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Contents
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ORIONBOOKS.CO.UK
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Artwork from Jane Is Trying by Isy Suttie,
published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (p.4)
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WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON is one of the most prestigious and dynamic
literary imprints in British and international publishing, home of ground-
breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949. Our
passion for extraordinary writing dates back to our two founders, who
were responsible for introducing some of the twentieth century’s most
remarkable voices – Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, Sybille Bedford,
Eric Hobsbawm, Edna O’Brien, Jorge Luis Borges and many others – to
a wide readership. They launched their publishing house with the idea
of building bridges and opening minds through exceptional works of
literature; we have been carrying on their legacy ever since. We publish
history, memoir, ideas, popular science, biography, narrative non-ction,
crime and thrillers, translated ction and literary ction of all kinds.
Fiction & Non-ction
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Gunk Baby
Jamie Marina Lau
Melbourne, Australia
@babyzzks
@catalog03
From Stella Prize-shortlisted author Jamie Marina Lau
comes an inventive, confronting and unforgettable novel
about consumerism and class – Convenience Store
Woman meets Ottessa Moshfegh and Bret Easton Ellis
Leen is going to open an ear-cleaning and massage salon
in a shopping centre in the suburbs of Par Mars, taking her
mother’s Chinese rituals to the West.
But something is amiss in Par Mars. Managers are being
attacked, and when Leen befriends a pharmacist obsessed
with a cryptic online forum, she nds herself involved in a
community intent on disrupting capitalism in increasingly
troubling ways.
Daring and original, Gunk Baby takes aim at consumerism,
class, orientalism, violence and middle-class boredom.
JAMIE MARINA LAU is a writer and an artist. Her rst novel,
Pink Mountain on Locust Island, was shortlisted for the Stella
Prize. Her work can be found in Cordite, ROOKIE, Voiceworks
and the Art Hoe Collective.
Literary Fiction
HB: 9781474620901 Demy, 240pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474620925 £14.99
Audio: 9781474620932 10hrs, £19.99
Jane Is Trying
Isy Suttie
London, UK
www.isysuttie.com
@Isysuttie
Hilarious, heartbreaking, warm and compelling – the
debut novel from a much-loved comedian hailed by the
Sunday Times as ‘a cross between Lena Dunham and
Victoria Wood’
Jane is bright, funny and very anxious. Jane is in her late
thirties but living with her parents. Jane is back in the sticks
– having left London after a traumatic break-up with a boy-
friend, prompted by their struggles to conceive and his
indelity. Jane is working part-time in an eccentric local
bookshop, having left a successful career behind. Jane
doesn’t know what to do next – but she is really, really trying!
ISY SUTTIE
is a comedian, actress and writer. She played
Dobby in Peep Show and Esther in Shameless. She has
written for the Guardian, Observer, Red, Glamour and BBC
Radio 4.
Contemporary Fiction
HB: 9781474600019 Demy, 288pp, £16.99
TPB: 9781474620697 Demy, 288pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474600002 £16.99
Audio: 9781409170969 8hrs, £19.99
JULY
JULY
DEBUT
5
Maradona
The Boy. The Rebel. The God.
Guillem Balagué
Hitchin, UK
@GuillemBalague
The extraordinary life of Diego Maradona, one of the
most controversial footballers of all time
Diego Maradona, who died in 2020, became a legend in
his own lifetime. A truly global sports icon and one of the
most controversial footballers of all time, he will always
be remembered for the ‘hand of God’ goal that he scored
against England in the 1986 World Cup. Maradona’s
career included seasons in his home country Argentina
and dazzling spells in Europe with Barcelona, Napoli and
Sevilla. Yet his life was one of uninching media attention,
including tales of drug abuse and constant health issues.
What fosters such adulation and how does it promote a self-
destructive personality?
GUILLEM BALAGUÉ
is a Spanish football journalist, prize-
winning author and pundit, rst for Sky Sports and now for
BBC Radio 5 Live.
Sports Biography
HB: 9781409157755 Royal, 320pp, £20
TPB: 9781409157762 Royal, 320pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781409157786 £20
Audio: 9781409186403 15hrs, £19.99
Olympus, Texas
Stacey Swann
Texas, USA
@StaceySwann
A sweeping and operatic portrayal of a feuding Texan
family
When March Briscoe returns home from self-imposed exile
after having had an affair with his brother’s wife, it doesn’t
take him even a day to sleep with her again.
After all, it runs in the family: his father has six grown-up
children and only three of them with his long-suffering wife,
June.
But over the course of a week in Olympus, Texas, there will
be a shooting, a funeral and more betrayal, and March will
turn out to be the sanest of the bunch.
STACEY SWANN is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford
University. She grew up in a small town near Houston.
Olympus, Texas is her debut novel.
Contemporary Fiction
HB: 9781474612425 Royal, 336pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781474612432 Royal, 336pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474612456 £16.99
Audio: 9781474612463 10hrs, £19.99
JULY
JULY
DEBUT
6
The Paper Lantern
Will Burns
Buckinghamshire, UK
@TroubledStriker
An unnamed narrator locked down in his middle-England
hometown contemplates the existential crisis we nd
ourselves in as a nation
The Paper Lantern charts and interrogates the shifts in mood
and understanding dened by the surreal revolutionary
nature of lockdown, while excavating the narrator’s own
history and that of his hometown. Set in Buckinghamshire,
our speaker takes a series of walks, from the closed-up pub
that is his home into the surrounding area. From local raves
in secret valleys and the history of landmarks to the fallout
of lockdown, climate change and capitalism, The Paper
Lantern creates a tangible, complicated rendering of a place.
WILL BURNS is a poet and writer based in Buckinghamshire.
He published his rst full collection, Country Music, in
2020, which was Book of the Week in the London Review
Bookshop. Burns was selected as one of the Observer’s best
debut novelists of 2021
Literary Fiction
HB: 9781474622028 Demy, 224pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474622042 £14.99
Audio: 9781474622059 10hrs, £19.99
Writing in the Dark
Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Hori-
zon Magazine
Will Loxley
Sheeld, UK
@WillLoxley
An atmospheric portrait of seven young authors –
including George Orwell and Dylan Thomas – writing
together in wartime London
As the streetlamps ickered out and lights were obscured
behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took
hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy
sitting rooms, London’s young writers and artists faced
being sent to the front, trading their paintbrushes and
pens for the weapons of war. In Writing in the Dark, Will
Loxley conjures up this brooding world and tells the story
of the deant magazine Horizon, which sprang up against
the odds.
WILL LOXLEY
studied at Newcastle University before join-
ing the creative writing course at the University of Oxford.
He now writes about the strange and wonderful worlds of
modern British literature.
Literary Biography
HB: 9781474615709 Royal, 256pp, £20
TPB: 9781474615716 Royal, 256pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474615730 £20
JULY
JULY
DEBUT
7
Lives Between
the Lines
A Journey in Search of
the Lost Levant
Michael Vatikiotis
Singapore
@jagowriter
An intimate portrait of a critical period of Middle Eastern
history (1869–1948), seen through the eyes of one family
The construction of the Suez Canal in 1869 opened the door
of opportunity for people living on the fringes of a turbulent
Europe. The Middle East is understood today through the
lens of unending conict. Lost are the layers of culture and
civilisation that accumulated over centuries. It gave the
region known as the Levant its cosmopolitan identity amid
a bewildering mix of races and religions.
Michael Vatikiotis’s family was a product of this forgotten
pluralist tradition: people set adrift who built new lives and
prospered in holy lands, only to be caught up in conict and
tossed on the waves of a violent history.
MICHAEL VATIKIOTIS has a decade of experience working as
a private diplomat and conict mediator. He is the author
of two previous books on the politics of Southeast Asia.
History
HB: 9781474613194 Royal, 304pp, £20
TPB: 9781474613200 Royal, 304pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781474613224 £20
Audio: 9781474618915 10hrs, £19.99
Shooting Martha
David Thewlis
London, UK
A darkly funny and ultimately devastating novel set
between a London lm set and the south of France – a mix
of Vertigo and Jonathan Coe
Famous director Jack can’t get through his latest lm – a
retelling of his own childhood – without his wife Martha’s
support. The problem is she’s dead.
When Jack sees Betty – actress, mother, train wreck – in a
play, he is struck dumb by her resemblance to Martha and
hires her to go and stay in his house in France, playing the
part of his loving spouse.
But as Betty’s method acting takes her to increasingly dark
places, she begins to uncover the truth about Martha’s death
– with devastating consequences.
DAVID THEWLIS is an award-winning English actor, director,
screenwriter and author.
Literary Fiction
HB: 9781474621533 Royal, 336pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781474621540 Royal, 336pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781474621564 £14.99
Audio: 9781474621571 10hrs, £21.99
AUGUST
AUGUST
8
The Guide
Peter Heller
Colorado, USA
www.peterheller.net
A heart-racing thriller about a young man escaping
his own grief and an elite shing lodge hiding a plot of
shocking menace
Kingsher Lodge, nestled in a canyon with the most pristine
river water on the planet, boasts boutique shing at its nest
and a respite for wealthy clients.
It also promises a second chance for Jack, after a young life
lled with loss. But then a human scream pierces the night,
and Jack soon realises that this idyllic shing lodge may be
merely a cover for a far more sinister operation.
PETER HELLER
is the award-winning author of The Dog Stars
and The River, an Observer Thriller of the Year. He is a grad-
uate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received an
MFA in ction and poetry and won a Michener fellowship.
Thriller
HB: 9781474623889 Royal, 272pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781474623896 Royal, 272pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781474623919 £14.99
Audio: 9781474623926 8hrs, £19.99
AUGUST
The Star Builders
Nuclear Fusion and the
Race to Power the Planet
Arthur Turrell
London, UK
www.aeturrell.com
@arthurturrell
The incredible story of nuclear fusion, the quest to rep-
licate a star on earth and solve the climate emergency
What is nuclear fusion, and could it really be the answer to
the climate emergency? Fusion exists already in the stars
that ll our universe with light, but can we harness that
power here on earth? This is the question The Star Builders
seeks to answer.
Filled with the remarkable stories of the scientists and
entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to a seem-
ingly impossible dream, The Star Builders is an unmissable
insight into the future of life on our planet.
ARTHUR TURRELL has a PhD in plasma physics from Imperial
College London. He is now a data scientist at the Oce for
National Statistics.
Popular Science
HB: 9781474611589 Royal, 352pp, £20
TPB: 9781474611596 Royal, 352pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474611619 £20
Audio: 9781409188186 10hrs, £19.99
AUGUST
9
Forever Young
An Autobiography
Hayley Mills
London, UK
The enchanting rst memoir of Hayley Mills, the British
child star of Walt Disney 1960s hits like The Parent Trap
Hayley Mills’s teenage decade in Hollywood produced some
of the greatest coming-of-age family movies for Walt Disney,
including Pollyanna, Whistle Down the Wind and In Search
of the Castaways. She was to nd that she had spent the
decade not being allowed to grow up, with the world rapidly
changing around her.
Although the nostalgia and evocation of a bygone era is
immense, this memoir is also a frank telling of the reality
behind the scenes – and of Hayley’s survival.
HAYLEY MILLS was born in London in 1946. Her seven-
picture deal with Walt Disney made her an international star,
and she won an Honorary Academy Award for Pollyanna.
Celebrity Autobiography
HB: 9781474619363 Royal, 256pp, £20
TPB: 9781474619370 Royal, 256pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474619394 £20
Audio: 9781474619400 10hrs, £21.99
SEPTEMBER
Freight Dogs
Giles Foden
Norwich, UK
A novel about one young man’s struggle to survive
the deadliest wars in modern African history from the
author of The Last King of Scotland
Manu is a 19-year-old cowherd growing up on the slopes
of Congo’s ercest volcano. Soon he nds himself eeing
a complex war and joining an anarchic group of mercenary
pilots in Uganda. With the help of these ‘freight dogs’, Manu
is soon seeing his vast country from above for himself. He
falls in love with ying – but trouble follows closely behind,
no matter how fast he ies. Just at the point he seems about
to nd peace, the past erupts back into his life.
GILES FODEN grew up in Africa. He is the author of four
novels and one work of non-ction. He worked as assistant
editor of the TLS and deputy literary editor of the Guardian,
before becoming professor of creative writing at UEA.
Literary Fiction
HB: 9780297868019 Royal, 336pp, £16.99
TPB: 9780297609100 Royal, 336pp, £14.99
eBook: 9780297868026 £16.99
Audio: 9781409161127 16hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
10
In the Shadow of
the Empress
Nancy Goldstone
New York, USA
An epic family history telling the deant lives of Maria
Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette, and her daughters
Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century
comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa,
a sovereign of extraordinary strength and vision, the only
woman ever to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire
in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters:
lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor-general of the
Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the reso-
lute Queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette,
the glamorous, tragic Queen of France, perhaps the most
famous princess in history.
NANCY GOLDSTONE
is the author of several books including
The Rival Queens and Daughters of the Winter Queen. She
lives in New York.
History
HB: 9781474609890 Royal, 400pp, £25
eBook: 9781474609913 £25
Audio: 9781409181736 12hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
What Is History, Now?
Suzannah Lipscomb and
Helen Carr
Banstead, UK and Cambridge, UK
Suzannah Lipscomb
@sixteenthCgirl
Helen Carr
@helenmhcarr
@HelenhCarr
A ground-breaking essay collection addressing the
issue of what history means today. Featuring Peter
Frankopan, Simon Schama and Bettany Hughes
Inspired by the inuential text What Is History? authored by
Helen Carr’s great-grandfather, E.H. Carr, and published on
the sixtieth anniversary of that book, this is a pioneering new
collection of essays addressing the issue of how we interpret
history. What Is History, Now? covers the history of racism
and anti-racism, queer history, the history of faith, disabil-
ity and environmental history, escaping imperial nostalgia,
hearing women’s voices and ‘rewriting’ the past. Contributors
include Peter Frankopan, Bettany Hughes, Maya Jasanoff,
Dan Jones and Simon Schama.
SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB
is an award-winning historian, author
and broadcaster, and chair of the 2020 Costa Book Awards.
HELEN CARR is a medieval historian, history documentary
producer and author.
History
HB: 9781474622455 Royal, 304pp, £20
TPB: 9781474622462 Royal, 304pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474622486 £20
Audio: 9781474622493 10hrs, £21.99
SEPTEMBER
11
Ask a Historian
57 Things You Always
Wanted to Know, but
Didn’t Know Who to Ask
Greg Jenner
Surrey, UK
@greg_jenner
A roller-coaster ride through history revealing the best
facts, gures, stories and characters from ancient times
to today
Why is Italy called Italy? Has the Pope ever not been a Cath-
olic? What was the stupidest reason for a war? What did The
Flintstones get right about the Stone Age?
In Ask a Historian, the author, podcaster and public histo-
rian Greg Jenner answers some of the burning questions
you have always wondered about. Through fty-seven
crowd-sourced questions, Greg takes you on a magical
tour through history, revealing the best and most surprising
facts, stories and historical characters throughout the ages.
GREG JENNER
is the historical consultant to the BBC’s Emmy
and multiple BAFTA award-winning Horrible Histories and
the host of the no.1 BBC comedy podcast You’re Dead to Me.
History
HB: 9781474618618 Demy, 224pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474618632 £14.99
Audio: 9781474618649 10hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
Born of No Woman
Franck Bouysse
Corrèze, France
In this Gothic tale reminiscent of Faulkner’s Light in
August, a young woman’s journals divulge the horrible
secrets of a wealthy family in late nineteenth-century
rural France
Before he is called to bless a body of a woman at the nearby
asylum, Father Gabriel receives a troubling confession:
hidden under the woman’s dress he will nd the notebooks
detailing the abuse she suffered and the twisted motivations
behind them. And so Rose’s terrible story comes to light
after her untimely death.
The English-language debut of critically acclaimed author
Franck Bouysse, this exquisitely written novel is both a keen
social commentary and a chilling horror story.
FRANCK BOUYSSE
is a French author. Born of No Woman was
a runaway bestseller in France, selling over 100,000 copies
and winning the Grand prix de lectrices de Elle.
Literary Gothic
HB: 9781474616225 Demy, 320pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781474616232 Royal, 320pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781474616256 £14.99
Audio: 9781474616263 8hrs, £19.99
OCTOBER
12
Last Word’s
Uncommon Women
Celia Hayley
London, UK
The companion to BBC Radio 4’s Last Word, a rich
tapestry of women’s lives in the twentieth and twenty-
rst centuries
Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast
weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who
have recently died. More than standard obituaries, the lives
are summarised with narration and include interviews with
some of those who knew them. The programme was rst
broadcast in 2006, and this compelling anthology vividly com-
memorates the remarkable and revealing lives of more than
eighty women who were illuminating, inspiring or moving.
CELIA HAYLEY is a freelance writer and editor who has
worked with some of the nest authors. The notable books
she has curated include The Best of A. A. Gill.
History
HB: 9781474607643 Royal, 228pp, £18.99
eBook: 9781474607650 £18.99
OCTOBER
Move
How Mass Migrations Will
Reshape the World – and
What It Means for You
Parag Khanna
Singapore
@drparagkhanna
@paragkhanna
Between now and 2050, billions of people will have
moved. Leading global strategist Parag Khanna explores
how and why that will happen, and what it means for our
future
2020 saw the strictest lockdown in history, freezing inter-
national migration. Yet the forces that compel us to uproot
are accelerating labour shortages, political upheaval, eco-
nomic crises, technological disruption and climate change.
We have grown accustomed to several hundred million peo-
ple relocating to start a new life abroad. But what happens
when billions of people are on the move? Where will you live
in 2030? Where will your children settle in 2040? What will
the map of humanity look like in 2050?
Today’s migrations are just one piece of a far grander nar-
rative of the evolution of human civilisation. This is the ulti-
mate story: the future of our geography.
PARAG KHANNA
is the managing partner of FutureMap, a
scenario planning and strategic advisory rm. His previous
books include Connectography and The Future Is Asian.
Smart Thinking
HB: 9781474620833 Royal, 448pp, £20
TPB: 9781474620840 Royal, 448pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474620864 £20
Audio: 9781474620895 10hrs, £19.99
OCTOBER
13
The Unapologetic
Diaries
Joan Collins
London, UK
The intimate and often outrageous diaries of the
legendary actress
Written entirely in real time, most within ten hours of the
events she describes, Joan Collins’ diary entries are truly
hilarious.
Whether it’s an encounter with a member of the Royal
Family, or her candid insights on other celebrities, Joan
doesn’t care. She’s unapologetic! What could be more fun
than opening her diaries, which are as scandalous as Andy
Warhol’s – and pull no punches.
A screen legend, JOAN COLLINS is best known for playing
Alexis Carrington on Dynasty. She is also a bestselling
author, and was recently back on our screens in Ryan
Murphy’s American Horror Story.
Celebrity Diaries
HB: 9781474621274 Royal, 320pp, £20
TPB: 9781474621281 Royal, 320pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474621304 £20
Audio: 9781474621311 15hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas and
Cerys Matthews
London, UK
@cerys6music
@cerysmatthews
A beautiful illustrated edition of Dylan Thomas’s Under
Milk Wood, one of the nation’s best-loved poems,
adapted by Cerys Matthews
Welcome to Llareggub, the Welsh seaside village that
sprang from Dylan Thomas’s imagination. Learn of the
inhabitants’ dreams and desires, their loves and regrets.
