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Frankfurt 2022: agents' hotlists
Agents’ hotlists: the books agencies are backing to fly at Frankfurt.
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The Grief Doctor
Début thriller about a man who travels to a remote island to see a controversial therapist for his grief—but Arthur finds he can’t leave until Dr Codelle says he is all better…
Agent Marilia Savvides
The Blackbirds of St Giles
Historical saga set in the little-known world of Georgian London’s Black community.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
What Women Want: Conversations on Desire, Power, Love and Growth
A psychotherapist answers Freud’s question, “What does a woman want?” by telling the stories of seven of her patients.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Hutchinson Heinemann), Germany (Rowohlt), Poland (Insignis)
Fyneshade
First standalone from the Kitty Peck series author is a “knowing” twist on the Victorian Gothic thriller and a ghost story inspired by The Turn of the Screw.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Viper)
Thanks for Sharing
“Absorbing and entertaining” guide by journalist turned gig-economy consultant Tucker, who explores apps and websites that let you swap, borrow or rent things instead of buying.
Agent Emily MacDonald
Rights World English (Aurum)
ACM
The Trap
The bestselling thriller writer’s newest focuses on the disappearance of three women, the last of whom is Lisa’s sister. Bereft, Lisa is determined to find the truth—but how far does she have to go?
Agent Sara O’Keefe
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Transworld), North America (Blackstone)
Down with the System
The memoir from the frontman of metal icons System of a Down promises to be “far more than a rock ’n’ roll fable: it’s an immigrant’s tale, a story of the American Dream and an activist’s awakening”.
Agent Max Edwards
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Headline), North America (Hachette), Brazil (Buzz Editora)
The Hall of Broken Mirrors
The follow-up to the award-winning look at the post-Cold War rise of populism The Light That Failed, this is a deeper examination of identity politics, including the causes and consequences of Putin’s identity war against Ukraine.
Agent Toby Mundy
Rights World English (Penguin Press), German (Ullstein), Dutch (Atlas Contact), Italian (Mondadori), Spanish (Debate), Polish (Krytyka Polityczna), Japanese (Choukoron Shinsha)
The People Hacker
The story of Radcliffe, who for more than 30 years has worked for governments, multinational corporations and private intelligence networks, testing their security.
Agent Trevor Dolby
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Simon & Schuster)
The Perfect Daughter
A “riveting story of family expectations and manipulation”. When a sex tape goes viral in a high school, Sophia leads a demonstration against the school and its principal—but she soon vanishes and the boy accused of leaking the video is killed.
Agent Maria Cardona
Rights World Spanish (Ediciones Destino/Planeta)
Aitken Alexander
The Trading Game
In 2011, 25-year-old Stevenson became Citibank’s most profitable trader in the world. In 2014, he gave it all up. Why would a millionaire trader give up a job he has dreamed of since being a kid?
Agent Chris Wellbelove
Rights UK (Allen Lane), US (Crown), Germany (Ariston, Heyne), Japan (Hayakawa), Netherlands (Ambo Anthos)
The Anniversary
Literary psychological suspense about an ascendant writer, the sudden death of her husband, and what it takes to emerge on her own. “For fans of Lisa Halliday and Patricia Highsmith.”
Agent Emma Paterson
Rights UK (W&N), US (Grove), Australia (Hachette), Germany (dvt), Italy (Marsilio), Romania (Trei)
Hungry Ghosts
From an “unforgettable” new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding in 1940s Trinidad—and a chilling mystery that shows how interconnected their lives truly are.
Agent Chris Wellbelove
Rights UK (Bloomsbury), US (Ecco), Czech (Leda)
The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
In 1943, a women’s orchestra was formed at one of the most brutal death camps ever created on the order of German SS officers. Some 47 or so young girls played in this hotch-potch band of hurriedly assembled instruments. For almost all of them, it saved their lives.
Agent Clare Alexander
Rights UK (Weidenfeld), US (St Martin’s)
A House for Alice
“Acute, deft and stunning” new outing from Evans, centring around a matriarch’s dream of a house in Nigeria in which to end her days, and the conflict that creates among her daughters about whether she should leave or stay near them in London.
Agent Clare Alexander
Rights UK (Chatto)
A M Heath
How Migration Really Works
A global and revelatory exploration of the past, present and future of migration, which aims to correct decades of bad thinking, political duplicity and misguided policy on the subject.
Agent Tom Killingbeck
Rights UK (Viking), Dutch (Het Spectrum), French (Albin Michel), German (S Fischer), Spanish (Ediciones Peninsula); Chinese and Portuguese under offer
In Search of Lost Music
A global history of humanity, told through the archaeology of musical instruments, in 60 microhistories/detective stories by a Cambridge academic, archaeologist and musicologist.
Agent Bill Hamilton
Rights UK (The Bodley Head), US (Knopf), German (Piper Verlag), Italian (Garzanti)
Though the Bodies Fall
“Haunting” literary début written in deceptively simple language, full of quiet power and lyricism, “with nods to the writing of Claire Keegan and Sara Baume”.
Agent Euan Thorneycroft
Rights UK (Granta)
Best of Friends
The “spirit of Elena Ferrante haunts a dazzling” story of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people from the Women’s Prize winner.
Agent Victoria Hobbs
Rights UK (Bloomsbury), US (Riverhead), Arabic (Dar Al Tanweer), Dutch (Signatuur), Finnish (Gummerus), Italian (Astoria), Portuguese [Brazil] (Grua Livros), Romania (Editura Prestige)
Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy
The definitive full-length biography of Plato, written by renowned Greek scholar Waterfield.
Agent Bill Hamilton
Rights World English (OUP US), Dutch (Athenaeum), Greek (Patakis)
Andrew Lownie
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War
From Spain to Syria, the thrilling, untold history.
Agent Andrew Lownie
Rights UK (Hurst), US (Pegasus), Israel (Kinneret Zmora), Hungary (Europa Kiado), France (Nouveau Monde)
Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II
A major revisionist history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian, arguing that the US and Britain’s strategy of supporting Stalin and his armies at all costs was ultimately self-defeating.
Agent Andrew Lownie
Rights US (Basic), UK (Penguin), Turkey (Kronik), Germany (Antaios) and five others
Agent Sniper: The Best Spy the West Ever Lost
By veteran investigative reporter Tate, the story of Michal Goleniewski, “one of the West’s most valuable counter-intelligence sources” and “the best defector the CIA ever had” .
Agent Andrew Lownie
Rights UK (Transworld), US (St Martin’s)
Bird
The memoirs of British aviator Curtis-Taylor, who became famous in the 2010s for three epic, long-distance flights in a 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane.
Agent Andrew Lownie
Rights UK (Reach)
Syndrome K: How Italy Resisted the Final Solution
The first book in English that tells the complete story of the Holocaust in Italy.
Agent Andrew Lownie
Rights UK (The History Press), Italy (Longanesi)
Andrew Nurnberg Associates
The Devil’s Playground
A gripping, complex Gothic thriller set in Silent-Era Hollywood from the winner of the 2021 McIlvanney Prize.
Agent Jenny Savill
Rights UK (Constable), US (Doubleday), Spain (Roca)
Looking Glass Sound
A mind-bending, cleverly crafted psychological horror novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial.
Agent Jenny Savill
Rights UK (Viper), US (Tor)
The West: A New HIstory in Twelve Lives
“Bold” retelling of the history of the West, spanning from Ancient Greece to the present day.
Agent Charlotte Merritt
Rights UK (Ebury), US (Dutton), Korea (Open Books/Mimesis), Portugal (Saida de Emergencia)
5 Arguments All Couples (Need to) Have
The experienced couples’ therapist’s indispensable guide to rethinking our relationships.
Agent Charlotte Merritt
Rights UK (Souvenir Press), China (China Translation & Publishing House), Portugal (Pergaminho), Romania (Editura Trei), Russia (Eksmo), Ukraine (Family Leisure Club)
The Secret Agent
The professional insight of The Secret Barrister crossed with the wry wit of “Call My Agent” in an anonymous memoir offering an insider’s view to the machinations of the super-prime property business.
Agent Charlotte Merritt
Rights UK (Headline)
The Bent Agency
Greta & Valdin
“Incisive and generous” literary novel that follows the romantic misadventures of the titular twenty-something siblings and their eccentric Māori-Russian-Catalonian family. A bestseller and award-winner in Reilly’s native New Zealand.
Agent Martha Perotto-Wills
Rights New Zealand (Te Herenga Waka University Press)
A Guide to Solving Your Own Murder
“Charming and devious” cosy crime novel about the race to find a killer when a fortune-teller’s murderous prediction comes true.
Agent Zoë Plant
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Quercus), Germany (Rowohlt)
Now, Conjurers
YA/crossover cosmic horror novel about love, loss and gay goth friends fighting “the unknowable evils that lurk at the edge of human comprehension”.
Agents Molly Ker Hawn, Martha Perotto-Wills
Rights US & Canada (Union Square)
The Beanstalk Murders
“The BFG meets ‘Knives Out’” humorous middle-grade fantasy. Two apprentice witches have to solve the murder of a dead giant prince.
Agent Gemma Cooper
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Usborne), US & Canada (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan Children’s)
The Blair Partnership
The Sweetest Revenge
“‘Bridesmaids’ meets ‘Emily in Paris’.” Amy flees to London after a misjudged act of revenge on her ex ends her career, but just as she is getting her life together, her past catches up with her...
Agent Hattie Grunewald
Rights US (Putnam)
Their House
A YouTuber couple is gifted a beautiful chateau in France, only to find the fairytale gift is part of a more sinister agenda from the mysterious investor…
Agent Jordan Lees
The Guilds of Albion
Historical fantasy middle-grade from award-winning Larwood, set in a reimagined Britain in which elemental magic exists and children of the guilds must compete in the annual Arthanfest.
Agent Jordan Lees
The Survivor
The incredible Holocaust memoir from Lewkowicz, who survived six concentration camps and went on to rescue hundreds of orphaned children and bring prominent Nazis to justice.
