Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Published by Tramp Press on 17 August 2023 as a Flapped Trade Paperback at £15.99
‘Engrossing, gorgeous, funny. . . . [Fayne] illuminates the experience of being queer before such things were discussed openly’ —THE GLOBE AND MAIL
In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious ‘condition’. Strong and insatiably curious, her father breaks with tradition and hires a tutor to teach his daughter ‘as you would my son, had I one’. But when Charlotte and her tutor’s explorations of the bog turn up an unexpected artefact, her father announces he has arranged for her to be cured of her condition, and her world is upended. Charlotte’s passion for knowledge and adventure will take her to the bottom of family secrets and to the heart of her own identity. Even with all her gifts – intelligence, wit and strength of character – can Charlotte overcome the violently enforced boundaries of society to claim her own place in the world?
Nameless Lake by Chris Parker
Published by Salt Publishing on 15 July as a Paperback Original at £10.99
Nameless Lake is about the unspoken pressures of gender and desire, told through the shifting dynamics of a lifelong friendship.
Emma and Madryn grow up with dreams of escaping their seaside hometown, sustained by an obsession with photography and secret acts of vandalism. But adulthood brings its own limitations, and Emma yearns for connection beyond the constraints of her family. Drawn deeper into Madryn’s private life, Emma feels new possibilities awakening within herself, but when Madryn faces a backlash from her controlling partner, Emma must finally break out of her role as passive observer.
The Unheard by Anne Worthington
Published by Confingo on 11 July 2023 as a Paperback Original at £10
‘There is a rhythmic, mesmeric power – perhaps even a haunting musicality – to Anne Worthington’s prose style’ Kerry Hadley-Pryce
The debut novel from Manchester based documentary photographer and writer Anne Worthington is a novel about memory, and what happens to the experiences that are too much for us, that find a way of showing themselves, unable to be left behind.
We trace the trajectory of Tom Pullen’s life backwards, first meeting him in 1999 when he is an old man with dementia. We then go back fifteen years to 1984 where Tom is working in an office amidst sweeping changing and waves of redundancies in Thatcher’s Britain. And finally we see him as a young boy in 1931 growing up in a violent and deprived home.
The Dog Sitter Detective by Antony Johnston
Published by Allison & Busby on 18 May 2023 in hardback at £16.99, as an eBook and as an audiobook
‘A country house, a body in the library, a cast of dodgy wedding guests, and a prickly, dog-loving sleuth… I can’t think of a more agreeable combination of ingredients for a new cosy crime series. Simply delightful!’ – VASEEM KHAN, author of The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
Meet Gwinny, an unlikely bloodhound, and her four-legged friends determined to dig up the truth. Penniless Gwinny Tuffel is delighted to attend her good friend Tina’s upmarket wedding. But when the big day ends with a dead body and not a happily-ever-after, Gwinny is left with a situation as crooked as a dog’s hind leg.
When her friend is accused of murder, Gwinny takes it upon herself to sniff out the true culprit. With a collection of larger-than-life suspects and two pedigree salukis in tow, she is set to have a ruff time of it.
Chimera by Alice Thompson
Published by Salt Publishing on 15 May 2023 as a Paperback Original at £10.99
Alice Thompson’s gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. Her ship, the Chimera, has been sent to look for organisms that will help assuage Earth’s global warming. It becomes apparent on the planet that there are other reasons for her mission, including her search for a previous missing spaceship that visited the planet a few years earlier.
This is a story of transfiguration, dreams and identity. Are we just a template of memories and experiences, or is there something that makes us uniquely human? And what is the role of emotion in forming consciousness?
Seahurst by S.A. Harris
Published by Salt Publishing on 15 May 2023 as a Paperback Original at £10.99
‘Seahurst is a suspenseful spine-tingling ghost story I absolutely loved! One moment I was holding my breath, and the next my heart was aching for Evie and her son Alfie. Harris has once again held me with her spell-binding prose’ – RUBY SPEECHLEY
Evie Meyer and her son Alfie flee from her abusive partner Seth in Toronto to spend New Year with her half-brother Luke at their late father’s summer home on the Suffolk Coast, only to find Seahurst abandoned and Luke missing.
As Evie searches for her brother, she is filled with a deepening dread that something is very wrong at Seahurst and that their father’s death may not have been suicide after all. Can Evie uncover Seahurst’s sinister secrets and keep Alfie safe before the souls of the dead claim yet another terrible revenge?