We meet characters such as Captain Cat who dreams of
his drowned former sea-fellows and Nogood Boyo who
dreams of nothing at all.
The ultimate gift for any book lover and a book that will be
treasured by many generations.
DYLAN THOMAS
was one of the twentieth century’s most
beloved poets. His works include ‘Do Not Go Gentle into
That Good Night’ and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. CERYS
MATTHEWS is a musician, author, festival owner and
broadcaster, who is currently a DJ on BBC Radio 2 and BBC
Radio 6 Music, and is the cultural roving reporter for BBC’s
The One Show.
Illustrated Classic Fiction
HB: 9781474622509 Bespoke, 80pp, £20
eBook: 9781474622516 £20
Audio: 9781474622660 5hrs, £19.99
OCTOBER
14
A Labour of Love
Ten Years of Call the Midwife
Stephen McGann
Cambridge, UK
@StephenMcGann
A beautiful book marking ten years of Call the Midwife,
featuring anecdotes from the cast and crew, and behind-
the-scenes photos
Written by actor and author Stephen McGann, A Labour of
Love is the up close and personal story of Call the Midwife as
told by the cast and crew. It’s warm, moving and funny – a
journey through the show’s years with personal reections,
anecdotes and insights from co-stars, producers, technical
crew and guests, all relayed with love and affection.
Filled with beautiful photos from the show and behind the
scenes, this is the perfect Christmas gift for fans of Call
the Midwife.
STEPHEN McGANN
plays Dr Turner in Call the Midwife. He
is married to Heidi Thomas, the writer and creator of the
series. He is the author of Dr Turner’s Casebook.
Gift
HB: 9781474624497 Crown Quarto, 320pp, £20
eBook: 9781474624503 £20
NOVEMBER
Diaries and Notebooks
Patricia Highsmith
The never-seen-before diaries and notebooks of Patricia
Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol
‘It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021’
Guardian
Published for the rst time, the diaries and notebooks of
Patricia Highsmith offer extraordinary insight into the life of
one of the twentieth century’s most respected authors – a
mystery even to her friends and lovers, and a trailblazer who
wrote Carol, one of the rst mainstream novels depicting
two women in love.
Spanning nearly sixty years, and reading with all the
pleasures of Highsmith’s ction, the diaries catalogue
Highsmith’s experiences and her thoughts on good and
evil, loneliness and intimacy, love and murder.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
(1921–1995) was an American writer,
best known for her Tom Ripley novels.
Literary Diaries
HB: 9781474617598 Royal, 656pp, £30
TPB: 9781474617604 Royal, 656pp, £18.99
eBook: 9781474617628 £30
Audio: 9781474617734 10hrs, £21.99
NOVEMBER
15
Evensong
The Church in England: People,
Places, Lives and Times
Richard Morris
Harrogate, UK
A magnificent contribution to our understanding
of England’s history and current state through an
exploration of its churches
For a thousand years, churches have been at the heart of
things in England. Traditionally, they were places where turn-
ing points were marked – baptisms, weddings and funerals.
In between these events the church was a social and spiri-
tual focus. But last year fewer than two citizens in a hundred
attended an Anglican church – outwardly part of the local
scene but functionally mysterious. Richard Morris brilliantly
evokes the combination of familiarity and unawareness
that surrounds the connection between Church and nation.
RICHARD MORRIS
is the author of Yorkshire and Time’s Anvil.
He is emeritus professor of archaeology at the University
of Hudderseld.
Religious History
HB: 9781474614221 Royal, 288pp, £25
eBook: 9781474614245 £25
NOVEMBER
Gifts
Laura Barnett
London, UK
www.laura-barnett.co.uk
Twelve people. Twelve gifts. One Christmas in a small
Kent market town
Maddy runs the bookshop on Market Square. She’s strug-
gling to choose a gift for her old school friend Peter, who’s
just moved back from London following a messy divorce
Peter doesn’t have a clue what to get for his teenage daugh-
ter Chloe; Chloe wants to buy something special for her
grandmother Irene, who lives alone on the other side of
town; and Irene would like to nd the right gift for Alina, who’s
so much more than a carer, really.
And Alina, meanwhile, has her eye on something for . . .
LAURA BARNETT is a freelance arts journalist who has
worked for the Guardian, Observer and Daily Telegraph,
among many more. The Versions of Us, her debut novel, was
a no.1 bestseller and has been translated into twenty-three
languages.
Novel in Stories
HB: 9781474624398 Demy, 208pp, £12.99
eBook: 9781474624411 £12.99
Audio: 9781474624428 8hrs, £19.99
NOVEMBER
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The Awokening
Clarity, Culture and Identity
in the Web of Chaos
Ayishat Akanbi
Croydon, UK
@ayishat_akanbi
@Ayishat_Akanbi
A timely critique of wokeness that urges us to unify in
times of polarisation
The digital age has birthed The Great Awokening. Grievances
previously overlooked – mental illness, racism, gender iden-
tity, homophobia, the need for safe spaces – now occupy
centre stage. The cultural climate demands us to declare
our standing quickly and emphatically – often without pause
for understanding. Looking at how the concept of a spiritual
awakening has evolved into present day ‘wokeness’ – and
how it has in turn led to further polarisation rather than uni-
cation – Ayishat Akanbi encourages an appeal to human-
ism. A timely and inspiring reminder of the power of curiosity
and the benets of intellectual humility, The Awokening is an
urge to partake in the gruelling task of developing self-aware-
ness, such that we can become more socially aware – and
aware of each other.
AYISHAT AKANBI
is a fashion stylist, writer, cultural commen-
tator and artist based in London.
Society & Culture
HB: 9781474614948 Demy, 288pp, £16.99
TPB: 9781474614955 Demy, 288pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781474614979 £16.99
Audio: 9781474614986 10 hrs, £19.99
NOVEMBER
The City of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Deceased
The last book from the bestselling author of The Shadow
of the Wind
A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers his
inventions hold the power to entice the girl who has stolen
his heart. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write
a book that has never existed. And Gaudí, sailing to a
mysterious rendezvous in New York, delights in a spectacle
of light and steam. Gathered for the rst time – and some
never before published in English – these stories showcase
the talents of a writer beloved by millions of readers and a
master who left us too soon.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN (1964–2020) was the author of
eight novels, including the internationally bestselling The
Cemetery of Forgotten Books series. His work has been
translated into more than fty languages.
Short Stories
HB: 9781474623117 Royal, 256pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781474623124 Royal, 256pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781474623148 £14.99
Audio: 9781474623155 10hrs, £21.99
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Price Wars
How Chaotic Markets Are
Creating a Chaotic World
Rupert Russell
London, UK
@rupertrussell
@rupert_russell
A global story of the power of price and a shattering
exposé of the devastation wrought by unregulated
nance
Price Wars chronicles Rupert Russell’s two-year investiga-
tion into the global forces that made the 2010s the chaotic
decade. Travelling to nine countries across ve continents,
Russell traces a buttery effect, nding the origins of the
Arab Spring and Syrian civil war, the war in Ukraine, the col-
lapse of Venezuela and the US border crisis to have all come
from the same source – commodity prices. It is the chaos in
these markets that has created chaos in the real world. And
through interviews with Nobel prizewinning economists,
hedge fund managers and whistle-blowers, the nancial
forces behind this new volatility is exposed.
RUPERT RUSSELL has a double-starred rst in the social and
political sciences from Jesus College, Cambridge, and an
MA and PhD in sociology from Harvard University. He has
written and directed two documentary lms.
Business & Economics
HB: 9781474613972 Royal, 320pp, £20
TPB: 9781474613989 Royal, 320pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474614009 £20
Audio: 9781474614016 10hrs, £19.99
JANUARY
Success
A Plantation, a Rebellion
and the Legacy of Slavery
Thomas Harding
Hampshire, UK
The tragic account of a slave rebellion in the British
colony of Demerara in 1823 and its consequences today
Prizewinning author Thomas Harding tells the tragic story
of the slave rebellion that took place in Demerara – now
Guyana – in 1823. A fast-paced non-ction thriller, culmi-
nating in a courtroom drama and its aftermath, Success
bears witness through the eyes of a small number of char-
acters, revealing how history can have a profound impact on
individual lives two hundred years later. It challenges estab-
lished perspectives about slavery in the British empire, con-
fronting the misleading story that Britain’s role was solely
as the abolisher.
THOMAS HARDING is the internationally acclaimed author
of The House by the Lake, Hanns and Rudolf and Legacy.
History
HB: 9781474621045 Royal, 288pp, £20
TPB: 9781474621052 Royal, 288pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474621076 £20
Audio: 9781474621083 10hrs, £21.99
JANUARY
18
The Ballast Seed
A Memoir of Motherhood,
Nature and Staying Aoat
Rosie Kinchen
London, UK
A memoir of motherhood, of growing things and caring
for plants, and how they return the favour
The surprise of a second pregnancy, so soon after the birth
of her rst son, plunged Rosie into a despair that spiralled
into deep depression. Compelled to nd a new way of living,
she found herself instinctively drawn to the scraps of com-
munal green spaces in her local neighbourhood. Interlaced
with her responses to the travel journals of an eccentric
nineteenth-century female botanist and adventurer, Rosie
elegantly describes how these pockets of nature amid the
urban sprawl provided just enough to mend her broken soul.
ROSIE KINCHEN
is associate editor of the News Review at
the Sunday Times. She has written for Grazia, Vogue and
Marie Claire. She has a degree in French and Italian and a
diploma in horticulture.
Memoir
HB: 9781474618175 Demy, 224pp, £16.99
eBook: 9781474618199 £16.99
Audio: 9781474618410 10hrs, £19.99
JANUARY
We pride ourselves on
bringing provocative,
award-winning and
lasting works of ction
and non-ction to a
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Launched in March 2021, W&N Essentials is a delightfully varied list of literary jewels. The list
will be home to fiction and non-fiction; to books that are already studied on university syllabi;
and to cult classics ahead of their time, ripe for mainstream recognition.
Each one will be a book of the highest quality, will be adored by those who have already
discovered it, will have stood the test of time and will burn as brightly – or even more brightly
– as it did on first publication.
Each book will be published as a paperback original, with an introduction from a contemporary
author. We have a subtle series look, but each will have an elegant, distinctive cover of its own.
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DECEMBER
SEPTEMBER
NOVEMBER JANUARY
For Colored Girls who
have Considered Suicide /
When the Rainbow is Enuf
Ntozake Shange
foreword by Bernardine Evaristo
Speedboat
Renata Adler
foreword by
Hilton Als
Troubles
J.G. Farrell
foreword by
Margaret Drabble
Meridian
Alice Walker
foreword by
Tayari Jones
O Caledonia
Elspeth Barker
foreword by
Maggie O’Farrell
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
foreword by
Mary Gaitskill
Two Serious
Ladies
Jane Bowles
foreword by
Naoise Dolan
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Artwork from Everyone Is Still Alive by Cathy
Rentzenbrink, published by Phoenix (p.22)
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PHOENIX is a bespoke new imprint for stories that make their
mark, publishing ction and memoir that combine literary merit and
commercial potential. The list is curated by publisher Francesca Main,
who has launched the careers of many bestselling and award-winning
authors, including Jessie Burton, Adam Kay, AJ Pearce, Emma Flint and
Cathy Rentzenbrink. Characterised by voice, storytelling and emotional
resonance, Phoenix is a destination imprint for books you can’t put down
and can’t forget. A home for debut authors and rising stars, Phoenix will
be publishing ction from Emily Itami, Cathy Rentzenbrink and Sussie
Anie, and non-ction from David Whitehouse, Hope Wabuke and Alex
Marzano-Lesnevich.
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Everyone Is Still Alive
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Cornwall, UK
www.cathyreadsbooks.com
@catrentzenbrink
@CatRentzenbrink
The wise, witty and deeply moving debut novel from
Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink
‘A total triumph’ Nina Stibbe
Juliet recently moved into her late mother’s house with her
husband, Liam, and 5-year-old son. Preoccupied by guilt,
grief and working motherhood, Juliet doesn’t feel she ts
in with the local parents. But for writer Liam, the morning
coffees and after-school playdates soon reveal the heart-
aches, fears and rivalries behind closed doors – all of which
are going straight into his novel.
When a marriage ruptures and sends shockwaves through
the group, painful home truths are brought to light. But when
Juliet’s own life is suddenly overturned, she learns that per
-
haps she’s not alone after all.
CATHY RENTZENBRINK
is a writer, tutor and journalist. She is
the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love
and two other acclaimed memoirs. This is her rst novel.
Contemporary Fiction
HB: 9781474621120 Demy, 352pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781474621137 Demy, 352pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781474621151 £14.99
Audio: 9781474621168 10hrs, £21.99
JULY
DEBUT
MARCH
2022
FE B R U A RY
2022
MAY
2022
About A Son
David Whitehouse
To Fill A
Yellow House
Sussie Anie
Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-
Valdez
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A destination
imprint for
books you can’t
put down and
can’t forget
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Artwork from Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie,
published by White Rabbit (p.28)
25
WHITE RABBIT is an imprint dedicated to publishing the most innovative
books and voices in music and literature. Building on the uniquely
successful publishing he was responsible for at Faber Social, Lee
Brackstone’s titles for his Orion imprint indicate the range and personality
of a list that encompasses memoir, history, ction, translation, illustrated
books and high-spec limited editions. Authors include Lenny Kaye,
Kim Gordon, Sinéad Gleeson, Chris Frantz, Annie Nightingale, Richard
Russell, Mark Lanegan, Jennifer Lucy Allan and Simon Price.
Fiction & Non-ction
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Shiny and New
Ten Moments of Pop Genius
That Dened the ’80s
Dylan Jones
London, UK
@dylanjonesgq
A future classic pop cultural history of the 1980s, told
through ten dening songs of the decade
From the Sugar Hill Gang to Public Enemy, via Prince,
Madonna and Bruce Springsteen, Shiny and New presents
a history of the decade when all the pop narratives collided.
Dylan Jones’s masterful new survey tracks the way in
which the 1980s were colonised by wildly exciting and
eclectic music, choosing one song from each year as a
prism and a springboard to discuss not only what happened
musically that year, but also culturally and sociologically. An
electrifying narrative history of a decade dened by some
of the most memorable singles ever recorded, from ABC
to S’Express.
DYLAN JONES OBE has for ve years been the editor of GQ,
the most successful upmarket men’s magazine in Britain.
Previously he was editor-at-large of the Sunday Times.
Music History
HB: 9781474620055 Royal, 400pp, £20
TPB: 9781474620062 Royal, 400pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474620086 £20
Audio: 9781474620093 9hrs, £21.99
JULY
Oh yes, oh yes!
Carl Cox
Brighton, UK
www.carlcox.com
@carlcoxocial
@Carl_Cox
Carl Cox is one of the most celebrated British techno
and house DJs. This is his story, and the story of how
British club culture took over the world
From warm-up DJ on the acid house scene to a global
headline artist playing across two continents on Millennium
Eve, Carl has been everything from recording artist and
producer to label owner and Glastonbury headliner. Oh yes,
oh yes! is the story of the man known as ‘the three-deck
wizard’ and the King of Ibiza, a DJ who continues to innovate
and thrill music lovers on the world’s biggest stages.
CARL COX
is a British techno and house DJ. He has won the
Best International DJ Award three times.
Memoir
HB: 9781474616270 Royal, 320pp, £20
Special Edition HB: 9781474616287 Royal, 320pp, £75
TPB: 9781474616294 Royal, 320pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474616317 £20
Audio: 9781474616324 10hrs, £19.99
AUGUST
27
Souvenir
Michael Bracewell
West Sussex, UK
A love song to London in the early 1980s: a pre-computer,
pre-digital, pre-postmodern, New Wave age
Souvenir is an account of London during the last years prior
to the rise of digital technology. As such, it surveys the cap-
ital through its geography, post-punk, New Wave and Style
culture between 1979 and 1986.
A time when music became darker, moodier and more mel-
ancholy, and the city itself entered a kind of violet hour, this
is the story of a London on the cusp of change and the edgy,
extreme characters that inhabited the lengthening shadows,
weird urban creases, violent music scenes and subcultures.
MICHAEL BRACEWELL
is the author of six novels and two
works of non-ction, including Saint Rachel, Perfect Tense,
Remake/Remodel and England Is Mine.
Essays / Music
HB: 9781474622301 B format, 144pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474622318 £14.99
Audio: 9781474622325 10hrs, £21.99
SEPTEMBER
Unrequited
Infatuations
Odyssey of a Rock and Roll
Consigliere (a Cautionary Tale)
Steven Van Zandt
New York, USA
An epic journey of self-discovery by a self-confessed
rock ’n’ roll disciple
Unrequited Infatuations chronicles the twists and turns of
Steven Van Zandt’s always surprising life. Known as a star of
both stage (Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band) and screen
(The Sopranos), Van Zandt has always been obsessed with
the power of art. Unrequited Infatuations is more than just
the confession of a globetrotting nomad, more than the
story of a ground-breaking activist, more than a master
class in rock ’n’ roll. It’s the best book of its kind because it’s
the only book of its kind.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT is an American singer, songwriter,
musician, producer, actor and activist.
Memoir
HB: 9781474622134 Royal, 320pp, £20
TPB: 9781474622141 Royal, 320pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474622165 £20
Audio: 9781474622172 10hrs, £21.99
SEPTEMBER
28
Tenement Kid
Bobby Gillespie
London, UK
The story, in his own words, of one of the most popular
and inuential British popstars of the past thirty years
Bobby Gillespie’s story up to the recording and release of
the album that has been credited with ‘starting the 90s’,
Screamadelica.
Born into a working-class Glaswegian family in 1961,
Bobby’s rock ’n’ roll epiphany arrives at his rst gig at the
Apollo in Glasgow. Building like a breakbeat crescendo to
a nal quarter of the Summer of Love, Boy’s Own parties
and the fateful meeting with Andrew Weatherall, Tenement
Kid is a book lled with the joy and wonder of a rock ’n’ roll
apostle who would radically reshape the future sounds of
n de siècle British pop.
BOBBY GILLESPIE is the lead singer and founding member
of Primal Scream. He was also the drummer for The Jesus
and Mary Chain in the mid-80s.
Memoir
HB: 9781474622066 Royal, 464pp, £20
Special Edition HB: 9781474624886 /
9781474624893 Royal, 448pp, £50.00
TPB: 9781474622073 Royal, 464pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474622097 £20
Audio: 9781474622103 10hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
The Tangle
Justin Robertson
London, UK
www.justinrobertson.co.uk
@robertsonjustin
A supernatural novel of collapse and metamorphosis
from the occulted dimensions of the natural world
Justin Robertson’s debut novel is a trans-dimensional trip
into the mysterious knot of nature, where the timeless divine
spirit of the ‘Tangle’ weaves its spell and all mankind’s hubris
is rendered insignicant by a phantom ecological force.
