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Contents | Summer 2021 t e r!
03 Dear Booksellers 16 Non-Fiction Highlights 30 Children’s Fiction Highlights
/ The Secret Life of Books
17 Inspiring Non-Fiction 31 Aziza’s Secret Fairy Door
04 IBW 2021 / Land of Lost Things
18 Key Summer Paperbacks
06 POS 32 MCB Preschool / Campbell
20 How to Save a Life
07 Circus of Wonders / The Ophelia Girls 33 LEGO / The World of
Elizabeth Macneal is back to dazzle us Dinosaur Roar!
21 Yours Cheerfully
08 Joe’s Family Food / Making It Emmy and Bunty are back! 34 Saving Sorya /
Food from Joe Wicks and a memoir Children’s Non-Fiction
from Jay Blades, from The Repair Shop
22 Picture Book Round-up Including a stunning graphic novel
09 Marcus Rashford 23 The Woolly Bear Caterpillar from Trang Nguyen and Jeet Zdung
A marvellous minibeast tale
An inspiring, positive and practical 35 Science Fiction and Fantasy
guide for teens 24 What Strange Paradise 36 Fiction in Translation
10 The Swallows’ Flight / Sixteen Horses
The sequel to The Skylarks’ War arrives 37 Non-Fiction Hardbacks
25 Emily Noble’s Disgrace
11 Wild Child / Heaven 38 Non-Fiction PB Round-up
A unique book from Dara McAnulty 26 Macmillan Collector’s Library 39 Fiction Round-up
12 Picture Book Highlights 27 Through the Looking-Glass
13 New Paperbacks Chris Riddell’s illustrated edition
from Julia Donaldson 28 Noah’s Gold
14 Fiction Hardbacks 29 Rainbow Rowell / YA
Meet the team Point of Sale available
Signed Copies available
Indie Exclusive available
If you spot something you’d like to read, please
Richard Green Richard Baker Gillian MacKay Keren Western email us and we’ll let you know whether titles are
Indie Bookshop & Central London Scotland Central and Eastern England available to request on NetGalley or if any proofs
Wholesaler Manager are available.
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Dear Booksellers,
We’re so thrilled that bookshops are opening their doors again Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Yuval Zommer, as well
and wanted to say a big thank you for all your support for as The Swallows’ Flight, the eagerly-anticipated follow-up to
Pan Mac books during lockdown! We’re very excited for the Hilary McKay’s Costa Award-winning The Skylarks’ War.
summer ahead, and can’t wait for you to see what’s in store.
We also have a stunning Indie Exclusive edition of Elizabeth
We have lots of proofs and POS available to read and request! Macneal’s Circus of Wonders, with a beautiful patterned
Social assets are available to download from our trade website, sprayed edge and exclusive endpapers, and are thrilled to be
and we can also provide bespoke tweet cards and digital table publishing Yours Cheerfully by AJ Pearce, the sequel to the
headers or posters, so get in touch if you need anything. much-loved Dear Mrs Bird. Greg Buchanan’s Sixteen Horses is
If you don’t follow us on Twitter already, our handle is gearing up to be the crime debut of the year and will blow you
@PanMacPinboard, and we have a regular email newsletter away with its haunting suspense. In non-fiction, we can’t wait
you can subscribe to by emailing pinboard@macmillan.com. to share the memoir from Jay Blades, star of the hit BBC One
show The Repair Shop. We also have Too Many Reasons to
Our big highlights for the summer include You Are A
Live, the heartbreaking memoir from rugby league legend Rob
Champion by this issue’s cover star Marcus Rashford.
Burrow, and a brand new family cookbook from Joe Wicks.
Then, because one inspiring young person just wasn’t enough,
we also have the beautiful Wild Child by Dara McAnulty, Finally, be sure to check out our plans and promotions for
author of Diary of a Young Naturalist. Elsewhere for young IBW, including the Macmillan Collector’s Library’s 5th
readers, we’re also publishing the long-awaited Indie Exclusive birthday celebrations.
edition (with a free print!) of The Woolly Bear Caterpillar by
The team at Pan Macmillan
DISCOVER THE SECRET LIFE OF BOOKS
With Pan Mac’s Publishing Mentorship Programme
Are you a bookseller who would like to know more about the
publishing industry? If so, why not apply to join our mentorship programme?
Learn how we decide which books to publish and how editors turn a
manuscript into a finished book. Understand the processes behind
cover design and book production. Find out how an author gets on TV
or into the broadsheets, and how a book ad gets into a train station.
Discover how books are sold into retailers and wholesalers, how the
supply chain works, and much more!
The programme will take 1-2 hours of your time each week, and will
take place remotely, attending meetings and making contacts within
Pan Macmillan. At the end of the mentorship, you will have an insight
into the publishing process from acquisition through to delivery to
bookshops and beyond.
We actively encourage Black, Asian and other ethnically diverse
people and disabled applicants to apply and value the positive impact
that difference has on our business.
WANT TO FIND OUT MORE?
Drop us a line at secretlifeofbooks@macmillan.com with the subject
line ‘Secret Life of Books’ to find out how to apply, or just scan the
QR code to the left to learn more. Applications close 14th May 2021.
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INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP WEEK 2021
INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP WEEK
We have a great selection of offers, giveaways and POS as well as a range of authors
available for virtual events during IBW 2021.
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This summer, Macmillan Collector’s Library turns five. To celebrate, we’ve got lots of brilliant
offers and POS for you and your customers including a FREE Ten Best Parties in Literature
booklet to give away during IBW. We also have a FREE luxury Macmillan Collector’s Library
tote bag available to giveaway to customers who buy any two MCL books from participating
bookshops. Ts & Cs apply, please contact your local sales representative for more details.
THE BOOKSHOP CAT VIRTUAL EVENTS & STOCK SIGNINGS
© Cindy Wume 2021
Perfect for IBW and beyond, The Bookshop Cat is a We have a number of authors available for virtual events
heartwarming tale about a treasured local bookshop, during IBW and over the coming months, please ask your
the extraordinary power of reading, and a beloved local rep for a full list.
bookselling cat, by exceptional new talent Cindy Wume.