Adventure Everywhere: Pablo Picasso’s Paris Nightlife
Published by Confingo on 4 May 2023 as a small format Paperback Original at £8
The latest in Dave Haslam’s acclaimed Art Decades series, published fifty years after Picasso’s death in 1973.
Picasso in Paris in the 1900s was advancing the frontiers of art in a city vibrant with hedonism and creativity. Life after dark fascinated and inspired him. On the occasion of his first exhibition in Paris, a critic wrote that Picasso is an artist ‘who never believes the day is over, in a city that offers a different spectacle every minute’. In Adventure Everywhere, Dave Haslam portrays the world of drink, sex, music, drugs, art, and chaos that constituted Picasso’s nightlife. Picasso’s relationships – and debts – to poets and other artists are described; his misogyny is addressed; and no bar, cabaret club or dance hall is left unvisited in this vivid and intriguing account of how significant nightlife was in Picasso’s Paris, and how central in his art.
Minor Monuments by Ian Maleney
Published by Tramp Press on 20 April 2023 in paperback at £8.99
‘A beautiful, touching and extraordinarily intelligent book. I loved every page’ – SALLY ROONEY
Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog a few miles from the River Shannon, Minor Monuments is a story made up of essays and unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands.
Taking in the physical and philosophical power of sound and music, Ian Maleney explores his grandfather John Joe’s experience of Alzheimer’s disease and the effects of it on a family. He questions the complex nature of home, memory and the nature of belonging. A thought-provoking and quietly devastating meditation on family and loss, and with echoes of Tim Robinson and Tara Westover, Minor Monuments is a beautiful and unique literary experience.
The Way to Work by Sean Ashton
Published by Salt Publishing on 15 April 2023 as a Paperback Original at £10.99
Have you ever boarded your morning commute and wished you’d never arrive at your destination? That is what happens to the protagonist of The Way to Work. Having boarded what he assumes to be his usual 8:08 service, he soon discovers that all is not as it first seemed.
Does this train stop at any station? Do the carriages ever come to an end? And where is the colleague he thought he saw, as he took his place in the quiet coach? Our narrator reflects on his job as salesman for a cat litter manufacturer as he wanders down-train in search of answers – yet the sliding doors that close behind him appear to be malfunctioning, and every person he meets seems to remember very little of their past. Seduction, destiny and salvation all come into play as this relentless novel unfolds, and we discover precisely where the 8:08 is heading and just who is in charge.
Bellevue by Alison Booth
Published by RedDoor on 16 March 2023 as a Paperback Original at £9.99
‘A captivating slice of Australian history, rich in character and colour, Bellevue is sparkling with acuity and authenticity’ – KIM KELLY, author of The Ratcatcher
Set in Australia in the 1970s, Bellevue’s environmental and conservation themes have a strong contemporary resonance. New South Wales, 1972. Widow Clare Barclay inherits Bellevue, an historic property in the Blue Mountains township of Numbulla, Australia. Giving up her teaching job, Clare plans to restore the house. She makes friends with the locals, including a young boy, Joe, and soon hears of plans to redevelop Numbulla and to exploit the land bordering the protected wilderness area. As she joins the protest against the rezoning, it’s clear someone doesn’t want her there and they’ll do anything to stop her…
My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family by Kathy Henderson
Published by The History Press on 16 March 2023 in hardback at £20 and as an eBook
My Disappearing Uncle is an account of one scattered family and two hundred years of European turmoil told through the tales passed down by its undaunted women. A blend of memoir and detective work it brings together oral narrative and political history in a family biography. This is where Kathy’s story, their stories and history meet.
My Disappearing Uncle is a vivid and moving family biography which will appeal to readers of Anne Karpf’s The War After, Edmund de Waal’s The Hare With Amber Eyes, Philip Sands’ East West Street, or George Clare’s Last Waltz in Vienna.
