no ordinary cat - ANTHEA

UK
orion
(Kate Mills)
US
simon & schuster
(Sarah Knight)
Holland
Ambo Anthos
Greece
klidarithmos
Film rights sold
to Universal
uK Publication 11 october 2012 Fiction
Andrew Pyper
THE DEMONOLOGIST
Professor david ullman is among the world’s leading
authorities on demonic literature. not that he’s a
believer. He sees what he teaches as a branch of the
imagination and nothing more. So when offered a luxury
trip to venice to be a consultant on a “phenomenon”, he
accepts, taking his 11-year old daughter Tess with him.
Amidst the decadent splendour of the city, david makes
his way to the address he’s been asked to visit. What he
witnesses in the tiny attic room shakes him to the core: a
man restrained in a chair, clearly insane. But what david
hears the man say is worse. The voice of his father, dead
for thirty years, repeating the last words he ever spoke
to his son. Words that have left scars – and a mystery
– behind.
Terrified, david is determined to leave with Tess as
quickly as possible. But he can’t shake the feeling that
something is following him. And then, before his eyes
on the roof of their hotel, Tess disappears. But before
she falls into the Grand Canal’s waters, she utters a plea:
Find me.
At once frightening and deeply moving, Andrew Pyper’s
page-turning thriller explores the lengths a father will go
to find his daughter, and the darkness he is prepared to
confront along the way.
‘Richly crafted, deliriously scary and compulsively pageturning
from beginning to end. Imagine The Exorcist and
The Da Vinci Code as penned by Daphne du Maurier.
Don’t miss this one!’ – Jeffery Deaver.
UK
Quercus
(Jane Wood)
Germany
Goldmann
uK Publication 3 January 2013 Fiction
Virginia Ironside
NO! I DON’T NEED MY
READING GLASSES
Following her best-selling No! I Don’t Want to Join
a Bookclub comes a second diary about growing old
disgracefully. It starts, as a new diary should, with a
list of new Year’s resolutions – never to drink again for
fear of further damaging her ageing brain cells, to try
acupuncture to see if it helps the increasing stiffness
every morning, to clear her house of years of accumulated
junk and to have a face-lift. But the only resolution Marie
manages to keep is the last one.
Instead she finds herself dealing with the increasing
confusion of her beloved friend Archie, a planned new
hotel on a rare patch of green near her home which leads
to some strange alliances to save the local plane trees,
and the pain of separation when her son decides to move
to new York with Marie’s beloved grand-son, Gene.
But there are compensations too – of old friendships, of
new challenges, and could it be that there might even be
new romance?
‘Touching, astute, and very funny indeed, the further
adventures of Marie Sharp faces up to the losses that ageing
brings with a clear eye, as well as with wisdom and wit.
Immensely charming, immensely uplifting.– Marian Keyes
‘Marie Sharp is a genius comic creation. Few books are so
original, so entertaining and so thought-provoking.’– Daily
Express
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