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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: agents' hotlists
Agents’ hotlists: the books agencies are backing to fly at Frankfurt 2024.
Tom Tivnan is the managing editor of The Bookseller.
Tom Tivnan is the managing editor of The Bookseller.
42 M & P
Soul Searcher
“Dazzling” thriller about a Wall Street titan who loses his beautiful wife, and then goes on a scientific and psychedelic quest to reach her in the afterlife. Based, incredibly, on property tycoon Bilton’s own experience.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
The Wrecker’s Girl
On windswept coastal Cornwall, a mother dies in mysterious circumstances. Forensic psychologist Karenza Bray is then called upon to unravel the secrets.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
Rights UK and Comm excl. Canada (HarperCollins), Russia (Vimbo), Poland (Czarna Owca), Germany (Droemer Knaur)
Death at the White Hart
Crime début from “Broadchurch” creator Chibnall, centred around Dorset detective Nicola Bridge.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
Rights UK and Comm excl. Canada (Michael Joseph), North America (Pam Dorman), Germany (Piper), Ukraine (Vivat)
After Ever After
A young widow has to go back to the beautiful French village she and her husband used to live in to write the final chapter in her book on grief, while navigating her complicated feelings for her broodingly handsome ex-brother-in law.
Agent Emily MacDonald
Woke Up Like This
Witty rom-com about a 40-something journalist who jumps at the opportunity to try a cutting-edge treatment, which promises to make you look 20 years younger. Will lack of lines make her happier, or is there more to life than taut skin?
Agent Emily MacDonald
The Agency
Girl, Ultra-Processed
A searing look at diet culture, the impossible beauty of AI images on social media, and all its ugly consequences, from the writer of Influential.
Agent Jessica Hare
Rights World (Faber)
Handle with Care
“Stunning” YA novel told in prose and verse tells the story of Ruby, who gives birth at school not even knowing she was pregnant—and how she is let down by society and those who love her.
Agent Jessica Hare
Rights World (Guppy)
The Wolf and His King
“Spellbinding” queer fantasy retelling of the quintessential medieval werewolf romance of Bisclavret.
Agent Jessica Hare
Rights World (Gollancz)
Six Queens
Monks brings to life six fascinating women in this spectacular, fully illustrated book about the Tudor queens with one thing in common: Henry VIII.
Agent Jessica Hare
Rights World (Macmillan Children’s Books)
World of Wanda
“Beautiful” story about the stresses and successes of forming a new version of family, with an insight into ADHD; the difficulties, but also the unexpected gifts it can bring.
Agent Jessica Hare
Rights UK and Commonwealth (UCLan), Danish (Gads Forlag)
A M Heath
A Very Vexing Murder
“Whip-smart” cosy crime reimagining of Jane Austen’s Emma, in which Harriet, the gullible sidekick of Emma Woodhouse, is now a feisty conwoman-turned-detective.
Agent Euan Thorneycroft
Rights UK (Corvus), US (Morrow)
The Heir Apparent
“The Princess Diaries meets Taylor Jenkins Reid” upmarket women’s fiction about a young aristocratic woman who has to choose between her duty and her heart.
Agent Victoria Hobbs
Rights Australia and New Zealand (HarperCollins Australia)
A Bad, Bad Place
Glasgow 1979-set début about when, after 12-year-old Janey and her dog, Sid Vicious, find the body of a young woman on an abandoned railway line, she and grandmother must confront potential suspects and dark secrets.
Agents Oli Munson and Euan Thorneycroft
Orbital
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker, Harvey’s “spellbinding” novel revolves around six astronauts on-board the International Space Station.
Agent Anna Webber
Rights UK (Cape), US (Grove Atlantic), German (dtv), Italian (NN Editore) and 12 others
Monarchia
The historian behind the popular Substack post “Ælfgif-who?” tells the fascinating but forgotten stories of the queens instrumental in ruling the kingdoms of medieval England.
ACM
The Nord Stream Conspiracy
The Wall Street Journal’s chief European political correspondent’s “definitive” story.
Agent Toby Mundy
The Specialised Mind: How Neurodiversity Evolved and Why it’s Essential to Human Success
Hunt “blows the lid” on mainstream psychiatry by presenting an alternative paradigm.
Agent Toby Mundy
Firefly
The 2024 Lumen Prize for Fiction winner’s “dazzling” début set between Chernobyl and Buenos Aires.
Agent Maria Cardona Serra
Rights World Spanish (Lumen)
The Big Hop: The First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic
An account of the most audacious aviation challenge that had ever been attempted.
Agent Jack Ramm
Rights UK/Comm excl. Canada (Chatto), North America (Norton)
Forks in the Road: Michelin, the Motorcar and the Invention of Fine Dining
A history of the guide.
Agent Emily Sweet
Rights UK/Comm excl. Canada (Little, Brown), North America (Bloomsbury)
Aitken Alexander
She Has Come Again
The My Sister the Serial Killer author’s second novel centres on Eniiyi, who is so much the image of her dead aunt, Grandma West says she is, in fact, her reincarnation. Can Eniiyi escape the family curse and the fate that befell her aunt?
Agent Clare Alexander
Rights UK (Atlantic), US (Doubleday)
Moderation
The America Is Not the Heart author’s newest is a “daring, wild ride” centring on social media moderator Girlie, who is transferred to a virtual reality theme park but discovers troubling truths about the company she works for… And worse: her boss might just be her type.
Agent Emma Paterson
Rights UK (Atlantic), US (Viking)
Ingenious
The Origins and Being Human author explores the nature of human ingenuity spanning inventions, engineering, sport strategies, spycraft, competitive business strategy and creative ideas in marketing.
Agent Chris Wellbelove
Rights UK (Bodley Head)
Days of Light
The prizewinner’s new novel begins on Easter Sunday in 1938 when, over one lunchtime, Ivy’s life changes forever; a story of death, unrequited love and faith “reminiscent of The Hours or The Stranger’s Child”.
Agent Emma Paterson
Rights UK (Picador), US (Grove)
Permanence
The Granta Best of Young British Novelists honouree’s newest centres on Clara and Francis, who have been having an affair for years and one morning awake to find themselves in a mysterious city where adulterers can live an ordinary life together, away from hotel rooms and stolen moments. But can their relationship survive the mundane?
Agent Harriet Moore
Andrew Lownie 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), Saudi Arabia (Sumo)
Kitty’s Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich
True story of how the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic became a wartime spying centre with every room 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)
Vassal State
Brexit supposedly meant Britain “taking back control” from Europe, but Hanton argues how the UK’s true paymasters are on a different continent entirely: America.
Agent Andrew Lownie
Rights UK (Swift Press)
Nine Minds
Tammet continues his celebrated exploration of the mind, drawing on his own experiences to look at the inner lives of nine people on the neurodiverse spectrum.
Agent Andrew Lownie
Rights UK (Profile), France (Les Arènes)
Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy
The long-time foreign correspondent and China specialist on that nation’s “vampire economy” and the single-minded effort by its ruling party to “bend economics and business to its own will and ambition”.
Agent Andrew Lownie
Rights UK (Birlinn)
Andrew Nurnberg
Quarter Love Crisis
“The Hating Game meets Honey and Spice” in an “utterly addictive” rivals-to-lovers workplace rom-com about surviving your 20s and learning how to dream big again against the odds.
Agent Silé Edwards
Rights UK (Dialogue Books)
Smallie
“Energetic and immersive” début set between 1950s Barbados and 2010s London, which follows three generations of a Bajan-British family affected by the Windrush scandal.
Agent Rory Clarke
Rights UK (Viking)
Now We Are Parents: A Guide to Love After Kids
The therapist and The Five Arguments All Couples (Need to) Have author’s newest is an “accessible, warm and informed” guide to support parents through the different phases of having children.
Agent Charlotte Merritt
Rights UK (Profile)
The Unique: Affirmations, Love Letters and Lessons from Beyoncés Work
Academic and poet King takes a detailed and original look at the impact Beyoncé has had on the cultural landscape for decades.
Agent Silé Edwards
Rights World English (Beacon Press)
Anthony and Oliver
“Profoundly moving, highly original” love story that uses just a touch of magical realism to explore the complex subjects of gender and identity, “for fans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow”.
Agent Sara O’ Keeffe
ASH Literary
For the Ring
Second adult novel from Hennessy (a.k.a. YA author Jennifer Iacopelli), follows Frankie Sullivan, analytics whiz for the Brooklyn Eagles baseball team, and Charlie Avery, now retired star player, through a “forced-proximity, grumpy-meets-sort-of-sunshine if she could ever relax” romance.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
Rights World English (Headline Eternal), German (HarperCollins Germany), options in Polish, Ukrainian
Just One Night
First of a completed eight-book series following the love stories of people in a small town, kicking off with a sapphic romance with Paige out for revenge on her ex by seducing the girl he’s always wanted.
