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WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson is one of the most prestigious and dynamic literary imprints in British
and international publishing. At Weidenfeld & Nicolson we have a long tradition of bringing provocative,
award-winning and lasting works of fiction and non-fiction to a popular audience. We specialise in
beautifully produced books, exceptional writing and new ideas; books that entertain, inspire and open
windows to the world.
Fiction
W&N publishes the widest possible range of literary fiction including prize-winners, global bestsellers
and literature in translation. Successes include: Gillian Flynn’s phenomenon Gone Girl and Téa Obreht’s
Orange Prize-winner The Tiger’s Wife, as well as Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader, Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The
Shadow of the Wind, Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World, Władysław Szpilman’s The Pianist, Vikram Seth’s
A Suitable Boy and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday.
Non-Fiction
In non-fiction the range covers current affairs, history, biography, memoir, narrative non-fiction, music
and sport. Our authors include: Danny Baker, Antony Beevor, Anne de Courcy, Dan Cruickshank, Terry
Deary, Judi Dench, Antonia Fraser, A. A. Gill, Richard Hammond, Bettany Hughes, Douglas Hurd, Roy
Keane & Roddy Doyle, Henry Marsh, Helen Mirren, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Neil Oliver, Michael Palin,
Liza Picard, Keith Richards, Julie Walters, Jennifer Worth and Malala Yousafzai.
Our beautifully illustrated cookery list includes Michel Roux Jr, Rose Prince, Dhruv Baker, Saturday
Kitchen and bestseller after bestseller from the Hairy Bikers. We are also the proud publishers of
Highgrove by HRH The Prince of Wales.
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JO BLOOM
W&N Fiction
HB / ETPB December 2014
£12.99 / £13.99 320pp
978 0 297 60828 8 / 978 0 297 60829 5
eBook: £12.99 / 978 0 297 60830 1
Ridley Road
Discover a forgotten chapter in London’s
history in this love story set against the antifascist unrest in 1960s Soho and Hackney.
When her father dies, Vivien Epstein, a 22-yearold hairdresser from Manchester, leaves for
London in the hope of finding Jack Fox, a man
she once had a brief intense love affair with.
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All Vivien has to go on is one letter Jack sent
to her father, the address of a boarding house
scribbled hastily on the back. Very soon her
hopes of finding him are dashed. Resigned,
she settles into London life, working in Oscar’s
– a salon in Soho – and spending her nights at
home with her motherly landlady.
When Vivien becomes involved in the resurgence
of anti-fascism, she finds herself at a rally in
Trafalgar Square. There, she spots Jack amidst
the crowds. At long last they lock eyes. And here
their story begins again.
Jo Bloom was a book reviewer for Time Out and has
worked in the media in both Prague and New York.
She currently works as a freelancer in arts marketing
and media. Ridley Road is her first novel.
author:
Location: Brighton
Available for interview
@missiejobloom
W&N Fiction • December 2014
SHELLEY HARRIS
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Vigilante
The story of an ordinary woman who dreams
of becoming a superhero, from the author of
Top 10 bestseller and Richard & Judy choice
Jubilee.
W&N Fiction
HB / ETPB January
£12.99 / £13.99 304pp
978 0 297 86461 5 / 978 0 297 86462 2
eBook: £12.99 / 978 0 297 86463 9
Shelley Harris’ debut,
Jubilee, was a
Richard & Judy Book
Club choice, a Top 10
bestseller and was
shortlisted for the
Commonwealth
Writers’ Prize.
Jenny Pepper never expected to end up like this.
Tired of her job and the domestic grind, and
bewildered by her teenage daughter, one
night Jenny stumbles into a vigilante rescue.
Suddenly her world is exciting again – she’s
a hero. With a secret disguise, she starts to
walk the streets of her small town, righting
wrongs and keeping the peace. Then, amid
the petty crime, a terrifying villain appears.
He’s attacking young girls – and Jenny’s
daughter is at risk . . .
Praise for Jubilee:
‘A welcome discovery – a new novelist whose
next book you are already impatient to read’
Guardian
‘An exciting debut that suggests this author
will offer many more insightful and compelling
stories in the years ahead’ Independent
Shelley Harris has worked as a teacher, a reporter, a
mystery shopper and a bouncer at a teen disco. When
she is not writing, she volunteers at her local Oxfam
bookshop. Her first novel, Jubilee, was shortlisted for
the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
author:
W&N Fiction • January 2015
Location: Marlow, Bucks
Available for interview
www.shelleyharris.co.uk
f/shelleywriter
@shelleywriter
W&N Poetry
HB February
£14.99 160pp
978 0 297 60874 5
eBook: £14.99 / 978 0 297 60875 2
VIKRAM SETH
Summer Requiem
A breathtaking new collection of poetry from
Vikram Seth, author of A Suitable Boy ‘the best
writer of his generation’ (The Times).
Summer Requiem is a memorial to the radiant
days of summers past. From the strewing of
pollen and flowers in bloom, to the bitterness of
fading light, skeletal trees and the cold silence
left behind, Vikram Seth traces the ebb and flow
of all that lives and all that will perish.
Immense, moving and profound, these poems
celebrate moments of light, of creativity and
inspiration, while also seeking repose for the
soul in the dark vigil of night. Tender and
mournful, they show how the passing of the
seasons is mirrored in the passing of life.
A Suitable Boy has sold over 1.3 million copies
in the UK alone.
Vikram Seth is the author of A Suitable Boy, an
international No. 1 bestseller and one of the
best-loved novels of recent times. Among his other
works are An Equal Music, The Golden Gate and
several volumes of poetry, including Beastly Tales
from Here and There.
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
‘A phenomenon, a
prodigy, a marvel . . .
It is hard to believe
that Seth is only one
man’– Evening Standard
The Rivered Earth
A beautiful reissue of Vikram Seth’s acclaimed
poetic work, The Rivered Earth.
The Rivered Earth comprises four libretti to
accompany music by Alec Roth, along with an
account of the pleasures and pains of working
with a composer. The poems – ‘Songs in Time of
War’, ‘Shared Ground’, ‘The Traveller’ and ‘Seven
Elements’ – touch on Chinese, European and
Indian civilisations and are rich with literary and
musical allusions, not least to George Herbert,
in whose Wiltshire house much of the work
was created.
‘A rich poetic experience’ Independent
‘The language has a remarkably direct, almost
naïve fullness of rhythm and rhyme . . .
extraordinary’ Guardian
‘Such writing reminds us that there are secrets
beyond technique, beyond style, which have to
do with a quality of soul on the part of the
writer’ Guardian on A Suitable Boy
W&N Poetry
HB June £16.99 160pp
978 0 297 60876 9
eBook: £16.99 / 978 0 297 60877 6
W&N Fiction • February / June 2015
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JOHN IRONMONGER
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Not Forgetting the Whale
For fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold
Fry and The Rosie Project, the tale of a man
running from his life only to find it again in a
small fishing community in Cornwall.
W&N Fiction
HB / ETPB February
£12.99 / £13.99 320pp
978 0 297 87203 0 / 978 0 297 60821 9
eBook: £12.99 / 978 0 297 60822 6
‘This story twists
like a pretzel, the
author teases and
tantalises the reader,
and it’s delightfully
unexpected’
– The Times on
The Coincidence
Authority
W&N Fiction • February 2015
When a young man washes up, naked, on the
sands of St Piran, he is quickly rescued by the
villagers. From the retired village doctor and the
schoolteacher, to the beachcomber and the
owner of the local bar, the priest’s wife and the
romantic novelist, they take this lost soul into
their midst. But what the villagers don’t know is
that Joe Haak has fled the City of London amid
fears of a worldwide collapse of civilisation, a
collapse forecast by a computer program he
designed. But is the end of the world really nigh?
Can Joe convince the village to seal itself off from
the outside world? And what of the whale that
lurks in the bay?
Intimate, funny and deeply moving, Not
Forgetting the Whale is the story of a man on
a journey to find a place he can call home.
‘A book which pulls off its strange premise with
charm, wit and devil-may-care storytelling. Huge
fun’ Mark Watson on The Notable Brain of
Maximilian Ponder
John Ironmonger is the author of The Notable Brain
of Maximilian Ponder, which was shortlisted for the
2012 Costa First Novel Prize, and The Coincidence
Authority, a Waterstones Book Club pick. He grew up
in East Africa and now lives in rural Shropshire with his
wife, Sue.
author:
Location: Market Drayton, Shropshire
Available for interview
www.notablebrain.blogspot.co.uk
www.thecoincidenceauthority.com
@jwironmonger
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W&N Fiction
HB / ETPB February
£12.99 / £13.99 320pp
978 0 297 87149 1 / 978 0 297 87150 7
eBook: £12.99 / 978 0 297 87152 1
W&N Fiction
HB / ETPB March
£12.99 / £13.99 432pp
978 0 297 87142 2 / 978 0 297 87143 9
eBook: £12.99 / 978 0 297 87144 6
ANTONIA HONEYWELL
MICHEL BUSSI
The Hunger Games meets The Handmaid’s Tale:
a dystopian epic about love, friendship, the
cost of survival and what it means to be free.
For fans of Linwood Barclay and S. J. Watson, a
dark, brilliantly conceived thriller that has sold
over 700,000 copies in the author’s native France.
The Ship
The world is in collapse. Financial meltdown,
global warming and censorship have created a
reality in which only the most privileged survive.
Michael Paul, the creator of the government
firewall, elects to use his wealth to buy a huge
ship in which he will transport five hundred
worthy people to the safe, fulfilling destiny they
desire and deserve. Only his daughter Lalla’s
inclusion is automatic. And when his hold over
the ship becomes more absolute, only Lalla has
the strength to stand against him . . .
‘The Ship is tense, engaging and emotionally
charged: I devoured this novel’ Helen Dunmore
Antonia Honeywell studied English at Manchester
University and worked at the Natural History and V&A
Museums in London before training as a teacher.
During her ten years teaching English, drama and film
studies she wrote a musical, and a play which was
performed at the Edinburgh Festival. Antonia has
four young children. The Ship is her first novel.
author:
Location: Amersham, Bucks
Available for interview
www.antoniahoneywell.com
@antonia_writes
After the Crash
On the night of 22 December 1980 a plane
crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is
engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers
are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor
is a newborn baby girl. Two families, one rich, the
other poor, step forward to claim her, sparking
a private investigation that will last for almost
two decades. Is she Lyse-Rose or Emilie?
On the eve of the girl’s eighteenth birthday,
detective Credule Grand-Duc plans to take his
own life, but not before placing his account
of the investigation in the girl’s hands. But as
he sits at his desk about to pull the trigger, he
uncovers a secret that changes everything –
then is killed before he can breathe a word of
it to anyone. . .
Michel Bussi has won 10 literary awards, making him
one of France’s most prestigious crime authors. After the
Crash is his first book to be published in the UK and is
currently being translated in 26 countries around the
world. Film rights have also been sold.
author:
Location: Darnétal, France
Available for interview
www.michel-bussi.fr
W&N Fiction • February / March 2015
MELANIE FINN
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Shame
For fans of J. M. Coetzee, Anita Shreve and The
Other Hand, a devastatingly powerful novel
from Orange Prize-longlisted Melanie Finn.
Most of us have a plan. Somewhere to go if
something awful happens. Pilgrim Jones doesn’t.
She looks up at a departures board and takes the
first flight.
W&N Fiction
HB / ETPB March
£12.99 / £13.99 320pp
978 0 297 60844 8 / 978 0 297 60845 5
eBook: £12.99 / 978 0 297 60846 2
Praise for Away From You
‘A deeply affecting
book with its own
atmosphere of
strong light and
brilliant detail’
– Helen Dunmore
‘A delicately crafted
and powerfully
evocative novel’
– Esther Freud
W&N Fiction • March 2015
She alights on the edge of Africa. Over confessions
and strong gin, she’s lured into a world of
mercenaries and philanthropists, delusional
heroes and witchdoctors in polyester suits.
But what about the beating absence, the thing
she’s done? And will she find redemption before
someone finds her?
Shame is a novel about a world out of time,
about magic and chance, Europe and Africa,
learning to live and living to learn. It will transport you from diplomatic dinners to a land where
fireflies light the sky, and a desolate, magical
coastline where anything – anything – might
happen.
Inspired by Melanie Finn’s experiences in East
Africa and by the true story of a man who lost
his daughter in a plane crash, then tracked
down the air traffic controller responsible and
murdered him.
Melanie Finn has worked as a screenwriter and a
journalist, and is the founder and director of the
Natron Health Project, which brings healthcare to
Masai communities in Northern Tanzania. Her first
novel, Away From You, was published to great critical
acclaim in 2004, and was longlisted for the Orange
and IMPAC Prizes.
author:
Location: Vermont, USA,
and London
Available for interview
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200th
Anniversary
W&N Fiction
HB / ETPB April
£12.99 / £13.99 400pp
978 0 297 60847 9 / 978 0 297 60848 6
eBook: £12.99 / 978 0 297 60849 3
BERNHARD AICHNER
Woman of the Dead
Translated by Anthea Bell
‘After the Scandi noir genre, what next? Very
probably Aichner’s murderous heroine, I think.’
Anthea Bell
Blum seems to have it all: the perfect husband,
police detective Mark, two daughters and a
thriving undertaking business. But when Mark is
killed in a hit and run, Blum stumbles across one
of his investigations and realises there is far
more to his death than meets the eye. And, as
she discovers, the line between investigating
and avenging is an easy one to cross.
Already chosen by the Bookseller and the Herald
as a title to watch, Woman of the Dead was a
buzz book at Frankfurt Book Fair 2013, with
rights sold around the globe. Kill Bill meets
Dexter via The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
Woman of the Dead is, as German magazine
Stern puts it, ‘a kick-ass thriller’.
W&N Historical fiction
HB June
£20.00 368pp
978 0 297 87186 6
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 87187 3
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY
Whose Business is to Die
‘Goldsworthy is a fine military historian . . .
exemplary’ Independent
Having already captivated audiences with the
previous six novels in his Napoleonic series,
accomplished historian Adrian Goldsworthy is
back with another riveting read.
This book will feature the battle of Waterloo to
coincide with the 200th anniversary.
‘In this Jane Austen-meets-Bernard Cornwell
novel, Goldsworthy brilliantly evokes the reality
of life – and death – in the early 19th century
British Army’ Daily Mail on True Soldier
Gentlemen
Adrian Goldsworthy is an acclaimed historian and
author of several books, which have sold more than a
quarter of a million copies and been translated into
more than a dozen languages. He regularly contributes
to TV documentaries on Roman themes.
Bernhard Aichner is a novelist and photographer. As
research for Woman of the Dead, he worked as an
undertaker’s assistant for six months.
author:
Location: Innsbruck, Austria
Available for interview
www.bernhard-aichner.at
author:
Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
Available for interview
www.adriangoldsworthy.com
W&N Fiction • April / June 2015
GRÉGOIRE DELACOURT
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The First Thing You See
Translated by Anthea Bell
The brilliant new novel from the author of
The List of My Desires, a Waterstones Book Club
pick and international bestseller.
W&N Fiction
HB May
£12.99 240pp
978 0 297 87102 6
eBook: £12.99 / 978 0 297 87104 0
Arthur Dreyfuss is a young mechanic at a garage
in the little community of Long, France. He has a
small flat and leads a simple life. So, imagine his
surprise when he opens his door one evening to
find a distraught Scarlett Johansson standing
before him.
‘A gorgeous little
novel . . . It is as
beautifully written as
it is heart-breaking,
and is a fable-like tale
of how money can’t
buy happiness’
– Stylist on The List of
My Desires
But the woman, although feigning an American
accent, is actually Jeanine Foucamprez – and her
story is very different from that of the Hollywood
starlet. Arthur is not all he seems, either; a lover
of poetry with a darker past than one might
imagine, he has learnt to see beauty in the
mundane.
A tender story about two fragile souls trying to
love each other, The First Thing You See will
steal your heart and convince you that true
beauty lies within.
‘Sparkling and intriguing . . . a tour de force’
Irish Independent on The List of My Desires
Grégoire Delacourt is the author of The List of My
Desires, a huge bestseller in France that has sold over
half a million copies and remained in the Top 10 for
a year after first publication. Rights have now sold in
27 countries. He lives in Paris, where he runs an
advertising agency with his wife. His most recent
novel – forthcoming in English translation from W&N
in 2016 – has just been longlisted for the Prix Goncourt.
author:
Location: Paris, France
Available for interview
www.gregoiredelacourt.com
W&N Fiction • May 2015
COLIN MACINTYRE
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The Letters of Ivor Punch
All the Birds, Singing meets Ross Raisin via
Hamish Macbeth: an exuberant debut from
acclaimed musician Colin MacIntyre.
Imagine an island, a place separated from the
mainland by choppy seas. A place of myths and
faith, where a Headless Horseman is said to stalk
the woods but where the kirk is always full.
Imagine a community which held its own against
Darwin but which can’t hold onto its own.
W&N Fiction
HB / ETPB May
£12.99 / £13.99 320pp
978 0 297 60925 4 / 978 0 297 60926 1
eBook: £12.99 / 978 0 297 60927 8
‘A real storyteller’
– Simon Mayo
Colin MacIntyre is
an award-winning
musician who has
made two Top 20
albums, recording
under the name
Mull Historical
Society
Prepare to meet a pioneering female travel
writer, two fatherless boys, and a man who,
quite simply, fell from the sky. And, at the centre
of it all, the figure who links the past to the
present – the irrepressible, unforgettable former
Sergeant Punch.
Ivor Punch will not be taking his secrets to the
grave. He’s going to share them: with a departed
relative, with President Obama and, especially,
with you.
Hilarious and heartfelt, rowdy and true, The
Letters of Ivor Punch is a novel about fathers and
sons, secrets and lies and how, sometimes, you
have to leave home to know what home is.
Colin MacIntyre has toured with The Strokes, Elbow
and REM, played all the major festivals, and has
performed live sessions on Radio 4, 6Music, Later with
Jools Holland and The Jonathan Ross Show. He is the
co-author of a Radio 4 Afternoon Play, Zero Degrees of
Separation, and has collaborated with Tony Benn and
Irvine Welsh, among others. Born into a family of
writers and storytellers, Colin grew up on Mull but
now lives in London.
author:
Location: SW London
Available for interview
www.colinmacintyre.com
f/colinmacintyremull
@colinmacintyre
W&N Fiction • May 2015
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A
major new
acquisition
LAURA BARNETT
The Versions of Us
One Day meets Sliding Doors in this outstanding
debut which was acquired following a fiercely
contested auction, and which is causing a buzz
across the publishing world.
The Versions of Us is a highly accomplished novel
about the choices we make and the different
courses that our lives might follow. At its heart
is a story about enduring love.
W&N Fiction
HB / ETPB June
£12.99 320pp
978 1 474 60016 3 / 978 1 474 60017 0
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 474 60018 7
‘The moment I
started reading this
book I just knew it
was something very
special indeed. It feels
so accomplished, so
perfectly pitched and
paced, the talent
shines out on every
page’ – Kirsty Dunseath,
Publisher, W&N Fiction
W&N Fiction • June 2015
Eva and Jim are nineteen, and students at
Cambridge in 1958 when their paths first cross.
Jim is walking along a lane when a woman
approaching him on a bicycle swerves to avoid
a dog. What happens next will determine the
rest of their lives. We follow three different
versions of their future – together, and apart –
as their love story takes on different incarnations
and twists and turns to the conclusion in the
present day.
Laura Barnett is a writer, journalist and theatre critic.
She has been on staff at the Guardian and the Daily
Telegraph, and is now a freelance arts journalist and
features writer, working for the Guardian, the Observer
and Time Out London, as well as several other national
newspapers and magazines. Laura was born in 1982
in south London, where she now lives with her
husband, and studied Spanish and Italian at Cambridge
University, and newspaper journalism at City
University, London. Her first non-fiction book,
Advice from the Players, was published in September
2014. She has previously published short stories, for
which she has won several awards. The Versions of
Us is her first novel.
