Frankfurt 2023: agents’ hotlists

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The King’s Road

Jessica Fellowes

The Mitford Murders series author returns with a multi-generational drama set in King’s Road between the 1960s and the early Noughties, said to be inspired by Camilla Parker Bowles.

Agent Eugenie Furniss

Mont Blanc Murder Club

Fin Perry

A “middle-grade answer to The Thursday Murder Club” set in an élite Swiss boarding school from a 17-year-old début author.

Agent Eugenie Furniss

Everything You Have

Kate Ruby

“She’s young. She’s hungry. And she wants everything you have.” Workplace thriller that pits Gen X against Gen Z, as the perfect assistant becomes her boss’ worst nightmare.

Agent Eugenie Furniss

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Simon & Schuster)

The Seven

Robyn Delvey

“Gripping” début following CPS lawyer Eve Wren’s race to uncover evidence on seven infamous defendants who held the cream of the film industry hostage in a London theatre, resulting in 43 deaths.

Agent Marilia Savvides

Rights World English (Thomas & Mercer)

The Confessions

Paul Bradley Carr

Global chaos erupts when thousands of letters arrive in the mail, revealing unforgivable crimes to victims, naming the culprits. One person knows who is behind them and how to stop them before the world tears itself apart.

Agent Marilia Savvides

ACM

How to Win the Premier League

Ian Graham

From Liverpool FC’s director of research comes an insider’s account into how data has revolutionised football at the highest level.

Agent Toby Mundy

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Cornerstone)

We Are What We Eat

David Cox

A prominent nutrition researcher’s look at the cutting edge of thescience of food, arguing that the same global forces that have instigated our health and climate crises might save us.

Agent Max Edwards

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Fourth Estate)

The Dark Hours

Amy Jordan

Serial killer novel, set in Cork and featuring retired detective Julia Harte who is brought back in to investigate a crime which has shocking similarities to one of her first cases.

Agent Sara O’Keeffe

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (HQ), North America (Mira)

Hucklebrook

James Aldred

The Wainwright Prize winner’s lyrical, remarkable tale of Hucklebrook, a piece of woodland in the New Forest, told over the course of a year.

Agent Trevor Dolby

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Transworld)

The Children of the Jungle

Mat Youkee

The Guardian reporter’s definitive account of the survival of Lesly, Soleiny, Tien and Cristin—aged between 11 months and 13 years—in the Amazon jungle after a plane crash which killed their mother.

Agent Maria Cardona

Rights World English (Scribe), Russian (Azbooka), Czech (Práh Publishing)

The Agency

Wild Song

Candy Gourlay

The year is 1904, the Philippines is under American rule, and Luki’s mountain village is changing—in every way, except in what a young woman can do.

Agent Jessica Hare

Rights World (David Fickling), Philippines (Anvil), German (Rowohlt)

The Dog Squad

Clara Vulliamy

Meet Eva, Simone and Ash: best friends, budding journalists and the stars of this delightful new series about family, friends—and dogs.

Agent Jessica Hare

Rights World (HarperCollins), Dutch (Veltman)

Roman Boy

Tony Bradman

Secrets, sacrifice, survival…the action-packed story of Roman boy Lucius, exiled from Rome to the most savage province of the Empire: Britannia.

Agent Jessica Hare

Rights World English (Walker)

Children of the Stone City

Beverley Naidoo

“Thrilling, resonant and inspiring” novel about justice, privilege and the power of the young to strive for change.

Agent Jessica Hare

Rights World (HarperCollins UK & US)

Activist

Louisa Reid

A “powerful and immersive” YA verse novel about activism in all its forms, speaking out and standing up for what’s right, that tackles the sexual abuse and misogyny endemic in schools.

Agent Jessica Hare

Rights World (Guppy)

Aitken Alexander

Old Soul

Susan Barker

The Incarnations author’s latest is a “fearless” literary horror novel “reminiscent of Michel Faber’s Under the Skin crossed with No Country for Old Men and The Picture of Dorian Gray”.

Agent Emma Paterson

Rights UK (Fig Tree), US (Putnam), Germany (Suhrkamp), Greece (Psichogios), TV (A24)

Universality

Natasha Brown

Brown’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed début Assembly is a “twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power”.

Agent Emma Paterson

Rights UK (Faber), France (Grasset), Germany (Suhrkamp)

Life Hacks for Little Alien

Alice Franklin

“Heart-warming” début about the linguistic awakening of neurodiverse “Little Alien” and her growing fascination with the Voynich Manuscript—a mediaeval codex written in an unknown language and script: “for fans of Mark Haddon and Gail Honeyman”.

Agent Clare Alexander

Rights UK (riverrun), US (Little, Brown), Germany (dtv), Italy (Garzanti)

The Chain

Chimene Suleyman

Suleyman’s “spellbinding” memoir exposing one man’s control over many women and the trauma he left behind: “a devastating personal testimony and a searing indictment of persistent misogyny”.

Agent Lisa Baker

Rights UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), US & Canada (HarperCollins)

The Echoes

Evie Wyld

Prize-winner Wyld’s fourth novel has Hannah, while rebuilding her life in the wake of her partner’s unexpected death, visited by ghosts—his and those she left Australia to escape.

Agent Chris Wellbelove

Rights UK (Cape), US & Canada (Knopf)

A M Heath

Before the Night Comes

Matt Roper

In 2012, journalist Roper found a child on the side of a Brazilian motorway selling her body. She was not alone. This is his harrowing account of an unreported scandal and his efforts to help these girls.

Agent Oli Munson

Rights World English (Mirror Books)

Myths of Geography

Paul Richardson

From continents to borders to nations, Richardson breaks down mythical and imagined geographies and explains how they influence our perception of the world.

Agent Tom Killingbeck

Rights: World English (Bridge Street), Greek (Psichogios)

Spies

Calder Walton

The Harvard intelligence and geopolitics expert’s “authoritative masterclass” on the East versus West spy conflict that has been raging since 1917.

Agent Bill Hamilton

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Little, Brown), US (Simon & Schuster), Portugal (Almedina)

Hey, Zoey

Sarah Crossan

When Dolores discovers an $8,000 animatronic sex doll hidden in the garage of her marital home, she moves the husband out and the doll, Zoey, in. But when Dolores and Zoey start to talk, what surfaces runs deeper than Dolores could have ever expected.

Agent Julia Churchill

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), US (Little, Brown)

Fundamentally

Nussaibah Younis

When Nadia is tasked with de-radicalising fundamentalists in Iraq, she meets Sara, a young ISIS bride from London. A frowned-upon friendship develops in this “voice-driven, deeply original” dark comedy début.

Agent Florence Rees

Andrew Lownie Literary Agency

Flaws of Nature

Andrew Dobson

An account of everything in the animal kingdom that is self-defeating, ill-made, uneconomical and downright weird—and how natural selection has favoured it.

Agent Andrew Lownie

Rights UK (The History Press), Korea (Content Group Forest), China (Beijing Science and Technology)

Kitty’s Salon

Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner & Julia Schramel

“Gripping” true story of how the most notorious brothel in decadent Weimar Republic Berlin became a wartime spy centre with rooms wired for sound, staffed by women agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients.

Agent Andrew Lownie

Rights UK (Bonnier), US (Pegasus), France (Saint Simon), Slovenia (Beletrina), Estonia (Tanapaev)

The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold War

Ian Williams

“Thought-provoking and alarming” story of China’s new cold war.

Agent Andrew Lownie

Rights UK (Birlinn), Korea (Sejong), Taiwan (Domain)

The Army that Never Was

Taylor Downing

Bestselling historian Downing’s look at the biggest deception of theSecond World War: the plan to mislead the Germans that the invasion of Europe would come at the Pas de Calais by inventing an entirely fake army group.

Agent Andrew Lownie

Rights UK (Icon)

Bird

Tracey Curtis-Taylor

Curtis-Taylor recounts her three epic flights in a 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane from Cape Town to Goodwood in 2013, London to Australia in 2015 and a 2017 transcontinental flight across the US, and surviving a crash along the way.

Agent Andrew Lownie

Rights UK (Reach)

Andrew Nurnberg Associates

The Launch Date

Annabelle Slator

Work rivals have to partner to road test a series of dates for a new dating app, while competing for the same promotion.

Agent Silé Edwards

Rights UK (Transworld), US (Avon)

Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion

Eleanor Medhurst

From a historian and rising TikTok star, Unsuitable restores to style history the fascinating, ever-changing landscape of lesbian fashion.

Agent Gyamfia Osei

Rights World English (Hurst)

Queer Georgians:A Hidden History

Anthony Delaney

Long written out of the narrative, these are the largely untold stories of queer people living in Great Britain three centuries ago, forging communities that were full of joy and companionship as well as tragedy.

Agent Charlotte Merritt

Rights UK (Doubleday)

Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

Caroline Magennis

A meditation on the choice of not having children, and a critique of the structures that condemn women who make an active choice not to be parents.

Agent Silé Edwards

Rights UK (Icon Books), Spain (Alienta)

Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Norman Ohler

The latest from the bestselling author of Blitzed is a provocative new history of drugs and post-war America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the war on drugs.

Agent Michael Dean

Rights UK (Atlantic), US (Mariner), Brazil (Planeta), Czech Republic (Dobrovsky), Estonia (Helios), France (Payot & Rivages), Germany (KiWi), Hungary (Libri Kiado), Italy (Rizzoli), Poland (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie), Romania (Publica Com)

ASH Literary

Degrees of Engagement

Jennifer Hennessey

Début romance about 30-year-old Bianca who, when neither friends or family go to her PhD celebration after years of attending their weddings, bachelorettes and showers, fakes an engagement to brooding Xavier.

Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes

Rights World English (Headline Eternal), German (HarperCollins)

Catch Your Death

Ravena Guron

YA thriller having three girls stranded at the grand Bramble Estate in a snowstorm, who stumble into a murder plot. In a house of liars and corruption, will the girls save themselves...or learn to fit in?

Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Usborne), North America (Sourcebooks), Dutch (Uitgeverij Volt), German (Carlsen), Italian (Rizzoli Libri), South American Portuguese (Intrinseca), Russian (Eksmo), options in seven territories

Modupe Jumps

Abimbola Fashola

“Joyful” middle-grade has Modupe starting Year Seven, but instead of finding new friends and adventures she loses her confidence until an old friend devises a plan to get it back.

Agent Saffron Dodd

The Trouble With Poison

Angel Briley

YA romantasy with a murder-mystery twist has the royal poison taster blamed for the murder of the King, who must work with the only person who believes her innocence: the King’s stupidly handsome and glacially indifferent nephew.

Agent Saffron Dodd

Pigeonholed

Jake-Jamie

Début graphic novel from the TikTok star and male beauty influencer following Finley as he discovers the joy of makeup and battles toxic masculinity, homophobia and his own self-confidence.

Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes

Bell Lomax Moreton

Why It’s Okay ToTalk About Trauma

Charlie Webster

Broadcaster and abuse survivor Webster uses her own lived experience alongside advice from experts to create a compassionate companion for trauma survivors.

Agent Jo Bell

Rights World English (Welbeck)

Flayvaful

Nathaniel Smith

The Grubworks Kitchen founder, who has more than 1.1 million TikTok followers, shares the Jamaican heritage that influences his flavour-packed dishes.

Agent Jo Bell

Rights World English (Murdoch)

The Needfire

M K Hardy

The newest from the pseudonymous Scottish duo is a queer historical supernatural novel that “combines the Victorian flavour and sapphic yearning of Sarah Waters with the creeping dread of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic”.

Agent John Baker

Dancers of the Dawn

Zulekhá A Afzal

First in a “sweeping” new fantasy duology by début novelist Afzal that is a tale of dancing assassins, deadly secrets and tantalising slow burn romance: “In a world where dance can be deadly, a storm is brewing…”

Agent Lauren Gardner

Rights World English (Rock the Boat)

Inheriting Rome

Rhiannon Garth Jones

Historian Garth Jones examines the legacy of Rome from new perspectives and casts light on the modern identity crises of the US, UK and EU, and their so-called “clash of civilisations” with both Russia and Islam.

Agent Katie Fulford

The Bent Agency

Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

“‘Mean Girls’ meets murder” in an explosive new thriller set at an élite boarding school from the bestselling author of Ace of Spades.