Agent AliceSutherland-Hawes
Rights World English (Amazon KDP), Italian (Ruby Ink)
The Mortal Trials
Début romantic fantasy following Lirah, who is ripped from her bed and thrown into the brutal Elven world and their Mortal Trials, a virtually unsurvivable series of challenges with the promise of immortality for any human who does survive.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
Rights World English (Angry Robot)
Mondays Are Murder
Third YA thriller from Guron following Kay, who goes back to her hometown to stay with her cousin, but finds an anonymous letter telling her she will be murdered in a week.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Usborne), Dutch (Uitgeverij Volt), options in US, German, Italian, South American Portuguese and Turkey
The Feast of a Life
Second YA romance from So is a “delicious” story of two people brought together by a shared love of food as they figure out themselves and each other.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
Rights World English (Little Tiger), options in Polish
Bell Lomax Moreton
Clean Point
“Carrie Soto Is Back meets Icebreaker” in this steamy tennis romance, first of a four-book series each based around a Grand Slam.
Agent Katie Fulford
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Penguin Michael Joseph), US and Canada (Avon), Italy, Germany, Portugal, Denmark
Atomic Coffin
“VanderMeer meets le Carré” in a cosmic horror set on a cold-war Soviet nuclear submarine.
Agent John Baker
A Knock at the Door
The true story of Ronnie Lockwood, a homeless man who, on Christmas Eve 1975, entered the home of Rob and Diane Parsons and lived as part of their family for more than 45 years until his death.
Agent Jo Bell
Rights World (HarperCollins)
Last Orders for the Condemned
The long-awaited return of DCI Daley in a gripping contemporary thriller, the 12th in Meyrick’s series.
Agent Jo Bell
Rights World (Transworld)
The Shah Sisters
“Heartfelt and joyous” reimagining of Little Women, as sisters Klara, Mally, Trina and Kav navigate life, love and loss as 21st century British-Indian women.
Agent Lauren Gardner
The Bent Agency
Spindlewood
Middle-grade début from YA author Kölsch has Lilac, the only un-Seeing student at a school for psychics, bluffing her way through class—and solving a monstrous mystery.
Agent Molly Ker Hawn, Martha Perotto-Wills
Rights US (Balzer + Bray), UK (Puffin), Germany (Hanser), Netherlands (Gottmer)
Lies We Tell About the Stars
Début YA about a teenage girl who is consumed with searching for her best friend after a catastrophic San Francisco earthquake.
Agent Molly Ker Hawn
Rights World English (Dutton Children’s)
Written on the Dark
The bestselling author’s newest is a sweeping novel of love and war evoking the drama and turbulence of medieval France.
Agent John Silbersack
Rights US (Berkley), Canada (Viking)
Idolfire
Epic sapphic fantasy road trip inspired by the fall of Rome, “for fans of Samantha Shannon and Hannah Kaner”.
Agent Zoë Plant
Rights UK (Hodderscape), US (DAW)
Everything Is Probably Fine
The only happiness Lorna has known was a childhood spent in her grandmother’s home. She is determined to buy that house out from the current tenants and recreate that happiness... But with a little help from some friends, she learns that happiness is a choice.
Agent Jenny Bent
Rights US (HarperWave)
The bks Agency
Zelensky’s Foreign Legion
Former Telegraph chief foreign correspondent Freeman “delivers the intense front-line storytelling of 3-Para or Black Hawk Down”, to answer the psychological complexity behind the question: “Why have foreign fighters flocked to the Ukraine?”
Agent James Spackman
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Mudlark)
The Team of 8 Billion
With 21st century’s key technologies (AI, quantum computing, synthetic biology and blockchain) dominated by the US and China, the authors explore how to resist the destabilisation of our world by a few elites.
Agent Jason Bartholomew
Confessions of a Cat
A six-book illustrated series—a major bestseller in Denmark—for those who “want to know what your cute clump of fur really thinks of you”.
Agent Joanna Kaliszewska
Ivy and Joe
“Victoria Wood meets The Bee Sting” in this darkly comic family saga set in 1980s Manchester, centring around factory worker Ivy and Italian immigrant Joe.
Agent Jessica Killingley
The Odds of You
“‘The Holiday’ meets ‘Notting Hill’” from bestseller Dramis, which has début novelist Sage crossing paths with hot new Hollywood star Theo, and finding herself in a gossip-column frenzy.
Agent Jessica Killingley
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), North American (St Martins Press), German (Piper), Dutch (De Fontein)
The Blair Partnership
The Klopp Effect
Liverpool’s senior manager offers a behind-the-scenes take on the strategies employed by Jürgen Klopp to make the club “the envy of the footballing world”.
Agent Rory Scarfe
Burn Bright
What causes some people to burn out while others burn bright? Eight rules from those who survive and thrive in the modern workplace.
Agent Rory Scarfe
A Short History of Ancient Rome
From the “Short History Of…” podcast is the story of Ancient Rome from its inception to implosion, “for readers who want to witness 1,000 years of history in a book they can easily finish”.
Agent Emily Barrett
Ice Retreat
Kelly’s latest spine-tingling thriller is set in the world of controversial wellness treatments.
Agent Jordan Lees
Rights World English (Pan Macmillan), Dutch (De Fontein), options in Czech, French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish
The Guilt Trip
A group of parents at an elite school expose each other’s darkest secrets when a minibus carrying their teenage children disappears without trace.
Agent Jordan Lees
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Zaffre), Dutch (House of Books), German (Rowohlt), options in French, Italian, Romanian
Blake Friedmann
The Sanctuary
What should be the opportunity of a lifetime for five strangers becomes a fight for survival when a meditation retreat in Costa Rica turns deadly.
Agent Kate Burke
Rights UK (Pan Macmillan)
The Violet Hour
Cahill’s follow-up to the critically lauded début Tiepolo Blue is an “exhilarating story of deception, power play and longing” tracing an artist’s struggle for authenticity in the dark underbelly of the international art world.
Agent Isobel Dixon
Rights UK (Sceptre)
The Ghosts of Rome
O’Connor’s second novel set in among the resistance in occupied Second World War Rome, now with an Italian contessa centre-stage.
Agent Isobel Dixon
Rights UK (Harvill Secker), US (Europa)
A Mother’s Promise
“Poignant memoir” of how a mother’s love provided constant hope during concentration camp survivor Salt’s darkest times.
Agent Kate Burke
Rights UK (Orion), US (Alcove), Canada (Simon & Schuster), Italy (Newton Compton)
The Grammar of Angels
A deep dive into the life of Renaissance prodigy and polymath Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the uncontested marvel of an age of wonders.
Agent Isobel Dixon
Rights UK (William Collins)
C&W
Dragonfly
The Paper Literary agent’s début novel centring on Euha, who grows up with her brother and grandmother in a quiet suburb of Hong Kong, shielded by her grandmother from the violence around them, as her father is a Dragon Head, a leader of the Triads criminal gang.
Agent Sophie Lambert
Rights Italy (GeMS)
The Lowe Job
“The Kardashians meets Pride and Prejudice” about a young woman, Lili Lowe, who is caught giving oral sex to a politician in the back of a car—and how her mother utilises the situation to propel all four of her daughters into stardom.
Agent Susan Armstrong
The Plum Queen
“The Paper Palace meets My Brilliant Friend” début narrated by Lenore, who is looking back on the three great loves of her life in the wake of her husband’s death, and confronting the realisation that she is absent from all of their lives’ works.
Agent Emma Finn
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Random House)
The Benefactors
A novel about family and morality, about privilege and entitlement, and the transformative power of money. It follows Frankie, Miriam and Bronagh, all mothers to 18-year-old boys, in contemporary Northern Ireland.
Agent Lucy Luck
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Sceptre), Italy (Atlantide)
Superbloom
Narrative non-fiction of the pursuit by Collins—head gardener at London’s Garden Museum—of superblooms: spectacular yet fleeting eruptions of wildflowers across the world.
Agent Sophie Lambert
CAA
The Boyhood of Cain
“Poignant” début about a boy on the precipice of adulthood, struggling to understand how he might give and deserve love, from the 2019 Stonewall Nonfiction Prize winner.
Agent John Ash
Rights UK (Faber), US (Riverhead), Spain (Siruela), Turkey (Domingo)
Other People’s Fun
A novel about modern life and “the lies we tell our neighbours, friends, families and ourselves”—and Lane’s first novel in 11 years.
Agent Karolina Sutton
Rights UK (Weidenfeld)
How to Taste Tomorrow
An award-winning author, filmmaker and academic’s look at how our food taste has developed historically, and how it will change due to climate change: “What fans of Ultra Processed People should read next”.
Agent Karolina Sutton
Go Gentle
Newest from the Where’d You Go, Bernadette author centres on Manhattanite Stoic philosopher divorcee Adora, who meets handsome stranger Johnny and is pulled into a world of secret rendezvous, black-market art deals andinternational intrigue.
