Spring 2017

Spring 2017

CONTENTS 

2-17 

18-26 

27-35 

36-44 

45-54 

55-68 

69-71 

72 

QUERCUS FICTION NEW TITLES 

RIVERRUN 

MACLEHOSE PRESS NEW TITLES 

JO FLETCHER BOOKS NEW TITLES 

QUERCUS NON-FICTION NEW TITLES 

PAPERBACKS 

Index 

Quercus Contacts

NEW FICTION 

@quercusbooks 

/quercusbooks 

www.quercusbooks.co.uk

Crime (FF) / Thriller (FH) 

Paperback £7.99 9781784294830 

B Format 432 pages 

Ebook 9781784294847 

Not For Sale: USA & CAN 

DEATH TRAP 

ANNA SMITH 

A serial killer has Glasgow reporter Rosie 

Gilmour in his sights – fast-paced thriller for 

Jessie Keane and Kimberley Chambers fans. 

‘Thrilling and compelling’ Kimberley Chambers 

‘Rosie Gilmour is a captivating character who drags the 

reader along at breakneck speed’ Sunday Express 

Rosie Gilmour helped bring serial killer Thomas 

Boag to trial – so when he escapes from court, 

there’s only one person he’s after. Can Rosie 

complete her latest investigation into modern-day 

slavery in Glasgow before Boag finds her? Eighth 

in the gritty thriller series starring intrepid crime 

reporter Rosie Gilmour. 

Anna Smith is a journalist and former chief reporter 

for the Daily Record in Glasgow, who has covered 

stories from Dunblane to Kosovo to 9/11. 

FICTION | JANUARY | QUERCUS 

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (FA) 

Hardback £19.99 9781784298524 

Royal 432 pages 

Trade Paperback 9781784298531 

Ebook 9781784298555 


12 JANUARY 2017 

ADVENTURES IN 

MODERN MARRIAGE 

WILLIAM NICHOLSON 

A big-hearted novel about life and love in the 

bestselling vein of Colm Toibin and Nick Hornby. 

‘So incredibly accurate and true. Utterly captures the sense 

of quiet desperation of ordinary lives’ Kate Mosse 

Following on from The Secret Intensity of Everyday 

Life, this is a minute but extraordinarily empathetic 

dissection of relationships and what keeps 

them going. It is an acute look at male mid-life 

crises, female sexual desire, death and the fear 

of it, children and the trouble with them – the 

everyday battles we fight. 

William Nicholson is an award-winning 

screenwriter whose credits include Gladiator, 

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Les Miserables 

and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. 


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FICTION | JANUARY | QUERCUS 

Thriller (FH) 

Hardback £12.99 9781786480293 


Trade Paperback £12.99 9781786480286 

Ebook 9781786480279 


THE GIRL BEFORE 

JP DELANEY 

Enter the world of One Folgate Street and 

discover perfection . . . but can you pay the price? 

For fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl 

comes a spellbinding Hitchcockian thriller 

which takes psychological suspense to the 

next level. 

Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a 

lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful, ultraminimalist 

house designed by an enigmatic 

architect, on the condition she abides by a long 

list of exacting rules. After moving in, she discovers 

that a previous tenant, Emma, met a mysterious 

death there – and starts to wonder if her own story 

will be a re-run of the girl before. As twist after 

twist catches the reader off-guard, Emma’s past 

and Jane’s present become inexorably entwined 

in this tense, page-turning portrayal of 

psychological obsession. 

JP Delaney is a pseudonym for a writer who has 

previously written best-selling fiction under other 

names and is also a creative director at a major 

UK advertising agency. 


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Crime (FF) 

Hardback £16.99 9781784296599 



Ebook 9781784296612 


The Woman in Blue 

Paperback £7.99 

9781848663374 

Ebook 9781784292386 

The Ghost Fields 


9781786482174 

Ebook 9781784293642 

THE CHALK PIT 

ELLY GRIFFITHS 

Evil is lurking in the dark tunnels under 

Norwich – forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth 

Galloway must watch her step. 

‘A dab hand at plotting and cranking up the tension’ 

Independent 

Boiled human bones have been found in Norwich’s 

web of underground tunnels. When Dr Ruth 

Galloway discovers they were recently buried, DCI 

Nelson has a murder enquiry on his hands. The 

boiling might have been just a medieval curiosity – 

now it suggests something far more sinister. 

Meanwhile, DS Judy Johnson is investigating 

the disappearance of a local rough sleeper. The 

only trace of her is the rumour that she’s gone 

‘underground’. This might be a figure of speech, 

but with the discovery of the bones and the 

rumours of a vast network of old chalk-mining 

tunnels under Norwich, home to a vast community 

of rough sleepers, the clues point in only one 

direction. Local academic Martin Kellerman knows 

all about the tunnels and their history – but can 

his assertions of cannibalism and ritual killing 

possibly be true? 

As the weather gets hotter, tensions rise. A local 

woman goes missing and the police are under 

attack. Ruth and Nelson must unravel the dark 

secrets of The Underground and discover just 

what gruesome secrets lurk at its heart – before 

it claims another victim. 

Elly Griffiths’s bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway 

Mysteries have been shortlisted multiple times 

for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of 

the Year and the CWA Dagger in the Library. 

Elly lives near Brighton. 

FICTION | FEBRUARY | QUERCUS 

23 FEBRUARY 2017 

The Outcast Dead 


9781786482167 

Ebook 9780857388926 

Dying Fall 


9781786482150 

Ebook 9780857388889 

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FICTION | FEBRUARY – MARCH | QUERCUS 




Ebook 9781784295240 


A HARVEST OF THORNS 

CORBAN ADDISON 

A gripping thriller blending the nailbiting 

courtroom drama of John Grisham with the 

emotional heart of Khaled Hosseini. 

‘Poignant and engrossing . . . will hold you spellbound’ 

Wilbur Smith 

After a fire at a Bangladeshi garment factory 

owned by one of America’s biggest retailers claims 

the lives of hundreds of workers, a disgraced exjournalist 

and a corporate whistleblower seek to 

prove the retailer’s negligence in a historic court 

case that could change the course of the global 

fashion industry. 

Corban Addison is a lawyer who lives in Virginia, 

USA. The Tears of Dark Water won the inaugural 

Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. 


Historical (FV) 



Ebook 9781784292638 


SPINDRIFT 

TAMARA MCKINLEY 

An epic, emotional journey set between the 

rugged Isle of Skye and the promising new 

frontier of distant Tasmania. 

1855. As smoke drifts over the rugged landscape 

of Skye, Christy Macleod comforts her siblings 

while flames devour their cottage. Within a matter 

of weeks, they have boarded the clipper Storm 

Cloud, which will take them to a new life on the 

other side of the world. She has no idea what the 

future holds for them, but it is now up to her to 

keep her family alive. 

Tamara McKinley is the author of more than 

twelve novels. She was born in Tasmania, but 

now lives in Sussex. She also writes as Sunday 

Times bestselling author Ellie Dean. 

9 MARCH 2017 

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Crime (FF) 

Hardback £12.99 9781784295769 



Ebook 9781784295943 


THE LAST ACT OF 

HATTIE HOFFMAN 

MINDY MEJIA 

A tightly-plotted psychological murder 

mystery for fans of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely 

Bones and Jodi Picoult’s The Pact. 

Seventeen-year-old Hattie Hoffman is a talented 

actress, loved by everyone in her Minnesotan 

hometown. So when she’s found stabbed to death 

on the opening night of her school play, the tragedy 

rips through the fabric of the community. 

Local sheriff Del Goodman, a good friend of Hattie’s 

dad, vows to find her killer, but the investigation 

yields more secrets than answers; it turns out 

Hattie played as many parts offstage as on. Told 

from three perspectives: Del’s, Hattie’s high school 

English teacher and Hattie herself, The Last Act 

of Hattie Hoffman tells the story of the real Hattie, 

and what happened that final year of school when 

she dreamed of leaving her small town behind . . . 

Wonderfully evocative of its Midwestern setting 

and with a cast of unforgettable characters, this 

is a book about manipulation of relationships and 

identity, about the line between innocence and 

culpability, about the hope love offers and the 

tragedies that occur when it spins out of control. 

FICTION | MARCH | QUERCUS 

Mindy Mejia received her MFA from Hamline 

University and published her first novel, The 

Dragon Keepers, with Ashland Creek Press. She 

lives and writes in Minnesota. The Last Act of Hattie 

Hoffman is her first book to be published in the UK. 


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FICTION | MARCH – APRIL | QUERCUS 

Thriller (FH) 



Ebook 9781784296766 


WITHOUT A WORD 

KATE McQUAILE 

An emotional, psychological drama from 

the author of the critically acclaimed 

novel What She Never Told Me. 

A young woman, Una, has moved from London 

to Inishdown, Ireland to try and make a new start. 

And yet she remains haunted by her friend Lillian’s 

strange disappearance. Then Una receives an 

unexpected visit from the Dublin detective who 

led the investigation into Lillian’s kidnapping. What 

really happened to Lillian the night she vanished? 

Kate McQuaile is a graduate of the Faber novelwriting 

course. She lives in London and works as 

a journalist, but is originally from Ireland. 


Crime (FF) 

Hardback £19.99 9781786480958 


Ebook 9781784292843 

THE SPECIAL GIRLS 

ISABELLE GREY 

The third DI Grace Fisher thriller from awardwinning 

screenwriter Isabelle Grey, for fans 

of Lynda La Plante and Sarah Hilary. 

‘Police procedurals that combine attention to detail with 

compassionate intelligence’ Sunday Times 

DI Grace Fisher is removed from the investigation 

into the murder of a doctor from a summer camp 

for eating disorder patients to head a review into 

a sexual assault cold case. The accused? The 

charismatic psychiatrist who runs the camp. Is 

there a link to the doctor’s murder? And are the 

patients still in danger? 

Isabelle Grey’s TV screenwriting credits include 

the BAFTA award-winning Accused: Tina’s Story 

and Midsomer Murders. She is the author of two 

previous DI Grace Fisher crime novels. 

6 APRIL 2017 

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THE LOVE FACTORY 

ELAINE PROCTOR 

A smart and witty novel about finding real 

passion with the help of your friends, for 

fans of Maggie O’Farrell. 

When Anna turns to writing erotica to pay the 

bills, she faces an uncomfortable realisation: 

she doesn’t know how to, because she’s never 

actually experienced true sexual desire. 

So she looks to her friends for inspiration, and 

discovers more about them than she ever knew. 

But Anna knows she can’t rely on borrowed 

passion forever – for her tales to truly sizzle, 

she needs to find proper love of her own... 

FICTION | APRIL | QUERCUS 


Hardback £16.99 9781784296827 



Ebook 9781784296858 

Elaine Proctor was born in South Africa. She has 

made several films and published two previous 

novels, Rhumba and The Savage Hour. 


THE GIRLS FROM 

THE SWEET SHOP 

ELIZABETH GILL 

A tale of an unlikely friendship set in the 

atmospheric world of 19th century Durham. 

1820. Alice Lee, middle-aged and unmarried, takes 

in a young ex-convict, Zebediah Bailey. During his 

imprisonment Alice had dutifully written him every 

week, sending him sweets from her shop. So when 

Zeb comes out and has nowhere to go, Alice takes 

him back to Stanhope in Weardale with her, much 

to the horror of her neighbours. 

Sagas (FT) 

Hardback £19.99 9781786482617 


Ebook 9781786482624 


Elizabeth Gill has been a published author for 

more than thirty years and has written more than 

forty books. She lives in Durham. 


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FICTION | APRIL | QUERCUS 


Hardback £19.99 9781784296483 



Ebook 9781784296506 


The Other Side of Silence 


9781784295585 

Ebook 9781784295608 

The Lady From Zagreb 


9781782065845 

Ebook 9781782065838 

PRUSSIAN BLUE 

Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 

PHILIP KERR 

Unfinished business pursues Bernie Gunther 

halfway across Europe in the latest thrilling 

addition to the bestselling series. 

‘Kerr is superb at imaginatively mixing his fictional 

detective with well researched true-life characters 

and events’ The Times 

Bernie Gunther is on the run. Ordered by Erich 

Mielke, head of the East German Stasi, to murder 

an acquaintance of his by thallium poisoning, he 

finds his conscience is stronger than his desire not 

to be murdered in turn. Now he must stay one step 

ahead of Mielke’s retribution. 

The man Mielke has sent to hunt him is an ex-Kripo 

colleague, and as Bernie pushes towards Germany 

he recalls their last case together. In 1939 they 

were summoned by Reinhard Heydrich to the 

Berghof, Hitler’s mountain home in Obersalzberg. 

A low-level German bureaucrat lay murdered, and 

the Reichstag deputy Martin Bormann, in charge of 

overseeing renovations to the Berghof, wanted the 

case solved quickly. If the Fuhrer had ever found 

out that his own house had been the scene of a 

recent murder, the consequences wouldn’t bear 

thinking about. 

And so begins perhaps the strangest of Bernie 

Gunther’s adventures, for although several countries 

and seventeen years separate the murder at the 

Berghof from his current predicament, soon the 

stories begin to converge. 

Philip Kerr is the author of eleven internationally 

bestselling Bernie Gunther novels. If the Dead 

Rise Not won the CWA Ellis Peters Award for Best 

Historical Novel. He lives in south-west London. 


