been translated into over twenty languages. He is the author of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne series, which have sold millions of copies worldwide.

30 JANUARY 2014 Fiction/Thriller * 228x145 mm * 368 pages E 9781781856178 * HB 9781781856185 £17.99 * XTPB 9781781856192 £12.99 Territories: World XCAN XUSA * Rights: Audio, Large Print

DON’T MISS THE FIRST FOUR EPISODES

REVIEWS FOR EMMA BURSTALL 13 THE DARLING GIRLS / EMMA BURSTALL

‘Fun, funny and fast – a really lovely novel.’ PENNY VINCENZI

‘What a terrific read! I loved this honest, absorbing story. I couldn’t put it down. Every word rang true and I really cared about the characters. A complete gem of a book!’ LORRAINE KELLY

‘Smart, funny and poignant.’ DAILY MIRROR

‘I really loved this book. I couldn’t put it down, and felt quite bereft when I’d finished it.’ FIONA PHILLIPS

‘Funny and warm. Finally, a buddy book about real women... I thought it was fab.’ AMANDA PLATELL

Three women in love with the same man meet for the first time at his funeral. Can they separate truth from lies and learn to trust – and even love – again? When the world famous music conductor Leo Bruck dies suddenly, the three women who loved him meet for the first time at his graveside. Victoria, his partner of twenty years and mother of two of his children; Maddy, mother of Leo’s daughter Phoebe; and twenty-four year old Cat. Can these three very different women, whose lives become inextricably bound, break free from the masterful control Leo exerts – even from the grave – once and for all? The Darling Girls is a moving story of love, loss, and the prevailing power of female friendship. EMMA BURSTALL is the author of two previous novels, Gym and Slimline and Never Close Your Eyes. Emma lives in Kingston upon Thames with her husband, the political commentator Kevin Maguire, and their three children.

30 JANUARY 2014 Fiction * 198x129 mm * 368 pages E 9781781857854 * PBO 9781789857861 £7.99 Territories: WORLD XUSA * Rights: Audio, Large Print, US

14 A LITTLE LOVE / AMANDA PROWSE

Is it ever too late to find the love of your life? A gripping tear-jerker from kindle bestseller Amanda Prowse. Pru Plum is the celebrated owner of a Mayfair bakery. She wears Chanel and her hair is expensively cut. Few would believe that this elegant woman turned sixty-six last year. But Pru is not the confident businesswoman she appears. She has done shameful things to get to where she is today. Pru will do anything to guard her secrets – especially now she has fallen in love for the first time in her life. From bestselling author Amanda Prowse, this is a life-affirming story about two lonely souls who finally allow love into their lives. AMANDA PROWSE was a management consultant for ten years before realising that she was born to write. Her novels have all been Ebook bestsellers.

13 FEBRUARY 2014 Fiction * 228x145 mm * 368 pages E 9781781854952 * FTP 9781781854976 £9.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US

I HAVE A MOTTO – Life Begins When You Let It. Pru Plum is a woman that has known hardship and achieved great success, but there is one thing that has evaded Pru her whole life: Love. That is, until now, when at the age of sixty-six, she realises that there is a whole world she never knew about, a world behind a secret, locked door – and she has just been given the key. A Little Love is a reminder that you never know when love will come knocking. Whether you are twenty or seventy, your adventure might be just about to begin – if you let it! AMANDA PROWSE

17 THE KILLING MACHINE/ PHILLIP HUNTER

A breakneck thriller starring a damaged hitman in London’s ganglands. Violent and gripping, from a superb new voice in British crime. A BROKEN MAN. Joe was a British soldier, then a bare-knuckle boxer. Now he’s a gangster in London’s east end. Once, long ago, he fell in love. But people like him don’t have happy endings.

‘I dumped the car a block away and climbed out and watched the pavement fall away from me. I took a few deep breaths and walked, putting one heavy leg before the other, trying to keep in a straight line. Buildings swayed to the side of me, but the rain soaked me and the wind made me cold and that was good. I was dead, heading to the breaker’s yard. That was fine. That was okay. Just one thing to do, just one more thing.’

A BROKEN CITY. Hackney’s most vicious gang is hunting Joe down. He doesn’t know why. All he knows is that until he kills them, he’s a dead man walking. A RAY OF HOPE. Kid is a twelve-year-old runaway who needs Joe’s protection. Life has made Joe a machine. Can this little girl make him human again? PHILLIP HUNTER has a degree in English Literature and an MA in Screenwriting. He was also part of the team that sequenced the human genome.

13 FEBRUARY 2014 Fiction/Crime * 228x145 mm * 304 pages E 9781781852064 * TPBO 9781781852040 £12.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, US

19 PEACE AND WAR: BRITAIN IN 1914 / NIGEL JONES

A TIME TRAVELLER’S GUIDE A gripping portrait of life in Britain in a year that shook Europe to its foundations. 1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was becoming ever more violent; and suspicions of Germany’s ambitions bred a paranoia expressed in a rash of ‘invasion scare’ literature.