Reservoir by Livi Michael
Published by Salt Publishing on 15 March 2023 as a Paperback Original at £10.99
‘Michael is rare in taking on the ethical gravity of evil, turning it over and over in her stony prose … What more can we ask for in our fiction writers than such honesty, such fierceness.’ —NATASHA WALTER, Independent
At the International Conference Centre in Geneva, Hannah Rossier, formerly Annie Price, comes face to face with Neville Weir, someone from her childhood whom she never expected, or wanted, to meet again. As Neville’s reasons for attending the conference become clear, the dark waters of Hannah’s past start to rise. Hannah is a psychotherapist, with a specialist interest in memory and how connections are made between past and present. She has reinvented herself successfully, moving from a small northern town in England to Lucerne, Switzerland, with her husband, Thibaut. Nobody, not even Hannah, knows the full truth about herself.
God’s Country by Kerry Hadley-Pryce
Published by Salt Publishing on 15 February 2023 as a Paperback Original at £10.99
‘Landscape is a cauldron for Kerry Hadley-Pryce’s intensely creepy and evocative writing.’ —Georgina Bruce, BLACK STATIC
Guy Flood, returns to the Black Country with his girlfriend, Alison, to attend his identical twin brother’s funeral. The reasons he left, and the secrets he left behind, slowly become clear. A chilling dark fiction, dominated by unknown and all-seeing narrator.
The Peckham Experiment by Guy Ware
Published by Salt Publishing on 15 November 2022 as a Paperback Original at £10.99
‘If Harold Pinter had written a London Our Friends in the North it would read a lot like The Peckham Experiment‘ – ROB PALK
The Peckham Experiment charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85-year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of a working-class Communist family, growing up in the radical Peckham Experiment and orphaned by the Blitz, the twins emerge from the war keen to build the New Jerusalem.
In 1968, JJ’s ideals are rocked by the fatal collapse of a tower block his council and Charlie’s development company have built. When the entire estate is demolished in 1986 JJ retires, apparently defeated. Now he is dead and Charlie, preparing for the funeral, relives their history, their family and their politics. It’s a story of how we got to where we are today told in a voice – opinionated, witty, garrulous, indignant, guilty, deluded and, as the night wears on, increasingly drunken – that sucks us in to both the idealism and the corruption it depicts, leaving us wondering just where we stand.
Where I End by Sophie White
Published by Tramp Press on 13 October 2022 as a Flapped Trade Paperback at £11.99
‘A deeply creepy, compelling novel’ – JOHN CONNOLLY
Teenager Aoileann has never left the island. Her silent, bed-bound mother is a wreckage – the survivor of a private disaster no one will speak about. Aoileann desperately wants a family, so when artist Rachel and her baby move to the island, Aoileann finds a focus for her relentless love.
Where I End, Sophie White’s stunning literary debut, is concerned with the power family has to create whole worlds: it’s a story about isolation, neglect and the dangerously intoxicating nature of love. This exceptional, inventive novel of psychological and physical horror will captivate readers from its beautiful and atmospheric opening sentences to its shattering conclusion.
Bad for Good by Graham Bartlett
Published by Allison & Busby on 23 June 2022 in hardback at £16.99 and as an eBook
‘As an ex-cop, Graham Bartlett knows what he’s talking about and he certainly knows how to tell a good story. Bad For Good is a cracking debut’ – MARK BILLINGHAM
Graham Bartlett is the former Chief Superintendent of Brighton and Hove Police, and advisor to some of the world’s bestselling crime authors. His explosive debut novel Bad for Good is utterly gripping and marks the start of an incendiary new series set in Brighton, centring on a murky world of vigilantes and corruption.
The Daughter by Liz Webb
Published by Allison & Busby on 19 May 2022 in hardback at £16.99 and as an eBook
‘A must-read for anyone who has ever had family dramas to contend with. I raced through it and was utterly gripped throughout…Utterly unique’ – SOPHIE HANNAH
Liz Webb’s sharply plotted debut novel is a dark family mystery set in contemporary London where a woman attempts to impose order on her own chaotic life and untangle the mystery of her mother’s brutal murder.
Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose death opened up hidden fault lines beneath the surface of their ordinary family life. At 37 years old, Hannah is losing her grip on both her drinking and a cache of shameful secrets. Now the spitting image of her mother Jen Davidson, and the same age she was when she died, Hannah is determined to uncover exactly what happened to her mum, but soon the boundaries between Hannah and her mother become fatally blurred.
