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Little, Brown & Abacus …………………………………………………. 4
Virago ………………………………………………………………………….. 20
Fleet …………………………….………………………………………………. 38
Corsair ………………………………………………………………………….. 43
Dialogue ………………………………………………………………………. 56
Blackfriars ………………………………………………………………….. 58
Sphere …………………………………………………………………………. 61
Piatkus ………………………………………………………………………… 94
Constable …………………………………………………………………….. 126
Robinson …………………………………………………………………….. 148
Orbit ……………………………………………………………………………. 165
Atom …………………………………………………………………………… 188
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A compelling
investigation of the
scandal at the heart of
poultry production in
the US, the UK and
beyond.

Plucked!

MARYN McKENNA

Plucked! examines everything that has gone wrong in ABOUT THE AUTHOR
the modern agricultural system: overuse of antibiotics,
Maryn McKenna is an award-
threats to the environment, violations of animal welfare,
winning science and medical writer
destruction of farming communities, disruption of
and author of Superbug and Beating
international trade and delivery of over-processed,
Back the Devil: On the Front Lines
obesity-promoting, nutritionally hollow food.
with the Disease Detectives of the
Drawing on years of research into the ‘big chicken’
Epidemic Intelligence Service (named
industry, acclaimed science writer Maryn McKenna
one of the top ten science books of
uncovers the people searching for solutions and seeking
2004 by Amazon). She currently
to return chicken to a sustainable and honoured place on
works as a contributing writer for the
our plate and asking whether, with reform, chicken can
Center for Infectious Disease
safely feed the world. Rich with characters who together
Research and Policy at the
propelled the story of chicken’s unintended
University of Minnesota and is a
consequences, Plucked! will reveal how the antibiotic era
media fellow at the Henry J. Kaiser
created modern agriculture. It is an eye-opening
Family Foundation. She is a
exploration of how the world’s most popular meat came
graduate of Georgetown University
to define so much more than just chicken nuggets.
and the Medill School of Journalism
at Northwestern University, and has
also studied at Harvard Medical
School. She lives in Minneapolis.
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February | Trade Paperback | £14.99 | 9781408707920
The best in compulsive
literary crime, from the
author of the Sunday
Times top ten bestseller,
The Dry.
Force of Nature

JANE HARPER

Five went out. Four came back… ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Is Alice here? Did she make it? Is she safe? In the chaos,
Jane Harper is the author of The Dry,
in the night, it was impossible to say which of the four
winner of various awards including the
had asked after Alice's welfare. Later, when everything
2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
got worse, each would insist it had been them.
for an Unpublished Manuscript, the 2017
Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and Indie Award Book of the Year and the
start walking along the muddy track. Only four come 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards
out the other side. Book of the Year Award. Rights have
The hike through the rugged landscape is meant to take been sold in 27 territories worldwide, and
the office colleagues out of their air-conditioned comfort film rights optioned to Reese
Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea.
zone and teach resilience and team building. At least
Jane worked as a print journalist for
that is what the corporate retreat website advertises.
thirteen years both in Australia and the
Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a particularly keen
UK and lives in Melbourne.
interest in the whereabouts of the missing bushwalker.
Alice Russell is the whistleblower in his latest case – and
Alice knew secrets. About the company she worked for
and the people she worked with.
Far from the hike encouraging teamwork, the women
tell Falk a tale of suspicion, violence and disintegrating
trust. And as he delves into the disappearance, it seems
some dangers may run far deeper than anyone knew.
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February | Hardback | £12.99 | 9781408708200
‘A remarkable feat,
utterly true. This
decade's
Heartbreaking Work
of Staggering Genius’
Douglas Coupland
Coal Black Mornings

BRETT ANDERSON

Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant ABOUT THE AUTHOR
from rock star success, and in Coal Black Mornings he
Brett Anderson is the founder and
traces the journey that took him from a childhood as ‘a
lead singer of Suede.
snotty, sniffy, slightly maudlin sort of boy raised on
salad cream and milky tea and cheap meat’ to becoming
founder and lead singer of Suede.
Anderson grew up in Hayward’s Heath on the grubby
fringes of the Home Counties. He brilliantly evokes the
seventies, the suffocating discomfort of a very English
kind of poverty and the burning need for escape that it
breeds. Anderson charts the shabby romance of
creativity as he travelled the tube in search of
inspiration, fuelled by Marmite and nicotine, and
Suede’s rise from rehearsals in bedrooms, squats and
pubs. And he catalogues the intense relationships that
make and break bands as well as the devastating loss of
his mother.
Coal Black Mornings is profoundly moving, funny and
intense – a book which stands alongside the most
emotionally truthful of personal stories.
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March | Hardback | £16.99 | 9781408710500
An eye-opening account of
the over-medicalisation of
our lives, by a leading
medical practitioner and
popular Telegraph health
expert.
Don’t Keep Taking the Pills

