TWO ROADS is now in its third year of publishing and a recognised home for some of the best storytellers and their stories.

STORIES… Canadian writer Carrie Snyder’s Girl Runner is the moving story of the sacrifices a woman made to become an Olympic athlete in the 1920s which set the course of her life. At The Water’s Edge is the new novel from Sara Gruen,

bestselling author of Water for Elephants. Set in Scotland in the final days of World War II, three spoiled young people are suddenly catapulted into reality...

VOICES… Life, Love and The Archers is a fabulous collection of prose containing memoir, reviews, articles and even a feminist fairy story, all written

in the distinctive voice of beloved poet, Wendy Cope...

PLACES… Bookseller Jamie Kornegay’s Soil has been described as the Coen Brothers meet Crime and Punishment with a Mississippi twist. It’s all that: a

Southern tale of dreams gone wrong with an incredible sense of place. Leslie Parry’s amazing debut Church of Marvels transports us to the underbelly of

New York in 1895 and the freakshows of Coney Island...

LIVES… Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, is now tackling habits with her signature blend of research and savvy. Better Than Before lays out strategies to help us master

those habits of our everyday lives...

Every book we publish is one we want to press into readers’ hands and say ‘You must read this!’ That’s the joy of it.

LISA HIGHTON Publisher

Girl Runner is the story of Aganetha Smart, a former Olympic athlete who lives, at age 104, in a nursing home. When her quiet life is disturbedby the arrival of two young strangers, Aganetha’s memories are stirred, as she revisits the story of a woman who has followed the heart-breaking and inspiring course ofher life until the very end.

GIRL RUNNERC A R R I E S N Y D E R

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‘A beautiful homage to those forgotten women who stepped outside boundaries, and a testament to the sacrifices that paved the way for the female athletes who followed’ Quill & Quire

‘inspiring... manages to remind us of the challenges often set before women attempting to achieve the life they desire’ Globe and Mail

‘an exquisitely crafted, deeply imagined novel’ Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls

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SOILJ A M I E K O R N E G A Y

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Jay Mize is a young farmer with an estranged wife, a ruined crop and a simple dream: to farm his patch of Mississippi soil in the most responsible way possible. But things don’t go well. Stuck waist-deep in the mud, he discovers a dead body. Were Jay in his right mind, he might report the body to the police. But Jay is not in his right mind. And hasn’t been for some time...

‘Anyone from Coleridge to Twain to Faulkner to William Gay would have loved reading this book, and you will, too.’ Brad Watson, author of The Heaven of Mercury

‘a spellbinding Greek tragedy played out against the backdrop of the choked river-bottoms, sprawling fields, and dusty roads of the Mississippi Delta’ Skip Horack, author of The Eden Hunter

Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler who cleans out the privies behind the tenement houses, pulls a terrible secret out from the filthy hollows: an abandoned newborn baby. Odile Church and her sister Belle are part of a Coney Island sideshow that has long since lost its magic.Alphie wakes up groggy and confused in Blackwell’s Lunatic Asylum.

On a single night, these four strangers’ lives will become irrevocably entwined...

CHURCH OF MARVELSL E S L I E P A R R Y

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Part Sarah Waters, part Sara Gruen, Church of Marvels is a captivating story about the marvels that we all contain. Leslie Parry makes turn-of-the-century New York feel alive, vivid, and magical in this luminous debut

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AT THE WATER’S EDGE S A R A G R U E N

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From the bestselling author of Water for Elephants

Early 1945 and Philadelphia socialites Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis’s father. To Maddie’s horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father’s favour is to succeed in a venture he very publicly failed at: they will go to Scotland and hunt the Loch Ness monster. But reality is very different and soon Maddie finds herself under threat from more than bombs and monsters...

PRAISE FOR WATER FOR ELEPHANTS‘An imaginative modern fairystory teeming with eccentric characters’ The Times

‘I loved Water for Elephants’ Stephen King

Also by Sara Gruen

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Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation’s best-loved poets. Life, Love and The Archers is the best of a lifetime of her prose: recollections, reviews, essays from the light-hearted to the serious. Readers can finally meet the Enid Blyton-obsessed schoolgirl, the ambivalent daughter, the amused teacher, the sensitive journalist, the cynical romantic and the sardonic television critic.

‘entertaining and moving’ Independent on Sunday

‘wonderful, wistful and has some wisecracking one-liners’ Tatler

‘always funny and insightful’ Good Housekeeping (Best Non-Fiction Book of the Month)

‘The no-nonsense honesty, sharp insight and humour of her poetry are evident in her prose too... The writer’s life is portrayed with her signature blend of self-deprecation and wit’ The Lady

LIFE, LOVE AND THE ARCHERSrecollections, reviews and other prose

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When we change our habits, we change our lives. New York Times bestselling author Gretchen Rubin has helped millions of readers to get happier. Now she tackles the critical question: how can we make good habits and break bad ones? In a book that’scrammed with big, provocative ideas, Rubin shows readers how to create the habits that will transform their lives, identifiying the twenty-one strategies that will allow every reader to find an effective, individual fit.

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BETTER THAN BEFOREmastering the habits of our everyday lives

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‘one of the most charming and erudite authors of her generation’ Susan Cain, author of Quiet

‘thought-provoking, surprising and often funny’ Arianna Huffington

‘indispensable for anyone hoping to overhaul how they (almost unthinkingly) behave’ Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit

Also by Gretchen Rubin

In her will Elizabeth Pringle leaves her beloved house on the Scottish isle of Arran to a stranger - a young mother she’d seen pushing a pram over thirty years ago. It now falls to Martha, once the baby in that pram, to answer the question: why?

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THE LEGACY OF ELIZABETH PRINGLE K I R S T Y WA R K

What happens to a family when their lost child returns? It’s been four years

since Justin’s abduction: now, when they should be at their happiest,

how can they forgive each other and become a family again?

‘original and enthralling’ Guardian

‘suspenseful and uplifting’ Observer

‘I love this novel’ John Irving

REMEMBER ME LIKE THISB R E T A N T H O N Y J O H N S T O N

Also by Bret Anthony JohnstonCorpus Christi - Stories

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A fugitive train loaded with the plunder of a doomed people. A dazzling jewelled pendant in the form of a stylized peacock. And three men who find their carefully-wrought lives turned upside-down by three fierce women.

LOVE AND TREASUREAY E L E T WA L D M A N

WHERE MEMORIES GOwhy dementia changes everything

S A L L Y M A G N U S S O N

The Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.An inspiring memoir of a family’s love for a mother - and a searing manifesto for social change.Now with a new chapter.

‘a wonderfully imaginative writer’ Washington Post

‘Profoundly moving’ Scotsman

‘should be compulsory reading for every doctor and nurse’ Telegraph

‘An ambitious, perceptive novel’ Guardian

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Lea Carpenter

Jill Abramson

Carrie Snyder

Wendy Cope

Judy Fairbairns

Therese Anne Fowler

Bret Anthony Johnston

Jamie Kornegay

Sally Magnusson

Kirsty Wark

Judy Fairbairns

Isla Morley

Sara GruenJamie Kornegay

Leslie Parry

Randy Pausch

Emily Rapp

Gretchen Rubin

Will Schwalbe

Ayelet Waldman

Nancy Horan

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