Agent Jordan Lees
Rights UK (Transworld), Canada (Harper), Italy (Newton Compton), Romania (Bookzone), Hungary (Alexandra Kiado), Czechia (Albatros Media), Netherlands (HarperCollins Holland), France (MichelLafon), Poland (Media Rodzina), Germany (Heyne)
The Impossible Lightness of Touch
“Outstanding” YA romance set in Scotland, where two boys who grew up in care together navigate life and first love.
Agent Rachel Petty
Blake Friedmann
For Such a Time as This
“Powerful, timely” stories of Black-British Millennial relationships, set against the backdrop of a fast-changing world. For fans of Kiley Reid and Caleb Azumah Nelson.
Agent Sian Ellis-Martin
Costanza
Historical début with feminist undertones charting the rise and fall (and rise again) of the sculptor Bernini’s mistress in Baroque Rome.
Agent Juliet Pickering
The Hyacinth Girl: T S Eliot’s Hidden Muse
“Ground-breaking” biography by pre-eminent Eliot scholar Gordon, drawing on more than 1,000 newly revealed letters written to his “hidden muse”, Emily Hale. Publication coincides with the centenary of Eliot’s “The Waste Land”.
Agent Isobel Dixon
Rights UK (Virago), US (Norton)
The Dive
“Gripping, twisty” destination thriller set in the world of scuba-diving: “for fans of The Beach and The Sanatorium”.
Agent Kate Burke
Rights UK (Transworld), US (Sourcebooks), Finland (Bazar), Germany (Blanvalet), Holland (De Fontein)
The Near North
Windham-Campbell winner Vladislavić returns with a striking autofictional exploration of walking the streets of Johannesburg in lockdown, meeting its ghosts.
Agent Isobel Dixon
Brotherstone Creative Management
How to Leave the House
This “Portnoy’s Complaint for Gen Z” has a spectrum of unlikely characters intersecting on one fateful day, after 23-year-old Natwest is forced on an odyssey around his small town to retrieve an embarrassing missing package.
Agent Charlie Brotherstone
Rights UK (Little, Brown), US (Viking)
All Boats Are Sinking
A memoir of love, life and chaos on a narrowboat: “Bridget Jones meets The Salt Path”.
Agent Charlie Brotherstone
The Great White Bard
The co-director of education at Shakespeare’s Globe and professor of Shakespeare Studies at King’s College London offers a piercing new analysis of the world’s greatest playwright and a radical reassessment of Elizabethan London.
Agent Charlie Brotherstone
Rights UK (Oneworld), US (Viking)
Find Why
In this loosely autobiographical book, George uses stories from his life and combines them with sociological insights from his PhD to explore the injustices that motivate his writing.
Agent Charlie Brotherstone
Rights UK (Hodder)
Big Bad Law: Inside the World’s Most Elite Law Firms
A professional confessional from a former blue-chip law associate: “Liar’s Poker meets Uncanny Valley.”
Agent Charlie Brotherstone
C&W
As the Light Runs Out
A woman reeling after the suicide of her fiancé strikes up a friendship with a young man who is also grieving; they soon discover they are mourning the same man. An “original, accessible literary début with a nod to Kazuo Ishiguro”.
Agent Susan Armstrong
Even Lovers Drown
Part “memoir play, part Gothic tale” in which, after the death of his wife, Peter returns to County Mayo, where they first met and their children were born. He becomes fixated on creating a sanctuary “for those who have lost the best part of themselves”.
Agent Lucy Luck
The Whispers of Rock
An earth scientist’s ambitious book tells the story of how rocks have influenced our physical lives, cultural practices and ways of thinking: “The Entangled Life meets Braiding Sweetgrass”.
Agent Richard Pike
Flashpoint
Timely, “unputdownable” exposé of international energy companies, Perry shows how oil and gas companies really make their profits: by gambling with the fate of whole communities, the environment and the global economy.
Agent Richard Pike
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Bonnier)
Natural Selection
An “unflinching” account of life as a contemporary craftsman and why wood and woodcraft still matters: “Kitchen Confidential for carpentry”.
Agent Sophie Lambert
Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency
The Man I Met on Holiday
On the sun-drenched island of Corsica, Lauren meets James, the man of her dreams. It’s the holiday romance of a lifetime—but back home, reality bites...
Agent Caroline Sheldon
Rights UK (Avon), Danish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Hungarian
Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel
At the Seaview Hotel, a murderer plays a killer game when a team of obsessive crazy-golfers arrive for a tournament and the team captain aims to win by fair means or foul…
Agent Caroline Sheldon
Rights UK (Headline Accent)
The Only Way is Up
Twenty-five years in showbiz is a good run, right? Because it’s all going rapidly downhill for Daisy. But when life has you down on love, surely the only way is up?
Agent Caroline Sheldon
Rights UK (Headline Accent)
The Abdication Trilogy
A new series following the stories of three families who work behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace and whose lives are intertwined with those of the Royal Family.
Agent Caroline Sheldon
Rights UK (One More Chapter), Italian, Portuguese, French, German, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian
Clare Hulton Literary Agency
Pinch of Nom: Enjoy
The fifth cookbook from the record-breaking cookery duo.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World (Bluebird)
The Murder List
New gripping psychological domestic suspense thriller from the bestselling author of Am I Guilty, The Perfect Couple and The Happy Family.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World English (HarperCollins), Sinhalese (Bookrack)
The Beach
A “completely gripping” début psychological thriller “with a jaw-dropping twist”.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World English (Bookouture)
Approach With(out) Caution: The 5-Step Plan to Take Control of Your Life
Rugby legend Haskell takes lessons he has learned from both on and off the pitch and turns them into a five-pillar plan to take control of your life.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World English (HarperCollins)
The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones
The author of the bestselling biography of Freddie Mercury turns her attention to The Rolling Stones.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World (Bonnier), Slovak (IKAR), Piper Verlag (German), Rock portal (Croatian), US (Pegasus), Netherlands (Overamstel), Serbia (Laguna), Poland (Zysk), Slovenia (Ucila), Spain (Planeta)
Curtis Brown
Rivals
A relaunch of Cooper into the translation market ahead of Rivals—the second in her iconic Rutshire Chronicles—being given a Disney+ adaption, which aims to look at the “sex and power-mad 1980s élites” of her book with “a 2020s lens”.
Agent Felicity Blunt
Rights UK (Bantam)
The Only Suspect
The bestselling Nibbie-winner returns with a “cautionary tale of obsession, love, jealousy and deception”.
Agent Sheila Crowley
Rights UK (Simon & Schuster)
The Story of the Forest
The Women’s Prize winner’s latest is a “story of myths and memory and how families adapt both in order to survive”. It begins in 1913 Latvia, ending in post-war Soho.
Agent Jonny Geller
Rights UK (Virago)
The Three Graces
A “compelling, powerful and moving story of female friendship—in old age, last love—and the ongoing immigration crisis in Italy”.
Agent Cathryn Summerhayes
Rights UK (Little, Brown)
King of Dead Things
Début YA fantasy inspired by West Indian mythology: “American Gods meets Small Island and Children of Blood and Bone”.
Agent Isobel Gahan
Rights UK (Puffin)
Darley Anderson Literary, Film and TV Agency
Hate Mail
Début rom-com in which Naomi and Luca are best “pen-emies”... but have never met. After two years of no letters, Luca gets back in touch. Can Naomi resist the temptation after all these years?
Agent Rebeka Finch
Rights German (Aufbau)
The Sync Up
Contemporary Sweden-set rom-com in which Klara returns to manage her dad’s construction company, shaking things up. After missed meetings and insulin mishaps, she and the gorgeous new carpenter decide to sync calendars—and communication soon turns flirty…
Agent Tanera Simons
Finding Sophie
The author and criminal barrister Mahmood’s newest centres around Sophie, who has gone missing. Her distraught parents are standing trial for her murder. “Someone is dead and someone is guilty. But who? And where is Sophie?”
Agent Camilla Bolton
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Raven), option in Italy
The Prisoner
“It’s dark. You don’t know where you are. And you can hear footsteps approaching. Then you hear your husband’s screams.” The sixth title from the thriller writer.
Agent Camilla Bolton
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hodder), North America (St Martin’s), nine other territories
Her
“Darkly compelling” London-set psychological début. Natalie and Rani are neighbours who find themselves sucked into each other’s worlds, in desperation and obsession… with deadly consequences.
Agent Camilla Bolton
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hodder)
Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency
Steady for This
“Hilarious and uplifting” coming-of-age début for 11+ readers. Wannabe rapper Shaun (a.k.a. MC Growls) plans to be “the comeback king” at school after humiliating himself on a livestream.
Agent Clare Wallace
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hot Key)
You Think You Know Me
“The Hate U Give for Islamophobia.” A powerful and deeply personal début novel from a British-Somali author.
Agent Clare Wallace
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Usborne)
Koku Akambi and the Heart of Midnight
First in a “Percy Jackson meets ‘Black Panther’” magical middle-grade adventure series: will cynical 13-year-old Koku fulfil his destiny?
Agent Lydia Silver
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hachette Children’s)
How Far We’ve Come
“Stunning” début literary YA/crossover début: a time-travelling epic about “equality, how far we have come, and how far we still have to go”.
Agent Lydia Silver
Rights UK & Commonwealth (S&S Children’s)
Hyo the Hellmaker
The YA début from British-Japanese author/illustrator Ikemoto is a high-fantasy whodunit set in a world inspired by Edo-era Japan with the futuristic feel of modern Tokyo.
Agent Lydia Silver
David Godwin Associates
Eden
In the years after Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden, another inhabitant escapes and the threat of a second Fall looms.
Agent David Godwin
Rights UK (Macmillan), Canada (under offer)
The Germans
First major history looking at the transformation of German society from the Second World War all the way to the present war in Ukraine.
Agent David Godwin
Rights Allen Lane (UK), Knopf (US), McClelland & Stuart (Canada), De Arbeiderspers (Netherlands), Corpus (Russia)
Winne & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
The little-told story of the marriage between Winnie and Nelson Mandela; a relationship that put the entire South African nation at stake.