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
www.laura-barnett.co.uk
@laura_jbarnett
SARITA MANDANNA
Untitled
From the author of TV Book Club pick
Tiger Hills, a sweeping tale of love, friendship
and the legacy of war.
W&N Fiction
HB / ETPB July
£14.99 / £13.99 368pp
978 0 297 60928 5 / 978 0 297 60929 2
eBook: £14.99 / 978 0 297 60930 8
Praise for Tiger Hills:
‘An epic and
extraordinary debut
from an astonishing
new talent’
At the outset of the Great War in 1914, New
England Yankee James Stonebridge and Louisiana
native Obadaiah Nelson volunteer with the
French Foreign Legion. They are among a handful
of Americans who did so, idealistic young men
lured by the chance of adventure. Despite their
differences, James and Obadaiah forge a
friendship that helps them to endure the
brutal realities of war.
Both survive, but leave the trenches changed
men. James returns to his New Hampshire farm
and becomes a recluse, allowing his memories to
weigh heavily on his son, Jim. Then Jim falls in
love with Madeleine, and she brings light and
laughter to their sombre world. But with another
war looming, Jim has decisions to make, decisions
that will alter the course of his life for ever.
Sarita Mandanna is from Coorg, the stunning setting of
her first novel, Tiger Hills. She has an MBA from the
Wharton School of Business and worked as a private
equity investor in New York before moving to Toronto
in 2010. Tiger Hills was longlisted for the Man Asian
Literary Prize and named Editor’s Choice in the New
York Times. Rights have sold in 18 countries.
– Daily Express
‘An exotic, beguiling
page-turner’
– Woman & Home
author:
Location: Toronto, Canada
Available for interview
www.saritamandanna.com
W&N Fiction • July 2015
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W&N History
HB January
£14.99 320pp
978 0 297 86978 8
eBook: £14.99 / 978 0 297 86979 5
GREG JENNER
A Million Years in a Day
A History of Everyday Life
A history of our everyday rituals, by the
historical consultant for the Horrible Histories
TV series.
Non-Fiction
@wnbooks
@ByBookorCook
ByBookorByCook
Structured around one ordinary day, A Million
Years in a Day is a gloriously entertaining romp
through human history that reveals the
astonishing origins and evolution of the
daily practices we take for granted.
Greg Jenner has scoured Roman rubbish bins,
Egyptian tombs and Victorian sewers to bring us
the most intriguing, surprising and sometimes
downright silly nuggets from our past. Drawn
from across the world, spanning a million years
of humanity, it is a history of all those things you
always wondered – and many you have never
considered.
Over the past four years Greg Jenner has been solely
responsible for the factual accuracy of nearly 1,000
comedy sketches with subject matter spanning the
entirety of human history. His gloriously energetic
Twitter presence has amassed him over 16,000
followers.
author:
Location: Woking, Surrey
Available for interview
@greg_jenner
W&N Non-Fiction / History • January 2015
ANTONIA FRASER
My History
A Memoir of Growing Up
The childhood and early-life memoir of one of
our finest narrative historians.
My History is Antonia Fraser’s absorbing memoir
of a childhood lived in the shadow of World War
Two, and a chronicle of her developing fascination with the past.
W&N Autobiography
HB / TPB January
£20.00 320pp
24pp illustrations
978 0 297 87190 3 / 978 0 297 87191 0
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 87192 7
‘Call back yesterday,
bid time return’
– William Shakespeare,
Richard II
Born Antonia Pakenham, the eldest of eight
children, it was while growing up in Oxford she
became captivated by tales from history. In
describing her youthful passions she captures the
child that she was, tempering her recollections
with the understanding that comes with maturity.
She recalls the keen Socialism of her parents, and
re-evaluates her joyful wartime evacuation to a
cousin’s country house in contrast to the grief
experienced by her mother and father.
From school she enters the world of publishing,
during which time she meets Harold Nicolson,
Moura Budberg and has a happy collaboration
with Cecil Beaton. It is after she becomes a wife
and mother that she seizes the opportunity to
write what becomes the great biography of Mary
Queen of Scots, a decisive moment in her life.
Antonia Fraser is the author of the bestselling Mary
Queen of Scots, The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Marie
Antoinette. Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter
was published to great acclaim in 2010. She was made a
DBE in 2011 for services to literature.
author:
Location: West London
Available for interview
www.antoniafraser.com
W&N Non-Fiction / Autobiography • January 2015
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OLIVER KAMM
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Accidence Will Happen
The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage
A witty, authoritative and sometimes
provocative guide to the use and abuse of
the English language.
W&N Language & Linguistics
HB February
£12.99 304pp
978 0 297 87193 4
eBook: £14.99 / 978 0 297 87193 4
‘The most intelligent
and entertaining book
about the English
language I’ve ever
read. Pedants are going
to hate this book – and
quietly take its lessons
to heart’ – James Shapiro,
author of 1599: A Year in
the Life of William
Shakespeare
W&N Non-Fiction / Language & Linguistics • February 2015
From splitting infinitives to dangling prepositions,
this erudite, entertaining and deeply reassuring
guide demonstrates that many of the so-called
rules of good style are little more than folklore
mixed with prejudice and can be cheerfully
disregarded. Oliver Kamm explains why the
pedants are wrong, why the much-lamented
‘good grammar’ that ceased to be taught in the
1960s should not be brought back, and why to
deliberately split an infinitive, in the right
context, is perfectly alright.
With authoritative advice on the linguistic
conundrums that we all face, Accidence Will
Happen is an indispensable companion for
readers, writers and users of modern English.
Oliver Kamm is a writer and columnist for The Times.
As a self-confessed reformed pedant he is the
newspaper’s unofficial expert on language and style,
a subject he tackles in his long-running, immensely
popular weekly column ‘The Pedant’.
author:
Location: East London
Available for interview
@OliverKamm
www.thetimes.co.uk/tto
/public/profile/Oliver-Kamm
DAVID WHITEHOUSE
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The Truth is Stranger than Fiction
A history of exploration beneath the surface of
our planet.
W&N Science
HB February
£20.00 288pp
8pp colour Illustrations, line drawings
978 0 297 60880 6
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 60881 3
Scientists have sent
probes billions of
kilometres away into
interstellar space.
Yet we have dug
only 10km down
into the Earth.
Following Jules Verne’s remarkable classic,
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, published
almost 150 years ago, David Whitehouse retells
the voyage of descent into the Earth: only this
time, he incorporates the scientific knowledge
that has resulted from the tremendous advances
of the intervening years.
The arcs of volcanoes, the earthquake zones and
the auroral glow rippling above our heads are
testimony to something remarkable happening
inside. Whitehouse considers the myths about
the activity that occurs at the core of our planet
and describes what science is now beginning to
understand. Seismologists today reveal a planet
astonishingly buried within a planet.
This enthralling journey encompasses all we are
able to understand about the Earth’s centre.
Whitehouse charts the history of our planet and
the scientific discoveries about its inner core,
allowing us to embark on an adventure that
brings us closer to the heart of our world.
Dr David Whitehouse is a scientist, journalist and the
author of five books, including The Sun and The Moon.
He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a
regular broadcaster on science-related matters for the
BBC’s Today programme, Sky News and BBC Radio 2’s
Jeremy Vine Show.
author:
Location: Farnborough, Hants
Available for interview
www.davidwhitehouse.com
@dr_david_w
W&N Non-Fiction / Science • February 2015
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JOHN HIGGS
W&N History
HB March
£20.00 320pp
8pp colour illustrations
978 0 297 87089 0
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 87090 6
Stranger Than We Can Imagine
Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
An innovative, exciting exploration of history’s
most challenging century.
In order to begin to make sense of the
mind-bending wall of strange ideas the twentieth
century gave us – quantum entanglement,
cubism, psychedelics, chaos theory, the Somme
– John Higgs brings us an alternative history of
the strangest of centuries.
This is the story of the twentieth century told
through the ideas produced at the furthest
fringes of science, arts and culture. Its cast
includes well-known geniuses such as Albert
Einstein, Francis Crick and Pablo Picasso, lesserknown geniuses like Edward Lorenz, Sergey
Korolyov and Shigeru Miyamoto, and infamous
but influential ne’er-do-wells like Timothy Leary,
and Aleister Crowley.
John Higgs is the author the critically acclaimed The
KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million
Pounds (‘A thing of endlessly fascinating, utterly
demented genius’ – Alexis Petridis).
author:
Location: Brighton, East Sussex
Available for interview
www.johnhiggs.com
@johnhiggs
W&N Non-Fiction / History / Popular Science / Medicine • March 2015
W&N Popular Science / Medicine
HB / TPB March
£20.00 / £14.99 320pp
978 0 297 87135 4 / 978 0 297 87136 1
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 87137 8
JEFFREY LIEBERMAN
Shrinks
The Untold Story of Psychiatry
A seminal account of the history and
contemporary landscape of psychiatry.
In Shrinks, Jeffrey Lieberman shares the story of
psychiatry’s origins and the chequered history
of useless or harmful treatments to psychiatry’s
scientific rehabilitation, and how it has been
transformed into an evidence-based profession.
Shrinks is a gripping and illuminating read that
reveals shocking case studies and serves as
an urgent call to arms to start treating mental
illness as a disease rather than a state of mind.
‘A wise and gripping book that tackles one of
the most important questions of our time: what
is mental illness?’ Andrew Solomon
Jeffrey Lieberman is President of the American
Psychiatric Association, Chairman of Psychiatry at
Columbia University’s College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Psychiatrist in Chief at Columbia University
Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital, and
Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
author:
Location: New York, USA
Available for interview
@DrJlieberman
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W&N Current Affairs
HB / TPB April
£20.00 / £14.99 320pp
W&N Biography/History
HB April
£20.00 320pp
8pp colour illustrations
978 0 297 86863 7
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 86864 4
16pp colour illustrations
ALEX PERRY
978 0 297 87122 4 / 978 0 297 87123 1
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 87124 8
The Rift
Stories from the New Africa
An evocative and insightful new picture of a
fascinating, bewildering and rapidly changing
continent.
Taking the Great Rift Valley as his central
metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between
a resurgent Africa and a world at odds with its
rise. By exploding the myths about the continent,
Perry reveals the stunning face of modern Africa,
a place where cash is becoming a thing of the
past, where African astronomers are unlocking
the origin of life and where, twenty-five years
after Live Aid, Ethiopia’s first yuppies are traders
on an electronic food exchange.
Alex Perry was TIME magazine’s bureau chief in
Africa until he left his job, partly out of frustration with the limits of the story he could tell as a
foreign correspondent. This book is the result.
Alex Perry is an award-winning journalist and expert on
Africa. His awards include honours from the Society of
Publishers in Asia, the Foreign Press Association in
London and the Overseas Press Club in New York.
author:
Location: Warnford, Hampshire
Available for interview
www.alex-perry.com
@PerryAlexJ
NANCY GOLDSTONE
The Rival Queens
The Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
The extraordinary lives of two formidable
queens in Renaissance France.
Catherine de’ Medici (1519–1589), the infamous
queen mother of France, was a consummate
pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the
throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter
Marguerite (1553–1615), the glamorous ‘Queen
Margot’, was the only adversary whom her
mother could neither intimidate nor control.
When Catherine forced the Catholic Marguerite
to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre
against her will, and then used her Parisian
wedding as a means of luring his Huguenot
followers to their deaths, she created not only
savage conflict within France but also a potent
rival within her own family.
Rich in historical detail and vivid prose, Nancy
Goldstone’s narrative is a thrilling historical epic.
Nancy Goldstone is the author of Four Queens: The
Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe, Joanna: The
Notorious Queen of Naples, Jerusalem and Sicily and
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of
Arc and Yolande of Aragon.
author:
Location: New York, USA
Available for interview
www.nancygoldstone.com
W&N Non-Fiction / Current Affairs / History • April 2015
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W&N Bridge
TPB April
£12.99 160pp
978 0 297 60905 6
RON KLINGER, ROGER
TRÉZEL, TERENCE REESE
The Mistakes You Make at Bridge
A treasury of bridge wisdom, written by two
brilliant players and updated by one of the
world’s leading bridge teachers – Ron Klinger.
If you want to win more often at bridge you will
need to deepen your understanding of the game
and to learn where not to slavishly follow
conventions in bidding, defence and dummy
play. This book is written for those who know
the game fairly well but make the same mistakes
year after year. Each section has a lesson on
common mistakes, and you may recognize
yourself in play, bidding or defence.
Ron Klinger is also an international bridge player and
author of more than 60 bridge books.
Master Bridge Series in
association with Peter Crawley
author:
Location: NSW, Australia
Available for interview
www.ronklingerbridge.com
W&N Non-Fiction / Bridge / History • April / May 2015
W&N Biography / History
HB May
£20.00 320pp
8pp colour illustrations
978 0 297 87018 0
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 87020 3
ROBERT HUTCHINSON
The Audacious Crimes of
Colonel Blood
The Spy Who Stole the Crown Jewels
and Became the King’s Secret Agent
The gripping story of Colonel Thomas Blood:
dangerous double agent and Irish rogue.
Colonel Thomas Blood (1618–1680) is one
of the most enigmatic and alluring figures in
Britain’s history. Fervently and religiously nonconformist, Blood had been involved in many
plots to assassinate King Charles II (1630–1685)
and overthrow the Stuart government. In 1671
he daringly attempted to seize the Crown Jewels
from the Tower of London.
This is the compelling story of a man with
ambiguous political and personal motivation,
and an extraordinary account of the perils
and conspiracies that surrounded the ‘Merry
Monarch’.
Robert Hutchinson is a fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries of London and the bestselling author of
The Last Days of Henry VIII, Elizabeth’s Spymaster,
Thomas Cromwell, House of Treason, Young Henry and
The Spanish Armada. He was appointed an OBE in the
2008 Honours List.
author:
Location: Arundel, West Sussex
Available for interview
GORDON CORERA
Intercept
The Secret History of Computers and Spies
From Bletchley Park to GCHQ, the NSA and China
in the twenty-first century, this is the story of
electronic espionage.
W&N History / Current Affairs
HB / TPB May
£20.00 / £14.99 320pp
978 0 297 87173 6 / 978 0 297 60945 2
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 87174 3
‘The Art of Betrayal is
the best post-1949
account of British
intelligence that I
have read’
– Alan Judd, Spectator
The computer age was born in secret. Under the
intense pressure of the Second World War and in
the confines of Britain’s code-breaking establishment at Bletchley Park, the work of men like Alan
Turing led to the creation of electronic espionage.
It was a breakthrough that helped win the war,
but it also had a profound effect on today’s
hyper-connected world.
Intercept is the previously untold – and
previously highly classified – story of the melding
of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera’s
compelling narrative takes us from the First
World War to the Internet age, with shocking
revelations about the extent of espionage carried
out today.
Using his unique access to GCHQ, the NSA and
Chinese officials as well as senior executives from
some of the most important companies around
the world, Corera has gathered stories from
heads of state, hackers and spies of all stripes to
focus on the new space in which the worlds of
industrial and individual espionage, geopolitics,
diplomacy, science and technology collide.
Gordon Corera has presented major documentaries for
the BBC on cybersecurity, GCHQ and the NSA. He is the
author of the The Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the
British Secret Service. He is the only journalist to have
reported from inside both the NSA and GCHQ.
author:
Location: Tooting, London
Available for interview
@gordoncorera
W&N Non-Fiction / Current Affairs • May 2015
21
TIM SPECTOR
22
The Diet Myth
The New Science of the Microbiome
A radical new book that explores the connection
between our gut and our health by one of the
field’s leading scientists.
W&N Popular Science
HB / TPB May
£16.99 / £13.99 320pp
978 0 297 60919 3 / 978 0 297 60920 9
eBook: £16.99 / 978 0 297 60921 6
Since 2011, Tim
Spector has been
leading the largest
microbiome project in
the UK, using genetic
sequencing to study
the bacteria in the
guts of 5,000 twins.
We are all increasingly bewildered by the
simple question of what to eat. Despite advice
from experts, governments and dieticians, our
nutrition – and the global obesity crisis – is
getting worse. Most diets work only in the short
term, and the scientific differences between
individual responses to food remain unexplained.
Professor Tim Spector reveals we have been
overlooking one vital aspect of diet that lies
within us: the thousands of previously unknown
but essential microbes in our guts whose job it
is to digest our food and keep us alive.
Drawing on the latest science and his team’s own
pioneering research, Spector explores the hidden
world of the microbiome, and demystifies the
common misconceptions about fat, calories,
vitamins and nutrients. Mixing cutting-edge
discoveries, illuminating science and his own case
studies, Spector shows why we should abandon
fads and instead embrace diversity for a healthy
diet, a healthy gut and a healthy body.
Tim Spector is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at
King’s College London and Hon Consultant Physician
at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. He has won several
academic awards and published over 700 academic
papers, many of which relate directly to nutrition and
causes of obesity. He is the author of Identically
Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes.
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
www.tim-spector.co.uk
@timspector
W&N Non-Fiction / Popular Science • May 2015
MONA ELTAHAWY
Headscarves and Hymens
A groundbreaking, highly provocative book
about women, Islam and the Arab Spring from
award-winning journalist Mona Eltahawy.
In November 2011, Mona Eltahawy came to
worldwide attention when she was assaulted by
police during the Egyptian Revolution. She
responded by writing a piece in Foreign Policy
entitled ‘Why Do They Hate Us’; ‘They’ being
Muslim men, ‘Us’ being women. It sparked huge
controversy.
W&N Politics / Biography / Current Affairs
HB / ETPB May
£20.00 / £13.99 320pp
978 0 297 60900 1 / 978 0 297 60901 8
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 60902 5
‘Why do they hate us?’
With these five words
in a controversial
magazine article,
Mona Eltahawy shot
to fame, unleashing a
devastating critique
of women’s rights in
the Arab world.
Drawing on her personal experiences as a journalist and a campaigner on women’s issues in the
Middle East, Mona explains that since the Arab
Spring began, women in the Arab world have had
two revolutions to undertake: one fought with
men against oppressive regimes, and another
fought against an entire political and economic
system that treats women in countries from
Yemen and Saudi Arabia to Egypt, Tunisia, and
Libya as second-class citizens.
Headscarves and Hymens is a plea for outrage
and action on behalf of the women Eltahawy has
encountered across the Middle East and North
Africa. It is a manifesto motivated by hope and
fury – and is as illuminating as it is incendiary.
Newsweek magazine named Mona as one of its
‘150 Fearless Women of 2012’.
Mona Eltahawy is a journalist and commentator on
Arab and Muslim issues. She has appeared as a guest
speaker on CNN, the BBC and Al Jazeera, and her essays
have been published by the Washington Post, and the
New York Times. She has won numerous awards including the European Union’s Samir Kasis Prize for Freedom
of the Press in 2009.
author:
Location: New York, USA
Available for interview
www.monaeltahawy.com
@monaeltahawy
W&N Non-Fiction / Politics / Biography / Current Affairs • May 2015
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ISY SUTTIE
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Untitled
Isy Suttie – writer, comedian, actress and
songsmith – on not quite being a grown-up.
Isy Suttie has reached her thirties and realised
her life is never going to be what she expected.
She’ll never become that tennis champion, be an
expert in birdsong or make a living from playing
pinball. As her friends begin to settle down to
‘grown-up lives’, will she get left behind?
W&N Autobiography, Humour
HB June
£16.99 288pp
b/w line drawings
978 0 297 60998 8
eBook: £16.99 / 978 0 297 60999 5
Isy Suttie’s awards
include Best Female
Newcomer and
Female Breakthrough
Act at the British
Comedy Awards.
From goldfish-murdering mothers and housemates obsessed with VAT, to boyfriends who
don’t appreciate gifts of homemade human-sized
penguins, Isy delves deep into the vaults of her
experiences, writing with warmth, agonising
honesty and sharp humour.
Isy Suttie is an award-winning comedian, writer, songsmith and actress. With a string of television acting
credits to her name, including Shameless, Whites and
Skins, she is perhaps best known for playing Dobby in
Peep Show.