We would particularly like to highlight Yours Cheerfully by AJ
We know that book recommendations are really helpful, so Pearce and Julia Chapman’s Dales Detective series, as both
we’re offering special ‘The Bookshop Cat recommends’ shelf authors will be doing events during the week.
talkers for you and your customers to add their suggestions
on to, as well as mini standees, activity sheets and posters.
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INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP WEEK 2021
EXTRA DISCOUNT ON PAN MAC FAVOURITES FOR IBW
We thought it would be helpful to compile a list
of bestselling Pan Macmillan titles and some of
our favourites that you might have missed during
lockdowns. We’ve included the three titles on the
IBW Awards shortlist – Shuggie Bain by Douglas
Stuart, Summerwater by Sarah Moss and The Hospital
Dog by Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie. Some of
our reps’ top picks are also listed below!
Extra discount will be offered on any orders of these titles, and we have Buy One Get One Half Price stickers available. To see a
full list of the books included in the promotion, and to order stock, please contact your local sales representative.
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WRITERS THE ANIMALS LAMPEDUSA
& LOVERS AT LOCKWOOD
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The funny, moving and life, of loss
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A collection of A story of unlikely
stunningly original, friendship and a The first in a
humane, and tender look at a hilarious and fast-
celebrated short lifelong struggle paced trilogy about
stories from the to find a place to how to be brave.
author of Arrival. call home.
Chosen by Andrew Belshaw Chosen by Keren Western Chosen by Kate Bullows
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Chosen by Toby Watson
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POS
We can’t wait to share all our new summer POS material with you!
Below is a small selection of the items available, please do let us know if you’d like anything for your store.
Titles with POS on offer are marked with a roundel throughout the issue.
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CIRCUS OF WONDERS | ELIZABETH MACNEAL
CIRCUS OF WONDERS
Elizabeth Macneal
9781529002539 | HB | £14.99 | 13.05.21 | Picador
We know you absolutely loved Elizabeth Macneal’s dazzling
debut The Doll Factory – thank you for such gorgeous window
and shop displays! Thankfully you won’t have to wait long to
get your hands on Elizabeth’s new book, Circus of Wonders.
Here’s Elizabeth herself with a letter about the book and how she
came to write it, but what we can tell you is that you’re getting
a dazzling Indie Exclusive edition with beautiful endpapers and
stunning sprayed edges. We’ll also have beautiful POS materials
available to help you create window displays to rival those for
The Doll Factory.
‘Dark, tender, evocative, compelling’
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
‘An absolute triumph’
Stacey Halls
Dear Bookseller, a travelling showman. She is catapulted into a world of fame
and money – figurines are cast in her image, crowds rush to
I can’t believe it’s almost two years since The Doll Factory
watch her soar, newspapers scribble stories about her.
came out. I am so very grateful to every bookseller and
bookshop who supported it – whether that was handselling, But what happens when her fame threatens to eclipse that of
window displays (these still astonish me when I think back the showman? To Jasper Jupiter, facts are irrelevant, and show
over them!), or running events (what fun they were). I hope and illusion are what matter. But this is Nell’s life, and soon all
that circumstances will mean I’m able to visit as many of your of the outlandish stories that are spun about her begin to make
bookshops as possible to say thank you. her uneasy.
I have always been fascinated by the circus – the illusion, the In a way, I suppose, Circus of Wonders is a book about
tawdry glamour, the idea of an itinerant life, and above all the storytelling. Who gets to tell whose story and how they tell it.
wonder. The more I read about the Victorian circus, the more It’s also about creativity and ownership, and beauty and power,
obsessed I became. This was the century of spectacle, when and success and crashing failure. I found researching this
the circus exploded, when great menageries toured small book to be endlessly fascinating, and I hope that you too enjoy
country towns, when tightrope walkers plunged to their deaths, getting lost in this world.
when little people and bearded women became rich and
Thank you so much again,
famous. It was a world which exploited and empowered, where
physical difference became a booming industry. Elizabeth Macneal
But the question that lingered – as I read about countless
performers, about still-famous personages like Joseph
Merrick, dubbed ‘The Elephant Man’ – is the one that always Social assets are
drives me to write. How would it have felt? It was then that available on our
I began writing about Nell, a young girl with birthmarks trade website to use
speckling her skin, who is sold by her father to Jasper Jupiter, in advertising this
exclusive edition!
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JOE’S FAMILY FOOD / MAKING IT
JOE’S FAMILY FOOD
9781529016314 | HB | £20.00 | 10.06.21 | Bluebird
Since first being published by Bluebird in 2015, Joe Wicks
has transformed from The Body Coach into a multimillion-
copy bestselling author, bona fide national treasure, and
most importantly, family man.
As a proud dad to two kids, Joe understands the realities of life as a
busy parent. So Joe’s Family Food, publishing this June, is designed
to do the hard work for you, meaning cooking and sharing nutritious
food can become a social, fun activity for your family. Whether it’s
Mexican chicken burgers with avocado smash and sweetcorn salsa,
or broccoli and pancetta carbonara, there’s something for absolutely
everyone in the 100 recipes collected here.
The man who kept the nation moving during lockdown, Joe has
now sold more than three million books in the UK alone. He has
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more than four million followers on social media, and all his books
have been number one non-fiction bestsellers!
Pan Mac Team Pick
Keren Western
‘Who better than Joe Wicks to not only keep
your family fit but feed them as well with these
amazing family recipes?’
MAKING IT
9781529059199 | HB | £16.99 | 13.05.21 | Bluebird
‘There are many ways to make it, and I took the long way around.
For a while, I was very broken, but for the last 30 years I have
mostly been trying to help people make or repair things. It might be
furniture, it could be a relationship: it might even be themselves’
Jay Blades
BBC One’s The Repair Shop has saved lockdown for many of us (roughly six
million of us per episode, in fact), not least because we all got to fall completely
in love with Jay Blades. Making It is his story, from his childhood growing up
sheltered and innocent on a council estate in Hackney, to his adolescence
when he struggled with dyslexia and was introduced to violent racism at
secondary school, to being brutalized by police as a teen, to finally finding
success against all the odds.