A Man Without Breath 


9781780876276 

Ebook 9781780876269 

10 

Prague Fatale 


9781849164177 

Ebook 9781780871431


Paperback £7.99 9781784296261 



Ebook 9781784296254 

Not For Sale: World, USA & CAN 

THE HOURGLASS 

TRACY REES 

‘Tracy Rees is the most outstanding new voice in 

historical fiction’ Lucinda Riley 

Sensible Nora has always taken success for 

granted, until suddenly her life begins falling 

apart. Troubled by anxiety and nightmares, she 

finds herself drawn to the sweeping beaches of 

Tenby, a place she’s only been once. 

Together with a local girl she rents a beautiful 

townhouse and slowly begins to settle in to her new 

existence. But Tenby hides a secret, and Nora will 

soon discover that this little town by the sea has 

the power to heal even the most painful memories. 

The Hourglass is a moving novel about reinvention 

and reconciliation, about finding love even after it 

seems too late, about mothers and daughters and 

the healing power of a magical place by the sea. 

‘A sparkling and compelling mystery . . . captured our 

hearts from the very first page’ Richard and Judy on Amy Snow 

‘So clever, real and truthful. The whole book feels so 

very wise, as if it contains half the answers to life’ 

Joanna Courtney on Florence Grace 

FICTION | MAY | QUERCUS 

Tracy Rees was born in South Wales. Her first 

novel, Amy Snow, is an international bestseller 

and winner of the first Richard and Judy ‘Search 

for a Bestseller’ competition. 

Florence Grace 


9781784296179 

Ebook 9781784296186 

Amy Snow 


9781784291457 

Ebook 9781784291464 

4 MAY 2017 

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FICTION | MAY | QUERCUS 

Thriller (FH) 

Hardback £14.99 9781786482044 



Ebook 9781784293239 


THE NIGHT VISITOR 

LUCY ATKINS 

The stunning new domestic-noir thriller 

from the author of The Missing One and 

The Other Child. 

London-based TV historian Olivia Sweetman has 

everything – a successful career, three beautiful 

children and a talented writer husband. In a small 

Sussex museum she meets Vivian, the socially 

awkward sixty-year-old housekeeper of nearby 

Ileford Manor. When Vivian shows Olivia the 

sensational Victorian diary she has found, Olivia 

is desperate to write a book about it. But in order 

to secure access, Olivia must put her misgivings 

aside and hire Vivian as her research assistant. 

Eighteen months later, with the book finished 

and tipped as a bestseller, Olivia is relieved to 

be shot of the difficult, if highly efficient, Vivian. 

She takes a much-needed summer holiday with 

family and friends in the South of France. But a 

bizarre and unsettling event shatters the holiday, 

throwing Olivia’s life headlong into crisis and soon 

everything she has worked for is on the verge of 

collapse. But why? There is only one person who 

knows the truth that can ruin her. How far will 

Olivia go to save her own skin? 

The Missing One 


9781848663206 

Ebook 9781848663213 

The Other Child 


9781782069874 

Ebook 9781782069881 

Lucy Atkins is an award-winning feature 

journalist and author, as well as a Sunday 

Times book critic. She has written for the Guardian, 

The Times, Psychologies, Red, Woman, Grazia and 

many others. She lives in Oxford. 


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Paperback £7.99 9781784292102 



Ebook 9781784292096 


THE LITTLE THEATRE 

BY THE SEA 

ROSANNA LEY 

The bestselling author of The Villa returns 

with a gorgeous summer read about love 

and starting over. 

Faye has just completed her degree in interior 

design when she finds herself jobless and 

boyfriend-less. While debating what to do next 

she receives a surprise phone call from her old 

college friend Charlotte who now lives in Sardinia 

and is married to Italian hotelier, Fabio. 

When Charlotte suggests that Faye relocate for 

a month to house-sit, Faye wonders if a summer 

break in sunny Sardinia might be the perfect way 

to recharge her batteries and think about her 

future. But then Charlotte tells Faye that there’s 

something more behind the sudden invitation: her 

friends Marisa and Alessandro are looking for a 

designer to renovate a crumbling old theatre they 

own in the scenic village of Deriu. The idea certainly 

sounds appealing to Faye, but little does she know 

what she’s letting herself in for if she accepts this 

once-in-a-lifetime opportunity . . . 

FICTION | JUNE | QUERCUS 

The Villa 


9781780875040 

Ebook 

97817808750 

Bay of Secrets 


9781780875064 

Ebook 

9781780875071 

Return to 

Mandalay 


9781782067627 

Ebook 

9781782067634 

Rosanna Ley works as a creative tutor and has 

written many articles and stories for national 

magazines. She lives in West Dorset by the sea. 

1 JUNE 2017 

The Saffron 

Trail 


9781782067641 

Ebook 

9781784290610 

Last Dance in 

Havana 


9781784292072 

Ebook 

9781784292065 

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Ebook 9781784293444 

ONE BAD TURN 

SINEAD CROWLEY 

A toxic friendship leads to a desperate race 

against time for DS Claire Boyle in this twisting 

psychological thriller. 

‘A crackingly-paced thriller, featuring a totally believable 

female detective’ Sunday Mirror 

A doctor is held hostage in her own office by 

her childhood friend, while elsewhere Leah, 

her nineteen-year-old daughter is kidnapped. 

Is there a connection between these events? What 

happened between the women to spark this much 

hate? DS Claire Boyle must find out – and quickly, 

because time is running out for Leah. 

Sinead Crowley is Arts and Media Correspondent 

for RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster. Her two 

previous books in this series were shortlisted for 

the Irish Crime Book of the Year. 

Crime (FF) 

Hardback £18.99 9781786480149 



Ebook 9781786480163 



BY BLOOD DIVIDED 

JAMES HENEAGE 

Destiny, inheritance, the world shifting from 

east to west. An epic novel set in an age of 

dramatic change. 

Two men find themselves on different sides in one 

of the great battles of history. They are rivals in 

war, and, unknown to them, they are also rivals 

to inherit of one of the biggest fortunes in Europe. 

Even worse, they are rivals for the love of the 

same woman. The fate of Constantinople is in their 

hands, which man will triumph? 

James Heneage founded Ottakar’s bookshops, 

chaired the Cheltenham Literary Festival, was a 

Booker Prize judge and set up the Chalke Valley 

History Festival. He lives in Wiltshire. 


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THE FERRY GIRLS 

ROSIE ARCHER 

WW2-set saga, for fans of Daisy Styles, 

Ellie Dean and Sheila Newberry. 

‘A gripping story packed with darkness and light, 

love and friendship, greed and betrayal’ 

Lancashire Evening Post on The Canary Girls 

A young half-German girl finds friendship, 

camaraderie and even love while working on 

Gosport’s ferries in the height of World War 2 

– but will her new friends desert her if her 

nationality comes to light? 


Saga (FT) 

Hardback £19.99 9781786483300 


Ebook 9781786483324 


Rosie Archer was born in Gosport, where she 

still lives. She is the author of The Munitions 

Girls, The Canary Girls, and The Factory Girls. 



Hardback £19.99 9781784297916 



Ebook 9781784297947 


THE EARLY BIRDS 

LAURIE GRAHAM 

Warm-hearted and sparklingly witty women’s 

fiction for fans of The Divine Secrets of the 

Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and Fannie Flagg. 

‘Wit and insight to match Nick Hornby, and the 

entertainment value of Helen Fielding’ Independent 

The Early Birds is sequel to the bestseller The 

Future Homemakers of America, following Peggy, 

Kath, Gayle, Lois and Audrey through the turn of 

the twenty-first century, from the Millennium Bug 

to 9/11. The women are now in their seventies and 

time is rendering its accounts, but they are more 

determined than ever to enjoy themselves. 

Laurie Graham is a former journalist. The author 

of several acclaimed novels, Laurie lives in Dublin. 


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Crime (FF) 

Paperback £7.99 9781784299637 


Ebook 9781784291563 


SWEET AFTER DEATH 

VALENTINA GIAMBANCO 

The newest standalone novel in a critically 

acclaimed crime series featuring the enigmatic 

detective Alice Madison. 

In the dead of winter, Homicide Detective Alice 

Madison is sent from Seattle to investigate the first 

murder that ever occurred in Colville County and 

she is confronted with a cunning, merciless killer 

who is snatching his victims in plain sight 

and whose motive is unfathomable. 

Together with her partner Detective Sergeant 

Kevin Brown and crime scene investigator Amy 

Sorensen, Madison must first understand the 

killer’s plan, but the icy mountains around the 

town know how to keep their secrets. 

When a man is arrested for the murders Madison 

finds herself in conflict with her partner and their 

professional relationship – and their friendship – 

is tested to breaking point. The first murder was 

only the beginning, and as the town seems to be 

disintegrating under the killer’s spell, Madison will 

have to reach into the dark, freezing wilderness to 

hunt down a predator and save more lives. 

Valentina Giambanco was born in Italy. She 

started in films as an editor’s apprentice and 

since then has worked on many award-winning 

pictures, from independent projects to studio 

productions. She lives in London. 

The Gift of Darkness 


9781780878737 

Ebook 9781623658472 

The Dark 


9781780878997 

Ebook 9781780878980 


16 

Blood and Bone 


9781784291402 

Ebook 9781784291419


Romance (FR) 

Paperback £7.99 9781786484376 


Ebook 9781780879512 


THE TUSCAN 

WRITERS’ SCHOOL 

DOMENICA DE ROSA 

The perfect summer holiday read for fans of 

Rosanna Ley and Santa Montefiore. 

‘How to visit Italy without leaving home’ The Good Book Guide 

Rivalries and romance in a Tuscan paradise. 

A relaxing writers’ retreat? If only! 

Patricia Wilson’s carefully composed ads for the 

writers’ retreat she runs at her thirteenth-century 

Italian castle promise so much. But while the 

splendour of their surroundings and chef Aldo’s 

melanzane never fail to wow the guests, huge 

maintenance bills and bad news from the bank 

threaten to close Patricia down. It’s make or 

break time for the Castello. 

Each of her seven aspiring authors arrives with 

the inevitable baggage alongside their unpublished 

manuscripts. But this August something is 

different, and soon lifelong spinster Mary is riding 

on the back of Aldo’s vespa, and smouldering oddjob 

man Fabio has set more than one heart racing. 

As temperatures rise, the writers gossip, flirt 

and gently polish their prose by the pool. But with 

ghosts, scorpions, and some unexpected visitors 

to contend with, one thing’s for sure: neither the 

Castello, nor Patricia, has ever seen a summer 

like this. 


The Eternal City 


9781786484338 

Ebook 9781780879536 

Villa Serena 


9781786484369 

Ebook 9781780879505 

Domenica de Rosa is the real name of 

Elly Griffiths, author of the acclaimed and 

bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. 

Domenica is half-Italian and loves the Tuscan 

countryside, but mainly settles for Brighton, 

where she lives with her family. 


The Italian Quarter 


9781786484345 

Ebook 9781780879529 

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Extraordinary 

People 

B Format £7.99 

9781782062080 

Crime (FF) 

Hardback £18.99 9781780874593 



Ebook 9781784299767 


The Critic 


9781782062097 

Blacklight 

Blue 


9781782062103 

CAST IRON 

Enzo Files 6 

PETER MAY 

The brand new thriller from the million-selling 

author of Coffin Road and The Blackhouse. 

In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-yearold 

Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West 

of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer 

heat wave, a drought exposed her remains – 

bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. 

No one was ever convicted of her murder. 

But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing 

this stone-cold case – the toughest of those he has 

been challenged to solve. 

Suspicion has always fallen on Régis Blanc, one 

of France’s most notorious serial murderers. Yet 

Blanc – despite openly confessing to all his other 

killings – denies murdering Lucie. 

In addition to this apparently insoluble case, Enzo 

has other headaches. On the eve of his fifty-sixth 

birthday, he is struggling to maintain relations 

with his two daughters, while trying to heal the rift 

between himself and the mother of his son, from 

whom he has been estranged for nearly two years. 

But when Enzo finds a flaw in the original evidence 

surrounding Lucie’s murder, he opens a Pandora’s 

box that not only raises old ghosts but endangers 

his entire family. 

Cast Iron is the red-hot new thriller in the cold-case 

series featuring forensic sleuth Enzo Macleod. 

FICTION | JANUARY | RIVERRUN 

Freeze 

Frame 


9781782062110 

Blowback 


9781782062127 

Peter May is the million-selling author of the Lewis 

trilogy and the China thrillers; standalone novels 

including Entry Island, Runaway and Coffin Road; and 

the Enzo Files, of which Cast Iron is both the latest 

and final instalment. 


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FICTION | FEBRUARY | RIVERRUN 


Hardback £16.99 9781849163354 



Ebook 9781784292782 


THE LONELY 

HEARTS HOTEL 

HEATHER O’NEILL 

A magical novel about love against the odds 

from the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author. 

Two children were born in the Montreal winter 

of 1914: Pierrot of a twelve-year-old girl named 

Ignorance; Rose, rescued from a snowdrift. They 

were fated to meet in the Catholic orphanage. 

There, in the face of cold, hunger and unpredictable 

beatings, Rose and Pierrot create a world of talking 

bears, of circus tricks and a secret language; 

shielding the spark of their curiosity from the 

terrorism of those meant to protect them. But 

even the most extraordinary of spirits can be hurt 

– especially when it comes disguised as love – and 

Rose and Pierrot are torn apart. 