Isy has been nominated twice for a British Comedy
Award and she also regularly performs her own shows
to live audiences, on radio and at the Edinburgh
Festival. The second series of her Sony Award-winning
radio series Isy Suttie’s Love Letters was broadcast on
BBC Radio 4 in April 2014, and in 2014 she made her
musical theatre debut as the starring role in The A-Z of
Mrs P at the Southwark Playhouse.
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
www.isysuttie.com
@Isysuttie
W&N Non-Fiction / Autobiography • June 2015
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W&N History
HB July
£25.00 336pp
8pp b/w, 8pp colour illustrations
978 0 297 86762 3
eBook: £25.00 / 978 0 297 86763 0
W&N Psychology / Ideas
HB / TPB June
£16.99 / £14.99 320pp
978 0 297 87170 5 / 978 0 297 60946 9
eBook: £16.99 / 978 0 297 87171 2
CHRIS LINTOTT
Untitled
(title to be crowdsourced)
ALISTAIR HORNE
Hubris
War in the Twentieth Century
An inspiring manifesto for the power of the
crowd, exploring the ways crowdsourcing is
changing scientific research, our world and
ourselves.
The battles that defined the history of the
twentieth century, and shaped the twenty-first.
Chris Lintott is an astronomer at the University of
Oxford and a research fellow at New College. He is
best known as the presenter of the BBC’s Sky at Night,
and as co-author with Patrick Moore and Brian May of
Bang! and The Cosmic Tourist.
Alistair Horne is the celebrated author of numerous
works of narrative history and politics, including Seven
Ages of Paris, The Age of Napoleon and Kissinger’s
Year, which have been translated into several
languages. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize
for The Price of Glory and the Wolfson Prize for
A Savage War of Peace.
author:
author:
This is the story of what is happening in this, the
era of big data. Drawing on his experience setting
up the extraordinarily successful Zooniverse
platform, where over a million ordinary internet
users contribute significantly to scientific
research, Chris Lintott describes the origins
and ongoing state of crowdsourcing. In this
inspiring, provocative argument, he shows how,
collectively, we can beat the experts, and digs
deep into the science of human motivation.
Location: Oxford
Available for interview
www.zooniverse.org
@chrislintott
The ancient Greeks defined hubris as the worst
sin a leader, or a nation, could commit. It was the
mindset of supreme arrogance, where mortals
would set themselves up against the gods with
invariably terrible consequences. In this brilliant
work of narrative history Alistair Horne analyses
several engagements of the twentieth century
which had consequences above and beyond the
war itself, affecting the wider course of history
and our own times. The common thread running
through Horne’s choices is hubris, or complacency,
or a deadly mix of the two.
Location: Henley, Oxfordshire
Available for interview
W&N Non-Fiction / Psychology / Ideas / History • June / July 2015
NICHOLAS CRANE
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The Making of the British Landscape
The fascinating 10,000-year history of Britain’s
landscape, from the Ice Age to the 21st century.
W&N History
HB / TPB July
£20.00 384pp
8pp colour illustrations
978 0 297 85666 5 / 978 0 297 85667 2
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 85735 8
‘A man with
adventure in his
soul, and a talent for
communicating his
passion, Crane is
something of a
treasure’ – Daily Mail
The British landscape is set to change perhaps
more rapidly than ever before in the next
hundred years. In this impressive book Nicholas
Crane describes the impact on our countryside of
successive waves of civilisations from Mesolithic
adventurers and the Romans to modern citydwellers. Significant events in human history, the
Black Death, the enclosure of land and the
Industrial Revolution among them, have all
profoundly shaped Britain’s landscape. But in
turn geology has determined the architecture of
our cities and no other factor than climate has
given as much character to the varied scenery of
Britain. Part journey and part history, The Making
of the British Landscape brilliantly illustrates how
Britain and its landscapes became so wonderfully
diverse.
Nicholas Crane is a prize-winning author, an expert
cartographer and an international explorer. He
presents BBC2’s highly successful Coast series.
author:
Location: North-West London
Available for interview
@nicholascrane
W&N Non-Fiction / History • July 2015
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A. A. GILL
W&N Autobiography
HB / TPB July
£20.00 256pp
978 0 297 87082 1 / 978 0 297 60970 4
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 87083 8
Pour Me
A Life
A. A. Gill’s compulsive memoir of the lost year
between the end of his marriage and the end of
his drinking.
Aged thirty, at a treatment centre in the west of
England, A. A. Gill lay in the last-chance saloon,
in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. His
raw yet laugh-out-loud memoir charts the year
between the end of his marriage and the end of
drinking. Or perhaps it was not a year – it might
be only six months or eighteen. None of this is
hand-on-Bible fact. The one charity of drink is
that it strips away memory.
Being A. A. Gill, this is no faith-infused tale of
redemption. It isn’t an account of a debauched
drink-and-drug hell; there will be no lessons to
learn; or handy hints or golden rules. But it is a
brilliant, funny, and wise book by our greatest
journalist.
A. A. Gill is probably Britain’s most read columnist. He
entertains readers of the Sunday Times every week with
his biting observations on television and his unsparing,
deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews, which have
been published as Paper View and Table Talk.
author:
Location: Fulham, London
Available for interview
W&N Dressmaking and tailoring
HB April
£20.00 224pp
Full colour throughout
978 0 297 87125 5
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 87126 2
KIRSTY HARTLEY
Wild Things: Funky Little
Clothes to Sew
Fun, simple and unique clothes to sew for
children, from the designer of Wild Things:
Funky Little Dresses.
Wild Things will inspire makers of all abilities to
create exciting designs their children will really
want to wear. The step-by-step projects include
dresses, rompers, skirts, hats, jackets and
dungarees. Themes vary from enchanted
woodland to summer essentials, and outfits
include summer rompers, character dresses,
Red Riding Hood cape and Mr Wolf dungarees.
Kirsty Hartley’s clothing range has grown rapidly
in popularity since it first launched in 2011. It
was first featured on notonthehighstreet.com
and has gathered a celebrity following from the
likes of Lily Allen and Charlotte Church.
Kirsty Hartley is the owner and designer of unique
clothing company; Wild Things: Funky Little Clothes.
The range attracts huge media attention and has now
featured in the Guardian, Telegraph, Closer and
international blogs. Kirsty was shortlisted for the Junior
magazine design award for Best Emerging New Brand.
author:
Location: Manchester
Available for interview
f/WildThingsFunkyLittleDresses
@wildthingsdress
W&N Non-Fiction Autobiography / Dressmaking • July / April 2015
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W&N Cookery
HB March
£20.00 208pp
Full colour throughout
978 0 297 87160 6
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 87161 3
BLANCHE VAUGHAN
Egg
The Very Best Recipes Inspired by
the Humble Egg
A gorgeous collection of 90 recipes
demonstrating simple and delicious ways
to cook and eat eggs.
This collection of recipes shows us how tasty and
versatile eggs can be. Eggs have many health
benefits and this unique recipe book includes all
the basics for the perfect poached, scrambled
and fried egg. From easy and fuss-free pancakes,
soufflés, tarts and omelettes to cakes, curds and
puddings, the potential for this nourishing
ingredient is endless. This will be Blanche’s
break-out title. She has a strong background in
food having trained at the illustrious River Café,
and has since cooked professionally in acclaimed
restaurants Moro and St John. She is the author
of In One Pot and co-wrote the popular
low-calorie cookbook Itsu: The Cookbook.
Blanche Vaughan is a respected chef and food writer.
She is a prolific contributor to the Guardian online and
her food has featured in the Independent. She has
received great reviews for her recipes on The Great
British Food Revival.
author:
Location: London, SW7
Available for interview
@blanchevaughan
W&N Non-Fiction / Cookery • March / April 2015
W&N Cookery
HB April
£16.99 224pp
Full colour throughout
978 0 297 87087 6
eBook: £16.99 / 978 0 297 87088 3
ISABELLA BEETON,
GERARD BAKER
Mrs Beeton’s Homemade Sweetshop
Favourite sweets from humbugs to caramels
to make, give and enjoy
The complete guide to British confectionery by
the original domestic goddess; Isabella Beeton.
Isabella Beeton shows us how to create a little
bit of Victoriana in the 21st century with her
classic techniques and recipes. Fully updated for
the modern kitchen, Mrs Beeton offers practical
and useful advice on preserving, candying and
drying. Recipes include Sherbet Fruit Drops,
Salted Caramels and Rhubarb and Rose Turkish
Delight.
Isabella Beeton is considered one of the first cookery
writers – her classic Book of Household Management
was published in 1861. Interest in her life was reignited
in the BBC drama The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton.
Previous Mrs Beeton titles have sold over 4.5 million
copies. Her books have never been out of print.
Gerard Baker has written for The Times and BBC Good
Food magazine. He has been a food contributor for the
BBC’s national news network for over 12 years and was
a food historian on The Hairy Biker’s Mum’s Know Best
tour.
author:
Location: Hull, East Yorkshire
Available for interview
www.gerardbaker.com
@gerardbaker1
TOM SELLERS
Story
Extraordinary Recipes from Michelin-starred
Chef Tom Sellers
Innovative stories from the owner of one of
London’s most unique restaurants.
W&N Cookery
HB June
£35.00 256pp
Full colour throughout
978 0 297 87188 0
eBook: £35.00 / 978 0 297 87189 7
‘It’s people like
27-year-old Tom
Sellers who will
make you believe
in the “talented
young chef” myth’
– Mark Bittman
Tom Sellers is a luminary of the British culinary
scene. His own restaurant Story opened its doors
in April 2013, and its unique literary-inspired
menu taking diners on ‘a personal journey
through food’, has won him huge critical and
public acclaim. The Telegraph described his food
as ‘beyond faultless’, and the Guardian called his
food ‘genuinely directional’. The menu served
has been crafted and inspired by the memories
and significance that food holds, and guests are
encouraged to leave behind a book to evoke the
same inspiration in others. In this collection of
original recipes Tom shares his unique ideas for
intelligent and charismatic food, from Edible Beef
and Dripping Candles, Snow White’s Poisonous
Apple to Rhubarb and Custard Cream Soda.
This stunning book will be your chance to enter
the visionary mind of one of the most original
chefs of our time, and discover the truth behind
the tales of his brilliant food.
Tom Sellers is the owner of Michelin-starred London
restaurant Story. In 2012 he was nominated as the Most
Irreverent Young Chef at the British Foodie Awards. He
has trained under some of the world’s best and most
respected chefs, including Tom Aikens, Thomas Keller,
Adam Byatt and René Redzepi.
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
www.restaurantstory.com
@tomstory
W&N Non-Fiction / Cookery • June 2015
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THE DUMPLING SISTERS
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The Dumpling Sisters’ Chinese
Cookbook
100 Easy and Delicious Recipes from
a Family Kitchen
Over 100 deliciously fuss-free Chinese recipes
from YouTube stars The Dumpling Sisters.
W&N Cookery
HB June
£20.00 272pp
Full colour throughout
978 0 297 60906 3
eBook: £20.00 / 978 0 297 60907 0
‘The Dumpling Sisters
are super cute, they
know how to cook,
they’ve got good
flavours goin’ on!’
– Jamie Oliver
Amy and Julie Zhang, aka The Dumpling Sisters,
have been entertaining and educating their
thousands of followers on YouTube with their
recipes for deliciously easy homemade Chinese
food. The Dumpling Sisters’ Chinese Cookbook is
full of homemade versions of Chinese-food
favourites, impressive sharing dishes and even
sweet treats that have been little acknowledged
in a western understanding of Chinese food –
until now. Recipes are structured to give a
gradual introduction to Chinese dishes from, the
Best Ever Fried Rice to Cracking Five-spiced Roast
Pork Belly. The Dumpling Sisters made it to the
finals of Jamie Oliver’s ‘Search for a Food Tube
Star’ and were commissioned to produce a series
of videos for his Food Tube channel, which has
over 740,000 subscribers. Written with wit and
gusto, this is Chinese home cooking at its best.
Amy and Julie Zhang’s love affair with cooking began
when their family set up a Chinese food cart. They have
a strong social media presence, which includes a blog
and YouTube channel. Their first Food Tube video for
Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube Channel has had in excess
of 72,000 views.
author:
W&N Non-Fiction / Cookery • June 2015
Location: London
Available for interview
www.thedumplingsisters.com
f/TheDumplingSisters
@DumplingSisters
ORION BOOKS
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publishing Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers.
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Orion’s fiction publishing includes crime and thrillers, contemporary women’s fiction, romance and
historical novels. Our bestselling fiction authors include: Linwood Barclay, Maeve Binchy, Harlan Coben,
Michael Connelly, Anthony Horowitz, Erica James, Cathy Kelly, Kate Mosse and Ian Rankin.
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The non-fiction list embraces celebrity autobiography, music and showbiz, including titles by Keith
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Orion Cookery and diet
TPB December
£16.99 224pp
Full colour-throughout
978 1 4091 5765 6
eBook: £16.99 / 978 1 4091 5766 3
DAVINA MCCALL
Davina’s Five Weeks to Sugar-Free
Everyone’s favourite presenter reveals her life
without sugar.
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Presenter, wife, mother, fundraiser, fitness guru
and now author, there is nothing Davina McCall
cannot do. Davina has become one of Britain's
most recognisable faces, since she first hit our TV
screens back in 1992 with her quirky presenting
style and down to earth nature.
Davina’s figure and health conscious attitude has
become as famous as her TV programmes thanks
to her range of fitness DVDs and equipment, and
now comes her first ever cookbook.
Sugar is the latest taboo and no one knows this
better than Davina herself, a self-confessed
chocoholic. Five Weeks to Sugar-Free will
document how Davina managed to banish
sugar from her life as well as offering tips and
sumptuous recipe ideas.
Davina McCall is best known for presenting Big Brother
and Don’t Try this at Home, and more recently Million
Pound Drop and Long Lost Family. She has a successful
range of fitness DVDs and has raised millions through
her charity work.
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
www.thisisdavina.com
f/DavinaMcCall
@ThisisDavina
Orion Non-Fiction / Cookery • December 2014
NICOLE PISANI,
KATE ADAMS
Magic Soup
A collection of delicious, nutritious and
flavoursome soups from the head chef of Nopi.
Orion Cookery/Diet
HB January
£18.99 240pp
Full colour throughout
978 1 4091 5492 1
eBook: £18.99 / 978 1 4091 5493 8
This is the only
soup cookbook
that any cook will
ever want.
Magic Soup features over a 100 innovative and
comforting recipes to reinvigorate meal times and
to help lose weight. Recipes include Salmon
Poached in Lemongrass Tea, Butternut Squash
with Caramelised Pear and The Ultimate Chicken
Soup for the Soul. These meals will redefine
people’s expectations and help to erase the myth
that soup cannot be a satisfying and filling meal.
Authors Nicole Pisani and Kate Adams have
successful careers in the food and diet industry:
Nicole is head chef at trendy London restaurant,
Nopi, and Kate is the founder of the weight loss
blog, The Flat Tummy Club, where she lost over
two stone on a soup-based diet.
Nicole Pisani is head chef at Yotam Ottolenghi’s Soho
restaurant, Nopi.
Kate Adams is the author of The Flat Tummy Club
Diet, which has been featured in the Daily Mail,
Harper’s Bazaar and The Times. She has over a
thousand followers on Facebook and regularly tweets
her recipes on Twitter.
author:
Location: Richmond, Surrey
Available for interview
www.flattummyclub.co.uk
f/flattummyclub
@flattumclub
Orion Non-Fiction / Cookery • January 2015
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CLAIRE YOUNG
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Beat the Bloat
Lose Your Belly for Good in Just One Month
100 delicious recipes to beat the bloat for good.
Orion Diet
MMP January
£7.99 256pp
978 1 4091 5827 1
eBook: £7.99 / 978 1 4091 5828 8
The 100 quick and
feel-good recipes will
help you to beat your
bloat and maintain a
healthy gut.
What’s the secret to losing weight and keeping it
off? Balancing the bacteria in your gut. With an
easy-to-follow four-week meal plan, 100 wheatand sugar-free recipes (such as Choc Chip Banana
Muffins and Chorizo and Bean Stew), a shopping
list of store cupboard essentials, advice on how
to eat out and how to fit the diet into your
lifestyle, this book will help you beat the bloat
for good. The recipes contain healthy fats, lean
proteins and live cultures that help restore the
good bacteria in our guts. And once you have a
healthy digestive system you will store less fat,
abolish cravings and absorb fewer calories from
food.
Claire Young was fed up of looking in the mirror and
seeing a bloated belly, no matter how much she dieted
or exercised. As an expert health food writer, she
couldn’t understand why the flat stomach she dreamed
of was so unattainable until she discovered the latest
scientific research on gut health. Since then she has
transformed her life by living wheat- and sugar-free,
and wants to help others change their lives for good.
She lives in York with her husband and three children.
author:
Location: York
Available for interview
Orion Non-Fiction / Diet / Cookery • January 2015
35
JUSTINE PATTISON
Without the Calories series
A series of low-calorie recipe books that makes losing weight as easy
as 1-2-3.
978 1 4091 5469 3
eBook: 978 1 4091 5470 9
Justine Pattison is a regular contributor to BBC Good Food and Olive
magazines. She has consulted on numerous best-selling cookbooks
including The Hairy Dieters, Anna Richardson’s Body Blitz and Gillian
McKeith’s You Are What You Eat.
978 1 4091 5471 6
eBook: 978 1 4091 5472 3
…Without the Calories features hundreds of low-cal recipes so you
can enjoy all of your favourite meals and still lose weight. Justine’s
1-2-3 approach provides an easy-to-follow plan for breakfast, lunch
and dinner (and dessert!) to keep those calorie numbers low but still
have you loving what you eat. Each recipe is supplied with a calorie
counter and additional nutritional information, plus Justine’s trademark
tips and ideas to enhance the low-calorie cooking experience. The
first three books in the series include recipes such as Sticky BBQ Ribs,
Classic Fish and Chips, hearty pies and rich curries, all without the
calories.
To date, Justine’s recipes have
featured in books totalling over
2.75 million sales.
978 14091 5473 0
eBook: 978 1 4091 5474 7
author:
Location: Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire
Available for interview
www.justinepattison.co.uk
F/Justine-Pattison
@JustinePattison
All titles: Orion
Cookery/Diet TPB
March £14.99 192pp
Full colour throughout
eBook: £14.99
Orion Non-Fiction / Cookery • March 2015
STANLEY TUCCI,
FELICITY BLUNT
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The Tucci Table
Cooking with Family and Friends
A beautifully produced collection of wholesome
and hearty recipes that will bring the whole
family together.
Food can bind and govern a family and no one
knows this more than Hollywood actor and
respected foodie, Stanley Tucci.
Orion Cookery
HB February
£25.00 256pp
Full colour throughout
978 1 4091 5854 7
eBook: £25.00 / 978 1 4091 5855 4
‘With recipes that are
simple to make and
magnificently delicious,
The Tucci Table is a
mouthwatering food
porn manifesto – these
are the meals I want
every day to feed my
libidinous, gluttonous,
and sinful soul’
– Mario Battali
Orion Non-Fiction / Cookery • February 2015
Featuring family-friendly dishes and stunning
photography The Tucci Table will captivate food
lovers’ imaginations with recipes from Stanley’s
traditional Italian roots as well as those of his
British wife, Felicity Blunt. Recipes include Pasta
Al Forno and Roasted Sea Bass and even British
classics such as Shepherd’s Pie and Sausage Rolls.
The Tucci Table captures the true joys of family
cooking.
Stanley Tucci is an Emmy and Golden-Globe winning
actor. He has appeared in more than 50 films.
Felicity Blunt is a literary agent and divides her time
between London and New York.
author:
Location: New York / London
Available for interview
@felicityblunt
MADELEINE SHAW
Get the Glow
100 delicious, easy and healthy recipes that will
nourish you from the inside out.