Agent David Godwin
Rights HarperCollins (UK), Knopf (US)
A Day of Fallen Night
Much-anticipated prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree: when the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it terror and violence, three women must protect humankind from a devastating threat.
Agent David Godwin
Rights Bloomsbury (UK & US), VR Editora (Brazil), Host (Czech Republic), De Saxus (French), Next 21 Kiado (Hungary), Mondadori (Italy), Wydawnictwo SQN (Poland), Roca (Spanish)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
The Booker-shortlisted tale of a Sri Lankan photographer’s quest to expose his murderer and the horrors of Sri Lankan civil war from beyond the grave.
Agent David Godwin
Rights Sort Of (UK), Norton (US), Labyrinth (Bulgaria), Rowohlt (Germany), Gutenberg (Greece), Éditions Banyan (France), MTS (Russia)
David Higham Associates
The Future
The Women’s Prize winner’s return begins “five minutes from now” and marries “white-knuckle narrative drive with an intellectually dazzling critique of the world we have made and what comes next”.
Agent Veronique Baxter
Rights UK (4th Estate)
Broken Hearts and Zombie Parts
“Savagely funny rom-zom-com” in which literally broken-hearted Jesse is facing surgery, but aims to shoot a zombie movie on a shoestring budget and fall in love before he has to go under the knife.
Agent Veronique Baxter
Rights UK (Usborne)
Pathogenesis
A public health researcher’s look at how the major transformations in history—from the rise of homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs.
Agent Jessica Woollard
Rights UK (Transworld), US (Crown), Simplified Chinese (Goden Rose), Dutch (De Bezige Bij), Norwegian (Manuskript)
Homecoming
The bestselling author’s newest is a combination of sweeping saga and mystery, tracing a shocking crime—the effects of which echo across continents and generations.
Agent Lizzy Kremer
Rights UK (Macmillan), US (Mariner), Australia (Allen & Unwin) and eight others; under offer in Czech, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish
The House of Doors
The Booker shortlistee explores race, class and sexuality at the end of the British Empire. “A finely tuned novel with great emotional depth”.
Agent Jessica Woollard
Rights UK (Canongate), US (Bloomsbury), under offer in Italy and Spain
David Luxton Associates
The Poison Line
Investigative journalist McGoogan tells the story of one of the biggest medical disasters in history: Factor VIII. The blood product was designed to help, but instead infected thousands in the 1970s and ’80s with hepatitis or HIV.
Agent Nick Walters
Rights UK (Viking)
1999: The Treble and All That
The historic and iconic stories of how, in 1999, Manchester United won the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League.
Agent David Luxton
Rights UK (Simon & Schuster)
Expected Goals
The New York Times’ chief “soccer” correspondent tells the story of football analytics guru Chris Anderson and how he has changed the game over the past decade.
Agent David Luxton
Rights UK & Commonwealth (HarperSport), under offer in the US
Chased by Pandas: My Life in the Mysterious World of Cycling
The retired Irish cyclist tells how he won the hearts of fans, journalists and peers through his style and work ethic, on and off the bike.
Agent David Luxton
Rights UK (Quercus)
Hungry Heart
“Moving” memoir from award-winning food writer Finney, which begins with a childhood spent in her grandmother’s kitchen hotel and ends at her grandfather’s bedside, noting her life’s trials and triumphs, and the meals and recipes along the way.
Agent David Luxton
DHH
The Book of Doors
An “exquisite” début novel of magical books that “will be loved by fans of The Binding and The Cartographers”.
Agent Harry Illingworth
Rights UK (Transworld), US (Morrow), Germany (Heyne), Italy (Rizzoli), Netherlands (Luitingh), Spain (Maeva)
Fearless
The DS Washington Poe creator begins a “blistering” new series featuring fearless, unpredictable former US Marshall Ben Koenig.
Agent David Headley
Rights UK (Constable), US (Flatiron)
Escape to Florence
A début novel of resistance and revolution, courage and defiance, loss and gain—all in a beautiful Italian setting. “For fans of Victoria Hislop”.
Agent Broo Doherty
Rights UK (Head of Zeus), US (Harper), the Netherlands (Fontein)
The Good Liars
“‘An Inspector Calls’ meets ‘The Mousetrap’.” A “brilliant” historical crime novel from the author of The Lost Ones.
Agent David Headley
Rights UK (HQ)
End of Story
“The Handmaid’s Tale meets Vox” in a gripping yet thought-provoking vision of a future in which fiction is banned.
Agent Emily Glenister
Rights UK (Hodder)
DKW
In the Shadow of the Wolves
“Astonishing” new literary novel based on the author’s own family history, hidden for generations, featuring her family’s role in the 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler, and a secret love affair.
Agent Bryony Woods
The Rachel Incident
Highly anticipated third adult novel from New York Times bestselling author: a “poignant and beautifully told story of losing yourself, finding yourself and the lengths we will go to for those we love”.
Agent Bryony Woods
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl Canada (Virago), North America (Knopf), German (KiWi), Dutch (Ambo Anthos), UK audio (WF Howes)
Dark Island
Début investigative crime novel set in the Orkneys and featuring a neurodivergent protagonist, inspired by the author’s own experiences.
Agent Ella Kahn
Lilith
A ground-breaking feminist retelling of the story of Lilith that skewers the biblical fable justifying women’s subjugation to men.
Agent Ella Kahn
Rights Rights UK & Commonwealth excl Canada (Legend Press), UK Audio (WF Howes), German (S Fischer)
Eve White Literary Agency
Zero Days
The latest pacy thriller from the crime superstar.
Agent Eve White
Rights UK (Simon & Schuster), US, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Netherlands, Norway
The Will
“Scandalous and suspenseful page-turner filled with Reid’s trademark dark humour.” When matriarch Cecily Mordaunt dies, her relatives will do anything to replace her...
Agent Eve White
Rights UK (Transworld)
The Journey: Big Panda and Tiny Dragon
The follow-up to the global bestseller; the titular pair return for an extraordinary adventure “to find completion”.
Agent Ludo Cinelli
Rights UK (Penguin Michael Joseph), US, Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands, Turkey and 11 more
Einstein the Penguin: The Case of the Fishy Detective
Sequel to the Times Children’s Book of the Year sees Einstein and his friend Isaac kidnapped— can Imogen and Arthur save the day once more?
Agent Eve White
Rights UK (HarperCollins Children’s), Greece, Netherlands, Russia
Ten Times Calmer
Clinical psychologist and TikTok sensation Schnack reveals her top 10 techniques for dealing with anxiety and the fear that comes with it.
Agent Eve White
Rights UK (Bluebird)
The Feldstein Agency
Never Waste a Good Hysterectomy
The former Unicef director, South African diplomat and author’s “brutally honest reflection” of her year of recovery following the discovery of an ovarian tumour.
Agent Paul Feldstein
In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History Memoir
Hybrid memoir of essays, poems and photographs of trauma, grief and addiction from the Ireland-born, US-based writer.
Agent Paul Feldstein
Rights World English (Duckworth)
From Holywood to Hollywood
The respected Belfast-born defamation lawyer who has represented the likes of Harrison Ford, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake with a wide-ranging examination of libel and defamation in the social media age, touching on celeb lawsuits (Depp v Heard) and Prince Andrew’s legal plight.
Agent Paul Feldstein
still falls the rain
Second literary novel from Lane examines the inner worlds and intersecting lives of eastern European immigrant Katja and her next-door neighbour Martin, an old Irishman.
Agent Paul Feldstein
The Dithering: Tales from the Peri-Apocalypse
Novelist and journalist Pisco’s collection of short stories on the “peri-apocalypse” of peri-menopause has “the climate emergency as a backdrop”.
Agent Paul Feldstein
Felicity Bryan Associates
Porn: An Oral History
Writer and translator Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives through conversations across a range of ages, genders and sexualities.
Agent Angelique Tran van Sang
Rights UK (Fitzcarraldo), Italy (La Nave di Teseo)
The Quiet Mind: The Surprising Science of Doing Nothing
A neuroscientist shows how the latest research suggests that doing nothing has a number of profound benefits for your brain and body.
Agent Carrie Plitt
The Coast Road
Début featuring a “compelling and compassionate” portrait of three marriages, told in multiple voices, set in Donegal, a year before divorce is legalised in Ireland.
Agent Caroline Wood
Rights Germany (dtv), Italy (Mondadori)
The Social Cure
Robson uses cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to examine our profound need for social connection, the reasons we often fail to create closer bonds, and the ways in which we can build more fulfilling and authentic relationships.
Agent Carrie Plitt
Rights UK (Canongate)
Fossil Drugs
The Oxford biologist tells the story of antibiotics, from their origins millions of years ago to the urgent reality of antibiotic resistance, and how we need to understand how they really work—and fast.
Agent Catherine Clark
Rights UK (The Bodley Head), US (Simon & Schuster) Italy (Garzanti)
Georgina Capel
Tiger Work
“Poignant, timely” collection of essays, poems and stories on the climate crisis from the Booker winner.
Agent Georgina Capel
Rights UK (Head of Zeus) US (Other Press)
The Windsors: A Story of a Dynasty
Bestselling royal biographer Hardman reveals the full, enthralling story of the Windsors: from the lurid realities of 19th-century royal life right up to the latest 21st-century in-fighting and intrigue.
Agent Georgina Capel
Conflict
Historian Roberts and former US general and director of the CIA Petraeus look at the evolution of warfare since 1945 and its lessons for the conflict in Ukraine—and those “Putin ought to have learned”.
Agent Georgina Capel
Rights UK (William Collins), US (HarperCollins)
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
“Huge, ambitious” first book from philosopher and economist Chandler, who argues that the ideas we need for a fair society are hiding in plain sight, in the work of the 20th century’s greatest political philosopher: John Rawls.
Agent Georgina Capel
Rights UK (Allen Lane)
Growth
Susskind brings together disparate threads of thinking on one of the world’s most important and dangerous ideas: economic growth.