Written with empathy and vulnerability, Making It questions the boundaries
society places on male vulnerability, and Jay shows how letting himself be
nurtured helped him flourish into the person he is today. An expert at giving
a second life to cherished items, he speaks about how his role as a restorer
mirrors his own life – if something’s broken, you can always find a way to put it
back together.
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YOU ARE A CHAMPION | MARCUS RASHFORD
THE BOOK YOUNG PEOPLE NEED,
FROM A CHAMPION THEY LOVE
YOU ARE A CHAMPION
Marcus Rashford
9781529068177 | TPB | £9.99 | 27.05.21 | MCB
In June 2020, Marcus Rashford successfully lobbied the
UK government to U-turn its policy on free school meals,
ensuring access to food supplies for 1.3 million children
during the Covid-19 pandemic. He was appointed an MBE
by the Queen in October 2020, and in February 2021 was
named in TIME Magazine’s Next 100. He is now recognised
worldwide for his journey both on and off the pitch –
but how did an average boy from Wythenshawe, South
Manchester become not only an international footballer but
also one of the leading activist voices in the UK?
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It’s full of practical advice, with top tips from performance
psychologist Kate Warriner, plus amazing illustrations and
In this inspiring, positive and practical guide for children infographics to make the book super engaging for readers of
aged 10+, Marcus shares stories from his own journey and all ages. Marcus is incredibly engaged with this project, and
gives children the tools they need to reach their full potential committed to getting this book into the hands of children
using growth mindset, perseverance and new ways of thinking. everywhere, with your help. We’ll have a range of incredible
With chapters including ‘Find Your Confidence,’ ‘Navigating POS to support publication, including posters, bookmarks,
Adversity’ and ‘Use Your Voice,’ this is a book to show children and a life-size standee of Marcus, so please get in touch to
that their possibilities really can be endless. request any of these items for your shop!
Written with journalist Carl Anka, You Are A Champion is In Summer 2021, we will also be launching the Marcus
the empowering and life-changing first children’s book from Rashford Book Club, a ‘reader recommends’ programme
Marcus Rashford MBE, showing kids how to be the best featuring two books per year, one in the summer, and one in
versions of themselves, and achieve their dreams. the autumn.
Pan Mac Team Pick
‘Believe in you and success will happen. Trust me. Richard Baker
Live the dream’ ‘Marcus Rashford is the most important, and
Marcus Rashford necessary, male footballer in the country right
now. Like the man: inspirational and thoughtful’
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THE SWALLOWS’ FLIGHT | HILARY MCKAY
THE SWALLOWS’ FLIGHT
Hilary McKay
9781529033335 | HB | £12.99 | 27.05.21 | MCB
A story of four ordinary lives brought together by extraordinary
circumstances, Hilary McKay’s stunning companion novel to
the Costa Award-winning The Skylarks’ War features the next
generation of characters as they move from childhood to the
threshold of adulthood amid the chaos and conflict of the Second
World War. This is a sweeping middle grade saga for readers of any
age who enjoyed Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet Chronicles and
Goodnight Mr Tom.
Lucky for you, we have a lovely extract from the first chapter of the book
just below! If you want to continue reading, let us know and we can send
you a proof or link to NetGalley.
‘A triumph. The beautiful clarity of [Hilary McKay’s] storytelling
is masterful and she deserves every prize going’
Philip Pullman
On the fourteenth day after Erik found them, his three ‘Nutter,’ said Hans, catching Erik in a casual headlock.
swallows flew from his open window, straight from his hand ‘Nutter yourself,’ said Erik, wriggling out backwards and
into a bird-filled apricot evening sky, joining dozens of others dumping Hans flat on the floor.
circling the roofs and eaves and skyways of the city. Never, ever ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if they did taste like pretzels and
had Erik known such illuminated joy, such a lift of bliss that it lobsters,’ said Hans, thinking about it, stretched out on his
felt as if he could have flown with them. back. ‘Perhaps you’re not so crazy after all. Perhaps one day
‘Well,’ said Hans, who had come to say goodbye to Cumulus you will be head keeper at Berlin Zoo.’
and the others. ‘That’s three more birds in the sky.’ ‘Perhaps,’ said Erik, hopefully, once more gazing out of
‘Yes,’ agreed Erik, hanging out of the window to watch. the window. ‘Do you know, Hans, those little birds will go to
‘Imagine being a swallow. Racing about like that!’ Africa.’
‘You’d have to eat flies, though,’ pointed out Hans. ‘What do ‘Oh, here you go again!’ said Hans. ‘Africa! I was wrong, you
you think they taste like? really are a nut . . . Hey! Erik!’
‘Pretzels and lobsters,’ said Erik, so matter-of-factly that Erik’s brown curly head was suddenly nodding. He wobbled
Hans started shouting and flinging his arms about and where he stood, leaning against the comfortable wooden
exclaiming, ‘Erik? You didn’t! Hey, tell me you didn’t! You window frame. Only four hours sleep for two weeks and three
can’t have! Are you crazy? Are you joking?’ Then he stopped insatiable babies all day, and now night was coming in over the
jumping about and came up close to look into Erik’s face. ‘You rooftops. Hans leaped and grabbed him just before he toppled
are joking,’ he said. ‘Aren’t you?’ out of the open window.
‘Yes.’ ‘Thank you, Hans,’ said Erik.
Hans pushed his shoulder affectionately. Erik pushed him Extract from The Swallows’ Flight by Hilary McKay
Published 2021 by Macmillan Children’s Books
back. They both, at the same moment, realized how much
they liked each other. Hans remembered how Erik had leaned Pan Mac Team Pick
over the bridge and leaned over the bridge and leaned over the Toby Watson
bridge, and said, ‘Oh, dear,’ and vanished with hardly a splash. ‘The brilliant follow up to the wonderful
Erik remembered how quickly Hans had pulled off his jacket Costa Costa Children’s Book Award winner
to wrap him up when they fished him out again. The Skylarks’ War. I loved reading it so much’
10 SUMMER 2021 | PINBOARDWILD CHILD | DARA MCANULTY
DIPPERS have a third, transparent eyelid that they
can close so they can see under water. They
use their
wings to force themselves downwards so
they don’t get carried
away with the flow in the river. They have
special flaps that
cover the nostrils and stop water flooding
into the bird’s nose.