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld in Audio
Published by Penguin Random House Audio as audiobook downloads on 28 April 2022
The UK’s leading audiobook publisher, Penguin Random House, launches its ambitious project to re-record Sir Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld series on 28 April, Terry Pratchett’s birthday, with the publication of brand-new audiobooks of the six Witches books, and the stand-alone title, Small Gods. This marks the start of an epic 12-month publication programme which will see the Discworld titles in stunning new recordings by leading names from British stage and screen.
The new, unabridged audiobooks feature multiple narrator voices, with the interjecting voice of Death read by Peter Serafinowicz, star of Shaun of the Dead and Star
Wars. Pratchett annotated the Discworld series with his
famous footnotes – essentially his own voice commenting
on the story – which will be narrated by Bill Nighy, star
of Love Actually, About Time and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy.
Indira Varma, star of upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi, reads all titles in the Witches subseries – Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade and Carpe Jugulum. Andy Serkis, Actor, Director, Producer and star of The Lord of the Rings, reads Small Gods, one of Terry Pratchett’s most popular stand-alone Discworld novel.
Wolfbane by Michelle Paver
Published by Zephyr on 26 April 2022 in hardback at £12.99
THE FINAL BOOK IN THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING SERIES
‘A howl rose in Wolf’s throat. It ended in a whimper.’
Is this the end for Wolf?
Michelle Paver brings her legendary adventure series to a thrilling climax in Wolfbane.
The end of winter is a perilous time when ice rots and frozen rivers wake. Wolf finds himself adrift at Sea, far from his pack and hunted by an ice demon bent on devouring his souls. While Wolf battles hunger, loneliness, and the monsters of the deep, Torak and Renn must find him before the demon can – or lose their beloved pack-brother for ever.
Wolfbane is the exhilarating conclusion to the Stone-Age adventure that began with Wolf Brother and has enchanted millions of readers around the world.
Seven Steeples by Sara Baume
Published by Tramp Press on 7 April 2022 as a flapped trade paperback at £11.99
‘She has the sensibility of a poet as well as an artist’ – IRISH INDEPENDENT
A stunning, powerful new novel about a couple who push against traditional expectations, moving with their dogs to the Irish countryside where they embed themselves in nature and make attempts to disappear from society.
Seven Steeples is a beautiful and profound meditation on the nature of love, and the resilience of nature. Through Bell and Sigh, and the life they create for themselves, Sara Baume explores what it means to escape the traditional paths laid out before us – and what it means to evolve in devotion to another person, and to the landscape.
Virgin & Child by Maggie Hammand
Published by Barbican Press on 5 April 2022 in paperback
‘You can imagine someone trying to ban this novel for blasphemy, and instead finding themselves rapt. As clever and intriguing as it is kooky’ – IRISH TIMES
Highly acclaimed novelist Maggie Hamand explores issues of abortion, gender, sexuality, morality and faith in a beautifully written, emotionally engaging and compulsive thriller.
Stewkey Blues by DJ Taylor
Published by Salt on 1 March 2022 in as a paperback original at £9.99 and as an eBook
‘In his solid, grounded, entertaining collection of stories, DJ Taylor draws out the mythical qualities of East Anglia’s terrain, urban or rural or somewhere marginal in between. He expertly locates those moments in ordinary lives when ‘reality seemed to be curling at the edges.’’ – HILARY MANTEL
Stewkey Blues is a collection of stories rooted in Norfolk and a celebration of the county from one of its best-known writers. From Stiffkey’s Stewkey Blues (cockles) in the north, to the wilds of Breckland in the south, this collection is as much a celebration of place as it is of lives lived.
The Retreat by Alison Moore
Published by Salt on 15 November 2021 in paperback original at £9.99
‘Moore is a serious talent. There’s art here. There’s care’ – Sam Leith, FINANCIAL TIMES
Since childhood, Sandra Peters has been fascinated by the small, private island of Lieloh, home to the reclusive silent-film star Valerie Swanson. Having dreamed of going to art college, Sandra is now in her forties and working as a receptionist, but she still harbours artistic ambitions. When she sees an advert for a two-week artists’ retreat on Lieloh, Sandra sets out on what might be a life-changing journey.
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Published by Tramp Press on 28 October 2021 in paperback at £8.99 and as an eBook
WINNER Book of the Year, the Irish Book Awards
WINNER Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year
WINNER James Tait Black Memorial Prize
‘When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries’ In the 1700s an Irish noblewoman, on discovering that her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire was famously referred to by Peter Levi, then Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, as the ‘greatest poem written in these islands in the whole eighteenth century.’ In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed with its echoes in her own life and sets out to track down the rest of the poet’s story.