DURING THE CENTURY SINCE Waterloo, Britain had stood aloof in splendid isolation from the wars and quarrels of her European neighbours. In the summer of 1914, that option no longer appeared feasible. With heavy hearts, the Cabinet committed the country, and the Empire beyond, to a conflict whose duration and outcome none could foresee... NIGEL JONES

From the launch of the liner HMHS Britannic to the publication of Wyndham Lewis’s Vorticist magazine Blast; from the defacing by a Suffragette of a Velasquez painting in the National Gallery to the ‘Christmas Truce’ on the Western Front, Nigel Jones traces the events of a momentous year from its deceptively benign beginnings to its descent into the nightmare of European war. NIGEL JONES is a former editor at History Today and BBC history magazines, who has appeared on historical documentaries on TV and radio.

13 FEBRUARY 2014 Non Fiction/History * 246x189 mm * 224 pages E 9781781852583 * HB 9781781852538 £20.00 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US

20 THE MAD SCULPTOR / HAROLD SCHECHTER

An unputdownable true-crime story: the model, the maniac and the murder that rocked 1930s America. On Easter Sunday 1937, Bob Irwin – a handsome, failing sculptor with a history of depression and psychopathic episodes – commited a grisly triple murder. Creeping back to the flat of his ex-landlady in a swish New York borough, Irwin killed her, her lodger, and her stunning daughter Ronnie with an ice-pick, an apparently motiveless homicide that would shock the entire country. Firmly in ‘you couldn’t make it up’ territory, and crafted like a Chandler novel, The Mad Sculptor thrillingly relates Irwin’s crime, flight, and capture, his trial and its aftermath, whilst painting a warts-and-all portrait of 1930s America. HAROLD SCHECHTER is a professor of American literature. He is the co-author of The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. He is also the author of a series of acclaimed historical novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe.

27 FEBRUARY 2014 Non Fiction/True Crime * 228x145 mm * 304 pages E 9781781853085 * HB 9781781851364 £18.99 * XTPB 9781781854495 £14.99 Territories: WORLD XCAN XUSA * Rights: Audio, Large Print

‘He was born in a gospel tent during a massive camp meeting held in Arroyo Seco Park, just outside Pasadena, on August 5, 1907. No doctor was there to assist with the delivery. His first name was a tribute to one of his father’s spiritual heroes, the seventeenth-century French theologian François Fénelon, while his middle name commemorated the place of his own birth: Fenelon Arroyo Seco Irwin. The world would come to known him by other names: Robert Irwin. The Beekman Hill Maniac. The Easter Sunday Slayer. The Mad Sculptor.’

COLLEEN McCULLOUGH ‘McCullough is terrific… Her characters quiver with life.’

23 BITTERSWEET / COLEEN McCULLOUGH

NEW YORK TIMES

‘A master storyteller.’ LOS ANGELES TIMES

THE THORN BIRDS ‘One of the biggest-selling, most widely read books in the history of fiction.’ OBSERVER

‘One of those books that will be read as long as women love, and men care.’ DAILY MIRROR

‘I simply could not put it down. If it hadn’t been wrenched from me at mealtimes, I’d have starved.’ DAILY MAIL

The new epic saga from the author of The Thorn Birds, one of the biggest selling books of all time. Do bonds between sisters ever break? Edda, Grace, Tufts and Kitty didn’t think so. The four Latimer girls, famous in 1920s Australia for their beauty, wit and ambition, have always been close; always happy. But then they left home to train as nurses, swapping the feather beds of their father’s townhouse for the spartan bunks of hospital accomodation. And now, as the Depression casts its shadow across Australia, they are bound by their own secret desires as the world changes around them. Will they find the independence they crave? Or is life – like love – always bittersweet? COLLEEN McCULLOUGH was born in New South Wales, and trained as a nurse in Sydney, London and New York. She is the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Thorn Birds, which has sold 10 million copies worldwide.

27 FEBRUARY 2014 Fiction * 228x145 mm * 368 pages E 9781781855867 * FTP 9781781855881 £9.99 Territories: WORLD XANZ XUSA * Rights: Audio, Large Print

I have learned some unexpected things by writing Clare Hart. A pathologist taught me how to reassemble skeletonized human remains, a senior ballistics officer taught me how to shoot an AK-47. I have spent many hours with the hardpressed cops who work in the ganglands that ring Cape Town. I spent a year doing a creative writing workshop with fifteen maximum security prisoners and learned up close and personally how boys are turned into the hard, violent men we all fear. Clare Hart has taught me what it means to be a tough, intelligent, ambitious woman in a man’s world. Good lessons for my three daughters.