In Get The Glow nutritional health coach to the
stars Madeleine Shaw shows you that eating well
can easily become a way of life, resulting in the
hottest, healthiest and happiest you. Madeleine’s
philosophy is simple: ditch the junk and eat foods
that heal your gut so you can shine from head to
toe and really get the glow.
Orion Diet and healthy eating
HB April
£20.00 192pp
Full colour throughout
978 1 4091 5744 1
eBook: £20.00 / 978 1 4091 5745 8
‘I love Madeleine’s
book and her recipes.
She makes healthy
eating a joy’
– Millie Mackintosh
Lavishly illustrated with sumptuous photography,
Get The Glow is a cookbook to be savoured.
Madeleine shares 100 delicious, wheat- and
sugar-free recipes bursting with flavour and
nutritional value leaving you feeling full and
nourished. Every mouth-watering dish is easy to
make, contains ingredients that can be found in
your local supermarket and won’t break the
budget. You’ll lose weight, feel healthier and
will glow on the inside and out.
Including a six-week plan and advice on kitchen
cupboard essentials and eating out, Madeleine’s
down-to-earth and practical guidance will
inspire you to fall back in love with food, life,
and yourself.
Madeleine Shaw is a trained nutritional health coach,
food blogger and creative cook. Her six-week ‘Get the
Glow’ programme is in-demand by an impressive list of
high-profile clients. For now at least Madeleine lives in
London, where she is never too far away from her
healthy staples: a blender, a yoga mat and a coconut!
author:
Location: Fulham, London
Available for interview
www.madeleineshaw.com
f/madeleineshawnutrition
@madeleine_shaw_
Orion Non-Fiction / Diet • April 2015
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Orion Cookery
HB May
Orion Popular Science / Food and Drink
HB May
£12.99 144pp
Full colour throughout
978 1 4091 5661 1
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 5663 5
£18.99 224pp
Full colour throughout
978 1 4091 5463 1
ROB ALLISON
eBook: £18.99 / 978 1 4091 5464 8
The Original Takeaway
The nation’s favourite takeaways recreated with
fresh ingredients to produce flavoursome food.
The Original Takeaway injects the nation’s
favourite takeaways with new inspiration by
recreating them using fresh produce and proper
cooking methods. This is by no means a health
or diet book, but by simply being able to control
the quality of ingredients you use to cook the
recipes, this book will make infinitely healthier
food than you will find in any takeaway
restaurant. With the UK’s love of takeaways on
the rise, The Original Takeaway shows us how
easy it is to make delicious, healthy,
homemade alternatives.
Rob Allison began cooking as a stagiere in a Parisian
hotel. He has since worked on vast range of cookery
books including Nigellissima and Gok Cooks Chinese.
author:
Location: London, SW11
Available for interview
Orion Non-Fiction / Cookery / Popular Science / Food and Drink • May 2015
ANDY BRUNNING
Compound Interest
The Curious Chemistry of Food and Drink
Amazing infographics and explanations reveal
the weird science behind our everyday food
and drink.
Ever wondered why asparagus makes your pee
smell? Why onions make you cry? Why cooking
bacon smells so good? This book will open up a
whole new chemical world behind the weird
sensations we experience through food and
drink – drunkenness, brain freeze, spicy chillies
and many more. Exploring aromas, flavours and
taste sensations with stunning infographics and
in-depth explanations, Andy Brunning elaborates
on all the questions we’ve never thought to
answer properly before. Compound Interest
makes chemistry beautiful again.
Andy Brunning is a graduate chemist and a
secondary school teacher with a passion for bringing
chemistry to life. He created the hit Compound
Interest blog, examining the chemical reactions we
come across on a day-to-day basis.
author:
Location: Bournemouth, UK
Available for interview
www.compoundchem.com
f/compoundchem
@compoundchem
JAMES DOUGLAS,
SCOTT MUNRO
Let There Be Meat
True Southern American Barbecue cooked
low ‘n’ slow
The plague of bad British barbecues is over
thanks to the owners of the UK’s hottest
barbecue restaurant.
Orion Cookery
HB May
£25.00 256pp
Full colour throughout
978 14091 5635 2
eBook: £25.00 / 978 1 4091 5636 9
‘The people knew
nothing of True
Barbecue. Of meat
smoked low ‘n’ slow,
infused with joy…so
glorious that angels
wept...’
James Douglas and Scott Munro spent seven
years travelling the US perfecting the most
succulent and tasty barbecue. Let There Be Meat
is a mouth-watering guide on how to cook the
perfect slow roasted pork and beef, burgers, ribs,
steaks and all the spicy condiments and clever
cocktails that go with them.
The Red’s True Barbecue restaurant in
Manchester serves an estimated 35,000 people a
month and in Nottingham the figures are
between 90,000 to 100,000. Red’s has an enormous social media presence and is just shy of
40,000 likes on Facebook, which is balanced
50/50 between men and women. The restaurant
brand has over 14,000 Twitter followers.
Let There Be Meat is the ultimate burger and
barbecue lover’s bible crammed full of the
delectable, melt-in-the-mouth meat recipes
that have made Red’s True Barbecue such a
phenomenon.
James Douglas and Scott Munro are the owners and
founders of Red’s True Barbecue, the UK’s trendiest
barbecue restaurant. Their restaurant brand is quickly
growing and there are plans to add six more restaurants
to their business in 2015.
author:
Location: Manchester
Available for interview
www.truebarbecue.com
f/redstruebarbecue
@RedsTrueBBQ
Orion Non-Fiction / Cookery • May 2015
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Orion Cookery
HB June
£18.99 256pp
Full colour throughout
978 1 4091 5579 9
eBook: £18.99 / 978 1 4091 5580 5
Orion Diet
TPB July
£9.99 192pp
978 1 4091 5825 7
eBook: £9.99 / 978 1 4091 5826 4
KATE DORAN
CAROLINE APOVIAN
Childhood treats for grown-up tastes, from one
of the UK’s favourite food bloggers.
A groundbreaking diet plan that helps fight
middle-age spread.
The Little Loaf
Kate Doran launched her blog, ‘The Little Loaf’ in
February 2011. In her first book childhood treats
get a homemade, grown-up twist in an irresistible collection including over 80 brand-new
recipes plus a handful of favourites from the
blog. Think Chocolate Hazelnut Caterpillar Cake,
Homemade Cornettos, Peach Melba, Baked
Alaska and Real Bourbon Biscuits. From comfort
classics to midnight feasts, here you’ll find
traditional recipes reinvented by a skillful, stylish
cook, illustrated with beautiful photography
throughout.
Channel 4 named ‘The Little Loaf’ as one of the
UK’s best baking blogs.
Kate Doran runs her own blog, ‘The Little Loaf’. She has
been named one of the UK’s top food bloggers by the
Sunday Times magazine.
author:
Location: South West London
Available for interview
www.thelittleloaf.com
f/thelittleloaf
@thelittleloaf
Orion Non-Fiction / Cookery / Diet • June / July 2015
The Age-Defying Diet
The Age-Defying Diet provides a revolutionary
solution to unwanted weight increase in your 40s
and 50s. Dr Caroline Apovian has developed a
groundbreaking programme which outsmarts the
body’s ageing processes and enables readers to
reverse the metabolic clock. Drawing on her
clinical experience and the latest science and
research, Dr Apovian has created a simple
three-week plan revealing exactly how to combat
the effects of ageing. Readers will lose weight
fast but they will also fix common complaints of
ageing, including night sweats for women and
low testosterone for men.
Dr Caroline Apovian is a world-leading expert in weight
loss management. Her previous title The Overnight Diet
was a New York Times bestseller.
author:
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Available for interview
www.drapovian.com
f/drapovian
@carolineapovian
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JO BERRY
Orion Biography
HB January
£9.99 208pp
978 1 4091 5323 8
eBook: £9.99 / 978 1 4091 5325 2
Shades of Jamie Dornan
The no holds barred biography of the man set
to play Christian Grey.
Jamie Dornan is about to become a superstar.
His announcement as lead role Christian Grey in
the upcoming film adaptation of Fifty Shades of
Grey caused a media frenzy, catapulting the
model-turned-actor into the international
spotlight. He has appeared in Sofia Coppola’s
Marie Antionette, has dated Keira Knightley and
has starred in hit TV shows Once Upon a Time
and The Fall. Now, for the first time, this book
will reveal the real character behind Jamie
Dornan, getting up close and personal with the
man who, come 2015, everyone will want to
know intimately.
Renowned celebrity biographer and film/TV critic
Jo Berry has written for Empire Magazine, Radio Times,
Guardian, Daily Express and the Independent.
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
Orion Sport/History
HB / TPB January
£18.99 320pp
978 1 4091 4443 4 / 978 1 4091 5041 1
eBook: £18.99 / 978 1 4091 4444 1
JONATHAN WILSON
Angels with Dirty Faces
The Footballing History of Argentina
Argentina seen through its rich footballing
history.
Argentina lives and breathes football. The
subject is fiercely debated and has preoccupied
the country’s greatest writers and philosophers.
Jonathan Wilson expounds on the different
phases of Argentinian football: the appropriation
of the British game; the golden age of la nuestra,
the exuberant style of playing that developed as
Juan Perón led the country into isolation; the
fusing of beauty and efficacy under César Luis
Menotti and the ludicrous creative talent of
recent times.
Angels with Dirty Faces is the definite history of
a great footballing nation and its paradoxes.
Jonathan Wilson is the author of several highly
acclaimed books about football. Inverting the Pyramid:
A History of Football Tactics won the National Sporting
Club Book of the Year Award.
author:
Location: Wandsworth, London
Available for interview
f/jonawils
@jonawils
Orion Non-Fiction / Biography / Sport • January 2015
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Orion Memoir
MMP February
£6.99 304pp
978 1 4091 5840 0
eBook: £6.99 / 978 1 4091 5841 7
Orion Memoir
MMP June
£6.99 304pp
978 1 4091 5842 4
eBook: £6.99 / 978 1 4091 5843 1
HILDA KEMP,
CATHRYN KEMP
HILDA KEMP,
CATHRYN KEMP
The Heartbreaking True Story of a Little
Girl’s Struggle to Survive in the Slums of
1920–30s East London
Tales of Love, Hardship and Laughter from
an East End Fish and Chip Shop
‘We Ain’t Got No Drink, Pa’
Too many children. Too little money. An abusive
father too drunk to notice his family is starving.
This is the true story of a little girl’s struggle to
survive against the odds in the slums of southeast London.
Hilda Kemp’s childhood was one of chaos and
fear. It was a time spent running wild down the
docklands, jumping onto barges and stealing
coal, racing through the dank back-streets of east
London like a water rat, dodging the milk cart or
the rag-and-bone man. And standing up to a
drunk and violent father at home. Out of this
bleak landscape emerges a brave young girl
whose life is a testament to the power of love
and good humour. Moving, dazzling and sombre
by turns, once opened this brilliant, seductive
book will not let you rest.
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
@cathrynkemp
Orion Non-Fiction / Memoir • February / June 2015
A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile
The true story of a 1950s south London
community united by the local chippy and
the woman at the heart of it all, ‘Hooray’
Hilda Kemp.
At the heart of the local fish and chip shop in
1950s and 60s Bermondsey was ‘Hooray’ Hilda
Kemp, a spirited matriarch who dispensed fish
suppers and an abundance of sympathy to a nowvanished world of East Enders. Keeping up with
local gossip, she hears all the rumours of an
industrial strike and of gang wars hotting up: the
Richardsons and the Krays are playing out their
fights across south-east London. With a cast of
colourful characters – dirty ragamuffins,
struggling housewives and rough-diamond gang
members – Hooray Hilda’s story is one of grit,
romance, nostalgia and British endurance.
Cathryn Kemp is an award-winning journalist and author.
She won the Big Red Read Prize for non-fiction in 2013
with Painkiller Addict. This is a personal and lovingly
crafted account of her grandmother’s life and legacy.
JO FROST
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Jo Frost’s Complete Childcare
The Complete A–Z Childcare Guide from the
UK’s Most Trusted Nanny
Orion Childcare advice
HB March
£16.99 256pp
Approximately 30 illustrations
978 1 4091 1336 2
eBook: £16.99 / 978 1 4091 1337 9
The UK’s most respected nanny, Jo Frost, returns
with an A–Z guide for parents and parents-to-be.
With her unique blend of warmth and straight
talk, Jo offers parents the practical information
and support they need to embrace their baby’s
and toddler’s lives. She offers clear guidance, in
an easy-to-follow alphabetical structure, to give
mums and dads a confident approach to their
parenting. Jo Frost first found fame in 2004 with
Supernanny, a programme designed to help
parents discipline their children. She has since
achieved fame on both sides of the Atlantic
and her programmes regularly draw in 5 million
viewers in the US alone.
Jo Frost, the UK’s
most trusted nanny
and bestselling
author, shares her
wealth of knowledge
and years of experience to help you give
your child the best
start in life.
author:
Jo Frost has been a nanny since 1989 and is the author
of the best-selling titles Jo Frost’s Toddler SOS, Jo Frost’s
Confident Toddler Care and Jo Frost’s Confident Baby
Care, all published by Orion. She is also aninfluential TV
personality, and her previous programmes include
Supernanny and Jo Frost Extreme Parental Guidance.
She has sold over 144,000 books to date and has over
60,000 Twitter followers.
Location: Fulham, London
Available for interview
www.jofrost.com
f/Jo-Frost
@Jo_Frost
Orion Non-Fiction / Childcare • March 2015
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Orion Popular Culture
TPB February
£12.99 320pp
978 1 4091 4873 9
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 4875 3
EMER O’TOOLE
Girls will be Girls
Dressing up, Playing Parts and Daring to
Act Differently
The fiercest new voice of feminism – Emer
O’Toole is the perfect mix of Caitlin Moran,
Germaine Greer and Lena Dunham.
You might think she’s crazy – but she has lessons
for us all. Protesting against the ‘makey-uppybulls**t’ of gender conditioning, Emer O’Toole
caused a media sensation growing her body hair
and singing ‘Get Your Pits Out For The Lads’ on
national TV.
Emer takes us on a hilarious and honest journey
through her life exploring the performance of
femininity to which we are confined. Funny,
provocative and underpinned with rigorous
academic intelligence, this book shows us why
and how we should all begin gently to break out
of gender stereotypes. Girls will be Girls is a
must-read for all women (and men).
Emer O’Toole is a scholar and writer who contributes
to various publications, including the Guardian and
feminist blog Vagenda. Originally from Galway Emer
now lives in Montréal where she is Assistant Professor
of Irish Performance Studies at Concordia University.
author:
Location: Montréal, Canada
Available for interview
@Emer_OToole
Orion Non-Fiction / Popular Culture / Memoir • February / March 2015
Orion Memoir
MMP March
£6.99 304pp
978 1 4091 5829 5
eBook: £6.99 / 978 1 4091 5830 1
NANCY COSTELLO,
KATHLEEN LEGG,
DIANE CROUGHAN,
MARIE SLATTERY,
MARINA GAMBOLD
Whispering Hope
The True Story of the Magdalene Women
The harrowing account of five women who were
confined in Magdalene Laundries in Ireland.
Whispering Hope is the heart-wrenching story of
five women who were confined in Magdalene
Laundries throughout Ireland. In first person
accounts, they tell their story of the physical and
psychological abuse they endured in the institutions
run by the state. They joined the Magdalene
Survivors Together charity in 2011. Feeling
misrepresented by the media, they are passionate
about discussing the plight of women at the hands
of the Catholic Church. Whispering Hope is a deeply
moving account of survival, friendship and courage.
Nancy Costello lives in Salthill, Galway, Kathleen Legg
lives in Bournemouth, Diane Croughan resides in Dublin,
Marie Slattery currently lives in Athenry, County Cork
and Marina Gambold resides in Wexford.
author:
Locations (see above)
Available for interview
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Orion Autobiography
HB March
£8.99 256pp
978 1 4091 5098 5
eBook: £11.99 / 978 1 4091 5099 1
Orion Autobiography
PB April
£7.99 304pp
Illustrations
978 1 4091 5347 4
eBook: £7.99 / 978 1 4091 5348 1
MALCOLM CASTLE
JANE DOLBY
More extraordinary real-life anecdotes from
Shropshire’s longest-serving fireman, the author
of All Fired Up and Great Bales of Fire.
The touching story of Jane Dolby and the
Fishwives Choir, uniting fishing communities
around the UK.
Going to Blazes
Going to Blazes shows the endlessly varied nature
of life as a country fireman, and includes some of
the most heart-warming and dramatic incidents
of Malcolm Castle’s career as he qualifies to crew
the two-man Emergency Tender.
Back at base he’s in the thick of it as colleagues
face a series of challenges to the old order. First
come plans to halt drinking on duty and close
down the fire station bar. Then there are calls to
heed embryonic health and safety warnings and
stop playing fiercely competitive sports in the
station grounds. Finally there is the wild rumour
that women may soon be allowed to join the fire
brigade! Life in the fire service is as crazy as ever,
and Going to Blazes continues Malcolm Castle’s
celebration of the glorious English countryside.
Song of the Sea
Jane Dolby’s husband was a fisherman from
Leigh-on-Sea who tragically disappeared at sea
off the Essex coast in 2008. His body was found
nine months later. Jane struggled with her grief
but due to the tremendous support she received
from her local fishing community, she founded
the Fishwives Choir. The choir includes 80
women from fishing communities around the
country. Their charity single ‘When the Boat
Comes in’ charted at No. 1 on the iTunes vocal
charts.
Jane Dolby is the founder of the Fishwives Choir and
has appeared on BBC Breakfast and featured in the
Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday.
Malcolm Castle joined the Shropshire Fire and Rescue
Service as a very young eighteen-year-old in 1980. He
recently retired after thirty-one years on Red Watch at
Shrewsbury Fire Station.
author:
Location: Shrewsbury
Available for interview
www.malcolm-castle.co.uk
@MalcolmCastle
author:
Location: Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Available for interview
www.fishwiveschoir.co.uk
f/TheFishwivesChoir
@FishwivesChoir
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SIMON DAWSON
Pigs in Clover
From city to smallholding, join Simon and his
extended family of animals on this life-changing
rural adventure.
This is the true story of a Londoner who gives up
his job as an estate agent in the city, moves to
the wilds of Exmoor, starts a smallholding and
becomes self-sufficient, with a few bumps along
the way. Simon’s journey from urbanite to
self-sustaining farmer is brimming with
incidents – some funny and some tragic – leading
him to question Mother Nature, himself, the
food he eats, and his role in it all. Which makes
the transition from city life to self-sufficient
smallholder slow, emotional and, for him, often
confusing. But it is also beautiful, warming and
laugh-out-loud funny.
Simon Dawson moved to Exmoor with his wife Debbie
over a decade ago. He runs courses on smallholding,
butchery, food processing and nose-to-tail eating, and
came first for the South-West on TV’s Local Food
Heroes in 2007. He is much in demand as a journalist
and broadcaster, as well as being midwife and foster
dad to countless pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, dogs
and horses.
Orion Autobiography
MMP April
£7.99 288pp
978 1 4091 5465 5
eBook: £7.99 / 978 1 4091 5466 2
Orion Non-Fiction / Autobiography • April / June 2015
Orion Autobiography
MMP June
£7.99 288pp
978 1 4091 5467 9
eBook: £7.99 / 978 1 4091 5468 6
SIMON DAWSON
The Sty’s the Limit
Middle age meets its match.
Following up on his first book, Pigs in Clover,
this is the story of what happens when Simon
suddenly realises that his life is changing all over
again. He’s not quite the spring chicken that he
used to be: he is, horror of horrors, getting older.