JAMES LE FANU

Over the past fifteen years the number of prescriptions
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
has increased threefold – an additional 300 million
annually – so it is now not unusual for those in their Dr James Le Fanu is a practising GP
seventies to be taking half a dozen (or more) different in south-west London and has a huge
drugs. This might be justified were it driven by a flood of popular following for his weekly
new, effective treatments for the relief of common medical columns in the Daily and
medical conditions – but that is not the case. Sunday Telegraph as well as writing
There has been a fundamental shift in the rationale of for the Spectator and GQ. He is the
drug treatment – we no longer only treat symptoms, we author of the definitive The Rise and
aim to control more aspects of physiology than ever Fall of Modern Medicine.
before: blood pressure, glucose levels and cholesterol
must all be brought within ‘normal’ levels in order to
reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Drugs,
however, are not without side effects, and one in four
acute admissions to hospitals are now caused by adverse
reactions to medication.
Drawing on fifty years’ experience in medical practice,
James Le Fanu reveals the truth about medicine’s
metamorphosis from modest beginnings in alleviating
pain to the massive global phenomenon it is today,
sounds the alarm about the dangers of over-medication,
and shows us how the future of medicine can be if we’d
just stop taking the pills.
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March | Trade Paperback | £13.99 | 9781408709771
A tense thriller set in 1950s
Morocco, soon to be a major
film starring Scarlett
Johansson and produced by
George Clooney.
Tangerine

CHRISTINE MANGAN

The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since ABOUT THE AUTHOR
arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy
Christine Mangan obtained a PhD in
Mason. After the horrific accident at Bennington, the
English from University College
two friends – once inseparable roommates – haven’t
Dublin, where her thesis focused on
spoken in over a year. But Lucy is standing there, trying
eighteenth century Gothic literature,
to make things right.
and an MFA in fiction writing from
Perhaps Alice should be happy. She has not adjusted to
the University of Southern Maine.
life in Morocco, too afraid to venture out into the
Christine currently lives in Brooklyn,
bustling medinas and oppressive heat. Lucy, always
New York and Tangerine is her first
fearless and independent, helps Alice emerge from her
novel.
flat and explore the country.
But soon a familiar feeling starts to overtake Alice – she
feels controlled and stifled by Lucy at every turn. Then
Alice’s husband, John, goes missing, and Alice starts to
question everything around her: her relationship with
her enigmatic friend, her decision to ever come to
Tangier, and her very own state of mind.
Tangerine is an extraordinary debut, so tightly wound,
so evocative of 1950s Tangier, and so cleverly plotted
that it will leave you breathless.
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March | Hardback | £14.99 | 9781408709993
Blind Defence is the
second thrilling book
in the Benson and de
Vere courtroom
drama series.
Blind Defence

JOHN FAIRFAX

She was found hanging in a dingy London bedsit with a ABOUT THE AUTHOR
blood orange in her mouth. Diane Heybridge, a young
John Fairfax is the pen name of
woman without a past or much of a future, has captured
William Brodrick, who practised as a
in death the compassion denied her in life.
barrister before becoming a full-time
For the prosecution, this seeming suicide is nothing more
novelist. Under his own name he is a
than a bungled killing and a disgusted public looks to
previous winner of the Crime Writers
Court 2 of the Old Bailey for justice. Her callous, jilted
Association Gold Dagger Award.
partner Brent Stainsby stands accused of her murder
and he's turned to the maverick legal team William
Benson and Tess de Vere to defend him.
However, as the trial unfolds it soon becomes clear that
there is far more to Diane Heybridge than meets the eye.
She wasn't the weak and downtrodden victim now being
presented to the jury. She was capable of a sophisticated
form of vengeance. By the same token, Brent Stainsby
isn’t who he seems to be either. He's hiding a motive for
murder unknown to the police and may well be playing a
deadly game of poker with the judicial process. What
began as a simple trial rapidly turns into a complex
search for the truth beyond the confines of the
courtroom.
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April | Hardback | £16.99 | 9781408708750
In Elettra’s
bakery, food is
the way to the
heart . . .
The Little Italian Bakery

VALENTINA CEBENI

Elettra has learned from her mother that food is the simplest ABOUT THE AUTHOR
way to touch people’s hearts. When her mother falls ill and
Valentina Cebeni was born and lives in
into a coma, Elettra is left to run the family bakery, but soon
Rome. A passionate reader, with a
discovers that her pastries and cakes do not have the same
background in the classics, she comes to
capacity to enchant customers. Along with this, she discovers
writing after long peregrinations through
burning questions about her mother’s past which demand
the great masters of literature. Since her
answers, and sets out on a journey to Tavolara, an island in
teenage years Valentina has cultivated
Sardinia, where the recipes of her mother's work originate.
her passion for writing with the
In Tavolara, Elettra discovers a convent in which her mother
discipline of a Tibetan monk, determined
was brought up. A long procession of women in black trudge
to explore the recesses of the human soul
the dusty roads that lead to the sea, and Elettra becomes
through the voices of her characters.
acquainted with a new way of life and community. The island
First and foremost her own.
is filled with secrets in every corner, and the truth is only
hinted at in the form of forbidden love, affairs and lost
friendships.
The island is also infused with the scents of her mother's
cooking (that of aniseed and lemon) allowing Elettra to feel
protected. She is determined to discover the link between the
island and the most important woman in her life, along with
the desire to discover herself. The Little Italian Bakery is a
story of food, memory and the influence of the past.

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April | Trade Paperback | £12.99 | 9781408707951