We are delighted to announce the publication of Angelmaker, the new novel from the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway. Featuring a cast of heroes and villains, men and women of high virtue and low morals (sometimes both simultaneously), Angelmaker is the story of a mobster’s son and a retired secret agent, teaming up to save the world.

To find out more and read the first chapter, visit http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/angelmaker/9780434020942

Praise for Angelmaker:

‘Harkaway has created a wonderfully entertaining, unguessable kaleidoscope of a novel. And e-book readers will miss the additional pleasure of a hardback that looks as gorgeously ornate as its contents.’ - The Times

‘It’s a wonderfully strange, rich piece of work - extremely entertaining and exciting - and has a wonderfully comic aspect to it as well.’  - William Gibson, New York Times

‘Distinctive, creative and blessed with the kind of imagination that leaves his novels bursting with invention, Nick Harkaway certainly isn’t an everyday author.’ - SFX

‘A very British bastardisation of Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Adams and China Miéville.’ - SciFiNow

Prepare to be amazed by this fantastic novel by the acclaimed author Marina Endicott. Scheduled to be published as a Windmill paperback in September, but if you can’t wait until then, the beautiful hardback edition is available now.

Little Women meets Water for Elephants - The Little Shadows tells the story of three sisters making their way in the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War. Setting off to make their fortune as a singing act after the untimely death of their father, the girls, Aurora, Clover and Bella, are overseen by their fond but barely coping Mama.

The sisters begin with little in their favour besides youth and hope, but each one slowly and steadily evolves into a unique and accomplished artist while navigating her way to adulthood among a cast of extraordinary charmers, charlatans, eccentrics, impresarios - and once in a rare while, a bright star with transcendent gifts.
With gorgeous prose and keen insight, Endicott lures us onto the brightly lit stage and then into the little shadows that lurk behind the curtain, and reveals how the art of vaudeville - in all its variety, madness, melodrama, and sorrow - echoes the art of life itself.

Praise for The Little Shadows:

The Little Shadows is my book of the year. Think of your favourite stories about sisters - the gravity, levity and subtlety with which the lives of siblings are woven together; Endicott puts her own spin on that.’ Helen Oyeyemi, author of Mr Fox

‘A vivid coming of age tale about the beautiful Avery sisters, thrust on the vaudeville stage after their father’s death. Set in early 20^th-century Canada, it catapults the reader into the beating heart of the travelling theatrical world - the smell of the greasepaint, heat of the spotlights, and high-wire adrenaline are near-tangible. Thrilling and moving this is a glittering jewel of a novel.’ Easy Living

The Little Shadows is a novel about art and women, and personal fulfilment and the thrill of performing… She has written an entertaining, moving and original work. - The National Post

The Little Shadows has Endicott’s wry sensibility, her pithy lyricism and her skill at pulling the rug out from under the reader’s feet. Like the previous novel, this one also concerns itself with big ideas: the point of art, sisterly and familial love and, as the war’s shadow extends and darkens, the meaning of life itself. - The Globe and Mail

It’s been chosen by STYLIST as one of their cult books for 2012, therefore it’s definately one not to be missed!

To find out more or to buy The Little Shadows, click here.

To find out more about Marina and her books, visit her website.