With a cast of best friends (some more helpful
than others) including Ziggy, a panicked soon-tobe father desperate to grow up, Garth, an annoying teenager, and a rather handsome pig called
The General, a plan is hatched to help each other
mature (or immature). Heartfelt discoveries and
hilarious endeavours ensue as they work through
their age-related angsts, all with a fair dose of
pigs, chickens, lambs and animal madness along
the way. This is Exmoor’s uplifting laugh-out-loud
antidote to middle age in the mud; a place where
you truly realise that the sty’s the limit!
author:
Location: Exmoor, Devon
Available for interview
@simondawson1
www.hiddenvalleypigs.co.uk
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Orion Biography
MMP April
£8.99 272pp
978 1 4091 5380 1
eBook £8.99 / 978 1 4091 5381 8
Orion Self-help
TPB April
£14.99 320pp
978 1 4091 5501 0
eBook: £14.99 / 978 1 4091 5503 4
ATTILIO BOLZONI,
GIUSEPPE D’AVANZO
ROSIE BRAY,
RICHARD MACKNEY
The basis of the Sky TV show Corleone, this is
the life of the real godfather – the infamous
Salvatore ‘Totò’ Riina, dreaded head of the
Sicilian Mafia.
An honest and emotional his-and-hers guide to
surviving IVF.
The Boss of Bosses
Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina rose from nothing
to become the most powerful man in Sicily. A
picture emerges of a bloodthirsty, power-hungry
monster who, despite his lowly beginnings, is able
to outmanoeuvre the other Mafia chiefs and take
control of the organisation. However, the story is
not just that of Riina, but also of Sicily itself.
In prison for eighteen years now, Totò Riina still
remains the dictator of the Cosa Nostra. This
book tells his haunting and disturbing tale, with
thorough investigation and testimony of the
Sicilian Corleone.
Attilio Bolzoni is the author of six books about the Mafia,
and won the Italian ‘E Giornalismo’ prize in 2009.
Journalist and writer Giuseppe D’Avanzo was deputy
director and columnist at Italian Republic newspaper. He
wrote a series of investigative reports that have marked
the political history of Italy, and investigated international cases such as the Litvinenko case. He died in 2011.
author:
Location: Italy
Get a Life
A His-and-Hers Survival Guide to IVF
Get a Life is the down-to-earth guide for anyone
thinking of embarking on fertility treatment.
Comprised of two books in one, a book of advice
for women and a survival guide for men, each
chapter mirrored but with very different
experiences and advice from a couple who
has been through it. IVF is terrifying, awful
and extraordinary in equal measures for both
partners, and this the guide that every couple
needs to help them through it. Fertility problems
are estimated to affect one in six couples in the
UK (approximately 3.5 million people).
Rosie Bray is a TV producer.
Richard Mackney is a journalist and previously a
reporter for ITV’s GMTV. He writes a column in Square
Mile magazine.
author:
Location: Weybridge, Surrey
Available for interview
@themackney
@rosiebray
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Orion Autobiography
HB / TPB June
£20.00 320pp
8pp colour illustrations
978 1 4091 5780 9 / 978 1 4091 5781 6
eBook: £20.00 / 978 1 4091 5783 0
Orion Autobiography
TPB May £11.99
320pp Full colour throughout
978 1 4091 2977 6
eBook: £11.99 / 978 1 4091 2979 0
JON HOLMES
Untitled
BBC Radio 2’s Jon Holmes shares the story of his
search for the parents he never knew.
Jon Holmes was born to an unmarried mother
and an unknown father and was adopted at four
weeks old. He grew up in a loving home but
always wanted to know who his parents were.
This longing was reinforced when he became a
father himself. This is the story of how an
unwanted baby in Stratford-Upon-Avon went on
to become a wanted man in the state of Texas,
and everything that happened in between.
Jon Holmes is an eight time Sony Award-winning and
double BAFTA-winning British writer, comedian and
broadcaster. He is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2.
MARK WEBBER
A Different Journey
The Autobiography
The controversial autobiography of the popular
F1 racing driver.
A Different Journey is the long-awaited memoir
of the popular Australian racing driver
Mark Webber, following his retirement from
Formula One in 2013.
Born in rural New South Wales, Mark Webber
moved to the UK in 1995 and made his Formula
One debut at his home race, the Australian
Grand Prix, in 2002. He went on to win the
German Grand Prix in 2009, followed by eight
more wins. This is his story – no straight line but
a roller-coaster ride beginning Down Under to
finish on top of the Formula One world.
Mark Webber is an Australian racing driver. He
finished his Formula One career with nine wins,
forty-two podiums and thirteen pole positions.
author:
Location: Westbere, Kent
Available for interview
www.jonholmes.net
@JonHomes1
Orion Non-Fiction /Autobiography / Sport • May / June 2015
author:
Location: Buckinghamshire
Available for interview
www.markwebber.com
@AussieGrit
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Orion Fiction
HB / TPB January
£19.99 / £13.99 288pp
978 1 4091 5133 3 / 978 1 4091 5134 0
eBook: £19.99 / 978 1 4091 5136 4
GEORGE PELECANOS
The Martini Shot and Other Stories
A brand-new collection of stories from one of
America’s hottest crime writers.
Orion
Fiction
@orionbooks
@onebooklane
@orion_crime
OrionCrime
A collection of stories, mostly gritty low-level
crime tales set on Washington DC’s mean streets.
The Martini Shot itself is set in the world of TV,
featuring a scriptwriter on a popular cop show.
When a member of the crew is murdered, the
screenwriter decides to track down the
perpetrators himself, to see if as a writer he
can do more than just talk the talk.
George Pelecanos is the author of fifteen crime
novels. He is also a writer and producer on the
hugely successful American television shows
The Wire and Treme, and is the Executive Producer
on Boardwalk Empire.
author:
Location: Silver Spring, MD, USA
f/georgepelecanos
@pelecanos1
Orion Fiction • January 2015
VANESSA LAFAYE
50
Summertime
Tensions simmer in a small town divided by
race in this fictionalised account of the Labor
Day Hurricane, published in the year of its
80th anniversary.
Florida, 1935, and the residents of Heron Key are
preparing for the 4th July barbecue. In the early
hours of the morning, a woman is found halfbeaten to death. As whites turn on blacks, the
finger of suspicion points at one man.
Orion Fiction
HB January
£12.99 384pp
978 1 4091 5537 9
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 5540 9
A powerful
fictionalised account
of the most intense
hurricane to ever
make landfall in
the US.
And while wild accusations are made, far over
the Atlantic a tropical storm changes direction
and turns towards Florida, increasing in speed by
the second. The hurricane beacons are lit along
the Keys and the town folk prepare themselves
as they always do, unaware that the approaching
storm is beyond anything they have ever
experienced. In one night, Heron Key will
change for ever . . .
Vanessa Lafaye grew up in Tampa, Florida, but has
lived in the UK since 1987. Summertime is her first
novel, meticulously researched and sharply written.
author:
Location: Marlborough, Wiltshire
Available for interview
www.vanessalafaye.wordpress.com
@hairykid
Orion Fiction • January 2015
JODI ELLEN MALPAS
One Night – Unveiled
From the Top 10 bestselling author of This Man
comes the unmissable final book in the One
Night series.
When Livy was first offered 24 hours of adoration
from the aloof and mysterious man who signed
himself M, she knew it would mean risking not
just her heart, but her whole carefully protected
world.
Orion Fiction
PB January
£7.99 352pp
978 1 4091 5570 6
eBook: £7.99 / 978 1 4091 5571 3
A New York Times
No. 1 bestselling
author, Jodi is
translated into a
host of languages
and has hit the
international charts.
Their addictive, dangerous and passionate
relationship has taken them to highs and lows
they’ve never known before – and now they face
their biggest test yet.
Breathtaking, intense and utterly gripping, this
brand new novel is a must-read for all of Jodi’s
devoted fans as well as readers of Sylvia Day and
J. Kenner. A love affair that will set your pulse
racing...
Jodi Ellen Malpas finally found the time and courage to
become a writer in October 2012, self-publishing This
Man as an eBook. She sparked incredible reactions from
women all over the world. Two months later, Jodi gave
up her day job to concentrate on her career in writing.
author:
Location: Northampton
Available for interview
www.jodiellenmalpas.co.uk
f/jodi.malpas
@JodiEllenMalpas
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TAMI HOAG
Orion Fiction
HB January
£16.99 320pp
978 1 4091 5194 4
eBook: £16.99 / 978 1 4091 5197 5
Cold, Cold Heart
The latest offering from a true queen of
crime-writing shows us that surviving the
nightmare is only the beginning . . .
Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter
until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial
killer. A year has passed since she survived the
ordeal, but Dana is still physically, emotionally,
and psychologically scarred.
Looking at her past and the unsolved mystery
through the dark filter of her shattered psyche,
old friends seem to be suspects, authority figures
part of a cover-up. Dana begins to question
everything she knows. What is real? What is
imagined? Are we defined by what happens to
us? And is the truth really something too terrible
to be believed?
Tami Hoag has appeared on international bestseller
lists regularly since the publication of her first book in
1988. Her work has been translated into more than
thirty languages worldwide and over twenty-million
copies of her books are in print.
author:
Location Wellington, FL, USA
www.tamihoag.com
f/TamiHoag
@TamiHoag
Orion Fiction • January / February 2015
Orion Fiction
HB February
16.99 400pp
978 1 4091 4783 1
eBook: £16.99 / 978 1 4091 4818 0
ROBERT WILSON
Stealing People
An electric new thriller starring the compelling
kidnap-recovery specialist Charlie Boxer.
In the space of 32 hours, six billionaires’ children
are taken off the streets of London in five
well-executed kidnaps. The gang demands
£25 million per hostage for ‘expenses’, not
ransom.
Meanwhile a businessman’s daughter, Siobhan,
asks Charlie Boxer to find her father, US Military
contractor Conrad Jensen, who walked out of his
hotel in London and has not returned.
Soon, Charlie’s own daughter Amy is tricked into
being kidnapped. The gang announce that they
will only deal with one kidnap consultant, and
they outline strict rules of negotiation. They are
in complete control. But nobody knows what
motivates these mysterious kidnappers. As the
clock ticks, Charlie must discover what the hell it
is they’re after.
Robert Wilson has written many acclaimed crime
novels including the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning
A Small Death in Lisbon, and the Falcón series, recently
adapted for TV. His 2013 novel Capital Punishment was
shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.
author:
Location: Headington, Oxon
Available for interview
www.robert-wilson.eu
@RobWilsonwriter
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Orion Fiction
TPB February
£13.99 384pp
978 1 4091 4373 4
eBook: £13.99 / 978 1 4091 4374 1
BECKY MASTERMAN
Fear the Darkness
Addictive, intriguing, terrifying: the stunning
new thriller starring Brigid Quinn.
When a local teenager dies in a tragic drowning
accident, the community thinks Brigid might be
able to help comfort the family. But when she
does, something doesn’t add up. And it’s no
easier at home: after a bereavement in the family,
Brigid has reluctantly taken in her troubled niece
to give her a break before she starts college.
For Brigid, death seems to be wherever she
turns. But as she herself starts to feel unwell,
it’s her own mortality that is the most troubling.
As she tries to get to the bottom of a series of
allegedly accidental deaths and increasingly
gruesome occurrences at home, she slowly
realises that maybe this time, she’s let the
darkness inside the only place she ever felt safe.
Becky Masterman spends her days working in a
publishing house and her nights writing stylish,
exhilarating thrillers. Her debut novel, Rage Against
the Dying, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, and
has been shortlisted for a host of awards, including
the CWA Gold Dagger, an Anthony for Best First Novel
and a Barry for Best First Novel.
author:
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
Available for interview
www.beckymasterman.com
f/BeckyMastermanAuthor
@mastermanbecky
A.P. MCCOY
Orion Fiction
HB February
£16.99 320pp
978 1 4091 5202 6
eBook: £16.99 / 978 1 4091 5205 7
Narrowing the Field
Brilliant young rider Duncan Claymore is out for
revenge in the thrilling second novel from champion jockey A.P. McCoy.
Following the death of Duke Cadogan, talented
young rider Duncan Claymore inherits his large
estate. He’s put his demons behind him and is
well on his way to achieving his dream of
becoming Champion Jockey.
However, Cadogan’s wealth proves to be illusory,
with a manor house and grounds mortgaged to
the hilt. And Duncan’s rival on the field, Sandy
Sanderson, looks set to shatter his ambitions.
Set in the tense, high-stakes world of competitive
racing, A.P. McCoy will bring his unrivalled knowledge of the racing world to this brilliant new
thriller, featuring a series character that
fans will love.
A.P. McCoy is a record-breaking Northern Irish horseracing jockey with a series of impressive wins to his
name, including the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion
Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase, King George VI
Chase and the 2010 Grand National. He was named BBC
Sports Personality of the Year in 2010.
author:
Location: Berkshire
Available for interview
@AP_McCoy
Orion Fiction • February 2015
ERICA JAMES
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The Dandelion Years
A gorgeous tale of friendship and love from
the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summer
at the Lake.
Saskia grew up in Ashcombe, a beautiful house in
the Suffolk countryside. Its enchanting garden
provided a fairy-tale playground of seclusion, a
perfect sanctuary to hide from the tragedy which
shattered her childhood.
Orion Fiction
HB February
£16.99 384pp
978 1 4091 4611 7
eBook: £16.99 / 978 1 4091 4610 0
‘A skillful writer
possessing great
sympathy and
humour’
Now an adult, Saskia is still living at Ashcombe.
She works as a book restorer, tending to the
battered books that find their way to her and
daydreaming about the people who had once
turned their pages. When she discovers a
carefully concealed notebook in an old Bible,
Saskia finds herself drawn into a heart-rending
tale of wartime love . . .
Erica James readily strikes up conversation with
strangers, hoping to unearth a useful gem for her
writing. She is the author of many bestselling novels,
including Gardens of Delight which won the Romantic
Novel of the Year Award, and her Sunday Times Top 10
bestseller The Queen of New Beginnings.
– Good Book Guide
author:
Orion Fiction • February 2015
Location: Cheshire
Available for interview
www.ericajames.co.uk
f/ericajamesauthor
@TheEricaJames
MATTHEW REILLY
The Great Zoo of China
A high-concept, action-packed thriller from
the bestselling author of Scarecrow and the
Army of Thieves.
It is a secret the Chinese government has been
keeping for forty years. They have found a species
of animal no one believed even existed. It will
amaze the world.
Orion Fiction
HB February
£18.99 352pp
978 1 4091 3425 1
eBook: £18.99 / 978 1 4091 3427 5
No one does action
like Reilly. His
combination of pace,
elaborate stunts and
non-stop action give
him a Hollywood
appeal.
Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their
astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever
constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists
has been brought to the zoo deep within China to
see its fabulous creatures for the first time. They
are assured by their hosts that they will be struck
with wonder at these beasts, that they are
perfectly safe, and that nothing can go wrong . . .
Get ready for action on a gigantic scale!
Matthew Reilly self-published his first book, Contest, in
1994. One copy was read by Pan Macmillan and they
immediately signed Reilly up to write Ice Station, which
became an international bestseller. Since then, he has
been published in over fifteen countries.
author:
Location: Sydney, Australia
Available for interview
www.matthewreilly.com
f/OfficialMatthewReilly
@Matthew_Reilly
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Orion Fiction
HB March
Orion Fiction
TPB March
£12.99 320pp
978 1 4091 4917 0
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 4919 4
£19.99 400pp
978 1 4091 4931 6
eBook: £19.99 / 978 1 4091 4934 7
JAMIE FREVELETTI
ANDREW PYPER
The new edge-of-your-seat Covert-One novel.
The haunting new story from the bestselling
author of Lost Girls and The Demonologist.
Robert Ludlum’s
The Geneva Strategy
In Washington, DC, several high-ranking
members of government disappear in a mass
kidnapping. Among them is Nick Rendel, a victim
with the most dangerous knowledge, including
confidential passwords used to programme
drones. If revealed, his kidnappers could strike
any targets they desire.
Jon Smith and the Covert-One team begin a
worldwide search to recover the officials. But as
the first kidnapping victims are rescued, they
show disturbing signs of brainwashing or
mind-altering drugs. If Smith doesn’t track down
the kidnapped Nick Rendel, the kidnappers will
soon have the power to carry out drone strikes
anywhere in the world . . .
There are more than 300 million copies of
Robert Ludlum’s books in print, and they have been
translated into 32 languages.
Jamie Freveletti has written four novels. Her bestselling debut, Running from the Devil, was awarded
Best First Novel by the International Thriller Writers.
author:
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
(Jamie Freveletti)
Available for interview
www.robert-ludlum.com
f/RobertLudlumBooks
Orion Fiction • March 2015
The Damned
Ashleigh and Danny Orchard are twins, not that
you’d ever tell by looking at them: Danny distant
and shy, Ash beautiful and accomplished. But
there’s a secret in the Orchard house – Ash is a
monster, a psychopath who can feel only through
bringing others pain. When Ash and Danny are
caught in a fire on their sixteenth birthday, both
of them die. But only Danny comes back.
Since then, Ash has haunted Danny, denying him
any form of normal life or love. To stop her, Danny
must venture into the frightening underworld of
Detroit, where he will unearth the mystery of the
night his and Ash’s fates changed forever.
Dark and compelling, The Damned explores base
human instincts in an innovative way. As the
author himself says: ‘it is ultimately about
different kinds of love, in deeply twisted ways.’
Andrew Pyper received a BA and an MA in English
Literature from McGill University in Montreal, as well
as a law degree from the University of Toronto. He is
the author of six previous novels.
author:
Location: Toronto, Canada
Available for interview
www.andrewpyper.com
f/andrew.pyper.16
@andrewpyper
VICTORIA AVEYARD
Red Queen
A thrilling new fantasy trilogy for fans of
Divergent and The Hunger Games.
This is a world divided by blood – red or silver.
Orion Fiction
HB March
£16.99 320pp
978 1 4091 5117 3
eBook: £16.99 / 978 1 4091 5073 2
A mesmerising
new series from an
exciting, young US
author.
The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in
possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare
Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the
poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will
ever change. That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver palace. Surrounded by the people
she hates most, Mare discovers that, despite her
red blood, she possesses a deadly weapon of her
own. One that threatens to destroy the balance
of power.
But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare
has entered a dangerous dance – Reds against
Silvers, blood against blood, and Mare against her
own heart.
A fantastic saga from a young and exciting author.
Victoria Aveyard is an author and screenwriter. She
graduated from the University of Southern California in
2012 with a BFA in Screenwriting. She combines her
love of fantasy and explosive fight scenes in her work.
author:
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Available for interview
www.victoriaaveyard.com
@VictoriaAveyard
Orion Fiction • March 2015
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STEVE CAVANAGH
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The Defence
Nail-biting tension and exhilarating action: a
brilliant debut that fans of John Grisham and
Michael Connelly will love.
Orion Fiction
HB March
£12.99 384pp
978 1 4091 5229 3
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 5232 3
It’s been over a year since con-artist-turned-topdefence-attorney Eddie Flynn last set foot in a
courtroom, following the case that cost him his
career and his family. But when the infamous
head of the Russian mafia in New York, Olek
Volchek, straps a bomb to his back and blackmails Eddie into defending him in a murder trial,
Eddie has no choice but to comply. The Russians
have kidnapped his ten-year-old daughter Amy
and her life is on the line.
Fans of Michael
Connelly’s Mickey
Haller series will love
Cavanagh’s blend of
fast-paced action and
smart, suspenseful
courtroom drama.
Eddie must use his razor-sharp wit and
unparalleled skills in the courtroom to defend
his ‘client’and ensure Amy’s safety. Forced to
confront demons from his past, can Eddie
convince the jury of the impossible?
This is a gripping, page-turning debut thriller,
combining taut, intelligent courtroom scenes
with adrenaline-fuelled action and non-stop
pace.
Civil rights lawyer Steve Cavanagh has been involved in
many high-profile cases. In 2010 he won the largest
award of damages for race discrimination in Northern
Ireland legal history. He holds a certificate in Advanced
Advocacy and lectures on various legal subjects.
author:
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Available for interview
f/stevecavanaghthrillerauthor
@SSCav
Orion Fiction • March 2015
DENISE MINA
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Blood, Salt, Water
A gripping tale of greed, power and
misconception.