25 WATER MUSIC / MARGIE ORFORD

MARGIE ORFORD

An intelligent, masterfully plotted thriller, from the queen of South African crime. A terrified, frozen child has been found close to death on an icy Cape mountainside. But no-one reported her missing. Where does she come from? Who does she belong to? Dr Clare Hart is baffled – and then another young woman disappears, and a frightening pattern begins to emerge. Rosa is a gifted but troubled young cellist, and her grandfather is at his wits end. Why did she walk out of her music school that day? Where has she gone now?

AVAILABLE AS EBOOKS: As winter tightens its grip, Clare must find Rosa and unravel the secrets surrounding these two cases… all the while carrying a secret of her own. MARGIE ORFORD is an award-winning journalist and internationally acclaimed writer. Her novels have been translated into nine languages.

27 FEBRUARY 2014 Fiction/Crime * 228x145 mm * 304 pages E 9781781857830 * TPBO 9781781857847 £12.99 Territories: WORLD XUSA XCAN XSA * Rights: Audio, Large Print

26 THE MADNESS OF JULY / JAMES NAUGHTIE

A sophisticated spy thriller set in the endgame of the Cold War, from top Radio 4 presenter James Naughtie. Will Flemyng was a spy who turned to politics and is rising to the top in the 1970s. But when a bizarre death, one hot summer day in London, starts to unravel some of the most sensitive secrets of his government, he’s drawn back into the shadows of the Cold War and begins to dance with danger once more. Buffeted by political forces and the powerful women around him, and caught in interlocking mysteries he must disentangle – including a potentially lethal family secret – Flemyng faces his vulnerability and learns, through betrayal and tragedy, more truth about his world than he has ever known. JAMES NAUGHTIE is one of the best-known broadcasters in the UK. A presenter of Today on BBC Radio 4, he has also written about politics in London and Washington for many years. This is his first novel.

13 MARCH 2014 Fiction/Thriller * 228x145 mm * 352 pages E 9781781855997* HB 9781781856000 £12.99 * XTPB 9781781856017 £11.99 Territories: WORLD* Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US

I’M FASCINATED BY THE way the biggest crises can sometimes be the most private ones. The character of Will Flemyng straddles the worlds of politics and espionage in the 1970s, and his understanding of the links between them make him vulnerable. But it’s in his nature that the dangers he confronts – in the course of a long weekend when his world goes haywire – should bring out the best in him. This is the territory that has always gripped me as a journalist, and it is just the place for an adventure in fiction involving people and places I feel I have always known. JAMES NAUGHTIE

29 THE FOUR STREETS / NADINE DORRIES

A heart-tugging gripper set in 1950s Liverpool, the first novel from the stunningly talented Nadine Dorries MP. Heartbreaking, gripping, life-affirming. This story, based on Nadine Dorries’s own childhood background, is set in the Catholic community in 1950s Liverpool, where young men and women, fleeing the poverty of rural Ireland, have come to seek a better life. Jerry and Bernadette are determined to better themselves for the sake of their children – except that the plan goes wrong and Jerry is left alone to bring up their daughter. Can his broken spirit be mended by the warmth and love of the people of the Four Streets?

I GREW UP IN a unique environment, amongst people with personalities which were so huge and vivid, they live with me every day. In the midst of poverty and community, hardship, loyalty and much fun, it was a special time and place. Change was just around the corner and I think we knew that, which is why each memory was set in stone, waiting for the day when I could put pen to paper and tell the stories from those special days. NADINE DORRIES

Not since Jeffrey Archer burst on to the scene has a celebrity MP produced such a commercial first novel. NADINE DORRIES grew up in a working class family in Liverpool, and is now an MP. She appeared on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in 2012.

10 APRIL 2014 Fiction/Saga * 228x145 mm * 368 pages E 9781781857571 * HB 9781781857588 £9.99 * XTPB 9781781858240 £9.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US

30 STONE COLD / C..J. BOX

The electrifying new Joe Pickett novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Everything about the ranch is a mystery. Rumours abound about the reclusive millionaire who owns it, the women who live with him, the private airstrip, the sudden disappearances. And, most persistent of all, that it is funded by murder. Joe Pickett is tasked by the governor to find out the truth. But he soon discovers a lot more than he’d bargained for. There are two other men living up at the ranch. One is a stone-cold killer who takes an instant dislike to Joe. The other, Joe knows all too well. The first man doesn’t frighten him. But the second is another story entirely. C.J. BOX is the winner of the Anthony Award, the Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award, and is an Edgar Award and L.A. Times Book Prize finalist. He lives in Wyoming.

10 APRIL 2014 Fiction/Crime * 228x145 mm * 336 pages E 9781781852750 * HB 9781781852729 £18.99 * XTPB 9781781852736 £12.99 Territories: WORLD XCAN XUSA * Rights: Audio, Large Print

WHEN I THINK OF Joe Pickett, I don’t think of an action hero, or a smooth operator, or an actor. I always picture him as he is: alone in his pickup truck, accompanied by his dog, perched on a mountain under a huge blue sky, contemplating hundreds of miles of raw Wyoming landscape laid out in front of him. Joe Pickett has been through some harrowing adventures, and committed acts that continue to haunt him. But through it all, he has remained true to himself and his family. I’ve been surprised and gratified how the character of Joe Pickett has resonated with readers across the country and in twenty-two languages. Joe enters every fight with no agenda other than to do the right thing. It’s his fatal flaw. Wish him luck.