A time travelling account of what occurs when unknowable
frontiers are breached and humanity nds itself lost in the
woods, The Tangle invites us into a grotesque world of eco-
horror, echoing with the spirit of writers such as Saki, Ballard,
M R James, Ursula Le Guin, Brian Catling and Thomas
Ligotti.
JUSTIN ROBERTSON has been a pioneering acid house DJ
for thirty years, an artist and a broadcaster.
Horror
HB: 9781474622820 Royal, 320pp, £16.99
eBook: 9781474622844 £16.99
Audio: 9781474622851 10hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
DEBUT
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Lightning Striking
Lenny Kaye
New York, USA
@lenny_kaye
A monumental history of rock ’n’ roll told through the
micro-narratives of twelve cities and their ‘scenes’, from
Cleveland and Memphis to London and Seattle
Opening in Cleveland in 1952, Lightning Striking is the rst
book to attempt to map the history of rock ’n’ roll and its
mutations, city by city, from Memphis to San Francisco to
New York, London and other major hotspots, reaching the
nal destination, Seattle, in 1993. Erudite, entertaining and
researched with the eye of a true rock ’n’ roll disciple, Lenny
Kaye’s history of the form is a magnicent scholarly achieve
-
ment and testimony to the enduring power of the riff, the
rock and the roll.
LENNY KAYE is an American guitarist, composer and writer,
who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith Group
and compiler of Nuggets.
Memoir / Music History
HB: 9781474615075 Royal, 320pp, £20
Special Edition HB: 9781474625081 Royal, 400pp, £75.00
TPB: 9781474615082 Royal, 320pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474615105 £20
Audio: 9781474615112 10hrs, £21.99
NOVEMBER
Curepedia
An A–Z of The Cure
Simon Price
Brighton, UK
@simon_price01
A playful and authoritative literary biography of The
Cure in the form of an A–Z of the band, for trainspotters
and casual fans alike
Curepedia is an encyclopaedic overview of a British band
who have long held ‘national treasure’ status, The Cure.
Examining and ring on miscellaneous trivia, biographies
of band members past and present, summaries of each
album and selected songs, details of the band’s various
tours and lms, and essays on broader topics such as their
image, their politics and their inuences, this is a compre-
hensive biography of one of the biggest alternative rock
bands in the world.
SIMON PRICE was one of the main feature writers at Melody
Maker. His rst book, Everything: A Book about Manic Street
Preachers, became the fastest-selling rock biography in
British history.
Music Biography
HB: 9781474619325 Royal, 320pp, £25
TPB: 9781474619332 Royal, 320pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781474619349 £25
NOVEMBER
30
Ten Thousand
Apologies
Fat White Family and the
Miracle of Failure
Adelle Stripe and
Lias Saoudi
London, UK
www.adellestripe.com
@adellestripe
A gonzo biography of one of the most controversial cult
bands of the moment – championed and reviled in equal
measure
Whitest Boys on the Beach is a beautifully sordid portrait
of Fat White Family, spanning a decade from their chaotic
Brixton squat days to the present day, three albums deep
into their unravelling. Drawing from the band’s archives,
including photographs, posters, yers, tour diary extracts
and memoir vignettes from lead singer Lias Saoudi,
Whitest Boys on the Beach provides insights into the rage
against mediocrity that has propelled them into being one
of the most signicant bands of their generation. Neither
biography nor a quest for truth, but a provocative account
of the murky waters that surround the most exciting and
dysfunctional British band to emerge in many years.
ADELLE STRIPE’s debut novel, Black Teeth and a Brilliant
Smile, received the Society of Authors’ K Blundell Trust
Award for Fiction.
LIAS SAOUDI
is the frontman of Fat White
Family. This is his rst book.
Biography
HB: 9781474617840 Royal, 272pp, £20
eBook: 9781474617864 £18.99
Audio: 9781474617871 10hrs, £21.99
JANUARY
31
An imprint
dedicated to
publishing the
most innovative
books and
voices in music
and literature
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Artwork from Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel,
published by Trapeze (p.40)
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Launched in October 2016 with a mission to publish books that start conversations,
TRAPEZE has established itself as one of the most vibrant, dynamic – and
commercially successful – imprints in the industry. Publishing both ction and
non-ction, and already the home of eighteen Sunday Times bestsellers, our books
reect the world around us, tapping into the things that readers want to talk about
now. Trapeze was nominated for Imprint of the Year at the British Book Awards
2019. Trapeze is innovative in its publishing: we explore new publishing models,
being format-exible and innovative in how we reach our readers; we are the home
of brand partnerships, working with the Ordnance Survey, Historic Royal Palaces,
ITV and the Natural History Museum; and we are creative in our commissioning,
nding talent through traditional and non-traditional channels, including writing
competitions, IP and partnerships. Our non-ction authors include the no.1
bestsellers Adam Kay (Dear NHS); Sarah Millican (How to Be Champion) and the
Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick (Listening to the Animals and How Animals Saved My Life);
Glastonbury Festival’s Michael and Emily Eavis; comedy legend Alan Partridge;
Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper, writers and stars of the three-time BAFTA-
nominated BBC comedy This Country; and the biggest podcast networks in the
world, Stuff You Should Know and My Favorite Murder. Trapeze ction is home to
award-winning writers including Candice Carty-Williams, whose Sunday Times
bestselling novel Queenie was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and
longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. We publish crime and thrillers with
something to say, including Sunday Times bestselling crime writers Sharon Bolton
and Daniel Cole, and our list includes debut stars Leaf Arbuthnot, Robin Morgan-
Bentley and Rhiannon Ward.
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Frozen in Time
Fossils of Great Britain and
Where to Find Them
Rhys Charles
Bristol, UK
@tweetodontosaur
A beautifully rich and fascinating guide to the diverse
range of fossils that can be found all around the UK
today
This is a book for those who want to learn to scan the beach
for fossils, who love the simple pleasure of getting outside
or those who want to develop their relationship with the
world around them. From the Jurassic Coast to the Antrim
Coast, our nation is home to some of the most incredible
fossil sites in the world.
Under the guidance of Rhys Charles, this book invites read-
ers to unlock breathtaking fragments of a lost world.
RHYS CHARLES is a palaeontologist at the University of
Bristol and is the education ocer for the Bristol Dinosaur
Project, working to bring palaeontology to a wider audience
and make it more accessible.
Popular Science
HB: 9781409197966 B format, 240pp, £9.99
eBook: 9781409197973 £9.99
Audio: 9781398703971 6hrs, £19.99
Lighting the Fuse
Stories from Britain’s First
Female Bomb Disposal Expert
Lucy Lewis
Cambridge, UK
@Loobyloot
The extraordinary and awe-inspiring stories of Britain’s
rst female bomb disposal expert
Imagine standing over a bomb – you need to make a choice.
Remember, your life depends on it.
In this extraordinary memoir, Lucy Lewis reveals the hidden
world of bomb disposal training and how she came to be the
UK’s rst female bomb disposal expert. Full of high stakes
and tense situations, her story is also a deeply inspirational
one, as she joins the military in the 1980s, when being a
woman in this space was no easy feat.
This is how one ordinary woman made history.
LUCY LEWIS became the rst female bomb disposal o-
cer to operate in the armed forces. In 2018, she became
Cambridge University’s rst female marshal.
Memoir
HB: 9781841883939 Demy, 304pp, £18.99
eBook: 9781841883953 £18.99
Audio: 9781841883984 10hrs, £19.99
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The Anatomy of Desire
L.R. Dorn
California, USA
A compelling and original suspense novel for fans of
You, Good Me Bad Me and podcast hit Serial, written in
the style of Daisy Jones and the Six
Ambition. Desire. Betrayal. Murder?
With hundreds of thousands of followers, glamorous friends
and a gorgeous boyfriend, the life that tness inuencer Cleo
Ray has always wanted is within her grasp.
Then, on a holiday in the mountains, Cleo and a young
woman set off in a canoe on a deserted lake. But when the
young woman is later found dead, Cleo nds herself going
viral but for all the wrong reasons. Who was the dead girl in
the canoe? And if Cleo is innocent, why did she run?
Charged with murder, this inuencer’s biggest platform is
no longer Instagram, it’s the witness stand . . .
L.R. DORN is the pseudonym for MATT DORFF and SUZANNE
DUNN
. Matt Dorff works in lm and TV (Showtime, HBO).
Suzanne Dunn is a two-time Emmy Award winner.
Crime & Thriller
HB: 9781398705166 Royal, 368pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781398705173 Royal, 368pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781398705197 £14.99
Audio: 9781398705203 10hrs, £21.99
JULY
The Way We Survive
Notes on Rape Culture
Catriona Morton
London, UK
www.lifecontinuesafter.com
@tacriona
@tacriona
A searing and powerfully written exploration of rape
culture and the author’s experiences as a survivor of
sexual violence
Sexual violence is an epidemic happening across all
intersections of society. In the aftermath of the #MeToo
and Time’s Up movements, a cultural conversation has been
ignited about the effects that sexual violence has on people.
In The Way We Survive, Catriona Morton offers up a cultural
critique of rape culture in the UK, along with intimate insights
into how survivors live with and cope in the aftermath of
such a violation.
CATRIONA MORTON
is a writer, activist and podcaster based
in London. Catriona is the host of the BBC Sounds podcast
After: Surviving Sexual Assault.
Self-help
TPB: 9781398700550 Demy, 304pp, £12.99
eBook: 9781398700574 £12.99
Audio: 9781398700826 9hrs, £19.99
JULY
36
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
North Carolina, USA
www.jasonmottauthor.com
@JasonMott
An astounding work of ction – resoundingly powerful
and funny as hell – that brilliantly tackles racism in
America
Meet . . . wait, we don’t actually know his name.
What we do know is that he’s an author on a cross-country
tour to promote his new bestseller, Hell of a Book.
And that he has, let’s say, an overactive imagination . . .
For example, only he can see The Kid: a young black boy
who accompanies him on his tour, while the tragic story of
a police shooting plays over and over on the news.
In short, this is one Hell of a Book.
JASON MOTT is a bestselling author and poet. His rst novel,
The Returned, was a New York Times bestseller and became
a TV series. He lives in North Carolina.
Literary Fiction
HB: 9781398704640 Royal, 320pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781398704657 Royal, 320pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781398704671 £14.99
Audio: 9781398704688 10hrs, £21.99
AUGUST
Up in Smoke
Stories from a Life on Fire
Leigh Pickett
London, UK
@Hosy_Pickett
A hilarious, moving and utterly compelling collection of
stories from a third-generation Essex reghter
Leigh Pickett has seen it all. He’s battled blazing res and
pulled people from the wreckage of terrible accidents, but
the closest he ever came to death was the time an Essex
hen do mistook him for the stripper. Now he’s here to tell us
the funniest, saddest and most exciting stories from a life
among the smoke. From res started by sex toys, to what
to do when you nd yourself in the middle of an enormous
re at a cannabis farm and, yes, there will be cats up trees.
LEIGH PICKETT is a third-generation firefighter and
campaigner.
Memoir
HB: 9781409198857 Demy, 304pp, £16.99
TPB: 9781409198864 Royal, 304pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781409198888 £16.99
Audio: 9781409198895 10hrs, £19.99
JULY
37
Mimic
Daniel Cole
Bournemouth, UK
@DanielColeBooks
A chilling new detective thriller from the Sunday Times
bestselling author of Ragdoll
Murder is his art . . . and you are his masterpiece
1989. DS Benjamin Chambers and DC Adam Winters pur-
sue a serial killer with a twisted passion for recreating the
world’s greatest works of art through his victims’ bodies.
After Chambers nearly loses his life, the case goes cold
due to lack of evidence. The killer lies dormant, his collec-
tion unnished.
Seven years later. DS Marshall, haunted by the case that
dened her teenage years, obtains new evidence and
reopens the les. However, the resurrected investigation
brings about a fresh reign of terror.
DANIEL COLE has worked as a paramedic, an RSPCA ocer
and for the RNLI, driven by an intrinsic need to save people
or perhaps just a guilty conscience about the characters he
kills off in his writing.
Crime & Thriller
HB: 9781409198000 Royal, 352pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781409198017 Royal, 352pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781409198031 £14.99
Audio: 9781409198048 10hrs, £19.99
AUGUST
Did I Say That
Out Loud?
Fi Glover and Jane Garvey
London, UK
@glover
@janegarvey1
Radio harpies Fi and Jane take contemporary life by the
scruff of its wrinkly neck, jiggle it about a bit and lay it
bare
In Did I Say That Out Loud? Fi Glover and Jane Garvey offer
a series of essays interspersed with waspish asides and
witty musings on their lives, from pet deaths to garden hose
repairs and the gender pay gap.
At a time of constant uncertainty, what we all need is the
wisdom and experience of two women who haven’t got a
clue what’s happening either.
FI GLOVER
and
JANE GARVEY
are the broadcasters behind
the hit podcast Fortunately, which has been downloaded
nearly 4.5 million times and was one of BBC Sounds top ve
most listened to podcasts during lockdown.
Radio
HB: 9781398705661 Royal, 272pp, £16.99
TPB: 9781398705678 Royal, 272 pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781398705692 £16.99
Audio: 9781398705708 10hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
38
The Shadowing
Rhiannon Ward
Derbyshire, UK
www.crimepieces.com
@sarahrward1
A beautifully written and spine-tingling Gothic mystery
by the author of The Quickening
When well-to-do Hester learns of her sister Mercy’s death
at a Nottinghamshire poorhouse, she travels to Southwell
to uncover the truth.
Soon, the ocial story proves to be false. Mercy was preg-
nant – both her and the baby were said to have cholera, but
the workhouse hasn’t had an outbreak for years.
Hearing tales of the ghostly Grey Lady who steals babies in
the night, Hester investigates. What she discovers is a con-
spiracy, one that someone is determined to keep a secret,
no matter the cost.
RHIANNON WARD (Sarah Ward) is a bestselling and critically
acclaimed crime author. She has a master’s in religious
history and is a member of the Institute of Psychical
Research.
Historical Fiction
HB: 9781409192213 Royal, 320pp, £16.99
eBook: 9781409192237 £16.99
Audio: 9781409192244 10hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
Everything Is a Game
Quick, Easy Games for
Every Occasion
Viv Schwarz and Kevan
Davis
London, UK
www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk
www.kevan.org
@vivschwarz
Screen-free fun for every occasion with classic games
repurposed, rebooted and remixed for the twenty-rst
century
A brilliant way to have more fun with your family.
Everything Is a Game will be the book you take with you, in
the boot of the car, in the side pocket of your hand luggage,
to provide screen-free fun in any context, from lling the
wait for food at a restaurant to a delayed plane at an airport.
From remixing classic games like blind man’s buff and cha-
rades into Room Defence or Moustache!, to taking house-
hold objects and making up entirely new games, this will be
the perfect way to have better-quality family time.
VIV SCHWARZ
is an award-winning author and illustrator.
She lectures on illustration and game design at university
level.
KEVAN DAVIS
is a designer of board, street, web and
escape room games.
Games
HB: 9781398701830 B format, 192pp, £9.99
eBook: 9781398701847 £9.99
SEPTEMBER
39
Nurse Kitty’s
Unforgettable Journey
Maggie Campbell
The Pennines, UK
Nurse Kitty returns in the much-anticipated sequel to
Nurse Kitty’s Secret War
A novel inspired by the brave nurses and doctors from the
rst NHS hospital, the Trafford General, opened after the
end of the Second World War. An inspiring and romantic
read for fans of Call the Midwife and The Nightingale Girls.
MAGGIE CAMPBELL grew up in Manchester at a time when
the city was still on its knees, post war. After decades of
working as a seamstress in factories, she retrained to be
a midwife.
Saga
MMP: 9781409191803 B format, 288pp, £6.99
eBook: 9781409191810 £6.99
Audio: 9781409191827 10hrs, £19.99
NOVEMBER
The Lost
Simon Beckett
Sheeld, UK
www.simonbeckett.com
@BeckettSimon
A brand-new detective series from international
bestseller Simon Beckett
The Lost introduces readers to Jonah Colley, an armed
response ocer with the Metropolitan police. Ten years
ago, the abduction of Colley’s son ended his career as a
detective and almost destroyed him. A plea for help from an
estranged friend leads Jonah to a brutal attack from which
he’s the only survivor.
Discharged from the force and under suspicion himself, his
search for the truth throws doubt on everything he thought
he knew – and pushes him to question what really happened
all those years ago.
SIMON BECKETT is the no.1 bestselling author of the David
Hunter series. His books have been translated into twenty-
nine languages, appeared in the Sunday Times bestseller
lists and sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
Crime & Thriller
HB: 9781398706903 Royal, 288pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781409192770 Royal, 288pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781409192794 £14.99
Audio: 9781409192800 10hrs, £19.99
NOVEMBER
40
Tell Me How to Be
Neel Patel
Illinois, USA
www.neelnpatel.com
@hewritez
@hewritez
A darkly funny and stereotype-upending novel about
an Indian-American family confronting the secrets
between them
26-year-old Akash Amin has everything he ever wanted, but
as he tries to commit to his boyfriend, he is haunted by the
painful memories he ed a decade ago. When his mother
tells him that she is selling the family home, Akash returns
to Illinois. Renu Amin’s life always seemed perfect: doting
husband, beautiful house, healthy sons. But as the anniver-
sary of her husband’s death approaches, Renu can’t stop
wondering if she chose the wrong life.
By turns irreverent and tender, lled with the beats of 1990s
R&B, Tell Me How to Be is the love story of a mother and son,
each trying to gure out how to be in the world.
NEEL PATEL is a rst-generation Indian American who grew
up in Champaign, Illinois. His writing has been nominated
for a Pushcart Prize.
Contemporary Fiction
HB: 9781398705241 Royal, 352pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781398705258 Royal, 352pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781398705272 £14.99
Audio: 9781398705289 10hrs, £19.99
JANUARY
DEBUT
41
A mission to
publish books
that start
conversations
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Artwork from Time: 10 Things You Should Know From Italy
with Love by Colin Stuart, published by Seven Dials (p.47)
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SEVEN DIALS is Orion’s bestselling commercial non-ction imprint. It’s
the home of big brands, beautiful cookbooks, entertainment stars, gift
and humour, and inspiring true-life stories. Our authors are – or soon will
be – household names, and our expert editorial team helps our authors
to turn their vision into quality books with a broad reach. The Seven Dials
list has a wide remit but remains unashamedly commercial at heart, with
one eye always on the very top of the bestseller lists. Seven Dials authors
include Escape to the Château’s Dick and Angel Strawbridge, footballer
and actor Vinnie Jones, budget food sensation Lorna Cooper, boxer Tony
Bellew, heritage brand the National Railway Museum, Fearne Cotton and
The Hairy Bikers.
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And It Was Beautiful
Marcelo Bielsa and the
Rebirth of Leeds United
Phil Hay
York, UK
@philhay.athletic
@PhilHay_
The exclusive story of the Marcelo Bielsa revolution
at Leeds United and their first season back in the
Premier League
Marcelo Bielsa is the most fascinating coach in world foot-
ball. In And It Was Beautiful, Phil Hay documents the for-
tunes of Leeds United under Marcelo Bielsa during their
return to the Premier League for the 2020/21 season.
The book will pull back the curtain on Bielsa’s innovative tac-
tical methods, his relationship with owner Andrea Radrizzani,
his intensely loyal backroom team and the extraordinary
cultural impact Bielsa has had on the city of Leeds.