Orion Fiction
HB April
£14.99 368pp
978 1 4091 4074 0
eBook: £14.99 / 978 1 4091 4076 4
Denise is consistently
brilliantly reviewed
and widely seen as
one of the most
talented crime writers
of her generation.
DI Alex Morrow and her team have been
shadowing a woman suspected of being involved
in a large drug-smuggling and money-laundering
operation. Roxanna Fuentecilla recently moved
from London to Glasgow in suspicious
circumstances and Morrow’s bosses want all
the glory when she’s finally arrested. But then
Roxanna disappears. She’s left her partner and
her two children and something about the
situation, and the children's evasive attitude,
leads Morrow to question what's really going on.
In the nearby picturesque town of Helensburgh,
Iain Fraser is struggling to live with his overwhelming guilt. Under orders from the infamous
Mark Barratt he’s just killed a woman and now
he’s left with blood on his hands. Meanwhile Miss
Grierson, a former scout leader who left the
sleepy seaside town decades ago, has returned.
Allegedly she’s here to sort out her recently
deceased mother’s estate, but Iain knows her
mother died over two years ago and suspects she
has an ulterior motive.
• Two of Denise’s early novels, The Field of
Blood and The Dead Hour, have been televised
by the BBC.
Denise Mina wrote her first novel, Garnethill, in 1998. It
won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasy Dagger
for best first crime novel. Denise also writes short
stories, plays and comics, and is currently adapting
Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy into a series of graphic
novels. She is a regular contributor to television and
radio, and was a member of the judging panel for the
2014 Baileys Prize.
author:
Location: Glasgow, UK
Available for interview
www.denisemina.com
f/DeniseMinaBooks
@DameDeniseMina
Orion Fiction • April 2015
HARLAN COBEN
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The Stranger
The latest spectacular offering from the one and
only Harlan Coben.
The Stranger walked into the bar and, with just a
few words, shattered Adam’s entire life. His
wife’s pregnancy three years ago – the one that
saved their marriage but ended in a tragic
miscarriage . . . it never existed. The whole thing
was faked using a website set up for just that
purpose. Hannah lied to him, and has been lying
ever since.
Orion Fiction
HB April
£19.99 384pp
978 1 4091 4463 2
eBook: £19.99 / 978 1 4091 4465 6
‘Harlan Coben
specialises in rousing
the snake that lurks in
the perfectly cut grass
of American suburbia’
– Sunday Telegraph
Thus begins Harlan Coben’s shocking new thriller.
Someone out there knows all your secrets, all
your affairs, all those lies that, thanks to the
Internet, are so easy to create. And now he
wants the truth to come out.
But for Adam, the chaos this causes is only the
beginning. When Hannah disappears, things go to
a whole other level. What’s really going on here,
and just who is pulling the strings?
The Stranger will change your life for ever.
• Harlan’s novel Tell No One was turned into
the smash hit French film of the same name,
and received the highly coveted Lumière (French
Golden Globe) for best picture as well as four
Cesars (French Oscar).
Harlan Coben is an international number one bestselling thriller author. He is the winner of the Edgar,
Shamus, and Anthony Awards – the first to receive all
three. His books are published in forty languages, with
over forty-seven million copies in print worldwide.
author:
Orion Fiction • April 2015
Location: Ridgewood, NJ, USA
Available for interview
www.harlancoben.com
f/harlancobenbooks
@HarlanCoben
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Orion Fiction
HB April
£12.99 388pp
978 1 4091 4064 1
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 4065 8
Orion Fiction
TPB April
£13.99 400pp
978 1 4091 5669 7
eBook: £19.99 / 978 1 4091 4883 8
MAUREEN LEE
RACHEL BILLINGTON
A poignant novel from the Sunday Times
bestselling author of Flora and Grace.
Powerful and personal, this will be the ultimate
story of the men and women that history forgot.
The Kelly Sisters
The heartwarming story of three unforgettable
sisters who journey to Liverpool from their home
in the west of Ireland.
Maureen Lee is at the top of the genre – she is
undoubtedly one of the best saga writers
around.
Maureen Lee’s award-winning novels have earned her
many fans. Her novel The Leaving of Liverpool went
straight into the Sunday Times Top 10 and stayed there
for four weeks. Dancing in the Dark won the Romantic
Novel of the Year Award.
Glory
Glory is the story of four soldiers and the women
who loved them, whose lives are completely
altered by the Battle of Gallipolli during the First
World War. Beginning with the fateful landing on
the Turkish beaches, Rachel Billington follows the
young British soldiers and those from the Empire
as they lay trapped under murderous machinegun fire on the narrow strip of rocky land. This is
a tale of both heroism and stupidity, culminating
in the daring evacuation of 1916 and the horrific
aftermath of the conflict. Glory is inspired by
Rachel Billington’s grandfather’s death fighting in
Gallipolli in 1915.
‘One hallmark of a Billington book is elegant,
apparently effortless plotting . . . the detail
acute, the prose polished and the pages turning
effortlessly’ Independent
Rachel Billington is a regular journalist, feature writer
and reviewer. She is co-editor of Inside Time, the
national newspaper for prisoners and a Vice-President
of English PEN.
author:
Location: Colchester, Essex
Available for interview
www.maureenlee.co.uk
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
www.rachelbillington.com
Orion Fiction • April 2015
SAUL BLACK
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The Killing Lessons
A brilliant debut serial killer thriller from a
frighteningly talented writer.
A shadowy serial killer is on the prowl across the
US. Finding strange objects left in the victims’
mutilated corpses, the police are baffled: are
they clues, or a sadistic joke?
Orion Fiction
HB April
£12.99 400pp
978 1 4091 5294 1
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 5297 2
Detective Valerie Hart is working on the case, but
isn’t sure she can handle the pressure any longer.
But then she is thrown head first into a struggle
to rescue the killer’s next victim: a young girl
snowed into a cabin in the Colorado wilderness.
Tender and terrifying,
brutal and brilliant,
The Killing Lessons is
the work of a very
special talent at the
peak of his powers.
Valerie must delve into the mind of a psychopathic murderer. As she battles her private
demons, is she at risk of losing her own sanity?
Saul Black is a pseudonym for Glen Duncan, the
acclaimed author of nine previous novels including
I, Lucifer and The Last Werewolf. Born in Bolton, he
lives in London.
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
Orion Fiction • April 2015
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Orion Fiction
HB April
£14.99 320pp
978 1 4091 4943 9
eBook: £14.99 / 978 1 4091 4944 6
Orion Fiction
HB May
£12.99 320pp
978 1 4091 5026 8
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 5028 2
ALAN BRADLEY
DAN KAVANAGH
The seventh title in the bestselling series
starring Flavia de Luce.
The fourth title in the brilliant, darkly humorous
crime series featuring unconventional private
detective Duffy.
As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust
The eleven-year-old chemist, poisons expert and
keen detective Flavia de Luce is back in a new
story set in the village of Bishop’s Lacey.
Navigating the difficulties of living with her
bizarre older sisters and eccentric widowed
father, she also finds time to solve the odd murder. An unforgettable heroine, Flavia has proved
so popular that renowned director Sam Mendes
has optioned television rights to the series. The
seventh book has been eagerly awaited by fans
worldwide.
Alan Bradley was born into a family of storytellers
who never stopped talking about the old days ‘back
home’ in England. His Flavia de Luce novels have won
numerous awards and have been translated into thirty
languages.
author:
Location: Peel, Isle of Man
Available for interview
www.flaviadeluce.com
Going to the Dogs
A bisexual ex-policeman with a phobia of ticking
watches and a penchant for Tupperware: Duffy is
a detective like no other. But he’s sharp, streetsmart, straightforward, and will stop at nothing
to solve a crime.
In Kavanagh’s fourth novel, Duffy finds himself
investigating a mysterious death at a country
mansion. Worlds collide as Duffy deals with
upper-class snobs who view him with ill-disguised
contempt – but there are far bigger things at
stake as Duffy sinks into a seedy world of
violence and blackmail.
• The irresistible Duffy books have been
optioned for a series by Channel 4.
Dan Kavanagh is the mysterious author of the Duffy
detective novels. There has been much speculation
over the validity of his biography but he says of himself: ‘Dan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo in 1946.
He has been a steer-wrestler, a waiter-on-roller-skates
and a bouncer in a gay bar in San Francisco. He is currently working in London at jobs he declines to specify.’
author:
Location: London . . . allegedly
www.dankavanagh.com
Orion Fiction • April / May 2015
BEAR GRYLLS
64
Ghost Flight
Full of tense action and daring adventure, the
first novel from the incomparable Bear Grylls
marks the start of a gripping new series.
Orion Fiction
HB May
£16.99 272pp
978 1 4091 5681 9
eBook: £16.99 / 978 1 4091 5684 0
Bear Grylls is an
immensely popular
household name
across the UK.
Grylls’s first novel introduces us to his unforgettable new series character, an intrepid ecologist
who leads a team of allies on an unforgettable
journey into the jungle. There are ancient
mysteries and puzzling secrets, and all the while
the group is faced with life on the brink as they
come to grips with gritty survival tactics and
extreme outdoor adventure.
A fresh new thriller benefiting from the power of
firsthand experience, Bear Grylls’s novel is set to
make waves.
Bear Grylls has become one of the most recognized
faces of survival and outdoor adventure. He has
authored many books, including his bestselling memoir
Mud, Sweat & Tears. His TV show, Man vs Wild, has
become one of the most watched shows on the planet,
reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers.
author:
Orion Fiction • May 2015
Location: London
Available for interview
www.beargrylls.com
f/RealBearGrylls
@BearGrylls
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R. J. ELLORY
Orion Fiction
HB May
£19.99 352pp
978 1 4091 2423 8
eBook: £19.99 / 978 1 4091 2425 2
Mockingbird
An atmospheric new thriller from the awardwinning writer of Carnival of Shadows.
One of the crime genre’s most highly acclaimed
stars, R. J. Ellory is revered for his haunting,
elegant and powerful storytelling. His new novel
will be a must-read for crime fans as he skillfully
intertwines mystery, darkness, and shattering
revelations.
• R. J. Ellory won the prestigious Theakston’s
Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in
2010 with his novel A Simple Act of Violence.
‘Ellory is a powerful talent’ – Independent on
Sunday
R. J. Ellory’s novels have been translated into twentysix languages, and he has won numerous awards. His
book A Quiet Belief in Angels has sold over 250,000
copies in mass market paperback and was a Richard &
Judy Book Club pick.
author:
Location: Birmingham
Available for interview
www.rjellory.com
@rjellory
Orion Fiction
TPB May
£13.99 304pp
978 1 4091 5082 4
eBook: £13.99 / 978 1 4091 5084 8
NICKY PELLEGRINO
The Secret of Happiness Summer
In the maze of Venice’s canals, bridges and
piazzas, one woman challenges herself to find
the key to her happiness.
Addolorata Martinelli knows she should be
happy. She has everything she thought she
wanted – her own business, a husband, a child.
So why does she feel as if something is missing?
When her restaurant, Little Italy, is slated by a
reviewer, she realises that she’s lost the one
thing she thought she could always count on:
her love of food.
So Addolorata heads to Venice for a summer
alone, aiming to find the ten things that make her
happy. Once she’s found them, she’ll construct a
new life around her ten things, but will they
include her life in London?
Nicky Pellegrino works as a journalist and edits a
woman’s magazine. She hoards her annual leave so that
she and her husband can return to Italy to meet up
with her family, eat the best mozzarella and research
her books.
author:
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Available for interview
www.nickypellegrino.com
f/nicky.pellegrino
@nickypellegrino
Orion Fiction • May 2015
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Orion Fiction
HB May
£16.99 384pp
978 1 4091 5447 1
eBook: £16.99 / 978 1 4091 5450 1
JAMES ROLLINS,
GRANT BLACKWOOD
War Hawk
Tucker Wayne is back in the second installment
of James Rollins’s Sigma Force spin-off series.
A new novel from the masterful James Rollins,
partnered with Grant Blackwood. After grappling
with a conspiracy of earth-shattering scope in
The Kill Switch, Army Ranger Tucker Wayne
returns in a brand new thriller. With his trusty
military dog Kane for support, Wayne must
tackle a mystery the likes of which he has never
experienced before.
With all the intrigue and intelligent construction
of Rollins’s blistering Sigma Force novels, the
Tucker Wayne series shows us compelling,
urgent situations and devastating risks – but
the possibility of salvation is anchored in the
unshakeable bond between man and dog.
James Rollins is the New York Times bestselling author
of international thrillers, translated into more than
forty languages. His books have sold more than
10 million copies worldwide.
Grant Blackwood is the New York Times bestselling
author of the Briggs Tanner series.
author:
Location: Sierra Nevada, CA
(James Rollins)
www.jamesrollins.com
f/sigmaforce
@jamesrollins
Orion Fiction • May / June 2015
LIZ FENWICK
Orion Fiction
TPB June
£12.99 320pp
978 1 4091 4827 2
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 4829 6
Under a Cornish Sky
From the undisputed queen of Cornish romance
comes a new, glowing novel.
Demi has often thought of the holidays she had
as a little girl in Cornwall with her mother: the
sea, the rock pools, the winding path up the cliffs
to the Big House with the lawn. But one day
sticks in her mind above all others – the day she
lost her mother on the beach.
So, when a letter arrives inviting her back to that
part of Cornwall, it’s with mixed emotions that
Demi prepares to return. After that last holiday,
Demi’s mother never returned to the house. And
now, after all those years, it’s time for Demi to
face the truth about that summer. . .
With captivating characters and a story that will
tug on your heartstrings, Liz weaves a passionate
tale together with charming, idyllic landscapes in
her fourth book. For fans for Rosamunde Pilcher.
Liz Fenwick grew up in Boston before moving to
London and falling in love with an Englishman. Now
happily married with three children, she lives in Dubai –
but her heart is forever in Cornwall.
author:
Location: Dubai, UAE
Available for interview
www.lizfenwick.com
f/liz.fenwick.author
@liz_fenwick
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Orion Fiction
TPB June
£12.99 352pp
978 1 4091 5749 6
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 5751 9
STEVE MOSBY
Untitled
New from CWA Dagger in the Library winner.
Charlie Matheson died two years ago in a car
accident. Now a woman who bears a startling
resemblance to her claims to be back from the
dead. Detective Mark Nelson is called in to
investigate her account of what she endured in
the ‘afterlife’.
Detective David Groves is determined to bring
his son’s killers to justice. But the search will
mean facing someone with a more ruthless
approach to right and wrong.
Former Detective John Mercer is slowly recovering from the case that nearly destroyed his life, but
deep down he knows he still has demons to face.
At the centre of it all: two brothers with a
macabre secret. They’ve been waiting. They’ve
been planning. They’ve been killing. And for
Nelson, Groves and Mercer, they’re about to
unleash hell on earth.
Steve Mosby won the 2012 CWA Dagger in the Library,
and Black Flowers was shortlisted for the Theakstons
Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2012. He was the
chair of the 2014 Harrogate Crime Festival.
author:
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Available for interview
www.theleftroom.co.uk
f/theleftroom
@stevemosby
Orion Fiction
HB June
£19.99 400pp
978 1 4091 4939 2
eBook: £19.99 / 978 1 4091 4942 2
DOUGLAS CORLEONE
Robert Ludlum’s
The Janson Equation
The fourth novel in the legendary Robert
Ludlum’s Janson series.
Following The Janson Directive, The Janson
Command and The Janson Option comes the next
life-threatening mission for a hero every bit as
fascinating, complex and intriguing as Jason
Bourne.
Robert Ludlum launched his career as a bestselling
writer with The Scarlatti Inheritance in 1971. There are
more than 300 million copies of his books in print, and
they have been translated into 32 languages.
Douglas Corleone is the author of contemporary crime
novels and international thrillers. His debut novel One
Man’s Paradise was a finalist for the 2010 Shamus
Award for Best First Novel and won the 2009 Minotaur
Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel
Award. A former New York City criminal defense
attorney, Doug now resides in the Hawaiian Islands,
where he is currently at work on his next novel.
author:
www.robert-ludlum.com
f/RobertLudlumBooks
Orion Fiction • June 2015
MASON CROSS
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The Samaritan
For fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and
James Patterson comes the gripping new novel
from the author of The Killing Season.
Orion Fiction
TPB June
£12.99 384pp
978 1 4091 4616 2
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 4614 8
When the mutilated body of a young woman
is discovered in the Santa Monica Mountains,
LAPD Detective Jessica Allen uncovers a terrifying
truth. A sadistic serial killer has been operating
undetected for the past decade, preying on lone
female drivers who have broken down. The press
dub the killer ‘the Samaritan’, but with no leads
and a killer who leaves no traces, the investigation quickly grinds to a halt.
Carter Blake is a
brilliant series
character who could
give Jack Reacher,
Alex Cross and Jason
Bourne a run for
their money!
That’s when Carter Blake shows up to volunteer
his services. He’s a skilled manhunter with an
uncanny ability to predict the Samaritan’s next
moves. At first, Allen and her colleagues are
suspicious. But as the Samaritan takes his
slaughter to the next level, Blake is forced to
reveal that the similarities between the two men
are closer than even Allen suspects.
With a faultless blend of compelling action,
intelligent plotting and well-drawn characters,
The Samaritan is a gripping, no-holds-barred
thriller.
Mason Cross studied English at the University of Stirling
and currently works in the voluntary sector. He has
written a number of short stories, including ‘A Living’,
which was shortlisted for the Quick Reads ‘Get Britain
Reading’ Award. His debut novel, The Killing Season,
was published in 2014.
author:
Orion Fiction • June 2015
Location: Glasgow, UK
Available for interview
www.carterblake.net
f/masoncrossbooks
@MasonCrossBooks
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Orion Fiction
TPB June
£13.99 512pp
978 1 4091 4254 6
eBook: £13.99 / 978 1 4091 4255 3
Orion Fiction
TPB June
£13.99 320pp
978 1 4091 3367 4
eBook: £13.99 / 978 1 4091 3368 1
LESLEY LOKKO
JOHN CONNOR
A dazzling new novel from the author of Little
White Lies and In Love and War.
The latest book from the author of The
Vanishing is a heart-racing case of peril
and justice.
The Debutante
1936. In Chalfont Hall, Dorset, thirteen-year-old
Kit is wondering why she has to go through the
charade of seeing her sister Lily presented at
Court. Kit knows that her sister’s place on the
social scene is guaranteed, while Kit must take a
back seat. But the arrival of a German visitor one
evening soon sets in motion a chain of events
that none of the family could have anticipated.
Years later, the aftershock of events will be felt
by a new generation...
In this captivating family drama which sweeps
from the 1930s to the present day, Lesley Lokko
spins a story of sisters and long-held secrets.
‘Nail-biting narrative, absorbing relationships,
glamorous locations – with an extra shot of
intelligence’ Cosmopolitan on In Love and War
Lesley Lokko trained as an architect, after various
careers from cocktail waitress to kibbutz worker – but
she always dreamt of writing. Several novels later,
Lesley now spends most of her time in Johannesburg.
author:
Location: Johannesburg,
South Africa
Available for interview
www.lesleylokko.com
f/lesleylokkoauthor
The Ice House
From the author of The Vanishing and the
critically acclaimed Karen Sharpe series, comes
a gripping new thriller. With his in-depth
knowledge of real prosecutions, there is no
better guide to the murky world of crime than
John Connor. Fuelled by the author’s real-life
experience, Connor’s action sequences leap
off the page and move at breakneck speed.
‘His plot is enthralling, his characters sharp and
vital’ Financial Times
• John Connor’s experiences as a senior
criminal lawyer within the Crown Prosecution
Service make for gritty realism.
John Connor left his job as a barrister to write full time.