Agent Zoë Plant

Rights US (Feiwel & Friends), UK & Commonwealth (Usborne), Brazil (V&R), Portugal (Infinito Particular)

The Queen of Ocean Parkway

Sarvenaz Tash

The 11-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn apartment building superintendent is drawn into the disappearance of one of her favourite tenants—solving the mystery takes her to Coney Island and an enigmatic fortune-telling machine.

Agent Molly Ker Hawn

Rights US (Knopf)

A Book of Moonlight and Madness

Morgan Ryan

Début, “A Discovery of Witches meets The Alice Network”, dark academia novel, set at London’s Royal Academy of Witches against the backdrop of the Second World War where a young and powerful witch races to find a magical ancient book before it falls into Nazi hands.

Agent Jenny Bent

Rights US (Viking),UK (Transworld),France (Bragelonne), Italy (Mondadori), Poland (Proszynski), world Spanish (Urano)

Pen Pal

J T Geissinger

A recently widowed woman starts receiving letters from a stranger who claims to know her,in a tense erotic thriller with a shocking twist: “‘Ghost’ meets Fifty Shades of Grey.”

Agent Jenny Bent

Rights World English (Bramble), Brazil (Arqueiro), Israel (U Sifrut She’nogaat), Portugal (ASA)

This Dark Heart

Zeena Gosrani

“Gripping and swoonworthy” Indian-inspired YA romantasy, “perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir and Tahereh Mafi”.

Agent Zoë Plant and Gemma Cooper

Rights World English (Firefly)

Bird Literary Agency

behind the sky

Megan Angharad Hunter

LGBTQ+ YA novel hailed as a “masterpiece” by Manon Steffan Ros; the Welsh original won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2021.

Agent Anwen Hooson

Rights Welsh

Busy Beetle, Slow Snail

Luned Aaron

“Gorgeous” pre-school offering from the double Tir na n-Og Awards and Wales Book of the Year winning author/illustrator.

Agent Anwen Hooson

When the Elephants Heard the Music

Colette Hiller with Paul Barton

Based on a true story—a joyous picture book about the transformative effects of pianos in an elephant sanctuary.

Agent Anwen Hooson

The Blair Partnership

The Morrigan

Kim Curran

Circe meets The Leviathan” in this atmospheric reimagining of the Morrígan that weaves Irish myths into an “empowering story of female rage and the need to scream into the night”.

Agent Bea Fitzgerald

The Actress and the Empress

Sophie Walker

Historical fiction début from the founder of the Women’s Equality Party intertwines the lives of Sisi, Empress of Austria, and Romy Schneider,the actress who played her.

Agent Hattie Grünewald

The Perfections

Lulee Ma

Compelling romantasy with a K-pop twist, set in a world where music has magic and fans have the power of life and death over their idols.

Agent Rachel Petty

Cloudhoppers

Alwia Al-Hassan

A middle-grade fantasy in which a banished cloud fae must solve the mystery behind a blight destroying the rainforest or lose his youth and immortality forever.

Agent Jordan Lees

Dark Side of the Moon

Elle Hardy

In a ground-breaking investigation into the Unification Church—colloquially known as the Moonies—journalist Elle Hardy examines how this esoteric group came to wield huge influence on the world stage, from Asia to the United States to South America.

Agent Jordan Lees

Rights US (Simon & Schuster), UK (Hurst)

Blake Friedmann

Passiontide

Monique Roffey

The Costa-winner’s “timely and fiercely alive” latest revolves around a young steel pan player being found dead at the close of carnival on a Caribbean island, compelling four women to spark a revolution.

Agent Isobel Dixon

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Harvill Secker), US (Knopf)

Happy Ending

Anne-Marie Varga

Beach Read meets ‘Emily in Paris’” rom-com about a New York writer finding her feet in contemporary London.

Agent Kate Burke

Bombshell: What We Got Wrong About the Beauty Myth and How to Make It Right

Saskia Alais

“Part cultural history and part dynamic call-to-arms” in which BBC researcher Alais takes on Western beauty ideals and the exclusion of women of colour from The Beauty Myth, and investigates what can and should be the best way forward.

Agent Juliet Pickering

Stop them Dead

Peter James

James’ latest has DS Roy Grace investigating what looks like a robbery gone wrong on an isolated farmhouse—but it is soon clear it is part of a nationwide illegal dog trading ring run by ruthless gangs.

Agent Isobel Dixon

Rights World English (Pan Macmillan), Finland (Minerva), Sweden (HarperCollins Nordic)

The Chamber

Will Dean

And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath” in a tense locked-room mystery where six experienced saturation divers are stuck inside a hyperbaric chamber which can’t be opened for days as decompression would be fatal.

Agent Kate Burke

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hodder)

CAA

The Names

Florence Knapp

“Sliding Doors” début from a Bridport Prize shortlistee following three unforgettable journeys shaped by Cora’s last-minute choice of name for her newborn son, “each heart-pounding in its own way”.

Agent Karolina Sutton

Rights under offer in nine territories

Sweat

Emma Healey

The Elizabeth is Missing author returns with a “compulsive” revenge thriller set in the fitness world that deals with the issues of coercive control and body image anxiety.

Agent Karolina Sutton

Rights UK (Hutchinson Heinemann),Greek (under offer)

Performance

Ruth Ivo

A former burlesque performer’s “fearless and visceral” memoir drawn straight from the dark heart of London’s Soho.

Agent John Ash

Rights UK (Coronet)

Red Memory

Tania Branigan

Baillie Gifford Prize-longlisted exploration of Mao’s Cultural Revolution—the invisible scar that runs through the heart of Chinese society and the souls of its citizens—from the Guardian’s foreign leader writer.

Agent Karolina Sutton

Rights UK (Faber), US (Norton), French (Editions Stock), Italian (Iperborea), Korean (Marco Polo), Portugal (Bertrand), Swedish (Norstedts)

All that Glitters

Orlando Whitfield

“Sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness” in the high-stakes art world.

Agent John Ash

Rights UK (Profile), US (Pantheon)

C&W

Let’s Make Things Better

Gidon Lev with Julie Gray

“Heartwarming and profound” book of wisdom from an 88-year-old TikTok sensation and Holocaust survivor, showing us how to foster both tolerance and hope, and ultimately heal from trauma.

Agent Richard Pike

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Pan Macmillan), North America (Hachette Go)

Cuckooland

Tom Burgis

The Kleptopia author’s newest is an exposé of a world where the rich can buy everything, even the truth. “Harrowing and hilariously absurd”, it reveals the chilling toll of a war on reality.

Agent Sophie Lambert

Rights UK & Commonwealth (HarperCollins)

Submit

Sonnet

A “landmark” account of social mores, this pseudonymous memoir of a submissive is “an unparalleled window into the hidden world of kink”.

Agent Lucy Luck

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Coronet), North America (Grand Central)

Palm Meridian

Grace Flahive

A “sapphic ‘White Lotus’ with a touch of ‘Grace & Frankie’” in which Hannah, who has had a terminal diagnosis, throws an end-of-life party including inviting Sophie, her long-lost love she hasn’t seen in 36 years.

Life Cycle of a Moth

Rowe Irvin

The Wasp Factory meets Our Endless Numbered Days” in this début centred around teenage Daughter who has been isolated and fenced off by her mother from the rest of the world; but then a red-haired stranger comes into their midst…

Agent Lucy Luck

Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency

The Nightingale Mothers

Donna Douglas

Family secrets, surprise visitors and broken hearts are just some of the challenges facing theNightingale nurses in the second title in a new trilogy set in the East London hospital in the 1950s.

Agent Caroline Sheldon

Rights UK (Penguin Random House)

Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel

Glenda Young

A murderer plays a killer game when a team of obsessive crazy golfers arrive at Helen Dexter’s Seaview Hotel in the third title in the Scarborough-set cosy crime series.

Agent Caroline Sheldon

Rights UK (Headline)

What’s Another Year

Heidi Stephens

Feuding sisters Bel and Marie are forced to spend a year together renovating the family’s rundown house on the Norfolk coast—can old wounds be healed and romance blossom for each?

Agent Caroline Sheldon

Rights UK (Headline)

The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything

Fiona Gibson

Sick of being taken for granted by her husband, a chance encounter sees Katie following her heart. Could a crumbling Scottish mansion and a handsome bookseller be just what she’s been looking for?

Agent Caroline Sheldon

Rights UK (Avon)

Clare Hulton Literary Agency

Pinch of Nom Express

Kay & Kate Allinson

The next cookery title from this bestselling duo who have shifted five million books to date.

Agent Clare Hulton

Rights World (Pan Macmillan)

Decoy

Rob Murphy

“Thrilling and atmospheric” true crime about the race to catch a dangerous sex offender in Bristol in the 1970s, by the prize-winning ITV journalist.

Agent Clare Hulton

Rights World (HarperCollins)

Fly Away, Paul

Lesley-Ann Jones

The extraordinary story of how Paul McCartney “survived The Beatles and found his wings” by the music journalist and bestselling author.

Agent Clare Hulton

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hodder)

Comfy

Chris Collins

“Next level” comfort food you’ll actually want to cook by the founder of the massively popular blog Don’t Go Bacon My Heart.

Agent Clare Hulton

Rights World (Penguin Michael Joseph)

The Life Sentence

Jackie Kabler

The sixth psychological thriller for the presenter turned bestselling author.

Agent Clare Hulton

Rights World English (HarperCollins)

Colwill & Peddle

Grandparenting: A Modern Family’s Guidebook

Terri Apter

“Warm, funny and compassionate” guide to building and maintaining lasting and healthy relationships with your children and grandchildren by psychologist and writer Apter.

Agent Kay Peddle

The Magickal Summer of Evie Edelman

Harriett de Mesquita

Sorrow and Bliss meets Convenience Store Woman via Jane Austen and Caitlin Moran” from a new voice in commercial fiction, with a fresh, neurodiverse perspective.

Agent Charlotte Colwill

Rights under offer in the UK

My Pisces Heart:A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents

Jennifer Neal

A fresh take on travel writing—taking in two decades and four continents—and an arresting and incisive story of culture shock, self-discovery and the courage that it takes to immigrate.

Agent Milly Reilly

Showstopper

Tom Ramsay

A “joyful and hilarious” queer YA romance set in the mad world of musical theatre: “for fans of Heartstopper, Gay Club and ‘Les Mis’ (the musical, not the book)”.

Agent Charlotte Colwill

The Glass Cliff: Why Women in Power are Undermined—And How to Fight Back

Sophie Williams

Uncovering the pervasive phenomenon of the glass cliff, a TEDx speaker and mangement expert offers a timely and necessary investigation into female leadership in business.

Agent Milly Reilly

Rights UK (Macmillan Business)

Curtis Brown

Sisterhood

Cathy Kelly

Two sisters. One secret. A journey to learn who they really are…bestseller Kelly’s latest explores family ties, hidden pasts and finding your voice.

Agents Jonathan Lloyd,Lucy Morris

Rights UK (HarperCollins)

Katie

Phoebe Locke

When four wealthy and influential members are poisoned at London’s most exclusive private club, a young waitress is arrested. As her personal life and upbringing are picked over in the media frenzy, those closest to her wonder how well they really knew her.

Agent Cathryn Summerhayes

Rights UK (Harvill Secker)

A Good Placeto Hide a Body

Laura Marshall

“Darkly funny” thriller from the bestselling Friend Request author which has Penny receiving a frantic phone call from her parents—when she rushes over they haven’t had a fall or forgotten their computer passwords, they’ve killed someone.

Agents Felicity Blunt, Rosie Pierce

Rights UK (Hodder), Portugal (Marcador)

You are Here

David Nicholls

A novel of “first encounters, second chances and finding the way home” from the bestselling author.

Agent Jonny Geller

Rights UK (Sceptre), Italy (Neri Pozza)

Impossible City:Paris in the 21st Century

Simon Kuper

A memoir of Parisian life and a story of the great city getting to grips with the 21st century by journalist and William Hill winner Kuper, who recently became a naturalised French citizen after living in Paris for more than two decades.

Agent Gordon Wise

Rights UK (Profile),the Netherlands (Nieuw Amsterdam)

Darley Anderson Literary Agency

Forget Me Not

Megan Murphy

Début “forced proximity rom-com” in which Elle’s grandmother’s Alzheimer’s is getting worse so she returns home to care for her, only to discover that the very annoying—but very attractive—live-in nurse Adam is also there.

Agent Rebeka Finch

In the Lake

Jack Fabian

Début horror in which six-year-old Emily collects a tiny lake creature for her bedroom aquarium but unknowingly reawakens a long-buried and dangerous presence seeking its revenge.