Agent Georgina Capel
Rights UK (Allen Lane), US (Henry Holt), simplified Chinese (CTPH)
The Good Literary Agency
Live Laugh Lesbian
An uplifting guide to navigating life as a lesbian in the 21st century by presenter Helen Scott.
Agent Abi Fellows
Rights World (Jessica Kingsley), English audio (Saga Egmont)
Make You Mine this Christmas
A heartwarming queer rom-com, “full of joy”.
Agent Abi Fellows.
Rights World (Hodder), Germany (HarperCollins)
Quiet Storm
Tender, character-led middle-grade novel set in a school in Manchester, exploring themes of confidence, friendship and anxiety.
Agent Gyamfia Osei
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Usborne)
The Second Time We Met
A “phenomenally good romance” that blends warmth and humour, while exploring deeper questions.
Agent Rukhsana Yasmin
Rights World (Lake Union)
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)
Greene & Heaton
No Season but the Summer
Artfully transporting classic myth to the present, this is the tale of Persephone, of the stories behind why our seasons change, and “how climate change is stretching and breaking the rules that have long kept the natural world in rhythm”.
Agent Laura Williams
Rights UK (Scribe)
The Girl on the Ledge
“Twisty thriller that will keep you guessing.” Tate was the last person to see a woman who tragically fell to her death from a roof terrace, and Tate was rumoured to be having an affair with the woman’s husband. She is the perfect suspect. Or, is she the perfect victim for the perfect crime?
Agent Judith Murray
Rights UK (Century)
Sun & Ssukgat: The Lost Art of Korean Self-Care
A pocket guide by an eco-entrepreneur who has learned from self-healing masters and explored preventative self-care rituals within her heritage to uncover Korea’s centuries-old health secrets.
Agent Holly Faulks
Simple Shelter: Loss, Recovery and the Living World in Fifteen Mountain Bothies
A personal journey through the British landscape visiting unique, simple shelters that provide haven and community. “For fans of Robert Macfarlane and Cal Flyn.”
Agent Imogen Morrell
Around the World in 80 Games
Encompassing tic-tac-toe, Dungeons & Dragons, Go, Mahjong, poker, multi-player video games and others, a mathematical, strategic and cultural journey through games that have obsessed, challenged and fascinated us.
Agent Antony Topping
Rights UK (4th Estate), US (Basic), Korea (Interpark)
Greyhound Literary
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Secret
A family history told across four generations as a young woman searches for traces of her great-uncle, who disappeared during the 1930s. This also explores Ukraine’s complex relationship with its Soviet past.
Agent Charlie Campbell
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Virago), North America (Abrams Press) and 15 others
Remember, Mr Sharma
“Heart-soaring” story about a mother’s love, intergenerational trauma and one boy’s journey to uncover his family’s hidden history, spanning from the first days of Partition to the economic crises of the 1990s.
Agent Julia Silk
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Sceptre), Russian (AST)
Further
The champion cyclist turned author/presenter immerses himself in the world of endurance, talking to ultra-distance athletes, exercise scientists, nutritionists and psychologists to find the keys to going further.
Agent Charlotte Atyeo
Listen to the Fear
“Ingenious” début thriller in which a wealthy audience flock to an exclusive 1980s-themed music festival with no idea that they are being held hostage.
Agent Charlie Campbell
Rights Dutch (Ambo/Anthos)
Madly, Deeply
Over 25 years of diaries “inviting readers backstage and into his life” from the “Die Hard” and Harry Potter actor.
Agent Natalie Galustian
Rights World English (Canongate), North America (Henry Holt), Czech (Euromedia), Hungarian (Kossuth), Polish (Poznanskie (Polish), Ukrainian (Nash Format)
Hardman & Swainson
To Kill Ukraine
An exploration of Russia’s history of political violence against Ukraine and how it led to the current conflict.
Agent Caroline Hardman
Rights UK & Commonwealth (John Murray), North American (Basic Books) who jointly pre-empted World English; Dutch (Ambo Anthos)
Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials
“Lively and immersive” global history of witchcraft, which shows its evolution from the Middle Ages to the present day and shines a light on the stories of the victims.
Agent Joanna Swainson
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Siimon & Schuster), North American (Scribner)
Women on Porn (title tbc)
One of the most thorough accounts of women’s experiences of sex and sexuality today, written by leading UK academic authority on pornography, feminism and sexual violence.
Agent Caroline Hardman
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Transworld), Spanish (Planeta & Península)
The One That Got Away
A devastating mistake pulls apart university sweethearts Ben and Clara in 2000. Twenty years later, a tragedy seems destined to bring them back together.
Agent Caroline Hardman
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Head of Zeus), North America (St Martin’s Press), Hebrew (Tchelet), Hungarian (Libri Kiado), Romanian (RAO), Brazilian Portuguese (Faro), Ukrainian (Family Leisure Club)
In the Middle of Middle America
Seven regular townsfolk are going about their days, blissfully unaware their lives are about to interweave, interchange and interact—and “they end up changing the face of America forevermore”.
Agent Joanna Swainson
HHB
Fearless: Extraordinary Adventures with Courageous Women
The broadcaster and presenter takes on a series of challenges with inspiring women who have used sport to go from the ordinary to the extraordinary, smashing through barriers, breaking taboos and paving the way for others.
Agent Elly James
Rights World (Bloomsbury)
Bowlful: Fresh & Vibrant Dishes for Southeast Asia
Ninety easy recipes for bowl food celebrating the diverse flavours of south-east Asia from bestselling Malaysian cook Musa.
Agent Heather Holden-Brown
Rights World (Pavilion)
Real Talk: Lessons from Therapy for Healing & Living
The psychotherapist and social media star on encouraging more open conversations about trauma, healing and self-care.
Agent Elly James
Rights World (Octopus)
The Secret Animal Society: The Forgotten Phoenix
The second instalment of the thrilling magical adventure series from the real-life vet Luke Gamble.
Agent Elly James
Rights World (Scholastic), German (dtv), Dutch (Luitingh-Sijthoff)
The Proof in the Pudding
The second culinary-themed cosy crime novel from the cookery book star and TV chef.
Agent Heather Holden-Brown
Rights World (Constable), film/TV (Tiger Aspect)
Janklow & Nesbit
I Come from a Cold Country
Literary début novel “of rare power and originality”, set in a city where it hasn’t snowed for seven years. A teacher sets about creating a “snow archive” from the memories of the people in her apartment block.
Agent Rebecca Carter
Clever Little Thing
Taut psychological thriller about a woman convinced her daughter has been possessed by her former babysitter; “in the vein of Leïla Slimani and Ashley Audrain”.
Agent Emma Leong
Diary of a Moscow Man
A vital, eye-opening and literary response to the invasion and unfolding situation in Russia by an anti-war, pseudonymous writer living on Ukrainsky Boulevard in Moscow.
Agent Claire Paterson Conrad
Mother Tongue
Combining linguistics, genetics and archaeology to give new insights into the world’s most influential language, Proto Indo-European, to tell the history of the civilisations that spoke it.
Agent Will Francis
Rights UK (William Collins)
On God’s Time
Searing memoir of a 30-year struggle to save the life of Doyle Lee Hamm on Death Row, looking at the gruesome business and injustices of the US death penalty system.
Agent Julia Eagleton
Jenny Brown Associates
The Pebbled Shore
A sweeping novel about transgression, the long shadow of the past, belonging and second chances, set in Scotland and Canada in the 1940s and 1980s.
Agent Jenny Brown
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hodder)
Cairn
New nature writing pioneer Jamie’s “stunning” collection of pieces marking a “changing psychic and physical landscape”.
Agent Jenny Brown
Rights World English (Sort of)
The Two-Headed Whale: Life and Loss in the Deepest Oceans
A tall ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica leads Winterbottom to uncover the tragic fate of an 18-year-old whaler and leaves her questioning humanity’s troubled relationship with our once-abundant planet.
Agent Jenny Brown
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Birlinn), North America (Greystone)
Illuminated by Water
A blend of memoir, nature writing and cultural history, exploring the mystery, the beauty and the thrill of fishing.
Agent Jenny Brown
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Doubleday), North America (Pegasus), German (btb)
The Ponies at the Edge of the World
Studying Shetland ponies on a tiny remote island, Munro finds comfort and hope after a devastating loss.
Agent Jenny Brown
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Rider), Dutch (Noordboek)
Johnson & Alcock
Four Seasons in Japan
The Cat and the City author returns with a “tender story of a rekindled relationship between grandmother and son, separated by generations and unspoken family truths”.
Agent Ed Wilson
Rights UK (Doubleday), 12 option publishers
The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything
Lessons in Chemistry-esque tale of two closely bonded adult siblings: when Mimi decides she wants to seek true romance, she is met with resistance by her brother mathematician Art, who believes he can make a formula to find her “the one”.
Agent Charlotte Seymour
Rights UK (Mantle)
Stuck Monkey
A “ferociously intelligent, funny examination” of how people’s “innocent” everyday habits greatly contribute to the climate crisis.
Agent Michael Alcock
Rights UK (Head of Zeus)
Murder in the Family
The bestselling thriller writer’s standalone is centred around a group of experts recruited for a true-crime TV series of an unsolved murder—but who is telling the truth?
Agent Anna Power
Rights UK (HarperCollins), 20 option publishers
One Medicine
A journey to discover how some of the greatest advances in human medicine were achieved through understanding how animals survive from the researcher, ICU doctor and author of Critical.
Agent Charlotte Seymour
Rights UK (S&S), China, Korea, Russia; options in Portugal, Poland
Jo Unwin Literary Agency
Penance
“Blazing, unsettling” outing from the author of the cult hit Boy Parts sees journalist Alec publishing the definitive account of a horrifying murder of a 16-year-old girl in a seaside town—the only question is: how much of his story is true?
Agent Rachel Mann
Rights World English (Faber)
Other Women
The second novel from Flint (after her breakout, Little Deaths) is based on a notorious murder in London in the 1920s.
Agent Jo Unwin
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Picador)
Her Best Girls
“Authentic” first novel based in a brothel in Leeds in 1977, when the Yorkshire Ripper was on the rampage.