Agent Anna Stein
The Man Who Fell from the Sky
Bestseller Stocklassa returns with an international investigation into the bombing of Pan AM flight 103, with Swedish diplomat Bernt Carlsson on board: a “page-turner blending investigative journalism, true crime writing and an exploration of conspiracy theories”.
Agent Harriet Poland
Rights Sweden (Norstedts), under offer in the Netherlands
Clare Hulton Literary Agency
Pinch of Nom: All in One
The mega-selling food writers and chefs return with 100 new, slimming recipes to be made in one pot, pan or roasting dish.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World (PanMacmillan)
The Life Sentence
Newest “pulse-pounding” psychological thriller from this bestselling author, whose books have sold one million units in the English language.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World (HarperCollins), Sinhalese (Bookrack)
The Cancer Road Map: Real Science to Guide Your Treatment Path
The co-author of the bestselling Complete Guide to Breast Cancer confronts the big cancer truths (and myths), offering clear, evidence-based answers.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World English (HarperCollins)
3 Doughs 60 Recipes: Easy-to-Master Doughs and Delicious Ways to Enjoy Them
Début cookbook from the superstar bakery influencer @_lacebakes_.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World (Quadrille)
Caring for Cacti and Succulents
Comprehensive and beautiful book about looking after these iconic plants from ITV’s “Alan Titchmarsh’s Gardening Club” houseplant expert.
Agent Clare Hulton
Rights World (DK)
Colwill & Peddle
The Space Between Us: An Autistic Therapist’s Guide to Better Empathy for Everyone
Autistic psychotherapist Cliff draws on her clinical experience, alongside interviews with a wide range of neurodivergent people, to interrogate the science of empathy in the brain and body.
Agent Milly Reilly
Rights UK and Commonwealth (William Collins), North America (The Experiment)
Sweet:The Secret to the Best Desserts
“MasterChef” finalist and Bitter author Anatole guides you through unlocking the secrets of sweetness.
Agent Milly Reilly
Rights World (Square Peg)
Friday Night Chicken
A coming-of-age memoir about food, tradition, family and memory, taking the reader into the author’s childhood home in the Jewish community in Manchester in the 1980s.
Agent Kay Peddle
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Ebury)
Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations
“Warm, wise” guide to being a modern grandparent from psychologist Apter, building on cutting-edge research as well as her own experience.
Agent Kay Peddle
Rights World English (Duckworth)
The Magickal Summer of Evie Edelman
Début set in early 1980s Leeds in which everyone in her tight-knit Jewish community thinks that 21-year-old Evie is weird—and a psychiatrist says that she has Asperger’s—but Evie knows she is really a witch. “Sorrow and Bliss meets Convenience Store Woman via Jane Austen and Caitlin Moran”.
Agent Charlotte Colwill
Rights UK and Commonwealth (UCLan)
Curtis Brown
Karla’s Choice
Acclaimed novelist Harkaway takes on the mantle of his late father John le Carré’s most iconic spy, George Smiley.
Agent Jonny Geller
Rights UK (Penguin), US (Viking), France (Seuil), Germany (Ullstein), Greece (Harlenic Hellas), Hungary (Agave), Italy (Mondadori), Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff), Portugal (Dom Quixote), Spain (Planeta)
See You at the Finish Line
“Captivating” LGBTQ+ enemies-to-lovers rowing romance with “a love story that will warm your heart”.
Agent Cathryn Summerhayes
Rights UK (Zaffre)
Traverser les montagnes, et venir naître ici
The French author and serial prize-winner Pavlenko’s Prix du Roman Fnac-longlisted story of bereavement, solidarity and hope.
Agents Roxane Edourad, Felicity Blunt (UK)
Rights France (Les Escales)
Myself and Other Animals
The beloved naturalist’s posthumous autobiography—drawing on an unfinished memoir and a book from a trip to Australian in 1969—blending in uncollected pieces and extracts from Durrell’s work and archives.
Agent Norah Perkins
Rights UK (Viking), options in China, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain
The Good Russian
The Russian-born, London-based memoirist and short-story writer’s account of her return to her hometown of Yekaterinburg to explore how ordinary Russians are experiencing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Agents Rachel Goldblatt, Elliot Prior
Rights UK (Little, Brown)
Darby Literary
A Crime Through Time
“‘Enola Holmes’ meets Pride and Prejudice” with a time-travel twist, starring Georgiana Darcy.
Agent Mary Darby (on behalf of Eve White)
Rights UK (Pan)
We Aim to Live
Collection of short stories by former pro footballer Budden; “an unflinching exploration of the fragility of the male ego”.
Agent Mary Darby
Rights UK (Troubadour)
DarleyAnderson
Cuckoo
Gripping début thriller “with a killer twist at its core” in which Claire is ghosted by her fiancé and becomes obsessed with his other life.
Agent Camilla Bolton
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Century), North America (Ballantine), Brazil (Alta), Russia (Everbook)
To Cage a Wild Bird
A “Hunger Games meets ‘Prison Break’” spicy enemies-to-lovers dystopian romantasy début set in Dividium, where all crimes are punishable by life in prison, and the wealthy hunt inmates for sport. Can bounty hunter Wren escape with both her brother and her heart intact?
Agent Rebeka Finch
Sister Wake
First in an adult epic fantasy series by the YA star where the ancient gods and monsters join a rebellion, and one woman will decide the fate of all.
Agent Clare Wallace
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Hodderscape)
The Seventh Girl
In the isolated mountains of Tasmania, Gertie and Hallie reconcile to look for their missing brother. But then Gertie becomes the seventh missing person and Hallie must face Mount Mercy alone.
Agent Jade Kavanagh
Rights option in Russia
Crew of Crooks
Début steamy romantasy with love, pirates and an uprising of the underdog as lifelong rivals Priest and Scarlett must work together to carry out an impossible heist. But will their mutual desire put everything at risk?
Agent Rebeka Finch
Rights Italian (De Agostini)
Darley Anderson Children’s Agency
Bright and Terrible Will They Be
Queer YA high-fantasy début with a slow burn romance inspired by Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Magic has returned to the kingdom of Galant, but only sinners can use it…
Agent Clare Wallace
The Sign of the Raven
“Orwell meets ‘Inception’” in a teen fantasy début where Ashlyn is recruited into a secret society of lucid dreamers and uncovers a sinister plot that threatens the freedoms of her fellow citizens—and the freedom of thought itself.
Agent Lydia Silver
Traumaland
HappyHead creator Silver’s standalone YA, in which Eli goes to an underground club hoping to feel something, anything, by living through other people’s nightmares.
Agent Clare Wallace
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Rock the Boat), North American (Delacorte), German (Magellan), Polish (Publicat), option in Spanish
The End of Everything After
YA “Good Girl’s Guide to Murder meets ‘Only Murders in the Building’” début about the hunt for the truth behind the mysterious death of Willow Fremont.
Agent Becca Langton
The (Murder) Crush Confession
“Dark and smart” YA rom-com featuring a home-made catapult, a dead jock, a rookie reporter trying to crack the case and the prime suspect—who’s actually really cute.
Agent Becca Langton
David Godwin Associates
The Dark Mirror
The fifth title, and a sixth to follow, in Shannon’s bestselling The Bone Season series.
Agent Sebastian Godwin
Rights US and UK (Bloomsbury)
The Ceylon Islands (working title)
The Booker winner’s novella of three linked Sri Lanka-themed stories, sold along with a new novel, and a collection of short stories.
Agent Aparna Kumar
Rights UK (Corsair)
Watershed
The British/Canadian nature writer traces the threats facing freshwater species and habitats, and the work of scientists and activists attempting to save them.
Agent David Godwin
Rights UK (Hamish Hamilton), US (Simon & Schuster)
Sanctuary
The historian, critic and novelist’s newest looks at the crisis of people being displaced, and how a new concept of integration is urgently needed.
Agent David Godwin
Rights UK (William Collins)
Fieldwork as a Sex Object
The Women’s Prize shortlistee’s narrative of a young woman who faces brutal online trolling because of a sex scandal in a nuanced commentary taking in “race, politics, sex… and the insecurities that drive people to do what they do”.
Agent Aparna Kumar
Rights UK (Brazen), India (HarperCollins India)
David Higham Associates
Songbird of the Sorrows
First book in the epic Myth of the Empyrieos series starring feisty heroine Aella, covering her struggles through high-stakes trials, a perilous heist, court intrigue and kingdom politics, and a journey of self-discovery and true love.
Agent Christabel McKinley
Rights Spanish (VR Editoras), Italian (Mondadori) and Polish (Niezwykle)
Motherfaker
“Hilarious and heartfelt” début about a child-free-by-choice teacher who decides to fake a pregnancy to get a year off work.
