Frankfurt 2023: agents’ hotlists
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The King’s Road
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“‘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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
The next cookery title from this bestselling duo who have shifted five million books to date.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World (Pan Macmillan)
Decoy
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
The inside story of how Hollywood A-listers Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds bought non-league club Wrexham.
Agent David Luxton
Si Senor
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
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
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
Newest “mind-blowing” murder mystery from the bestselling Costa First Novel Award winner.
Agent Harry Illingworth
Rights UK (Bloomsbury Raven), US (Sourcebooks)
Vengence
The gripping follow-up to Mir’s bestselling début, The Khan.
Agent Abi Fellows
Rights UK (Oneworld)
@GATSBY
A gender-flipped reimagining of the jazz-age classic.
Agent Harry Illingworth
Rights UK (The Borough Press)
Daughter of Genoa
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
Darkly suspenseful début centred around a dystopian LA wellness cult “for fans of Liane Moriarty”.
Agent Ben Dunn
Atavism
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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!
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
A gripping historical mystery set in the Scottish Highlands.
Agent Jenny Brown
Rights World English (Storm)
Johnson & Alcock
Estella’s Expectations
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Latest from the RNA Contemporary Romantic Novel Award 2023 winner.
Agent Kate Nash
Rights World English (Boldwood)
A Concert for Christmas
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“‘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
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
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
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
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
“‘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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gripping psychological thriller “for fans of The Sanitorium”.
Agent Kate Shaw
Rights World English (HQ)
Anisha Accidental Detective: Holiday Adventure!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Untitled
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“‘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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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)
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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