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- BROKEN HOME by Roberta Kray
- FRENCH SECRETS by Roisin McAuley
- *WHISPERS FROM A GOAN GRAVE by Kathleen McCaul
- MURDER IN THE ASHRAM by Kathleen McCaul
- BREAKFAST IN BED by Eleanor Moran
- *SUPERSTAR! by Sharon Osbourne
- *A LOVESONG FOR INDIA by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- *HEAT AND DUST by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- THE HAUNTED by Niki Valentine
- SOMETHING WAS THERE…ASHAM AWARD-WINNING GHOST STORIES by Various
- A collection of some of the most original and dazzling short stories, from writers old and new
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F  abulously funny, fresh and fast-paced romcom for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Lindsey Kelk
Maddie Mulhern is suddenly in charge. Her mum and dad - former 80s pop duo Pineapple Mist - have left for the summer on a nostalgia concert tour, so Maddie is managing their struggling Karaoke bar, ‘Sing it Back’. It suits Maddie down to the ground, in fact. After years of trudging through temping jobs, she needs a change. When Maddie spots an advert for a new prime-time show looking for a bar to be the setting of a fly-on-the-wall documentary, she has the genius idea that this is just the sort of exposure that the place needs. Together with the bar’s old-timers (faded drag queen Ruby du Jour, suave barman Alex and wannabe actress/reluctant waitress Katy) she’ll turn the karaoke bar around into a huge global brand and make pots of her money for her family. Simple. Right? Money-grubbing TV exec Evan and the seemingly too-smooth-to-be-true producer Nick might just have other ideas. As the TV series builds to a live final episode, will Maddie see the truth in a Careless Whisper? Will Nick be able to keep his Poker Face? One thing’s for sure, before the credits roll there’ll be Blood on the Dancefloor. Ella Kingsley is the pseudonym of a women's fiction author. German rights Ullstein Vietnamese rights Dong A JSC BROKEN HOME by Roberta Kray Thriller | 480pp | Sphere | June 2011 Two sisters. A murdered father. A lifetime of lies. Hope Randall leads a quiet life, but that peace is about to be shattered. When a stranger turns up on her doorstep, bringing news of a half-sister she never knew she had, he’s going to change her world for ever. Connie’s in deep trouble and the mysterious Flint needs Hope’s help in finding her. Returning to London, Hope is forced to confront old demons - and new ones. To find her sister, she’ll have to toughen up and fast. But when she enters the dark underworld of the East End, it’s not only the notoriously savage Street family she’ll have to worry about: there’s also a psychopath on the loose, attacking working girls. If Connie’s going to be saved, Hope may have to get close to the enemy. Through her marriage to Reggie, Roberta has a unique insight into the world of the London gangland. She is the author of STRONG WOMEN (Sphere 2009) and THE VILLAIN’S DAUGHTER (Sphere 2010). Praise for Roberta Kray: A Cole-esque, addictive read - London Lite; Kray's storytelling is intelligent, gripping and sure to entertain fans of the genre - News of The World; Action, intrigue and a character-driven plot … sure to please any crime fiction fan – Woman; Well into Martina Cole territory, Roberta Kray gets under the skin of the London underworld – Independent FRENCH SECRETS by Roisin McAuley General Fiction | 384pp | Sphere | April 2011 In the bestselling tradition of Maeve Binchy, Roisin McAuley's second novel for Sphere is about characters who meet in a French village . . . all with wine on their mind 
Honor Brady falls in love with wine merchant Hugo Lambert and moves to Astignac, a village in the French wine region Entre Deux Mers. Hugo sells rare wines to connossieurs; wines with a story; wines hidden during the war; wines rescued from the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. Melanie Miller, an American student, discovers that the grandfather who raised her, fathered a child in Astignac during the war. She sets out to find the relatives she never knew she had. Ivor Kitchoff, an American of Russian descent, wants to own one of the precious Romanoff bottles. But other, less salubrious Russians are equally interested. All of these characters have their own reasons for coming to Astignac. But they share one thing in common: the need to know what is real and what is false. In love as well as wine. Roisin McAuley joined the BBC in Northern Ireland and was a reporter for Spotlight, Newsnight, Panorama and File on 4. She has also produced and directed television documentaries for ITV and Channel 4 and written and presented programmes for BBC Radio. She is the author of FINDING HOME (Sphere 2009). Portuguese rights (excluding Brazil) Dom