The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene by Helen Batten
Published by Allison & Busby on 23 September 2021 in hardback at £16.99 and as an eBook
The fascinating biography of an almost forgotten star of the Victorian stage brought back to life by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sisters of the East End. From humble working-class beginnings, Emily Soldene rose to become a celebrated leading lady, director and formidable impresario creating one of the era’s most celebrated opera companies. Her career took her across America and Australia, as well as throughout Great Britain, before reinventing herself as a journalist and writer in her fifties. She wrote a weekly column for the Sydney Evening News, as well as a novel and a memoir, and scandalised the capital with her revelations. A darling of London’s music halls and theatre land, Emily counted Charles Dickens and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as friends and mingled with the Rothschilds, Oscar Wilde and aristocrats.
Dreamtime by Venetia Welby
Published by Salt on 23 September 2021 as a Paperback Original at £12 and as an eBook
‘A host of dazzling second novels in the offing … Venetia Welby’s exquisite and hallucinogenic Dreamtime is set in a near future in which we have lost the battle against climate change’ Alex Preston, OBSERVER Fiction to look out for in 2021
Venetia Welby paints a terrifying and captivating vision of our near future and takes us on a vertiginous odyssey into the unknown. Dreamtime reads like a modern reimagining of a classic adventure novel, centred around themes such as the climate crisis, sexual abuse, migration, virtual reality and the US–China geopolitical rift. Utterly terrifying and unputdownable.
Skin Taker by Michelle Paver
Published by Head of Zeus on 2 September 2021 in paperback at £8.99 and as an eBook
Queen of the Stone Age, Michelle Paver takes us back to the wild Stone Age forests of the Wolf Brother series in SKIN TAKER, an epic, magical and exhilarating adventure whose themes of survival, resilience and friendship, will resonate with children far and wide. In the Dark Time of midwinter, disaster strikes the Forest. Chaos rules. Bears woken from their dens prowl the shadowy valleys. Desperate clans battle for survival. Only demons thrive. With their world in turmoil, Torak, Renn and Wolf are tested as never before and as a new evil haunts the devastated land, Torak must risk his sanity, his life and even his souls to save everything he loves…
White Spines by Nicholas Royle
Published by Salt Publishing on 15 July 2021 as a Paperback Original at £9.99 and as an eBook
‘So far up my street it feels like it was written with me in mind. There’s a history of Picador and a quest to collect books, but really it is a relaxed saunter around second-hand bookshops…I didn’t want it to end’ – CATHY RENTZENBRINK
A mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle’s passion for Picador’s fiction and non-fiction publishing from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s. White Spines explores the bookshops and charity shops, the books themselves, and the way a unique collection grew and became a literary obsession. Above all, it is a love song to books, writers and writing.
The Painting by Alison Booth
Published by RedDoor on 15 July 2021 as a Paperback Original at £8.99 and as an eBook
A young Hungarian woman confronts her family’s past in an engrossing quest for a stolen painting.
When Anika Molnar flees her home country of Hungary not long before the break-up of the Soviet Union, she carries only a small suitcase – and a beautiful and much-loved painting, of an auburn-haired woman in a cobalt blue dress, from her family’s hidden collection. Arriving in Australia, Anika moves in with her aunt in Sydney, and the painting hangs in pride of place in her bedroom. But one day it is stolen in what seems to be a carefully planned theft, and Anika’s carefree life takes a more ominous turn. Sinister secrets from her family’s past and Hungary’s fraught history cast suspicion over the painting’s provenance, and she embarks on a gripping quest to uncover the truth.
Woman of a Certain Rage by Georgie Hall
Published by Head of Zeus on 8 July 2021 in hardback at £18.99 and as an eBook
‘Georgie Hall has created a brand new, funny and brilliantly honest voice in this hugely relatable book. I loved the mix of comedy, warmth and frank reality – it made me laugh and flinch in equal measure’ – SOPHIE KINSELLA
A smart and funny novel about love, life and a second shot at freedom for rebellious women of a certain age.
