WELCOME TO TWO ROADS. 2015 is filled with wonderful books, passionate authors – some already established, some new, all incredibly talented – and great new projects...

STORIES… Carrie Snyder’s Girl Runner is the moving story of the sacrifices a woman made to become an Olympic athlete in the 1920s. 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… Ruby is the debut novel by Cynthia Bond: voodoo, faith and racism converge in an East Texas town, where a man is forced to choose between the

sister who raised him and the disgraced woman he has loved since he was a boy. Life, Love and The Archers is the first ever collection of prose by beloved

poet Wendy Cope...

PLACES… Bookseller Jamie Kornegay’s Soil has been described as the Coen Brothers meets 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’s new international bestseller Better Than Before lays out strategies to help us master those habits of our everyday lives. Blackout is

a raw, vivid and ultimately uplifting memoir of addiction and recovery from Sarah Hepola, the Salon.com personal essays editor...

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.

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‘Right from the start, the voice of Aganetha Smart grabs you. And it doesn’t let go until the very last page of this original and moving story... it has something of the quirky charm of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ Daily Mail

‘Hurtles through the 20th century in rich technicolor... Girl Runner would be a terrific book group read, a real page-turner which is overflowing with discussion points’ We Love This Book

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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...

‘Unnerving but touching, dark yet hopeful, gritty but oh, so smooth... Mississippi independent bookstore owner Jamie Kornegay has penned a debut novel that will establish him as a major force in the pantheon of elite Southern writers’ Book Riot

‘Moving and affecting, this book will suck you in from the opening pages. It will have you wincing and pleading, hoping and laughing and is a highly accomplished debut from a distinctive new voice in American fiction’ Jon Page

The newest Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection. A New York Times bestseller

The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her, this beautiful and devastating debut offers an unflinching portrait of man’s dark acts and the promise of the redemptive power of love.

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‘Luminous... a love story about pure-hearted patience conquering insurmountable odds. Many will compare Ruby to the work of Toni Morrison ... but it may be most apt to compare Bond to Gabriel García Márquez’ Guardian

‘Stunning’ New York Times

‘You can’t help but feel that one day this book will be considered a staple of our literature, a classic’ Edwidge Danticat, author of Claire of the Sea Light

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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...

‘The only fault I can find with this book is that I’ve already finished it’ Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of Leaving Time

‘I just couldn’t put it down’ Emma, Waterstones bookseller

Also by Sara Gruen

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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‘A beautifully written tale with twists and turns I didn’t see coming... There were surprises and secrets on every corner, right to the very end. A skillful triumph, undertaken with masterful scope’ Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist

‘This quite literally marvellous novel takes you on a hallucinatory ride through old New York, until the four threads of its protagonists’ lives tangle and tighten like a noose. Irresistible’ Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room

The New York Times bestseller

How can we make good habits and break bad ones? In Better Than Before Gretchen Rubin uses herself as a guinea pig and answers some of the most pressing questions: why do I find it tough to create a habit for something I love to do? How quickly can I change a habit? With Rubin’s signature mix of rigorous research and easy humour, Better Than Before will make us eager to start work on our own habits – even before we’ve finished the book.

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BETTER THAN BEFOREmastering the habits of our everyday lives

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‘A lot of us would like a Rubin in our lives’ The Times

‘Just read this book... it’s excellent’ Viv Groskop

‘Fascinating, persuasive’ Guardian

Also by Gretchen Rubin

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For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was ‘the gasoline of all adventure’. But there was a price: she often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. The fuel she thought she needed was draining her spirit instead.A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, this is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure: the sober life she never wanted.

‘Razor-sharp... modern, raw, and painfully real... Hepola moves beyond the analysis of her addiction, making this the story of every woman’s fight to be seen for who she really is’ Kirkus (starred review)

‘I loved it’ Anne Lamott, author of Small Victories

‘Dark, funny, honest-to-the-bone’Buzzfeed

’Wise and often terrifically funny... one of the most anticipated pop cultural events of 2015’ Salon

BLACKOUTremembering the things I drank to forget

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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

‘Beautifully written’ Independent

‘Suspenseful and uplifting’ Observer

‘I love this novel’ John Irving

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Also by Bret Anthony JohnstonCorpus Christi - Stories

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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.

WHERE MEMORIES GOwhy dementia changes everything

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Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation’s best-loved poets and

now for the first time Life, Love and The Archers brings together the best of her prose – recollections, reviews

and essays taken from a lifetime of published and unpublished work.

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

‘Funny, fearless and unflinchingly truthful’ TLS (Books of the Year)

‘Inspiring’ Independent on Sunday (Books of the Year)

‘Profoundly moving’ Scotsman

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LIFE, LOVE AND THE ARCHERS

W E N D Y C O P E

Lea Carpenter

Sarah Hepola

Carrie Snyder

Wendy Cope

Judy Fairbairns

Therese Anne Fowler

Bret Anthony Johnston

JamieKornegay

Sally Magnusson

Kirsty Wark

Judy Fairbairns

Isla Morley

Sara Gruen

JamieKornegay

Leslie Parry

Cynthia Bond

Emily Rapp

Gretchen Rubin

Will Schwalbe

Ayelet Waldman

Nancy Horan

NEW ADDRESS FROM 10TH APRIL 2015Two Roads

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