When they meet again, each will have changed; having 

struggled through the Depression, through what they 

have done to fill the absence of the other. But their 

childhood vision remains – a dream to storm the 

world, a spectacle, an extravaganza that will lift them 

out of the gutter and onto a glittering stage. 

This is a dazzling circus of a novel that takes us 

from the underbellies of pre-war Montreal and 

Prohibition New York, to a theatre of magic where 

anything is possible – where an orphan girl can 

become a gangster queen, and a ruined innocence 

can be redeemed. 

Lullabies for 

Little Criminals 


9781847243935 

Ebook 9781849164573 

The Girl who was 

Saturday Night 


9781784290160 

Ebook 9781849167543 

Heather O’Neill lives in Montreal and has written for 

This American Life and the New York Times. Her work 

has won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, been 

shortlisted for the Women’s Fiction Prize, and twice 

shortlisted for the Giller Prize. 


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Daydreams of Angels 


9780857054029 

Ebook 9781784291440

Crime [FF] 

Paperback £8.99 97818491661527 


Ebook 9781849167062 


THREE SECONDS, 

CELL EIGHT & 

TWO SOLDIERS 

ROSLUND & HELLSTRÖM 

Translated by Kari Dickson 

Three DCI Ewert Grens thrillers reissued 

ahead of the publication of Three Minutes: 

the forthcoming sequel to the worldwide 

smash Three Seconds. 

Three Seconds is Scandinavian crime at its most 

explosive. A top 5 New York Times bestseller, it was 

awarded the 2011 CWA International Dagger. 

Cell 8 balances a tantalising mystery with a 

terrifying examination of the most controversial 

subject in the modern criminal justice system: 

the death penalty. 

Two Soldiers is the story of an inevitable collision 

and an impossible revelation, and a novel that 

lifts the lid on Sweden’s burgeoning network of 

child gangs. 

FICTION | MARCH | RIVERRUN 

Crime [FF] 

Paperback £8.99 9781849161497 


Ebook 9781849169738 


Journalist Anders Roslund and ex-criminal Börge 

Hellström are Sweden’s most acclaimed crimewriting 

duo. Their DCI Ewert Grens novels have won 

multiple awards internationally, been translated 

into 31 different languages, and sold over 2 million 

copies worldwide. 


Crime [FF] 

Paperback £8.99 9780857386854 


Ebook 9780857386861 


Pen 33 


9780857384782 

Ebook 9781784291518 

Box 21 


9780857384799 

Ebook 9781784291525 

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FICTION | MARCH | RIVERRUN 


Hardback £14.99 9781786481924 



Ebook 9781786481948 


LARCHFIELD 

POLLY CLARK 

The winner of the MsLexia Prize, a beautiful 

novel for fans of Longbourn, Possession and 

The Stranger’s Child. 

‘Mysterious, wondrous, captivating’ Louis de Bernières 

It’s early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, 

moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland 

and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, 

pregnant, she’s excited by the prospect of a life 

that combines family and creativity. She thinks 

she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, 

means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the 

battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes 

to find the realities of small town life suffocating, 

and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to 

escape reality altogether. 

Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh 

once. In 1930 Wystan Auden, brilliant and awkward 

at 24, takes a teaching post at Larchfield School 

for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness 

and suspected – rightly – of homosexuality. Yet in 

this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the 

first time. 

The need for human connection compels these two 

outsiders to make a reality of their own that will 

save them both. Larchfield is a haunting novel about 

heroism – the unusual bravery that allows unusual 

people to transcend banality and suffering with the 

power of their imagination. 

Polly Clark lives in Helensburgh, Scotland and is 

the Literature Programmer for the International 

Artists Residency, Cove Park. Her poetry collections 

have won the Eric Gregory Award and been 

shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. 


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Crime [FF] 

Paperback £7.99 9781782062325 


Ebook 9781782065555 


SNAKEHEAD 

China Thriller 4 

PETER MAY 

The fourth China Thriller, from the million 

seller Peter May – author of the Richard and 

Judy bestseller The Blackhouse. 

SUFFOCATED 

A vehicle crammed with dozens of dead 

Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas. 

Pathologist Margaret Campbell must put aside 

her horror, and find out why. 

SUMMONED 

Detective Li Yan – an even more unwelcome 

memory for Campbell – has arrived stateside to 

investigate a link in the case to a lucrative trade 

in illegal labourers. 

SNAKEHEAD 

Yan and Campbell will soon find that the crime 

scene hides another secret: a biological timebomb 

linking traffickers, politicians and migrants 

in Beijing, Washington and Texas – posing multiple 

countries one, very singular, threat. 

FICTION | APRIL | RIVERRUN 

Peter May is the million-selling author of the 

Lewis trilogy, the Enzo Files, the standalone novels 

Entry Island, Runaway and Coffin Road, and the 

China thrillers – of which Snakehead is fourth in 

the six-strong series. 

The Firemaker 


9780857053961 

Ebook 9781780879567 

The Fourth Sacrifice 


9781784292690 

Ebook 9781780879574 


The Killing Room 


9781784291686 

Ebook 9781780879581 

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FICTION | APRIL | RIVERRUN 

Crime (FF) 

Hardback £12.99 9781784297268 

Royal 400 pages (estimated) 

Trade paperback £12.99 9781784297275 

Ebook 9781784297251 


A Song from Dead Lips 


9781782064190 

Ebook 9781782064183 

A House of Knives 


9781848667426 

Ebook 9781782064220 

SYMPATHY 

FOR THE DEVIL 

Breen & Tozer 4 

WILLIAM SHAW 

In the fourth Breen & Tozer, William Shaw 

combines a police corruption plot and espionage 

intrigue with a searing twist. 

SUMMER OF LOVE 

She made a profit from her youth. She is not beautiful 

anymore. But now she will be young forever. 

Called away that Sunday from his pregnant 

girlfriend, Helen Tozer, Detective Sergeant Cathal 

Breen knows the sight of the murdered prostitute 

will be with him all his life. But this is what he 

does: he finds killers. Helen would understand. 

He did it for her. 

SUMMER OF DEATH 

But this trail proves tough. The escort’s clients 

were establishment – rich, powerful, protected. 

Someone warned off the beat coppers; someone 

ravages the crime scene. Drowning in secrecy he 

barely understands, Breen begins to fear that this is 

more than the murder of a prostitute. It’s political. 

In a corrupt world, Breen must find solid ground. Even 

when Helen becomes dangerously involved, with her 

fierce sense of what is right. He is about to become a 

father. He can have no sympathy for the devil. 

The Breen & Tozer novels captivate crime fans 

with their ingenious plots, dramatic backdrop 

and sharp portrait of policing before forensics, 

data or political correctness. Ever-surprising 

and powerfully moving, Sympathy for the Devil 

resonates beyond its sixties setting in an 

unforgettable climax. 

A Book of Scars 


9781782064275 

Ebook 9781784290887 

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The Birdwatcher 


9781784297244 

Ebook 9781784297213 

William Shaw is the author of the acclaimed Breen 

& Tozer series set in sixties London. For over twenty 

years he has written on popular culture and subculture 

for the Observer and the New York Times. 

He lives in Brighton. 

6 APRIL 2017

Autobiography: Arts & 

Entertainment (BGFA) 

Hardback £20.00 9781784293000 



Ebook 9781784292997 


YOU KNOW WHAT YOU 

COULD BE 

Tuning into the 1960s 

MIKE HERON & ANDREW GREIG 

The story of an extraordinary moment in British music. 

In sixties Edinburgh Mike Heron was studying to be an 

accountant. After meeting Robin Williamson and Clive 

Palmer he formed The Incredible String Band and their 

wildly innovative music became indelibly linked with 

the era. Andrew Greig was a schoolboy when he heard 

their songs. It changed everything. Undaunted by lack 

of ability he formed a band in their image. Forty years 

later he and Mike became friends. This is their story. 

Andrew Greig is a prizewinning novelist, poet and 

non-fiction writer. Mike Heron was a founder member 

of The Incredible String Band and has worked with 

John Cale, Pete Townshend and Keith Moon. 


THIS IS 64 

JOSEPH CONNOLLY 

The new novel from the Bollinger prize 

shortlsted author of England’s Lane and Style. 

George is a fashion-mad Beatles fan, selfish and 

cruel. Why his girlfriend Dorothy loves him is 

a mystery to her and to his best friend Sammy. 

When George callously chucks her he cannot 

anticipate that his life, post 1964, will never be 

the same. 

And forty-four years later, when George is sixtyfour, 

rich and successful, his past will catch up 

with him and his family. 

NON-FICTION | APRIL | RIVERRUN FICTION | MAY | RIVERRUN 

Modern & Contemporary Fiction [FA] 

Hardback £19.99 9781848666320 



Ebook 9781848666344 

Joseph Connolly is the critically acclaimed and 

internationally bestselling writer of many novels 

and works of non-fiction. He lives in London. 


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FICTION | MAY | RIVERRUN 



Demy 400 pages (estimated) 

Ebook 9781784298586 


I’LL EAT WHEN I’M DEAD 

BARBARA BOURLAND 

The Devil Wears Prada with a murderous twist, 

a rampant satire on the fashion industry and 

genre-busting women’s commercial debut. 

‘I can’t put I’ll Eat When I’m Dead down, I LOVE it. Biting, 

funny, and brilliantly subversive; Bourland’s debut is 

like The Devil Wears Prada meets American Psycho’ 

Louise O’Neill 

RAGE Fashion Book is the world’s most dynamic, 

ambitious magazine. 

Its editors – like Cat Ono – have the power to 

change minds and the market. 

They’re savvy, sisterly and polished to perfection. 

Even the one found dead in her office. 

Everyone thinks Hillary starved to death – but Cat 

knows her friend’s dieting wasn’t a capital P 

problem. If beauty kills, it’d take more than that. 

Hotheaded and fiercely feminist, Cat’s sure she can 

match the skills of Detective Mark Hutton. So when 

he challenges her to go undercover, she’s in. 

The next day, her mug shot is all over the city. 

Party girl arrested. Career over . . . unless she 

agrees to become the new face of RAGE herself – and 

find out what it really means to be a fashion victim. 

Sassy, smart and outrageously funny, I’ll Eat When 

I’m Dead pulls no punches on exposing the fashion 

industry with sizzling wit, savoir-faire and style. 

Barbara Bourland lives in Baltimore, MD. I’ll Eat 

When I’m Dead is her first novel. Formerly, she was 

a freelance writer for Forbes Traveler, Condé Nast 

Digital’s Concierge.com, and a web producer for O, The 

Oprah Magazine and OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Network. 


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FICTION | JANUARY | MACLEHOSE 

BELLADONNA 

DAŠA DRNDIC 

Translated by Celia Hawkesworth 

The perils of growing old in an unforgiving world 

– by the author of the acclaimed Trieste. 

Andreas Ban is a writer and psychologist, but his 

world has been falling apart for years. When he 

retires with a miserable pension and discovers that 

he is ill, he gains a new perspective on the debris 

of his life and the lives of his friends. In defying 

illness and old age, and in his investigations into 

his own past, he learns stories that lay bare a 

gamut of taboos. 

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (FA), 

Fiction in Translation (FYT) 


320 pages 

Ebook 9780857054340 


Daša Drndić is a distinguished Croatian novelist, 

playwright and literary critic. 


Crime (FF) 



Ebook 9780857053824 


AFTER THE WAR 

HERVÉ LE CORRE 

Translated by Sam Taylor 

The legacy of the Second World War endures in 

this gripping tale of retribution and betrayal. 

1950s Bordeaux. The Second World War is fixed 

in collective memory, but another war has already 

begun. A war far away across the sea, in Algeria, 

where young men are sent to fight in a brutal 

conflict. 

Meanwhile, past deeds are returning to haunt 

Albert Darlac: corrupt police chief and one-time 

collaborator. A series of explosive events will bring 

the legacy of wars past and present to the streets 

of Bordeaux. 

Hervé le Corre lives in Bordeaux and is the author 

of several crime novels. After the War is winner of 

the Le Point European crime novel award. 


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THREE THOUSAND 

HORSEPOWER 

ANTONIN VARENNE 

Translated by Sam Taylor 

A breathtaking 19th-century adventure epic, 

set across three continents. 

From the Burmese jungle to the slums of Victorian 

London to the conquest of the Wild West, Antonin 

Varenne takes us on a thrilling quest for survival 

and revenge. His characters belong to that breed 

of heroes who inhabit the imaginations of Conrad, 

Kipling and Stevenson – lost soldiers who have 

plunged into the heart of darkness and will cross 

the globe in search of vengeance and redemption. 

FICTION | FEBRUARY | MACLEHOSE 

Adventure (FJ) / Thriller (FH) 



Ebook 9780857053718 


Antonin Varenne is a multi-award-winning French 

writer of crime novels and thrillers. Three Thousand 

Horsepower is his third novel to be translated 

into English. 


MONTE CARLO 

PETER TERRIN 

Translated by David Doherty 

A disillusioned Formula 1 mechanic resolves to 

challenge God in a quest for cosmic justice. 