Agent Jemima Forrester
Rights UK (Macmillan)
The Fall of the West
The left-wing journalist argues that the era of Western supremacy is ending; a fall of its own design the left must reckon with in order to seize back the narrative from the nativist right.
Agent Andrew Gordon
Rights UK (Allen Lane), Catalan (Ara Llibres) Korean (Bookinthegap), Japanese (Umi-to-Tsukisha), Spanish (Seix Barral)
Honey
Subversive, feminist-revenge, campus novel, in which the disaffected protagonist develops a taste for murder.
Agent Niki Chang
On the Wall
The Carnegie winner’s newest—aimed at young teens—is a “warm and witty” novel about the value of silence and self-acceptance.
Agent Anthony Goff
Rights UK (Old Barn Books)
David Luxton
How to Win a Grand Prix
Former F1 strategist turned TV pundit Collins reveals the myriad data sifted through and analysed to support the driver in his bid to win the Grand Prix.
Agent David Luxton, Nick Walters
Rights Poland
Searching for Novak
“Definitive” biography by respected tennis writer Hodgkinson aiming to show the real Novak Djokovic both on and off the court: his regimen, political beliefs, charitable work, views on medicine and science, personal life and, of course, his unparalleled career.
Agent Nick Walters
Rights Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Estonia
Triumph & Tears
The story of Arsenal left- back Zinchenko, born one hour west of Kyiv, who has been using his influence as one of the best footballers in the UK to help Ukraine in its effort in the war with Russia.
Agent David Luxton
Rights Japan, Ukraine
The Meaning of Beer
Beer expert Garrett’s globe-trotting expedition throughout time, telling the fascinating stories of beer lovers and brewsters across continents, while discussing how beer led to breakthrough discoveries and inventions like pasteurisation and the railways.
Agent David Luxton
Rights US
Chasing Salah
Award-winning football journalist Hughes’ fascinating portrait of this enigmatic football icon, Mo Salah.
Agent David Luxton
Rights Romania
D H H Literary
The Bookbinder’s Secret
The discovery of a written confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book leads a young bookbinder on a hunt for the writer and the truth of their story—one of forbidden love, a lost fortune and murder.
Agent David Headley
Beautiful People
The author of The Havenreturns with a “captivating” psychological thriller set among a circle of old university friends reuniting at the wedding of a Hollywood darling, where Champagne flows and painful memories resurface: “perfect for fans of ‘Saltburn’”.
Agent Broo Doherty
Rights UK (HQ)
The Ancient O: Women’s Pleasure in the Classical World
“Lively” history of female sexuality in the classical world: “For readers of A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women and Kinky History”.
Agent Emily Glenister
Tender
During a blazing summer, botanist Nell joins the excavation of two “bog bodies” that have been discovered in elaborate floral graves: a “beautifully depicted feminist folk-horror début”.
Agent Abi Fellows
Rights UK (Influx)
Murder at the Hotel Orient
“Sultry and witty” locked-room murder mystery set in the Hotel Orient—a real, infamous “love hotel” in Vienna—with a beguiling heroine, the concierge Sterling Lockwood.
Agent Harry IllingworthRights UK (Baskerville), Scout (North America)
Diamond Kahn & Woods
The Artist
First upmarket historical novel from bestselling rom-com star Williams, inspired by the life of Tamara de Lempicka, in which the memoir of a great 20th-century artist is discovered after her death, revealing the heartbreaking truth about her rise to fame.
Agent Ella Kahn
After Dark
Alternate reality thriller—now a Paramount+ series, “Curfew”—in which men have a strict 7pm to 7am curfew, so when a woman is discovered brutally murdered during those hours, it couldn’t have been a man who killed her… could it?
Agent Ella Kahn
Rights UK (Century), US (Berkley), Turkey (25M2), Germany (Heyne), Russia (AST), Italy (Fanucci), Taiwan (Faces), TV (Vertigo/Paramount+)
Love and Other Paradoxes
Silvey’s newest is a “thoughtful and uplifting” rom-com in which one of the greatest love stories in history gets derailed when a struggling poet at Cambridge runs into a time-traveller who agrees to help him find his muse.
Agent Bryony Woods
Rights UK (HarperVoyager), US (William Morrow)
Eat the Ones You Love
“Twisted, tangled” story about workplace love affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh from the acclaimed author of the Irish Book Award-winning Other Words for Smoke.
Agent Bryony Woods
Rights UK (Titan), US (Tor)
Love to Win
“Fun, fresh and romantic” Toronto-based début novel, a “perfect marriage of enemies-to-lovers and fake dating with an irresistible board games theme”.
Agent Camille Burns
DunnFogg
Mozart’s Sparrow and Other Beasts of Genius
A blend of natural, biographical and cultural history that explores the unique and curious way animals and nature have inspired, enriched and shaped the work and lives of extraordinarily accomplished humans.
Agent Jack Fogg
I
Cambridge University cell biologist Baum aims to change what readers see when they look in the mirror—to better understand the extraordinary creature looking back—and leave a deeper sense of what it means to be part of nature.
Agent Ben Dunn
While the Music Lasts
“Beautiful” memoir in which musicologist MacGregor explores how her father’s sudden passing and the deep grief that followed was alleviated by the healing powers of music.
Agent Ben Dunn
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Duckworth)
Eve White Literary Agency
The Woman in Suite 11
The 10th thriller by the bestselling author, who boasts more than nine million global sales.
Agent Eve White
Rights UK (Simon & Schuster), USA, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Finland
A Beautiful World
Internationally bestselling characters Big Panda and Tiny Dragon return to explore life’s struggles and joys.
Agent Ludo Cinelli
Rights UK (Michael Joseph), Germany
Fall of Civilizations
Stories of the greatness and decline of 14 civilisations in this companion to a podcast with more than 100 million downloads.
Agent Eve White
Rights UK (Duckworth), US (HarperCollins), Czechia, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia
Circle of Liars
Seven teens end up in a deadly version of a childhood game in this nail-biting début YA thriller.
Agent Ludo Cinelli
Rights UK (Usborne), Netherlands
Sun Trap
An actor gets more than she bargained for when she impersonates her best friend on a shoot in Dubai.
Agent Eve White
Rights UK (Head of Zeus)
The Feldstein Agency
The Ghost of Tenth Street
Memoir by Spillenger of life in 1940s, 50s and 60s Manhattan—and the New York art scene—through vignettes of his abstract impressionist painter father.
Agent Paul Feldstein
Me, Myself and AI: Reclaiming My Stolen Voice from Big Tech
An Irish voice actor’s account of trying to prevent her voice from being synthesised by AI, and in the process becoming an accidental campaigner for artists’ rights against big tech’s exploitative practices.
Agent Paul Feldstein
Paris, Kentucky
Literary novel based on the last three years of Sam Shepard’s life: “A stunning and unique insight into the life and mind of a great American literary figure.”
Agent Paul Feldstein
Micheala
Literary début “in the spirit of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn” in which the “tenets of conservative Catholicism weigh upon and inform the characters’ worldviews”.
Agent Paul Feldstein
Incompatible with Life: A Memoir of Grave Illness, Great Love, and Survival
“Evocative and extraordinary” medical memoir by Tallon who, in 2015, was left fighting for his life after suffering from a rare genetic anomaly, hereditary hemochromatosis: an overload of iron in the body.
Agent Paul Feldstein
Felicity Bryan Associates
In Bloom
“Brash, bold, grunge-inflected” début by Australian Allan, following four young girls in a poor coastal town who form a rock band as a means to escape—but then the lead singer quits and accuses their music teacher of sexual assault.
Agent Angelique Tran Van San
Rights UK (Sceptre)
What am I, a Deer
The first novel from award-winning non-fiction writer and translator (Asako Yuzuki’s Butter) follows one woman’s move to Frankfurt to start a job at a famous gaming company—a “sharply funny, idiosyncratic and deeply charming story of karaoke and obsession”.
Agent Angelique Tran Van Sang
Rights UK (Fitzcarraldo)
Therapy Talk
Psychotherapist Bueno shows how language from therapy has conquered popular culture, and provides a useful guide for anyone who has found themselves hearing and using these words.
Agent Carrie Plitt
Rights UK (Bonnier)
Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World
Medievalist Hurlock explores the complex history and contemporary relevance of pilgrimage through journeys to 19 extraordinary sites around the world.
Agent Catherine Clarke
Rights UK (Profile), Korea (Booksea)
No Small Matter: The New Science and Unseen Power of Earth’s Microbiome
Biologist and award-winning science writer Martynoga’s “wondrous and urgent” introduction to the paradigm-shifting concept of Earth’s microbiome—the invisible, interconnected network of microscopic beings that is essential to the shaping the entire planet.
Agent Carrie Plitt
Georgina Capel Associates
The Spy in the Archive
The BBC’s security correspondent’s remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin, the in-house archivist for the KGB, turned dissident and spy, exposed Russia and changed the world.
