Dead Ink buys 'stunning' new work by Hill

Dead Ink has bought Lamb by Philip K Dick Award shortlistee Matt Hill, and a second novel. 

Publishing manager Harriet Hirshman acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Max Edwards at Aevitas Creative Management UK. The book will be published in October 2023, with the next novel following in 2025. 

Lamb is described as “a visceral literary-speculative novel of collective memory and moss-coated horror, that asks us how far we’d go to protect those we love and how intensely we are bound to those who have come before us”. 

Hill said: “I’m thrilled to bits that Lamb, a new direction for me, has found such a welcoming home in Liverpool with Dead Ink. I’ve admired Dead Ink’s ethos for a long time now, and feel both lucky and excited to be joining their list of brilliant authors. Endless thanks to my editor Harriet Hirshman, my agent Max Edwards, and the dream team bringing the novel to publication.” 

Hirshman described the book as a "masterclass in how to embrace the themes of grief and parenthood, while delivering a tale that is equal parts clever and compassionate”. Edwards said Lamb is “a stunning work, that will sit alongside works by Jenni Fagan, Martin McInnes and Julia Armfield”.