The result is a unique and beautiful love affair that has made
dreams come true.
PHIL HAY
became The Athletic’s Leeds United writer in 2019,
where he hosts The Phil Hay Show weekly podcast. He was
previously chief football writer at the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Sports Biography
HB: 9781841885162 Royal, 304pp, £20
eBook: 9781841885186 £20
Audio: 9781841885193 10hrs, £21.99
AUGUST
Tortilla Cookbook
Over 60 Quick and Easy
Wrap Hacks Inspired by the
World-famous Challenge
Sarah Cook
London, UK
@sarahcooking
@Sarah_Cooking
Inspired by the viral TikTok challenge, this cookbook
brings you over sixty quick, easy and tasty wrap hacks
One wrap, four ingredients. Simple.
Easy to make, affordable and delicious – this cookbook has
over sixty recipes that will save you time but leave you feel-
ing full and satised.
Inspired by the Tortilla TikTok challenge that took the world
by storm, whether you’re looking for nutritious and easy
breakfasts, quick lunches, fuss-free dinners or fun desserts,
there’s a wrap hack for you.
SARAH COOK is a food writer, food stylist and former food
editor at BBC Good Food magazine. She is always up for a
recipe challenge and loves creating innovative new dishes
with big and bold avours. She is based in London.
Food & Drink / Gift
HB: 9781841885445 Other, 112pp, £9.99
eBook: 9781841885452 £9.99
JULY
45
Dinosaurs: 10 Things
You Should Know
230 Million Years for
People Short on Time
Dr Dean Lomax
Wilmslow, UK
www.deanrlomax.co.uk
@Dean.R.Lomax
@dean_r_lomax
@dean_r_lomax
Discover the ten things anyone should know about the
world’s most fascinating and awe-inspiring creatures –
the dinosaurs
Travel back to the prehistoric world and discover everything
you need to know about dinosaurs.
Dr Dean Lomax brings these prehistoric creatures to life in
ten bite-sized essays, written for people short on time but
not curiosity. Making big ideas simple, Dean takes readers
on a journey to uncover what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur;
what they ate, how they evolved, what caused them to go
extinct, and more!
This is the perfect book for anyone fascinated by dinosaur
exhibits at museums, palaeontology and fans of Jurassic Park.
DR DEAN LOMAX is an internationally recognised multi-
award-winning palaeontologist, author and science commu
-
nicator. He has written several books, academic papers and
popular articles, and is a leading authority on ichthyosaurs.
Nature Writing
HB: 9781841884943 B format, 128pp, £9.99
eBook: 9781841884950 £9.99
Audio: 9781841884974 5hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
Beyond the Tape
The Life and Many Deaths
of a Forensic Pathologist
Professor Marie Cassidy
London, UK
An utterly compelling journey through the life and
many deaths of one of Ireland’s most senior forensic
pathologists
Meet Professor Marie Cassidy. For four decades she told the
stories of the dead, the victims of blunt trauma, gunshots
and stab wounds, the house res and mass graves. She
gave voice to those who could no longer speak, to unpick
what had happened and to try to recreate life from the body
on a slab. Now she lifts the lid on what it is to spend your life
surrounded by death.
PROFESSOR MARIE CASSIDY
became a forensic pathologist
in 1985. In over thirty years of practice she has performed
thousands of post-mortems and dealt with hundreds of
murders.
True Crime
HB: 9781841885308 Demy, 304pp, £16.99
TPB: 9781841885315 Demy, 304pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781841885339 £16.99
Audio: 9781841885520 9hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
46
Fitter. Calmer.
Stronger.
Ellie Goulding
London, UK
www.elliegoulding.com
@EllieGoulding
@EllieGoulding
@EllieGoulding
@EllieGoulding
A positive and mindful approach to exercise and nutrition
from pop sensation and tness icon Ellie Goulding
Forget prescriptive 28-day plans and fad diets that are
eventually abandoned. The truth is they don’t work – and
they don’t make you happy. Pop powerhouse Ellie Gould-
ing’s much sought-after tness and health philosophy is
based around becoming the brightest, strongest version
of yourself. This means prioritising self-care and exibility
and approaching wellness from a sustainable perspective.
Combining a mindful approach to exercise with delicious,
nutritious recipes, this book will help you kick-start healthy
habits, develop a positive mindset and establish clear and
achievable goals.
ELLIE GOULDING has amassed multiple UK no.1 singles, Brit
Awards and Grammy nominations over the past decade
and for years has inspired fans with her love of tness and
wellness.
Fitness & Diet
TPB: 9781841885063 Other, 256pp, £18.99
eBook: 9781841885070 £18.99
Audio: 9781841885087 6hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
Dreams from
My Mother
Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
London, UK
@SickleToSeacoleMemoirs
@EAnionwu
The inspirational story of the trailblazing nurse born to
Irish and Nigerian parents during the 1940s, and raised
by nuns
It’s 1947 and a sheltered Catholic girl is studying classics at
Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the rst in her family
to go to university – and then she discovers that she’s preg-
nant. And the father is black.
Despite pressure to give up her baby, the young mother has
big dreams for her child’s future. Dreams from My Mother
is the inspiring story of how her daughter Elizabeth over
-
came a background of shame, stigma and discrimination
to become one of the UK’s greatest-ever nurses.
DAME ELIZABETH ANIONWU is an emeritus professor of
nursing at the University of West London and the rst ever
sickle cell nurse specialist.
Memoir
MMP: 9781841885223 B format, 288pp, £7.99
eBook: 9781841885230 £7.99
Audio: 9781841885247 10hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
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PizzaExpress:
From Italy With Love
100 Favourite Recipes to
Make at Home
Pizza Express
UK
www.pizzaexpress.com
@PizzaExpress
@pizzaexpress
Create perfect pizza at home with more than 100
PizzaExpress recipe favourites for every occasion with
the UK’s best loved pizza restaurant
Delicious, Italian inspired pizza recipes that bring the UK’s
most popular restaurant brand straight to your home.
We all have special memories that took place at
PizzaExpress, whether it’s a children’s birthday party, a
formative rst date or just a hankering for dough balls.
Featuring all the perennial favourites from Margherita to
Sloppy Giuseppe, as well as spicy, seafood, vegan and
veggie pizzas for all palates, PizzaExpress: From Italy with
Love brings the magic and versatility of the restaurant to
your home.
PIZZA EXPRESS
is the UK’s largest and most popular high
street restaurant brand. With 57 million pizzas sold a year in
the UK, it is one of the mainstays of our culinary life.
Cookery
HB: 9781841885209 Crown Quarto, 240pp, £18.99
eBook: 9781841885216 £18.99
SEPTEMBER
Time: 10 Things You
Should Know
A Journey through the Greatest
Mystery of Our Universe
Colin Stuart
Staines-upon-Thames, UK
www.colinstuart.net
@skyponderer
Uncover the ten things you must know about time and
space in this captivating collection of short essays
Discover the secrets of one of the biggest puzzles in our
history – time. As a subject, it has perplexed and fas-
cinated generations of scientists, historians and more, and
continues to spark the most intriguing questions being
asked in science today. Can time be stopped? Is time travel
possible? Does time even exist . . .?
In ten bite-sized essays, Colin Stuart delves into these
big questions and uncovers the most awe-inspiring and
revealing things we should all know about time.
COLIN STUART is an astronomy author and speaker, who
has talked to half a million people about the universe and
sold more than 350,000 books worldwide in twenty-one
languages.
Popular Science
HB: 9781841884929 B format, 128pp, £9.99
eBook: 9781841884936 £9.99
Audio: 9781841884967 5hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
48
Building the Dream
Tales from the Château
Dick and Angel Strawbridge
Martigné-sur-Mayenne, France
@chateaudelamottehusson
@escapetothechateau
@escape_to_the_chateau
@strawbridge.dick
@chateauHusson
@dickstrawbridge @vint_patisserie
Dick and Angel Strawbridge share more stories from the
château. The follow-up to the bestseller A Year at the
Château
In this warm and entertaining memoir, much-loved duo Dick
and Angel Strawbridge share more tales from their life at the
Château de la Motte-Husson.
Picking up from where the Sunday Times bestselling A
Year at the Château left off, follow Dick and Angel as they
continue on their adventure and face their biggest challenge
yet: how to afford to keep their dream alive.
In 2015, DICK and ANGEL STRAWBRIDGE bought a derelict
château in the Loire Valley and became the subjects of the
hugely popular Channel 4 hit Escape to the Château.
Arts & Entertainment
HB: 9781841885353 Royal, 304pp, £20
TPB: 9781841885360 Royal, 304pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781841885384 £20
Audio: 9781841885391 8hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
Simple Everyday
100 Easy Recipes for
Every Kitchen
The Hairy Bikers
Sittingbourne and Rowlands Gill, UK
www.hairybikers.com
@HairyBikers
@HairyBikers
Packed full of easy ways to elevate everyday meals into
taste sensations, this will be the Bikers’ most useful
cookbook yet
Hearty, everyday food that brings the magic back into the
kitchen from the nation’s favourite cooking duo.
Saving us from the same go-to dishes week after week, Si
and Dave have reinvented all our everyday favourites with
simple Biker twists.
Filled with effortless food with big avours, this will be a
collection of recipes you can rustle up with no fuss that will
still knock your socks off with taste.
THE HAIRY BIKERS
have become Britain’s favourite food
heroes through their innovative publishing and heart-
warming TV shows. They have written twenty-five
cookbooks, which have sold more than 6 million copies.
Cookery
HB: 9781841884318 Royal, 272pp, £22
eBook: 9781841884325 £22
OCTOBER
49
The Best of Matt 2021
Matt Pritchett
Rickinghall, UK
The last twelve months seen through the eyes of the
brilliantly funny cartoonist Matt – the perfect Christmas
gift
‘Matt is an Adorable Genius’ Jilly Cooper
‘No one can be funny every time – except Matt’ John
Humphrys
‘So much greater than his nearest rivals it’s almost
embarrassing’ Stephen Fry
‘That rare thing – a daily cartoonist who never fails’
The Times
There is no doubt: award-winning Matt denitely makes the
world a happier place!
MATT PRITCHETT studied at St Martin’s School of Art in
London. He has been the Daily Telegraph’s pocket cartoonist
since 1988 and in 2002 he received an MBE.
Humour
MMP: 9781409191506 Other, 80pp, £7.99
eBook: 9781409191513 £7.99
OCTOBER
The Bodyguard
Real Stories of Close
Protection from Tom Cruise
to Princess Diana
Lee Sansum
Moray, Scotland
@LeeSansum
The fascinating true story of ‘the real Bodyguard’, who
has protected the most famous woman in the world,
Princess Diana
This is the story of ‘the real Bodyguard’, Lee Sansum,
ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, private
military contractor and expert in close protection. In being
part of Mohamed and Dodi al-Fayed’s protection team, Lee
also had to protect Princess Diana.
Over the course of his career, Lee has worked with the rich
and famous, such as Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and
Nicole Kidman, Pelé and Sylvester Stallone, and he gives a
candid account of what it’s like to work in a job where lives
are literally at stake.
LEE SANSUM is an ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts
champion, private military contractor and expert in close
protection.
Memoir
MMP: 9781841885407 B format, 304pp, £7.99
eBook: 9781841885414 £7.99
Audio: 9781841885421 10hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
50
Our Father’s Secret
The True Story of Three Irish
Girls’ Struggle against Abuse
and Their Fight for Justice
Joyce, June and Paula
Kavanagh, with Marian
Quinn
Tallaght, Ireland
A powerful true story of childhood abuse and three
sisters’ ght for justice
Joyce, June and Paula Kavanagh were born to a family of
ten in Ballyfermot, Dublin. Sharing a cramped room, they
dreaded hearing their father approaching and grew up in
fear, trapped in a house that should have been a home.
But when a fateful phone call from their cousin prompts
the unravelling of their father’s iron grip on his family, the
sisters glimpse an opportunity to not only escape, but seek
redemption. Can they nally confront their past and stop
their father’s torturous control?
JOYCE, JUNE and PAULA KAVANAGH work for the Childhood
Development Initiative, Tallaght. MARIAN QUINN is chief
executive of a children’s charity and previously worked in
the Department of Justice.
Memoir
MMP: 9781409194736 B format, 304pp, £8.99
NOVEMBER
The Last Survivor
Frank Krake
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.rampondernemer.nl
@FrankKrake
@FrankKrake
The international bestselling and inspirational story of
the man who survived three Holocaust concentration
camps in the Second World War
The awe-inspiring story of Wim Aloserij, who survived not
one but three concentration camps, only to be bombed
while aboard a Nazi prison boat in the nal days of the war.
At the age of ninety-four, Aloserij nally felt ready to tell his
incredible story, which he kept secret for most of his life.
The Last Survivor is a compelling, life-arming read that
will make you gasp but also leave you amazed by one man’s
determination – against the odds – to survive.
FRANK KRAKE
is an established writer. A chance meeting
with Wim Aloserij led to a relationship in which Wim
entrusted Frank with the job of putting his extraordinary
life to paper.
True Stories
HB: 9781841885254 Royal, 320pp, £18.99
TPB: 9781841885278 Royal, 320pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781841885285 £18.99
Audio: 9781841885292 10hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
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Behind Closed Doors
A Traumatised Little Girl
Trapped in a Terried Silence
and the Loving Foster Carer
Determined to Save Her
Maggie Hartley
UK
@MaggieHartleyAuthor
@maggiehartley2019
A shocking true story of one little girl’s escape from
domestic violence from Sunday Times bestselling
author Maggie Hartley
In one of the most shocking cases of her career, foster carer
Maggie Hartley is woken in the middle of the night to the
arrival of a little girl, terried and soaked in blood. Eleven-
year-old Nancy has found her beloved father bleeding to
death, having been stabbed by her mother. It is clear that
there is far more than meets the eye in this shocking case,
but Nancy refuses to talk. Can Maggie Hartley help this
traumatised little girl reveal the truth about what’s happened
behind closed doors?
MAGGIE HARTLEY has fostered more than 300 children for
over twenty years. Taking on the children other carers often
can’t cope with, Maggie helps children who are deemed
‘unadoptable’.
Sexual Abuse & Harassment
MMP: 9781841884806 B Format, 304pp, £7.99
eBook: 9781841884813 £7.99
Audio: 9781841884899 6hrs, £19.99
DECEMBER
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Artwork from Spells for Change: A Guide for
Modern Witches by Francesca Wilkin, published
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Everyday Condence
Ditch the Self-doubt, Recognise
Your Worth and Achieve Your
Life Goals
Nik and Eva Speakman
Manchester, UK
www.speakman.tv
@Thespeakmansocial
@thespeakmans
@thespeakmans
@nikandevaspeakman
The Speakmans’ powerful guide to condence, every
single day
The Speakmans have helped clients ditch the self-doubt
and move on from social anxieties and self-esteem issues.
In Everyday Condence, the bestselling authors tackle com-
mon condence saboteurs, from old behavioural patterns
to toxic situations. In every case they remind you that you
have more power than you think; condence is an inside job.
With the Speakmans’ tried-and-tested tools, and the testi-
mony of those whose lives have been transformed by their
methods, you’ll learn how to silence your inner critic and
grasp a more condent future.
NIK AND EVA SPEAKMAN have helped many high-prole
clients lead happier lives. They are resident therapists on
ITV’s multi award-winning ‘This Morning’ and host the hit
podcast Making The Change.
Self-help & Personal Development
TPB: 9781841883250 Royal, 288pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781841883267 £14.99
Audio: 9781409192572 8hrs, £19.99
JULY
Spells for Change
A Guide for Modern Witches
Francesca Wilkin
Philadelphia, USA
www.chaoticwitchaunt.com
@chaoticwitchaunt98
@chaoticwitchau1
Chaotic Witch Aunt
A guide to modern witchcraft from TikTok sensation
Francesca Wilkin
Modern-day witches are a culmination of the old and new –
they work nine-to-ves and teach in our classrooms. They
carry black tourmaline and quartz, and wave bay and rose-
mary bundles over their doorways.
Francesca Wilkin is at the centre of a thriving community of
modern practitioners who use witchcraft to enrich their lives
day to day and improve the world. In this book, she teaches
you how to enact personal and global change through stud-
ies of meditation, grounding, manifestation, cleansing, pro-
tection, banishing and binding.
FRANCESCA WILKIN is an eclectic neopagan witch of seven
years. Also known as Chaotic Witch Aunt, she has 856K+
followers, runs a tarot-reading business and hosts classes.
Spirituality & Beliefs
HB: 9781398703544 Demy, 224pp, £12.99
eBook: 9781398703551 £12.99
Audio: 9781398703605 8hrs, £19.99
OCTOBER
55
I Hope This Finds
You Well
Kate Baer
East Coast, USA
www.katebaer.com
@KateJBaer
@KateJBaer
@KateJBaer
The author of the no.1 New York Times bestseller What
Kind of Woman returns with a collection of found poems
Like countless other writers – particularly women – with
proles on the internet, as Kate’s online presence grew,
so did the darker messages crowding her inbox. At rst,
these messages resulted in an immediate block. Until, on
a whim, Kate decided to transform the cruelty into fresh,
intriguing poems.
I Hope This Finds You Well is drawn from those works: a
book of poetry birthed in the darkness of the internet that
offers light and hope, showing how we too can turn bit-
terness into beauty.
KATE BAER is a writer and poet. She has been featured
in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue.com,
Entertainment Weekly, A Cup of Jo and Hungton Post.
Poetry
HB: 9781398706781 Royal, 112pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781398706804 £14.99
Audio: 9781398706811 3hrs, £19.99
NOVEMBER
The Book Your
Dog Wishes You
Would Read
Louise Glazebrook
London, UK
www.thedarlingdogcompany.co.uk
@louise.glazebrook
@darlingdog
The Book Your Dog Wishes You Would Read explains why
a happier, better-behaved dog starts with you, its owner
We’d all love to know what our dog is thinking. The truth is
that your dog is communicating with you all the time but,
unless you know the signs, you aren’t picking up on what
your dog wants you to know.
Louise Glazebrook is a dog trainer, behaviourist and televi-
sion presenter, who specialises in teaching people how to
understand and connect with their dogs. In The Book Your
Dog Wishes You Would Read she shares the expertise that
she’s used to help countless clients.
LOUISE GLAZEBROOK is one of the leading dog behaviourists
and trainers in the UK, working hard to help owners
understand their best friends in a friendly, fun but no-
nonsense manner.
Popular Psychology
HB: 9781398704060 Demy, 304pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781398704077 £14.99
Audio: 9781398704084 10hrs, £19.99
NOVEMBER
56
Love to Sleep
Good Nights and Happy Days
for Your Child and You
Eve Squires and Gemma
Fryer
Devon, UK
www.calmandbright.co.uk
@calmandbrightsleepsupport
@calmandbrightsleepsupport
This judgement-free book will be a must-read for every
tired parent who wants to live a connected family life
In their ground-breaking book Love to Sleep, Eve and Gem
reveal the pivotal role of the parent in a child’s sleep. Using
their transformative approach, they encourage parents to
cast aside restrictive beliefs and behaviours that contribute
to broken sleep cycles in children aged six months to six
years. Using research and real-life stories, they challenge the
long-held belief that sleep teaching is unloving and explore
the devastating physical and mental repercussions of sleep
deprivation on the family unit when lack of sleep continues
unchallenged.