Agent Jade Kavanagh

Romance is Dead

Katie Bohn

Enemies-to-lovers début romance centred on Quinn who wants to get her acting career in slasher movies off the ground. But a real-life dead body was not part of the plan. Nor was her irresistible co-star cum sleuthing partner, Teddy…

Agent Tanera Simons

To Love a Liar

L V Matthews

Matthews’ third thriller is set in the Scottish Highlands with a woman found dead, another missing. Ex-undercover cop Chris is keeping secrets. But does that make him guilty of the crime he’s being accused of?

Rights under offer in the UK & Commonwealth

The Hunter

Tana French

Literary crime bestseller French’s newest has a heatwave scorching the small rural Irish town of Ardnakelty where two strangers arrive seeking their fortune. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper is drawn in once again to protect the peace.

Agent Darley Anderson

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Viking), North American (Viking), French (Calmann Levy), German (Fischer), Spanish (Alianza/Anaya)

Darley Anderson Children’s Agency

A Coal Dark Bargain

Anna Fiteni

Atmospheric historical YA romantasy début inspired by Welsh folklore in which, deep in a magical forest where time is suspended and a darkness is growing, Sabrina makes a deal with an enigmatic prince to save her sister.

Agent Lydia Silver

The Funny Thing about Love

Tom Ellen

YA with an enemies-to-lovers romance and big-hearted humour, set in the chaotic, competitive and cutthroat world of TV sketch shows.

Agent Clare Wallace

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hot Key)

King of Nothing

Nathanael Lessore

“Funny, heartfelt” contemporary teen novel about unlikely friendship and toxic masculinity: to pay him back for saving his life, bully Anton reluctantly agrees to help Matthew, the biggest misfit at school, become cool.

Agent Clare Wallace

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hot Key)

The Last Dragon

Polly Ho-Yen

Ho-Yen’s latest is a “moving and magical” middle-grade in which before she dies, the elusive last dragon on earth secretly leaves her egg in the care of a 12-year-old girl.

Agent Clare Wallace

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Knights Of)

The Doll Twin

Janine Beacham

“Gloriously gothic” middle-grade where orphan Una discovers a walking, talking, life-sized doll who looks just like her in the home of her loving new parents.

Agent Clare Wallace

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Firefly)

David Godwin Associates

The Strangers

Ekow Eshun

An examination of the forces that have shaped, constrained and transformed our understanding of Black masculinity—and how we can think beyond them.

Agent David Godwin

Rights UK (Hamish Hamilton)

Children in War

Christina Lamb

The Sunday Times chief foreign correspondent follows her prize-winning book on women in war, Our Bodies, Their Battlefield, with an equally heart-wrenching account of the ways children suffer during conflicts, with a particular focus on Ukraine.

Agent David Godwin

A History of Conducting

Paul Kildea

A social history of the conductor, viewed through the prism of the great historical and cultural shifts over the past five centuries.

Agent David Godwin

Monstrum

Lottie Mills

A début short story collection—“by turns chilling and tender, darkly atmospheric and beautifully written”—by the BBC Young Writer of the Year winner.

Agent David Godwin

Rights UK (Oneworld)

The Human Tide

Michael Pye

The story of the opening up of the south Atlantic from the 1340s and how that shaped the world and triggered questions that still haunt us of otherness, race, respect, sugar, slavery and empire.

Agent David Godwin

David Higham Associates

Who Wants to Live Forever

Hanna Thomas Uose

“Thought-provoking and supremely entertaining” début about a miracle drug which halts the ageing process and how the decision to take it, or not, changes the course of five characters’ lives.

Agent Niki Chang

Rights UK (Brazen)

Enchanted Creatures

Natalie Lawrence

Combining history, anthropology and cultural criticism, Lawrence explores the monstersof our history—from Medusa to mermaids to Godzilla—what they reveal of the human condition and why we still need them today.

Agent Jessica Woollard

Rights UK (W&N), Italian (Mondadori)

Let the Games Begin

Rufaro Faith Mazarura

A compelling, page-turning, enemies-to-lovers début rom-com set at the Athens Olympic Games as volunteer Olivia and star athlete Zeke collide together in a summer of sport, sun and sexual tension.

Agent Jemima Forrester

Rights UK (Viking),US (Flatiron), under offer in the Netherlands

Red Winter

Cameron Sullivan

A romantic and historical fantasy début featuring an irresistibly charming monster-hunting protagonist “in the vein of a queer ‘Witcher’, alongside the ambitious and meticulously researched worldbuilding of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell”.

Agent Christabel McKinley

Rights World English (Tor)

Les Normaux

Al & JJ

“Irresistibly romantic, electrically inked” graphic novel with protagonists in their late 20s: a cosy fantasy setting in an alternate Paris with the “rich jewel tones of an 1980s movie poster”.

Agent Christabel McKinley

Rights under offer in Brazil, France, Italy

David Luxton Associates

How to Win a Grand Prix

Bernie Collins

The former F1 strategist turned pundit reveals the myriad of data that is sifted through and analysed to help a driver in his bid to win the Grand Prix.

Agents David Luxton and Nick Walters

Searching for Novak

Mark Hodgkinson

Respected tennis writer Hodgkinson seeks to show us the real Novak Djokovic, both on and off the court: his regime, political beliefs, views on medicine and his achievements as one of the best men’s players of all time.

Agent Nick Waters

Tinseltown

Ian Herbert

The inside story of how Hollywood A-listers Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds bought non-league club Wrexham.

Agent David Luxton

Si Senor

Roberto Firmino

Liverpool legend Roberto “Bobby” Firmino on his life from his early beginnings in Brazil right through to his recent move to the Saudi league.

Agent David Luxton

Triumph & Tears

Oleksandr Zinchenko with Raphael Honigstein

Incredible story of Zinchenko, born one hour west of Kyiv, who has been using his influenceas one of the best footballers in the UK to help Ukraine in its effort in the ongoing war with Russia.

Agent David Luxton

DHH Literary

The Midnight King

Tariq Ashkanani

A “dark and cleverly twisty” standalone serial-killer thriller from the winner of a Bloody Scotland début award.

Agent Harry Illingworth

Rights UK (Viper)

The Last Murder at the End of the World

Stuart Turton

Newest “mind-blowing” murder mystery from the bestselling Costa First Novel Award winner.

Agent Harry Illingworth

Rights UK (Bloomsbury Raven), US (Sourcebooks)

Vengence

Saima Mir

The gripping follow-up to Mir’s bestselling début, The Khan.

Agent Abi Fellows

Rights UK (Oneworld)

@GATSBY

Jane Crowther

A gender-flipped reimagining of the jazz-age classic.

Agent Harry Illingworth

Rights UK (The Borough Press)

Daughter of Genoa

Kat Devereaux

A “glorious” novel of clandestine resistance in wartime Italy from the author of Escape to Tuscany.

Agent Broo Doherty

Rights UK (Head of Zeus)

DunnFogg

Yesterday’s Disasters

Karla Marie-Sweet

Darkly suspenseful début centred around a dystopian LA wellness cult “for fans of Liane Moriarty”.

Agent Ben Dunn

Atavism

Barney Martin

“Beautifully written and tense” début novel, “with echoes of ‘The Last of Us’ and Contact by Carl Sagan”, about a mother and son surviving in a world transformed by sound.

Agent Jack Fogg

How to Art

Kate Bryan with David Shrigley

British art historian, curator and broadcaster Bryan and artist Shrigley’s guidebook to looking at art, making art and talking about art for people who don’t like guidebooks… or maybe even art.

Agent Ben Dunn

Outsiders: How to Get What You Want When the Odds Are Stacked Against You

Dr Sunny Lee

In the vein of Quiet, a book which goes against orthodoxy and champions the party with lesser power in negotiations, by a UCL School of Management professor and expert in workplace gender and ethnicity biases.

Agent Jack Fogg

Sourdough Sophia: My Favourite Things

Sophia Handshuch

The début cookbook by the owner of the much-loved and award-winning north London bakery and rising star of the food world.

Agent Jack Fogg

Eve White Literary Agency

Zero Days

Ruth Ware

Bestseller Ware’s latest “adrenaline-fuelled” thriller has a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husband’s murderer.

Agent Eve White

Rights UK (Simon & Schuster), US, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland and three more

The Cat Who Taught Zen

James Norbury

The author/illustrator’s newest is a tale of a wise cat on the cusp of true enlightenment—a “stunning story of kindness, stillness and finding out what you really need”.

Agent Ludo Cinelli

Rights UK (Penguin Michael Joseph), US, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and nine others

Ten Times Calmer: Beat Anxiety and Change Your Life

Dr Kirren Schnack

Clinical psychologist and TikTok star Schnack’s top 10 techniques for dealing with anxiety and becoming calmer.

Agent Eve White

Rights UK (Bluebird), US, China, Croatia, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia

Einstein the Penguin: The Case of the Polar Poachers

Iona Rangeley

The latest in Rangeley and illustrator David Tazzyman’s penguin mysteries has Imogen and Arthur turning detective again to investigate a series of disappearances.

Agent Eve White

Rights UK (HarperCollins Children’s), US, Greece, Netherlands

Benny the Blue Whale: A Descent into Story, Language and the Madness of ChatGPT

Andy Stanton vs ChatGPT

Children’s author Stanton’s first adult book is a “rollicking metafictional journey through the art of storytelling…and a joyfully anarchic meditation on AI, language, literature and why we write”.

Agent Eve White

Rights UK (Oneworld), WF Howes (Audio)

The Feldstein Agency

The Solo Connection Self-Help

Frances McVeigh

With more people living solo, McVeigh provides eight essential strategies for “living your best single life in a world that’s changing fast”.

Agent Susan Feldstein

What if This Road…? Rediscovering Awe and Wonder on a Mid-life Gap Year

Susan Bennett

Memoir from Bennett of when, after a shock diagnosis, she and her husband Chris take a long-dreamed-of road trip.

Agent Susan Feldstein

Being with Cows

Dave Mountjoy

An “intensely transformational” story of how grief became gratitude in the presence of a humble herd of cows by the founder of retreats where people can meditate with cattle.

Agent Paul Feldstein

Rights World English (Bedford Square)

In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History Memoir

Carmel Maria Mc Mahon

Hybrid memoir comprised of essays, poems and photographs looking at the ways “ordinary traumas”, personal and historic, reverberate through time and resonate through a life.

Agent Paul Feldstein

Rights World English (Duckworth)

Aftermath

Martin Roper

A novel about the catastrophic effects of violence and the silence, fear and alienation left in its aftermath, from the Dublin-born novelist and founder of the University of Iowa’s Irish Writing Program.

Agent Paul Feldstein

Felicity Bryan Associates

Tell Me How You Eat

Amber Husain

Writer, cultural critic and food justice movement activist Husain’s wide-ranging deep dive into the political potential of food and eating, drawing from “deep wells of forgotten history and the intimacy of her own experience”.

Agent Angelique Tran Van Sang

Rights UK (Cornerstone), US (Atria)

Nothing But the Truth: The Science of Deceit, and Why (Some) Lying Is Good for Us

Emma Byrne

Neuroscientist Byrne shows that by understanding the science of lying we can better understand why it’s essential for human society.

Agent Carrie Plitt

Rights UK (Profile)

Untitled

Anna Hope

The fifth novel from Hope is a contemporary story of a family, a country house and the five days leading up to the funeral of the patriarch.

Agent Caroline Wood

Rights UK (Fig Tree)

The Sacred Spaces

Katie Read

A beautiful début fantasy of hope and companionship, with a gothic aesthetic, with themes of religious trauma and confronting toxic institutions—as well as a simmering enemies-to-lovers romance.

Agent Alice Caprio

The CIA:An Imperial History

Hugh Wilford

The now US-based British historian’s comprehensive account of the birth and development of the CIA, and of how America adopted a strategy of unaccountable power and secrecy at home and abroad.

Agent Sally Holloway

Rights US (Basic Books)

Georgina Capel Associates

A Reckoning

Daniel Susskind

“Sweeping” analysis full of historical insight from Susskind aiming to provide the essential guide to economic growth, offering original ideas to combat the current global slowdown.

Agent Georgina Capel

Rights UK (Allen Lane), US (Harvard University Press), simplified Chinese (China Translation)

The Forgers:The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation

Roger Moorhouse

Historian Moorhouse explores a little-known operation in the Second World War when Polish diplomats in Switzerland forged passports to save the lives of thousands of Jews.