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33 GIRL SEVEN / HANNA JAMESON

LONDON UNDERGROUND BRITISH CRIME FROM AN ASTONISHING NEW VOICE

From the Dagger-shortlisted Hanna Jameson, the queen of urban noir. This is the second taut thriller in the London Underground series. Kiyomi Ishida was eighteen when she left Japan for a better life in London. Then her parents died tragically, and she was left alone. Now nicknamed Seven, she’s worked her way up from a brothel to The Underground, an exclusive club that fuels the nighttime urges of those who stalk London’s streets. As her last spark of humanity flares, Seven must decide. How many people will she betray to further her own ends?

‘JAMESON WRITES LIKE AN ANGEL ON SPEED.’

Spare and visceral, laced with razor-sharp dialogue, Girl Seven is for those who like their thrillers cut-throat and black as pitch.

‘JAMESON’S TAUT AND SPARE NARRATIVE COMPLEMENTS A GRIPPING PLOT WITH UNMISTAKABLE UNDERTONES OF THE LEGENDS OF THIS GENRE: CHANDLER, ELLROY, RANKIN.’

HANNA JAMESON published her first novel, Something You Are, when she was just twenty-one. It was nominated for a CWA Dagger.

Q MAGAZINE

RED

10 APRIL 2014 Fiction/Crime * 228x145 mm * 352 pages E 9781781851463 * HB 9781781851432 £9.99 * XTPB 9781781851449 £9.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, US

34 PENNY LOAVES & BUTTER CHEAP/ STEPHEN BATES

A TIME TRAVELLER’S GUIDE A kaleidoscopic picture of Britain in 1846, a nation on the brink of economic and social change as the Industrial Revolution deepened its impact. 1846 was a pivotal moment in British history. This was the year in which Parliament repealed the Corn Laws, chipping away at the power of landowners and ushering in an era of free trade. It was also a time of social tension: child labour and slum housing would provide a seed-bed for political discontents that would intensify as the century progressed. In Ireland the human tragedy of the Great Famine was entering its second year. Stephen Bates describes the events of an extraordinary year for a society in the grip of the Industrial Revolution but also on the cusp of modernity. STEPHEN BATES is the former religious and royal affairs correspondent of the Guardian, and the author of several non-fiction books.

10 APRIL 2014 Non Fiction/History * 234x170 mm * 320 pages E 9781781852552 * HB 9781781852545 £25.00 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US

NEARLY 170 YEARS ON, the events in Britain in 1846 continue to resonate astonishingly with the present day. It was the year a British government embraced free trade, but the Tory Party split and brought down its prime minister after a vicious campaign to undermine him. A year when shocking scandals about welfare were exposed; when Ireland was wracked by the worst humanitarian disaster in the Western world since the Middle Ages. It was also the year when Charles Dickens began Dombey and Son; Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning – and the All-England cricket team took the field for the first time for a match in Sheffield. In the cultural arena, new works by Edward Lear and Charles Dickens appeared; in medicine, Robert Liston performed Europe’s first operation under anaesthetic. STEPHEN BATES

37 PRINCE OF DARKNESS / SHARON PENMAN

A new historical novel from the bestselling author of Lionheart, set in and around the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. AD 1193. England lies uneasy, a land without a king. Richard the Lionheart languishes in an Austrian dungeon, his brother John conspires to usurp the crown. On the throne sits Eleanor of Aquitaine, determined to prevent the outbreak of civil war, but there are few she can trust. Justin de Quincy is one of the few. But now the king’s brother has asked for de Quincy’s aid. John tells of a document implicating him in a plot to kill his brother. Despite his hunger for the crown, John swears he is innocent. Justin must unearth the forger and prove the document false before the Lionheart hears of it. His quest will ultimately lead to the unravelling of a powerful conspiracy that could have changed the course of history. SHARON PENMAN is the author of eight critically acclaimed historical novels.

24 APRIL 2014 Fiction/Historical Crime * 228x145 mm * 336 pages E 9781781857076 * HB 9781781857083 £12.99 * XTPB 9781781858158 £12.99 Territories: WORLD XCAN XUSA * Rights: Audio, Large Print

AVAILABLE AS EBOOKS

39 HOLY FOX / ANDREW ROBERTS

Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts’s much-admired reappraisal of one of the most influential – and controversial – British politicians of the 1930s.

MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about Chamberlain’s appeasement policy towards Germany, and even more about Churchill’s defiant strategy adopted only the following year, yet The Holy Fox is the only modern biography of the man who was foreign secretary during both of those critical historical periods: Lord Halifax. Viceroy of India during the Gandhi crisis, a visitor to Hitler at Berchtesgaden, foreign secretary during the Munich crisis, the invasion of Poland, the Dunkirk evacuation, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, Lord Halifax was a key figure at the most tempestuous moments of the twentieth century, and could have been prime minister instead of Winston Churchill if he’d wanted the job. ANDREW ROBERTS

A fox-hunting Anglo-Catholic aristocrat, nicknamed ‘The Holy Fox’ by Churchill for his political guile, Halifax was one of the most prominent Tory politicians of the interwar period. As Viceroy of India, he struck a deal with Gandhi that ended the Civil Disobedience campaign. His meeting with Hitler in 1937 was a milestone in appeasement, yet just days before the infamous Munich agreement, he demanded ‘the destruction of Nazism’. By May 1940, for many it was Halifax, not Churchill, who was the natural choice for Britain’s war leader. Andrew Roberts’s lauded biography draws on private documents to offer a nuanced reappraisal of an enigmatic and much-maligned politician. ANDREW ROBERTS is one of Britain’s most respected historians.

10 APRIL 2014 Non Fiction/Biography * 228x145 mm * 360 pages E 9781781856963 * HB 9781781856970 £18.99 Territories: WORLD * Rights: Audio, Large Print, Translation, US

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40 THE ABDUCTION / JONATHAN HOLT

‘This book is brilliant; to say it’s a page-turner is an understatement. The next Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.’ LOVEREADING.COM ‘Impressive. Arresting. Venice is a magnificent backdrop.’ DAILY MAIL ‘It’s rare to find a genuinely thrilling thriller that is also an illuminating portrait of a particular world… The Abomination is a terrific book.’ LITERARY REVIEW ‘A cracking upmarket thriller. I loved the way this writer doesn’t take his readers for fools.’ SAGA ‘An intoxicating mix of thrills, horrors, fascinating characters, stunning location and disturbing secrets - all held together by a born storyteller.’ CRIMESQUAD.COM The next dazzling thriller from the #1 international bestseller. THE SPY: Holly Boland is trained to think differently. When a US major’s daughter is kidnapped, she knows the abductors want more than a ransom. THE POLICEWOMAN: Kat Tapo has found a webcam feed in encrypted site Carnivia.com. It shows a terrified teenage girl, tied to a chair. But where is she? THE WEBMASTER: Daniele Barbo, creator of Carnivia, never allows access to his servers. Why would he help Kat and Holly? Then secrets are unearthed from Italy’s wartime past. Secrets that could put them all in danger... THE ABDUCTION has begun. JONATHAN HOLT is the creative director of an advertising agency. His previous novel, The Abomination, was translated into 15 languages.

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‘Breathtaking... with a haunting twist on the rituals of disguise.’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘A dark thriller setting out to expose the secrets of history in the present day. A successor to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy.’ IL PICCOLO

42 COME UNTO ME / GREG HOWARD

She has a habit of breaking rules. Her loyalty is unshakeable. Introducing DI Hanlon: the fiercest crime heroine since Lisbeth Salander. Intensely private, tough as teak, DI Hanlon is not a woman to cross. Assistant Commissioner Corrigan knows she’s dangerous and unorthodox. Her ruthless disregard for rules could cost him the top job he craves. But he also knows there is no one as fearless on a mission. And he likes her. When two seemingly unrelated murders point to a mole in the Met, Corrigan turns to Hanlon – though not without asking Enver Demirel, Turkish boxer turned London policeman, to stick to her like glue. Then a diabetic twelveyear-old boy is abducted, and what began as an investigation becomes an ugly, frightening race against time, in which Hanlon will take no prisoners. GREG HOWARD studied Arabic and Islamic History at Oxford, and has worked in adult education. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

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WHEN THIS BOOK WAS started, Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall were still ‘much-loved British institutions’. Today it would seem sex crimes by establishment figures, collusion and corruption in public institutions and the refusal to take any responsibility for any wrong-doing far exceeds the imagination of any writer. If the novel does say anything it is this: that morality can triumph over evil; that victory is not always to the strong and ruthless; that we can make a difference. Hanlon may well be a deeply flawed individual, but wouldn’t you like her on your side? GREG HOWARD

45 ANGEL OF DEATH / BEN CHEETHAM

Would you break the law to see justice done? A feverish page-turner starring Sheffield detective Jim Monahan. In Sheffield, a bankrupt businessman has murdered his family. It seems like an open-and-shut case: a desperate man resorting to desperate measures. In Middlesbrough, a woman named Angel is heading south. She is a woman alone. A prostitute. Now a murderer. And she has only one thing on her mind: revenge.