Agent Jo Unwin
Moon Alley
It is 1899 and Sybil ends her life while staying at a seedy Brighton boarding house. Did she die for love? Was she destroyed by occult forces? Three women are entangled in the mystery.
Agent Jo Unwin
One Last Hurrah
Two old ladies share a house in London. They love each other. They can’t bear each other. They’ve known each other since childhood. “Dark, comic and very entertaining.”
Agent Jo Unwin
Kate Horden Literary Agency
On Gallows Down
The Richard Jefferies Award winner is an “evocative and inspiring memoir which touches on environmental protest, family, motherhood and, most importantly, nature”.
Agent Anne Williams
Rights World English (Chelsea Green)
Amy Perry’s Assumptions
Driven and ambitious, Amy Perry is compelled to return to her childhood village home in unpropitious circumstances to set up a romance imprint for the publisher she works for.
Agent Kate Hordern
Rights World English (Bonnier Embla)
A Village Secret
At Cambridge, Romantic poets-obsessed Jennifer meets her own Byron in gorgeous student actor Laurie; 15 years and two children later, exiled to a draughty farmhouse with her mother-in-law and reeling from Laurie’s libel case, Jennifer’s relationship with her romantic hero is starting to feel like epic tragedy.
Agent Anne Williams
Rights World English (Aria), Danish
The Girl in the Photo
The domestic suspense star’s newest centres on Mercy, whose claim her child was abducted was never believed until, years later, she meets a young woman struggling with IVF, who wants to help…
Agent Anne Williams
Rights World English (Avon)
The Midwife
Single mother-to-be Lauren is flattered and comforted by hospital midwife Jackie’s empathic support but, as the pregnancy progresses, she begins to wonder where she has seen Jackie before, and why the ante-natal group has only one other member…
Agent Anne Williams
Rights World English (Bookouture)
Kate Nash Literary Agency
A Wedding at Sandy Cove
A blind date mix-up leads to unexpected romance for a wedding seamstress in this warmhearted rom-com from the winner of the 2022 Jane Wenham-Jones Award for Romantic Comedy.
Agent Kate Nash
Rights World English (Avon)
A Lady’s Risk
“Sparkling” Regency début has “all the fun of ‘Bridgerton’” with an enemies-to-lovers romance between a rake and his too-capable ward.
Agent Kate Nash
Rights World English (Orion Dash)
A Child for the Reich
A mother risks everything going undercover to rescue her daughter, snatched by the Nazis for the Lebensborn programme, in this emotional cat-and-mouse by a USA Today-bestselling author.
Agent Kate Nash
Rights World English (One More Chapter), Italian (Newton Compton), Spanish (Newton Compton)
The Wartime Bookshop
A shared love of books brings three women together in the Second World War home-front community of Churchwood. The first in a new series.
Agent Kate Nash
Rights World English (Transworld)
One Night in Edinburgh
The “ultimate meet-cute”: under the Hogmanay stars in Edinburgh, Steph meets Jamie at a street party, but he is hiding a secret that he’s ashamed of: he is homeless.
Agent Kate Nash
Rights World English (Canelo)
LBA
The Ship Beneath the Ice
The breathtaking adventure story of the extraordinary discovery of Shackleton’s legendary lost ship, sunk beneath the Antarctic. Soon to be a motion picture.
Agent Luigi Bonomi
Rights World English (Macmillan), US (Morrow)
The January House
“Tana French meets ‘Succession’” in a début mystery about a wealthy family riddled with secrets about the death of a young girl at their country house. A weekend with the family can be murder…
Agent Louise Lamont
The Night We Got Stuck in a Story
Bestseller Miller’s new middle-grade adventure has two kids determined to do all they can to save an endangered species of spiders from a group of developers.
Agent Luigi Bonomi
Rights World English (Simon & Schuster)
Unorthodox Love
Début rom-com “for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Sally Thorne”, in which a young Orthodox Jewish woman considers a proposal for a fake but advantageous marriage—but instead finds herself in danger of falling for a secular man.
Agent Hannah Schofield
Rights US (Alcove), UK & Commonwealth (Embla), Brazil (Faro)
Good Girls Die Last
A “feminist ‘Falling Down’ meets ‘Promising Young Woman’.” On the hottest day in London, Em must cross the city while a serial killer—and secrets from her past—threaten to catch up with her.
Agent Amanda Preston
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Headline)
Lorella Belli Literary Agency
We Are All Targets
The “incredible untold” origin story of cyberwar and the hackers who unleashed it on the world by journalist Potter, whose 20-year investigation began after receiving an anonymous email with leaked NATO battle plans during the bombardment of Kosovo.
Agent Lorella Belli
Rights North America (Hachette Books), UK & Commonwealth (Silvertail)
Solace House
The latest DI Jackman and DS Evans thriller by multimillion-seller Ellis centres around a family moving into an isolated farmhouse in which a tragic murder took place 20 years ago. Will history now repeat itself?
Agent Lorella Belli
Rights World English (Joffe), audio (Audible), film/TV (Sprout Pictures)
Set in Stone
In medieval Moldova, two women from opposing backgrounds fall in love and try to defy their families, the law and the Church. “For fans of The Miniaturist, The Mercies and Fingersmith”.
Agent Lorella Belli
Rights World English (Legend)
The Case of the Vanishing Conman
The first in the Bangkok-set Detective Vijay series has a true-crime author shot in the leg by a masked gunman. It’s obvious who the assailant is: the subject of the book, crimelord Khun Pleum. But Pleum says he is innocent and turns to private eye Vijay to clear his name—then the book’s publisher is found dead…
Agent Lorella Belli
Rights World English (Joffe)
The Case for Nature
Shrikanth—a conservation biologist, former FT journalist and now associate at London-based net-zero investment firm Just Climate—argues that protecting nature is not just the right thing to do, but is firmly in our economic interests.
Agent Lorella Belli
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Duckworth), Indian Subcontinent (Allen Lane India)
Lutyens & Rubinstein
All My Wild Mothers
After fighting grief and poverty, Bennett grows an apothecary garden with her son, and discovers that solace can be found in the most elemental things. “A powerful memoir for fans of The Salt Path.”
Agent Jenny Hewson
Rights UK (Two Roads)
The Last Dance
The crime superstar’s “fabulously entertaining” new series, starring unconventional detective—and amateur ballroom dancer—Declan Miller.
Agent Sarah Lutyens
Rights UK (Little, Brown), Germany (Kamp)
The Memory of Animals
The very last Costa Best Novel winner’s newest is “a gripping, complex story of a damaged woman, a controlled vaccine trial and an octopus”.
Agent Jane Finigan
Rights UK (Fig Tree), US (Tin House)
In an Orchard Grown from Ash
The second in Power’s “Naomi Novik meets ‘Game of Thrones’” series has the Argyros family torn asunder following a devastating civil war. Can the siblings rebuild their alliance?
Agent Daisy Parente
Rights UK (Titan), US (Del Rey)
The Sweetness in the Skin
“Extraordinary, uplifting” book club novel set in Kingston about colourism, the legacy of colonialism “and the cathartic power of baking”, told through the eyes of 14-year-old Pumkin Patterson.
Agent Jenny Hewson
Rights Canada (HarperCollins)
Madeleine Milburn
The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder
Cosy crime follows an unlikely mystery-solving duo as they avoid calamity and peril in the underbelly of the antiques world. “For fans of Richard Osman and ‘Antiques Roadshow’”.
Agent Hannah Todd
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Pan Macmillan), Danish (People’s Press), Finnish (Otava), German (Blanvalet), Italian (Rizzoli), Norwegian (Gyldendal)
Mongrel
The début from a British-Japanese writer/actor has a stranger from Tokyo getting in touch with Mei, claiming to be her half-sister, upending her world as it collides with aspiring concert violinist Yuki and bar hostess Haruka in the unlikeliest of ways.
Agent Rachel Yeoh
The Drift
The new “heart-pounding” speculative thriller from the bestselling writer follows Hannah, Meg and Carter as each battles the dangers they face lurking in the shadows of a killer snowstorm.
Agent Madeleine Milburn
Rights UK & Commonwealth (PMJ), US (Ballantine), Canada (PRH Canada), Czech (Euromedia), Dutch (AW Bruna), German (Goldmann), Norwegian (Cappelen Damm), Polish (Czarna Owca), Portuguese in Europe (Planeta); 28 other option publishers
The List
“Sensational, page-turning” début novel from the journalist and Slay in Your Lane co-author. It’s about secrets, lies and our lives online, centred around a young couple whose lives are irrevocably changed by an allegation that goes viral.
Agent Hayley Steed
Rights UK & Commonwealth (4th Estate), North American (William Morrow), Croatian (Fraktura), Dutch (Cargo/De Bezige Bij), Hungarian (Athenaeum), Italian (SEM), Romanian (Editura Trei)
Climavore: Eating at the End of Seasons
A groundbreaking book that shows us transformative ways to think, eat and live in a broken food system, at a time of climate crisis.
Agent Emma Bal
Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Candy Floss
“Gripping” thriller which “takes a scalpel to the effects of bullying” on one family, but also on a whole society.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Strange Sally Diamond
Bestselling, award-winning Nugent’s latest thriller has the titular heroine unable to understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do: to put him out with the rubbish when he died. The book “examines how society treats those it perceives as different, how cruel it can be as well as how kind”.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Rights Ireland, UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Penguin Sandycove), US (Simon & Schuster), Canada (Simon & Schuster Canada)
This Plague of Souls
The Goldsmiths Prize-winner’s part noir, part metaphysical thriller deals with how we might mend the world; it’s the story of a man who would let the world go to hell if he could keep his family together.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Rights UK and Commonwealth excl. Canada (Canongate), Ireland (Tramp Press)
Birdie
The Spread the Word Prize-winner’s memoir of trauma and abuse, of vulnerability and suffering, brings us through epiphany and healing… and ultimately love.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Money: How it Shaped Humanity
Economist McWilliams’ brilliantly original book explores our relationship with money and how it sustains the existence of civilisation as we know it. “The story of our desires, our genius and our downfalls.”