Agent Georgina Capel

Rights UK (Bodley Head), US (Basic), Polish (Znak)

Messalina:A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery

Honor Cargill-Martin

Classicist Cargill-Martin reappraises Messalina, third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious, slandered and underestimated women of ancient Rome.

Agent Georgina Capel

Rights UK (Head of Zeus), US (Pegasus), Dutch (Omniboek), Estonian (Argo Kirijastus), Brazilian Portuguese (Planeta de Livros), Spanish (Edhasa)

New India

Shruti Kapila

A professor of history and global political thought at the University of Cambridge explores the story of India’s democracy, analysing its transformed position on the world stage and showing why it is the pivot for the new “Asian Century”.

Agent Georgina Capel

Rights UK (Allen Lane)

The Boy from the Sea

Garrett Carr

“Dazzling” novel from a major new voice in Irish literature centring on the Bonnar family, told in the communal voice of an Irish fishing town and bookended by the arrival and departure of one mesmerising boy.

Agent Irene Baldoni

Rights UK (Picador)

The Good Literary Agency

It’s Not that Radical!

Mikaela Loach

Galvanising manifesto by Global Citizen Prize nominee, hailed as one of the “most influential women in the UK climate movement”, exploring climate activism and social injustice.

Agent Kemi Ogunsanwo

Rights UK & Commonwealth (DK), Denmark (Rebel)

The Funeral Cryer

Wenyan Lu

Dark, satirical literary novel set in north-east China exploring marriage, infidelity and death.

Agent Kemi Ogunsanwo

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Atlantic), Italian (Garzanti), Russian (MTS Library), US and Canada (HarperCollins)

Transcendent

Patrick Gallagher

Middle-grade science fiction adventure following 11-year-old twin duo and unsuspecting geniuses, who set out to save the world.

Agent Kemi Ogunsanwo

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hachette Children’s)

Greene & Heaton

Shy Creatures

Clare Chambers

Chambers’ follow-up to her bestselling, Women’s Prize-longlisted Small Pleasures is set in 1964 and has art therapist Helen caught up in a slow-moving affair with a colleague—but an unusual new patient found living as a recluse is about to upend everything.

Agent Judith Murray

Rights UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), US (Morrow)

Imposter Syndrome

Joseph Knox

On the run from a shady past, Lynch arrives in London, with no money, no contacts. Then he meets a young woman who mistakes him forher brother who disappeared five years ago without a trace—but his con soon turns into an investigation.

Agent Antony Topping

Rights UK (Doubleday)

This Disaster Loves You

Richard Roper

“Poignant and funny” third novel from Roper (also a non-fiction senior commissioning editor at Headline) of a man whose wife disappeared seven years ago and his journey to find her or find out what happened—interwoven with the story of their relationship, revealing “how sometimes the biggest secretsare the ones we keep from ourselves”.

Agent Laura Williams

Rights US (Putnam)

Metamorphosy

Xenobe Purvis

The Virgin Suicidesmeets Nightbitch” in this strange and haunting literary début set in 18th-century Oxfordshire where rumour and superstition abound as villagers recount tales of five sisters transforming into dogs.

Agent Holly Faulks

Journey to Infinity

Christophe Galfard

The French physicist’s “thrilling” odyssey into the cosmos, bringing readers the freshest discoveries revealed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and taking us to galaxies more remote than any human has ever seen.

Agent Antony Topping

Rights France (Michel Lafon)

Greyhound Literary

Hirmynd, Long Going

Sophie Calon

Memoir by an exciting young Welsh writer explores the complexities of her relationship with her father from her earliest memories to his premature death, aged 55.

Agent Philip Gwyn Jones

Fixed: Our Unequal Financial System and What We Should do About It

John Campbell & Tahrun Ramadorai

Economists at Harvard and Imperial College explain how everyday financial systems around the world are designedto serve the interestsof financial service providers and theirmost sophisticated customers, at the expense of ordinary people, and what can be done about it.

Agent Philip Gwyn Jones

In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with the Britain Jonestown Massacre

Joel Gion

The tambourine-playing frontman of the cult American indie shoegaze rockers tells the fascinating story of the first 10 years of the band, plus the hazards and pleasure of life on and off the road.

Agent Natalie Galustian

Rights World English (White Rabbit)

Show Me Where it Hurts

Claire Gleeson

“Compelling” débutnovel of loss and healing that tells the story of a woman whose life implodes when her husband and the fatherof her two children destroys his own life and hers in a moment.

Agent Julia Silk

The Carnival of Lost Souls

C J Subko

Fantasy début with a rich Slavic setting. When a magical, eerie Carnival comes to their sleepy town and their friendgoes missing, Daga and Wiolka must put aside their bitter enmity tofind her.

Agent Maria Brannan

Hardman & Swainson

Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well-Lived

Beth Kempton

Japanologist Kempton draws on a thousand years of the country’s literature, culture and philosophy—and her own experiences—for a meditation of living well, or Kokoro (which translates to “heart-mind”).

Agent Caroline Hardman

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Piatkus), Arabic (Jarir), Dutch (A W Bruna), Russian (Eksmo), Spanish (Planeta), Turkish (Destek)

Stone Lands:Looking for Megaliths, Magic and Solace

Fiona Robertson

Part memoir of hunting for standing stones with her late husband, and part exploration of Britain’s prehistoric sites through folklore, history and archaeology, by long-time megalith enthusiast and Watkins publisher Robertson.

Agent Joanna Swainson

The Affable Anna Harris

Tracy Maton

“Acutely observed, dark and witty” The Talented Mr Ripley-inspired novel in which Anna, bored of her fiancé and their comfortable village life, assumes her recently deceased friend’s identity and starts an affair with the equally duplicitous Mark.

Agent Caroline Hardman

The Love Interest

Victoria Walters

Rom-com author Walter’s steamier turn in which Mr Darcy-obsessed Liv finds the inspiration for the enemies-to-lovers romance that she’s always wanted to write: her brother’s infuriating best friend Aiden, who she has absolutely no intention of falling for…

Agent Hannah Ferguson

Rights World English (Boldwood)

HHB Agency

Isolation Island

Louise Minchin

Début thriller from broadcaster, author and extreme sports enthusiast Minchin, set on a remote Scottish island where a group of celebrities arrive to take part in the most gruelling—and lucrative—reality survival show ever devised.

Agent Elly James

Rights World (Headline)

Too Many Cooks

Rosemary Shrager

Retired TV cook and amateur sleuth Prudence Bulstrode returns to her alma mater in Cornwall to teach a summer school—and finds herself embroiled in investigating a gruesome murder, committed 50 years previously.

Agent Heather Holden-Brown

Rights World (Little, Brown)

The Girl Who Never Came Back

Suzanne Goldring

Latest gripping Second World War novel from Goldring is set within the female arm of Special Executive Operations, the secret British Intelligence Agency.

Agent Heather Holden-Brown

Rights World (Bookouture)

The Sweet Polish Kitchen: A Celebration of Home Baking and Nostalgic Treats

Ren Behan

The Wild Honey and Rye author draws on her Polish background and personal love of sweet cakes and bakes for “delectable recipes from heart and home”.

Agent Heather Holden-Brown

Rights World (Pavilion)

Ruskin Park:Sylvia, Me and the BBC

Rory Cellan-Jones

Moving memoir in search of the truth behind an isolated childhood and absent father from the BBC tech journalist and “Movers & Shakers” podcaster.

Agent Elly James

Rights World (September)

Janklow & Nesbit

Signals

Dr Saira Hameed

Bestselling author Hameed tells the stories of her endocrinology patients to shine a light on the unseen ways hormones shape ourlives.

Agent Will Francis

Rights UK (Faber), Romania (Bookzone)

Superbloom

Emily Buchanan

Isaac and the Egg meets climate change” in this début from an activist and former Greenpeace employee about a young woman who, in the depths of her grief, believes her dead boyfriend has been reincarnated as a houseplant.

Agent Hayley Steed

Cloudless

Rupert Dastur

A “tender and propelled with elemental power” literary début that charts the decline of a farming family in north Wales as they wait for their eldest son Harri to return from the Iraq War.

Agent Emma Leong

Rights UK (Fig Tree)

Art Cure

Professor Daisy Fancourt

A scientific investigation of the power of art and its demonstrable benefits to our physical, mental and social health from a University College London psychobiologist and epidemiologist.

Agent Will Francis

Rights UK (Cornerstone), under offer in the Netherlands

The Black Utopians

Aaron Robertson

In “lyrical” memoir and deeply researched history, Robertson resurrects the little-known histories of two Black utopian communities: a philosophical exploration of place, ethnography, race and resilience.

Agent Julia Eagleton

Rights US (FSG), UK (Chatto)

Jenny Brown Associates

Vile Apparel

Glennis Virgo

The inaugural JBA Over 50 Début Award winner’s 16th-century, Bologna-set novel where seamstress Elena fights for justicefor a friend and battlesto become a tailor in a male-dominated society.

Agents Lisa Highton, Jenny Brown

The Golden Hour

Kate Lord Brown

An archaeologist must dig through family secrets and lies to uncover the truth of her mother’s time in wartime Cairo, while searching for the greatest tomb of all, Nefertiti’s.

Agent Lisa Highton

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Simon & Schuster)

The Phoenix Ballroom

Ruth Hogan

Bestseller Hogan’s newest is a “warm and touching” novel of hope and second chances across the generations.

Agent Lisa Highton

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Corvus), North America (Morrow), Brazil (Verus/Record)

Ocean

Polly Clark

“Masterful” novel of a family trauma, a failing marriage and an epic journey to recover all that has been lost.

Agent Jenny Brown

Rights German (Eisele), Italian (Atlantide)

The Herbalist’s Secret

Anabelle Marx

A gripping historical mystery set in the Scottish Highlands.

Agent Jenny Brown

Rights World English (Storm)

Johnson & Alcock

Estella’s Expectations

Barbara Havelocke

Gothic historical fiction retelling of Dickens’ classic by thriller writer Barbara Copperthwaite writing under a pseudonym, with a modern look at coercive relationships, identity and female anger.

Agent Hélène Butler (on behalf of Hera)

Rights World (Hera)

The Puppet Master

Sam Holland

Holland’s new thriller has a serial killer gaslighting people to death: how can you stop a killer, when they’re in your own head?

Agent Ed Wilson

Rights UK (HarperCollins), the Netherlands

The Mires

Tina Mareketi

Contemporary upmarket novel exploring societal questions around climate, migration and extremism, through the lives of three neighbouring families on a seemingly quiet street in a coastal town in New Zealand.

Agent Charlotte Seymour

Glass Houses

Francesca Reece

Second literary novel from Reece, set in rural north Wales and exploring themes of class, real estate, masculinity, sex and love as a married, wealthy Londoner rekindles an affair years later with her teenage love, a local lumberjack.

Agent Charlotte Seymour

Rights UK (Tinder Press), under offer in Germany

Plaything

Bea Setton

“Precise and propulsive” literary thriller set on a Cambridge campus, examining the slow drip of moral corruption and the dangers of pursuing knowledge of others, at all costs.

Agent Charlotte Seymour

Rights UK (Doubleday)

How to Raise a Viking

Helen Russell

A “funny and unfailingly optimistic” parenting memoir from the British writer and bestselling author of The Year of Living Danishly, exploring lessons learned from a decade of raising three children in Denmark.

Agent Anna Power

Rights UK (HarperCollins)

Jo Unwin Literary Agency

Ask Me How it Works: Frequently Asked Questions About my Open Marriage

Deepa Paul

“Compelling, tenderand spirited” memoir written with unflinching honesty and shimmering optimism about Paul’s relationships.

Agent Jo Unwin

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Viking), under offer in Germany and the Netherlands

Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

Jenny Colgan

The bestselling author’s latest festive rom-com has Carmen at a loose end: her bookshop is the location for a cheesy Christmas movie, her sister has turfed her out of their house and the love of her life has flown thousands of miles away. Will Christmas be un-jolly?

Agent Jo Unwin

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Little, Brown), US, Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway

All Us Sinners

Kate Massey

“Tough, sharp but tender” début crime novel has sex workers being murdered by a serial killer they are calling the “Ripper” and the streets creeping with fear.

Agent Jo Unwin

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Sphere)

Sunbirds

Penelope Slocombe

“Profound and page-turning” novel inspired by the real-life mystery of the nearly two dozen western travellers who disappeared in Northern India’s Kullu Valley between the mid-1990s and early 2000s.