EVERY CITY HAS ITS darkness. It may be buried deeper in some cities than others, but it’s there. Sheffield is a city like any other. In the shadows of its factories, tower blocks, shopping centres and estates, a battle to hold that thin line is being fought by men like disgraced ex-cop Harlan Miller and jaded veteran detective Jim Monahan, and by women like the beautiful but deeply damaged prostitute Angel. They all want one thing – justice. But what is justice? Each has their own ideas. Each is willing to risk their life to save others. And each is finding out that if you stare into darkness for too long, you may well end up forgetting what light looks like.

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Two crimes, a hundred miles apart, but a terrible secret connects them. And although the courts may not agree, DI Jim Monahan has all the proof he needs to bring down justice on a group of particularly vicious criminals... BEN CHEETHAM self-published his first novel, Blood Guilt in 2011. It sold over 100,000 copies. He lives in Sheffield.

46 GHOST GIRL / LESLEY THOMSON

Book 2 in the superb Detective’s Daughter Series, from the #1 eBook bestseller. ‘Lesley Thomson is a class above’ IAN RANKIN. Stella Darnell cannot shake her father’s legacy. A year after his death, she still visits his house every day. Now she has discovered what looks like an unsolved case in his darkroom: a folder of unlabelled photographs of deserted streets. But why did her father – a Detective Chief Superintendent and a stickler for order – never label them or file them at the station? The oldest photo dates to 1966. To a day when a little girl, just ten years old, is taking her little brother home from school in time for tea. As Stella inches closer to the truth, the events of that day will begin to haunt her. LESLEY THOMSON is the author of A Kind of Vanishing, which won The People’s Book Prize, and The Detective’s Daughter which reached #1 in the Kindle charts and sold over 300,000 copies.

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I WANTED TO WRITE about two misfits who as a team effect positive difference. Stella Darnell must clean. She wipes surfaces, pokes her cloth into the intricate carving of an oak table, whisks a duster over a ceiling rose. She keeps the world in order. Jack is everything Stella deplores. Fanciful and unpredictable, his decisions rely on random signs. He will follow a paper bag blown along a pavement by the wind, a number on a train will dictate his day. Jack is the best cleaner Stella has ever known. Jack sees that Stella makes sense of his intuitive ponderings. As unofficial detectives, together they solve mysteries. LESLEY THOMSON

‘I rode some 10,000 miles in two and a half years. From Argentina I came north, over cold, barren 16,000-foot ranges; then down into steamy jungles, across the Isthmus of Panama, up through Central America and Mexico, and so to the United States.

49 SOUTHERN CROSS TO POLE STAR / AIMÉ TSCHIFFELY

I reached Washington with the same two horses with which I started – ponies that were 15 and 16 years old when my ride began. Of high adventures, hair-breadth escapes, and deeds of daring, there were few; yet in all the annals of exploration I doubt if any traveller, not excepting Marco Polo himself, had more leisure than I to see and understand the people, the animals and plant life of the countries traversed.’ Aimé Tschiffely’s thrilling account of his 10,000-mile journey on horseback from Buenos Aires to New York. Aimé Tschiffely had an unlikely dream: to ride 10,000 miles from Buenos Aires to New York City. In April 1925 he set out on his epic journey with two native Argentine horses called Mancha and Gato. The trio traversed the Pampas, scaled the Andes and struggled through the crocodile-infested rivers of Colombia and the jungles of Panama. After two harrowing years, the man who had originally been labelled ‘mad’ by the press was accorded a ticker-tape parade when he rode triumphantly through the streets of New York. This sumptuous new edition of Tschiffely’s Ride will introduce a travel-writing classic to a new generation of readers. AIMÉ TSCHIFFELY worked as a teacher, footballer and boxer before developing a passion for riding. Tschiffely’s Ride made him a household name.

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50 A JOURNEY TO ROMAN BRITAIN / BRONWEN RILEY

An evocation of a journey from Rome, the heart of Empire, to Hadrian’s Wall during the reign of the emperor Hadrian. By ad 130, Rome’s remote province of Britannia was at last taking shape. Everywhere old wooden forts, temples and houses were being replaced by monumental stone edifices; London was recovering from a serious fire; and tourists were flocking to the thermal waters at Bath. Hadrian’s Wall, commissioned by the emperor himself on a visit to Britain in ad 122, was almost complete. Bronwen Riley devotes a chapter to each stage of an epic journey, vividly describing the places, people, sights and sounds that might be encountered along the way. A Journey to Roman Britain recreates in fascinating detail how this remote corner of the Empire might have looked, smelled and tasted to a Roman visitor in the early second century. BRONWEN RILEY is head of guidebooks at English Heritage. She studied Classics at Oxford and then Byzantine Art at the Courtauld Institute.