They are so adapted for river life that their
blood can hold extra
oxygen, allowing them to hold their breath
for thirty seconds.
The metamorphosis of the
FROGis one of the most
magical but also most accessible acts of
transformation
in nature. The cycle starts with an egg in
which a black
bead begins to grow. When the
TADPOLE bursts out
it eats the frogspawn it was hatched in and
begins to
eat the algae and plants in a pond. It gets
hungrier and
hungrier until it starts to eat insects. It grows
bigger
and bigger and gets legs. Finally, it loses
uses its lungs instead. Journeying beyond
its gills and RIVER OTTERS can hold their breath for up to eight whole
the pond and minutes, which is longer than their cousins
the sea otters, who can
becoming an adult frog.
only hold it for five. Otters have dense, waterproof
fur that keeps
them warm, even in icy water. The sea otter
has the densest fur of any
CADDISFLY LARVAE are the master camouflage
animal – with up to 125,000 hairs per square
centimetre.
artists of the water bed, covering their little
bodies with tiny
The fastest otter in the world is the
which lives in the Amazon and can grow
GIANT RIVER OTTER,
pebbles, sticks and grains of sand. You can up to 2m long from its wet
identify caddisfly
larvae by the material they choose to go nose to the tip of its tail.
undercover with but
some are naked! Caddisfly larvae grow
into beautiful adults
with wings that look like stained glass windows.
KINGFISHERS use their expert eyesight to
be able to judge exactly where fish are under
the
DRAGONFLIES have nearly 360-degree
vision with a small blind spot directly behind
water. They have a sleek body and long
beak,
the head. Dragonflies are great survivors
which helps when they dive. The long beak and
is
amongst Earth’s most ancient flying insects.
also essential to catch their slippery prey. Some
Once
of their fossils date from 300 million years
they have caught a fish, they bring it up ago: long
to a
before the dinosaurs. The largest dragonflies
branch. The kingfisher bashes the fish to have
stun it
wingspans of 19cm, but their oldest relatives
before eating – nobody wants to eat a wriggling had
fish.
wingspans of up to 75cm.
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MAKING A
JOURNEY STICK
1
on the heath and collect
Go out into the woods or
YOU WILL NEED: feathers, flowers and leaves.
2
and loving of our natural
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
Remember to be respectful
like feathers,
Anything you can find out in nature,when you world and not take too much.
flowers and leaves, Make sure that left and that
pick flowers there are lots of them 3 Use glue or string to attach
them to your stick.
4
a place you can see it to
they are not rare or protected Put your journey stick in
remind you of your journeys.
Some string or glue
A stick
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© Dara McAnulty and Barry Falls 2021
A COLLECTIVE
NOUN names a group
of things, and those that
name groups of birds are
wonderful. Here are a
few of my favourites.
WILD CHILD Dara pauses to tell the reader about each habitat and provides
fantastic facts about the native birds, animals and plants to
Dara McAnulty, illus. Barry Falls be found there – including wrens, blackbirds, butterflies,
tadpoles, bluebells, bees, hen harriers, otters, dandelions, oak
9781529045321 | HB | £14.99 | 08.07.21 | MCB trees and many more. This book contains activities relating to
each chapter, with a focus on children who don’t live in the
Dara McAnulty is a Northern Irish writer, naturalist and
countryside. In a year where we’ve all wished we could spend
campaigner for the environment, and the youngest ever
more time outdoors, Dara is here to lead us all by the hand as
winner of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
we rediscover our world.
medal for his conservation campaign efforts. Dara’s Diary
of a Young Naturalist won the 2020 Wainwright Prize As an added bonus, we’ve got a special Indie Exclusive edition
for Nature Writing, was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford of Wild Child to offer you that’s signed and numbered and
Prize, and shortlisted for the 2020 BAMB Readers’ Awards. includes a pull-out spotter’s guide poster. Just get in touch
In a new creative partnership with illustrator Barry Falls, with your local sales rep to order copies for your shop!
author/illustrator of It’s Your World Now, Dara hopes
to teach readers about protecting the environment and
reconnecting with nature.
Wild Child is a beautiful gift book with stunning illustrations Pan Mac Team Pick
and collages throughout. It is divided into five sections: Kate Bullows
looking out of the window, venturing out into the garden, ‘Wild Child is a stunning book. Take a nature
walking in the woods, investigating heathland and wandering walk with Dara McAnulty and learn how everyone
young and old can be a conservationist!’
on the river bank.
PINBOARD | SUMMER 2021 11PICTURE BOOK HIGHLIGHTS
© Bethan Woollvin 2021
© Cindy Wume 2021
THE BOOKSHOP CAT
THREE LITTLE VIKINGS
9781529041279
9781509889839
PB | £7.99 | 27.05.21 | MCB
PB | £7.99 | 22.07.21 | Two Hoots
The Bookshop Cat loves his job at the Children’s Bookshop, Three brave little Viking girls save the day in this bold
where he spends his time reading, purring and recommending adventure for little rebels, by the creator of the New York Times
his favourite books! A heartwarming tale about a treasured Best Illustrated Book Little Red and I Can Catch a Monster,
local bookshop, the extraordinary power of reading, and Bethan Woollvin. A funny feminist story all about cooperation,
a beloved bookselling cat, by exceptional new talent bravery, and getting your voice heard!
Cindy Wume.