Agent Georgina Capel
Rights World English (William Collins)
Ovid and his Women
“Phenomenal” new exploration of Ovid, the unstable world he wrote in and the extraordinary works he created, revealed for the first time through the women he wrote both for and about.
Agent Georgina Capel
Rights UK (Faber), US (Viking)
The Work We Need: A 21st Century Imagining
The sociologist and entrepreneur’s reimagining of our working lives, rethinking work and work’s place in the modern world.
Agent Georgina Capel
Rights World English (Virago)
Franco
“Definitive” biography of Europe’s longest-lasting 20th century dictator.
Agent Georgina Capel
Rights UK (Bloomsbury); North America (OUP), Spanish (PRH Spain)
Greene & Heaton
The Model Patient
Suspense novel set in London during the Big Freeze of 1963, as a woman’s obsession with her psychotherapist takes a dangerous turn when she finds out that her childhood best friend is engaged to marry him.
Agent Antony Topping
Births, Deaths and Marriage
“‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ meets ‘When Harry Met Sally’” in an era-spanning, globetrotting novel about love, friendship and everything in between following six university friends.
Agent Judith Murray
Rights UK (Doubleday)
Lambing Season
“Funny, tenderly observed” début in which a young woman—a newly disabled illustrator—confronts her diagnosis and follows an impulse to move to rural Wales to become engaged to a near stranger.
Agent Holly Faulks
Rights UK (Dialogue)
The Call of the Void
A young couple travels to the Amalfi Coast for their belated honeymoon. But all is not quite as it seems in this lovers’ paradise, as the bride must face the possibility that her husband may be harbouring secrets too dark to share.
Agent Laura Williams
Rights UK (Dialogue), Germany (Rowohlt)
She Herself Is a Haunted House
Literary gothic novel about a cursed house buried in the Kentish landscape, and two women, living a century apart, whose fate may be sealed within its walls.
Agent Imogen Morrell
Greenstone Literary
Swept Away
The bestselling author’s latest rom-com, which “sees two strangers lost at sea… with their one-night stand”.
Agent Tanera Simons
Rights UK (Quercus), US (Berkley), Brazil (Intrinseca), Finland (WSOY)
The Dating Game
Socially awkward board game designer Tilda works in Monaco and decides to approach her dating life as a game, eliminating players who break her rules. But someone watching is intent on playing their own game of revenge.
Agent Laura Heathfield
Rights World English (Berkley)
The Secrets of Flowers
Seeking distraction from the death of her husband, Emma sets out to uncover the identity of the florist on the Titanic—and finds friendship, connections, and hope along the way.
Agent Tanera Simons
Rights UK (Harper Collins), US (Blackstone), Germany (dtv), Russia (Azbooka-Atticus)
Romance Is Dead
Enemies-to-lovers rom-com in which scream queen Quinn and an on-set love interest stumble across a dead body on-set of their horror movie.
Agent Tanera Simons
Rights UK (Quercus)
Head First
Forced proximity STEM rom-com in which two sparring marine biologists find themselves on the same dive trip in the Great Barrier Reef.
Agent Tanera Simons
Rights UK, Canada (Bonnier)
Greyhound Literary
The Death and Life of Ellen Fenton
A rich psychological portrait of a family by Booker long-listed Edwards unfolds as Ellen Fenton—wife, mother, grandmother—lies on her deathbed and realises her life project, the big beautiful Caribbean family she sacrificed so much in order to build, has crumbled away beneath her.
Agent Salma Begum
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Virago)
Winging It
“Raw and honest” queer rom-com takes you behind the curtain into the dramatic world of cabin crew, as flight attendant Callum tries to overcome the turbulence of his past relationship and find love again with the attractive new engineer.
Agent Maria Brannan
Not Just a Bad Period
Jen Moore
Timely, evidence-based guide to endometriosis by award-winning campaigner and educator Moore, which combines the latest research with personal experience, practical advice—and compassion.
Agent Julia Silk
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Green Tree)
The Wild Indoors
Nature writer and educator Richardson brings together natural history, botany, colonial legacies and more to examine our relationship with houseplants past, present and future.
Agent Charlotte Atyeo
No Empires of the Sun
Solar power entrepreneurs and advocates Tilleard and Davies provide a hopeful, deeply informed exploration of the enormous potential of solar power—not just as sustainable energy source but as a democratising force that will have major geopolitical implications.
Agent Philip Gwyn Jones
Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency
How to Slay at Work
Men die in mysterious circumstances whenever Millie’s boss travels for work. Could she be a stone-cold killer? And how can Millie use that to her own advantage?
Agent Hannah Sheppard
Rights World English (Boldwood)
Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo
Ten-year-old Meticulous (Metty) Jones’ magical tattoo reveals she’s fated to be a murderer… but who is she destined to kill, and is a fating ever wrong?
Agent Hannah Sheppard
Rights UK and US (HarperCollins Children’s), Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese
Our Gifted Hearts
When Fortune is accused of witchcraft, she marries the mysterious Mr Quickly to escape. But afterwards, she is tormented by nightmares and sinister sights, while discovering she may not be the first Mrs Quickly.
Agent Hannah Sheppard
Rights World English (Angry Robot)
Title TBC
“The Loney meets Ghost Wall” in this Welsh folk horror set on an isolated farm deep in the mountains of Snowdonia.
Agent Louise Buckley
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Picador)
Hardman & Swainson
The Drop
A group of old university friends must reckon with their past deeds in this panic-inducing thriller set at the top of a rollercoaster in a half-built theme park in the desert.
Agent Joanna Swainson
Rights UK (One More Chapter), US (Sourcebooks)
Hagtale
A feral girl brought up by wolves and witches is destined to be the downfall of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in a dark, literary fairy tale from the Dark Aemilia author.
Agent Joanna Swainson
Rights UK (Scribe)
Havoc
The Nota Bene Prize shortlistee’s newest is a tragi-comic novel set in the 1980s at a crumbling girls’ boarding school, where a mysterious outbreak shakes up the lives of both pupils and teachers forever.
Agent Caroline Hardman
Rights UK (Riverrun)
My Mother Is a Sonnet
Memoir exploring familial love, memory and the power of poetry with the catalyst Parry’s experience of her mother, after a massive stroke, being able to recite poetry before she could say her daughter’s name.
Agent Caroline Hardman
(Un)Kind: How ‘Be Kind’ Entrenches Sexism
The Nero Book Awards shortlistee argues that the kindness culture is used against women, citing the #JustBeKind trend of the 2020s as a starting point.
Agent Caroline Hardman
Rights UK (Fleet)
HHB Agency
Operation Pimento:My Great-Grandfather’s Great Escape
Dramatic Second World War story combining an account of Squadron Leader Frank Griffith’s 2,400km escape across Occupied France with his great-grandson’s own retracing of Frank’s footsteps.
Agent Elly James
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Hodder)
Exile Economics: What Happens If Globalizaton Fails
Newest from economist and Chinese Whispers author Chu looking at the race among nations for economic self-sufficiency.
Agent Elly James
Rights World (Basic)
The Twins on the Train
The bestselling historical novelist’s latest opens in Berlin 1939. Rosa pushes through the crowds and thrusts the basket containing her newborn twins at the woman closing the door to a train carriage, and prays they will reach England safely.
Agent Elly James
Rights World (Bookouture)
20-minute Gut Health Fix
Simple recipes to supercharge your health and avoid ultra-processed food from the bestselling “MasterChef” winner and gastroenterologist.
Agent Elly James
Rights World (Hodder)
The Stars Over Rome
In Rome, the First World War is looming and star-struck lovers Gabriella and Marco must navigate their way through family secrets, separation and bittersweet hope for the future.
Agent Elly James
Rights World (Piatkus)
Janklow & Nesbit
The Illuminators
A heartwarming cosy début fantasy about a young woman born into a family of Illuminators with no magical powers of her own, from the Avon senior commissioning editor.
Agent Emma Leong
Planets in the Sea
A native Hawaiian farmer and scientist on what island ecosystems—and the cultures of the people who live on them—can tell us about our future on a resource-depleted planet.
Agent Will Francis
Pyromaniac
A cultural and (very) personal history of our relationship with fire: “Olivia Laing meets Sociopath”.
Agent Claire Paterson Conrad
Sorry for Your Loss
Thriller about a woman with a dark past, who forms an unhealthy fixation on a fellow grief group member when she finds out their respective partners died on the exact same day.
Agent Hayley Steed
Rights US (Dutton)
Ancestor: The Seven Habits
An anthropologist’s hopeful, inspirational book about time and how to secure a better future, “for lovers of Oliver Burkeman and Jenny Odell”.
Agent Claire Paterson Conrad
Jenny Brown Associates
Hel on Earth
Fourth novel from the broadcaster and prize-winning author Magnusson asks the question: “What if gods walked among us?” and centres on two women—one with months to live, one who has been alive for 1,000 years—who learn the meaning of love and connection in the face of adversity.