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ROMAN BRITAIN, A PERIOD of more than 370 years, is too vast to imagine as a whole, the changes within Britain and the Roman Empire during that time too great. I think that’s why we so often end up with stereotypes of generic Romans and native Britons. In this book I set out to create my own snapshot of the situation in c. ad 130, during the reign of the compelling emperor Hadrian. The book takes the form of a journey as it might have been experienced by a Roman citizen – an army officer, merchant or even perhaps a failed pantomime artist – travelling from the crowded, scandal-ridden streets of glossy Rome, to the damp and rather dangerous outpost that was the province of Britannia in the early second century. How long would the journey take? What route would you follow? Where would you stay? Who would you meet? And why on earth would you be going to that gloomy old island in the first place? BRONWEN RILEY

53 RED LIGHT / GRAHAM MASTERTON

‘Katie went over to the window and stood beside Corina. The eight year old girl didn’t look up, but continued to stare outside. She reminded Katie of one of the fairies in the storybooks that her mother used to read her, except that she had fading yellow bruises on her left cheek and purple bruises around her neck, like fingermarks. Katie smiled at her, but behind her smile her pain had turned to anger. In her mind she could see herself stalking out of the room, finding him at whatever bar in Cork he was drinking in, and shooting him between the eyes.’ Someone is murdering the brutal pimps who traffic young girls into Cork. Book 3 in the Katie Maguire series from Ebook bestseller Graham Masterton. In a grimy flat in the city of Cork, a man lies dead on a bloodstained mattress. His face is unrecognisable: seven gunshots have shattered cartilage and bone. Yet DS Katie Maguire, of the Irish Garda, knows exactly who he is: Amir Xaaji Maxamed, a Somali pimp she has been trying to convict for years.

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Katie knows it’s her job to catch the killer. But Maxamed was an evil man who trafficked young girls into Ireland to be sold for sex. Now that he’s dead, the city is a safer place. When a second pimp is killed, Katie must decide. Are these vigilante murders justified? And how can she stop them spiralling out of control? GRAHAM MASTERTON was a bestselling horror writer before he turned his talent to crimewriting. He lived in Cork for five years, an experience that inspired the Katie Maguire series.

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54 THE CURSE OF THE HOUSE OF FOSKETT / M.R.C. KASASIAN

‘Mr Green’s hands clutched at his neck. His complexion turned dark blue. “Do not die in my house,” Sidney Grice said. “I absolutely forbid it.” Horatio Green doubled up, and with one gigantic effort he struggled to his feet. His left hand went down but missed the arm of the chair and he slipped sideways.

Sidney Grice and March Middleton investigate the murky world of Victorian Death Societies in a quirky crime novel that oozes atmosphere. Sidney Grice, of 125 Gower Street, is London’s premier personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent man to the gallows, business has been light. Listless and depressed, Grice has taken to lying in the bath for hours. Once a voracious reader, he will pick up neither book nor newspaper. His ward, March Middleton, has been left to dine alone. Then an eccentric member of a Final Death Society has the temerity to die on his study floor. Finally Sidney Grice and March Middleton have an investigation to mount – an investigation that will draw them to an eerie house in Kew, and the mysterious Baroness Foskett... M.R.C. KASASIAN is also the author of The Mangle Street Murders (Head of Zeus, 2013). He lives between Suffolk and Malta.

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Horatio Green made one last shallow gurgling suck of air before it was flooded out of him and he toppled backwards into his chair. I felt for his pulse but there was none. “Blast and blazes,” Sidney Grice put his hand to his forehead. “I have lost another client.”’

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56 SWORD OF THE NORTH / LUKE SCULL

‘Extraordinary, bold and brilliant. A stellar example of what the genre has to offer today.’ TOR.COM ‘Impressive and thrilling.’ SFX ‘Gripping.’ GUARDIAN ‘The best fantasy you will read this year.’ SFBook ‘If you like your gizzards glistening and your mages mean, this rollicking debut willl suit. Hugely enjoyable.’ DAILY MAIL ‘Extraordinary, bold and brilliant. A stellar example of what the genre has to offer today.’ TOR.COM The second instalment in THE GRIM COMPANY trilogy. Between the Demonfire Hills and the Shattered Realms, three rich and mighty cities flourished. Each city was protected by the power of their Magelord; each Magelord protected by an ancient truce. But no longer. The City of Shades is drowned. The Grey City enslaved. The barrier between the worlds is failing and only the Magelord of the City of Towers still lives to protect her people. Until the arrival of a blind wanderer. A man who calls himself Crow... LUKE SCULL was born in Bristol and lives in Warminster with his wife. Luke also designs computer role-playing games and has worked on several acclaimed titles for Ossian Studios and Bioware.

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59 THE EVIL EYE / JOYCE CAROL OATES

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The fourth wife of a much older man thinks she is happy until the first wife comes to stay... A lonely outsider meets a dazzling kindred spirit, but first love soon turns sour... A drugged-up frat boy decides to murder his parents for their money, but is floored by the power of his mother’s love... A fragile woman revisits her childhood abuse in order to satisfy a curious lover. All these stories are about love. But not as we like to think of it.