© Catherine Emmett and David Tazzyman 2021
© Peter Bently and Chris Chatterton 2021
THE PET:
CAUTIONARY TALES FOR
CHILDREN AND GROWN-UPS I AM DOG
9781509895311 9781529012767
PB | £6.99 | 13.05.21 | MCB PB | £6.99 | 05.08.21 | MCB
A laugh-out-loud cautionary tale (for children and grown- I am Dog. Dog is me. I like walkies. I like tree.
ups) about the perils of always getting what you want, written I like rolls in foxy pong. Foxy pong is nice and strong.
by Catherine Emmett and illustrated by David Tazzyman,
Written by Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning author Peter
bestselling illustrator of the Mr Gum series and You Can’t Take
Bently, and charmingly illustrated by the bestselling Chris
an Elephant on a Bus.
Chatterton, I Am Dog is a fresh and funny rhyming look at the
day in the life of an adorable mutt.
12 SUMMER 2021 | PINBOARDTHE HOSPITAL DOG / THE TEENY WEENY GENIE
Julia Donaldson was the no. 1 bestselling author of 2020 in The Bookseller’s Top Authors Chart. Her brilliantly
crafted stories never fail to delight and we’re sure that these two paperback releases will prove very popular!
THE HOSPITAL DOG
9781509868322 | PB | £6.99 | 27.05.21 | MCB
Here is a dog, a Dalmatian called Dot,
Is she quite ordinary? NO, SHE’S NOT!
From the creators of the number one bestselling
picture book The Detective Dog comes another
captivating story by Julia Donaldson, perfectly
complemented by Sara Ogilvie’s characterful
and rich artwork. The Hospital Dog was a Top 10
© Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie 2020
bestseller in hardback and The Detective Dog was
the winner of the Children’s Books Are My Bag
Readers’ Award in 2017.
Dot gets a hat and makes friends with
a bear.
She calms down a doctor;
she cheers up a mummy.
She
Dot gets a hat plays
and withfriends
makes a ball with a bear.
and she rides in a chair. She calms down a doctor; she cheers up a mummy.
a deaf boy called Joe.
On one of the beds, there’s
sign for “hello”.
She lets little Tyler play Tickle Dot’s
Tummy. Rose helps her dog make the
She plays with a ball and she rides in a chair.
She lets little Tyler play Tickle Dot’s Tummy.
THE TEENY WEENY GENIE
9781509843596 | PB | £7.99 | 05.08.21 | MCB
A brilliantly entertaining ‘be-careful-what-you-wish-for’
tale that’s full of farmyard fun – from the bestselling Julia
Donaldson and illustrated by Anna Currey in her charming,
classic style.
“This farm is a lot of work,”
said the farmer. “I wish I
had a wife to help me.” “Hello, husband!” she said.
“I’m Mrs Macdonald.”
The genie puffed himself up
and said,
“ABC and XYZ,
It was a very loud tractor –
Cauliflower cheese and chocolate
spread.”
© Julia Donaldson and Anna Currey 2020
gga, !
Chugga chu
v ro o m v
room
The farm was very noisy too.
Quac
k quack! He rubbed his tummy
and patted his head, and a After a quick cuddle and a
tractor ride,
woman appeared. She was Old Macdonald asked, “What’s
in that suitcase?”
“All my clothes,” said Mrs Macdonald
baa!
carrying a large suitcase. . “I wish I had some
Baa
wood and a saw and a drill
and a hammer and nails.
Then I could build a wardrobe
to keep them in.”
. . . a bright red
tractor appeared.
“Thank you! Let’s go for
moo!
a ride round the farm!”
The genie
Moo
said Old Macdonald,
blocked
so they did.
his ears.
PINBOARD | SUMMER 2021 13FICTION HARDBACKS
We’ve got new titles from some of our biggest brands, and thrillers that will have you on the edge of your seat!
The six D’Aplièse sisters A former foster child with a
have each been on their dark secret she is desperate
own incredible journey to to keep, all Nell wants is to
discover their heritage, but find a place she can belong.
they still have one question So when a job comes up at
left unanswered: who and Starling Villas, home to the
where is the seventh sister? enigmatic Robin Wilder, she
The search to find the seizes the opportunity with
missing sister will take them both hands. But her new
across the globe – from New employer lives by a set of
Zealand to Canada, England, rigid rules and Nell soon sees
France and Ireland – uniting that he is hiding secrets of
them all in their mission to his own . . .
complete their family at last.
Rebecca meets The
Eagerly awaited by fans, this Handmaid’s Tale in
THE MISSING SISTER
is the seventh instalment in FRAGILE
Theakston Crime Novel
9781509840175 Lucinda Riley’s multimillion- 9781529029444 of the Year Winner
HB | £20.00 selling epic series, HB | £14.99 Sarah Hilary’s standalone
27.05.21 | Macmillan the Seven Sisters. 10.06.21 | Macmillan psychological thriller.
‘The Seven Sisters series is heart-wrenching, uplifting ‘Sarah Hilary has always known how to chill her readers
and utterly enthralling’ – Fragile dials the chill factor up to eleven’
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The arrival of Roy Grace, as Rhona MacLeod returns
played by John Simm, on in the 16th novel in Lin
ITV this March has had the Anderson’s forensic crime
Detective Superintendent’s series. After a fierce storm
many fans clamouring for hits Scotland, a mysterious
more. Luckily, they won’t cargo ship is swept ashore in
have to wait long, as Peter the Orkney Isles. Boarding
James is back with Left You the vessel uncovers three
Dead, the 17th novel in bodies, recently deceased
the series. in violent circumstances.
Forensic scientist Dr Rhona
On a perfectly normal
MacLeod’s study of the
Sunday afternoon, Eden
crime scene suggests that
Paternoster disappears
a sinister game was being
without trace, and her
played on board, but who
husband Niall is arrested
were the hunters? And who is
LEFT YOU DEAD
on suspicion of her murder. THE KILLING TIDE being hunted?
9781529004243 When Roy Grace is called in 9781529033687
HB | £20.00 to investigate, he realizes that HB | £16.99 ‘One of Scotland’s
13.05.21 | Macmillan nothing is quite as it seems in 22.07.21 | Macmillan national treasures’
his most mysterious case yet. Stuart MacBride
14 SUMMER 2021 | PINBOARDFICTION HARDBACKS
Two debuts meet two established talents in this collection of some of our favourite new fiction titles.