After saving the life of Deedee, a beautiful budding 

film star, from a fireball explosion at the 1968 

Monaco Grand Prix, mechanic Jack Preston 

returns to his drab life in a remote English village 

and waits for a sign of her gratitude. When Deedee 

dies suddenly, however, Jack’s hopes are cruelly 

dashed and all he can do is challenge the ultimate 

arbiter of fate Himself. 


Hardback £12.99 9780857054371 

193 x 135mm 176 pages 

Ebook 9780857054388 

Peter Terrin’s novels have earned him comparisons 

with Franz Kafka and Albert Camus. He won 

Holland’s leading fiction award, the A.K.O. Prize, 

in 2012 for Post Mortem. 


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FICTION | MARCH | MACLEHOSE 

THE AWKWARD SQUAD 

SOPHIE HÉNAFF 

Translated by Sam Gordon 

A new crime series with a difference. 

A brilliant young officer returns from suspension 

and discovers that she has been tasked with 

heading up a squad of misfit police officers to 

investigate cold cases from decades past. 

But whilst she is initially sceptical of her new role, 

before long, Anne Capestan and her team will have 

discovered curious links between a handful of old 

cases that will set them on the hunt for a killer. 

Crime (FF) 


320 pages 

Ebook 9780857055743 


Sophie Hénaff is a French writer and former 

Lyonnaise bar owner. The Awkward Squad, 

her first novel, has won her numerous crime 

awards. 


THE LONGEST NIGHT 

OTTO DE KAT 

Translated by Laura Watkinson 


Hardback £14.99 9780857056085 

193 x 135mm 240 pages 

Ebook 9780857056078 


A restrained yet monumental epic-in-miniature 

by one of the most elegant and lucid of modern 

European writers. 

Emma Verweij, an elderly woman in Rotterdam, 

recalls forgotten memories of her past in 

Nazi Berlin during the Second World War. 

Long-suppressed flashbacks of the tragedy of 

war, lost friends and her first husband crowd 

her consciousness as Otto de Kat deftly distils 

momentous events of 20th-century history into 

the lives of his characters. In Emma, the past and 

the present coincide in limpid fragments of rare, 

melancholy beauty. 

Otto de Kat is the pen name of a Dutch publisher, 

whose novels include Julia, Man on the Move and 

News from Berlin. 


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Military History (HBW) 

Hardback £20.00 9780857051967 



Ebook 9780857051981 


Defending the Motherland 

B Format PB £9.99 

9780857051950 

Ebook 9780857051943 

AVENGING ANGELS 

Young Women of the Soviet Union’s 

WWII Sniper Corps 

LYUBA VINOGRADOVA 

Translated by Arch Tait 

A vivid and intimate account of the young 

women who served as Soviet snipers during 

the Second World War. 

Most were still in their late teens when called up to 

join the Soviet forces between 1942 and 1944. Some 

had volunteered to serve in the army, but were given 

no choice as to whether to become a sniper. After a 

few months of extremely rigorous training they were 

issued with rifles and sent to the front. 

Practically without exception, their first taking of an 

enemy life came as a great shock, and changed them 

for ever. Veterans have given different accounts as to 

the most difficult aspect of life at the front: hours and 

hours in a trench without being able to eat, drink or 

get warm, with their lives constantly at risk, or burying 

their best friends. Or the sexual harassment by male 

officers. War proved very different from what they had 

expected. 

In this compelling and meticulously researched 

companion to Defending the Motherland, her volume 

on the airwomen who fought Hitler’s aces, Lyuba 

Vinogradova explores the stories of these women – 

often through interviews with the women themselves 

- and the challenges they faced in this most masculine 

of environments. 

Dr Lyuba Vinogradova was Antony Beevor’s primary 

Russian researcher for his book Stalingrad, and 

has since worked with other British historians. 

She is co-author (with Beevor) of A Writer at War: 

Vasily Grossman with the Red Army. Her book on 

women fighter pilots, Defending the Motherland, was 

published in 2015. 

FICTION | APRIL | MACLEHOSE 


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FICTION | APRIL | MACLEHOSE 



Hardback £16.99 9780857056771 

Demy 320 pages 


Ebook 9780857056795 


THE PRESIDENT’S 

GARDENS 

MUHSIN AL-RAMLI 

Translated by Luke Leafgren 

One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The 

Kite-Runner – set in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. 

The President’s Gardens is an epic novel about 

Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, following the lives of three 

friends from the beginning of the Iran–Iraq War to 

the aftermath of the American invasion. 

Abdullah loses twenty years to Iranian captivity 

before returning to learn the terrible truth of his 

birth. Tariq, the son of the local Sheik, avoids the 

army, and becomes a man of power and influence, 

able to help his friends but always careful to keep 

his own interests closest to his heart. Ibrahim loses 

a foot in the first Gulf War before taking on a menial 

job in the gardens of one of the president’s many 

palaces – a job whose responsibilities will escalate 

beyond his wildest imaginings. 

The multiple, multi-generational stories woven 

together in The President’s Gardens are brought to 

life by a vivid and memorable cast of characters. 

Epic in scope, moving, philosophical and true, it 

packs an ocean of wisdom into its pages, and has 

much to impart about war and oppression, love and 

marriage, fathers and daughters, and what it means 

to live under a murderous, totalitarian regime. 

Muhsin Al-Ramli is an Iraqi writer, poet, academic 

and translator, born in the village of Sudara in 

northern Iraq in 1967. He has lived in Madrid since 

1995. The President’s Gardens was longlisted for the 

IPAF, known as the “Arabic Booker”, in 2013. 


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Hardback £20.00 9780857056863 



Ebook 9780857056894 


THE BALTIMORE BOYS 

JOËL DICKER 

Translated by Alison Anderson 

Swiss sensation Joël Dicker’s compulsive 

follow-up to the phenomenally bestselling 

The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair. 

Fresh from the staggering success of The Truth 

about the Harry Quebert Affair, Marcus Goldman 

is struggling to write his third novel. A chance 

encounter in Florida throws him some inspiration 

from a surprising source: Alexandra Neville, the 

beautiful, phenomenally successful singer and 

Marcus’ first love. All at once, memories of his 

childhood come flooding back. Memories of a 

family torn apart by tragedy, and a once glorious 

legacy reduced to shame and ruin. 

The Baltimore Boys. The Goldman Gang. That was 

what they called Marcus and his cousins Hillel 

and Woody. Three brilliant young men with their 

whole lives ahead of them, before their kingdom 

crumbled beneath the weight of lies, jealousy and 

betrayal. For years, Marcus has struggled with 

the burdens of his past, but now he must attempt 

to banish his demons and tell the real story of the 

Baltimore Boys. 

FICTION | MAY | MACLEHOSE 

The Truth about the 

Harry Quebert Affair 


9781848663268 

Ebook 9781848663251 

Joël Dicker was born in Geneva in 1985. The Truth 

about the Harry Quebert Affair was shortlisted for 

the Prix Goncourt, won the Grand Prix du Roman 

de l’Académie Française and the Prix Goncourt des 

Lycéens, and was a Richard and Judy bookclub choice. 


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FICTION | MAY – JUNE | MACLEHOSE 


Hardback £20.00 9780857054647 



Ebook 9781784299552 


A PEOPLE 

WITHOUT A PAST 

Between Three Plagues: Vol 2 

JAAN KROSS 

Translated by Merike Lepasaar 

The story of a man who became Estonia’s most 

famous medieval chronicler. 

The second part in an epic trilogy – the Estonian answer 

to Wolf Hall – by the nation’s greatest modern writer. 

Renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, 

whose greatest work described the effects of the 

Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia, 

is a diamond in the rough, a thoroughly modern man 

in an Early Modern world, rising from humble origins 

to greatness through wit and learning alone. 

Jaan Kross was Estonia’s greatest modern writer, who 

lived much of his life under Soviet or German occupation. 


Hardback £14.99 9780857055866 

193 x 135mm 224 pages 

Ebook 9780857055859 



THE CHILDREN 

CAROLINA SANÍN 

Translated by Nick Caistor 

A haunting fable of fantasy, mystery and 

bureaucracy from one of Colombia’s most 

talented young writers. 

Laura Romero discovers a mysterious young boy on 

the pavement outside her apartment building: Fidel, 

who is six years old, a child with seemingly no origins 

or meaning. With few clues to guide her as she tries to 

discover his real identity, Laura finds herself swept into 

a bureaucratic maelstrom of fantastical proportions. 

The Children explores the limits of isolation and 

intimacy, motherhood, neglect and compassion, 

filtered through the lives of two lonely people. 

Carolina Sanín was born in Bogotá in 1973. She studied 

Spanish and Portuguese literature at Yale, and now teaches 

at the University of the Andes in Columbia. The Children is 

the first of her novels to appear in English translation. 

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Ebook 9780857055408 


VERNON SUBUTEX 1 

VIRGINIE DESPENTES 

Translated by Frank Wynne 

WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. 

A fall from grace.The mirror who reflects us all. 

Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of 

Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. 

His legend spread throughout Paris. But with 

the arrival of the internet and the decline in CD’s 

and vinyl, his shop is struggling. When it closes, 

Subutex is out on a limb, with no idea what to 

do next. Before long, his savings are gone, his 

employment benefit is cut, and when the friend 

who had been covering his rent dies suddenly, 

Vernon Subutex finds himself first relying on 

friends with spare sofas, and then, when that dries 

up, alone and out on the Paris streets. 

But Vernon Subutex has one final card up his 

sleeve. A throwaway comment he made on 

Facebook is taking the internet by storm. Vernon 

does not realise this, of course; it has been weeks 

since he was able to afford access to the internet, 

but the word is out: Vernon Subutex has in his 

possession the last recordings of Alex Bleach, the 

famous musician who has only recently died of a 

drug overdose. Unbeknownst to Vernon, a crowd 

of people from record producers to online trolls 

and porn stars are now on his trail. 

FICTION | JUNE | MACLEHOSE 

Virginie Despentes is a writer and journalist. 

Her first novel, Baise-Moi, the controversial raperevenge 

story, was published in 1992 and adapted for 

film in 2000. She is the author of more than fifteen 

further works, including Apocalypse Baby, Bye Bye 

Blondie and King Kong Theory. Vernon Subutext 1 is 

the winner of the inaugural Prix Anaïs Nin. 


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Science Fiction (FL),Thriller/Suspense (FH), 


Paperback £12.99 9781784294205 


Ebook 9781786484673 

LIMIT: PART 2 

FRANK SCHÄTZING 

Translated by Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Searle 

and Samuel Willcocks 

Perfect for fans of Peter F. Hamilton: The 

blockbuster conclusion to the international 

sci-fi thriller by Germany’s top thriller writer. 

‘Enthralling and visionary’ Thomas Reiter, Astronaut 

It’s 2025, and the Chinese and the Americans 

are going head to head on the Moon for helium-3, 

the rare mineral which will solve all the Earth’s 

energy needs. But not everyone is happy. 

Billionaire Julian Orley’s space-elevator 

revolutionised space travel; now he’s taking a 

group of international movers and shakers on 

the trip of a lifetime: to the first-ever hotel on the 

Moon, hoping to woo them into investing in the 

future of humanity. 

But not all of Orly’s guests are humanitarians: at 

least one is pursuing his own dark plot – and now 

there’s a time limit. And how is this linked with 

the cyber-detective Owen Jericho, the dissident 

hacker Yoyo, oil magnate Gerald Palstein – and the 

mysterious organisation called Hydra, who have 

their own – not very charitable – plans for 

the universe? 

FICTION | JANUARY | JO FLETCHER 

Limit: Part 1 


9781849165174 

Death and the Devil 


9781849162456 

Frank Schätzing is the author of the international 

bestseller The Swarm, which turned him into 

Germany’s most successful thriller writer in 

decades. A winner of the 2004 Corine Prize, and 

the 2005 German Science Fiction Prize, Schätzing 

lives in Cologne. 


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FICTION | FEBRUARY – MARCH | JO FLETCHER 

Fantasy (FM), Adventure (FJ) 

Hardback £19.99 9781848662568 


Ebook 9781848668140 

Science Fiction (FL) 

Paperback £8.99 9781782064435 


Ebook 9781784290405 


IDLE HANDS 

The Factory Trilogy Book 2 

TOM FLETCHER 

Can Wild Alan unite the Discard against the 

tyranny of the Pyramid? 

Wild Alan is desperate to get the cure for the dread 

disease Idle Hands to his son, but Billy’s in the Pyramid 

and he’s trapped in the barren wasteland that is the 

Discard. Bloody Nora, the Mapmaker, has her own 

reasons for agreeing to help Wild Alan: she wants to 

get into the Pyramid herself – she believes the truth of 

Gleam’s history and purpose can be found in the vaults. 

But there are more secrets there than either imagined 

– and some of the parchments and scrolls may hold the 

key to destroying the Pyramid’s tyranny for ever. 

Tom Fletcher has published short stories as well as 

three standalone novels, The Leaping, The Thing on the 

Shore and The Ravenglass Eye, and Gleam, the first book 

in The Factory Trilogy. He lives near Manchester. 


YOUR RESTING PLACE 

DAVID TOWSEY 

Perfect for fans of The Walking Dead and 

The Road :– the stunning, terrifying, moving 

conclusion to The Walkin’ Trilogy. 

Is there a future for those already dead? 

Rumours of the Drowned Woman are rife. 