‘Oates unerringly manages to unsettle the reader, preying deftly and mercilessly on our deepest anxieties.’ METRO

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‘If the phrase “woman of letters” existed, Joyce Carol Oates would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it.’ JOHN UPDIKE ‘This writer is a phenomenon.’ DAILY MAIL

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61 CLEOPATRA’S ASP / ANTHONY EVERITT

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, killed herself while under Roman guard. She applied to her breast a couple of asps that had been smuggled to her in a basket of figs. That is what we have been told. But the asp is the hooded Egyptian cobra. It is typically two and half metres long, rather large to hide in a basket of figs and awkward to press to one’s bosom. Cleopatra’s death remains a mystery.  Dormice dipped in honey and sprinkled with poppy-seeds were a delicacy at fashionable dinner parties, as were fried testicles stuffed with pepper, pine nuts, finely chopped coriander and pounded fennel seed.  Before applying cosmetics, Roman women applied a basic face cream, which consisted of sweat, excrement of kingfisher, animal urine, placenta, bile and sulphur. Powerful perfume had to be used to mask the smell.  A famous Roman joke: A young man said to his lusty wife: ‘What should we do, darling? Eat or have sex?’ And she replied: ‘It’s up to you. But there isn’t a crumb in the house.’

A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of intriguing and extraordinary facts about Rome and the Roman world. Did you know to what use the Romans put the excrement of the kingfisher? Or that Queen Cleopatra was not Egyptian? Or why a dinner-party invitation from the emperor Domitian was such a terrifying prospect? Or why Roman women smelt so odd? The answers to these questions can be found in Cleopatra’s Asp, a compendium of extraordinary facts and stories about ancient Rome and the denizens of its Empire. Its 500-odd entries range across every area of Roman life and society, from the empress Livia’s cure for tonsillitis to the best Roman after-dinner jokes to the most reliable Roman methods of contraception. ANTHONY EVERITT is a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome.

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Amid the carnage of the 100 Years’ War, a young English archer confronts his destiny. ‘The 100 Years’ War is the new Rome.’ BEN KANE Fiction/Historical * 198x129mm * 528pp E 9781781852941 PB 9781781850596 £7.99 Territories: WORLD XCAN XUSA Rights: Translation, US, Large Print, Audio

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Featuring two centuries of women’s short fiction, this is the biggest and most beautiful collection in print today. Handpicked by one of the nation’s favourite novelists, Victoria Hislop.

In these three paperback collections (Love, Loss and The Lives of Women), there’s a story for every mood, mindset and moment in life. Contributors include: Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Emma Donoghue.

Stella Duffy, Susan Hill, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively, Katherine Mansfield, Hilary Mantel, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Ali Smith, Muriel Spark, Alice Walker, Jeanette Winterson, and Virginia Woolf.

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MARGIE ORFORD

Colleen McCullough’s epic masterwork is a vivid recreation of Ancient Rome, charting the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of Julius Caesar in a pageant of courage, ambition, treachery and passion.

Time is running out...A killer who won’t stop... An investigator who won’t give up. Discover the breathtaking Clare Hart series from Margie Orford, the queen of South African crime.

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FAY WELDON

DEATH BY THE BOOK

Fay Weldon’s wickedly witty novels have long questioned the patriarchal structure of British society. Available for the first time in ebook, these classics will enrich the lives of a whole new generation of women.

Short stories about deadly books from your favourite crime and thriller authors, curated by Otto Penzler at the Mysterious Bookshop in New York with more to come throughout the year.

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Introducing Head of Zeus book clubs: themed collections of some of the greatest books of our times. Our six clubs will launch in 2014, each with a dedicated website presenting one classic ebook a month.

THE BIG READS In Praise of Famous Women

The Big Reads club is reserved for those epics that once read, stay with you for a lifetime. Our first two titles are Colleen McCullough’s legendary The Thorn Birds and Diane Pearson’s Csardas, a magnificent story of three sisters and a portrait of Hungarian life on the eve of the Great War.

INTO BATTLE Ancient & Medieval

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A collection the finest military fiction and non-fiction lead by Robert K. Massie’s histories Dreadnought and Castles of Steel, which examine the pivotal role the British and German navies had in precipitating the outbreak – and deciding the outcome – of World War One.

THE ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL BOOK CLUB With The Rise of Rome, Anthony Everitt asks why a small market town by a ford on the river Tiber in Italy was able to conquer the known world and launches our club devoted to exploring the ancient world.

HIDDEN WORLDS Secret histories, conspiracies and unsolved mysteries are the stuff of our Hidden Worlds club. Robert McFarlane introduces the first title, Alfred Watkin’s 1925 classic The Old Straight Track, a paean to the British countryside and the book that started the ley line debate.

THE RAILWAY LIBRARY The Big Reads

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Christian Wolmar and Nicholas Faith, Britain’s leading writers and broadcasters on the railways, present a library no rail enthusiast can afford to miss.

IN PRAISE OF FAMOUS WOMEN Pulitzer-prize-winning historian Robert K. Massie’s enthralling portrait of Catherine the Great opens our series of biographies of great women throughout history.

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