Category: Katenews

Apollo/Head of Zeus published ALIEN WORLDS: How Insects Conquered the Earth and why their fate will determine our future by Steve Nicholls on 30 March 2023.  This is a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated natural history of insects.

“‘The simple fact,” Nicholls writes, ‘is that we need insects far more than they need us.’  Pollinators, predators, ecosystem engineers: insects of all kinds help shape and sustain the living world on which we all depend, whether we realise it or not … and this alien world is under terrible strain…  (This) book is an entrancing, moving exploration of the innumerable little lives flickering about us, of how they came to be here and how they may soon be lost forever.” Richard Smyth, New Scientist

On 9 May Zephyr/Head of Zeus publish Ewa Jozefkowicz‘s BENJI’S EMERALD KING, the debut novel in The Woodland Explorers Club series for readers aged 5-7.  Inspired by Forest School, this is a magical new series in which a group of friends solve mysteries and protect the animals of Willow Wish Woods.   BENJI’S EMERALD KINGS is full of friendship, adventure and learning through nature with fun illustrations by Gillian Flint on every page.

Laura Starkey‘s third novel, the ultimate forced proximity romantic comedy, THE SPARE ROOM, was published by Bonnier Embla on 6 February 2024 and has reached #7 in the Kindle Top 100, #1 simultaneously in the three sub-categories Romantic Comedy (Kindle Store), Contemporary and New Adult Romance (Books), has spent two weeks in the Kindle Top 20 and five weeks in the Kindle Top 100.  Congratulations Laura. 

Praise for THE SPARE ROOM:
“An absolutely gorgeous story – I now have a massive book hangover.  I loved it.” Jules Wake, author of The Spark
“I mean it when I say: Laura Starkey has written the most perfect romcom.  The Spare Room was not a happily ever after, it was a happily all the way through.” Suzy Krause, author of Sorry I Missed You

Jane Corry‘s  ninth novel, I DIED ON A TUESDAY, will be published by Penguin on 20 June 2024.   There’s the story that everyone believes …. and then there’s the truth.

“Compelling and deliciously dark stories of murders and secrets.” Claire Douglas
“Few writers can match Jane Corry.” Cara Hunter
“Jane Corry writes consistently enthralling stories about the dark side of family life.” Peter James

CALLING SERGEANT CROCKFORD: The Story of a 1960s Policewoman by Ruth D’Alessandro was  published by Welbeck on 1 March 2024. It’s the dawn of the Swinging Sixties. The Cold War is at its height and support for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is building. The Berkshire Constabulary’s Detective Gwen Crockford is promoted to Woman Police Sergeant in Newbury – the town at the heart of Britain’s atomic weapons programme. This is the third title in the Crockford memoir trilogy.

“For fans of Heartbeat and Call The Midwife, this is a charming policing memoir.” Judge Rinder

 Sandy Taylor’s ninth novel, RETURN TO THE IRISH BOARDING HOUSE, will be published by Bookouture on 13 May 2024.

 

 

Congratulations to Judy Summers whose third Shaw family Victorian Liverpool saga, A DAUGHTER’S PROMISE, was published by Welbeck on 12 October 2023.

“Judy is a natural storyteller.” Lyn Andrews