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Rights UK & Commonwealth incl. Canada (Simon & Schuster)
Marjacq Scripts
Haunted
Part memoir, part cultural exploration of ghost stories: what they reveal about the listener, the teller and about our times.
Agent Sandra Sawicka
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Bonnier)
The Flowering of Chani Kaufman
The follow-up to Harris’ Booker-longlisted The Marrying of Chani Kaufman, set in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of north London and Jerusalem.
Agent Diana Beaumont
Stone
The second novel from the bestselling author of Branford Boase-shortlisted Witch. “A story of fathers and sons, of myth, legends and magic.”
Agent Catherine Pellegrino
Rights World (Zephyr)
Go Lightly
Début literary bisexual rom-com with an unapologetic protagonist. “For fans of Monica Heisey and Katherine Heiny.”
Agent Imogen Pelham
The Haunting of You
“Big Little Lies meets Sarah Pinborough” speculative thriller, in which a bestselling author finds herself bewitched by an actress and haunted by her nightmares.
Agent Philip Patterson
The Marsh Agency
Innards
A collection of 10 interwoven short stories that span the early days of Apartheid, moving through the triumphant era of freedom when South Africans banished it from their lives, and into a dystopian future.
Agent Nicole Aragi, Aragi Inc
Rights US (Norton)
Women and Children First
“Powerful and elegant” novel portraying the private lives of women—exploring womanhood, class, ambition and sexuality—as they confront the tragedy of a young woman’s death in a small Massachusetts town.
Agent Duvall Osteen, Aragi Inc.
Rights North America (SJP Lit), German (Hoffmann und Campe)
Mott Street
Sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of author Chin’s family journey to lay down roots in America.
Agent Frances Coady, Aragi Inc.
Rights US (Penguin Press)
The Trainspotter’s Notebook
The TikTok superstar shares his greatest trainspotting adventures across the fields and footbridges of Britain, passing through historic terminals and backwater stations “in pursuit of tones, thrash and locomotive perfection”.
Agent Millie Lean, YMU
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Transworld)
The Last Overland: Singapore to London
The story behind the four-part documentary series covering the journey of filmmaker Bescoby and his team across 13,000 miles to re-create the legendary overlanding expedition of 1956.
Agent Wolfsong Media
Rights UK (Michael O’Mara)
MBA Literary Agents
The Beasts of Paris
A “dazzling, panoramic” epic tale of love and survival set in late 19th-century Paris, “in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Susanna Clarke”, from the award-winning The Tenderness of Wolves author.
Agent Diana Tyler
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Quercus), US (S&S)
The Forever Garden
A young woman agrees to her frail grandmother’s urging that she visit a long-deserted but once-cherished garden—a journey that takes her deep into family secrets.
Agent Sophie Gorell Barnes
Rights World English (Quercus)
You Were Always Mine
In a twisty novel full of dark secrets, Eastbourne’s finest journalist-turned-detective, Dee Doran, is hired by a woman who is accused of her husband’s murder.
Agent Sophie Gorell Barnes
Rights World English (Canelo)
The Italian Girl’s Secret
In a village outside Naples late in the Second World War, Carmela del Bosco takes the fateful decision to help a badly wounded British spy—a decision that will change her life and put her family in mortal danger.
Agent: Sophie Gorell Barnes
Rights World English (Bookouture)
Morgan Green Creatives
The Path We Run
The science and stories behind the rise of women in ultrarunning, a place where those with slightly different sets of athletic skills can flourish, and even dominate. Benson will attempt a 100-mile ultrarun next year.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
This Ragged Grace
A memoir of Bright’s recovery from alcohol addiction, and the parallel story of her father’s descent into Alzheimer’s.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Rights UK (Canongate)
Stone Will Answer
Part memoir, part meditation on stone and the transformative power of craft by the Scottish artist and stonemason.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Rights World English (Harvill)
Green Crime
Shaw uses true crime stories and social science to fundamentally redefine our relationship with the planet—to show how we can stop killing it, and each other.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
The Birthday Girl
“An infamous poisoning. A child murderer. What happens when a killer grows up?” The first book in a new crime series featuring former Met police officer Mallory Dawson, who moves to the remote Welsh island of Eldey to take up the position of night manager at a boutique hotel.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Rights World English (Canelo Crime)
Mulcahy Sweeney Associates
Edge of Here
“Thrilling” collection of stories exploring contemporary womanhood, interweaving the modern-day with speculative concepts both ancient and futuristic.
Agent Sallyanne Sweeney
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Trapeze)
Service
Set in a high-end Dublin restaurant in the mid-2000s, this novel explores #MeToo, power and sexual politics from the point of view of a waitress, a domineering chef and the chef’s wife.
Agent Sallyanne Sweeney
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Pushkin)
Edible Economics
Bestselling economist Chang challenges economic ideas by “plating” them alongside stories about food, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory.
Agent Ivan Mulcahy
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Penguin Press), North American (PublicAffairs) and 19 others
Her Last Words
Début psychological thriller set on the east coast of Ireland. “Atmospheric, twisty and propulsive, an edge-of-your-seat read about obsession and dark secrets coming to light.”
Agent Ivan Mulcahy
Rights World English (Quercus)
Rewilding the Sea
Called a “game changer” by Margaret Atwood, marine conservationist Clover’s book urges us to rethink our relationship with nature and our approach to saving our oceans, by reminding us that preserving our life support system is easier to achieve than we think.
Agent Ivan Mulcahy
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Witness)
Mushens Entertainment
Underwater
A new student arrives at an exclusive private school in 1980s Dublin to expose a teacher abusing his students.
Agent Rachel Neely
Miss Austen Investigates: The Hapless Milliner
When her brother is found guilty of murder, Jane Austen must use her wit and knowledge of society to clear his name and save the day.
Agent Juliet Mushens
New series
The Thursday Murder Club man’s new series features a father and daughter-in-law duo running a private investigation company which takes them around the world.
Agent Juliet Mushens
Rights UK (Viking), US (Pamela Dorman), Denmark (Gyldendal), Germany (Ullstein), Netherlands (Cargo) and Norway (Gursli Berg)
A Most Rebellious Queen
Queen, mother, activist and reformer: Anne Boleyn’s voice is finally heard in this feminist corrective retelling of her life.
Agent Liza DeBlock
A Woman’s Place is in the Kitchen
Chef Abé’s memoir takes readers through the male-dominated fine dining industry and shows that a woman’s place is in the kitchen—a Michelin-starred one.
Agent Liza DeBlock
The North Agency
The Polar Bear and the Hope for Tomorrow
In a Cornish village, a public disagreement between a young man and an arrogant politician turns into a deadly wager, with consequences which cascade down the decades. “An adventure that is part environmental manifesto, part fairytale, wholly absorbing.”
Agent Stan
Rights Germany (Fischer), options in six others
Bleached: A Memoir
As a baby, Fish had a “chocolate-dark complexion”; transracial adoption bleached the colour out of her. “A brutally honest account of a childhood driven by racism, spent wanting to be white”.
Agent Stan
Ashes and Stones
A moving and personal journey in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in 17th-century Scotland.
Agent Kevin Pocklington
Rights World English (Sceptre)
Same Old Girl: Staying Myself When the Big Stuff Barged In
A second memoir from the Costa-shortlisted writer Patterson; it’s her story of illness, ageing and getting through it all.
Agent Kevin Pocklington
Rights World English (Fleet)
Hidden in the Mists
“Riveting and romantic” dual-timeline novel of an odd sighting in the mists of the West Coast of Scotland, which makes Skye Logan wonder if the excavation of a nearby Viking settlement has stirred up unsettled spirits.
Agent Lina Langlee
Rights World English (Headline), options in four others
Northbank Talent
The Gallows Tree
Thriller set in a small Yorkshire village, where old legends bleed into the present day and every year a Gallows Queen is crowned during a summer night of celebration. But then the new Gallows Queen goes missing, revealing buried secrets…
Agent Hannah Weatherill
The Curation of Eamon O’Reilly
Literary début about a gender-fluid working-class runaway who leaves behind a difficult home life to pursue his dreams of fashion runways in London. “For fans of Garth Greenwell.”
Agent Hannah Weatherill
The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave
Libby Page-esque story of courage and friendship as the residents of a rural council estate fight the council—which wants to evict them to make way for a new development.
Agent Hannah Weatherill
Rights World English (Head of Zeus)
Kings and Queens
The third in Dale’s prize-winning series (after The Prime Ministers and The Presidents) covers 1,200 of the British monarchy, concluding with an essay on King Charles III.
Agent Martin Redfern
Rights World English (Hodder)
Sex, Spies and Scandal
“Cinematic” account of a Cold War spy scandal including a “honeytrap, gay sex orgies in Moscow, spying on an industrial scale, journalists jailed for not revealing their sources and the first tabloid witch-hunt that resulted in a ministerial resignation”.
Agent Martin Redfern
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Biteback)
Own It!
Endless Fortune
The empowering story of feminist Adenuga, a working-class woman who left Nigeria during the Civil War and carved a life for herself and her four children against the backdrop of gritty London.
Agent Crystal Mahey-Morgan
Rights Audio (Audible)
The 392
A huis clos thriller set on a London bus travelling through the East End, with an eclectic cast of characters navigating a danger that threatens to blow apart everything they know.
Agent Crystal Mahey-Morgan
Rights Audio (Audible)
How to Be More Pirate
A maverick self-development and business guide to disrupting the status quo and standing out from the crowd.
Agent Crystal Mahey-Morgan
Rights Audio (Audible)
Sasha Knight
After plucky 11-year-old Sasha Knight goes missing, her best friend Matthew Archer spends the next few decades searching for her between Jamaica and the US, slowly uncovering the surprising truth of her disappearance.
Agent Crystal Mahey-Morgan
Rights UK volume rights, audio (Audible)
Body Story
Following her critically-acclaimed Channel 4/Netflix début about living with OCD comes Cartwright’s timely and lyrical account of the power of psychedelics in healing.