Scandalous Alchemy by Katy Moran
Published by Head of Zeus on 10 June 2021 in hardback at £18.99 and as an eBook
‘Katy Moran’s passionate, smart and action-packed novels set in a world where Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo – are stuffed full not just of heart-pumping romance but also clever one-liners’ THE GUARDIAN
In a Bridgerton-style Regency world, three people are caught in a web of passion and deceit..
Fontainebleau in 1825 is a glittering international court, rich with intrigue, passion and simmering violence. Lieutenant Colonel Kit Helford must navigate these treacherous waters to deliver the beautiful, self-destructive Princess Royal to her prospective husband. Kit’s childhood friend, Clemency Arwenack, is tasked with safeguarding her royal mistress’s reputation as the princess awaits a marriage she is dreading.
The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
Published by Tramp Press on 22 April 2021 as a Flapped Trade Paperback at £11.99 and as an eBook
‘Shocking, brave, gloriously unfeminine, and right on time’ GLORIA STEINEM, writer and feminist activist
Mona Eltahawy identifies seven ‘sins’ women and girls are socialised to avoid – anger, attention, profanity, ambition, power, violence and lust. With essays on each, she creates a stunning manifesto encouraging women worldwide to defy, disobey and disrupt the patriarchy. Drawing on her own life and the work of intersectional activists from around the world, #MeToo and the Arab Spring, her work defines what it is to be a feminist now.
The Golden Treasure of the Entente Cordiale by Michel Becker, Vincenzo Bianca, Stephen Clarke and Pauline Deysson
Published by Editions De La Chouette D’Or® on 8 April 2021 as a hardback at £24.99
A brand-new Treasure Hunt book for the whole family with an amazing prize for the winner worth over £650,000.
The Pioneering Life Of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist by Jo Willett
Published by Pen & Sword on 30 March 2021 as a hardback at £25 and as an eBook
‘Brilliantly written biography of a fearless woman who changed the course of history. Hard to imagine a more timely account of a woman who should be a role model for a generation. Put her on every twenty-pound note until she is’ ANNE SEBBA, author of That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson
The fascinating biography of Mary Wortley Montagu – a key player in the race to halt the spread of smallpox in the West by vaccination. Acclaimed author and poet, she was best friends with Alexander Pope, an 18th century ‘It Girl’ and early feminist.
The Spy Who Inspired Me by Stephen Clarke
Published by pAf on 12 November 2020 as a Paperback Original at £8.99 and as an eBook
For legal reasons, The Spy Who Inspired Me does not mention J*mes B*nd. Which is a shame, because it is a comedy based on the idea that I*n Fl*ming’s famously macho spy might have been inspired by a woman…
Reporting Coronavirus
Published by ITV News on 1 October 2020 in hardback at £18.99 and as an eBook
A compelling set of 59 specially commissioned essays by ITV News journalists that paints a picture of the most remarkable period in modern times – when the coronavirus put the UK into lockdown and swept around the world. ITV News’ correspondents, presenters and producers, at both national and regional level, write about their personal experiences covering the pandemic.
Death of a Mermaid by Lesley Thomson
Published by Head of Zeus on 7 May 2020 in hardback at £18.99 and as an eBook
‘Lesley Thomson is a class above’ Ian Rankin
‘One of our leading crime writers’ Elly Griffiths
Bestselling crime writer Lesley Thomson returns with a heart-stopping standalone thriller.
Curse the Day by Judith O’Reilly
Pblished by Head of Zeus on 2 April 2020 in hardback at £18.99 and as an eBook
‘Fast-paced and packed with action … A series hero to watch’ – Mick Herron on Killing State
An AI device witnesses the murder of its creator in this intelligent, action-packed conspiracy thriller set in near future Britain from Sunday Times bestselling author Judith O’Reilly.
Virgin & Child by Maggie Hamand
Published by Barbican Press on 2 April in hardback at £16.99
‘This is a strange and strangely touching novel – written with great elegance and authority’ – Sara Maitland
What happens when everything you know is thrown into doubt…and you’re the Pope? Highly acclaimed novelist Maggie Hamand returns with a beautifully written, emotionally engaging and compulsive literary thriller which explores questions of gender, sexuality, morality and faith.
Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas
Published by Head of Zeus on 6 February 2020 in paperback at £9.99, as an eBook and as on audio
‘I hope this book will open the eyes of both consumers and the fashion industry to make a must-needed change’ – Stella McCartney
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry – and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it by New York Times bestselling author and journalist Dana Thomas.
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