Some say she can’t be killed, not in the usual 

ways. She hunts down wanted men – but never 

collects on the bounty; they say she is looking for 

one man in particular. He killed her husband 

and stole her daughter. 

Her family has been wronged. There will be a 

reckoning. 

David Towsey is a graduate of the Bath Spa 

and Aberystwyth University Creative Writing 

programmes. He is currently travelling the world. 


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Fantasy (FM) 

Hardback £30.00 9781784291013 



Ebook 9781784291006 

EMPRESS OF THE FALL 

Sunsurge Book 1 

DAVID HAIR 

Desperate for the next Game of Thrones? 

Pick up Empress of the Fall for your full-on 

epic fantasy fix, full of drama, politicking, 

romance and power struggles . . . 

The Emperor is dead – long live the Empress! 

Emperor Constant is dead and his rivals are 

scrabbling for power – but any misstep could 

plunge the land, already devastated by the shocking 

outcome of the Third Crusade, into a calamitous 

civil war. 

The Imperial throne is not the only one in 

jeopardy. Two brothers, imprisoned veterans of 

the Crusades, finally return home to find their 

father’s kingdom being plundered – but the price 

of regaining their birthright will have far-reaching 

implications for the entire empire. 

In the East, Sultan Salim, peacemaker and 

visionary ruler, faces his greatest challenge as 

his people demand an invasion of the West in 

retribution for the Rondian Crusades 

And lurking in the darkness, orchestrating both 

the power struggles and the inevitable conflicts, 

is a shadowy group threatening to destroy 

civilisation itself. 

Once more, Urte stands on the brink of cataclysm. 

FICTION | MARCH | JO FLETCHER 

Mage’s Blood 

Hardback £25.00 

9781780871974 

Scarlet Tides 


9781780872018 

David Hair is an award-winning writer of fantasy 

and fiction for adult and YA readers. He was born 

in New Zealand and travelled widely, and now 

lives in Thailand. His fantasy sagas The Moontide 

Quartet and The Sunsurge Quartet are published 

by Jo Fletcher Books. 


Unholy War 


9781780872056 

Ascendant’s Rite 


9781784290399 

39

FICTION | APRIL | JO FLETCHER 

Fantasy (FM), Espionage & Spy 

Thriller (FHD) 



Ebook 9780857053909 

Not For Sale: Only available in UK & 

Commonwealth 

CITY OF MIRACLES 

The Divine Cities Book 3 

ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT 

Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and China 

Miéville. The awesome climax to fantasy 

thrillers City of Stairs and City of Blades. 

Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is back, and this time he’s 

out for vengeance. 

Shara Komayd, once Prime Minister of Saypur, has 

been assassinated. News travels fast and far, even 

to a remote logging town somewhere northwest of 

Bulikov, where the silent, shaven-headed Dreyling 

worker ‘Bjorn’ picks up the newspaper and walks 

out. He is shocked and grieved and furious; he’s 

been waiting thirteen years for Shara, his closest 

friend, to reach out to him – to tell him to come 

home. He’s always believed she was running a long 

operation, that there would be a role for him at the 

right time. Now he has no one else in his life, and 

nothing to live for – except to find the people who 

did this. 

Sigrud wasn’t there for the death of his daughter 

Signe, and he wasn’t there when Shara was 

murdered. Now Bjorn is dead and Sigrud is back. 

And he will find answers, for Shara, and for 

himself. He’s made a promise . . . 

City of Stairs 


9781848667969 

City of Blades 

Trade Paperback £14.99 

9781848669581 

Robert Jackson Bennett was born in Baton Rouge, 

Louisiana, but grew up in the half-developed suburbs 

of Katy, Texas. He attended the University of Texas 

at Austin and, like a lot of its alumni, was unable to 

leave the charms of the city. 


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Fantasy (FM), Historical Adventure (FJH) 

Hardback £18.99 9781782066835 



Ebook 9781784299651 

Traitor’s Blade 


9781848663794 

Knight’s Shadow 


9781782066774 

TYRANT’S THRONE 

The Greatcoats Book 4 

SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL 

The Greatcoats are back: ‘first-rate fiction, first 

rate adventure, first rate full stop,’ says Sunday 

Times bestseller Conn Iggulden 

Would you – could you? – uphold the law at the 

cost of those you love? 

After years of struggle and sacrifice, Falcio val 

Mond, First Cantor of the Greatcoats, is on the 

brink of fulfilling his dead King’s dream: Aline, 

the King’s daughter, is about to take the throne 

and restore the rule of law once and for all. 

But for the Greatcoats, nothing is ever that 

simple. In the neighbouring country of Avares, 

an enigmatic new warlord is uniting the barbarian 

armies that have long plagued Tristia’s borders 

– and even worse, he is rumoured to have a new 

ally: Trin, who’s twice tried to kill Aline to take the 

throne for herself. With the armies of Avares at 

her back, she’ll be unstoppable. 

Falcio, Kest and Brasti race north to stop her, 

but in those cold and treacherous climes they 

discover something altogether different, and far 

more dangerous: a new player is planning to take 

the throne of Tristia, and the Greatcoats, for all 

their skill, may not be able to stop him. 

As the nobles of Tristia and even the Greatcoats 

themselves fight over who should rule, the 

Warlord of Avares threatens to invade. It is going 

to fall to Falcio to render the one verdict he 

cannot bring himself to decide: does he crown 

the girl he vowed to put on the throne, or uphold 

the laws he swore to serve? 

FICTION | APRIL | JO FLETCHER 

Saint’s Blood 

Hardback £18.99 9781782066804 

Sebastien de Castell had just finished a degree 

in Archaeology when he started work on his 

first dig. Four hours later he realised how much 

he hated archaeology and left to pursue a very 

focused career as a musician, ombudsman, 

interaction designer, fight choreographer, 

teacher, project manager, actor and product 

strategist. He lives in Canada. 


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FICTION | MAY | JO FLETCHER 

Fantasy (FM), Crime and Mystery (FF 



Ebook 9781784297626 


ROTHERWEIRD 

Rotherweird Book 1 

ANDREW CALDECOTT 

A stunning combination of Jonathan Strange 

and Mr Norrell and Gormengast, with a dash 

of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. 

Welcome to Rotherweird: a town with no 

maps, no guidebooks and no history, but many, 

many secrets. 

Rotherweird stands alone – there are no maps 

and no guidebooks, despite the tangled architecture, 

avant garde science and offbeat rituals. Cast 

adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, its 

independence is subject to one disturbing condition: 

nobody studies Rotherweird or its history. 

For beneath the enchanting surface lurks a patch 

of slippery sky and a secret so dark that it must 

never be rediscovered. 

But secrets have a way of leaking out. 

Two inquisitive outsiders arrive: Jonah Oblong, 

to teach modern history at Rotherweird School 

(nothing local and nothing else before 1800), and 

the sinister billionaire Sir Veronal Slickstone, to 

renovate the town’s long-derelict Manor House. 

Though driven by conflicting motives, Slickstone 

and Oblong strive to connect past and present, 

until they and their allies are drawn into a race 

against time, and each other . . . with lethal and 

apocalyptic consequences. 

In Rotherweird, nothing is quite what it seems. 

Andrew Caldecott is a practising barrister in 

media law, fantasy novelist and occasional 

playwright. His debut novel Rotherweird, is the 

first in a series. 


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Fantasy (FM), Science Fiction (FL) 



Ebook 9781784299668 


STAINED LIGHT 

NAOMI FOYLE 

The fourth title in Naomi Foyle’s critically 

acclaimed Gaia Chronicles. 

‘A fascinating portrait, often reminiscent of Ursula 

K. Le Guin in its layered complexity’. Love Reading 

Astra Ordott couldn’t deny her destiny. 

To save those she loves, Astra gave up her freedom, but 

that was ten years ago and long-simmering conflicts are 

beginning to boil over again. Outside Astra’s homeland, 

infertility threatens the survival of the human race and 

humanity’s reckless pursuit of rare earth mining is 

infuriating the ancient spirits of the planet. Astra may 

have found her voice, but is anyone listening? 

Naomi Foyle was born in London, grew up in Hong 

Kong, Liverpool and Canada, and lives in Brighton. 

She is a highly regarded poet and performer. 

FICTION | JUNE | JO FLETCHER 


Fantasy (FM), Fantasy Romance (FMR) 

8Paperback £8.99 9781784290764 


Ebook 9781784290795 


BOUND 

SUE TINGEY 

Get lost in the Underlands in this ‘gripping and tantalisingly 

sexy read.’ Holdfast Magazine on Marked. 

Perfect for fans of Deborah Harkness, Laini 

Taylor and Anne Bishop 

Lucky de Salle discovered a whole new life in the 

Underlands and, despite discovering her ghostly 

best friend was in fact her demon half-sister and 

falling in love with two men, it’s been working our 

brilliantly. Until now. 

Jinx has been kidnapped by enemies who intend to 

use him to destroy the world, and Jamie has tried 

to use his powers to control her. 

If Lucky is to save Jinx, and forgive Jamie, she 

must learn to use her own powers – fast! 

Sue Tingey lives with her husband (and Koi carp) in 

East Grinstead, West Sussex. 


43

FICTION | JUNE | JO FLETCHER 

Graphic Novels (FX), Fantasy (FM) 


168 x 259mm 128 pages 

Ebook 9781780873138 

Not For Sale: Outside of the UK & 

Commonwealth 

HAUNTED 

Cemetery Girl Book 3 

CHARLAINE HARRIS & 

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN 

In this sequel to Cemetery Girl, Calexa begins 

to understand her forgotten past . . . 

‘Entertaining and highly recommended’ 

Speculative Book Review 

She calls herself Calexa Rose Dunhill. She has 

been living – hiding out – in Dunhill Cemetery 

ever since someone left her there to die. She 

has no idea who wants her dead or why, but she 

isn’t about to hang around for her would-be-killer 

to finish the job. 

Despite her self-imposed isolation among the 

deceased, Calexa’s ability to see spirits and the 

memories she receives from them guarantees 

she’ll never be alone. The only living people 

she interacts with are Kelner, the cemetery’s 

cantankerous caretaker, and Lucinda Cameron, 

an elderly woman who lives in an old Victorian 

house across the street. With their friendship, 

Calexa has regained a link to the world beyond 

tombstones and mausoleums. 

Cemetery Girl 


9780857389084 

Inheritance 

Trade Paperback 

£12.99 

9781780875125 

Christopher Golden is the award-winning, 

bestselling author of Snowblind, Tin Men, 

The Boys Are Back in Town and Of Saints and 

Shadows. Golden is also known for his many 

media tie-in works, including novels, comics, 

and video games, in the worlds of Buffy the 

Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Sons of Anarchy, and 

X-Men, among others. Golden was born in 

Massachusetts, where he still lives with 

his family. 

Charlaine Harris writes the No. 1 Sunday Times 

and internationally bestselling paranormal 

fantasy series featuring Sookie Stackhouse 

(the basis for the HBO series True Blood), as 

well as many other fantasy and mystery series. 

She lives in Texas. 


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NON-FICTION | DECEMBER | QUERCUS 

Self-help & Personal Development (VS) 



Ebook 9781784295219 


CONFIDENCE: 

THE SECRET 

KATIE PIPER 

Britain’s most inspiring young woman shares 

her secrets to finding deep-down resilience, 

strength and confidence. 

Who doesn’t want to know how to achieve real 

confidence - and who better to pass on the secrets 

than a woman who has overcome such gruelling 

physical and emotional hurdles, and emerged on 

the other side smiling? 

In 2008, Katie Piper survived a brutal attack 

which left her severely burned and disfigured and 

changed her life forever. Her previous books told 

the story of her long and painful journey back 

towards health and happiness. Now in Confidence: 

The Secret, Katie takes the next step from recovery 

to empowerment, sharing what she’s learned from 

her most difficult moments to inspire and guide 

others, and giving readers the tools they need to 

feel happy, confident and better about themselves. 

Showing that confidence is about valuing who 

you are, not what you do or how you look, Katie 

offers advice, ideas and inspiration for feeling more 

confident in all areas of life, whether it’s at work or 

school, in relationships and friendships, or learning 

to love and respect your body. With Katie’s help and 

guidance, deep-down inner confidence is within 

everyone’s reach. 

Things Get Better 


9781780874791 

Ebook 9781780874784 

Beautiful Ever After 


9781784291167 

Ebook 9781780876573 

Katie Piper is a TV presenter and charity 

campaigner. In 2009 she founded her own charity 

to help people living with burns and scars, and has 

received the prestigious Woman of the Year and 

Pride of Britain awards. 

29 DECEMBER 2016 

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Start Your Day With Katie 


9781784296278 

Ebook 9781780876603

Self-help & Personal Development (VS), 

Humour (WH) 

Hardback £12.99 9781786484086 



Ebook 9781786484093 


(No Open Market except China) 

GET YOUR SH!T 

TOGETHER 

How to Freak Out Less, Accomplish 

More, and Generally Win at Life 

SARAH KNIGHT 

Bestselling anti-guru, Sarah Knight, reveals how 

to stop whining and start winning! 

Sarah Knight’s first book, internationally 

bestselling The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving 

a F**k may have transformed your life. Now it’s 

time to take one further step along the road to 

mental declutterment; to stop whining and to 

start winning. In short, it’s time to Get Your Sh!t 

Together! 