In these 11 stories, desire From Keith Ridgway,
and yearning animate the acclaimed author of
women’s lives – from the Hawthorn & Child, A Shock
brink of adulthood, to the is an unsparing and slippery,
labyrinthine path between 20 but thrilling and memorable
and 30, to middle age. With novel from the fringes of
powerful observation and urban life in London. For
mordant humour, New Yorker readers of Muriel Spark,
editor Clare Sestanovich Penelope Fitzgerald and
opens up worlds where Nicola Barker, Keith
intimate and uncomfortable Ridgway counts Zadie Smith
truths lie hidden in plain and Ian Rankin among his
sight. fans, and is a sure prize
contender.
This is a collection pulsing
with subtle drama, rich ‘Dramatizes how patterns
OBJECTS OF DESIRE with unforgettable scenes A SHOCK form and then disperse,
9781529053555 and alive with moments of 9781529064797 how stories are made and
HB | £14.99 recognition – a spellbinding, HB | £16.99 relationships created’
22.07.21 | Picador brilliant debut. 24.06.21 | Picador Colm Tóibín
‘Clare Sestanovich is stylish and skilled, an astute ‘A Shock is a perfect, living circle of beauty and
chronicler of contemporary life’ mystery, clearsighted and compassionate’
Brandon Taylor, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life David Hayden
As an aging artist flees Annie is single, unemployed
scandal, he discovers a and a bit stuck when
community of other outcasts her beloved father dies
on a small island, who unexpectedly. On a whim,
cannot afford to lose the she decides to take his ashes
little they have left. But on a tour of the 31 sea areas
the island is owned by a that make up the shipping
ruthless businessman and art forecast that her father
collector, whose enforced loved to listen to. Searching
rent increase threatens to for the perfect place to say
destroy the lives they are goodbye, she starts to wonder
trying to rebuild. Written if it might be time to rethink
with visual lyricism and some of the relationships in
driven clarity, this incendiary her life – but is it too late for
story about gentrification second chances?
and resistance builds to an
THE PAINTER’S FRIEND ANNIE STANLEY, ALL AT SEA Sue Teddern’s debut, Annie
unforgettable climax. It is an
9781529030921 9781529025033 Stanley, All at Sea is proof
urgent novel for our unjust
HB | £16.99 HB | £16.99 that it’s often the most
08.07.21 | Picador times from Howard Cunnell, 08.07.21 | Mantle difficult moments in life that
the acclaimed author of
show us what really matters.
Fathers and Sons.
PINBOARD | SUMMER 2021 15NON-FICTION HIGHLIGHTS
EMPIRE OF PAIN SENTIENT
9781529062489 | HB 9781529030778 | HB
£20.00 | 13.05.21 | Picador £20.00 | 10.06.21 | Picador
The Sackler name adorns The harlequin mantis
the walls of many storied shrimp can throw a punch
institutions – Harvard; that can fracture aquarium
the Metropolitan Museum walls and has the ability to
of Art; Oxford University; see a vast range of colours.
the Louvre. The great grey owl can hear
20 decibels lower than the
They are one of the richest
human ear.
families in the world, known
for their lavish donations. In Sentient, we also meet
The source of the family the four-eyed spookfish and
fortune was vague, however, until it was uncovered that its dark vision; the vampire bat and its remarkable powers
the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing of touch; the bloodhound and its hundreds of millions of
Oxycontin, the painkiller responsible for an international scent receptors, as well as the bar-tailed godwit, the common
epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a octopus, giant peacocks, cheetahs and golden orb-weaving
million people. spiders. Each of these extraordinary creatures illustrates the
sensory powers that lie dormant within us. In this captivating
In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Orwell
book, Jackie Higgins explores this evolutionary heritage and,
Prize-winner Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents
in doing so, enables us to subconsciously engage with the
the jaw-dropping reality. John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood meets
world in ways we never knew were possible.
HBO’s Succession, Empire of Pain is an unputdownable
parable of 21st century greed.
W-3 GOING WITH
9781529035872 | HB
£14.99 | 24.06.21 | Picador
THE BOYS
9781509882939 | HB
£20.00 | 27.05.21 | Picador
W-3 is a small psychiatric
ward in a large university Judith Mackrell tells the story
hospital, a world of pills of how six bold and resolute
and passes dispensed by an women became front-line
all-powerful staff, of veteran war correspondents during
patients with grab-bags the Second World War.
of tricks, of disheveled,
moment-to-moment Martha Gellhorn came to
existence. war journalism to save the
world; Virginia Cowles
In 1968, Bette Howland was wanted to see the world;
a 31-year-old single mother struggling to support her family Lee Miller wanted, arguably, to save herself. Sigrid Schulz,
as a part-time librarian, and labouring day and night at her Clare Hollingworth and Helen Kirkpatrick, reporting for
typewriter to be a writer. One afternoon, while staying at her daily newspapers, were required to write about the war in a
friend Saul Bellow’s apartment, she swallowed a bottle of pills. more briskly factual style. But they were no less determined to
W-3 is both an extraordinary portrait of the community of uncover the truth.
Ward 3, and a record of a defining moment in a writer’s life.
Drawing on the women’s own writings, Mackrell seamlessly
This beautiful edition features an original introduction weaves their stories into the larger narrative of the war, with all
by Yiyun Li, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Where its horrors, that would haunt them until the end of their lives.
Reasons End.
16 SUMMER 2021 | PINBOARDINSPIRING NON-FICTION
Told that he was too small From the cutting edge,
to play rugby league, Rob where therapy meets
Burrow went on, against neuroscience, world-
all logic, to have one of renowned author,
the most decorated careers psychotherapist and educator
in English rugby league’s Steve Biddulph shows us
modern history. Then, at 37, how to reach into the deep
he was diagnosed with motor feelings beneath our feelings,
neurone disease. and how doing so can guide
us to a more awake and free
Too Many Reasons to Live
way of living every minute of
isn’t just a rugby league
our lives.
book, or just a book for sports
fans. This is an extraordinary Using real life examples
story of love and friendship, from therapy sessions, Fully
of infinite kindness and Human demonstrates how
boundless courage – a book FULLY HUMAN
we can learn to trust the
TOO MANY
REASONS TO LIVE for anyone fighting their own 9781509884759 ‘gut reaction’ and be more
9781529073249 | HB battles, and a reminder that TPB | £14.99 in touch with our feelings,
£20.00 | 19.08.21 | Macmillan no one goes through it alone. 27.05.21 | Bluebird values and thoughts.