Agent Jo Unwin

Rights Germany, under offer in the UK

The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe (MBE)

Claire Parkin

Former bestselling romance novelist Muriel and journalist Ruth are old friends, best friends—yet do they really even like each other at all? Now fate has left them sharing a north London home together, one caring for the other: will all the old emotional scars surface?

Agent Jo Unwin

Rights World English (Macmillan)

Jonathan Clowes

First Born

Maureen Duffy

Re-issue by Gollancz SF Masterworks series of Duffy’s 1981 novel, previously adapted by the BBC starring Charles Dance, aimed to coincide with the author’s 90th birthday this October.

Agent Nemonie Craven

Rights World English (Gollancz)

Considered Lives:The Way of the Journal

Frances Bingham

The Polari Prize shortlistee’s guide, based on her British Library masterclass, exploring the life-enhancing joy of journal keeping. Also on submission is Never Again Except this Once, Bingham’s new novel inspired by Colette’s lover Yssim.

Agent Nemonie Craven

Mysticism

Simon Critchley

An exploration of mysticism via Julian of Norwich, Anne Carson, Annie Dillard, Julian Cope and Krautrock from the bestselling author of What We Think About When We Think About Football.

Agent Nemonie Craven

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Profile), North America (New York Review Books), Spanish (Sexto Piso)

An AmericanBook of the Dead

Kirsten Norrie

Début novel by Norrie, also known as musician and poet MacGillivray, that is a “major arcana of death in America, shot through with bullets, black humour and an assassin-artist’s eye for detail of place and thought”.

Agent Nemonie Craven

Rights World English (Broken Sleep)

Ravage:An Astonishment of Fire

MacGillivray

A new collection of poems along with an “intriguing” novella which are an invitation “to live and breathe Norge’s last days, demons and all”.

Agent Nemonie Craven

Rights World (Bloodaxe)

Kate Hordern Literary Agency

Starlight atSnow Pine Lodge

Rachel Barnett

A “blissfully heart-warming” seasonal read set in an Alpine Lodge, about love, self-discovery, and the power of friendship; “for fans of Cathy Bramley and Jennifer Bohnet”.

Agent Anne Williams

Rights World English (Bonnier Embla)

A Death on the Home Front

Jenny Dent

The first in a series of crime novels set in a Cumbrian “Thankful Village”, to which all the men who left for the First World War returned—and where, on the night of a party to welcome their last returning hero, the body of a housemaid is found.

Agent Anne Williams

Rights World English (Northodox Press)

Under the Black Mountain

K T Fitzpatrick

First in an Australian-set crime series where Eva arrives at a cattle station in northern Queensland from England to visit her friend Connie. She gets caught up in a crime scene when her new friend, Sylvia, disappears during an outing to the eerie and mysterious Black Mountain.

Agent Kate Hordern

Rights World English (Bolinda)

Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust

David Joseph

An astonishing survey of Jewish history in Central Europe and account of the fates of the author’s family members during the Holocaust in Austria.

Agent Kate Hordern

Rights World English (Amberley)

The Spare Room

Laura Starkey

When Rosie arrives home unexpectedly early to discover her boyfriend James, the man she hopes to marry, moving out of their shared flat, she is simultaneously devastated, angry and worried: how is she going to afford the rent for their home on her own?

Agent Kate Hordern

Rights World English (Bonnier Embla), option in Denmark

Kate Nash Literary Agency

A Cottage Full of Secrets

Jane Lovering

Latest from the RNA Contemporary Romantic Novel Award 2023 winner.

Agent Kate Nash

Rights World English (Boldwood)

A Concert for Christmas

Helen Hawkins

School teacher Sophie heals from heartbreak by fleeing to the Cotswolds and organising the community choir’s Christmas concert in this heart-warming, festive début.

Agent Saskia Leach

Rights World English (Allison & Busby)

The Blame

Charlotte Langley

A début psychological suspense police thriller in which two detectives begin a love affair, only for one of them to become a prime suspect in a chilling murder.

Agent Kate Nash

Rights World English (Bedford Square), TV & film

Shot in the Dark

Anna Britton

DS Gabe Martin must solve the murder of Melanie Pirt while grappling with her own PTSD, but none of the suspects have alibis and all of them are lying. The first in a twisty début crime series.

Agent Saskia Leach

Rights World English (Canelo)

Murder in the Bookshop

Anita Davison

First in a brand new First World War cosy mystery series, introducing bookseller turned amateur sleuth Hannah Merrill and her outrageous Aunt Violet.

Agent Kate Nash

Rights World English (Boldwood)

Ki Agency

Of Jade and Dragons

Amber Chen

First in an “Iron Widow meets Ender’s Game” epic “silkpunk”/fantasy trilogy from one of WattPad’s rising stars in which 18-year-old aspiring engineer Ying’s world is torn apart when her father is murdered. Ying takes revenge into her own hands and follows the trail to the prestigious Engineers Guild, a place that harbours her father’s hidden past.

Agent Meg Davis

Rights World English (Penguin Random House)

Lorella Belli Literary Agency

Death and the Conjuror

Tom Mead

First in the 1930s-set murder and magic series in which stage magician turned part-time sleuth Joseph Spector is called upon by Scotland Yard to look into a seemingly unsolvable case of a celebrity psychiatrist killed in his locked study.

Agent Lorella Belli

Rights North America (Mysterious Press), UK & Commonwealth (Head of Zeus), audio (Highbridge), Japan (Hayakawa), Russia (AST), Slovakia (Slovenský Spisovatel), Italy (Mondadori), film

The Still Small Voice: Develop your Intuition and Find your Path to the Meaningful Life

Andrew G Marshall

Therapist, podcast host and bestselling author Marshall’s newest on helping people find their still, calm centre whenlife is spinning out of control.

Agent Lorella Belli

Sleep your Way to a Healthier Brain

Raquel Marin

Award-winning neuroscientist professor of physiology Marin explains brain health and gives reliable, relatable and complete information to help us make sleep our ally, and to improve the quality of life.

Agent Lorella Belli

Rights World Spanish (Roca Editorial)

Under the Same Moon

Aleksandra Andrejevic

Oxford University creative writing tutor Andrejevic’s “emotive and poignant” début is a fresh perspective on identity, war, migration, the position of women in society and forbidden love.

Agent Lorella Belli

The Bag of Secrets

Joy Ellis

Bestseller Ellis’ sixth Detective Matt Ballard title begins with a bag belonging to homeless woman, Old Molly, being found in a local library; a day later her body is discovered…

Agent Lorella Belli

Rights World English (Joffe), audio (Tantor)

Lewinsohn Literary Agency

Fierceland

Omar Musa

“Language-bending” ghost story and family drama set between 1998, detailing the early years of two video-game-obsessed sisters in Malaysian Borneo, and 2018, when the duo return to the country for their father’s state funeral.

Agent Becky Thomas

Rights Australia & New Zealand (Penguin Australia)

Lobster: and Other Things I’m Learning to Love

Hollie McNish

A new, wide-ranging collection of McNish’s mash-up of prose and poetry on the things we have been taught to hate.

Agent Becky Thomas

Rights World English (Fleet)

Leading Man

Justin Myers

Myers’ newest rom-com is where shy Leo is starting to come out of his shell: a gorgeous man wants to date him and he’s been given a huge project at work. Can he step into the new role of his life’s leading man?

Agent Becky Thomas

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Sphere)

Test Kitchen

Neil D A Stewart

“Deliciously haunting” whodunnit about desire and violence, mothers andmortality, set during the evening service at Michelin-starred Midgard.

Agent Becky Thomas

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Corsair)

The Cat Prince and Other Poems

Michael Pedersen

The third collection from the prize-winning poet and author of Boy Friends, about the beauty and devastation of love, loss, friendship, cats and careless joy.

Agent Becky Thomas

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Corsair), Spain (Arrebato Libros)

Luigi Bonomi Associates

You Are Fatally Invited

Ande Pliego

Début in which a locked-room mystery murder party set on a legendary thriller writer’s private island goes awry when a guest is found murdered for real—and the event planner who has her own agenda must outwit a killer who knows literally every trick in the book…

Agent Hannah Schofield

Rights North American (Bantam), UK & Commonwealth (Transworld), German (Blanvalet), Hungarian (General Press), Italian (Nord)

Then Things Went Dark

Bea Fitzgerald

Hot-headed contestants compete in a reality show to prove they’re the public’s next idol, but when one dies on camera, suddenly everyone caught on a pedestal has the farthest to fall…

Agent Hannah Schofield

Rights North American (Sourcebooks), UK & Commonwealth (Penguin Michael Joseph)

Once Upon a Legend

Ben Miller

Miller’s latest middle-grade asks what happens when giants that have been asleep for centuries suddenly come back to life? Will they be friendly, and if not, who can stop them?

Agent Luigi Bonomi

Rights World English (Simon & Schuster)

The Engraver’s Secret

Lisa Medved

Two women, a mysterious map and a family secret spanning hundreds of years—a captivating art history début thriller, inspired by the life, times and feuds of Peter Paul Rubens.

Agent Amanda Preston

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (HarperCollins Australia), Dutch (Horizon)

The One and Only Mabel Poulton

Julie Mayhew

The true story of a working-class girl from Bethnal Green who shot to fame as one of Britain’s first film stars—and then vanished overnight. Years later, she leaves two manuscripts that offera clue as to what happened.

Agent Louise Lamont

Lutyens & Rubinstein

Believe

S Govett

Psychological thriller where a woman recovering from past trauma learns that her husband has been accused of a similar crime against a woman. As the police close in, who should she trust?

Agent Jane Finigan

Rights UK (Penguin Michael Joseph), under offer in Germany

Going Home

Tom Lamont

Award-winning journalist Lamont’s début literary novel is a “beautifuland big-hearted” exploration of male friendship, father-son relationships and the shifting role of community in contemporary life.

Agent Jane Finigan

Rights UK (Sceptre)

Scattered

Aamna Mohdin

Powerful and uplifting memoir documentingthe Guardian journalist’s quest to uncover her repressed memories as a child refugee from Somalia to the UK.

Agent Jane Finigan

Rights UK (Bloomsbury)

Thirst Trap

Gráinne O’Hare

Wild nights and priceless memories—Maggie, Harley and Róise’slives spiral into chaos following the loss of their friend, in this darkly humorous début set in Belfast.

Agent Jenny Hewson

Rights under offer in the UK

Enlightenment

Sarah Perry

“Dazzling” story of love and astronomy, told over the course of 20 years through the lives of two improbable best friends, from the bestselling author of The Essex Serpent.

Agent Jenny Hewson

Rights UK (Jonathan Cape),US (Mariner)

Madeleine Milburn Agency

Lime Juice Money

Jo Morey

Upmarket suspense of raw love, betrayal, corruption and greed—“The Paper Palace meets ‘White Lotus’”—as a hearing-impaired woman is trapped in an increasingly violent relationship 5,000 miles from home in the Belizean jungle.

Agent Madeleine Milburn

What They’reSaying About You

Charlotte Imrie

Upmarket début following a privileged theatre critic who meets his unexpected downfall when he writes a vicious review of struggling performer Hayley Sinclair: “Fleishman is in Trouble mixed with the anxiety-nightmare feel of Yellowface”.

Agent Rachel Yeoh

Rights under offer in the UK & Commonwealth, Germany

Every Move You Make

C L Taylor

The only way to stop a stalker is to become one yourself in bestselling author Taylor’s 10th thriller.

Agent Madeleine Milburn

Rights World English (Avon), options in six territories

The Great Orchid Heist

Eleanor Vendrell

A rare orchid is due to bloom for the first time in captivity—as long as no one steals it first: “Casey McQuiston meets ‘Ocean’s Eleven’” in a quirky, voicey and gloriously fun heist novel with a climate-fiction twist.

Agent Hannah Todd

The Fight to Know

Ayala Panievsky

A ground-breaking guide to life in times of populist politics, manipulated information and crumbling democracies, by a Gates-Cambridge scholar and ex-Haaretz journalist.

Agent Emma Bal

Marianne Gunn O’Connor

You Were There

Sorcha Hamilton

An Irish Times journalist’s début that has the bodies of two long-missing children found in the garden of a Dublin house. Rachel tells her cousin, Maeve, a story from when they were little, about a man, a car and something else that only Maeve remembers.

Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor

I Will Blossom Anyway

Disha Bose

Follow-up to Bose’s bestseller Dirty Laundry takes in Aina’s journey from east to west and asks is it possible to be both traditional and modern or Indian and European?

Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor

Other People’s Lives

Kathleen MacMahon

The Irish Book of the Year winner’s latest novel follows two friends from childhood to motherhood as one tries to understand the reasons for her best friend’s unhappiness.

Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor

The Intelligence of Water

Veda Austin

A water researcher and artist draws on science and her Maori heritageto demonstrate that water truly is a living thing, a precious resource, to be protected and respected.

Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor

Divine Drummers

Nana Oforyatta-Ayim

Oforyatta-Ayim’s ancestors, Ghana’sDivine Drummers, were the storytellers and holders of knowledge, who shaped the way of thinking of the entire nation—she uses their centuries-old way of being to offer an antidote to individualism and a way forward for our fractured world.

Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor

Marjacq Scripts

Helen Pepper Has Lost Her Shine

Sally Brockway

There are some things in life you can’t sweep under the carpet—roadkill and adultery to name two—and 52-year-old Helen Pepper, top executive at Eastbourne’s Queen of Clean, pregnant not menopausal it turns out, should know.

Agent Catherine Pellegrino

The Party Season

S J I Holliday

Men are turning up dead after a series of one-night stands. Sex and murder abound in this festive revenge thriller.

Agent Philip Patterson

Rights World English (Hodder)

Let Me In

Claire McGowan

The bestselling thriller writer’s latest is the story of a young couple who are about to discover that in a house full of secrets there’s nowhere to hide.

Agent Diana Beaumont

Rights World English (Thomas & Mercer)

The Justice Revolution

Marianne Moore

Britain’s biggest export is its centuries-old justice system, and it’s failing us. In this part polemic, part manifesto, Moore outlines how justice can—and must—be radically changed for a more humane society.

Agent Imogen Pelham

The Grand Illusion

Syd Moore

Britain, June 1940. A secret Section W is established to exploit Hitler’s fascination with the occult. A young, sparky Daphne Devine finds herself propelled into a dangerous world of espionage, illusion and sleight of hand.

Agent Sandra Sawicka

Rights World English (Oneworld)

The Marsh Agency

IT Girls: PioneerWomen in Computing

John S Croucher

A celebration of the women who furthered computer technology, from the 19th century to the present day.

Agent For Amberley Publishing

Rights World English (Amberley)

Be Who You Are to Get What You Want

Damali Peterman

A one-of-a-kind resource for anyone who has ever been underestimated, overlooked or misunderstood at the negotiating table.

Agent For Gillian MacKenzie Agency

Rights UK, Australia and New Zealand (Bonnier), US (Putnam)

Why We Remember

Dr Charan Ranganath

A neuroscientist provides the tools we need to understand our own history, learn more effectively and heal from past trauma.

Agent For Rachel Neumann, Idea Architects

Rights UK (Faber), US (Doubleday), Arabic (Jarir), Chinese (China Citic), Korean (Gimm-Young), Portuguese/Brazil (Saraiva Educação), Portuguese/Portugal (Saída de Emergência), Romanian (Grup Media Litera), Russian (Corpus), Spanish (Planeta), Taiwanese (CommonWealth)

Acquired Tastes

Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Tompkins explores how a sense we believe is emphatically personal—taste—defines and transcends intimate histories of ethnic and racial differences.

Agent For Steve Ross Agency

Rights UK (Viking), North America (Norton)

Vanishing World

Sayaka Murata

The Convenience Store Woman author’s latest envisions an experimental city in a near-future Tokyo, in which the official method of reproduction is through artificial insemination and sex between married couples is taboo.

Agent For Aragi, Inc

Rights UK (Granta), US (Grove), Japan (Kawadew Shobo)

Morgan Green Creatives

Children in the Age of Modern War: 1780-1970

Dr Emma Butcher

Sweeping history of children in modern warfare, championing children’s voices from theFrench Revolution to the Vietnam War, by a historian specialising in war and childhood.

Agent Kirsty McLachlan

Rights World English (OUP)

Nightmares Obscura: The New Science of the Sleeping Mind

Dr Michelle Carr

Carr studies the relationship between dreams and mental health, with a deep dive into the science behind nightmares, lucid dreams and novel techniques in dream engineering.

Agent Kirsty McLachlan

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Profile), US (Henry Holt), Chinese (CITIC), Dutch (Querido Facto), Russian (MIP)

The Life and Death of the American Worker

Alice Driver

Journalist Driver chronicles the lives and deaths of immigrant essential workers at America’s largest meat and poultry processing company, exposing how immigration law and labour exploitation put growth and profit over human life.

Agent Kirsty McLachlan

Rights US andCanada (Astra)

Dig Deep: From Heartbreak to Healing in 40,000 Trees

Theresa Harold

A memoir of abuse, survival and healing: when Harold gets a job planting trees in the Canadian wilderness, she must draw on the strength she found to leave her ex-boyfriend and “reclaim the self she lost in that relationship”.

Agent Kirsty McLachlan

Buried

Sarah Ward

Standalone from the DC Childs series author in which British archaeologist Carla secures a post at a prestigious New England college but learns her predecessor died in mysterious circumstances. Then a murdered woman is discovered surrounded by charms and she is asked to lend her expertise to the investigation…

Agent Kirsty McLachlan

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Canelo Crime)

Mulcahy Sweeney Associates

Edge of Here

Kelechi Okafor

“Thrilling” collection of stories that explore contemporary Black womanhood, interweaving the modern-day with speculative concepts both ancient and futuristic by the writer, presenter, podcaster and influencer.

Agent Sallyanne Sweeney

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Trapeze)

Sing, Wild Bird, Sing

Jacqueline O’Mahony

The critically acclaimed Irish writer’s second novel, set in 1850s famine-gripped Ireland, is “a powerful, deeply moving—and timely—reminder that we can survive, and find love, even in the most unbearable of circumstances”.

Agent Sallyanne Sweeney

Rights World English (Lake Union)

The Third Perspective

Africa Brooke

An essential modern self-help guide to encourage readers to “step out of the echo chambers and into their own truths, to start embracing ‘the grey’ and the reality of our complex human existences”.

Agent Ivan Mulcahy

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Yellow Kite), US (Hachette)

Unruly

David Mitchell

The writer and comedian’s “thoughtful and funny” exploration of the rulers, founding fathers and mothers of England that examines why their sometimes “Cnut-like” behaviour still matters in contemporary Britain.

Agent Ivan Mulcahy

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Penguin Michael Joseph), US (Crown)

Gate to Kagoshima

Poppy Kuroki

A moving and adventure-filled historical romantasy that follows Isla, a young woman from Scotland, as she time-travels from 2005 to 1877 Samurai-era Japan in search of her lost ancestry.

Agent Edwina de Charnacé

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Oneworld), Italian (Sperling & Kupfer), Portuguese (Planeta)

Mushens Entertainment

I Hope This Finds You Well

Hattie Williams

A publicity assistant’s affair with a much older novelist can’t stay hidden for long, with ramifications that ripple through the rest of their lives.

Agent Juliet Mushens

Rights UK, Germany

The Woman inthe Wallpaper

Lora Jones

Two sisters are working at a wallpaper factory in 18th-century Paris when they realise the scenes in the wallpaper’s patterns are mirroring their lives.

Agent Rachel Neely

Rights UK, US, Spain

Faebound

Saara El-Arifi

BookTok star El-Arifi’s latest has two elven sisters becoming imprisoned in the hidden world of the fae where danger, and love, await.

Agent Juliet Mushens

Rights UK, US

Cold Blue

Patrick Walshe

A young journalist gets the assignment of a lifetime: a stay in a luxurious underwater hotel in the wreckage of the “RMS Titanic”. But what began as a VIP trip rapidly becomes a nightmare…

Agent Liza DeBlock

Always on my Mind

Carys Jones

A married couple decides to take their marriage to the next level by getting implants that will allow them to hear each other’s thoughts 24/7.

Agent Liza DeBlock

Rights UK

The North Literary Agency

Match Me if You Can

Sandy Barker

An enemies-to-lovers rom-com in a new, “trope-tastic” series inspired by “Call My Agent”, which centres around the cases of high-end matchmaking agency the Ever After Agency.

Agent Lina Langlee

Rights World English (Boldwood), options in Russia, Slovakia

Plot Twist

Breea Keenan

A début—“perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Beth O’Leary”—where two aspiring authors meet online and agree to spend the summer together to work on their books and forget their baggage. But, as romance unexpectedly blossoms, life has a way of throwing in one plot twist after another.

Agent Julie Fergusson

Rights World English (Headline Accent)

Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock

Maud Woolf

A “‘Barbie’ version of ‘Bladerunner’” where a washed-up star creates a 13th clone of herself, tasked with eliminating the previous dozen: “perfect for fans of ‘Orphan Black’, ‘Killing Eve’ and ‘Keeping it Real’.”

Rights World English (Angry Robot), Germany (Tor), Russia (Eksmo)

Sister of Frost and Iron

Lizy Simonen

Fantasy inspired by Finnish folklore and the epic poem “Kalevala” in which magic-less Saskia—alongside a resurrected boyfriend, a flying metal bird and a bear god—must cross a militarised borderland to save her archmage sister from the Witch of the North.

Agent Lina Langlee

A Clock Stopped Dead

J M Hall

Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma are back, this time embroiled in a race against the clock and the mystery of a disappearing charity shop: who has a secret to hide and how far will they go to keep it concealed?

Agent Mark Stanton

Rights World English (Avon)

Northbank Talent Management

All at Sea

Jonathan Whitelaw

“‘Below Deck’ meets ‘Knives Out’” destination murder mystery in which a down on his luck former action movie star joins the cast of a C-list celebrity reality TV show aboard a luxury yacht, only to find the captain murdered with a knife in his back…

Agent Elizabeth Counsell

The Italian Holiday

Catherine Mangan

Irish author Mangan’s third Italy-based novel has junior travel writer Katie sent to the idyllic island of Ponza. When a friend travelling with her is in an accident and can’t leave, Katie must choose whether to return to her old life or make a risky new start.

Agent Elizabeth Counsell

Rights World English (Sphere)

Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World

Tim Gregory

Nuclear chemist Gregory argues our species’ very survival hinges on whether we choose to unleash the potential of the atom and embrace a nuclear future.

Agent Matthew Cole

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (The Bodley Head)

Meltdown: The Collapse of Credit Suisse

Duncan Mavin

The financial journalist and Wall Street Journal columnist’s inside story of the once powerful Swiss bank that produced a conveyor belt of financial scandals and whose collapse reveals the amorality at the heart of the global banking system.

Agent Matthew Cole

Rights World English (Pan Macmillan), Dutch (Balans), simplified Chinese (CITIC)

How to Design a Universe

Catherine Heymans

The Astronomer Royal for Scotland’s investigation into how our universe is made and how improbable it is that we exist at all. Could she use a computer to simulate her reality? If she could, what are the chancesthat someone else has already created her perceived-to-be-real virtual world?

Agent Matthew Cole

Paper Literary

Wild Things

Kit Conway

“‘Tiger King’ meets Liane Moriarty” as when rumours of a prowling panther spread like wildfire through a picture-perfect community in Sevenoaks, three residents use mounting hysteria around the big cat sightings to their own ends, some more nefarious than others...

Agent Katie Greenstreet

Bad Material

Tatum Anderson

Set in 1915, a historical literary début following a young Jamaican farmer who enlists to fight in the First World War while searching for his brother; a novel of fraternal love which shines a new light on the Black experience in the conflict.

Agent Catherine Cho

The Ladie Upstairs

Jessie Elland

A “Shirley Jackson meets Bridgerton” début in which scullery drudge Anne trades her filthy downstairs existence for a job as lady’s maid—but she gets more than she bargained for when the horrors upstairs become a terrifying new reality.

Agent Katie Greenstreet

Peters, Fraser & Dunlop

Healing Season of Pottery

Yeon Somin

“Irresistible, comforting” Korean novel about an overworked screenwriter who finds solace in the art of pottery.

Agent Lisette Verhagen

Rights UK (Viking),Italy (Rizzoli), Germany (Penguin Verlag), France (LeDuc), the Netherlands (Ambo Anthos), Spain (Urano), Brazil (Record), Poland (Sonia Draga), Portugal (Porto), Denmark (Gads), Finland (Otava), Norway (Kagge), Israel (Kinneret Zmora), Russia (Eksmo)

Happiness

Danielle Steel

Uplifting novel about the choices we must make to find the life we want, by the billion-copy seller.