During the fifteen years of his legal career he prosecuted numerous homicide cases in West Yorkshire and
London. He advised the police in several proactive
drugs and organised crime operations.
author:
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Available for interview
Orion Fiction • June 2015
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Orion Fiction
PB June
£7.99 320pp
978 1 4091 5112 8
eBook: £7.99 / 978 1 4091 5113 5
Orion Fiction
HB July
£18.99 320pp
978 1 4091 3330 8
eBook: £18.99 / 978 1 4091 3332 2
JEAN FULLERTON
MICHAEL MARSHALL
Jean Fullerton returns with more tales from
London’s East End.
Another sophisticated, addictive thriller
from the international bestselling author of
The Straw Men.
Fetch Nurse Connie
Connie Byrne, a nurse in London’s East End
working alongside Millie Sullivan from Call Nurse
Millie, is planning her wedding to Charlie Ross,
set to take place as soon as he returns from the
war. But when she meets him off the train at
London Bridge, she finds that his homecoming
isn’t going to go according to plan.
Connie’s busy professional life, and the largerthan-life patients in the district, offer a welcome
distraction from matters of the heart, but for
how long?
‘Enjoy Call the Midwife? Then you’ll love this . . .
A beautifully written sequel that gives you a
fab insight into the life of a nurse in London’s
East End in the ’40s’ Closer on All Change for
Nurse Millie
Jean Fullerton is a qualified nurse who teaches
healthcare and nursing. No Cure for Love won the
2006 bi-annual Harry Bowling Prize for a novel set in
London and written by an unpublished author.
author:
Location: Waltham Abbey, Essex
Available for interview
www.jeanfullerton.com
f/jeanfullerton.author
@JeanFullerton_
Orion Fiction • June / July 2015
The Echoes of Their Passing
An award-winning author on both sides of the
Atlantic, the inimitable Michael Marshall is back
with a page-turning new thriller. Showcasing his
brilliant plotting, heart-stopping suspense and
compelling characters, this is Michael Marshall at
his best.
• BBC America’s adaptation of Marshall’s
novel The Intruders, featuring Life on Mars star
Jon Simm began in August 2014.
• His books written under the name Michael
Marshall Smith have won the British Fantasy
Award five times.
Michael Marshall’s critically acclaimed novels have
won a string of awards. His breakout blockbuster,
The Straw Men, was a Sunday Times bestseller,
consequently becoming an internationally bestselling
sensation. Marshall has also worked extensively as a
screenwriter, writing for clients in both LA and London.
author:
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Available for interview
www.michaelmarshallsmith.com
@ememess
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Orion Fiction
TPB July
£12.99 272pp
978 1 4091 5271 2
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 5273 6
Orion Fiction
HB July
£12.99 320pp
978 1 4091 4895 1
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 2800 7
HARRY BINGHAM
LAUREN ST JOHN
The creator of DC Fiona Griffiths proves he has
even darker twists and turns up his sleeve . . .
A heartrending novel of secrets and second
chances from the author of The Obituary Writer.
This Thing of Darkness
For fans of gripping psychological drama and
ingenious criminal twists comes the latest title by
Harry Bingham. The first novel featuring Fiona
Griffiths, Talking to the Dead, was selected for
the Waterstones Book Club. It was also adapted
into a two-part television drama and aired on
Sky Living.
As well as pursuing his career as an author, Harry
Bingham runs The Writers’ Workshop, an editorial
consultancy for first-time writers, and organises the
York Festival of Writing.
Untitled
One night. New York on lockdown, thanks to a
storm. Two people stuck in a hotel, waiting it out.
One night: that’s all Anna and Daniel had before
going back to their normal lives thousands of
miles apart, promising never to get in contact
again.
Five years later, bearing the scars of a relationship that went terribly wrong, Anna runs to the
only place she can think of: Apollo Bay, Australia.
It was the place that once saved Daniel, and
maybe it can save her now. When Daniel arrives
there too, with his own troubles, it seems like
Apollo Bay might be the place to heal them both.
But sometimes the reality of the present is harder
to handle than dreams of the past. Can trust ever
grow where secrets have lived, or should the past
be buried once and for all?
Lauren St John was born in Gatooma, Rhodesia, now
Kadoma, Zimbabwe. At 11, she and her family moved to
Rainbow’s End farm and game reserve, the subject of
her acclaimed memoir.
author:
Location: Oxford, Oxon
Available for interview
www.harrybingham.com
f/harryonthebrink
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
www.laurenstjohn.com
@laurenstjohn
Orion Fiction • July 2015
ELLA GRIFFIN
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The Flower Arrangement
Irish novelist Ella Griffin returns with a delightful tale woven around a Dublin florist.
Lara, owner of Blossom & Grow, watches those
who’ve bought her flowers head off to face all
manner of life-changing occasions. But since her
husband left her, Lara finds it hard to believe
that flowers really mean true love.
Orion Fiction
TPB July
£12.99 384pp
978 1 4091 4583 7
eBook: £12.99 / 978 1 4091 4582 0
A contemporary of
Marian Keyes, Ella’s
inviting, lively voice
shows why Irish
fiction is heralded for
its broad appeal and
emotional honesty.
Katy wonders if her relationship with Ben will
ever blossom the way she hopes. When a courier
leaves a bunch of flowers on her desk, she begins
to consider a different path.
Ciara works in Blossom & Grow. She’s fascinated
by the man who visits every week to buy a beautiful bouquet. But surely he’s in a relationship?
Unless he has other reasons for visiting Blossom
& Grow...
Weaving together a delightful cast of characters,
Ella Griffin’s gorgeous new novel brings her
warmth, wit and wisdom to a little Irish florist.
Ella Griffin always wanted to be a writer, but before
she got around to it she was a waitress, an extra, a
pickle-factory worker, an award-winning advertising
copywriter and a travel writer. Her debut novel,
Postcards from the Heart, was published in 2010.
author:
Orion Fiction • July 2015
Location: County Wicklow, Ireland
Available for interview
www.ellagriffin.com
f/EllaGriffinAuthor
@EllaGriffin1
KATE WILLIAMS
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Untitled
The second novel in Kate Williams’s groundbreaking historical series. For fans of Birdsong
and Downton Abbey.
In The Storms of War we met Celia de Witt, and
watched as her idyllic world was torn apart by the
start of World War I. In Kate’s new novel we
return to Celia’s tumultuous world as she and
her family try to navigate the ever-changing
landscape of their new reality.
Orion Fiction
HB July
£14.99 364pp
978 1 4091 3991 1
eBook: £14.99 978 1 4091 3989 8
Kate is a publicity
dream: an esteemed
author, historian and
TV presenter with a
high public profile.
This is gripping, intensely cinematic fiction that
goes behind the history to show us the drama
and wonder of early 20th-century lives.
‘One of Britain’s best young historians’
Independent
Kate Williams is a New York Times bestselling author,
social historian, constitutional and royal expert, broadcaster and novelist. She has an MA from Queen Mary,
University of London, and a DPhil from the University
of Oxford. She appears regularly on the BBC and
Channel 4.
author:
Location: London
Available for interview
f/Kate-Williams
@KateW_author
Orion Fiction • July 2015
GOLLANCZ
Gollancz is the oldest specialist SF & Fantasy publisher in the UK. Founded in 1927 and with a
continuous SF publishing programme dating back to 1961, we are home to a galaxy of award-winning
and bestselling authors. Through our long-running SF and Fantasy Masterworks programme, and major
digital initiative the SF Gateway, we have one of the largest ranges of SF and Fantasy of any publisher in
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Gollancz Urban Fantasy
MMP February
£8.99 384pp
978 1 473 20500 0
eBook: £8.99 / 978 1 473 20501 7
Gollancz Urban Fantasy
MMP March
£8.99 352pp
978 1 473 20849 0
eBook: £8.99 / 978 1 473 20850 6
LYNSAY SANDS
CHLOE NEILL
An Argeneau Vampire Novel
A Chicagoland Vampires Novel
The Immortal Who Loved Me
Lynsay Sands continues her enormously popular
vampire series starring the Argeneau family.
The latest entry in the sizzling paranormal
vampire series featuring the Argeneau family –
no one does wickedly funny and irresistibly
steamy like Lynsay Sands!
Lynsay Sands is a New York Times bestselling author
of more than thirty books.
Dark Debt
A modern Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and a
New York Times bestselling series.
Merit didn’t choose to become a vampire, but
she did choose to fight for her house and forge
strong alliances with powerful people across
Chicago and North America. She’s had some
wild adventures, but this might be her darkest
road yet . . .
The latest in Chloe Neill’s addictive series is
perfect for fans of Charlaine Harris and Kelley
Armstrong.
Chloe Neill is the author of the Chicagoland Vampires
and Dark Elite series.
author:
Location: Ontario, Canada
Available for interview
www.lynsaysands.net
f/Lynsay-Sands
@LynsaySands
author:
Location: Nebraska, USA
Available for interview
www.chloeneill.com
f/authorchloeneill
@chloeneill
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Gollancz
Urban Fantasy
MMP April
£8.99 352pp
978 0 575 09844 2
eBook: £8.99 /
978 0 575 09845 9
SUZANNE MCLEOD
The Hidden Rune of Iron
Spellcrackers.com: Book
Five
A superb conclusion to the best
UK-based urban fantasy series
there is!
The Spellcrackers series is perfect
for fans of Kim Harrison and Kelley
Armstrong, and combines a
gripping story and a London
setting with adventure, romance
and magic. This last title in the
series is a must-read!
‘Doesn’t so much break the rules
of urban fantasy as take them
apart and reconstruct them in a
gloriously pyrotechnic display’
Ben Aaronovitch
Gollancz Urban Fantasy
HB / ETPB
Gollancz Urban Fantasy
HB / ETPB
June 416pp
£18.99/£13.99
978 0 575 11178 3 /
978 0 575 11181 3
eBook: £18.99 /
978 0 575 11200 1
May 320pp
£18.99/£13.99
978 0 575 09288 4 /
978 0 575 09289 1
eBook: £18.99 /
978 1 473 09291 4
CHARLAINE HARRIS
The Day Shift
Death seems to be plaguing the
residents of Midnight, Texas –
and there’s no rest for the
wicked.
There’s a small town in Texas
called Midnight. It stands at a
crossroads, where pawnbrokers
rub shoulders with vampires,
bounty hunters with shopkeepers,
and a brand new mystery is
waiting to be solved . . .
Charlaine Harris is the author of the
Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling Sookie
Stackhouse novels.
NALINI SINGH
Untitled
A Psy-Changeling Novel
An explosive, unmissable
adventure from the New York
Times bestselling author.
Rich, dark, sumptuous and
evocative . . . bestselling author
Nalini Singh is back with a
stunning, dark and passionate
new tale.
Nalini Singh is the New York
Times bestselling author of the
Psy-Changeling and Guild Hunter
series.
Suzanne McLeod began writing the
Spellcrackers.com series after years of
working in retail management.
author:
Location: Bournemouth
Available for interview
www.spellcrackers.com
f/suzanne.mcleod
@Suzanne_McLeod
Gollancz Urban Fantasy • April / May / June 2015
author:
Location: Texas, USA
Available for interview
www.charlaineharris.com
f/charlaine.harris.731
@RealCharlaine
author:
Location: Auckland, NZ
Available for interview
www.nalinisingh.com
f/authornalinisingh
@NaliniSingh
BRANDON SANDERSON
Firefight
The sequel to Steelheart.
The battle against the Epics continues in this
action-packed thrill-ride of a series from the
New York Times bestselling author. These novels
carry a brilliant premise of a world run by
supervillains, and have won new readers for
Brandon Sanderson.
Praise for Steelheart:
Gollancz Fantasy
HB / ETPB January
£16.99 / £13.99 400pp
978 0 575 10421 1 / 978 0 575 10435 8
eBook: £16.99 / 978 0 575 10452 5
‘When you talk about
the most talented
authors in fantasy,
Brandon Sanderson
should be one of the
first names that
leaves your mouth’
‘A terrifically tall tale, packaging the superhero
action into compelling, punchy chapters that
keep you reading. It’s a fast, feisty read
with characters that are skillfully drawn,
assassinations, gunfights, physics bending
motorcycle chases and a world you can’t wait
to hear more about’ SFX
‘Steelheart is the literature equivalent of a
blockbuster; episodic and fast-paced with
surprises around every turn’ Sci Fi Now
‘Full of action’ Sun
Brandon Sanderson is the New York Times bestselling
author of the Mistborn series and the Stormlight
Archive. He was also chosen to finish the epic The
Wheel of Time saga after the death of Robert Jordan.
– Fantasy Faction
author:
Location: Utah, USA
Available for interview
www.brandonsanderson.com
f/BrandSanderson
@BrandSanderson
Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy • January 2015
77
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS
78
Untitled
Mankind has reached the stars. Now we are
trying to unravel the heart of the universe, but
some secrets are a mystery for a reason.
In this compelling new SF story Alastair Reynolds
takes us on a journey to faster-than-light travel.
It could revolutionise the universe – unless the
sinister watchkeepers have other ideas . . .
Gollancz Science Fiction
HB / ETPB January
£18.99 / £14.99 488pp
978 0 575 09049 1 / 978 0 575 09050 7
eBook: £18.99 / 978 0 575 09052 1
‘Reynolds future is
so brilliantly
extrapolated . . .
original ideas fizzing
off every page’
Alastair Reynolds is one of the world’s finest
writers of far future space opera, lauded by
mainstream and genre press alike.
Praise for On the Steel Breeze:
‘As good as contemporary SF gets’ SFX
‘A brilliant, self-assured, colourful space opera –
with talking elephants’ Sun
‘Alastair Reynolds’s On the Steel Breeze moves
his ambitious Poseidon’s Children’s series into
interstellar space’ Adam Roberts, Guardian
Alastair Reynolds is the author of Revelation Space and
winner of the BSFA Award.
– Guardian
author:
Location: Mid-Glamorgan
Available for interview
www.alastairreynolds.com
@AquilaRift
Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy • January 2015
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Gollancz Science Fiction
TPB January
£16.99 400pp
978 0 575 09322 5
eBook: £16.99 / 978 0 575 09324 9
Gollancz Fantasy
TPB February
£16.99 368pp
978 0 575 13046 3
eBook: £16.99 / 978 0 575 13048 7
TONY GONZALES
ELIZABETH MAY
A stunning SF saga for all fans of the Lost Fleet
novels.
The world fell to an apocalypse, but the Falconer
survived – and now she must save her friends.
The Tabit Genesis
Earth is finished, laid waste by alien attack. Two
massive generation ships are all that is left out in
the void, to carry the fight back to the enemy.
But can they possibly hope to defeat them? And
just what are they fighting for? Revenge?
Themselves? Survival?
Driven by strong characters facing unendurable
odds, this is SF in the grand tradition: an epic
adventure full of huge ships, vast battles and
epic challenges. Tony Gonzales puts you at the
centre of a dark future but shows that there is
always hope.
Perfect for fans of Jack Campbell and Peter F.
Hamilton.
The Vanishing Throne
The Falconer was one of the most anticipated
cross-over YA novels of 2013 and ended with an
explosive cliffhanger. Readers have been on the
edge of their seats to find out what happened
next; now we finally return to Edinburgh and see
what, and who, survived the destruction.
‘Elizabeth May’s debut is a wicked cocktail of
Jane Austen’s high society and the Grimm’s fairy
tales. Absolutely wonderful: a Must Read Now
novel’ Sci-Fi Now on The Falconer
Elizabeth May is a PhD student and a professional
photographer. The Falconer was her debut novel.
Tony Gonzales is the author of two successful EVE
Online novels.
author:
Location: New Jersey, USA
Available for interview
@OxideTower
author:
Location: Edinburgh
Available for interview
www.elizabethmaywrites.com
@_ElizabethMay
Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy • January / February 2015
MARK STAY
80
Robot Overlords
The tie-in novel to a brilliant new British film
starring Gillian Anderson and Sir Ben Kingsley.
Three years ago, Earth was conquered by a force
of robots from a distant world. They have one
rule: STAY IN YOUR HOMES
Gollancz Science Fiction
MMP February
£7.99 224pp
978 1 473 20486 7
eBook: £7.99 / 978 1 473 20487 4
A superb
novelisation
of the hit
British film.
Step outside and you get one warning before
you’re vaporised or incinerated. But Sean Flynn is
convinced that his father is still alive. And when
he and his gang figure out a way to break the
robots’ curfew, they begin an adventure that will
pit them against the might of the Robot
Overlords.
This will be the most successful, and stunning,
UK film of the year, combining a superb script
with brilliant cinematography and special effects.
The tie-in, written by one of the scriptwriters,
features extra scenes, illustrations, a making-ofthe-film diary and an exclusive short story, and
will be a must-read for young adults and fans of
the film.
Mark Stay is a film script writer and debut novelist.
author:
Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy • February 2015
Location: Epsom, Surrey
Available for interview
www.unusuallytallstories.wordpress.com
f/mark.stay.3
@markstay
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Gollancz Science Fiction
HB / ETPB February
Gollancz Fantasy
TPB February
£14.99 320pp
978 0 575 13433 1
eBook: £14.99 /
978 1 473 20003 6
£20.00/£14.99 400pp
978 1 473 20393 8/
978 1 473 20394 5
eBook: £14.99 /
978 1 473 20396 9
PAUL MCAULEY
Something Coming
Through
Cutting edge hard SF from an
author every bit the equal of
Kim Stanley Robinson.
The aliens are here. And they
want to help. Mankind has shown
that it is not ready for the stars –
but are the aliens ready for us?
The extraordinary new project
from one of the country’s most
acclaimed and consistently
brilliant SF novelists of the
last 30 years.
Paul McAuley is a winner of the
Arthur C. Clarke, John W. Campbell
and Philip K. Dick Awards.
DEN PATRICK
The Boy Who Wept Blood
A gripping new high fantasy from
the author of the acclaimed The
Boy with the Porcelain Blade.
Lucien is gone and now the young
Orfano swordsman Dino must
fight to protect his sister as she
attempts to overturn the old
aristocratic order and bring a
republic to Demesne.
The Boy Who Wept Blood takes
place in an original and beautifully
imagined world, populated by
unforgettable characters. It is
an ornate yet dark fantasy, with
echoes of Mervyn Peake, Robin
Hobb and Jon Courtenay
Grimwood.
Den Patrick has worked at Titan
as a comics and role-playing writer as
well as working as a bookseller.
author:
Location: London, N1
Available for interview
www.unlikelyworlds.
blogspot.com
@UnlikelyWorlds
author:
Location: London, SE5
Available for interview
f/den.patrick.75
@Den_Patrick
Gollancz Fantasy
TPB February
£16.99 368pp
978 1 473 20894 0
eBook: £16.99 /
978 1 473 20896 4
GEORGE R.R.
MARTIN, LISA TUTTLE
Windhaven
A classic novel from two awardwinning authors.
Maris of Amberly, a fisherman’s
daughter, wants nothing more
than to soar on the currents high
above Windhaven. So she challenges
tradition, demanding that flyers
be chosen by merit rather than
inheritance. But even after winning
that bitter battle, Maris finds that
her troubles are only beginning.
Now a revolution threatens to
destroy the world she fought so
hard to join – and forces her to
make the ultimate sacrifice.
George R.R. Martin is the awardwinning author of A Game of Thrones,
part of the Song of Ice and Fire series
and now a hit TV series.
Lisa Tuttle is a science fiction, fantasy
and horror writer. She was a co-winner
of the John W. Campbell Award for
Best New Writer in Science Fiction.
author:
Location: New Mexico, USA (GRRM)
Tarbert, Argyll & Bute (LT)
www.georgerrmartin.com
www.lisatuttle.co.uk
f/lisa.tuttle.330 @GRRMspeaking
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Gollancz Science Fiction
TPB March
£16.99 400pp
978 0 575 13401 0
eBook: £16.99 /
978 0 575 13404 1
Gollancz Fantasy
HB / TPB March
978 0 575 13121 7
eBook: £16.99 /
978 0 575 13123 1
JUSTINA ROBSON
TOM LLOYD
The groundbreaking new novel
from one of the genre’s most
respected authors.
Something from the past is
coming back to haunt Narin and
his friends. Something that will
expose their darkest secrets . . .