Agent Crystal Mahey-Morgan
Rights World volume rights and audio excluding US and Philippines
Paper Literary
If I Kill You
A literary thriller about a millennial who falls in love with an accused serial killer, moves in with him when he’s acquitted, but never stops investigating him along the way...
Agent Katie Greenstreet
The Beauty Case
Set in 1950s Hollywood, Loretta, a plucky young makeup artist dabbles in vigilante justice against the wrong-doing men of Tinseltown.
Agent Katie Greenstreet
Rights World English (Viking)
The Blueprint
A speculative literary novel set in an alternate America where the aftershocks of a second civil war during the 1950s led to the re-enslavement of black women.
Agent Catherine Cho
Rights US (Harper)
PEW Literary
In the Name of the Mother
Young journalist’s memoir of the battle he and his two brothers fought to identify and prosecute those who killed their mother, the anti-corruption campaigner Daphne Caruana Galizia, in the process collapsing the Maltese government.
Agent Patrick Walsh
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Hutchinson Heinemann), North American (Riverhead), film (Working Title)
I Loved You Then, and I Love You Still
The Orwell Prize-winner explores love under extreme pressure: the orphans who formed simulated families after the Rwandan genocide; a mother who pretended to be mad to save her daughter from forced marriage; Druze brides who on leaving to marry can never return home.
Agent Patrick Walsh
Justinian
“Definitive” biography of the sixth-century Byzantine Emperor who laid the political foundations of Christendom and redefined the nature of kingship for centuries.
Agent Doug Young
Rights World English (Basic Books), Dutch (Athenaeum), Spanish (Taurus)
Red
A new novel set between London and Ireland by Kennedy, author of the award-winning début Trespasses.
Agent Eleanor BirneThe Graces
A history of the 17th-century Italian princess and Queen of England Mary of Modena, and the community of female learning she cultivated within the Jacobite court.
Agent Rebecca Sandell
PFD
Night Side of the River
A collection of imaginative, funny and bold ghostly tales which blend fiction with “the author’s own experiences of spectrality, haunting and the otherworldly”.
Agent Caroline Michel
Rights UK (Jonathan Cape), US (Grove Atlantic)
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
Schama’s continent-spanning history of plagues and pandemics, and a look at immunology’s most heroic personalities.
Agent Caroline Michel
Rights UK (Simon & Schuster), US (Ecco), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Greece (Metaixmio), Hungary (Helikon), Korea (Roc Media), Netherlands (Atlas Contact), Portugal (Temas e Debates), Spain (Debate), Taiwan (Linking)
Mountain
Début literary suspense following a young woman who is convinced a young man she repeatedly bumps into is her childhood friend—who died aged 17.
Agent Kate Evans
A Death in the Parish
“Highly anticipated” sequel to Coles’ cosy crime Murder Before Evensong, with “all hell breaking loose” when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing.
Agent Tim Bates
Rights UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Absolutely and Forever
“Electrifying” short novel about first love from prize-winning bestseller Tremain, about 15-year-old Marianne, who is besotted with 18-year-old Simon. All seems perfect, but fate intervenes…
Agent Caroline Michel
Rights UK (Chatto & Windus)
Rachel Mills Literary
The Uprising of Rita Marsh
“My Dark Vanessa meets ‘Promising Young Woman’” in which the titular Rita Marsh is a lonely and isolated care home owner by day, and predator-hunting vigilante by night, posing as teenage girls online to ensnare paedophiles.
Agent Nelle Andrew
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Faber)
Money Rebel
The investor and personal finance influencer returns with a new book which aims to share the surprising message that doing financially better than you ever thought possible is far more attainable than you think.
Agent Rachel Mills
The Resilience Blueprint
Medical and integrative medicine doctor Gordon reveals the secret to long-lasting energy, clarity, happiness, focus and health in an eight-week “resilience” plan.
Agent Rachel Mills
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Orion Spring)
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
From the bestselling author of How to Fail, Friendaholic tells the story of one woman’s journey to understand why she is addicted to friendship.
Agent Nelle Andrew
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Fourth Estate)
Ordinary Time
“Wise, moving and funny” new novel from Rentzenbrink is “Anna Karenina for modern life”: an unforgettable story of the trials and sacrifices of the everyday, asking big questions about marriage and friendship, forgiveness and salvation, and the path of true love.
Agent Rachel Mills
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Phoenix)
RCW
My Friends
The return of the author of the 2017 Pulitzer winner for The Return, with a novel set between London and Libya, about two friends unable to break free of the web of their country’s history.
Agent Georgia Garrett
Rights UK (Viking), US (Random House)
Caledonian Road
The three-time Booker longlistee’s “epic, unputdownable and vital novel of our times: Trollope’s The Way We Live Now for our age”.
Agent Peter Straus
Rights UK (Faber)
Les Enfants Endormis (Sleeping Children)
The story of a family broken by a tragedy, hidden behind silence and shame, intertwined with the medical discovery of Aids by a team of French scientists in the early 1980s.
Agent Laurence Laluyaux
Rights France (Editions Globe), UK (Picador), US (FSG), Denmark (Politiken), Finland (Gummerus), Germany (Piper), Greece (Patakis), the Netherlands (Podium), Norway (Bonniers), Italy and Russia under offer
A Heart Full of Headstones
Rankin’s detective John Rebus returns to take the law into his own hands, not for the first time… but it might be the last.
Agent Jon Wood
Rights UK (Orion), US (Little, Brown), Denmark (Klim), France (Lattes), Greece (Metaichmio), Turkey (Alfa), Finland under offer
The Fraud
Told through the story of housekeeper Eliza Touchet, Smith’s “magisterial and groundbreaking” novel takes in the salons of mid-19th century literary London, a scandalous legal case and the atrocities of the slave trade.
Agent Georgia Garrett
Rights UK (Hamish Hamilton), US (Penguin Press), Italy (Mondadori)
Robert Caskie
The Vintage Shop of Second Chances
The bestselling author’s latest is set in Somerset and upstate New York, and is a “heartwarming” story of three women who are searching for answers to unlock a second chance for a new life.
Agent Robert Caskie
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Orion), Germany (Ullstein)
Spring Rain
This elegiac tale of a young boy and the man he becomes is “ultimately a beautiful story of healing and love”.
Agent Robert Caskie
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Harvill Secker), North America (Greystone)
One Last Thing (title tbc)
The bestselling dementia memoirist turns her attention to the end stages of life, and in her gentle and life-affirming way, makes a persuasive and impassioned case for assisted dying.
Agent Robert Caskie
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury)
In Pursuit of Happiness
The journalist and “divorce influencer” graphically but humorously describes her messy divorce and how she finds the confidence to believe she has the right to pursue her own happiness.
Agent Robert Caskie
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Piatkus)
Robertson Murray
Carbolics: A Personal Motoring Disinfectant
“Top Gear” and “Grand Tour” co-host May’s entertaining take on cars, trucks “and even the bicycle”.
Agent Charlotte Robertson
Rights World English (Hodder)
The House That Made Us
“One Day meets ‘Up’” novel that is a heartbreaking love story told through a series of photographs; inspired by a true story.
Agent Charlotte Robertson
Rights World (Simon & Schuster)
Once Upon a Prime
An exploration of how mathematics and literature can transform our understanding of each, by the Gresham Professor in Geometry chair, the first woman to hold mathematics’ most prestigious post in its 425-year history.
Agent Jenny Heller
Rights World (Flatiron)
Upshift: Turning Bad Stress into Good Stress and Crisis Into Creativity
“Engaging” investigation of how crisis and stress have the potential to inspire positive and creative, rather than destructive, outcomes, by an expert in humanitarian innovation.
Agent Jenny Heller
Rights World (Flatiron), UK (William Collins)
The Shaw Agency
The Cassandra Complex
The internationally bestselling YA star’s “life-affirming” first adult novel: “‘About Time’ meets The Rosie Project.”
Agent Kate Shaw
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Century), US (Mira), German, Dutch, Finnish
The Midwife of Auschwitz
“Heartbreaking”, top-10 Amazon-charting, Second World War-set novel.
Agent Kate Shaw
Rights World English (Bookouture), Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Romanian, Slovakian
Cleopatra
The Shakespeare’s Queens series novelist—who also writes as Anna Stuart—turns to the female leaders of the ancient world.
Agent Kate Shaw
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Piatkus)
Anisha Accidental Detective: Fright Night!
Halloween mayhem in the sixth instalment in Patel’s bestselling and award-winning middle-grade series.
Agent Kate Shaw
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Usborne)
The World Between the Rain
Celtic-inspired feminist middle-grade fantasy.
Agent Kate Shaw
Rights World English (Everything With Words)
Sheil Land Associates
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Two rival authors with a history, Amanda and Oliver, vie to publish the best true-crime book about the case of the Alperton Angels, a cult which famously indoctrinated a mother to think that her child was the Antichrist.
Agent Gaia Banks
Rights UK (Viper)
Forget-Me-Not
A modern riff on Persuasion, set in Sacramento. Ama is an expert wedding planner; she is more than ready to take on a celebrity wedding that will transform her career—but her ex is doing the flowers.
Agent Gaia Banks
Rights UK (Harper Fiction), US (Forever/Grand Central), Germany, Poland
The Front Room
A spooky short tale, soon to be a psychological horror film: two young parents-to-be take in an estranged stepmother and find themselves tormented by her evil presence... even after her death.
Agent Gaia Banks
Rights UK (Profile), Germany, Poland
Inanna
The New Scientist editor-in-chief’s début novel, first in a series retelling the myths of Mesopotamia. She begins with Sumerian goddess Inanna, who—with the unlikely help of the human Gilgamesh—must save her family from losing their immortality.
Agent Ian Drury
Rights World English (Titan)
Taxtopia
An anonymous whistle-blower brings to light just how rigged the UK tax system is in favour of the uber-wealthy as he charts his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax consultant.