Agent Caroline Michel

Rights UK (Pan Macmillan), US (Ballantine), Bulgaria (Bard), France (Presses de la Cite), Poland (Znak), Germany (HarperCollins)

Time of the Child

Niall Williams

The new outing from the Booker and IMPAC longlistee is a return tothe fictional village of Faha in the west of Ireland, also the setting of his previous novels History of Rain and This is Happiness.

Agent Caroline Michel

Rights World English (Bloomsbury), German (Ullstein), Greek (Doma)

Gut Feelings: TheGame-Changing Science of Our Real Sixth Sense

Katerina Johnson

Popular science début from an interdisciplinary Oxford biologist takes the revolutionary science of the gut–brain connection and stitches it into the fabric of our emotional and social being.

Agent Kate Evans

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Hutchinson Heinemann), Spain (Paidós), under offer in Hungary and the Netherlands

Rebel Lawyer

Gisèle Halimi

“Gripping and devastatingly honest” memoir by one of France’s most celebrated feminists and human rights advocates, confidante of Simone de Beauvoir and a key figure in Choisir, the movement which brought about the legalisation of abortion in France.

Agent Dan Fenton

Rights France (PLON)

PEW Literary

Motherdom: Breaking Free of Faulty Science and Good Mother Myths

Alex Bollen

A “devastating” critique of how science and myth have been exploited to dictate the ways mothers should parent, by a former baby researcher for MORI and postnatal practitioner with the UK’s largest parenting charity.

Agent Eleanor Birne

Psychopathica: Dark and Dangerous Minds

Kevin Dutton

Cutting-edge science meets true crime from research psychologist and best-selling author Dutton, answering all the questions you’ve ever thought to ask—and some you haven’t—about psychopaths.

Agent Patrick Walsh

Rights World English (Corsair)

The Matchbox Girl

Alice Jolly

“Big, ambitious” new novel from prize-winner Jolly has 12-year-old Adelheid obsessively collecting matchboxes in Dr Asperger’s hospital for “psychically abnormal” children as nationalism is on the rise in 1930s Vienna.

Agent Eleanor Birne

Prophet of Freedom: How Rudi Gernreich Fashioned the Counterculture

Ben Miller

A new biography of Rudi Gernreich, the avant-garde American fashion designer who co-founded Mattachine, a secret society that became the first gay rights organisation in the 1950s.

Agent Doug Young

Laura’s Story

Mahvish Rukhsana

Human rights lawyer Rukhsana tells the story of Laura Hensel, a young German woman and Muslim convert who followed her husband into the heart of the Islamic caliphate.

Agent Patrick Walsh

Portobello Literary

The Ghost Lake:A Memoir of Grief, Nature and Ancestry in Rural Yorkshire

Wendy Pratt

Nature writing combined with an exploration of self in the wider context of belonging and the rural experience: a “vivid and powerful exploration of belonging, grief and the influence of landscape”.

Agent Caro Clarke

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (The Borough Press)

Feeding My Imagination: A Love Letter to Food in Children’s Books

Wenying Li

A “deliciously” nostalgic and fascinating food memoir, literary love letter and cookbook covering the author’s childhood in Singapore, and the way her love of books and food helped her find her place in the world.

Agent Caro Clarke

Abolish Westminster! It’s Time to Demand Democracy

Adam Ramsay

The Scottish journalist’s wide-ranging, carefully researched and thought-provoking investigation into the British system, a democracy in crisis and an argument for breaking up the UK.

Agent Caro Clarke

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Faber)

How We Named The Stars

Andrés N Ordorica

Set between the United States and Mexico, Ordorica’s début novel is a tender and lyrical exploration of belonging, grief and first love.

Agent Caro Clarke

Rights North America (Tin House)

These Mortal Bodies

Elspeth Wilson

An eerie, empowering story about the societal expectations enforced upon young women—and what happens when they decide to break free: “The Secret History meets ‘The Crucible’”.

Agent Caro Clarke

Rachel Mills Literary

The Walking Cure

Annabel Streets

The bestselling author of 52 Ways to Walk finds you the perfect kind of walk for your state of mind, based on science, psychology and culture.

Agent Rachel Mills

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), options in 13 territories

The Rewrite

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Aspiring author Temi is brutally dumped by boyfriend Wale so he can go on reality TV dating show “Love Villa”.Months later, after her novel is rejected, she takes a celebrity memoir ghostwriting gig. And the celeb turns out to be…Wale.

Agent Nelle Andrew

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Viking), US & Canada (Pam Dorman)

Stress: Tested

Dr Richard MacKenzie with Peter Walker

Groundbreaking research from scientist MacKenzie, writing with Guardian journalist Walker, reveals the connection between stress hormones and insulin resistance, and the impact this has on health—from diabetes to heart disease, cancers, dementia and infertility.

Agent Rachel Mills

Money Rebel

Rob Dix

The bestselling author’s surprising message that doing financially better than you ever thought possible is attainable—it just involves thinking about money in an entirely new way.

Agent Rachel Mills

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Cornerstone), Complex Chinese (Infortress)

Learn Like a…Lobster

Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis

The founders of Amazing If Career Consultancy and bestselling authors of The Squiggly Career argue that the way we are taught in school stifles curiosity and collaboration, exploration and experimentation—andwe need to reimagine a whole new way of learning.

Agent Rachel Mills

RCW

Born of Guilt

Joanna Elmy

Prize-winning Bulgarian début novel about three generations of women in the same family living through totalitarian dictatorship, democratic transition, immigration westward and searching for a place to call home.

Agent Laurence Laluyaux

Rights Bulgaria (Janet 45), Germany (Ullstein), the Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Portugal (Dom Quixote), under offer in the UK

Open, Heaven

Seán Hewitt

Acclaimed poet Hewitt’s hotly anticipated début novel has shy 16-year-old James falling in love with his troubled, charismatic friend Luke and—over the course of a year—a heady mix of desire, fantasy and fear tests the bonds of friendship and family.

Agent Matthew Marland

Rights UK (Cape), Germany (Suhrkamp)

The Bee Sting

Paul Murray

Murray’s Booker-shortlisted “tour de force”—at once a portrait of post-crash Ireland, a tragicomic saga about the ill-fated Barnes family, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.

Agent Natasha Fairweather

Rights UK (Hamish Hamilton), US (FSG), Germany (Kunstmann), Italy (Einaudi Stile Libero), the Netherlands (Meridiaan), Poland (Filtry), Portugal (Porto Editora), Ukraine (Old Lion)

Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell

Costa and Baillie Gifford winner Rundell’s first in a new middle-grade fantasy series, already being compared to C S Lewis, J R R Tolkien and Philip Pullman.

Agent Claire Wilson

Rights UK (Bloomsbury), US (Knopf), Denmark (Politikens), Estonia (Varrak), France (Gallimard Jeunesse), Germany (Fischer), Greece (Psichogios), Hungary (Mano), Israel (Utz), Italy (Rizzoli), the Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Poland (Poradnia K), Turkey (Domingo), Ukraine (Vivat), five territories at auction or under offer

Long Island

Colm Tóibín

Sequel to the million-copy-selling Brooklyn that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that we thought was gone forever.

Agent Peter Straus

Rights UK (Picador), US (Scribner), Australia (Macmillan Australia), Canada (McClelland & Stewart), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), China (Archipel), Denmark: (Gutkind), Finland (Tammi), France (Grasset), Germany (Hanser), Hungary (Park Kiadó), Italy (Einaudi), Poland (Rebis), Russia (Azbooka-Atticus), Spain (PRH), Catalan (Ara Llibres), Sweden (Norstedts), Turkey (Everest)

Rebecca Carter Literary

These Strange New Minds: How to Understand AI Systems that can Talk to You

Christopher Summerfield

In a lively, engaging first book for the general reader, an Oxford professor of neuroscience and DeepMind researcher on how our conceptions of society, knowledge and consciousness are changed by the new language-based models of AI.

Agent Rebecca Carter

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Viking), US (Viking), simplified Chinese

Robert Caskie

The Giant on the Skyline

Clover Stroud

“Beautiful, lyrical and at times magical” exploration and understanding of the many meanings of home, inspired by the author accepting the necessity to move her family to another country.

Agent Robert Caskie

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Doubleday)

The Lifeline

Libby Page

Much-anticipated sequel to Page’s hit The Lido, which explores the importance of friendship and community in coping with the difficulties that life throws at you.

Agent Robert Caskie

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Orion)

What They Don’t Teach You About Money

Claer Barrett

“Highly accessible and comprehensive” debunking of the myths that keep us stuck in financial paralysis, by a Financial Times journalist.

Agent Robert Caskie

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Ebury Edge), Germany (Goldmann), Taiwan (Infortesa), Vietnam (Alpha), Turkey (Butik)

One Last Thing

Wendy Mitchell

Part memoir, part guide from bestseller Mitchell, about the need to discuss wishes and beliefs around dying with loved ones.

Agent Robert Caskie

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Bloomsbury)

Sarah Such Literary Agency

Day Of Reckoning: How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy

Mike Wendling

The BBC’s US national digital reporter’s “searing” investigation on how conspiracy and paranoia have overtaken the increasingly mainstream American far-right.

Agent Sarah Such

Rights World English (Pluto), UK & Commonwealthexcl. Canada audio(W F Howes), North American audio (Recorded Books)

The Dog Sitter Detective Series

Antony Johnston

Two further novels in the popular Dog Sitter Detective cosy crime series by the winner of the Barker Book Award for fiction, featuring actress-turned-sleuth Gwinny accompanied by a different breed of dog in each book.

Agent Sarah Such

Rights World English (Allison & Busby)

Black to the Trails

Sabrina Pace-Humphreys

Part practical expert book, part call to action and the ultimate guide to the Black experience in trail running by the activist, ultrarunner and author of Black Sheep; a story of “rural racism, identity and hope”.

Agent Sarah Such

Just a Girl With a Gun

Maxim Jakubowski

In a “neon-washed world of seduction and secrets”, Cornelia finds herself pulled into a sinister web spun by the enigmatic organisation known only as “The Bureau”, becoming an unlikely assassin.

Agent Sarah Such

Rights World English (Telos)

Kofi and the Secret Radio Station

Jeffrey Boakye

Award-winner Boakye’s second middle-grade “full of Black joy in 1990s London’’ featuring Kofi, his family, and a group of friends with special talents.

Agent Sarah Such

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Faber)

The Shaw Agency

Sudden Light

Zoë Marriott

Adult fiction début from the award-winning YA novelist. Beautiful, haunting and immersive timeslip set in the 1920s and today, inspired by a Rossetti poem.

Agent Kate Shaw

The Midwife of Berlin

Anna Stuart

Heartbreaking Second World War novel about one woman’s bid to reunite her family after surviving the Holocaust, the sequel to the Kindle hit, The Midwife of Auschwitz.

Agent Kate Shaw

Rights World English (Bookouture),Spanish, French,Finnish.

Four Red Sweaters

Lucy Adlington

The new heartbreaking social history of the Holocaust from the bestselling author ofThe Dressmakers of Auschwitz.

Agent Kate Shaw

Rights UK, Australia &New Zealand (Ultimo Press),US (Harper)

The Hotel

Louise Mumford

Gripping psychological thriller “for fans of The Sanitorium”.

Agent Kate Shaw

Rights World English (HQ)

Anisha Accidental Detective: Holiday Adventure!

Serena Patel

The multi-award-winning bestselling children’s series continues with this latest title, a The Week Junior Book Awards winner.

Agent Kate Shaw

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Usborne)

Sheil Land

Death of an Existentialist

Steven Carroll

Multi-prize winner Carroll’s latest has an eccentric German philosopherand visiting lecturerkilled while cycling in this blend of literary whodunnit and playful examination of how to live a meaningful life in an indifferent, post-God world.

Agent Sonia Land

Rights Australia (HarperCollins Australia)

The Grimmelings

Rachael King

Middle-grade fantasy from the award-winning author has the boy whom 13-year-old Ella curses go missing in the same, sudden, unexplained way as her father did years earlier. Can Ella break the curse?

Agent Gaia Banks

Rights Australia & New Zealand (Allen & Unwin)

The Clinic

Cate Quinn

The Black Widows author’s latest has professional poker player Meg learning that her troubled megastar sister Haley has committed suicide in the world’s most exclusive rehab clinic. A disbelieving Meg goes undercover to investigate the real cause of Haley’s death.