As someone who quit her job in corporate America, 

built a house in the Dominican Republic and moved 

there, Knight seriously has her sh!t together. Here, 

in her frank, forthright and down right hilarious 

fashion, she shares her tried-and-tested methods 

so that you can apply them to your own hopes and 

dreams. Once you’ve identified your goal, laid out 

your strategy and narrowed your focus, you’re 

ready to commit. Seriously, get your sh!t together! 


The Life-Changing Magic 

of Not Giving a F**k 


9781784298487 

Ebook 9781784298494 

Sarah Knight is a freelance writer, blogger and 

editor. A diligent, Type A overachiever, Sarah 

spent the past three decades test-driving various 

kinds of fuck-giving on her way to developing her 

NotSorry method/path to enlightenment. 

29 DECEMBER 2016 

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Paperback £8.99 9781786481405 

129 x 177 mm 176 pages 

Ebook 9781786481399 


THIS BOOK WILL MAKE 

YOU FEARLESS 

JO USMAR 

Overcome your fears and change your life. 

A no-guff guide to battling your fears, including 

strategies, tools and relatable examples offering 

effective ways to feel brave and confident. This 

book will allow you to take control and deal with 

whatever life throws at you. Anxiety is one of the 

biggest mental health challenges of our times. 

Rather than a downbeat ‘coping with’ book this 

is an inspiring modern take on ‘feel the fear and 

do it anyway’. 

As well as writing the This Book Will series, 

Jo Usmar is the founder of the Instagram 

self-help vlog project Bite Sized Psych. 

29 DECMBER 2017 


Paperback £8.99 9781786481436 

129 x 177 mm 176 pages 

Ebook 9781786481443 


THIS BOOK WILL MAKE 

YOU SUCCESSFUL 

JO USMAR 

Find success in both your professional and your 

personal life. 

This Book Will Make You Successful is a straighttalking 

practical guide to getting what you want 

out of life. Jo Usmar delivers strategies for 

becoming successful in both your work and your 

personal life. This little book covers everything 

from networking, conflict resolution, stress 

management, productivity and being more 

persuasive, to not feeling like a fraud and moving 

on from setbacks. Prepare to feel motivated, 

confident, productive and courageous. 

As well as writing the This Book Will series, 

Jo Usmar is the founder of the Instagram 

self-help vlog project Bite Sized Psych. 

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29 DECMBER 2017

Popular Medicine & Health (VFD) 



Ebook 9781786482945 

LIVE BETTER 

AND LONGER 

MICHEL CYMES 

Goodbye Dr Dukan, bonjour Michel Cymes: 

the huge bestseller that has got the French 

living healthily. Now it’s our turn. 

‘I am like you. I like loafing on my sofa and giving 

in to the comfort of doing sod all. I put off until 

tomorrow the exercise I had planned to do today. 

I am not averse to sugary things and I love a good 

drink... How can we be careful and still enjoy 

ourselves? I believe there is no right age to start. 

No right age to take charge. No right age to do 

yourself good.’ 

Good health is an invaluable gift. But how can you 

maximise your own individual potential, and give 

your body the best MOT it has ever experienced? 

This fantastically accessible and helpful book is 

based on 4 basic and essential principles: 

1) understanding superfoods - what they are, how 

they benefit your body and your mind and how to 

eat them; 

2) breaking harmful habits - how to change those 

bad habits of a lifetime; 

3) being fit - the importance of sport, and how to 

incorporate it into your daily life; 

4) essential tips to stay in shape - from good sleep 

to cold showers, from gut health to brainfood. 

France’s favourite doctor, Michel Cymes, reveals 

the truth about healthy living, and why it’s never 

too late. 

NON-FICTION | JANUARY | QUERCUS 

Specialist doctor Michel Cymes works in a Paris 

hospital. He is also a very popular presenter for 

a number of medical programmes on French 

television. His previous book, Hippocrate aux Enfers, 

published by Stock, sold more than 115,000 copies 

in France. 


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NON-FICTION | FEBRUARY | QUERCUS 

Football (WSJA), Autobiography 

Sport (BGSA) 

Hardback £16.99 9781786481764 


Ebook 9781786481771 

ABOVE HEAD HEIGHT: 

A FIVE-A-SIDE LIFE 

JAMES BROWN 

A must-have for anyone who has ever played and 

enjoyed amateur football. 

James Brown has been playing football since 

growing up in the backstreets of Leeds. The sudden 

death of one his long-standing team mates made 

James ponder the unique bond between men who 

meet each other once a week for years, but don’t 

know any personal details beyond pitch prowess. 

A book for all of us - school mates, work 

colleagues, total strangers - bonded by the desire 

to blast one into the net from two feet away. 

James Brown is a British journalist and media 

entrepreneur. He’s now down to two matches a week. 


Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment (BGFA 

Hardback £16.99 9781786480347 

216 x 135mm 240 pages 


Ebook 9781786480378 

DIARY OF A VAMPIRE 

IN PYJAMAS 

MATHIAS MALZIEU 

Translated by Sam Alexander 

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly meets Reasons To 

Stay Alive in this beautiful bestselling, memoir. 

In November 2013 musician and writer Mathias Malzieu 

was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening blood 

disease. This astounding memoir focuses on the year 

that follows – of hospital sterile rooms, helpless doctors 

and countless brushes with death. But it is also the year 

of hope and rebirth. To read this book is to be in awe of 

the triumph of the human spirit. 

Born in 1974 in Montpellier in France, Mathias Malzieu 

is an established bestselling writer, as well as the lead 

singer of French pop group Dionysos. His international 

bestseller The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart has sold 

over 1 million copies around the world. 

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23 FEBRUARY 2017

Memoirs (BM), Autobiography: 

Historical, Political & Military (BGHA), 

The Holocaust (HBTZ1) 

Hardback £16.99 9781786480545 



Ebook 9781786480576 

A CRIME IN THE FAMILY 

SACHA BATTHYÁNY 

Translated by Anthea Bell 

A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal 

discovery from Europe’s dark heart, revealing 

an extraordinary untold story of the Second 

World War. 

A Crime in the Family is Sacha Batthyany’s memoir 

of confronting the legacy of his family’s involvement 

with the Holocaust, spanning not just a long-hidden 

massacre at the author’s family home, the inhumanity 

of Auschwitz, the chaos of wartime Budapest and the 

brutalities of Soviet occupation and Stalin’s gulags, 

but also the silent crimes of complicity and coverup, 

and the damaged generations they leave behind. 

Sacha Batthyány was born in Switzerland in 1973 to 

Hungarian émigré parents. He is a political reporter 

for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, based in Washington DC. 

NON-FICTION | MARCH – APRIL | QUERCUS 

Travel Writing (WTL) 

Hardback £20.00 9781849163262 



Ebook 9781784295578 


TRAGIC SHORES: 

A MEMOIR OF DARK 

TRAVEL 

THOMAS H COOK 

A memoir of a lifetime’s travel to some of the 

darkest places on earth from an award-winning 

crime writer. 

Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark 

places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and 

for what they can teach us. From Hawaii to Ghana, 

from San Francisco to Verdun, this is at once a 

personal memoir of exploration (both external 

and internal), and a strangely heartening look at 

the comforts that can be won when we confront 

mankind’s heart of darkness. 

Thomas H Cook is a hugely popular crime writer 

and Edgar Award winner for The Chatham School 

Affair. Tragic Shores is his first non-fiction book. 


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NON-FICTION | MAY | QUERCUS 

Popular Science (PDZ) 

Paperback £9.99 9781786481214 

128 x128mm 416 pages 

Ebook £9.99 9781786481221 

QUANTUM PHYSICS 

IN MINUTES 

GEMMA LAVENDER 

The fastest introduction to the fundamental 

rules of our universe. 

In this hyper-compact guide to quantum physics, 

Gemma Lavender explains the strange and 

beautiful fundamental laws that underpin reality, 

from Einstein’s equations to the Higgs boson - and 

the nature of reality itself. 

Popular Science (PDZ) 

Paperback £9.99 9781786481238 

128 x128mm 416 pages 

Ebook £9.99 9781786481245 

THE HUMAN BODY 

IN MINUTES 

TOM JACKSON 

The 200 key concepts that explain our own 

bodies. 

In this concise, illuminating guide, science writer 

Tom Jackson takes us round our own bodies, 

explaining how they work and why they work that 

way, from the insides out and from cradle (and 

before) to grave (and after). 

Comparative Religions (HRAC) 

Paperback £9.99 9781786481252 

128 x128mm 416 pages 

Ebook £9.99 9781786481269 

RELIGION IN MINUTES 

MARCUS WEEKS 

200 key ideas of the world’s great faiths. 

Religion in Minutes is your clear, compact 

introduction to the world’s major and minor 

religions – their histories, their creeds, their 

politics and their key figures. This is the fastest, 

fullest way to understanding the beliefs that 

shape the world around us. 


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Biography: Historical, Political 

& Military (BGH) 

Hardback £20.00 9781848665392 



Ebook 9781848665408 

Hunting Hitler’s Nukes 


9781786482075 

Ebook 9781786482099 

A Dog Called Hope 


9781784297169 

Ebook 9781784295479 

OPERATION RELENTLESS 

The Hunt for the Richest, Most Deadly 

Criminal in History 

DAMIEN LEWIS 

The new bestseller from the bestselling author 

of Zero Six Bravo. 

By 2007 Viktor Bout had become the world’s 

foremost arms dealer. Known as the ‘Merchant 

of Death’ he was both “Public Enemy No. 1” to 

the global intelligence agencies and a ruthless 

criminal worth around six billion dollars. 

For years Bout had eluded capture, meanwhile 

building up a labyrinthine network of airlines 

selling weapons to order to dictators, rebels, 

despots and terror groups worldwide. He was 

hunted by the CIA, NSA, MI6 and the UN. 

Step forward former SAS man Mike Snow. After 

serving in the Regiment, Snow had worked as a bush 

pilot in Africa, where he’d got to know Bout well. 

Via its own secretive shadow network, Snow was 

approached by the US DEA, the Drugs Enforcement 

Agency. The DEA agents had one question for him: 

was Snow able to get to Viktor Bout? 

This is the incredible tale of OPERATION 

RELENTLESS, the top-secret mission that Snow 

and a handful of DEA operatives launched to entrap 

Viktor Bout – a story that ranges from the steamy 

jungles of Colombia to the ice-bound streets of 

Moscow, and from horrific bloodshed and tyranny 

in the Congo, to a snatch operation like no other. 

It may read like an implausible thriller, but every 

word of Operation Relentless is true. 

NON-FICTION | MAY | QUERCUS 

Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting 

from conflict zones around the world. He has written 

a dozen non-fiction and fiction books, topping 

bestseller lists worldwide, and is published in some 

thirty languages. Two of his books are being made 

into feature films. 


The Nazi Hunters 


9781784293895 

Ebook 9781784293901 

Zero Six Bravo 


9781782060833 

Ebook 9781782060826 

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NON-FICTION | QUERCUS 

LAST YEAR, OUR INTREPID FIVE WENT… 

Gluten Free… 

Off the Booze… 

Parenting… 

On a Strategy Away Day… 

To Brexit Island… 

Wherever will they go next? 

Five more Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups 

titles are coming in 2017: jolly good! 

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Enid Blyton and The Famous Five are registered trade marks of 

Hodder & Stoughton Limited.

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JANUARY 

Modern & Contemporary Fiction (FA)) 


9781848665873 


Ebook 9781848665866 


LECIA FORMAT 

DAŠA DRNDIĆ 

Translated by Celia Hawkesworth 

A mesmerising meditation on 

memory, madness and medicine. 

This bedazzling, kaleidoscopic novel, 

stitches together fact, fiction, history and 

memory, into a heart-breaking collage 

that looks askance at the horrors of 

history. A fragmented narrative of love 

and disease, questioning the past, and 

the processes by which we describe it. 

JANUARY 



9780857054883 


Ebook 9780857054906 


THE BLACK NOTEBOOK 

PATRICK MODIANO 

Translated by Mark Polizzotti 

A nocturnal, dreamlike wander 

through the mysteries of the past. 

A writer discovers a set of notes in his 

notebook and sets off on a journey through 

the Paris of his past, in search of the 

woman he loved forty years previously – a 

woman who may have committed a terrible 

crime. 

JANUARY 



9780857055286 


Ebook 9780857055279 


JANUARY 

Fantasy (FM), Crime 

and Mystery (FF) 


9781848669598 


Ebook 9781848669604 

Available in UK & 

Commonwealth only 

IN THE CAFÉ OF 

LOST YOUTH 

PATRICK MODIANO 

Translated by Euan Cameron 

The haunting story of the forgotten 

people and places of Paris. 

Four narrators attempt to construct a 

portrait of the mysterious Jacqueline 

Delanque, sifting through her meandering 

life, and searching for meaning in the 

empty boulevards and forgotten cafés 

of the Paris the tourist never sees. 

CITY OF BLADES 

ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT 

Do the dead sleep soundly in the 

land of death – or do they have plans 

of their own? 

When General Turyin Mulaghesh is 

exiled to the city of Voortyashtan, the 

stronghold of the god of war and death, 

she plans on just eking out her days in 

this hellhole till retirement. But nothing 

is ever simple when Shara Komayd 

gets involved. 