Quixote *WHISPERS FROM A GOAN GRAVE by Kathleen McCaul Crime Fiction | 320pp | Piatkus | March 2012 The second book in this fresh new crime series set in India by a young British star. Ruby Jones just needed to relax and take a holiday. She made a bad decision when she headed for Goa. Famed for beaches and full moon parties – Goa is also home to one of the most famous Christian shrines in Asia. It’s where the body of St. Francis Xavier, his body still miraculously in tact after five hundred years, is laid. When the head of the saint is stolen, Ruby gets mixed up with a strange set of characters – an Italian ex-nun and an LA art dealer – a Russian Bollywood dancer and a Goan accountant. And she finds out there’s a lot more going missing in Goa then just the head of the famous saint. There’s a whole world of business, smuggling, corruption and crime, hidden behind the palm fringed beaches and package tourism. Despite the balmy weather, Ruby finds herself at the centre of a lethal world turning in on itself – with deadly consequences. Kathleen McCaul read English at Oxford University before travelling to Baghdad in 2003 to help begin Iraq's first post-war English language newspaper. She has also worked as a journalist in Kashmir, Qatar, the UK and India. MURDER IN THE ASHRAM by Kathleen McCaul Crime Fiction | 320pp | Piatkus | April 2011 Fresh new crime series set in India by a young British star R  uby Jones has moved to Delhi to pursue her dreams of becoming an international news journalist. But when the body of Stephen Newby, her flatmate and best friend, is pulled from the Yamuna River – and the mystery around his death becomes more and more mysterious – she puts her investigative instincts to good use as she tries to uncover who’s responsible for his death. Ruby’s questions take her deeper and deeper into the world of Indian policing – and into the heart of a yoga ashram. She discovers that the yoga world isn't always the calm, spiritual place advertised, but that beneath the breathing exercises and dog poses lies something sinister – something that she's certain points to dark, hidden secrets that could have huge repercussions for all involved if discovered. Kathleen McCaul studied at Oxford before flying to Baghdad to pursue her dream of becoming an international news correspondent. Returning to England, she received a diversity bursary from the BBC to study for an MA before moving to Delhi, where she reported for the BBC World Service, as well as writing for the Guardian Books Online, Newsweek and Time Out. The second novel in this series will feature a mystery for Ruby Jones in Goa.
BREAKFAST IN BED by Eleanor Moran Lead fiction | 416pp | Sphere | August 2011 For fans of Jane Green and Adele Parks At 31, Amber's getting bombarded with wedding invitations just as she's collecting her divorce papers. Her wedding photos are hidden in her parents’ attic; her dress sold on eBay; the top layer of the wedding cake skewered by a well-aimed Louboutin. With a heart that's bruised but not quite broken, Amber is determined to rebuild her life and pursue the career she’s always dreamed of: as a top chef. She knows she has what it takes. But to achieve her dream she must be prepared to work harder than she’s ever worked before - she’s being trained by celebrity chef Oscar Retford and his temper, and ability to fire people on the spot, is as legendary as the food he creates. Amber doesn’t mind hard work - it stops her thinking about why her marriage failed. But, as she discovers, erasing the past is nowhere near as easy as she thinks. And Oscar's kitchen is also the place to provide an unexpected spark of passion. Eleanor Moran is an executive producer for TV drama at the BBC. She is the author of two previous novels, STICK OR TWIST (Penguin 2009) and MR ALMOST RIGHT (Penguin 2010). We also handle translation rights in these two titles now. Praise for Eleanor Moran: You'll be transported by this gripping tale so don't miss it! – Cosmopolitan; Wholly uplifting and brilliantly jolly stuff ... ever since we put MR ALMOST RIGHT down we've been telling all our friends to pick it up – Heat; Feisty and fun – Closer; Very funny, very romantic and incredibly, painfully, true to life – Jenny Colgan Dutch rights Unieboek German rights Blanvalet *SUPERSTAR! by Sharon Osbourne General Fiction | 320pp | Sphere | October 2012 Sharon Osbourne's first novel – REVENGE (Sphere 2010) – dazzled and delighted readers and reviewers and shot straight into the bestseller lists. A born storyteller and brilliant observer of the crazy world of celebrity, there is no one better placed to describe what really goes on behind the velvet ropes and tinted windows. Her new novel, SUPERSTAR! Will bring all the drama, gossip and glamour to the page again, and cement her reputation as the