Calm & Bright Sleep Support was founded to help exhausted
parents. Headed up by sisters EVE SQUIRES and GEMMA
FRYER
, they have supported thousands of families to get
the sleep they need.
Parenting
TPB: 9781398702660 Royal, 240pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781398702677 £14.99
Audio: 9781398702875 5hrs, £19.99
DECEMBER
The Immunotype
Breakthrough
A 30-Day Plan to Identify Your
Unique Immunoprint, Rebuild
Inner Defences and Calm a
Hyper-reactive Immune System
Dr Heather Moday
Philadelphia, USA
www.modaycenter.com/dr-heather-
moday
@theimmunitymd
A functional medicine immunologist explains how every-
one has an immune ‘type’, which requires balancing for
us to be our best
To most of us, the immune system is seemingly unknow-
able. Much has been made about ‘boosting’ immunity, but
what does that mean, and what if boosting isn’t really what
our immune systems need?
In The Immunotype Breakthrough, Dr Heather Moday
explains that what our immune systems truly need is
balance. But you can’t nd balance if you don’t know where
to start. Her science-based plan identies your immunotype,
then offers a tailored programme to put her advice into
action.
DR HEATHER MODAY is an allergist and immunologist, plus
an integrative and functional medicine physician. Her focus
is on empowering people to reclaim their health through
education and public speaking.
Healthy Living
TPB: 9781398706026 Royal, 304pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781398706033 £14.99
Audio: 9781398706040 6hrs, £19.99
DECEMBER
57
Always inspiring,
never preaching,
these books are
for everyone,
everywhere
– for life
58
Artwork from When We Were Young by Richard
Roper, published by Orion Fiction (p.61)
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ORION FICTION is a heartland for brilliant commercial ction, and many
of our authors have been with us since our inception. Our ambition is
to take brand authors to even greater heights, to build authors with a
growing platform in a creative and strategic way and to launch new
authors with impact beyond that rst book. Authors include Ian Rankin,
Michael Connelly, Cathy Kelly, Joanne Harris, James Lee Burke, Maureen
Lee, Adrian McKinty, Veronica Henry, Ben Kane, Victoria Aveyard, Mari
Hannah and Cathy Bramley.
Fiction
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60
Hawkwood’s Sword
Christian Cameron
Toronto, Canada
www.christiancameronauthor.com
@Phokion1
A gripping return to the thrilling, strident Chivalry series
and William Gold’s adventures in the Hundred Years’ War
1368. Europe is on the brink of war on all fronts.
Having left the side of his commander, Sir John Hawkwood,
William embarks on a journey to nd fame and favour in the
Count of Savoy’s service. A personal tragedy spurs him on
to a journey of pilgrimage, but men of war can’t stay out of
battle for long. Wherever he goes, Gold can’t escape conict
and, nally, he must decide who he stands for in the great
battle between the Pope and the Visconti . . .
CHRISTIAN CAMERON is a writer and military historian. He
participates in re-enacting and experimental archaeology,
teaches armoured ghting and historical swordsmanship,
and takes his vacations visiting battleelds, castles and
cathedrals.
Historical Fiction
HB: 9781409180258 Royal, 464pp, £20.99
eBook: 9781409180272 £20.99
Audio: 9781409199960 15hrs, £21.99
JULY
All the Fun of the Fair
Caroline Hulse
Manchester, UK
www.carolinehulseauthor.com
@CarolineHulse1
A fresh, hilarious and deeply poignant coming-of-age
novel from sensational talent Caroline Hulse
The fair is the only good thing that happens every year. And
Fiona Larson is the only person in town who’s not allowed
to go.
Because, before Fiona was even born, her sister died there.
Her perfect sister who always ate her greens and tidied
her room.
But this year everything will be different. This summer, Fiona
is determined to uncover the truth – with the aid of her best
friend and the Junior Spy Handbook – and nally make it
to the fair.
CAROLINE HULSE
lives in Manchester with her husband and
a small controlling dog. Her books have been published in
fourteen languages. All the Fun of the Fair is her third novel.
Reading Group Fiction
HB: 9781409197232 Royal, 416pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781409197249 Royal, 416pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781409197263 £14.99
Audio: 9781409197270 10hrs, £19.99
JULY
61
The Girl with the
Silver Clasp
Juliet Greenwood
Snowdonia, UK
www.julietgreenwoodauthor.wordpress.
com
@julietgreenwood
A sweeping historical novel set in Cornwall during the
Great War, perfect for fans of Tracy Rees and Jenny
Ashcroft
St Ives, 1916.
Jess Morgan hoped to become a celebrated silversmith,
but all she has is the memory of a unique silver clasp she
created for a society bride. Rachel Bellamy served as an
ambulance driver on the front line, and now faces a battle
to save the family home. Giselle Harding fought her way to
becoming a Hollywood movie star. But all her jewels will
never replace the man she lost . . .
As the lives of three women collide, can they overcome their
difference and ght for their dreams?
JULIET GREENWOOD is an eBook bestselling author. She
has also run her own award-winning charity, with the aid
of Lottery funding and grants from BBC Children in Need,
focusing on story-telling workshops with adults and
children.
Historical Fiction
MMP: 9781409196600 B format, 336pp, £8.99
eBook: 9781409196617 £8.99
Audio: 9781409196624 10hrs, £19.99
JULY
When We Were Young
Richard Roper
London, UK
www.richardroperauthor.com
@richardroper
@richardroper
Tender, moving and quirky book-club fiction about
looking back and moving forward, from the author of
Something to Live For
Theo has been living in his parents’ shed, nursing a broken
heart and a wounded ego.
Joel is a proper grown-up – and yet he’s falling apart at the
seams. He’s headed home to reconnect with best friend
Theo – but they haven’t spoken since they were sixteen.
Can the promise they once made to walk the Thames Path
help them nd their way back to their friendship?
RICHARD ROPER
grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and now
lives in London, where he works as an editor. His rst novel,
Something to Live For, has been translated into nineteen
languages.
Reading Group Fiction
HB: 9781409185642 Short Royal, 400pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781409185659 Royal, 400pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781409185673 £14.99
Audio: 9781409185680 10hrs, £19.99
JULY
62
A Narrow Door
Joanne Harris
Hudderseld, UK
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
@Joannechocolat
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a
powerful, explosive, twist-riddled psychological thriller
It’s an incendiary moment for St Oswald’s. For the rst time,
a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to female
students.
Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to get here, just start-
ing to reap the ambitions she has sown. Yet as the ground
shifts beneath the old guards’ feet, a body is discovered,
along with another school’s prefect’s badge.
But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She’ll bury the past,
just like she has done before. Even if that means murder.
JOANNE HARRIS
is the internationally renowned, bestselling
and award-winning author of eighteen novels, as well as
novellas, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, articles and,
most recently, a self-help book for writers.
Suspense Thriller
HB: 9781409170815 Royal, 320pp, £20
TPB: 9781409170822 Royal, 320pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781409170839 £20
Audio: 9781409186304 10hrs, £21.99
AUGUST
Another Kind of Eden
James Lee Burke
Lolo, USA
www.jamesleeburke.com
@JamesLeeBurkeAuthor
@JamesLeeBurke
A captivating tale of justice, love, brutality and
mysticism in the turbulent 1960s from the New York
Times bestselling author
The 1960s American West looks like paradise. Aspiring nov-
elist Aaron Broussard has observed it from a boxcar, riding
the rails for inspiration and odd jobs.
Jumping off in Denver, he nds farm work and meets
Joanne McDuffy. Their soul connection is immediate. But
when a sinister businessman draws Aaron into an investi-
gation of grotesque murders, it’s clear that this idyllic land-
scape harbours tremendous evil. Now Aaron must face
down his foes to save his own life, and the life of the woman
he loves.
JAMES LEE BURKE is the author of the bestselling Detective
Dave Robicheaux series. He won the Edgar Award, has been
awarded the Grand Master Award and has been nominated
for a Pulitzer Prize.
American Crime
HB: 9781398704695 Royal, 256pp, £20
TPB: 9781398704701 Royal, 256pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781398704725 £20
AUGUST
63
Denitely Fine
Amy Lavelle
Brighton, UK
@LavelleActually
Hilarious and heartbreaking, this is a painfully funny
debut about learning to nd yourself when you’ve lost
the person who held everything together
Hannah is twenty-eight when the worst happens.
Her rst instinct? To call her mum.
The problem is, her mum having an accident, being rushed
to hospital and never waking up was the worst thing.
Realising that – alarmingly – she is now the woman of the
family, Hannah has to muddle her way through the crucial
life lessons her mother never taught her. But what Hannah
really wishes her mother had taught her is: when you’ve just
lost the person who made sense of everything, how are you
meant to nd yourself?
AMY LAVELLE grew up with a lifelong passion to be a writer,
despite her dad’s best efforts to make her a dentist. She is
now based in Brighton and works as a freelance journalist.
Commercial Fiction
MMP: 9781398703636 B format, 336pp, £8.99
eBook: 9781398703643 £8.99
Audio: 9781398703650 10hrs, £19.99
AUGUST
DEBUT
Eight Perfect Hours
Lia Louis
Hertfordshire, UK
@LisforLia
An achingly romantic love story to tug on your heart-
strings, from the internationally bestselling author
What if you fell in love . . . and then he disappeared?
When Noelle and Sam’s lives collide on a snowy December
evening, they spend a few perfect hours together believing
they’ll never see each other again.
But soon their lives become entangled in ways they never
expected – and it’s going to change everything . . .
The new, hotly anticipated love story from the author of Dear
Emmie Blue. Perfect for fans of Beth O’Leary, Josie Silver
and Cecelia Ahern.
LIA LOUIS has written three novels and her work has
been translated into eleven languages. In 2015, she won
ELLE magazine’s annual talent competition with her
contemporary love letter, #RelationshipGoals.
Commercial Women’s Fiction
MMP: 9781398703261 B format, 368pp, £7.99
eBook: 9781398703278 £7.99
Audio: 9781398703285 10hrs, £19.99
AUGUST
64
Half-Past Tomorrow
Chris McGeorge
Durham, UK
@crmcgeorge
For fans of MJ Arlidge and Lucy Foley – the latest novel
from the king of the locked-room mystery
Seventy-year-old Shirley Steadman loves volunteering at the
local hospital radio. Haunted by her lost-at-sea navy ocer
son and her long-dead abusive husband, she doesn’t like
being alone much.
One day she nds a new pirate radio frequency reporting the
news. But there is one problem – the news being reported is
tomorrow’s. It must be a misunderstanding – a wrong date.
But Shirley watches as everything reported comes true.
Then the presenter starts reporting murders. And now
Shirley is the only one who can stop them.
CHRIS McGEORGE lives in Durham and is a graduate of the
creative writing (crime/thriller) MA at City University. He
loves lm and acting in an amateur theatre group.
Suspense Thriller
MMP: 9781409187592 B format, 320pp, £8.99
eBook: 9781409187608 £8.99
Audio: 9781409187615 10hrs, £19.99
AUGUST
Replace You
Andrew Ewart
St Albans, UK
@AndrewJEwart
An immersive speculative thriller asking whether
technology could perfect our brains, and whether we
should let it . . .
Trapped inside a secure hospital, Mya Dala’s only contact
with the outside world is a TV screen, showing videos of
her boyfriend Marc – hand-in-hand with her doppelgänger.
Convinced she has been replaced, Mya plots her escape.
But her memories of Marc become conicted. The tele-
vision version of Marc seems like a very different person.
Has he had his personality replaced, or is she imagining
things?
If we remove our darkest impulses, how much is lost? And
how long before our true personalities bite back?
After teaching in Denmark, ANDREW EWART studied English
at Cambridge. He now lives in St Albans, working as a
production journalist, and is overly fond of a pun headline.
Dystopian Thriller
MMP: 9781409189732 B format, 320pp, £8.99
eBook: 9781409189749 £8.99
Audio: 9781409189756 10hrs, £19.99
AUGUST
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The Vacancy
Elisabeth Carpenter
Preston, UK
www.elisabethcarpenter.co.uk
@LibbyCPT
The gripping new domestic thriller from the bestselling
author of 99 Red Balloons, 11 Missed Calls and Only a
Mother
As a live-in assistant to glamorous and eccentric author
Dorothy Winters, Rachel quickly discovers that nothing with
Dorothy is as it seems. And when Dorothy’s manuscript
throws up striking similarities to Rachel’s life, she becomes
convinced that the past she’s hiding is catching up with her.
Then the phone calls start. The parcel arrives. The blood
appears in the bathroom. And Dorothy’s friend disappears.
Terried of being blamed, Rachel has nobody left to turn to.
Who can she believe when she doesn’t even trust herself . . . ?
ELISABETH CARPENTER
completed a BA in English litera-
ture and language, loves living in the north of England and
sets most of her stories there. She currently works as a
bookkeeper.
Psychological Thriller
MMP: 9781409181514 B format, 320pp, £8.99
eBook: 9781409181521 £8.99
Audio: 9781409184799 10hrs, £19.99
AUGUST
Underbelly
Anna Whitehouse
London, UK
www.motherpukka.co.uk
@mother_pukka / @papa_pukka
@mother_pukka
The compulsive debut novel from social media inu-
encer, campaigner and co-founder of the Mother Pukka
website, Anna Whitehouse
Lo and Dylan are living parallel lives, worlds apart. Lo is a
middle-class mother, perfectly polished. Dylan is just about
surviving on a zero-hours telemarketing job. But when they
meet at the school gates, they are catapulted into each
other’s lives – with devastating consequences . . .
Sharply humorous and uninchingly honest, Underbelly
slices through the ltered surface of modern women’s lives
to expose the dark truth beneath.
ANNA WHITEHOUSE is the ction-writing pseudonym for Anna
Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson. They are the co-authors
of Sunday Times bestsellers Parenting the Sh*t Out of Life
and Where’s My Happy Ending?. They are both journalists and
co-founders of Mother Pukka and the Flex Appeal campaign.
Anna also presents a weekly show on Heart Radio.
Contemporary Women’s Fiction
HB: 9781398702462 Royal, 368pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781398702479 Royal, 368pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781398702493 £14.99
Audio: 9781398702509 10hrs, £19.99
AUGUST
DEBUT
66
A Mother’s Secret
Kitty Neale
Spain
www.kittyneale.com
The rst in a gripping, heart-wrenching new series set in
Battersea from the Sunday Times bestseller
London, 1939.
Winnie Berry has been the landlady of the Battersea Tav-
ern for nearly twenty-ve years, and the pub is like home to
her. It’s a place of tears and laughter, where she’s learned to
avoid the quick sts of her husband, and where she’s raised
her beloved son, David.
But when a young woman crosses her path, the secrets
of Winnie’s past threaten to turn her world upside down.
There’s nothing stronger than a mother’s love – but can it
ever have a second chance?
KITTY NEALE
is a Sunday Times bestselling author with over
twenty published novels. She was brought up in Battersea,
London, which is where her gritty sagas are set.
Saga
MMP: 9781409197348 B format, 416pp, £7.99
eBook: 9781409197355 £7.99
Audio: 9781398704015 10hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
To Italy, with Love
Nicky Pellegrino
Auckland, New Zealand
www.nickypellegrino.com
@NickyPellegrino
The gorgeously escapist new love story from
international bestseller Nicky Pellegrino, perfect for
fans of Rosanna Ley and Fanny Blake
Love happens when you least expect it . . .
Assunta has given up on love. She might run her little trat-
toria in the most romantic mountain town in Italy, but love
seems to have passed her by.
Sarah-Jane is nished with love. She’s hiring an old convert-
ible and driving around Italy this summer – it’s the perfect
way to forget all about her hot celebrity ex-boyfriend!
But when Sarah-Jane’s van breaks down in Montenello, she
has to stay longer than she intended. And the trouble is, love
is everywhere . . .
NICKY PELLEGRINO was born in Liverpool but spent child-
hood summers staying with her family in southern Italy. She
is a no.1 bestselling author in New Zealand, where she now
lives with her husband.
Commercial Women’s Fiction
TPB: 9781398701014 Royal, 336pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781398701038 £14.99
Audio: 9781398704046 10hrs, £19.99
SEPTEMBER
67
The Christmas Project
Cathy Bramley
Nottingham, UK
www.cathybramley.co.uk
@CathyBramleyAuthor
@CathyBramley
A funny, romantic, festive story about one woman’s quest
to save Christmas, from the Sunday Times bestseller
Merry has never liked Christmas, but this year the future
looks hopeful. Until she discovers that her boyfriend has
other ideas . . . Cole has always loved family Christmases,
but this year his family are celebrating on the other side of
the world – without him.
For Merry and Cole, Christmas is cancelled. But after a
Christmas Eve power cut, can they save Christmas for their
town? And will the two unlikely festive revellers discover
that the best Christmases are the ones you don’t plan for
after all?
CATHY BRAMLEY is a Sunday Times top ten bestselling
author. She turned to writing after running her own market-
ing agency and as an avid reader has found her dream job!
Contemporary Women’s Fiction
MMP: 9781398701397 B format, 320pp, £7.99
eBook: 9781398701403 £7.99
Audio: 9781398703988 10hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
The Last Reunion
Kayte Nunn
New South Wales, Australia
www.kaytenunn.com
@kaytenunn2
@KayteNunn
A page-turning and heartbreaking Second World War
love story from the international bestseller of The
Botanist’s Daughter, perfect for fans of Harriet Evans
Burma, 1945. Five young women are ghting a forgotten war
in the jungle. But it is their own battles that will haunt them
for the rest of their lives . . .
London and Galway, 1999. On the eve of the new millennium,
Olivia meets an elderly widow who wishes to sell her late
husband’s collection of Japanese art. But when they travel
to Ireland, friendships will be tested and 50-year-old secrets
nally spilled . . .
KAYTE NUNN is a former book and magazine editor, and the
author of ve previous novels, including the internationally
bestselling The Botanist’s Daughter, The Forgotten Letters
of Esther Durrant and The Silk House.
Historical Fiction
MMP: 9781398701144 B format, 384pp, £8.99
eBook: 9781398701151 £8.99
Audio: 9781398701267 10hrs, £19.99
OCTOBER
68
Christmas at the
Village Sewing Shop
Helen Rolfe
Berkhamsted, UK
www.helenjrolfe.com
@Helenjrolfewriter
@HJRolfe
Heart-warming festive fiction, full of kindness and
community, perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley and Ali
McNamara
Loretta has run the little sewing shop in Butterbury for years,
while bringing up her three headstrong daughters.
But this Christmas the family is coming apart at the seams:
Fern feels like she’s failing at motherhood and marriage;
Ginny’s passion for her job as a midwife is fading; Daisy is
keeping two very different secrets – and most of all, Loretta
seems to be hiding something from her daughters . . .
Can the sisters mend the quilt, and their family, in time for
Christmas?
HELEN ROLFE writes contemporary women’s ction and
enjoys weaving stories about family, friendship, secrets and
community. Her novels include The Little Village Library and
The Kindness Club on Mapleberry Lane.