Agent Piers Blofeld

Rights UK (Orion), US (Sourcebooks)

The Socialite Spy:In Pursuit of a King

Sarah Sigal

London, 1936. Savvy socialite and journalist Lady Pamela More embroils herself with international spies, Nazi sympathisers, the king of England and his American mistress. Does she have what it takes to survive her mission?

Agent Gaia Banks

Rights World English (Lume)

The Accidental Garden

Richard Mabey

The “godfather of British nature writing” reflects on the conflict between cultivation and autonomous nature: “vintage Mabey, maverick, intensely observed, written with an unquenchable sense of wonder”.

Agent Gaia Banks

Rights UK (Profile)

The Soho Agency

White Yams

Tracy Olabisi Coker

Three unforgettable women, childhood best friends from Sierra Leone now spread across three continents, and their search for “white yams”,a proverbial Sierra Leonean phrase for happiness.

Agent Rowan Lawton

Invasion

Frank Gardner

The BBC security correspondent’s fourth instalment of his bestselling Luke Carlton spy series where the hero is despatched to find a fellow MI6 agent lostamid a heated conflict between China and Taiwan—but with the clock ticking and global tensions boiling, nothing is as it seems.

Agent Julian Alexander

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Transworld)

The Farm

Jessica Mansour-Nahra

Leila’s partner James suggests they move to his family’s farm to help her recover after losing a pregnancy. But the property is remote, the house claustrophobic and, as her isolation grows, Leila begins to fear she isn’t the first woman James has relocated there…

Agent Marina de Pass

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Kate Mosse

The bestselling author’s sequel to The Ghost Ship, and the fourth and final novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles: an “epic story of adventure, hardship, hidden secrets, and the crossing of continents”.

Agent Mark Lucas

Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Mantle)

The Black Highway

Simon Toyne

Third outing for forensic investigator Laughton Rees and DCI Tannahill with a case identifying a torso floating in the Thames. Their search takes them close to home as secrets from Laughton’s past catch up with her and threaten all she holds dear.

Agent Alice Saunders

Rights World English (HarperCollins)

Sophie Hicks Agency

The Ski Trip

Sarah Clarke

As five university friends struggle to cope with the death of one of their own in what appears to be a tragic accident in the Alps, shocking secrets are revealed.

Agent Sophie Hicks

Rights UK (HQ)

An Inheritance of Magic

Benedict Jacka

The Alex Versus series writer’s new fantasy centres on warring heirsof super-rich dynastiesin a world where the 1% have both money—and magic.

Agent Sophie Hicks

Rights UK (Orbit), US (Ace), Germany (Blanvalet)

Lost & Found

Helen Chandler-Wilde

Journalist Chandler-Wilde was forced to re-evaluate her relationship with material things after losing all she owned in a fire. She shares the lessons learned while delving into the science behind why we acquire and hold onto possessions.

Agent Sarah Williams

Rights UK (Aster)

Harry Hardman Versus Halloween

AlexanderGordon Smith

“Hilarious, horror-filled, heartwarming”middle-grade in whichHalloween-loving Harry’s town falls under a curse where everyone turnsinto whatever they are dressed up as—and he must battle them all to save his family.

Agent Sophie Hicks

Rights UK (Relentless Media)

Juniper’s Christmas

Eoin Colfer

A new festive tale from Colfer in which one girl’s love might just be strong enough to save her family, and Father Christmas himself.

Agent Sophie Hicks

Rights UK (HarperCollins), US (Roaring Brook), French (Gallimard Jeunesse)

Susanna Lea Associates

The Symphony of Monsters

Marc Levy

“Moving and gripping” novel telling the story of a mother who comes home to find her son has been taken in modern-day Ukraine—but the motives are even bigger andmore sinister than she imagines.

Agent Susanna Lea

Rights France (Robert Laffont), Poland (Sonia Draga)

Pressure: Life Lessons from the Psychology of the Penalty Shootout

Geir Jordet

A sports scientist reveals the elaborate psychological elementsof a penalty shootout,and the universal human stress mechanismsthat it illuminates: how can we all turn a seemingly uncontrollable outcome into one that is positive and more predictable?

Agent On behalf of New River Press

Blonde Dust

Tatiana de Rosnay

The bestselling Franco-British author’s intimate and touching portrait of Marilyn Monroe told through the eyes of a young chambermaid working in Reno as the film crew arrives to shoot “The Misfits”.

Agent Susanna Lea

Rights France (Albin Michel)

Upon a Frosted Star

M A Kuzniar

“‘Swan Lake’ meets The Great Gatsby” in a reimagined fairy tale set against a wintry 1930s setting, filled with glamorous parties, a moonlit lake hiding a terrible curse and an epic love story.

Agent Thérèse Coen

Rights World English (HQ)

The Barman of the Ritz

Phillippe Collin

Novel based on the real life of Frank Meier, barman during the German occupation at Paris’ Hotel Ritz, apopular haunt of Nazis and collaborators. But Frank has a secret—he is Jewish. Can he protect himself and those he loves?

Agent Susanna Lea

Rights France (Albin Michel)

United Agents

Six Steps to the Origin of Life

Nick Lane

The University College London evolutionary biochemist’s newestbook on cutting-edge science for the general reader has him exploring how life as we know itcan emerge from nothing but water, rocks and gases.

Agent Caroline Dawnay

Rights UK (Profile) under offer in the US

A Good, Bright Wolf

Sarah Moss

“Unflinchingly honest, sharp and funny” memoir from the award-winning novelist about the return of her teenage anorexia during the Covid lockdowns.

Agent Anna Webber

Rights UK (Picador), US (FSG)

Julie Tudor is not a Psychopath

Jennifer Holdich

Julie is 49 and has a fantastic job, a beautiful house, and the man of her dreams. Sean is 25 and the love of Julie’s life. The only problem is, he thinks he’s in love with someone else. But Julie has found herself in a similar situation before and if there’s one thing Julie knows, it’s how toget rid of the competition…

Agent Ariella Feiner

Rights UK (Hodder)

The Underdog

Felicity Cloake

“Rom-com with real depth” centring on terminally single Katywho is trying to make itas a chef and totally smitten with the gorgeous Dr Dipesh Singh—despite his awful dog, Alan. When a restaurant critic putsher out of a job, Katyjoins a pet-sitting siteand falls for more than “Dishy Dip” when sheends up kidnappingAlan.

Agent Sarah Ballard

This Monster of Mine

Shalini Abeysekara

Romantasy début in which 18-year-old Sarai is beginning her Judge training under the handsome but dangerous Kadra, whose voice isthe only thing she remembers from when she was nearly murdered four years ago. Can Sarai uncover the secret of who tried to kill her, and the corruption at the heartof her society?

Agent Molly Jamieson

Rights UK (Hodderscape), German (Piper)

Watson, Little

Gun Violence in America

Jarett Kobek

A “breathtaking, incendiary novel of modern terror” from the cult author of I Hate the Internet.

Agent James Wills

The Great When(A Long London Novel)

Alan Moore

The eagerly anticipated first book from Moorein a new series about murder, madness and magic in a post-Second World War London.

Agent James Wills

Rights UK and US (Bloomsbury), Arabic (Mahrousa), Brazil (Aleph), Czech (Argo), France (Bragelonne), Poland (Czarna Owca)

The Headland

Abi Curtis

“Unforgettable, luminous and haunting” literary novel, set in an unusual seaside community on England’s south coast, about love, parenthood, solitude and how unspeakable grief can transform a life.

Agent Donald Winchester

Rights World English (Goldsmiths Press)

It Must be True Then

Luci Adams

Daisy has lost her job, boyfriend and onceclose relationship withher sister. How do you come back from that?You pretend. On Instagram. But whenshe takes a stop-gapjob as a nanny to a single father, she realises that the life she’s faking might not be what she needs after all.

Agent Megan Carroll

Rights UK (Piatkus), US (St Martin’s)

My Life is Art

Emmanuel Jal

Drawing on lessons from his remarkable life, former child soldier turned activist, author, entrepreneur and recording artist Jal provides 11 pillars for overcoming adversity and living a life of purpose.

Agent James Wills

Rights UK (Watkins), US (Catapult/Counterpoint)

WME

All the Other Mothers Hate Me

Sarah Harman

“Funny, twisted, darkand furious, Florence Grimes is the hero you didn’t know you needed.” A début about bad men, questionable decisions, heroic comebacks and crazed mother love.

Agent Hellie Ogden

33 Place Brugmann

Alice Austen

Début novel from American playwrightand filmmaker Austen weaves elements of love story, mystery and philosophical puzzles around a singular castof characters.

Agent Dorian Karchmar

Rights US (Grove),UK (Bloomsbury)

Africanfuturist

Nnedi Okorafor

The bestselling author’s genre-bending novel about a disabled Nigerian-American woman who writes a science fiction novel that catapults her to fame: a “multi-threaded metadrama examining the relationship between a story and its teller, the labyrinth of African diasporic identity, family, and what makes us human”.

Agents Angeline Rodriguez,Eric Simonoff

Rights UK (Gollancz), US (William Morrow), France (Laffont)

That Could Have Gone Better

Aiko Bethea

The executive coach teaches her readers how to be leaders “who centre connection and intentionality in their actions” in a book that “gives you the tools totap into the best version of yourself”.

Agent Suzanne Gluck

Rights US (Random House)

Don’t Be Evil:The Epic Clash at Google over AI and the Future

David Vise & Mark Malseed

Pulitzer winners Viseand Malseed—authorsof 2005’s The Google Story—return to the tech giant to examine its current at-a-crossroads state as it struggles internally with AI while its competitors threaten to upend its global dominance.

Agent Howard Yoon

The Wylie Agency

Dream Count

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Women’s Prize winner’s first novel since Americanah isan “exquisite jewel”told through four intersecting stories, each one the perspective of a woman striving to love and to live on her own terms.

Agent Sarah Chalfant

Rights UK (Fourth Estate), US (Knopf), Canada (Knopf)

Knife

Salman Rushdie

The Nobel laureate—who will make a public appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair—gives his account of the near-fatal attack which cost him his sight in one eye, ironically at an event to talk about keeping writers safe from harm.

Agent Andrew Wylie

Rights UK (Cape), US (Random House), France (Gallimard), Spain (Literatura) and 16 others

Age of Revolutions

Fareed Zakaria

The CNN host, Washington Post columnist and author argues that while today’s challenges are revolutionary and seem unprecedented, many have recurred through history. What lessons can be learned from the past? And how will our revolutionary era end?

Agent Andrew Wylie

Rights UK (Penguin), US (Norton)

Paradew

Rachel Cusk

A “path-breaking” novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.

Agent Sarah Chalfant

Rights UK (Faber), US (FSG), Canada (HarperCollins), Romania (Litera)

Tremor

Teju Cole

The new novel from the Open City author: a powerful and masterful exploration of what makes a meaningful life in a world of violence and wonder.

Agent Tracy Bohan

Rights UK (Faber), US (Random House), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Germany (Claassen), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Portugal (Quetzal), Spain (Acantilado), Sweden (Natur och Kultur)

YMU Literary

Scripted

Fearne Cotton

“Matt Haig meets ‘Fleabag’ via ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’” in the presenter’s fiction début centring on Jade, a woman who’s lost her voice in every relationship but finds it again “when she starts living, and telling, her truth”.

Agent Amanda Harris

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Penguin Michael Joseph)

Near Distance

Sindri Eldon

“Blood-soaked ‘The Last of Us’ meets ‘Starship Troopers’” science fiction in which disillusioned soldiers on Earth realise they are pawns in a brutal game between two alien races; début by Icelander Eldon, the son of musician Björk.

Agent Anna Dixon

How to Change Your Life: Lessons on Transformation from the World of High Performance

Jake Humphrey &Prof Damian Hughes

Sharing lessons fromthe world’s highest achievers, five simple steps that take you from where you are to where you want to be.

Agent Amanda Harris

Rights UK & Commonwealth (Cornerstone)

A Memoir

Marina Litvinenko

Life story of Litvinenko, from growing up in the shadow of the Kremlin, her marriage to Alexander Litvinenko, their defection to the west and the long fight for justice against the man who ordered her husband’s Polonium-20 poisoning, Vladimir Putin.

Agent Amanda Harris

Swan Dive

Cat Sims

Fight Club with a bite” women’s fiction: when alcohol creeps into our heroine’s domesticity and yummy mummy lifestyle, she’s egged on by her charismatic best friend—who may or may not have her best interests at heart…

Agents Anna Dixon