The Glorious Angels
On a world where science and
magic are hard to tell apart, a
stranger arrives in a remote town
with news of political turmoil to
come. And a young woman learns
that she must free herself from
the role she has accepted.
Justina Robson, acclaimed author
of Natural History and the
Quantum Gravity series, returns
with a thrilling mix of science,
magic and sexual politics.
Justina Robson has been shortlisted
for the Arthur C. Clarke, BSFA and John
W. Campbell Awards.
author:
Location: Leeds
Available for interview
www.justinarobson.co.uk
f/justina.robson
@JustinaRobson
Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy • March 2015
Gollancz Fantasy
TPB March
£16.99 400pp
978 0 575 12964 1
eBook: £16.99 /
978 0 575 12966 5
£20.00 / £16.99 400pp
978 0 575 13120 0 /
Old Man’s Ghosts
After the thrilling events of
Moon’s Artifice, Narin and his
group of unlikely heroes are
settling back into their lives in the
Imperial City. But one of them has
a secret that has been kept hidden
for decades, a secret that might
shake civilisation to its foundations. And one chance meeting
is all it will take to set off a string
of events that will lead to death
and fire.
Tom Lloyd is the author of the
Twilight Reign series.
author:
Location: Oxford
Available for interview
www.tomlloyd.co.uk
f/tom.lloydwilliams.10
@tomlloydwrites
M.D. LACHLAN
Valkyrie’s Song
Acclaimed as the most powerful
and original historical fantasy of
the decade, the Wolfsangel saga
continues.
The Norman harrowing of the
North has begun, and the wolf and
a woman fight for their immortal
lives. Ragnarok casts its dark
shadow over a new generation of
humans forced to play the games
of the warring gods.
M.D. Lachlan’s brooding and
powerful tales of Vikings, Norse
gods and werewolves has already
won praise from, amongst others,
Joe Abercrombie and Mike Carey.
M.D. Lachlan is an author of
mainstream and fantasy fiction, and
has worked as a journalist. He also
regularly performs as a stand-up
comedian.
author:
Location: Brighton
Available for interview
f/md.lachlan
@mdlachlan
JOE HILL
83
The Fireman
Some flames burn too bright to be extinguished.
This exceptional new thriller from Joe Hill is
essential reading for 2015, and perfect for fans of
Justin Cronin’s The Passage. In a world overtaken
by a deadly and dramatic new virus, Harper is
determined to live long enough to deliver her
baby. But when it only takes a spark to start a
deadly blaze, she’s going to need some help from
the mysterious fireman.
Gollancz Horror
HB / ETPB April
£16.99 / £13.99 368pp
978 0 575 13071 5 / 978 0 575 13072 2
eBook: £16.99 / 978 0 575 13074 6
‘I loved it
unreservedly’
– Neil Gaiman
Praise for Horns:
‘Thrilling, confident, meaty, surprisingly and
characteristically tender stuff from a devilishly
good writer’ Metro
‘A remarkable achievement’ Guardian
‘A dark, funny 21st century fairytale – and a
devilishly good one too’ SFX
‘Like his old man Stephen King, Hill can knock
out a compulsive page-turner’ The List
Joe Hill is the bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box,
NOS4R2 and Horns – now a major Hollywood movie
starring Daniel Radcliffe.
author:
Location: New Hampshire, USA
Available for interview
www.joehillfiction.com
f/JoeHillAuthor
@joe_hill
Gollancz Horror • April 2015
84
Gollancz Fantasy
HB/TPB April
£20.00/£16.99 416pp
978 0 575 13084 5/
978 0 575 13085 2
eBook: £16.99 /
978 0 575 13087 6
ANTOINE ROUAUD
The Ember in the Ashes
The Book and the Sword: 2
An extraordinary adventure, filled
with misdirection and surprises,
continues!
The Path of Anger was ‘A sword
and sorcery romp’ (SciFiNow),
highly recommended by Fantasy
Book Critic as ‘top tier fantasy . . .
outstandingly done, which stands
out from the usual genre offering’
and this sequel by Antoine
Rouaud, translated by Tom Clegg,
takes the adventure to a whole
new level.
Antoine Rouaud’s work is perfect for
fans of Trudi Canavan and Brent
Weeks.
Gollancz Fantasy
TPB May
£16.99 512pp
978 0 575 09210 5
eBook: £16.99 /
978 0 575 09212 9
Gollancz Science Fiction
TPB May
£16.99 368pp
978 0 575 13064 7
eBook: £16.99
978 0 575 13066 1
STEPHEN HUNT
PETER HIGGINS
An exceptional adventure is
about to become an
extraordinary war . . .
The concluding part of the most
original science fantasy of recent
years.
‘Wonderfully assured . . . Hunt
knows what his audience like and
gives it to them with a sardonic
wit and carefully developed
tension’ Time Out
Peter Higgins has had his short stories
published in many magazines, as well
as in Russian translation. Wolfhound
Century was his debut novel.
Foul Tide’s Turning
Jacob Carnehan rescued his son
from slavery, but he may have
started a war – one where he is
hopelessly overmatched – and his
wits and ruthlessness will only
take him so far. Carter Carnehan
has gone from slave to revolutionary, but what will his beliefs be
worth when they come under
fire? The Carnehans are about
to find out.
Radiant State
With his loving evocation of a dark
and fantastical realm that owes
much to the myth and history of
twentieth century Russia, Peter
Higgins has created one of the
most original and critically lauded
works of recent years. Adored by
critics and authors such as Hannu
Rajaniemi, Ian McDonald and
Richard Morgan, the Wolfhound
Century novels now reach their
extraordinary conclusion.
Stephen Hunt is a superb novelist
with a loyal following, a social media
pioneer and an award-winning author.
author:
Location: Nantes, France
Available for interview
f/arouaud
@Antoine_Rouaud
Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy • April / May 2015
author:
Location: London/Madrid
Available for interview
www.stephenhunt.net
f/stephen.hunt.330467
@s_hunt_author
author:
Location: Penarth
Available for interview
wolfhoundcentury.com
f/Peter-Higgins
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Gollancz Fantasy
TPB June
£18.99 352pp
978 0 575 10061 9
eBook: £18.99 /
978 0 575 10064 0
Gollancz Science Fiction
TPB June
£16.99 304pp
978 0 575 11844 7
eBook: £14.99 /
978 0 575 11861 4
Gollancz Science Fiction
HB / TPB June
£20.00 / £14.99 400pp
978 1 473 20339 6 /
978 1 473 20340 2
eBook: £14.99 /
978 1 473 20342 6
STEPHEN DEAS
JON WALLACE
AL ROBERTSON
The dragons will roar and flame
for the last time. The Silver Kings
are coming to reclaim their
throne . . .
A second visit to a dystopian
vision of the future in a satire as
vicious as it is violent.
Meet Hugo Fist. The most
terrifying and enticing AI to grace
SF since the works of Alastair
Reynolds and Hannu Rajaniemi.
The Silver Kings
The momentous conclusion to
Stephen Deas’ Dragon series
brings the tale of Zafir, Dragon
Queen, to a suitable end. Stripped
of her power, left with only one
dragon to command, her life
hangs by a thread. But the actions
of her captors have drawn the
attention of a greater power, one
whose appearance will alter the
balance of power.
Stephen Deas is the author of ten
books for Gollancz, mostly about
massive dragons burning things.
author:
Location: Chelmsford
Available for interview
www.stephendeas.com
f/stephen.deas
@stephendeas
Steeple
Kenstibec is back but this time he
is closer to Real than Ficial. And
he has to scale a thousand-storey
skyscraper full of attack droids
and cannibals.
Jon Wallace has written another
fast-moving satirical SF dystopia
perfect for fans of Richard
Morgan.
Jon Wallace is the author of Barricade.
He has also had short stories published
in Interzone.
author:
Location: London, N10
Available for interview
thingaboutchickens.
blogspot.com
f/jon.wallace.752
@Jon__Wallace
Crashing Heaven
Nailed-down cyberpunk a la
William Gibson for the twenty-first
century meets the vivid dark
futures of Alastair Reynolds in
this extraordinary debut novel.
Crashing Heaven is a diamondhard, visionary new SF thriller.
Al Robertson is a debut author and has
been shortlisted for the BSFA Short
Story Award.
author:
Location: Brighton
Available for interview
www.allumination.co.uk
f/al.robertson
@al_robertson
Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy • June 2015
86
Gollancz Fantasy
TPB July
£16.99 320pp
978 1 473 20243 6
eBook: £16.99 /
978 1 473 20245 0
JAMES BARCLAY
Blood and Fire
A fantasy Battlestar Galactica
from the ‘Sergio Leone of the
genre’ (SFX).
Blood and Fire has a simple,
violent and gripping premise:
nomadic nations, warring over
diminishing resources. Max
Halloran is about to be tested:
he uncovers a series of gamechanging government lies that
directly affect him and his
squadron. Whatever his next
move is, wherever his loyalty
ultimately lies, everything is
about to change.
eBook: £16.99 /
978 0 575 12394 6
JOHN HORNOR
JACOBS
Foreign Devils
Fisk and Shoe return, as the
repercussions of their first
adventure spread throughout the
world, and bring war ever closer.
The world is about to go to war.
Fisk and Shoe failed to prevent it
– now they are caught up in the
aftermath of their unsuccessful
rescue mission. Moving in circles
they’re not used to, surrounded
by enemies, they know only one
thing – they can still rely on each
other. But Fisk has a demon inside
him . . .
John Hornor Jacobs is the author of
the Bram Stoker Award-shortlisted
Southern Gods and a Young Adult
series.
author:
author:
Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy • July 2015
£20.00/£14.99 320pp
978 1 473 20607 6 /
£16.99 320pp
978 0 575 12377 9
James Barclay is the author of the
Chronicles of the Raven and Legends
of the Raven series, as well as the
Elves trilogy. He is also a working
actor.
Location: Teddington
Available for interview
www.jamesbarclay.com
f/barculator
@barculator
Gollancz Science Fiction
HB / TPB July
Gollancz Fantasy
TPB July
Location: Arkansas, USA
Available for interview
johnhornorjacobs.com
f/John.Hornor
@johnhornor
978 1 473 20608 3
eBook: £14.99 /
ALEX LAMB
978 1 473 20610 6
Roboteer
A fast-paced, gritty space-opera
based on cutting edge science.
Humanity is at war with itself.
Those who went into space have
altered themselves to survive the
harsh conditions in their new
colonies. They have become more
than human. But they are few,
and the religiously-inspired
masses of Earth have declared war
on their blasphemies. For one
small crew of augmented humans,
the war is a far-away thing – until
a chance encounter with a new
Earther weapon proves that the
battle is about to come much
closer to home.
Alex Lamb splits his time between
writing science fiction, software
engineering, teaching improvised
theatre, running business
communication skills workshops and
conducting complex systems research.
author:
Location: New Jersey, USA
Available for interview
www.alexlamb.com
@alex_lamb
GOLLANCZ SF MASTERWORKS
87
‘An amazing list – genuinely the best novels
from sixty years of SF’ – Iain M. Banks
All titles: Gollancz Science Fiction MMP
February £9.99 224pp
978 1 473 21191 9
eBook: £9.99 / 978 0 575 11919 2
March £8.99 208pp
978 1 473 20578 9
eBook: £8.99 / 978 1 473 20579 6
April £8.99 224pp
978 1 473 21192 6
eBook: £8.99 / 978 0 575 10615 4
Ursula
K. Le Guin
The Wind’s
Twelve
Quarters
April £9.99 224pp
978 1 473 20829 2
eBook: £9.99 / 978 1 473 20830 8
May £8.99 368pp
978 1 473 20892 6
eBook: £8.99 / 978 1 473 20893 3
June £9.99 432pp
978 1 473 21193 3
eBook: £9.99 / 978 0 575 10511 9
June £9.99 320pp
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INDEX
Accidence Will Happen
Adams, Kate
After the Crash
16
33
7
Brunning, Andy
38
Buss, Michel
7
Doran, Kate
40
Downward to Earth
87
Douglas, James
Age-Defying Diet, The
40
Castle, Malcolm
45
Allison, Rob
38
Coben, Harlan
60
Apovian, Caroline
40
Comfort Food (Without the
Calories series)
35
Egg
Connor, John
69
Eltahawy, Mona
Aichner, Bernhard
Angels with Dirty Faces
As Chimney Sweepers Come
to Dust
Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood,
The
Aveyard, Victoria
9
41
63
20
57
Baker, Gerard
28
Barnett, Laura
12
Barclay, James
Beat the Bloat
Beeton, Isabella
Bell, Anthea
Berry, Jo
Billington, Rachel
Bingham, Harry
Black, Saul
Blackwood, Grant
Blood and Fire
Blood, Salt, Water
Bloom, Jo
86
34
28
9, 10
41
61
71
62
66
86
59
3
Blunt, Felicity
36
Book of the New Sun: Volume 1:
Shadow and Claw, The
88
Bolzoni, Attilio
Boss of Bosses, The
Boy Who Wept Blood, The
Bradley, Alan
Bray, Rosie
47
47
81
63
47
Cavanagh, Steve
Cold, Cold Heart
Compound Interest
Corera, Gordon
58
52
38
21
Dumpling Sisters, The
Dumpling Sisters’ Chinese
Cookbook, The
39
30
30
Echoes of Their Passing, The
70
Ellory, R. J.
65
Ember in the Ashes, The
28
23
84
Corleone, Douglas
67
Crane, Nicholas
26
Fear the Darkness
53
68
Fetch Nurse Connie
70
Costello, Nancy
Crashing Heaven
Cross, Mason
Croughan, Diane
44
85
44
Crowley, John
88
D’Avanzo, Giuseppe
47
Damned, The
56
Dark Debt
75
Dandelion Years, The
Davina’s Five Weeks to
Sugar-Free
Dawson, Simon
Day Shift, The
Deas, Stephen
Debutante, The
Defence, The
Delacourt, Grégoire
Delany, Samuel R.
54
32
46
76
85
69
58
10
Fenwick, Liz
Finn, Melanie
88
66
8
Firefight
77
First Thing You See, The
10
Fireman, The
83
Fish Supper and a Chippy
Smile, A
42
Foreign Devils
86
Flower Arrangement, The
Forgotten Beasts of Eld, The
Foul Tide’s Turning
Fraser, Antonia
Freveletti, Jamie
Frost, Jo
Fullerton, Jean
72
88
84
15
56
43
70
87
Gambold, Marina
44
48
Get a Life
47
Diet Myth, The
22
Dolby, Jane
45
Different Journey, A
Expiration Date
Gardner, John
Get the Glow
88
37
INDEX
Ghost Flight
64
Immortal Who Loved Me, The
Girls Will be Girls
44
Ironmonger, John
Gill, A. A.
Glorious Angels, The
Glory
Going to Blazes
Going to the Dogs
Goldstone, Nancy
Goldsworthy, Adrian
27
82
61
45
63
19
9
Gonzales, Tony
79
Grendel
88
Great Zoo of China, The
Griffin, Ella
Grylls, Bear
Hard to be a God
Harris, Charlaine
Harris, Shelley
Hartley, Kirsty
Headscarves and Hymens
Hidden Rune of Iron, The
Higgins, Peter
Higgs, John
Hill, Joe
Hoag, Tami
Holdstock, Robert
Holmes, Jon
Honeywell, Antonia
55
72
64
87
76
4
27
23
76
84
18
83
52
88
48
7
Horne, Alistair
25
Hubris
25
Hornor Jacobs, John
Hunt, Stephen
Hutchinson, Robert
Ice House, The
86
84
20
69
Intercept
James, Erica
Jenner, Greg
Jo Frost’s Complete Childcare
75
21
6
54
14
43
Journey to the Centre of
the Earth
17
Kamm, Oliver
16
Kavanagh, Dan
Kelly Sisters, The
Kemp, Cathryn
Kemp, Hilda
Killing Lessons, The
Klinger, Ron
Kushner, Ellen
63
61
42
42
62
20
88
Lachlan,M.D.
82
Lamb, Alex
86
Lafaye, Vanessa
Lavondyss
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lee, Maureen
Legg, Kathleen
Let There Be Meat
Letters of Ivor Punch, The
Lieberman, Jeffrey
Life During Wartime
Lintott, Chris
Magic Soup
33
47
Making of the British Landscape,
The
26
Mandanna, Sarita
13
Martin, George R.R.
81
Malpas, Jodi Ellen
Marshall, Michael
51
70
Martini Shot and Other Stories,
The
49
May, Elizabeth
79
Masterman, Becky
53
McAuley, Paul
81
McCoy, A. P.
53
McLeod, Suzanne
76
McCall, Davina
McKillip, Patricia A.
Million Years in a Day, A
32
88
14
Mina, Denise
59
Mockingbird
65
88
Mosby, Steve
61
Mrs Beeton’s Homemade
Sweetshop
39
My History
20
67
28
Munro, Scott
39
18
Narrowing the Field
53
25
Night Lamp
87
Nova
87
O’Toole, Emer
44
44
11
88
40
Lloyd, Tom
82
Lokko, Lesley
11
Mackney, Richard
Mistakes You Make at Bridge,
The
Little Loaf, The
Little, Big
MacIntyre, Colin
50
87
95
88
69
Neill, Chloe
Not Forgetting the Whale
Old Man’s Ghosts
15
75
6
82
96
INDEX
One Night – Unveiled
51
Samaritan, The
68
This Thing of Darkness
71
Patrick, Den
81
Secret of Happiness Summer, The
Sands, Lynsay
75
Trézel, Roger
20
Pelecanos, George
49
Sellers, Tom
Seth, Vikram
29
Perry, Alex
19
Shame
33
Shepard, Lucius
Original Takeaway, The
Pattison, Justine
Pellegrino, Nicky
38
35
65
Pigs in Clover
46
Pour Me
27
Pisani, Nicole
Powers, Tim
Pyper, Andrew
88
56
Quick and Easy (Without the
Calories series)
35
Radiant State
84
Reese, Terence
20
Red Queen
Reilly, Matthew
Reynolds, Alastair
Ridley Road
Rift, The
Rival Queens, The
Rivered Earth, The
Robert Ludlum’s The Geneva
Strategy
Robert Ludlum’s The Janson
Equation
Robertson, Al
Robot Overlords
Roboteer
Robson, Justina
Rollins, James
Rouaud, Antoine
57
55
78
3
19
19
5
56
67
85
80
86
82
66
84
Sanderson, Brandon
77
65
5
Shades of Jamie Dornan
41
Shaw, Madeleine
37
8
Thomas the Rhymer
Tucci Table, The
Tucci, Stanley
Tuttle, Lisa
88
36
36
81
Under a Cornish Sky
66
88
Valkyrie’s Song
82
Shrinks
18
Vanishing Throne, The
79
Silverberg, Robert
87
Ship, The
Silver Kings, The
Singh, Nalini
Slattery, Marie
Something Coming Through
7
85
76
Vigilante
81
Wallace, Jon
85
22
We Ain’t Got No Drink, Pa
42
44
St John, Lauren
71
Stealing People
Steeple
Story
Stranger Than We Can Imagine
Stranger, The
Strugatsky, Arkady
Strugatsky, Boris
Sty’s the Limit, The
Summer Requiem
Summertime
Suttie, Isy
Tabit Genesis, The
Takeaway Favourites (Without the
Calories series)
28
12
45
Stay, Mark
Vaughan, Blanche
87
Versions of Us, The
Song of the Sea
Spector, Tim
Vance, Jack
80
52
85
29
18
60
87
87
46
5
50
24
79
35
War Hawk
Webber, Mark
Whispering Hope
Whitehouse, David
Whose Business is to Die
3
66
48
44
17
9
Wild Things: Funky Little Clothes
to Sew
27
Wilson, Jonathan
41
Williams, Kate
Wilson, Robert
73
52
Wind’s Twelve Quarters,
The
87
Wolfe, Gene
88
Windhaven
Woman of the Dead
Word for World is Forest,
The
Young, Claire
81
9
87
34