new Queen of Commercial Fiction. Sharon Osbourne was born in London in 1952. She is married to rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and has three children. *A LOVESONG FOR INDIA by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala General Fiction | 288pp | Little, Brown | October 2011 Multi-layered, subtle, wonderful new short stories Taking us from a sweltering Indian rooftop at night to the marble halls of an ageing Bollywood star’s palace, this is a new collection of short stories from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. A wedding is planned between two innocents at a crumbling mansion of a grand Hudson Valley estate, while among the white-socked convent girls of post-colonial New Delhi a mixed-race couple contemplate their son’s alienation and the failure of hope. A young English girl infiltrates Fifth Avenue theatrical royalty and a lovely Broadway starlet exacts a clever, protracted revenge against her nemesis. Speaking of mortality and family rivalry, of the transfer of power from old to young, of love and the loss of innocence, A LOVE SONG FOR INDIA is a delicious assortment of fairytales and parables. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has won the Man Booker Prize for HEAT AND DUST as well as two Oscars for screenwriting (for A Room with a View and Howard's End). *HEAT AND DUST by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala General Fiction | 192pp | Abacus | October 2011 A profound and powerful novel. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1975. Set in colonial India during the 1920s, HEAT AND DUST tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins to spend most of her days in his company. But then she becomes pregnant, and unsure of the child's paternity, she is faced with a wrenching dilemma. Her reaction to the crisis humiliates her husband and outrages the British community, breeding a scandal that lives in collective memory long after her death. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (born May 7, 1927) is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant. Their films won six Academy Awards. Chinese rights (simplified characters) Chongqin French rights Phebus Polish rights Proszynski THE HAUNTED by Niki Valentine Thriller | 400pp | Sphere | October 2011 T  hey wanted a honeymoon adventure. They found a place of nightmares. But will they both get out alive?
Arriving in the Scottish highlands, Martin and Sue decide to escape their luxury hotel, heading out for a night of back-to-basics living in an abandoned shack. When a storm strikes, they find themselves stranded in the simple hut, miles from anywhere and completely isolated. As gentle bickering leads to violent arguments, Sue starts to sense they are not truly alone – especially when a deep, dark presence seems to takes hold of the pair. With no way to escape, Sue and Martin must try to hold on to their sanity as the shelter quickly becomes a prison – and their thoughts begin to turn murderous. Niki Valentine is the award-winning author of a number of titles, published under another name. This is her first chilling suspense novel. Niki teaches creative writing and lectures on English Literature at Birmingham City University. Writing under the name of Nicola Monaghan, she is the author of THE KILLING JAR (Chatto & Windus 2006), winner of the Betty Trask award, and STARFISHING (Chatto & Windus 2008). SOMETHING WAS THERE…ASHAM AWARD-WINNING GHOST STORIES by Various Short stories | 224pp | Virago | September 2011 
A collection of some of the most original and dazzling short stories, from writers old and new The latest stunning collection of short stories, including the winning entry of the 2011 Asham Short Stories Award, which was set up 1995 to encourage and promote new writing. It is the only short story competition whose winners and runners-up are published alongside some of our best known women writers. Past collections have included specially commissioned stories by Carol Shields, Michele Roberts, Barbara Trapido, Patricia Duncker, Helen Simpson, Helen Dunmore, Deborah Moggach. Margaret Atwood and A.L. Kennedy. This year’s theme is Ghosts and Gothic and will be judged by authors Sarah Waters and Polly Samson and Virago publisher Lennie Goodings. SCIENCE FICTION/ FANTASY Directory: mediafiles mediafiles -> Department of Transport Annual Report 2013-14 mediafiles -> Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine mediafiles -> Valerii Hryhorovych asapov mediafiles -> Intentionally blank mediafiles -> Uncontrolled when printed mediafiles -> President of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen mediafiles -> Display Pilot Flight Lieutenant Jamie Norris Download 1.99 Mb. Share with your friends:
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