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JANUARY 

Crime & Mystery [FF] 


9781848665286 


Ebook 9781784299842 

Not For Sale: USA 

JANUARY 



9780857054814 


Ebook 9780857054791 


SIX FOUR 

HIDEO YOKOYAMA 

Translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies 

The Japanese crime phenomenon, 

now a UK bestseller. 

Six Four. 

The nightmare no parent could endure. 

The case no detective could solve. 

The twist no reader could predict. 

‘Simply one of the best crime novels I have ever 

read’ David Peace 

GOLD FAME CITRUS 

CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS 

First novel from the brave new voice 

in American fiction. 

‘Extraordinary power and beauty’ New York Times 

‘Dizzying, scorching genius’ Vanity Fair 

‘A tour de force’ Guardian 

‘Powerful portrait of apocalypse’ Independent 

‘Mad Max world painted with a finer brush’ Elle 

‘Breathtaking storytelling and utterly original 

voice’ Ruth Ozeki 

PAPERBACKS | JANUARY – FEBRUARY 

FEBRUARY 

Crime (FF), Thriller (FH) 


9781780874913 


Ebook 9781784292393 


THE QUIET DEATH 

OF THOMAS QUAID 

CRAIG RUSSELL 

PI Lennox – the Scottish Philip 

Marlowe – is out for revenge. 

‘A great writer at the top of his game’ Peter James 

When Lennox’s friend Tommy is killed 

for knowing too much, Lennox must 

find out what he knew and who killed 

him for it. And then he must avenge 

Tommy’s death. 

FEBRUARY 

Crime (FF) 


9781784297244 


Ebook 9781784297213 


THE BIRDWATCHER 

WILLIAM SHAW 

Breakout standalone crime novel 

set on the moody Dungeness coast. 

‘Shaw’s most accomplished book yet’ 

Independent 

‘Contender for thriller of the year’ Sun 

Police Sergeant William South has 

a reason for not wanting to be on 

the murder investigation. He is a 

murderer himself. 

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PAPERBACKS | FEBRUARY 

FEBRUARY 


Thriller (FH) 


9781784296896 


Ebook 9781784296889 


ALL THINGS 

CEASE TO APPEAR 

ELIZABETH BRUNDAGE 

Sensationally reviewed literary 

thriller in the vein of Patricia 

Highsmith. 

‘Ghosts, murder, a terrifying psychotic and 

beautiful writing. Loved it’ Stephen King 

‘Can make you gasp in astonishment or break 

your heart with a single line’ Wall St Journal 

The tale of two marriages with a 

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THE PEOPLE WE 

WERE BEFORE 

ANNABELLE THORPE 

A bold, dark, romantic debut set 

in war-torn 1990s Croatia. 

‘Tender, truthful, moving and at times painful’ 

Sunday Mirror 

The story of one boy’s struggle to 

protect his family, his relationships and 

his humanity throughout the horror of 

the Serbo-Croatian war. For fans of 

Victoria Hislop and Louis de Bernieres. 

A WOMAN MUCH 

MISSED 

VALERIO VARESI 

Translated by Joseph Farrell 

Commissario Soneri returns in his 

most painfully personal investigation. 

When an elderly landlady is murdered, 

Commissario Soneri’s investigation 

uncovers rife corruption at Parma’s 

heart, a raft of ghosts from Italy’s 

troubled past – and unnerving link with 

his own, adored late wife. 

DIARY OF A BODY 

DANIEL PENNAC 

Translated by Alyson Waters 

A visceral, humorous story of a 

man’s life from cradle to grave. 

From a particularly humiliating 

accident at scout camp, to the final 

stages of terminal illness, Daniel 

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novel shows the rise and fall 

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SHRILL 

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‘A thrilling, kick-ass, joyous ROAR of a book.’ 

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Guardian columnist Lindy West speaks 

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‘cool’ in this laugh-out-loud feminist 

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From fat-shaming to twitter-trolling, 

she calls out unpalatable truths with 

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A DOG CALLED HOPE 

JASON MORGAN WITH 

DAMIEN LEWIS 

A story of heartfelt devotion 

and companionship. 

When special forces soldier Jason 

Morgan awoke from a months-long 

coma, he was told he’d never walk 

again. All hope seemed gone, until 

Jason met Napal, a handsome-as-hell 

black Labrador provided by a very 

special charity. 

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FATAL PURSUIT 

MARTIN WALKER 

‘The most beautiful car ever made’ – 

a prize worth killing for? 

The last Bugatti 57 Atlantic disappeared 

in the Perigord in WW2, and now the 

race is on to find it. But when dead 

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THE LAVENDER HOUSE 

HILARY BOYD 

Warm and witty women’s fiction 

for fans of Erica James. 

Nancy has always stood by her family; 

always put them first. But then she 

meets Jim, and everything changes. 

Her family think he’s unsuitable; 

Nancy thinks she’s in love. Will she 

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THE HARROWING 

JAMES AITCHESON 

Five strangers. Five secrets. 

No refuge. No turning back. 

1066. A Norman army marches through 

England: burning and killing everything 

in its path. The Harrowing has begun. 

Five travellers find sanctuary with the 

last stand of the Saxon rebellion. But 

are they fleeing the Normans or their 

own troubles? 

HIS WHOLE LIFE 

ELIZABETH HAY 

The captivating new novel by the 

bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author. 

Starting with something as simple 

as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole 

Life takes us into a richly intimate 

world where everything that matters 

to him is at risk: family, nature, home. 

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MATA HARI 

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A captivating novel about Mata Hari: 

dancer, courtesan . . . spy. 

1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari 

sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom . . . 

or death. From lush Indian temples 

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UNFORGETTABLE 

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Julia goes in search of the perfect 

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Join Julia Bradbury as she sets out 

along eight of the UK’s best-loved paths 

that showcase Britain’s diverse and 

beautiful landscapes, from Dorset’s 

Jurassic coast to the breathtaking 

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District and the Yorkshire Dales. 

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OUTSTANDING 

KATHRYN FLETT 

A sharp-eyed modern morality tale 

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‘Flett’s all-seeing eye misses nothing’ Daily Mail 

Eve loves her job as head of an Ofsted- 

Outstanding prep school. When her 

beautiful teenage daughter is offered 

the internship of a lifetime, Eve is too 

busy to sense the danger approaching… 

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THE MADWOMAN 

UPSTAIRS 

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Think you know Charlotte, Emily 

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Samantha is the last descendent 

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losing her father, it is up to Samantha 

to piece together the mysterious family 

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THE LIFE-CHANGING 

MAGIC OF NOT GIVING 

A F**K 

SARAH KNIGHT 

How to stop spending time doing 

things you don’t like. 

‘I love Knight’s book before I even start reading it’ 

Sunday Times Magazine 

The surprising art of caring less and 

getting more. Rid yourself of unwanted 

obligations, and give your f**ks instead to 

people and things that make you happy. 

SAINT’S BLOOD 

SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL 

How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Brasti 

and Kest are about to find out. 

With the Dukes looking for ways to 

oppose Aline’s ascension to the throne, 

the last thing the Greatcoats need is 

Saints turning up dead and a religious 

crusade. If Falcio is to stop the country 

turning into a vicious theocracy, he must 

find – and stop – the Saint-killer, but his 

only clue is the iron mask encasing the 

head of the Saint of Mercy. 

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ALL THEIR MINDS 

IN TANDEM 

DAVID SANGER 

West Virginia, 1879 – an enigmatic 

stranger unearths a small town’s 

secrets. 

A mysterious figure called ‘The Maker’ 

arrives in New Georgetown and starts 

entering the minds of the townsfolk. 

We soon discover what it is they all 

hope for and hide, and learn just why 

The Maker has chosen to meet them. 

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LADIVINE 

MARIE NDIAYE 

Translated by Jordan Stump 

A spellbinding family saga, longlisted 

for the Man Booker International Prize. 

Centred around three generations 

of women, whose seemingly cursed 

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THE SANTIAGO 

PILGRIMAGE 

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE RUFIN 

Translated by Malcolm Imrie and 

Martina Dervis 

A modern pilgrimage and a handbook 

for conscious living. 

Describing his walk of eight hundred 

kilometres along the “Northern Way” to 

Santiago de Compostela, Rufin’s account 

takes in all the delights, disasters and 

eccentricities of this well-trodden path. 

BLOOD WEDDING 

PIERRE LEMAITRE 

Translated by Frank Wynne 

A gripping psychological thriller 

from the bestselling master of noir. 

Sophie is haunted by the things she 

can’t remember – and visions from 

the past she will never forget. Her only 

refuge is in a completely new identity. 

But Sophie is not the only one keeping 

secrets . . . 

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A SPRING BETRAYAL 

TOM CALLAGHAN 

A hard-hitting thriller set in a lawless 

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Inspector Akyl Borubaev of Bishkek 

Murder Squad has been exiled to 

the far corner of Kyrgyzstan, but 

death still haunts him at every turn. 

Borubaev soon finds himself caught 

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FOREVER YOUNG 

OLIVER KAY 

The great untold story about 

Manchester United’s golden 

generation. 

The stories of Adrian Doherty’s 

contemporaries, that group of Manchester 

United youngsters who became known 

as the “Class of ‘92”, are well known. 

The story you don’t know is about the 

player who, having had the world at his 

feet, died the day before his 27th birthday 

following an accident in a canal in Holland. 

THE PRODIGAL 

DAUGHTER 

PRUE LEITH 

The second book in the Food of 

Love trilogy. 

‘A delicious family saga’ Daily Mail 

In the middle of the swinging Sixties, 

rebellious daughter, Angelica Angelotti, 

strikes out on her own away from the 

family restaurant. But some bad choices 

– especially in men – lead to heartwrenching 

consequences. 

THE TUNNEL 

CARL-JOHAN VALLGREN 

Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles 

An intricate thriller from one of 

Sweden’s most popular writers. 

Private Investigator Danny Katz is trying 

to track down his former drug dealer, 

who has mysteriously disappeared. 

The investigation leads him to the 

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CONSPIRACY 

IAIN GALE 

Keane goes undercover for his 

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Napoleon has triumphed over Europe 

but his enemies still dream of rebellion. 

To aid this cause, British intelligence 

has been smuggled in, and James 

Keane is among them. Can he defeat 

the tyrannical French Emperor once 

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BLOOD OF THE HOOPOE 

NAOMI FOYLE 

This gripping SF novel is ‘for Hunger Games 

fans of all ages’ says Library Journal. 

Perfect for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin. 

Astra is the long-prophesied icon of 

unification for the peoples of Non-Land, 

but is she ready to accept her destiny? 

Astra is on a journey across the 

windsands to join her father in Shiimti. 

But when her guide leads her into the 

path of a vicious sandstorm, she is 

forced to confront her destiny. 

A FIELD GUIDE 

TO REALITY 

JOANNA KAVENNA 

Brilliant illustrated satire by the 

Granta Best of Young British author. 

‘Extraordinary, wise, funny’ A. L. Kennedy 

‘Startling and inventive’ Miriam Toews 

‘I couldn’t put it down. A cult following 

seems certain’ Literary Review 

‘Opts to push the boundaries of what the 

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BLACKWATER 

JAMES HENRY 

New Essex-based crime series 

from the Sunday Times bestseller. 

January 1983. A new year brings a 

new danger to the Essex shoreline: 

100 kilograms of drugs, bound for 

Colchester. 

Detectives Nick Lowry, Daniel Kenton 

and Jane Gabriel must work together to 

save Britain’s oldest settlement from a 

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THE BICKFORD FUSE 

ANDREY KURKOV 

Translated by Boris Dralyuk 

A satirical Soviet epic by the author 

of Death and the Penguin. 

Blending allegory and fable with real 

events, and as deliriously absurd 

as anything Kurkov has written, The 

Bickford Fuse is both an elegy for lost 

years and a song of hope for a future 

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THE ROPEWALKER 

JAAN KROSS 

Translated by Merike Lepasaar 

Beecher 

The first novel in the trilogy by 

Estonia’s finest writer. 

Jaan Kross’s trilogy dramatises the life 

of the renowned Livonian Chronicler 

Balthasar Russow, whose greatest 

work described the effects of the 

Livonian War on the peasantry of 

what is now Estonia. 

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THE SORROWS 

OF MEXICO 

Bringing together writings from 

seven of Mexico’s finest journalists. 

Examining the corruption and violence 

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necessary – writing that has the power 

to change the world’s view of Mexico, 

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BRAMARD’S CASE 

DAVIDE LONGO 

Translated by Silvester Mazzarella 

Corso Bramard has a score to settle 

with his family’s murderer. 

Once a year, Corso Bramard receives 

a message from the man who tore his 

life apart. But this time, the murderer 

may have unwittingly sent him a vital 

clue, setting Bramard on a thrilling 

quest to uncover a devastating secret. 

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THE LITTLE THEATRE 

BY THE SEA 

ROSANNA LEY 

A sun-soaked summer read about 

love and starting over. 

When Faye receives a surprise call 

asking her to house-sit in sunny 

Sardinia, she jumps at the chance. 

Little does she know what she’s letting 

herself in for if she accepts this oncein-a-lifetime 

opportunity . . . 

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BENEATH 

THE SURFACE 

JO SPAIN 

The top-ten bestselling author of 

With Our Blessing. 

When a high-ranking government 

official is brutally slain in the most 

secure building in Ireland, Inspector 

Tom Reynolds and his team are called 

in to uncover the truth behind the 

murder. The second in the Inspector 

Tom Reynolds series. 