Commercial Women’s Fiction
MMP: 9781398706187 B Format, 368pp, £7.99
eBook: 9781398706194 £7.99
Audio: 9781398706200 10hrs, £19.99
NOVEMBER
We Are All Liars
Carys Jones
Telford, UK
www.carys-jones.com
@CarysJAuthor
An addictive, nail-biting psychological thriller from
author of The List, perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and
Ruth Ware
Allie, Stacie, Diana, Emily and Gail have always been friends.
But growing up has meant growing apart.
When Gail invites the friends to reunite at her Scottish cabin,
it could be the opportunity to mend old wounds. But during
a freak snowstorm, one of the girls is found dead, and their
weekend away becomes a race against time – and each
other – to get off the mountain alive. And in the end, whose
story can you trust, when everything was founded on lies
to begin with?
When she’s not writing, CARYS JONES can often be found
indulging two of her greatest passions – either walking
round the local woodland or catching up on all things
Disney-related.
Psychological Thriller
MMP: 9781409196013 B format, 320pp, £7.99
eBook: 9781409196020 £7.99
Audio: 9781409196037 10hrs, £19.99
DECEMBER
69
The Cartographers
Peng Shepherd
New York, USA
www.pengshepherd.com
@pengshepherd
A spellbinding story set in a world where it’s possible to
create new places by illustrating them on maps
Some places, you won’t nd on any maps. Others, are only
on maps . . .
Nell Young has lived her life in and around maps. Her
father, Dr David Young, was one of the most respected
cartographers in the world. He’s also just been found dead
– in an oce at the New York Public Library.
Nell’s search for answers will take her on a dangerous jour-
ney into the heart of a conspiracy and the true power of
maps . . . Step inside the hidden world of The Cartographers.
PENG SHEPHERD is an award-winning author and has lived
in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Washington
DC and New York. The Cartographers is her second novel.
General Fiction / Speculative Fiction
HB: 9781398705425 Royal, 320pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781398705432 Royal, 320pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781398705456 £14.99
Audio: 9781398705463 10hrs, £21.99
JANUARY
The Clockwork Girl
Anna Mazzola
London, UK
www.annamazzola.com
@anna_mazz_law
@annamazzolawriter
Fingersmith meets The Miniaturist – deliciously dark
historical ction from the award-winning author of The
Unseeing
In the midst of a freezing winter in 1750, a new maid arrives
at the home of a clockmaker, whose uncanny mechanical
creations – bejewelled birds, silver spiders – seem to
imitate life itself. But Madeleine is hiding a dark past, and a
dangerous purpose – to discover the truth of the clockmaker’s
experiments, in exchange for her own chance of freedom.
Meanwhile, in the streets of Paris, children are quietly
disappearing – and Madeleine comes to fear that she has
stumbled upon a greater conspiracy. One which might reach
to the heart of Versailles itself . . .
ANNA MAZZOLA
is an award-winning and critically acclaimed
novelist. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, won an Edgar
Award in the USA and was nominated for the Historical
Writers’ Association’s Debut Crown in the UK.
Historical Fiction
HB: 9781398703780 Royal, 368pp, £14.99
TPB: 9781398703797 Royal, 368pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781398703810 £14.99
Audio: 9781398703827 10hrs, £19.99
JANUARY
70
The Book of Dog Poems
‘Two universes mosey
down the street
Connected by love &
a leash and nothing else.’
Howard Nemerov
Compiled by Ana Sampson
& illustrated by Sarah Maycock
£12.99/US$17.99 www.laurenceking.com
Sarah Maycock & Ana Sampson The Book of Dog Poems
Artwork from The Book of Dog Poems by Ana
Sampson, published by Laurence King (p.75)
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Established in London in 1991, LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING is
recognised as one of the world’s leading publishers of books and gifts
on the creative arts. It works with some of the world’s best illustrators,
designers, artists and photographers to create beautifully produced
books and gifts, which are acclaimed for their inventiveness, design and
authoritative texts. These include Johanna Basford’s Secret Garden and
Enchanted Forest adult colouring books, which have sold more than 16
million copies globally to date.
LKP’s 2021 list brings a host of intriguing and uniquely beautiful books
and gifts. From Around the World in 80 Plants (the follow-up to 2018’s
The Times Gardening Book of the Year, Around the World in 80 Trees)
to Feminist Oracles and even How to Make Your Dog #Famous – there’s
something to capture every imagination.
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Face Values
Beauty Rituals and Skin-
care Secrets
Navaz Batliwalla,
illustrations by Shira
Barzilay
London, UK
www.disneyrollergirl.net
@disneyrollergirl
@disneyrollergirl
Discover the new skincare secrets, wellness rituals,
beauty philosophies and the must-have products
recommended by make-up artists
Embracing modern values of understated style,
sustainability and anti-perfectionism, Face Values is packed
with insights and inspiration on skincare, make-up, haircare,
fragrance and wellness. Delve inside the bathroom cabinets
and make-up bags of fashion designers, beauty writers,
make-up artists, perfumers and eco-entrepreneurs, and
discover their skincare secrets, hero products, beauty
philosophies and essential daily rituals. It also features a
global directory of the best beauty resources.
NAVAZ BATLIWALLA is a freelance fashion editor, stylist
and creative consultant. She is recommended by The
Times as one of the ‘forty bloggers who really count’.
International artist SHIRA BARZILAY, also known as social
media sensation Koketit (315K followers), is best known
for her abstract line drawings with a sensual feminine twist.
She’s has collaborated with many brands, including Chanel,
Amazon and Harper’s Bazaar.
Beauty & Wellness
HB: 9781913947095 210 x 162mm, 160pp, £16.99
AUGUST
Not nal cover
The Modern Oracle
Fortune Telling and Divination
for the Real World
Lisa Boswell, illustrations
by Apolline Muet
Scotland
www.divinerism.com
@lisaboswell
Discover your fortune, change your destiny. The
rst thoroughly modern guide to fortune telling and
divination
A playful, practical guide to fortune telling and divination, The
Modern Oracle shows the reader how to use tarot, palmistry,
crystals, runes, astrology, dreams and other signs to answer
life’s big questions and solve everyday dramas. With expert
guidance from a young Romany-Gypsy psychic and diviner,
this book offers spiritual self-help to aid readers with their
tness goals, career ambitions or relationship dilemmas.
A helpful handbook for anyone looking to discover their
destiny and change their fortune in work, life and love.
LISA BOSWELL
is a young award-winning Romany-Gypsy
diviner and psychic-reading teacher from Scotland. She
runs a successful online business teaching fortune telling
and divination at divinerism.com.
Mind, Body, Spirit
HB: 9781786278968 190 x 140mm, 192pp, £12.99
AUGUST
THE MODERN ORACLETHE MODERN ORACLE LISA BOSWELL
FORTUNE TELLING
AND DIVINATION FOR
THE REAL WORLD
LISA BOSWELL
ILLUSTRATIONS BY APOLLINE MUET
Discover your fortune,
change your destiny.
Learn how to use your star si gn to reach your
personal goals, kicks tart your career with
crystal energ y, sor t out your love life with tarot
or embark on some deep self-reection with
palmistr y. Wit h expert spiritual g uidance,
The Modern Oracle w ill help you answer life’s
big questions and solve everyday dr amas.
THE
MODERN
ORACLE
www.laurenceking.com£12.99 / US$17.99
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How to Make Your Dog
#Famous
A Guide to Social
Media and Beyond
Loni Edwards
New York, USA
www.loniedwards.co
www.thedogagency.com
@chloetheminifrenchie
@lonidee
@Loni
You know your dog is the cutest but does the rest of the
world know? How do you stand out?
In this book, dog-obsessed pet-influencer guru Loni
Edwards walks you straight to the top. Discover the secrets
behind social media’s canine celebrities and follow the
essential steps on the road to fame – nd an angle, build
your prole, get ready for travel, plus many more. With
expert guidance to make sure your pup is happy and healthy
every step of the way, this is your one-stop guide to helping
your dog win over the world, one adorable post at a time.
LONI EDWARDS is the founder of The Dog Agency, the rst
talent management agency to focus on pet inuencers, and
of the pet convention PetCon.
Social Media / Pop Culture
MMP: 9781913947149 170 x 170mm, 144pp, £11.99
A guide to social media
and beyond Loni Edwards
How to
Make
Your Dog
#famous
SEPTEMBER
Into the Wild
The Story of the World’s
Greatest Wildlife Photography
Gemma Padley
Essex, UK
@gemmapadley
@GemmaPadley
The rst book to piece together the most compelling
moments in wildlife photography
An epic visual story of wildlife photography’s pioneers and
world rsts. From the very rst pictures of wild lions and
tigers on record, and the rst-ever shots of nocturnal and
underwater animals, right up to the spectacular images
from the wildest corners of the earth that modern-day
technology allows, Into the Wild is an extraordinary
collection of over 250 images and 150 years of our efforts
to document the natural world. Now, more than ever,
these are the photographs and stories that matter.
GEMMA PADLEY is a writer and editor on photography.
Her writing has been published by the Telegraph, Foam,
Photomonitor, LensCulture, AnOther, Elephant, British Journal
of Photography and 1000 Words magazine.
Wildlife / Photography / Natural History
HB: 9781913947484 298 x 260 mm, 256 pp, £40
SEPTEMBER
Into the Wild
Into the Wild
The Story of the World’s Greatest
Wildlife Photography
Gemma Padley
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Skulls
Portraits of the Dead and
the Stories They Tell
Paul Gambino
New York, USA
An eerie journey through history seen through the hollow
eye sockets of this crown jewel of the human skeleton
It is said that the skull is the only human body part that is
as powerful dead as it was when living. Skulls is made up
of a series of short illustrated stories laced with fascinat-
ing facts, historical and medical references and compelling
anecdotes. The testimonials of thirty-plus skull collectors
reveal what is known of – or speculated about – the often
gruesome history of the skulls, as well as how they were
acquired and what makes them so highly prized.
PAUL GAMBINO has been an avid collector of the macabre
for over twenty years and owns an extensive collection of
nineteenth-century memorial photographs.
History / Medical Anatomy
HB: 9781786276513 240 x 170mm, 192pp, £20
PAUL GAM BINO
PORTR AI TS OF THE DE AD
and the stories they tell
SKULL
S
SEPTEMBER
The Atlas of Dark
Destinations
Explore the World of
Dark Tourism
Dr Peter Hohenhaus
www.dark-tourism.com
Reaching some of the darkest corners of the world, this
is a compendium of travel destinations like no other
Dark tourism has seen a surge in popularity in the last
decade as people seek a richer travel experience, choosing
to meaningfully engage with our more troubling heritage
rather than opting for merely escapist vacations. This is the
rst book to bring together 300 destinations in a readable
and fascinating guide, from nuclear bunkers and disaster
sites, to strange medical museums and eerie catacombs.
Author Peter Hohenhaus has visited all of the places fea-
tured in the book and brings his rst-hand knowledge to
the reader.
DR PETER HOHENHAUS is a world authority on dark tourism
and has visited over 700 dark destinations. He is the creator
and curator of the dark-destinations website.
Travel
HB: 9781913947194 257 x 190mm, 352pp, £24.99
Vilnius, Lithuania (incl. Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights)
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork, Norway
Leningrad Blockade Museum & monument, St Petersburg, Russia
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork, Norway
Vilnius, Lithuania (incl. Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights)
Ushuaia, Argentina
Verdun, France
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alcatraz, San Francisco, California, USA
Skopje, Macedonia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bletchley Park, Great Britain
Bucharest, Romania
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA
Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa
Red Terror Museum, Ethiopia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork, Norway
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Srebrenica, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Coventry Cathedral, Great Britain
Hack Green “secret” nuclear bunker, Great Britain
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vukovar, Croatia
Central Museum of the Armed Forces, Moscow, Russia
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany
ESMA, Buenos Aires,
Bletchley Park, Great Britain
Beelitz Heilstätten, Germany
Tallinn, Estonia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vilnius, Lithuania (incl. Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights)
Nuremberg, Germany
Duga, Chernobyl, Ukraine
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bucharest, Romania
Verdun, France
Hartheim, Austria
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hack Green “secret” nuclear bunker, Great Britain
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa
Red Terror Museum, Ethiopia
Vajont Dam, Italy
Bletchley Park, Great Britain
Skopje, Macedonia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gallipoli, Turkey
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tallinn, Estonia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colditz, Germany
Vukovar, Croatia
Leningrad Blockade Museum & monument, St Petersburg, Russia
Red Terror Museum, Ethiopia
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork, Norway
Goli Otok, Croatia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hack Green “secret” nuclear bunker, Great Britain
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bucharest, Romania
Channel Islands
Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, Bologna, Italy
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oklahoma City National Memorial, Oklahoma, USA
Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA
Coventry Cathedral, Great Britain
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tallinn, Estonia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Central Museum of the Armed Forces, Moscow, Russia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hack Green “secret” nuclear bunker, Great Britain
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nuremberg, Germany
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Leningrad Blockade Museum & monument, St Petersburg, Russia
Skopje, Macedonia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Funeral Museum & Central Cemetery, Vienna, Austria
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gallipoli, Turkey
Bucharest, Romania
Channel Islands
Coventry Cathedral, Great Britain
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Leningrad Blockade Museum & monument, St Petersburg, Russia
Sepulchral Museum, Kassel, Germany
Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, Bologna, Italy
Hack Green “secret” nuclear bunker, Great Britain
Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA
Goli Otok, Croatia
Tallinn, Estonia
Colditz, Germany
Sepulchral Museum, Kassel, Germany
Verdun, France
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gallipoli, Turkey
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Funeral Museum & Central Cemetery, Vienna, Austria
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Red Terror Museum, Ethiopia
Colditz, Germany
Vukovar, Croatia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vilnius, Lithuania (incl. Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights)
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sepulchral Museum, Kassel, Germany
Hack Green “secret” nuclear bunker, Great Britain
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Duga, Chernobyl, Ukraine
Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, Bologna, Italy
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hötensleben border memorial, Germany
Tallinn, Estonia
Channel Islands
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Leningrad Blockade Museum & monument, St Petersburg, Russia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, Bologna, Italy
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alcatraz, San Francisco, California, USA
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork, Norway
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Goli Otok, Croatia
Vajont Dam, Italy
9th Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania
Colditz, Germany
Vajont Dam, Italy
Verdun, France
Skopje, Macedonia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gallipoli, Turkey
Vajont Dam, Italy
Funeral Museum & Central Cemetery, Vienna, Austria
Vilnius, Lithuania (incl. Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights)
Perm-36 Gulag memorial site, Russia
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork, Norway
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Skopje, Macedonia
Vajont Dam, Italy
Verdun, France
Leningrad Blockade Museum & monument, St Petersburg, Russia
Mimoyecques, Pas de Calais, France
Duga, Chernobyl, Ukraine
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork, Norway
Bucharest, Romania
Coventry Cathedral, Great Britain
Red Terror Museum, Ethiopia
Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
9th Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Goli Otok, Croatia
Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mimoyecques, Pas de Calais, France
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bucharest, Romania
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vilnius, Lithuania (incl. Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights)
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Duga, Chernobyl, Ukraine
Gallipoli, Turkey
Alcatraz, San Francisco, California, USA
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Perm-36 Gulag memorial site, Russia
Oklahoma City National Memorial, Oklahoma, USA
Leningrad Blockade Museum & monument, St Petersburg, Russia
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mimoyecques, Pas de Calais, France
Colditz, Germany
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork, Norway
Titan Missile Museum, Arizona, USA
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
VSedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic
ESMA, Buenos Aires,
ESMA, Buenos Aires,
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gibraltar
Bletchley Park, Great Britain
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bucharest, Romania
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Titan Missile Museum, Arizona, USA
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colditz, Germany
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Red Terror Museum, Ethiopia
Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa
Coventry Cathedral, Great Britain
Oklahoma City National Memorial, Oklahoma, USA
Channel Islands
ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lidice, Czech Republic
Arlington, USA
The Atlas of
Dark
Destinations
PETER HOHENHAUS
SEPTEMBER
75
Ana Sampson, illustrations by Sarah Maycock
Poetry
ANA SAMPSON is the author of many bestselling anthologies including I Wandered Lonely
as a Cloud and Other Poems You Half-Remember from School, Tyger Tyger Burning Bright:
Much Loved Poems You Half-Remember, Poems to Learn by Heart, Green and Pleasant Land:
Best-Loved Poems of the British Countryside, Best-Loved Poems: A Treasury of Verse and Night
Feeds and Morning Songs. Illustrated by the talented SARAH MAYCOCK.
Ana Sampson
London, UK
www.anasampson.co.uk
@Anabooks
Sarah Maycock
East Sussex, UK
www.sarahmaycock.co.uk
@sarahmaycock
@sarahmaycock
The Book of Cat Poems
Sixty illustrated poems by the world’s most loved poets
in celebration of one of the world’s most beloved pets
Curious, enigmatic and playful, cats have often inspired the
literary imagination. This beautifully illustrated anthology of
sixty cat poems is a celebration of the world’s best loved pet
by the world’s most loved poets, featuring the work of John
Keats, Margaret Atwood, Ted Hughes and many more. The
purrfect gift for cat lovers everywhere.
HB: 9781786279446 185 x 135mm, 128pp, £12.99
The Book of Cat Poems
£12.99/US$17.99 www.laurencek ing.com
Compiled by Ana Sampson
& illustrated by Sarah Maycock
Sarah Maycock & Ana Sampson The Book of Cat Poems
‘e smallest feline
is a masterpiece’
Leonardo da Vinci
SEPTEMBER
The Book of Dog Poems
Sixty beautifully illustrated poems about our furry
best friends
Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, these sixty poems
offer a true celebration of the faithful, affectionate, delight-
ful dog. Featuring the work of William Wordsworth, Rudyard
Kipling, Emily Dickinson and Thomas Hardy, among others,
and accompanied by specially commissioned illustrations.
The perfect gift for dog lovers.
HB: 9781786279439 185 x 135mm, 128pp, £12.99
The Book of Dog Poems
‘Two universes mosey
down the street
Connected by love &
a leash and nothing else.’
Howard Nemerov
Compiled by Ana Sampson
& illustrated by Sarah Maycock
£12.99/US$17.99 www.laurencek ing.com
Sarah Maycock & Ana Sampson The Book of Dog Poems
SEPTEMBER
76
The Circular Economy
(for Regular People)
How to Live Sustainably
Claire Potter
Brighton, UK
www.clairepotterdesign.com
@ClairePotter
A practical guide to the circular economy that taps into
the desire for a collective response to the climate crisis
The circular economy is a series of systems that encom-
passes many of the terms we already use in relation to sus-
tainable living: reuse, recycle, rell. By describing the system
in a clear and engaging way, this book builds on what the
reader already knows and nudges them into other actions
that will help the planet and change the way we do things.
CLAIRE POTTER is a circular economy designer, consultant
and educator based in Brighton, UK. Along with her multi-
faceted studio, Claire lectures at the University of Sussex,
speaks about the circular economy at conferences around
the world and volunteers her expertise to marine conserva-
tion organisations.