To celebrate Rob and his message, we’ve got a numbered Steve is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Raising Boys,
Indie Exclusive edition of Too Many Reasons to Live to offer The Secret of Happy Children and 10 Things Girls Need Most,
you, with a sprayed edge in a No. 7 design and exclusive extra and his books have sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide.
content including Rob’s list of caps.
We all know what an apple During the day, Christina
pie is made of: flour and worked with toddlers
apples and butter. They are with significant delays in
made of fats and cholesterol language development and
and proteins. They, in turn, used Augmentative and
are made of molecules Alternative Communication
of carbon, nitrogen and (AAC) devices to help them
oxygen and other chemical communicate. At night,
elements. But what are they she wondered: If dogs can
made of? Harry Cliff sets out understand words we say to
in pursuit of answers to these them, shouldn’t they be able
bigger questions. to say words to us? Can dogs
use AAC to communicate
This is a brilliantly accessible
with humans?
introduction to today’s
physics by young academic Part memoir and part how-to
HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE
and educator Harry Cliff. HOW STELLA LEARNED
guide, How Stella Learned to
PIE FROM SCRATCH Cliff teaches at the University TO TALK Talk chronicles the journey
9781529026191 | HB of Cambridge and is a 9781529053876 | HB Christina and her dog Stella
£20.00 | 05.08.21 | Macmillan research fellow at CERN. £16.99 | 24.06.21 | Bluebird have taken together.
Perfect for fans of Brian Cox, this is a transfixing deep-dive This book also reveals the techniques Christina used to teach
into the history of physics and chemistry that brought us to Stella, broken down into simple stages and actionable steps
our present understanding – and misunderstandings – any dog owner can use to start communicating with their pets.
of the world.
PINBOARD | SUMMER 2021 17KEY SUMMER PAPERBACKS
You might have missed these heavy hitters when they published in hardback over lockdown.
Luckily, they’re coming out in paperback just in time for summer, ready for any suitcase or picnic basket!
THE MERCIES
9781529075076 | PB | £8.99 | 08.07.21 | Picador
Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm and
the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. 18 months later, Absalom Cornet is summoned
from Scotland to bring the women of the island to heel. In her new home, his young wife Ursa finds
something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place flooded with
a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . . .
For readers of Circe and The Handmaid’s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Mercies is a story about
how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and about a love as dangerous as it is powerful.
SUMMERWATER
9781529035476 | PB | £8.99 | 24.06.21 | Picador
On the longest day of summer, 12 people sit cooped up with their families in a faded Scottish cabin
park. The endless rain leaves them with little to do but watch the other residents. One particular
family, a mother and daughter without the right clothes or the right manners, starts to draw attention.
Who are they? Where are they from? Should they be here at all? As darkness finally falls, something is
unravelling . . . From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater is a searing exploration of our
capacity for both kinship and cruelty in these divided times.
‘Sharp, searching, thoroughly imagined’
Hilary Mantel
THE EVENING AND THE MORNING
9781447278801 | PB | £9.99 | 05.08.21 | Pan
It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king’s grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A
young boat builder dreams of a better future after a Viking raid shatters the life he hoped for. A Norman
noblewoman follows her husband to a new land, and a monk at Shiring Abbey dreams of creating a
centre of learning admired throughout Europe. With England at the dawn of the Middle Ages, their
fates will intertwine in an epic tale of ambition, rivalry, love and hate.
30 years ago we published The Pillars of the Earth, and now in this masterful prequel international
bestseller Ken Follett takes us on a journey into a rich past, which ends where Pillars begins.
THE PULL OF THE STARS
9781529046199 | PB | £8.99 | 29.04.21 | Picador
Dublin, 1918. Over three days in the darkness and intensity of a tiny maternity ward, three women
change other’s lives as they struggle to bring new life into a fearful world ravaged by war, and watch as
their patients succumb to a deadly disease. And yet with tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and
mothers alike somehow do their impossible work, discovering that human connection and love are
possible even in the hardest of times.
Emma Donoghue is the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder, and The Pull of the Stars has
already been a Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller in hardback.
18 SUMMER 2021 | PINBOARDKEY SUMMER PAPERBACKS
FAKE LAW
9781529009989 | PB | £9.99 | 27.05.21 | Picador
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who
couldn’t be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? In a
word: no.
Thankfully, the Secret Barrister is back to debunk the lies and reveal the stupidity, malice and
incompetence behind some of the biggest legal stories of our times. Alarming, enraging and scathingly
funny, Fake Law is a vital defence against the abuse of our law, our rights and our democracy in an age
of lies.
PANDORA’S JAR
9781509873142 | PB | £9.99 | 13.05.21 | Picador
Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the starting point, classicist and broadcaster Natalie
Haynes puts women at the centre of the Greek myths. After millennia of gods and men, be they Zeus
or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, here are the stories of Hera, Athena and Artemis,
and of Medea, Phaedra, Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope. Natalie Haynes is the author of
A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
‘Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and
how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!’
Margaret Atwood
THE HARPY
9781529010237 | PB | £8.99 | 13.05.21 | Picador
Told in dazzling, musical prose, The Harpy by Megan Hunter is a dark, staggering fairy tale, at once
mythical and otherworldly and fiercely contemporary. For readers of Oyinkan Braithwaite, Ottessa
Moshfegh and Sophie Mackintosh, this is a novel of love, marriage and its failures, of power and
revenge, of metamorphosis and renewal.