HUNTING HITLER’S 

NUKES 

DAMIEN LEWIS 

Churchill’s SOE and the Race to Stop 

the Nazi Bomb. 

The race to stop the Third Reich from 

building an atomic bomb: in his new 

bestseller, Damien Lewis delves 

into the extraordinary heroism and 

innovation of the British special forces 

fighting a secret war to prevent Hitler 

from acquiring the ultimate weapon. 

THE PARTICLE ZOO 

GAVIN HESKETH 

The search for the fundamental 

nature of reality. 

Why are atoms so small? How did 

the Higgs boson save the universe? 

And is there a Theory of Everything? 

The Particle Zoo answers these and many 

other profound questions, and explains 

the big ideas of Quantum Physics, String 

Theory, The Big Bang and Dark Matter... 

and, ultimately, what we know about the 

true, fundamental nature of reality.

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THE ART OF WAR 

STEPHEN COONTS 

The latest Jake Grafton thriller 

from the perennial New York 

Times bestseller. 

While the US navy is distracted by hostile 

activity in the South China Sea, a nuclear 

weapon has been planted in the harbour of 

Norfolk, Virginia - the world’s largest naval 

base. Faced with the horror of a disaster 

that would eclipse Pearl Harbor in scale, 

Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini return 

in this explosive race-against-time thriller. 

THE MAN WHO 

WANTED TO KNOW 

D. A. MISHANI 

Translated by Todd Hasak-Lowy 

Groundbreaking translated police 

thriller echoing Wallander and 

Sherlock Holmes. 

In the third novel of the series, Inspector 

Avraham hunts a man who impersonates 

a policeman to speak with rape victims 

– but his purpose is a heartbreaking one 

that only his wife can know. 

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THE EASY WAY OUT 

STEVEN AMSTERDAM 

A wickedly funny novel exploring the 

issue of assisted suicide. 

Evan is a nurse – a suicide assistant. 

He’s the one at the hospital who hands 

out the last drink to those who ask 

for it. 

In this brilliantly funny and exquisitely 

sad novel, Steven Amsterdam asks the 

question: would you help someone die? 

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THE PARABLE BOOK 

PER OLOV ENQUIST 

Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner 

The love affair between a teenage 

boy and a 51-year-old woman. 

This is the love story Enquist never 

thought he would be able to write. It is a 

distillation of the life and work of a titan 

of Swedish literature, who owes it all to 

an encounter with an older woman on a 

knot-free pine floor. 

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CRY, MOTHER SPAIN 

LYDIE SALVAYRE 

Translated by Ben Faccini 

Love and tradition collide in this 

Spanish Civil War pocket epic. 

In a village in the Spanish hills, few 

villagers can read or write and fewer 

still ever leave. If everything goes 

according to her mother’s plan, Montse 

will never leave either. But her world is 

about to change in unimaginable ways. 

BIRTH OF A BRIDGE 

MAYLIS DE KERANGAL 

Translated by Jessica Moore 

The award-winning compact epic of 

ambition and the American Dream. 

A monumental new bridge is planned 

to catapult Coca, California, into the 

future. But the project’s majestic scope 

has no regard for the legacy of an 

ancient land, and within this modern 

Babel festers a cocktail of fears 

and passions. 

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CURED 

LOL TOLHURST 

The inside story of The Cure, from 

one of its founding members 

Cured is a memoir by Lol Tolhurst, one 

of the founding imaginary boys, who met 

Robert Smith when they were five. Lol 

threads the genesis of The Cure through 

his schoolboy years with Smith and the 

band’s most successful era in the 1980s. 

He takes us up to the present day, forty 

years since the band’s inception. 

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TROUBLE AT 

ZERO HOUR 

ROB LOFTHOUSE 

A vivid retelling of three key 

WWII operations. 

1944, Normandy. For Robbie Stokes, 

today is the beginning of ten months of 

relentless conflict that takes him from 

D-Day, via Operation Market Garden 

and the battle for Arnhem Bridge, to 

the Rhine Crossing and the final push 

for victory.

INDEX 

A 

Above Head Height: 

A Five-a-Side Life 50 

Addison, Corban 6 

Adventures in Modern Marriage 3 

After the War 28 

Aitcheson, James 60 

Al-Ramli, Muhsin 32 

All Their Minds in Tandem 62 

All Things Cease to Appear 58 

Amsterdam, Steven 67 

Amy Snow 11 

Archer, Rosie 15 

Art of War, The 67 

Ascendant’s Rite 39 

Atkins, Lucy 12 

Avenging Angels 31 

Awkward Squad, The 30 

B 

Baltimore Boys, The 33 

Batthyány, Sacha 51 

Beautiful Ever After 46 

Belladonna 28 

Beneath the Surface 66 

Bennett, Robert Jackson 40, 56 

Bickford Fuse, The 65 

Birdwatcher, The 24, 57 

Birth of a Bridge 68 

Black Notebook, The 56 

Blacklight Blue 19 

Blackwater 64 

Blood and Bone 16 

Blood of the Hoopoe 64 

Blood Wedding 62 

Blowback 19 

Blyton, Enid 54 

Book of Scars, A 24 

Bound 43 

Bourland, Barbara 26 

Box 21 21 

Boyd, Hilary 59 

Bradbury, Julia 60 

Bramard’s Case 65 

Brown, James 50 

Brundage, Elizabeth 58 

By Blood Divided 14 

C 

Caldecott, Andrew 42 

Callaghan, Tom 63 

Cast Iron 19 

Castell, Sebastien de 41, 61 

Cell Eight 21 

Cemetery Girl 44 

Chalk Pit, The 5 

Children, The 34 

City of Blades 40, 56 

City of Miracles 40 

City of Stairs 40 

Clark, Polly 22 

Confidence: The Secret 46 

Connolly, Joseph 25 

Conspiracy 64 

Cook, Thomas H 51 

Coonts, Stephen 67 

Corre, Hervé le 28 

Crime in the Family, A 51 

Critic, The 19 

Crowley, Sinead 14 

Cry, Mother Spain 68 

Cured 68 

Cymes, Michel 49 

D 

Dark, The 16 

Daydreams of Angels 20 

Death and the Devil 37 

Death Trap 3 

Defending the Motherland 31 

Delaney, J.P. 4 

Despentes, Virginie 35 

Diary of a Body 58 

Diary of a Vampire in Pyjamas 50 

Dicker, Joël 33 

Dog Called Hope, A 53, 59 

Drndić, Daša 28, 56 

Dying Fall 5 

E 

Early Birds, The 15 

Easy Way Out, The 67 

Empress of the Fall 39 

Enquist, Per Olov 67 

Eternal City, The 17 

Extraordinary People 19 

F 

Fatal Pursuit 59 

Ferry Girls, The 15 

Field Guide to Reality, A 64 

Firemaker, The 23 

Five Give Up The Booze 54 

Five Go Gluten Free 54 

Five Go on a Strategy Away Day 54 

Five Go Parenting 54 

Five on Brexit Island 54 

Fletcher, Tom 38 

Flett, Kathryn 61 

Florence Grace 11 

Forever Young 63 

Fourth Sacrifice, The 23 

Foyle, Naomi 43, 64 

Freeze Frame 19 

G 

Gale, Iain 64 

Get Your Sh!t Together 47 

Ghost Fields, The 5 

Giambanco, Valentina 16 

Gift of Darkness, The 16 

Gill, Elizabeth 9 

Girl Before, The 4 

Girl Who Was Saturday 

Night, The 20 

Girls From the Sweet Shop, The 9 

Gold Fame Citrus 57 

Golden, Christopher 44 

Graham, Laurie 15 

Greig, Andrew 25 

Grey, Isabelle 8 

Griffiths, Elly 5 

H 

Hair, David 39 

Harris, Charlaine 44 

Harrowing, The 60 

Harvest of Thorns, A 6 

Haunted 44 

Hay, Elizabeth 60 

Hellström, Börge 21

INDEX 

Hénaff, Sophie 30 

Heneage, James 14 

Henry, James 64 

Heron, Mike 25 

Hesketh, Gavin 66 

His Whole Life 60 

Hourglass, The 11 

House of Knives, A 24 

Human Body in Minutes, The 52 

Hunting Hitler’s Nukes 53, 66 

I 

I’ll Eat When I’m Dead 26 

Idle Hands 38 

In the Café of Lost Youth 56 

Inheritance 44 

Italian Quarter, The 17 

J 

Jackson, Tom 52 

K 

Kat, Otto de 30 

Kavenna, Joanna 64 

Kay, Oliver 63 

Kerangal, Maylis de 68 

Kerr, Philip 10 

Killing Room, The 23 

Knight, Sarah 47, 61 

Knight’s Shadow 41 

Kross, Jaan 34, 65 

Kurkov, Andrey 65 

L 

Ladivine 62 

Lady From Zagreb, The 10 

Larchfield 22 

Last Act of Hattie Hoffman, The 7 

Lavender House, The 59 

Lavender, Gemma 52 

Lecia Format 56 

Leith, Prue 63 

Lemaitre, Pierre 62 

Lewis, Damien 53, 59, 66 

Ley, Rosanna 13, 66 

Life-Changing Magic of Not 

Giving a F**k, The 47, 61 

Limit: Part 1 37 

Limit: Part 2 37 

Little Theatre By the 

Sea, The 13, 66 

Live Better and Longer 49 

Lofthouse, Rob 68 

Lonely Hearts Hotel, The 20 

Longest Night, The 30 

Longo, Davide 65 

Love Factory, The 9 

Lowell, Catherine 61 

Lullabies for Little Criminals 20 

M 

Madwoman Upstairs, The 61 

Mage’s Blood 39 

Malzieu, Mathias 50 

Man Who Wanted to 

Know, The 67 

Man Without Breath, A 10 

Mata Hari 60 

May, Peter 19, 23 

McKinley, Tamara 6 

McQuaile, Kate 8 

Mejia, Mindy 7 

Mishani, D. A. 67 

Missing One, The 12 

Modiano, Patrick 56 

Monte Carlo 29 

Moran, Michelle 60 

Morgan, Jason 59 

N 

Nazi Hunters, The 53 

Ndiaye, Marie 62 

Nicholson, William 3 

Night Visitor, The 12 

O 

O’Neill, Heather 20 

One Bad Turn 14 

Operation Relentless 53 

Other Child, The 12 

Other Side of Silence, The 10 

Outcast Dead, The 5 

Outstanding 61 

P 

Parable Book, The 67 

Particle Zoo, The 66 

Pen 33 21 

Pennac, Daniel 58 

People We Were Before, The 58 

People Without a Past, A 34 

Piper, Katie 46 

Prague Fatale 10 

President’s Gardens, The 32 

Proctor, Elaine 9 

Prodigal Daughter, The 63 

Prussian Blue 10 

Q 

Quantum Physics in Minutes 52 

Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid, The 57 

R 

Rees, Tracy 11 

Religion in Minutes 52 

Ropewalker, The 65 

Rosa, Domenica de 17 

Roslund, Anders 21 

Rotherweird 42 

Rufin, Jean-Christophe 62 

Russell, Craig 57 

S 

Saint’s Blood 41, 61 

Salvayre, Lydie 68 

Sanger, David 62 

Sanín, Carolina 34 

Santiago Pilgrimage, The 62 

Scarlet Tides 39 

Schätzing, Frank 37 

Shaw, William 24, 57 

Shrill 59 

Six Four 57 

Smith, Anna 3 

Snakehead 23 

Song From Dead Lips, A 24 

Sorrows of Mexico, The 65 

Spain, Jo 66 

Special Girls, The 8 

Spindrift 6 

Spring Betrayal, A 63 

Stained Light 43

INDEX 

Start Your Day With Katie 46 

Sweet After Death 16 

Sympathy for the Devil 24 

T 

Terrin, Peter 29 

Things Get Better 46 

This Book Will Make You 

Fearless 48 

This Book Will Make You 

Successful 48 

This Is 64 25 

Thorpe, Annabelle 58 

Three Seconds 21 

Three Thousand Horsepower 29 

Tingey, Sue 43 

Tolhurst, Lol 68 

Towsey, David 38 

Tragic Shores: A Memoir 

of Dark Travel 51 

Traitor’s Blade 41 

Trouble at Zero Hour 68 

Truth About The Harry Quebert 

Affair, The 33 

Tunnel, The 63 

Tuscan Writers’ School, The 17 

Two Soldiers 21 

Tyrant’s Throne 41 

Without a Word 8 

Woman in Blue, The 5 

Woman Much Missed, A 58 

Y 

Yokoyama, Hideo 57 

You Know What You Could Be 25 

Your Resting Place 38 

Z 

Zero Six Bravo 53 

U 

Unforgettable Walks 60 

Unholy War 39 

Usmar, Jo 48 

V 

Vallgren, Carl-Johan 63 

Varenne, Antonin 29 

Varesi, Valerio 58 

Vernon Subutex 1 35 

Villa Serena 17 

Vinogradova, Lyuba 31 

W 

Walker, Martin 59 

Watkins, Claire Vaye 57 

Weeks, Marcus 52 

West, Lindy 59

QUERCUS CONTACTS 

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Head of Publicity 

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DISTRIBUTION 

Quercus, MacLehose Press, Jo Fletcher Books 

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Spring 2017

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