Lifestyle
HB: 9781913947125 198 x 129mm, 192pp, £12.99
How to Live
Sustainably
Claire Potter
The
Circular
Economy
(for regular people)
SEPTEMBER
The Book of the Raven
Corvids in Art and Legend
Angus Hyland and Caroline
Roberts
London, UK
Angus Hyland
@AngusHyland
Caroline Roberts
@Copyright_RGD
From Norse legends to Game of Thrones, this beautifully
designed book showcases the visual and literary life of
corvids
Corvids play an outsize role in the human imagination. We
keep ravens in towers, emblazon rooks on banners, nd
crows in the constellations and make sure to salute soli-
tary magpies. We also see our own behaviour mirrored in
this diverse family of birds, who are tricksters and thieves
as well as problem-solvers and gift-givers.
Including beautiful and darkly seductive photographs and
paintings as well as texts and poems, this book celebrates
everything that makes corvids so intriguing to us.
ANGUS HYLAND is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and
a partner at Pentagram Design London. CAROLINE ROBERTS
is a journalist and author who writes about the graphic arts.
Art
MMP: 9781786277015 205 x 160mm, 160pp, £14.99
The BOOK OF THE RAVEN
www.laurenceking.com
£12.99/ US$16.99
Edgar Alla n Poe, The Raven
Caroline Rob erts
Angus Hyland
1st 2nd 3rd 4th
DARKNESS
THERE
AND
NOTHING
MORE
CORVIDS in ART & LEGEND
Gold Foil Blacking
The
BOOK
of the
RAVEN
CORVIDS
in
ART
&
LEGEND
Black Foil Blacking
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SEPTEMBER
77
Virginia Woolf
Inspiring Quotes from an
Original Feminist Icon
Virginia Woolf
Deceased
The rst and only collection of Virginia Woolf’s most
inspirational quotes
‘No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody
but oneself.’ Over 100 words of wisdom from the inimitable
Virginia Woolf on love, literature, feminism, food, work, age-
ing, authenticity, nature, truth, happiness and everything in
between, carefully selected and curated from Woolf’s time-
less novels, essays and speeches. A celebration of one of
the world’s best-loved writers and a true feminist icon, in a
beautifully packaged, small-format gift book.
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941) is regarded as one of the
most important modernist writers of the twentieth century.
Literary / Gift
HB: 9781913947132 155 x 110mm, 128pp, £9.99
SEPTEMBER
The Happy
Writing Book
Discover the Positive Power
of Creative Writing
Elise Valmorbida
London, UK
www.elisevalmorbida.com
Learn how to harness your creativity for self-care
The Happy Writing Book helps readers develop self-con-
dence and personal resilience, calm stress and anxiety and
discover greater well-being by learning the art of creative
writing. It features 100 prompts and exercises specially
devised by Elise Valmorbida, an award-winning novelist and
creative writing teacher with over twenty years’ experience.
Through self-expression and self-exploration, this book will
help readers to write better and feel better too.
Award-winning author, designer, communications consul-
tant, lm-maker and, for over twenty years, teacher of
creative writing, ELISE VALMORBIDA offers guidance that is
eclectic, inspiring and real.
Self-care
MMP: 9781913947118 200 x 144mm, 240pp, £12.99
SEPTEMBER
THE HAPPY
WRITING BOOK
Discover the Positive Power
of Creative Writing
Eli se Valm or bid a
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Your Spiritual Almanac
A Year of Living Mindfully
Joey Hulin
Newquay, UK
@joeyhulin_writer
A year of inspiration, recipes, meditations and arma-
tions to guide you towards a more spiritual and mindful
life
Ideal for all spiritual explorers and anyone curious about
mindful living, the book is divided into the twelve months,
each replete with advice and inspiration. Discover your
crystal and essential oil, armation and meditation, recipe,
moon phase, yoga pose, fable and uplifting quote for every
month of the year, with each entry perfectly attuned to the
season. With so many suggestions and mindful practices
to encourage reection and give guidance, this is the gentle
approach to a spiritual life.
JOEY HULIN is a writer, meditation teacher and poet based
in Cornwall, UK. She has dedicated the last decade to her
own spiritual growth by living and embodying the teachings
she shares.
Mind, Body, Spirit
HB: 9781786277343 180 x 120mm, 256pp, £12.99
SEPTEMBER
A Year of Living Mindfully
JOEY HULIN
Where’s Wes?
The Wes Anderson Seek-
and-Find Book
Little White Lies,
illustrations by Doug John
Miller
London, UK
www.lwlies.com
www.dougjohnmiller.com
@dougjohnmiller
@DougJohnMiller
Embark on a seek-and-nd adventure into the delight-
fully eccentric, pastel-hued world of Wes Anderson
Find Wes in twelve brilliantly detailed scenes, each dedicated
to one of his hugely popular lms – from a detailed cut away
of the Belafonte from The Life Aquatic, to a labyrinthine
reconstruction of the world of Fantastic Mr Fox. Also spot a
huge cast of extras, including Wes’s regular collaborators,
those he’s inspired and inuenced, and many more!
Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism,
bimonthly print magazine LITTLE WHITE LIES is the leading
indie lm magazine.
Film / Gift Book
HB: 9781913947088 320 x 240mm, 40pp, £12.99
SEPTEMBER
79
101 Kinky Things Even
You Can Do
Kate Sloan
Toronto, Canada
www.girlyjuice.net
@girly_juice
@Girly_Juice
An accessible and fun guide to kinky practices for
everyone
Everything you wanted to know about kinky practices is
covered in this highly entertaining and readable book.
Known for her bold, witty prose on all matters related to the
bedroom, Kate Sloan makes this an accessible subject for
anyone curious about new ways to spice up their sex lives.
Whether you are looking for ideas, clarication or just an
enjoyable read, there is plenty here to keep you intrigued.
The text is accompanied by helpful tips and illustrations.
KATE SLOAN
is a journalist, blogger, podcaster and educator.
Her twice-weekly blog covers sex, kinks, relationships,
fashion, beauty, writing and mental health.
Sex & Relationships
HB: 9781913947217 196 x 138mm, 176pp, £14.99
OCTOBER
David Hockney
James Cahill
London, UK
www.jamescahill.info
The latest addition to the Lives of the Artists series:
highly readable short biographies of the world’s greatest
artists
David Hockney is the most famous living British artist.
Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made
quite a splash in Swinging London as a portraitist and went
on to make an even bigger splash in Los Angeles when he
moved there in the 1970s. By the beginning of the millen-
nium, he had returned to his Yorkshire roots, embarking on
a new period of painting and capping a truly remarkable
career. This book brings his spectacular life together.
JAMES CAHILL
is a writer and critic based in London who has
written for Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, CURA, Elephant,
Frieze and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Art Biography
HB: 9781913947422 181 x 120mm, 144pp, £12.99
OCTOBER
80
From the
Sculptor’s Studio
Conversations with
Twenty Seminal Artists
Ina Cole
UK
Twenty of the most inuential contemporary sculptors
talk candidly about their work
Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Phyllida Barlow, Yinka
Shonibare, Rachel Whiteread – these are the sculptors
who dene sculpture, and here they are in their own words.
From the Sculptor’s Studio is a unique collection of personal
conversations with twenty seminal artists, each of whom
has created iconic work, exhibited worldwide and pushed
past the boundaries of sculpting in their own way.
INA COLE is UK editor for Sculpture, a publication aliated
to the International Sculpture Center in the US.
Art
HB: 9781913947590 292 x 220mm, 256pp, £40
OCTOBER
FROM THE
SCULPTOR’S
STUDIO
Ina Cole
Conversations
with Twenty Seminal Artists
Gus Van Sant
The Art of Making Movies
Katya Tylevich, Gus Van
Sant
www.katyatylevich.com
@katyatylevich
The rst book to talk about the creative process of one
of Hollywood’s most iconic directors
From Drugstore Cowboy to Elephant, Milk and Good Will
Hunting, Gus Van Sant’s lms have captured the imagination
of more than one generation. Acclaimed as both an
independent and mainstream lm-maker, he is also an
artist, photographer and writer. Based on completely new
and exclusive interviews, and featuring previously unseen
imagery, this book provides a personal insight into how Van
Sant successfully approaches these different and varied
art forms, providing an inspirational look into the working
life of one of America’s most pivotal cultural and creative
practitioners.
KATYA TYLEVICH is a writer specialising in art, architecture,
design and lm.
Film
HB: 9781913947477 240 x 170mm, 288pp, £20
OCTOBER
Gus Van Sant
Katya Tylevich & Gus Van Sant
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The Day of the Dead
A Visual Compendium
Julian Rothenstein and
Chloë Sayer
London, UK
An anthology of visual imagery of the Mexican Day of the
Dead, from folk art to paintings and street photography
This book considers how the Day of the Dead has been
celebrated in visual art and culture, from the traditional and
iconic illustrations of Manuel Manilla to the paintings of
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
With a foreword by the ceramic artist and curator
Carlomagno Pedro Martínez, this compendium also
includes poems, songs and literature celebrating the festival,
as well as dedicated chapters that focus on contemporary
representations, such as urban art, grati and the street
photography of Yolanda Andrade.
JULIAN ROTHENSTEIN is well known as a designer, editor
and publisher. He founded Redstone Press in 1987 and has
produced over fty publications, as well as the iconic annual
Redstone Diary.
CHLOË SAYER
is an independent scholar and
curator, specialising in Mexican art and culture. She lectures
extensively, leads cultural tours to Mexico and has made
ethnographic collections for the British Museum.
Art / Customs & Traditions
HB: 9781786277251 240 x 170mm, 224pp, £20
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The Pocket
Photographer
How to Take Amazing
Photos with Your Phone
Mike Kus
Chichester, UK
www.mikekus.com
@mikekus
An accessible guide to getting the best out of your
phone camera, aimed at everyone who wants to take
Instagrammable photographs
Everyone has a camera on their phone. Author Mike
Kus, a photographer with a strong Instagram following,
demonstrates the simple tricks and techniques that take
your photography to another level. His methods can be
mastered by anyone, and the content avoids reference to
specic phone camera technology, instead relying on clear
principles to make you a better photographer, regardless
of the phone you own. The book is written, designed and
illustrated by the author.
MIKE KUS has built up a successful Instagram following for
his photography, now with 795K followers, and gives talks
at photography conferences and events.
Practical Photography
HB: 9781913947521 198 x 137mm, 144pp, £14.99
Mike Kus
OCTOBER
82
Artists on Art
How the Masters See,
Think and Create
Holly Black
London, UK
Enter the world of fty great artists, from Michelangelo
to Tracey Emin
Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images
and interviews, Artists on Art reveals what matters most to
the masters. You’ll discover how the giants of the different
artistic genres developed their distinctive visual styles, the
core ideas that underpin their practice and, most impor-
tantly, what art means to you.
HOLLY BLACK
is an arts journalist and managing editor at
Elephant magazine. She has written for publications includ-
ing Aperture, AnOther, The Art Newspaper, House & Garden
and Wallpaper.
Art
MMP: 9781786278852 200 x 144mm, 128pp, £12.99
NOVEMBER
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Beyoncé
Tshepo Mokoena
London, UK
@tnm__
Part of the Lives of the Musicians series: short biog-
raphies of the world’s greatest musicians
Beyoncé is not simply a pop sensation. She is a
cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and
dispossessed, challenging white privilege and misogyny
and exploding gender politics. But who is Beyoncé Knowles-
Carter? And how did a young girl from Houston become the
strong condent woman whose albums sell in their millions
and whose songs have become anthems against racial
and sexual discrimination and oppression? This biography
reveals exactly that.
TSHEPO MOKOENA is an editorial director of Vice and writes
on music for the Guardian. She has been a fan of Beyoncé
since she heard her rst Destiny’s Child song.
Music Biography
HB: 9781913947347 181 x 120mm, 144pp, £12.99
NOVEMBER
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Furoshiki
And the Japanese Art
of Gift Wrapping
Tomoko Kakita
London, UK
www.maspacedesign.com
Perfect the gift of giving. The only modern, practical
guide to the ancient art of Japanese gift wrapping
Make giving simple gifts extra special (and help save the
planet) with thirty exquisite yet easy styles. Wrap every
birthday or Christmas present, including bottles of wine,
bouquets of owers and gift cards with no cutting, sticking
or waste – furoshiki is completely reusable. As well as gifts,
you can also use your furoshiki to wrap and carry all sorts of
items. Say goodbye to wrapping paper and plastic shopping
bags for good.
TOMOKO KAKITA is a Japanese furoshiki and tsutsumi expert
based in London, UK. She designs and sells her beautiful,
nature-inspired furoshiki at maspacedesign.com
Crafts
HB: 9781913947651 180 x 130mm, 144pp, £12.99
TOMOKO KAKITA
風呂敷
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NOVEMBER
DEBUT
Prince
Jason Draper
London, UK
Part of the Lives of the Musicians series: short biog-
raphies of the world’s greatest musicians
His name was Prince, and he was funky. He was also inspir-
ing, visionary, seductive and contradictory. Especially contra-
dictory. When he changed his name to an unpronounceable
glyph, he merged symbols of the male and female to repre-
sent himself. When he recorded music – a daily torrent of
creativity – he slipped with ease between male and female
viewpoints. This book charts the rise of the 5ft 2in ‘Minne-
apolis genius’, from ‘the next Stevie Wonder’ to a unique art-
ist whose towering legacy continues to shape pop culture.
JASON DRAPER is a music journalist and the author of Prince:
Life and Times (2017), Led Zeppelin: Revealed (2008) and A
Brief History of Album Covers (2017).
Music Biography
HB: 9781913947552 181 x 120mm, 192pp, £12.99
NOVEMBER
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The Bird
The Great Age of
Avian Illustration
Philip Kennedy
Dublin, Ireland
www.illustrationchronicles.com
Celebrating the beautiful world of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century ornithological illustration
The splendour of birds has always inspired the human
imagination, leading to incredible discoveries and
creations. This book celebrates the lavish illustrations
produced during a time of exceptional scientic, artistic
and geographic discovery. From John James Audubon
and Alexander Wilson to Edward Lear and Elizabeth Gould,
the artists and explorers featured in this book produced
some of the most beautiful illustrations ever printed, and
their work transformed our understanding of the wonderful
world of birds.
PHILIP KENNEDY is a writer, illustrator and educator. He
teaches at Ireland’s National College of Art and Design
and is the founder of illustrationchronicles.com, a website
exploring the history of illustration.
Nature
HB: 9781786277312 315 x 220mm, 352pp, £40
PHILIP KENNEDY
The
Bird
The Great Age
of Avian Illustration
The
Great Age
of Avian
Illustr ation
NOVEMBER
85
LAURENCE KING started its gift list in 2012. For a book publisher, this was a way of publishing
books by other means, using new formats, from stationery to games, to carry content in playful,
informal and interactive ways.
This season, we have been busy expanding our range of inventive products from children’s
games through to adult smart gifts. Your kids are bound to find Pooper Heroes and Sea Monsters
& Rainbows both hilarious and electrifying. The environment is obviously a big concern, and
your family will be able to help raise awareness and save animals with ‘Endangered Animals
Bingo’. Self-care is more than ever a concern in these difficult times, and products such our
new series of emotions-based gradient puzzles, or our Therapy Toolkit deck, will help put you
into a positive frame of mind.
Above all, we hope these will continue to do what our best gifts have always done: to allow you
and your family to discover new worlds in fun and exciting ways.
Laurence King Publishing Gift List
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Body Language
Decoder
Martin Brooks,
illustrated by
Rachel Levit Ruiz
Bond Bingo
Laurence King
Publishing
Pooper
Heroes
Zsolt Batki,
illustrated by
Aga Giecko
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The Puzzle of
Calm
Therese Vandling
and Professor
Susan Broomhall
The World of
Charles Dickens
John Mullan,
illustrated by
Barry Falls
The Puzzle of
Happiness
Therese Vandling
and Professor
Susan Broomhall
The Puzzle of
Hopefulness
Therese Vandling
and Professor
Susan Broomhall
Therapy Toolkit
Linn Martinsen, Dip Couns,
MBACP, illustrated by
Cindy Kang
Find Freddie
Illustrated
by Timba Smits
Endangered
Animals Bingo
Marcel George,
text by Lizzie Williams
Jane Austen
Playing Cards
John Mullan,
illustrated by
Barry Falls
Sea Monsters &
Rainbows
Anna Claybourne,
illustrated by Sister Arrow
Intriguing
and uniquely
beautiful books
and gifts
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Artwork from The Hand of the Sun King by
J.T. Greathouse, published by Gollancz (p.92)
89
GOLLANCZ is the oldest specialist Science Fiction and Fantasy publisher
in the UK. Founded in 1927, and with a continuous Science Fiction
publishing programme dating back to 1961, it is home to a galaxy of award-
winning and bestselling authors. Through the long-running Science Fiction
and Fantasy Masterworks programme, and a major digital initiative, the
Science Fiction Gateway, Gollancz has one of the largest ranges of Science
Fiction and Fantasy of any publisher in the world. Authors include Ben
Aaronovitch, Joe Abercrombie, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Aliette
de Bodard, Arthur C. Clarke, Dhonielle Clayton, Philip K. Dick, Stephen
Donaldson, Charlaine Harris, Joanne M. Harris, Joe Hill, Ursula K. Le
Guin, Scott Lynch, Terry Pratchett, Alastair Reynolds, Justina Robson,
Brandon Sanderson, Andrzej Sapkowski and Nalini Singh. Mission: To
publish the very best authors in the elds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and
Horror, to re-present the classics of the genre to a new audience and to
discover the stars of tomorrow. To boldly go, dare we say it, where no
publisher has gone before.
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
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A Desert Torn Asunder
Bradley Beaulieu
Racine, USA
www.quillings.com
@bbeaulieu
The conclusion to The Song of the Shattered Sands
series lls its desert setting with rich world-building and
pulse-pounding action
The plans of the desert gods are coming to fruition. Meryam,
the deposed queen of Qaimir, hopes to raise the buried elder
god, Ashael.
Sailing for their ancestral home to bring the traitor, Hamid,
to justice, Çeda and Emre instead discover the desert tribes
have united under Hamid’s banner in a crusade to annihilate
Sharakhai.
Ashael means to journey to the land that was denied him
an age ago. Çeda must unite the desert tribes, the people of
Sharakhai and the city’s invaders for survival.
BRADLEY BEAULIEU is the acclaimed author of The Lays of
Anuskaya trilogy and honed his craft with authors including
Holly Black, Tim Powers and Nancy Kress.
Fantasy
TPB: 9781473233461 Demy, 528pp, £18.99
eBook: 9781473233485 £18.99
Audio: 9781473233492 10hrs, £25
JULY
Last Guard
Nalini Singh
Auckland, New Zealand
www.nalinisingh.com
@NaliniSingh
New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns
to a world devastated by change in her award-winning
Psy-Changeling Trinity series
In a destabilised world with countless lives at stake, two
people dened by their aloneness must stand together to
stave off ultimate destruction.
Born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand, NALINI SINGH spent
three years living and working in Japan and travelling around
Asia before returning to New Zealand.