‘The Harpy is brilliant . . . A deeply unsettling, excellent read’
Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under
BLACK AND BRITISH
9781529065602 | PB | £12.99 | 10.06.21 | Picador
A new edition of David Olusoga’s vital re-examination of British history, fully revised and updated, that
features a new chapter encompassing the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020
– events that put Black British history at the centre of urgent national debate. Unflinching, confronting
taboos, and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Black and British shows how the lives of black and
white Britons have been entwined for centuries.
‘[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful
clarity of style and with great force and passion’
Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday Times
PINBOARD | SUMMER 2021 19HOW TO SAVE A LIFE / THE OPHELIA GIRLS HOW TO SAVE A LIFE Eva Carter 9781529038644 | HB | £14.99 | 27.05.21 | Mantle Sometimes saving a life is only the start of the story . . . It’s nearly midnight on the eve of the millennium when 18-year-old Joel’s heart stops. A school friend, Kerry, performs CPR for almost 20 exhausting minutes, ultimately saving Joel’s life, while her best friend Tim freezes, unable to help. That moment of life and death changes the course of all three lives over the next two decades: each time Kerry, Joel and Tim believe they’ve found love, discovered their vocation, or simply moved on, their lives collide again. Because bravery isn’t just about life or death decisions; it’s also about how to keep on living afterwards. Inspired by debut author Eva Carter’s experience performing CPR on (and saving the life of) her husband when his heart stopped in bed one night, How to Save a Life is perfect for fans of Miss You by Kate Eberlen and The Man Who Didn’t Call by Rosie Walsh. ‘A love story that doesn’t shy away from the mess and complexity of real life’ Beth O’Leary, author of The Flatshare and The Switch THE OPHELIA GIRLS Jane Healey 9781529014853 | HB | £16.99 | 22.07.21 | Mantle A mother’s secret past collides with her daughter’s present in this intoxicating novel from Jane Healey, the author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor, which won the HWA Debut Crown 2020. Exploring themes of art and myth, as well as LGBTQ+ issues, this is for readers of Kate Morton and Elizabeth Macneal, as well as The Virgin Suicides, My Dark Vanessa, and Expectation. In the summer of 1973, teenage Ruth and her four friends are obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings. They spend the scorching summer days in the river by Ruth’s grand family home, pretending to be the drowning Ophelia, but by the end of the summer, real tragedy has found them. 24 years later, Ruth is a wife and mother of three children, and moves her family into her childhood home following the death of her father. It’s just the five of them until Stuart, a handsome photographer and old friend of her parents, comes to stay. And there’s something about Stuart that makes Ruth’s sick daughter Maeve feel more alive than all of her life-saving treatments put together . . . Set between two fateful summers, The Ophelia Girls is a visceral, heady exploration of illicit desire, infatuation, and the perils and power of being a young woman. 20 SUMMER 2021 | PINBOARD
YOURS CHEERFULLY | AJ PEARCE
YOURS CHEERFULLY
AJ Pearce
9781509853946 | HB | £14.99 | 24.06.21 | Picador
Introducing the long-awaited follow-up to AJ Pearce’s bestselling novel
Dear Mrs Bird, featuring the same cast of characters that stole our hearts.
Yours Cheerfully is an inspirational, funny and uplifting story of courage at
the height of World War II, a celebration of friendship, and a testament to the
strength of women and the importance of lifting each other up, even in the most
challenging times. Read on for a sneak peek in this extract!
Pan Mac Team Pick
Gillian MacKay
‘Touching, funny and a real celebration of
women’s friendship, particularly in the most
challenging of times. Wonderful!’
He leant forward, his hands on the ‘Mr Stratton,’ she said. ‘Woman Today and I had the distinct impression she
table, and seemed to look at each of us will of course do everything we possibly knew exactly how to both make her
in turn. He may not have been Winston can to support the Government, but may point and get her way in any possible
Churchill, but Mr Stratton certainly I ask how long you expect our readers situation. I decided this was a skill I very
knew how to make a speech. to wait before they are actually given a much needed to learn.
‘In summary, ladies and gentlemen,’ position? We receive letters daily from Mr Stratton again handed over to
he said, finally. ‘Your hour is here.’ women who have volunteered for the Mr Boe who stood up, only to have to
The hairs on the back of my neck Services or factory work but say they sit down almost immediately when Mr
were standing up. haven’t heard back in months.’ Stratton interrupted again, which gave
Until today I had thought we had One or two eyebrows shot up at that, the impression they were on some sort of
been doing our best. Woman’s Friend but I leant forward. It was exactly what seesaw. I watched but could hardly take
was full of tips and advice for our Kath and I had been saying earlier in anything more in.
readers on all manner of challenges the week. When I had woken up this morning,
the war had thrown at them. We had Mr Stratton didn’t turn a hair. I had been anxious about not even
even been congratulating ourselves on ‘I shall let Mr Boe answer that,’ being let into the building. Now, here
recent successes. he said. I was at the Ministry of Information,
But this was different. It was a direct Mr Boe stood briefly to say something sitting alongside journalists and editors,
call from the Government to help convoluted about the Employment meeting women who effortlessly held
recruit women to the war effort – to Exchanges doing their best in very their own in a room full of big-wigs, and
inspire them, he said. I had always difficult times, at which point Mr more than anything, being told that the
hoped to be a journalist, but I had never Stratton interrupted to suggest somewhat Government needed our help.
dreamt it would involve being part of a coldly that perhaps Mrs Edwards’ It was the clearest of calls to arms.
campaign like this. magazine could highlight the need for The Government needs you. Your
As Mr Stratton began to go into more more careers advisors. hour is here.
detail, I was already fully signed up to Mrs Edwards smiled graciously. ‘We Woman’s Friend had been asked to
the call. will, of course,’ she said. ‘Then perhaps step up to help the war effort.
After a few more minutes, he asked the bottle neck will pass.’ It was time for me to do so as well.
for questions. Several people put up Mr Stratton said that was enough
their hands and made eager enquiries, questions for now.
then, after the most enthusiastic had Having made her point and clearly Extract from
calmed down, Mrs Edwards raised an had the last word, Mrs Edwards Yours Cheerfully by AJ Pearce
elegant hand. continued to smile beatifically at him, Published 2021 by Picador
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