Agent Jenny Brown
Rights UK and Commonwealth (John Murray Press)
The Light-a-CandleSociety
Sixth novel from bestseller Hogan is a story of a disparate group who come together to celebrate the lives of those who die alone and “in doing so give their own lives more meaning”.
Agent Lisa Highton
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Corvus)
Johnson & Alcock
Mare
The children’s author and graphic novelist’s Myslexia Prize-winning literary début draws on the conventions of fable, poetry and the lyric essay to challenge the idea of contemporary motherhood.
Agent Ed Wilson
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Granta)
Oddbody
“Weird, transgressive and utterly unique” literary horror/gothic début short story collection from a Marian Keyes Young Writer Award winner.
Agent Ed Wilson
Rights UK (Canongate), US (Simon & Schuster)
Sunbirds
“Gripping” upmarket novel about the shift in identity through life and the grief of loss, following Anne on her quest to find her 20-year-old son, who disappeared in the Himalayas seven years earlier.
Agent Anna Power
Rights UK (John Murray Press), Germany, Italy, Hungary
Hiroshima Men
The latest from the historian—and Head of Zeus publishing director—is the “page-turning” narrative of the personal experiences of key figures across continents from 1936–46, when the world was plunged into a catastrophic global conflict.
Agent Anna Power
Rights UK (Constable), US (Scribner)
The Language of Lies
Real-life case studies and stories to show how language can reveal the liars among us—and the linguistic clues to how you can spot truth from lies.
Agent Michael Alcock
Rights UK (Cornerstone)
Jonathan Clowes
Love Child
Reissue of Duffy’s 1971 classic, in which, on holiday in their villa in Italy, a love affair develops between the mother and the father’s secretary.
Agent Nemonie Craven
Rights North America (McNally Editions), German (Reclam)
Quelques pas dans les pas d’un ange: une enfance avec Marc Chagall
Recollections of an extraordinary childhood as the son of Marc Chagall, with photos and illustrations.
Agent Nemonie Craven
Rights France (Gallimard)
The Tailor of Temperance Town
The Polari-shortlisted author’s newest set in the multicultural Cardiff of the early 20th century, inspired by the real-life trial for “indecency” of Louis Perlin.
Agent Nemonie Craven
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Parthian)
¡Viva Palestina! The story of the Palestinian revolution in Latin America
Exploring the links between Palestinian and Latin American politics, based on oral history including conversations with Yasser Arafat’s Nicaraguan lover.
Agent Nemonie Craven
An American Book of the Dead
“Transportive, deeply intelligent” début novel by Norrie, also known as musician and Bloodaxe poet MacGillivray.
Agent Nemonie Craven
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Broken Sleep)
Kate Hordern Literary Agency
Christmas at a Highland Castle
Jess’s new job as housekeeper at Kirkshield Castle feels like something out of a fairytale, but then she meets the new earl and his widowed mother, and realises she’s not exactly welcome. But perhaps the magic of Christmas will spark romance and make the castle a home?
Agent Anne Williams
Rights World English (Bonnier Embla)
Maria Theresa: Empress
New biography of the formidable Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa, the single most powerful woman in 18th century Europe, using hitherto unpublished sources.
Agent Kate Hordern
Rights World English (Yale UP)
A Class Act
The first in a new series from Kindle top 10 bestseller Houston, set in the world of London’s West End musical theatre, and a Yorkshire village.
Agent Anne Williams
Rights World English (Boldwood), options in Denmark, Germany
The Falmouth Spy
“Charming” 1914 Falmouth-set crime novel with Alma—unexpectedly becoming the heir of Timperley Hall aged 22—joining local police to find the killer of maid who was murdered during a Zeppelin air raid.
Agent Kate Hordern
Main Character Era
In Starkey’s fourth romance, English literature lecturer Jess swaps academia for a role as a script consultant on a TV show of her beloved 18th-century author Georgiana Scott’s historical romantic novel.
Agent Kate Hordern
Rights World English (Bonnier Embla), option in Denmark
Kate Nash Literary Agency
Soul Hate
Romantasy début where everyone has a soul mate, but also a “soul hate”. What if you fall for the one you are fated to destroy?
Agent Saskia Leach
Rights World English (HarperCollins)
The Secret Pianist
The bestseller tells a gripping story of female bravery and sisterhood in wartime France.
Agent Kate Nash
Rights World English (HarperCollins)
Wolf 6
First of a new series in which an elite Ukrainian assassin has to confront the deadly legacy of his and his family’s past.
Agent Justin Nash
Rights World English (Boldwood)
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife
A young lightkeeper’s wife struggles to protect her family in an inhospitable landscape at the edge of the known world in this début novel inspired by a true story.
Agent Francesca Riccardi
Rights World English (Poolbeg)
The Vicarage Murder
A vicar’s wife turns sleuth in this newly reissued series from the phenomenal bestseller.
Agent Kate Nash
Rights World English (Joffe), Estonian (Eesti Raamat)
Ki Agency
The Gilded Crown
“The Witch’s Heart meets The Foxglove King” in a dark fantasy début about a woman who can bring people back from the dead, and the princess she must protect. First in the Raven’s Trade series.
Agent Meg Davis
Rights World English (HarperVoyager), Russia (AST) and Ukraine (Knigolove)
The Antlered King
Second in the Raven’s Trade series is a “thrilling” fantasy following Hellevir’s story as she navigates political expectations, losing pieces of herself (quite literally) and figuring out who she is.
Agent Meg Davis
Rights World English (HarperVoyager), Russia (AST) and Ukraine (Knigolove)
Laxfield Literary
Looking at Women Looking at War
Highly anticipated work by Ukranian novelist and poet Amelina—who was killed by a Russian missile strike aged 37 in 2023—chronicling the lives of 11 women who joined the resistance, and detailing her own transformation from novelist and mother into war-crimes researcher. With a foreword by Margaret Atwood.
Agent Emma Shercliff
Rights UK (William Collins), US (St Martin’s Press), France (Flammarion), Italy (Guanda), Korea (Pacho), Netherlands (ISVW Uitgevers), Sweden (Ersatz)
The Language of War
“How can you still make sense of the world when the only language you can speak is that of war?” Devastating account by Mykhed, now enlisted in Ukraine’s armed forces.
Agent Emma Shercliff
Rights UK (Allen Lane), Netherlands (Walburg Pers), Poland (Czarne), Slovakia (Absynt), Taiwan (Acropolis), Ukraine (Old Lion)
Carrion Crow
Edwardian gothic horror of gender and class, with newly betrothed Marguerite confined in the family attic for her well-being, along with Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, a taxidermied bat and a Singer sewing machine.
Agent Emma Shercliff
Rights UK (Doubleday)
Lewinsohn Literary
And Notre Dame Is Burning
This “razor-sharp and unsparing” début—told in letters, journal entries and poetic fragments—is the tale of two artists whose storybook family is wrecked by loss, betrayal and a struggle for who controls the narrative.
Agent Becky Thomas
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Corsair)
Lack
Newest from Knapp has a woman contemplating becoming a mother, and grappling with the buried traumas of her motherless past.
Agent Becky Thomas
The Glorious Dead
Rom-com king Myers switches gears to a dark and twisty London theatreland-set tale, where the reader learns of the dead hero through those who thought they knew him, and his own memoirs.
Agent Becky Thomas
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Renegade)
Trash: 1997-2007
A decade of the seminal London indie/dance club Trash, with recollections and an oral history of early 2000s music and club scene, from the unlikely orchestrator at the centre of it.
Agent Becky Thomas
A Sound So Very Loud (aka A Revolution from Their Bed): The Inside Story of Every Song Oasis Ever Recorded
“Authoritative and comprehensive” song-by-song account of Oasis, from two writers who have interviewed and worked with them the most.
Agent Becky Thomas
Rights Under offer in the UK
Lexington Literary
The Little Book of Trans Healthcare
“Biting, urgent and philosophical” investigation into the failures of trans healthcare by Philosophy Tube creator and actor Thorn, based on the viral video “I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times”.
Agent Kat Aitken
Frida Slattery as Herself
“Life-affirming” upmarket literary novel about actress Frida Slattery and writer-director John Reddan, told through the plays they work on together—and the time they spend apart—over the course of 17 years.
Agent Seren Adams
Rights Spain (Urano)
Lorella Belli Literary Agency
Cabaret Macabre
“Addictive” character-driven locked room mystery series for fans of Golden Age Crime Fiction, set in 1930s Hampshire featuring renowned magician turned sleuth, Joseph Spector.