Fantasy Romance
HB: 9781473228160 Demy, 384pp, £18.99
TPB: 9781473228177 Demy, 384pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781473228191 £18.99
Audio: 9781473228207 10hrs, £21.99
JULY
91
The Dying Squad
Adam Simcox
London, UK
@adamsimcox
Line of Duty meets Rivers of London – a supernatural
crime debut where a detective must solve his own
murder
When Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire
farmhouse, he expects to bring down a notorious drug gang;
instead, he discovers his own body and a spirit guide called
Daisy-May.
She’s there to enlist him to The Dying Squad, a spectral
police force who solve crimes their esh and blood coun-
terparts cannot.
Lazarus reluctantly accepts and returns to the Lincolnshire
Badlands in his quest to discover the identity of his killer –
before they kill again.
ADAM SIMCOX is a lm-maker who has written and directed
three features, the rst selling to Netix. A Curtis Brown
Creative graduate, The Dying Squad is Adam’s debut novel.
Urban Fantasy
HB: 9781473230743 Royal, 320 pp, £18.99
TPB: 9781473230750 Royal, 320 pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781473230774 £18.99
Audio: 9781473230897 10hrs, £21.99
JULY
DEBUT
Empress of Flames
Mimi Yu
Evanston, USA
www.mimiyu.info
@baby_ajumma
@baby_ajumma
In this dark, sweeping fantasy two princesses must save
their home, no matter the cost
Princess Lu knows that the throne of the Empire of the First
Flame rightfully belongs to her. But Lu will need to face down
a major obstacle: the current sitting empress, her once-
beloved younger sister.
Princess Min used to live in Lu’s shadow. But now, bearing
ancient magic, Min is determined to use it to forge her own
path and a strong future for the empire. But Min’s magic
isn’t entirely under her control, and she must tame it before
it consumes the entire realm.
MIMI YU is an alumna of the popular ction workshop
with Marjorie Liu at Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA)
/ University of California at Berkeley 2014, and VONA /
University of Miami 2015.
Fantasy
TPB: 9781473223141 Demy, 496pp, £12.99
eBook: 9781473223165 £12.99
Audio: 9781409176343 10hrs, £21.99
AUGUST
92
The Hand of the
Sun King
J.T. Greathouse
Spokane, USA
www.jeremyteg.com
@jeremyteg
Introducing an astounding new voice in fantasy, The
Hand of the Sun King launches the epic Pact and Pattern
trilogy
My name is Wen Alder. My name is Foolish Cur. I am torn
between two legacies: that of my father, whose roots trace
back to the right hand of the emperor. That of my mother’s
family, who reject the oppressive empire and embrace the
resistance. Or I can seek a better path . . . a magical path,
unbound by empire or resistance, which could rock the very
foundations of the world. But my search for freedom will
entangle me in a war between gods.
J.T. GREATHOUSE has been writing fantasy and science
ction since he was eleven years old. His short ction has
appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Writers of the
Future, Volume 34.
Epic Fantasy
HB: 9781473232877 Royal, 416pp, £16.99
TPB: 9781473232884 Royal, 416pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781473232907 £16.99
Audio: 9781473233010 15hrs, £21.99
AUGUST
DEBUT
Inhibitor Phase
Alastair Reynolds
Merthyr Tydl, UK
www.alastairreynolds.com
@AquilaRift
From the depths of space to the ruins of empire, this is a
stealthy space opera from Reynolds at his best
‘A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the
far-ung future’ Sun
Fleeing the ‘wolves’ – the xenocidal alien machines known
as Inhibitors – Miguel de Ruyter has protected his family
and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in
the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas.
But when a one-way mission, with a destructive mandate,
goes wrong, Miguel will nd the lone survivor knows far
more about him than she’s letting on . . .
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS
was born in Barry, South Wales, and
has a PhD in astronomy. He stopped working as an astro-
physicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-
time writer.
Science Fiction
HB: 9780575090712 Royal, 488pp, £20
TPB: 9780575090729 Royal, 488pp, £14.99
eBook: 9780575090750 £20
Audio: 9781473228429 10hrs, £21.99
AUGUST
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Warriors of God
Andrzej Sapkowski
Łódź, Poland
The second volume of the Hussite trilogy by the
bestselling author of The Witcher takes Reynevan into
the depths of the Hussite war
Reynevan begins by hiding away in Bohemia but soon leaves
for Silesia, where he carries out dangerous, secret missions
entrusted to him by the leaders of the Hussite religion. At
the same time, he strives to avenge the death of his brother
and discover the whereabouts of his beloved.
Sapkowski’s deftly written novel delivers gripping action full
of numerous twists, seasoned with elements of magic and
Sapkowski’s ever-present sense of humour.
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI studied economy and business, but
the success of his fantasy saga about the Witcher Geralt
of Rivia turned him into one of Poland’s most famous and
successful authors.
Historical Fantasy
HB: 9781473226166 Royal, 432pp, £18.99
TPB: 9781473226173 Royal, 432pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781473226197 £18.99
Audio: 9781409185284 12hrs, £21.99
AUGUST
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In the old world there were many rules.
In the new world there is only one that
matters : don’t open your eyes.
In the seventeen years since the
‘creatures’ appeared, many people
have broken that rule. Many have looked.
Many have lost their minds, their lives,
their love d ones.
In that time, Malorie has raised her t wo
children – Olympia and Tom – on the
run or in hiding. Now nearly teenage rs,
survival is no longer enough . They
want freedom.
When a census-taker stops by their
refuge, he is not welcome. But he leaves
a list of names – of survivors building a
future beyond the darkness – and on
that list are two names Malorie knows.
Two names for whom she’ll break
every rule, and take her children across
the wilderness, in the hope of
becoming a family again . . .
CMYK
PRAISE FOR BIRD BOX
‘A book that demands to be read in a single sitting,
and through the cracks between one’s fingers’
Hugh Howey
‘Uniquely disturbing, exceptionally compelling
and beautifully written’
Sarah Pinborough
‘Completely compelling’
Peter Straub
‘Unflagging suspense and ever-present dread’
Adam Nevill
Andrzej Sapkowski was born in 1948
in Poland. He studied economy and
business, but the success of his fantasy
cycle about the Witcher Geralt of Rivia
turned him into a bestselling writer. His
work has received Poland’s Janusz A.
Zajdel prize five times, as well as Great
Britain’s David Gemmell Award for
Fantasy, in 2009. In 2016, he received
the World Fantasy Award-Life
Achievement. The Witcher has been
adapted to a successful video-game
franchise, and is now a massively
popular series on Netflix.
The second volume of the Hussite
Trilogy by the bestselling author of
The Witcher takes Reynevan –
scoundrel, magician, possibly a fool
– into the depths of war as he attempts
to navigate the religious fervours
of the fifteenth century.
Reynevan begins by hiding away in
Bohemia but soon leaves for Silesia,
where he carries out dangerous, secret
missions entrusted to him by the leaders
of the Hussite religion. At the same time,
he strives to avenge the death of his
brother and discover the whereabouts
of his beloved. Once again pursued
by multiple enemies, Reynevan must
contend with danger on every front.
Sapkowski’s deftly written novel
delivers gripping action full of twists
and mysteries, seasoned with magic
and Sapkowski’s ever-present - and
occasionally bawdy - sense of humour.
Fans of the Witcher will appreciate
the rich panorama of this slice
of the Middle Ages.
Translated by David French
New Y or k Times bestselling author of
‘A ripping yarn delivered with world-weary
wite, bursting at the seams with sex,
death, magic and madness’
Joe Abercrombie
‘A bloody but satisfying picaresque’
The Guardian
‘This is historical fantasy done right’
Publishers Weekly
‘A well-crafted mix of historical fiction and
fantasy with engaging characters, a tight
plot and a unique setting’
Grimdark Magazine
www.gollancz.co.uk
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Among Thieves
M.J. Kuhn
Detroit, USA
@mj_kuhn
A thrilling fantasy debut – a high-stakes heist novel set
in a gritty world of magic and malice. Perfect for fans of
Six of Crows
For six years, a deadly secret has kept Ryia Cautella
hiding from the Guildmaster – sovereign ruler of the ve
kingdoms of Thamorr. But even the most powerful men
can be defeated.
Not alone, though. Against every instinct she has, Ryia is
forced to team up with a crew of miscreants, smugglers and
thieves to best him. If she succeeds, she wins her freedom.
Though, unfortunately for Ryia, her new allies are nearly as
selsh as she is . . .
M.J. KUHN is a fantasy writer by night and a mild-mannered
university employee by day. She lives in the Metro Detroit
area with her husband Ryan and a very spoiled cat.
Fantasy
HB: 9781473234529 Royal, 400pp, £16.99
TPB: 9781473234536 Royal, 400pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781473234550 £16.99
Audio: 9781473234567 10hrs, £21.99
SEPTEMBER
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Mile High with
a Vampire
Book 33 in the Argeneau
Vampire series
Lynsay Sands
Ontario, Canada
www.lynsaysands.net
@LynsaySands
In the latest book in the Argeneau series, an immortal
and her mortal pilot are on the run from hungry vampires
Jet Lassiter likes being a pilot for Argeneau Inc. But then his
plane goes down in the mountains and four of his passen-
gers are gravely injured. They need blood to heal . . . and Jet
is the only source.
Quinn Peters never wanted to be immortal. Once a renowned
heart surgeon, now she has to drink blood to survive. One
of the few survivors of the plane crash, can Quinn take the
mortal pilot to safety before her fellow immortals succumb
to blood lust?
LYNSAY SANDS
is an award-winning author of more than
thirty books, which have made the Barnes & Noble and New
York Times bestseller lists.
Fantasy Romance
MMP: 9781473230569 B format, 384pp, £8.99
eBook: 9781473230576 £8.99
SEPTEMBER
The Wisdom of Crowds
Joe Abercrombie
Bath, UK
www.joeabercrombie.com
@joeabercrombieauthor
@LordGrimdark
Concluding the Age of Madness trilogy, The Wisdom of
Crowds brings the revolutionising fantasy to its stunning
conclusion
‘Delightfully twisted and evil’ Guardian
Some say that to change the world you must rst burn it down.
Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution:
the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power,
and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds.
With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock is determined to
become a new hero for the new age, while Citizeness Sav-
ine must turn her talents from prot to survival before she
can nd redemption . . .
JOE ABERCROMBIE is the bestselling author of the First
Law Trilogy. His novels have been shortlisted for the World
Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Awards and the John W.
Campbell Award.
Fantasy
HB: 9780575095960 Royal, 560pp, £20
TPB: 9780575095977 Royal, 560pp, £14.99
eBook: 9780575095991 £20
Audio: 9781473228535 13hrs, £25
SEPTEMBER
95
Winterlight
Kristen Britain
Mount Desert, USA
www.kristenbritain.com
@kristenbritainocialfanpage
@kristen_britain
This seventh novel of the Green Rider series follows
the adventures of Karigan G’ladheon as she ghts dark
magic and a looming war
After being captured by Grandmother and the Second
Empire, Karigan G’ladheon is making halting progress
towards recovery. Karigan takes on increasingly dangerous
missions, haunted by the spectre of her torturer, Nyssa.
Meanwhile, the forces of the Second Empire are moving on
Sacoridia and their target guards a crucial mountain pass.
As war nears Sacoridia, Karigan must discover what
it means to be a Rider and a hero – and the sacrices
necessary to heal her past.
KRISTEN BRITAIN writes full time. She can often be found
paddling a canoe, ambling through the woods to mountain
summits or sitting along the rocky shore, listening, watching
and daydreaming.
Fantasy
TPB: 9781473226494 Royal, 400pp, £16.99
eBook: 9781473226524 £16.99
Audio: 9781473233430 15hrs, £21.99
SEPTEMBER
Archangel’s Light
Nalini Singh
Auckland, New Zealand
www.nalinisingh.com
@NaliniSingh
The next instalment of New York Times bestselling
author Nalini Singh’s deadly and beautiful Guild Hunter
world
As dangerous as it is beautiful, Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter
world is a place of violent power . . . and secrets long buried.
But immortal secrets have a way of returning from the grave.
No one is ready for the terrible darkness about to escape,
vengeance its only aim.
Born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand, NALINI SINGH is the
New York Times bestselling author of the Psy-Changeling
series and the Guild Hunter series.
Fantasy Romance
MMP: 9781473231467 B format, 400pp, £8.99
eBook: 9781473231474 £8.99
Audio: 9781473231481 10hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
96
Blindspace
Jeremy Szal
Sydney, Australia
www.jeremyszal.com
@JeremySzal
From a compelling new voice in science ction: alien
technology, addictive upgrades and an ex-soldier
determined to protect his family
Vakov Fukasawa used to be a Reaper: a bio-enhanced sol-
dier ghting for the Harmony, against a brutal invading
empire. To make him a perfect soldier, Harmony injected
him with the DNA of an extinct alien race, altering his body
chemistry and leaving him permanently addicted to adren-
aline and aggression. Though they meant to create sol-
diers, Harmony has millions hopelessly addicted to their
own body chemistry.
Now Vakov may have walked away from Harmony, but they
still know where to nd him . . .
JEREMY SZAL
is the author of over forty science ction short
stories, some translated into multiple languages.
Science Fiction
TPB: 9781473227477 Royal, 544pp, £16.99
eBook: 9781473227491 £16.99
Audio: 9781473227507 10hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
Galaxias
Stephen Baxter
Northumberland, UK
www.stephen-baxter.com
What would happen to the world if the sun went out? A
new standalone science ction epic from a master of
the genre
By the middle of the twenty-rst century, humanity has
managed to overcome a series of catastrophic events and
maintain some sense of stability. Space exploration has
begun again. Science has led the way.
But then one day, the sun is extinguished. Solar panels are
useless, and the world begins to freeze. The earth begins to
fall out of its orbit. The end is nigh.
Someone has sent us a sign.
STEPHEN BAXTER is the pre-eminent science ction writer
of his generation. With Terry Pratchett, he co-authored the
Long Earth novels. He is a two-time winner of the Philip K.
Dick Award.
Space Opera
HB: 9781473228856 Royal, 400pp, £20
TPB: 9781473228863 Royal, 400pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781473228887 £20
Audio: 9781473228894 15hrs, £21.99
OCTOBER
97
All of Us Villains
Christine Herman and
Amanda Foody
Brooklyn, USA
www.christinelynnherman.com
@christineexists
www.amandafoody.com
@AmandaFoody
A stunning contemporary fantasy that pits seven families
against one another in a bid for mastery of magick
In the past, the villainous Lowes have won nearly every
tournament, and their champion is prepared to continue
his family’s reign over the city of Ilvernath.
The winner awards their family exclusive control over the
city’s high magick supply, the most powerful resource in
the world. But this year, thanks to the inuence of their new-
found notoriety, each of the champions has a means to win
and a chance to rewrite their story. But this story must be
penned in blood.
CHRISTINE HERMAN studied in the United States at the
University of Rochester where she received the Dean’s
Prize in ction.
AMANDA FOODY
loves to write immersive
settings and characters grappling with insurmountable
destinies. Her novels include Ace of Shades and Daughter
of the Burning City.
Urban Fantasy
HB: 9781473233850 Royal, 432pp, £16.99
TPB: 9781473233867 Royal, 432pp, £13.99
eBook: 9781473233881 £16.99
Audio: 9781473233898 12hrs, £21.99
NOVEMBER
Cytonic
Brandon Sanderson
www.brandonsanderson.com
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@BrandSanderson
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The third in Brandon Sanderson’s unstoppable New York
Times and Sunday Times bestselling new series, which
began with Starsight
‘Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores
the dening aspects of the individual versus the society
. . . Fans will not be disappointed’ SLJ
Humanity has been crushed, driven almost to extinction,
trapped on a single planet under near-constant, devastating
attack by alien starghters. And now Spensa knows why.
But another attack is on the way – and it hides an even greater
danger. Will even Spensa’s new knowledge be enough to bring
about peace, before everything is destroyed?
BRANDON SANDERSON was born in Nebraska in 1975. Since
then he has written the Mistborn books and begun the inter-
nationally bestselling Stormlight Archive.
Space Opera
HB: 9781473217935 Royal, 352pp, £18.99
TPB: 9781473217942 Royal, 352pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781473217966 £18.99
Audio: 9781409167402 10hrs, £25
NOVEMBER
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The Ultimate
Discworld Companion
Terry Pratchett and
Stephen Briggs, illustrations
by Paul Kidby
Oxford, UK
www.stephenbriggs.com
Salisbury, UK
www.paulkidby.com
The absolute, comprehensive, from Tiffany Aching to
Jack Zweiblumen guide to all things Discworld, fully
illustrated by Paul Kidby
If you’re looking for the ultimate authority on probably the
most heavily populated – certainly the most hilarious –
setting in fantasy literature . . . If you need a handy guide to
Discworld locales from Ankh-Morpork to Zemphis, or need
help telling Achmed the Mad from Jack Zweiblumen . . .
Look no further than The Ultimate Discworld Companion
– the comprehensive update to Turtle Recall by the ency-
clopaedic Stephen Briggs, and now fully illustrated by the
kaleidoscopic Paul Kidby!
TERRY PRATCHETT was the legend behind Discworld. He died
in 2015. STEPHEN BRIGGS voices the UK and US Discworld
audio books. PAUL KIDBY is Terry Pratchett’s ‘artist of choice’
and has illustrated Discworld for over twenty years.
Fantasy
HB: 9781473223509 Royal, 416pp, £20
TPB: 9781473223516 Royal, 416pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781473223530 £20
NOVEMBER
Outcast
Louise Carey
Welwyn Garden City, UK
www.louise-carey.com
@louisecarey25
@Louisecarey25
The breakneck sequel to the fantastic and prescient
Inscape, whose dystopia was described as ‘chillingly
plausible’ by Claire North
When a bomb goes off at InTech HQ, everything changes
for Tanta’s corporation.
Tanta is tasked with getting to the bottom of the attack
before unrest overtakes the city. The evidence points
towards rival corporation Thoughtfront, but Tanta can’t
shake the feeling that she’s missing something. There’s a
dark secret at the heart of the case that will reveal more
about her own corporation than Tanta would like.
LOUISE CAREY has co-written two novels for Gollancz, The
City of Silk and Steel and The House of War and Witness, as
well as a graphic novel for DC Comics.
Science Fiction
TPB: 9781473232754 Royal, 416pp, £14.99
eBook: 9781473230026 £14.99
Audio: 9781473230064 15hrs, £21.99
JANUARY
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The Wars of
Gods and Men
Chris Humphreys
Vancouver, Canada
www.authorchrishumphreys.com
@authorcchumphreys
@HumphreysCC
In the conclusion to the Immortals’ Blood series, three
immortal heroes must race to defeat a prophecy that
must not be fullled, and risk everything to keep a child
alive
Some people are immortal. They cannot know until they
‘die’ for the rst time, but then they are treated as gods. In a
world split into four different continents and cultures, this
is the only thing they have in common.
But someone has decided that it is time to change the world,
and reshape it in their own image. They have found a way to
kill the gods. And they must be stopped.
CHRIS HUMPHREYS
was born in Toronto and grew up in Los
Angeles and London. He is a third-generation actor and
writer on both sides of his family.
Dark Fantasy
TPB: 9781473226098 Royal, 400pp, £18.99
eBook: 9781473226111 £9.99
Audio: 9781473228467 10hrs, £21.99
JANUARY
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