Agent Piers Blofeld
Rights World English (Welbeck)
The Soho Agency
Telling Time: The Forgotten Art of Sensing the Hour
Time expert Haynes looks at the history and art of navigating the day and night: “What riches might we gain from expanding our sense of time beyond the clock to the manifold rhythms of the living world?”
Agent Rowan Lawton
The Christmas Wish
Seasonal rom-com from bestseller Kelk sees newly single lawyer Gwen hoping the holidays back home will heal her broken heart, but she keeps waking up on Christmas Day. “‘Groundhog Day’ but with turkey and family arguments on repeat.”
Agent Rowan Lawton
Rights World English (HarperCollins)
Death by Numbers
London and Eastbourne-set cosy crime in which risk-averse actuary Una uncovers a series of mysterious deaths and must put herself in danger to find out what is going on. “Nita Prose meets ‘Only Murders in the Building’”.
Agent Marina de Pass
Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries
A celebration of unheard and under-heard women’s history, inspired by the global #WomanInHistory campaign Mosse launched last year—and by her own family history.
Agent Mark Lucas
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Mantle), Spain (Roca)
Henry VIII Novel (provisional title)
Weir concluded her bestselling Six Tudor Queens series last year, and now turns her attention to the man at the centre.
Agent Julian Alexander
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Headline), US (Ballantine)
Sophie Hicks Agency
How to Read a Tree
Nature writer Gooley argues every tree tells an “epic story” and promises to reveal the “astonishing secrets hiding in plain sight” in the network of branches, trunks, roots, bark, leaves, buds, flowers and stumps.
Agent Sophie Hicks
Rights UK (Sceptre), US (The Experiment)
The Choice
Second novel in the Ronnie Delmar series sees the DS investigating a missing young woman and a boy snatched from a school playground, plunging her into “a world she could never have imagined”.
Agent Sophie Hicks
Rights UK (Welbeck)
Under Water
The Irish record free-diver’s beautiful memoir of self-discovery is a “profound meditation on the power of the breath”.
Agent Sarah Williams
Rights UK & Ireland (Gill)
Battle of the Beams
The story of Reginald Jones, the man who developed radar tracking with the British government and helped turn the tide of the Second World War.
Agent Sarah Williams
Rights UK (Transworld)
All the Hollow of the Sky
Whitfield’s third speculative novel revolves around Jedediah and his father, who “was a good fairy-smith but he wasn’t a good father”, walking out 40 years ago. Now he’s back, unrepentant…and hasn’t aged a day.
Agent Sophie Hicks
Rights UK (Jo Fletcher)
Susanna Lea Associates
The Wager
The new book from the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon is a narrative of survival which tells the 18th-century story of a shipwreck, a mutiny, and a trial full of twists and turns.
Agent On behalf of The Robbins Office
Rights US (Doubleday), UK (Simon & Schuster), France (Editions du sous sol), Romania (Editura ART). Under negotiation in Brazil, Holland, Spain, Sweden
Notes on Complexity
Elegant, entertaining and mind-bending introduction to complexity theory: the science of how complex systems behave in the world.
Agent On behalf of Spiegel & Grau
Invasion
Guardian journalist Harding takes us behind the headlines in this first-hand account of the first year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Agent Susanna Lea
Rights US (Vintage), UK (Faber), Czech (Zed), Finland (Into Kustannus), Spain (Planeta)
The Sun Walks Down
McFarlane’s “blazingly brilliant” new novel tells the story of a boy lost in colonial Australia.
Agent Stephanie Cabot
Rights US (FSG), UK (Sceptre), ANZ (Allen & Unwin), Italy (Stile Libero)
Brotherless Night
What does it take for a woman to become a terrorist? A courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as civil war devastates Sri Lanka in this searing novel.
Agent Stephanie Cabot
Rights US (Random House), UK (Viking)
Watson, Little
Roots of Stone
Environmental activist and novelist McCaulay’s contemporary Jamaica-set newest centres on 99-year-old “ganja” farmer Miss Pauline who, when trying to build a stone house from the ruins of a plantation, starts hearing the stones speaking back to her.
Agent Laetitia Rutherford
Swiped
“‘The Tindler Swindler’ with a serial killer”; a thrilling and humorous début novel in which Gwen matches with a serial killer on a dating app; a man who is intent on murdering all the men Gwen has ever dated—and thus she is forced to track down her terrible dates before he does.
Agent James Wills
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Head of Zeus)
Seventeen
“Beautifully, achingly poignant and often shocking portrait” of a relationship between a boy and his teacher—a compelling account of a flagrant abuse of power, as well as a testament to the insidious legacy of coercion and deceit.
Agent Donald Winchester
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Simon & Schuster)
The Rule of Three
A creepy take on urban legends which is a blend of the macabre and a tantalising new thriller from a bestselling author, writing under a pseudonym. “‘The Blair Witch Project’ meets The Whisper Man”.
Agent James Wills
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Simon & Schuster)
The Foot on the Crown
From the creator of the CWA-winning Bryant & May series comes a gruesome world filled with seductions, executions, deceits, betrayals and perhaps a little hope: “‘Game of Thrones’ set in a Medieval London”.
Agent James Wills
Rights UK & Commonwealth (Transworld), audio (W F Howes)
United Agents
Experienced
Award-winning food writer Young’s début novel stars Bette, who had exclusively been dating men, but has the world-altering realisation on her 30th birthday that she fancies women. She plunges into the queer dating scene to make up for lost time, which “takes her to unexpected places and love that is waiting where she least expects to find it”.
Agent Zoe Ross
Rights UK (Fourth Estate), Dutch (Luitingh Sijthoff), Finnish (WSOY), German (HarperCollins), Italian (Mondadori), Brazilian Portuguese (Sextante)
The Bottomless Man
The Desmond Elliott-winner’s second novel is a dark bildungsroman set in 18th-century France and following the life and times of Tarare, a showman and soldier in possession of a hideous, all-consuming appetite.
Agent Zoe Ross
Right UK (Granta)
The Quick and the Hollow
“Unputdownable” début fantasy novel with a deaf heroine, set in an alternate Medieval England in which magic rules life and death. “For fans of The Binding and The Night Circus”.
Agent Molly Jamieson
Capitalism in the Anthropocene
A surprise huge bestseller in his native Japan, University of Tokyo philosopher Saito argues capitalism is condemning humanity to environmental catastrophe and the way out is through “economic degrowth”.
Rights Zoe Ross
Rights World English (Weidenfeld), complex Chinese (Acropolis), German (dtv), Japanese (Shueisha), Korean (Dada Libro), simplified Chinese (STPH), Spanish (Ediciones B); Catalan, Italian, Turkish under offer
Women in the Shadows of Psychoanalysis
An examination of the lives of three 20th-century female psychoanalysts whose biographies have so far been overlooked: Lou-Andreas Salomé, Sabina Spielrein and Joan Riviere.
Agent Seren Adams
Rights Dutch (Ten Have); UK, German under offer
WME
Roman Stories
Originally written in Italian, this collection of stories by the Booker shortlistee is “filled with new insight into Lahiri’s relationship with the Italian language”.
Agent: Eric Simonoff
Rights English (US & UK), Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish
Hang the Moon
The Glass Castle writer’s new novel centres around an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.
Agent Margaret Riley King
Rights English (US & UK), German
The Critic’s Daughter
A memoir from the writer and daughter of prominent critic Richard Gilman and Janklow & Nesbit co-founder Lynne Nesbit; the title is about her childhood, full of literary giants; her parents’ bitter divorce; and “trying to find her voice without dimming her father’s shine”.
Agent Eric Simonoff
Rights English (US)
Cinema Speculation
The first work of non-fiction from the superstar director: a “deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino”.
Agent: Tracy Fisher
Rights English (US & UK), French, German, Italian, Spanish
The Wisdom of Morrie
From the eponymous subject of Tuesdays with Morrie comes an “insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life”.
Agent Mel Berger
Rights English (US)
The Wylie Agency
Victory City
Epic story of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries.
Agent Andrew Wylie
Rights Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, India, India (Malayalam), Italy, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, UK, US
The Card-Players
The Nobel laureate’s latest—with themes of adultery, betrayal and belonging—is set in 1942. With Turkey braced for a possible Nazi attack, the story centres around a large textile firm co-owned by Muslim and Jewish families.
Agent Sarah Chalfant
Rights Turkey
Marigold and Rose
The 2020 Nobel winner’s novel is a fairytale cum multigenerational saga centred around the first year in the life of twin girls.
Agent Sarah Chalfant
Rights Brazil, China, Croatia, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UK, US
Work in Progress
A series of wide-ranging conversations between Abloh—the groundbreaking American fashion designer who died last year of rare form of blood cancer, aged 41—and the influential fashion theorist and journalist Cronberg.
Agent Luke Ingram
Rights North America, UK
The Song of the Cell
The Pulitzer Prize-winning physician and biologist’s third book of stories is of scientists, doctors and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work.
Agent Sarah Chalfant
Rights Brazil, China, Germany, India, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, North America, Poland, Spain, UK, US
YMU
Red Mist
The sequel to Middleton’s bestselling fiction début has ex-Special Forces turned vigilante Mallory trying to stay out of trouble. But when he meets an old man afraid for his granddaughter, he finds himself drawn into a dangerous turf war.
Agents Amanda Harris
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Sphere)
The High Performance Journal
A guided journal inviting readers to push themselves to uncover and embody the secrets of high performance, based on Humphrey’s first title, High Performance.
Agent Amanda Harris
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Cornerstone)
The Trainspotter’s Notebook
The TikTok superstar shares his greatest trainspotting adventures across the fields and footbridges of Britain, passing through historic terminals and backwater stations “in pursuit of tones, thrash and locomotive perfection”.
Agent Millie Lean
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (Transworld)
Home
The ITV journalist and presenter explores what home means to her. “A beautifully written and urgent work that will resonate deeply with her readers.”
Agents Elise Middleton
Rights UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Untitled novel
The presenter’s first in a series of “sexy thrillers following an empowered and savvy private investigator”. The story of a “heroine for our times who follows her own (sometimes ambiguous) moral compass to find justice”.
Agents Amanda Harris, Anna Dixon