Agent Lorella Belli
Rights UK (Head of Zeus), North America (Mysterious Press), North American audio (Highbridge), film/TV
A Postcard from Puffin Island
New contemporary romance series from bestseller Barlow, kicking off with Verity running away from her quiet life—and her ex-fiancée—in the Midlands. Amsterdam beckons, but then Verity sees a postcard from Puffin Island…
Agent Lorella Belli
Rights World English (One More Chapter)
The Neighbours
Psychological thriller in which a woman moves with her husband from India to England, but she feels isolated, alone and, in a quiet cul-de-sac, she begins to have the feeling that someone is always watching her…
Agent Lorella Belli
Rights World English (Joffe), world English audio (Audible)
Wormwood Abbey
A cosy gothic novel of mystery, dragons, love and the perils of friendship.
Agent Lorella Belli
Rights North America (Tanto), UK and Commonwealth (WF Howes)
The Revenge Pact
Second in the Scotland-set Jazzy Solanki and Annie McQueen crime series is an “explosion of grit, suspense, and dashes of humour throughout”.
Agent Lorella Belli
Rights World English (HQ Digital)
Luigi Bonomi Associates
Robin Hood Aged 10¾
Newest middle-grade from Miller has Charlie starting a new school, preferring to escape to the books in the library. But she finds herself in a completely different world and must embark on a quest to save the people of the forest from the evil Sheriff—who looks a lot like her mean teacher.
Agent Luigi Bonomi
Rights World English (Simon & Schuster), German (Ars Edition)
Summer’s Never Over
A début that follows Greer, who inherits the summer camp where her friend died five years earlier, and on returning discovers shocking secrets: “If Carley Fortune wrote a murder mystery.”
Agent Hannah Schofield
Rights World English (Berkley)
You All Die Tonight
“Unputdownable” locked- room thriller from Kernick, in which seven people wake up in a remote mansion and have all been poisoned—and have 12 hours to live. The only way to survive is if one of them confesses to a murder.
Agent Amanda Preston
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Headline)
The Adventure Diaries
Children’s non-fiction from filmmaker Hewit as she sets out on three expeditions: to the ghost towns of the Gold Rush, to the snowy ravines of Antarctica, and into the eye of a deadly tropical storm.
Agent Louise Lamont
How to Write a Love Story
“Book Lovers meets Leap Year” as an ambitious editor travels to Ireland to help the daughter of a fantasy author legend complete her father’s final book—only to fall in love with her in the process.
Agent Hannah Schofield
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Sphere), US (Dutton), Canada (Penguin), France (Talent), Germany (Goldmann), Lithuania (Sofoklis), Netherlands (AW Bruna), Poland (Kobiece), Spain (PRH) Sweden (Pirat)
Lutyens & Rubinstein
Father Figure
Erotic literary thriller in which ex-pat billionaire businessman Ezra sends his daughter to a London all-girls school, and social misfit classmate Gail sees an opportunity to infiltrate their exclusive world.
Agent Felicity Rubinstein
Rights UK (Weidenfeld)
On the Threshold of Vanishing
A “dazzling” tapestry of rural life through the voices of a divided community; a modern pastoral that “is timely, resonant and powerful”.
Agent Jenny Hewson
Rights UK (Hutchinson Heinemann), Germany (DuMont), Italy (Fazi)
Flamboyance
A book on behaviour and queerness, about art and stardom, telling “the unique story of a quality that is at the heart of contemporary life and culture”.
Agent Jane Finigan
Rights UK (Granta), US (Hanover Square)
Kill Creatures
Power’s hotly anticipated third YA novel is “atmospheric, fast-paced and vividly realised”, tackling secrets, jealousy, violence and revenge.
Agent Daisy Parente
Rights UK (Scholastic), US (Delacorte), Italy (Mondadori), Poland (Jaguar), Ukraine (Vivat)
One Dark Night
“Tense, clever and claustrophobic” thriller in which a girl in white is found dead the morning after Halloween, carefully posed at the bottom of an old folly, and a community is thrown into turmoil.
Agent Sarah Lutyens
Rights UK (Simon & Schuster), US (Atria), ANZ (Simon & Schuster), Germany (Rowohlt)
Madeleine Milburn Agency
The Spider Collector
A modern-day The Devil Wears Prada with a gothic edge, in which a PA is enticed by the intoxicating world of the super-wealthy, but begins to suspect her heiress boss is complicit in murder.
Agent Madeleine Milburn
The Lingfield Children
The award-winning historian looks into a care home for child Holocaust survivors that opened in Surrey in 1945. Overseen by Anna Freud, it was the site of a unique psychoanalytic experiment.
Agent Emma Bal
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Penguin Press), Dutch (De Bezige Bij)
The Lure of Wolves and Whispers
“For fans of One Dark Window, Fourth Wing and Powerless”, a dark and deliciously addictive enemies-to-lovers romantasy début “that grabs you by the heart”.
Agent Maddy Belton
Rights Spanish (Urano)
The Wasp Trap
A dinner party turns into a sinister game in bestseller Edwards’ latest: “Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party meets Adrian McKinty’s The Chain.”
Agent Madeleine Milburn
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Michael Joseph), Canada (PRH Canada), Danish (Straarup & Co), options in 10 other territories
Boring Asian Female
Upmarket thriller début with a delightfully unhinged, coldly calculating and obsessive anti-hero, whose sociopathic tendencies turn racial stereotypes of the meek, submissive Asian woman on their heads.
Agent Rachel Yeoh
Rights US (Berkley), Canada (HarperCollins Canada)
Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Esther Is Now Following You
A “‘Baby Reindeer’ but from the stalker’s perspective” thrill ride that gives a ringside view of the unique appeal of fandom and obsession.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Rights UK and Commonwealth
These Precious Things
The “quirky charm of Before The Coffee Gets Cold meets the fantastical storytelling of Matt Haig” in a magical story about the things we treasure most in life, set in the grime and glory of modern Paris.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Swing
“Recalling Revolutionary Road and Little Fires Everywhere” and set in Ireland in the Swinging 60s, in which the people on one suburban street in Dublin discover marriage can provide a convenient place to hide all manner of sins.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Strange Fruit
The author and activist’s exploration of the links between our bloody colonialist history and present climate crisis: how the past’s claimingof land and disregard for human life has translated into the capitalism-fuelled destruction of our planet.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Marjacq Scripts
Living Is a Problem
Upmarket crime series featuring three generations of women running an undertakers and solving crime in Edinburgh.
Agent Philip Patterson
Rights World English (Orenda), TV/film (Ecosse/Blazing Griffin), options in Germany, Japan
They Own the Night
A supernatural thriller set in a spooky Scottish university town. Mia’s brother Johnny disappears on a secret journalist assignment. With her penchant for true crime (her dad is a serial killer, after all) Mia decides to investigate.
Agent Sandra Sawicka
Rights World English (Black & White)
Meltdown
A “post-millennial Dorian Gray meets The Double” as Damian’s sculpted self-portrait comes to life. Initially, it might be the answer to all his problems. But his clay doppelganger is more open, engaged; more human. And it becomes clear there’s only room for one Damian...
Agent Imogen Pelham
Floaters
“Extinction Rebellion meets ‘Ocean’s Eleven’” in this Teen/YA début warm and funny crime caper of ecological disobedience.
Agent Catherine Pellegrino
Scenes of a Desperate Nature
A dark literary novel of morals and ambition, as two women land their dream jobs working on a horror film, but it soon becomes clear that the director has an unorthodox approach.
Agent Imogen Pelham
Marsh Agency
Vanishing World
The Convenience Store Woman’s newest goes “to a bold new level”in an alternative Japan where attitudes to sex and procreation are wildly different to our own.
Agent on behalf of Aragi, Inc
Rights UK (Granta), US (Grove), German (Aufbau), Italian (Edizioni E/O), Russian (Popcorn)
Brainjacking: The Science of Influence and Manipulation
The science writer explores the psychology of storytelling: the ability that makes us human
Agent on behalf of Icon
Rights UK (Icon)
The Future Is Peace
A Palestinian and an Israeli, two lifelong peace activists, both of whom have lost family in the current conflict, take readers on a searing journey to “understand this holy, bloodstained land”.
Agent on behalf of Idea Architects
Rights UK (Canongate), US (Crown)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Novelist and journalist El Akkad’s “powerful reckoning” with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn’t consider you fully human.
Agent on behalf of Aragi, Inc
Rights UK (Canongate), US (Knopf)
The Intimate Animal: Why We Live and Die for Love
An evolutionary look at understanding our intimate relationships, from the director of the Kinsey Institute and Match.com scientific adviser.
Agent on behalf of Idea Architects
Rights UK (Penguin Life), US (Little, Brown Spark), Chinese (Guomai), Spanish (PRH Grupo Editorial)
Morgan Green Creatives
Exquisite Beauty
Début horror novel in which, in a social experiment conducted by the feared figure of Mother, two children bring themselves up on an island beset by horrors.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Deliverywoman
Début short-story collection that explores the complexities of human connection, the pursuit of meaning, and modern-day loneliness.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Rights UK and British Commonwealth excl. Canada (Influx)
What Remains of Us Is Love
A celebration of quilts and quilters, and the humanity of art made at kitchen tables, on front pouches and in moments of community care.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Rights UK and British Commonwealth excl. Canada (Chatto)
Into the Dream Lab
A dream engineer’s guide to the science of dreaming and nightmares, and the astonishing impact the dreaming brain has on our waking life.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Rights UK and British Commonwealth excl. Canada (Profile), US (Holt), Dutch (Querido Facto), Chinese (Citic), Russian (MIF)
Scandal ’63: Searching for the Lost Art of Pauline Boty
A treasure hunt by a young art historian for paintings by the only female British pop art painter, which has remained elusive for 60 years.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Mulcahy Sweeney
Queen B
A sapphic, Tudor witchy novella telling the origin story of Her Majesty Royal Coven, featuring Anne Boleyn.
Agent Sallyanne Sweeney
Rights UK and Commonwealth (HarperVoyager), US (Viking)
Awakened
The writer and presenter’s first novel features Pels, a journalist on assignment in West Africa, who takes part in a ceremony involving the sacred Spirit Vine, which reveals her destiny to stop an otherworldly conspiracy connected to the disappearance of young Black kids.
Agent Sallyanne Sweeney
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Orion)
Slashed Beauties
A gothic historical fantasy set between the present day and Victorian London following the “slashed beauties” (anatomical wax models) who come to life at night to exact revenge on men who have dared ogle them.
Agent Edwina de Charnacé
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Verve), US (Berkley)
Cooking for Kings: The Lie of Antonin Carême
A “unique feast” combining biography and Regency cookbook, tracing Carême’s rise from Paris orphan to the first international celebrity chef.
Agent Ivan Mulcahy
Rights UK and Commonwealth, US (Bloomsbury)
A Situation on the Lunar Surface
Tragi-comic novel in which Indian astronauts prepare for a moon landing, so marriage broker Panikker views it as a chance to redeem himself from a career spent creating unhappy families in the Kerala town where astronaut Mithun Nair grew up.
Agent Ivan Mulcahy
Mushens Entertainment
The Death of Us
A couple reunite at the trial of the home invader who destroyed their lives—and their marriage.
Agent Juliet Mushens
Rights UK, US, film
Deathbringer
Reluctant death mage Viola must work with a poison mage who hates her in order to solve two murders, but they stumble across a much wider conspiracy. Mages are being murdered for their magic—but why?
Agent Juliet Mushens
Rights UK, US, France, Germany, Italy
Fellow Creatures
Obsession and ambition collide when outsider Shannon—a new student at one of London’s most prestigious drama schools—becomes dangerously infatuated with a fellow classmate.
Agent Rachel Neely
Rights UK
The Poet Empress
In the declining Azalea Dynasty, where poetry magic is forbidden to women, farmer Wei tricks her way into being selected as imperial concubine to a cruel tyrant and must harden her heart and learn to wield literomancy in secret in order to change the fate of an empire.
Agent Jen Azantian
Rights US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey
The Brine Prince
A YA “‘Our Flag Means Death’ meets ‘Bridgerton’” following Kit, the son of a Viscount, who runs away to sea. PS: he doesn’t realise they’re pirates. PPS: Kit can’t swim.
Agent Juliet Mushens
Rights US, UK
The North Agency
Leia Moodie Is All Over the Place
The author draws on her experience as an autistic woman diagnosed in adulthood for this novel on Leia, who likes fixed routines and can barely navigate her own neighbourhood—but then a friend convinces her to go on a round-the-world trip.
Agent Julie Fergusson
Darling Death
Tightly plotted thriller centring on Mae Darling, a lawyer known for her passion, fire and intellect. But to those the law cannot touch, Mae applies her own brand of justice: eliminating them with deadly precision.
Agent Julie Fergusson
Dead in Venice
Newly optioned by BBC Studios, print rights are available for this Audible Original crime following crime author Bella as she heads to Venice to cure her writer’s block, by the creator of the Nosey Parker series.
Agent Lina Langlee
Rights Audio (Audible)
The Butterfly Garden
“Gripping” dual-timeline tale of secrets, love and loss, which sees present-day Meredith inherit half a cottage from great aunt Clara, who scandalously bought the cottage as a single woman in the 1960s.
Agent Lina Langlee
Northbank Talent Management
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: The Last 24 Hours
Ancient historian and archaeologist Venner examines the final 24 hours of the ancient city, vividly detailing the lives of seven diverse characters through a blend of meticulous research and compelling storytelling.
Agent Matthew Cole
From Scratch: The Supermarket Cookbook
“MasterChef” quarter-finalist Peter draws on his popular Shop Bought vs Homemade series to create an essential book full of delicious, quick, healthy recipes.
Agent Matthew Cole
Murder in Tinseltown: A Hollywood Era Choose-Your-Own-Story Mystery
The mysterious and pseudonymous Max Nightingale’s 1950s Hollywood-era choose-your-own-story murder mystery puts the reader in the thick of the action, with only one path leading to the killer.
Agent Matthew Cole
Rights UK and Commonwealth excl. Canada (HarperNorth), Polish (Wydawnictwo Czarna)
Watcher on the Edge
The CWA début Dagger Award “combines the dark humour of ‘Fargo’ and the one-more-page feeling of David Baldacci” for an action-packed thriller following Gage, a small-town crook with big-time dreams.
Agent Elizabeth Counsel
The Wrath of Love
“’Til death do us part lasts a long time when forever never ends.” A new standalone spicy romantasy from the author of Sun City romance series and vampire romance series Ashvale.
Agent Elizabeth Counsell
Paper Literary
In Case I Go Missing
“‘Fargo’ meets A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” in a YA mystery about a teen detective gone missing, and her best friend who must finish her investigation in their small South Dakota town.
Agent Catherine Cho
Rights North American (Viking Children’s)
If Books Could Kill
High-concept rom-com—“A Novel Love Story meets How to Solve Your Own Murder”—following adventure-loving romance reader Roxie, who finds herself trapped between the pages of a meet-cute-turned-murderous.
Agent Katie Greenwood
Rights Italian (Garzanti)
Transference
An “edge-of-your-seat” thriller in which Leo wakes up naked and alone in an Australian hotel room mere minutes after falling asleep in his London flat. He’s desperate to get home to his pregnant wife but someone is shifting him across the world, looking for the perfect spot to kill him.
Agent Katie Greenstreet
Matchmaking for Psychopaths
An “unbelievably gripping, completely original” novel about a woman working as a matchmaker for a very specific clientele—psychopaths—who finds herself in danger.
Agent Katie Greenstreet
Rights UK (Orion), North America (Berkley)
Harry Glass Has a Problem
Part screwball comedy, part clever whodunnit—and pulsing with a feminist rage—about a man who thinks he’s killed his professional rival mere hours after she wins the promotion he believes rightfully belonged to him.
Agent Katie Greenstreet
PEW Literary
The Billionaire Backlash: How Scandals Are Taming our Corporate Culture
Professors of politics at Oxford and Harvard respectively, Culpepper and Lee analyse the corporate scandals that are clipping the wings of huge international corporations such as Facebook, Samsung and Volkswagen.
Agent Doug Young
Rights World English (Bloomsbury Continuum)
A Field Full of Folk: Surviving Disaster in the Fourteenth Century
Historian and host of “The Medieval Podcast” Cybulskie explores a century when old certainties were cast aside, bubonic plague and famine killed millions, but technological and cultural innovation sowed the seeds of change.
Agent Doug Young
The History People: How the Past Shapes the Chinese Present
No nation is more steeped in a sense of its history than China; an exploration of how the Chinese past affects its present.
Agent Patrick Walsh
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Bodley Head), Italian (Mondadori)
The Woman in the Water
“Intriguing” novel of suspense and deceit set in the decadent London of the 1930s, inspired by one of literature’s most intriguing unsolved puzzles, opening with a smoking gun and ultimately ending with an unidentified woman’s body in the water.
Agent Margaret Halton
Wolf Song
The self-rewilding memoir of a 49-year-old woman who gives up her English life and moves alone to a tiny Spanish village to track and watch wolves in the wild.
Agent Patrick Walsh
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Ebury)
Peters Fraser & Dunlop
Mother Mary Comes to Me
The Booker winner’s first memoir, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped above all by her complex relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother.
Agent Lisette Verhagen
Rights UK (Hamish Hamilton), US (Scribner), Canada (Scribner), India (PRH), Germany (Fischer), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Spain (Alfaguara), Sweden (Brombergs), Finland (Otava), Netherlands (Park Uitgevers), Norway (Pax), Poland (Zysk)
Raising Hare
Nature memoir in which busy professional Dalton, when leaving the city and returning to the countryside of her childhood during lockdown, unexpectedly becomes the custodian of a newly born hare.
Agent Caroline Michel
Rights UK (Canongate), US (Pantheon), Germany (Klett-Cotta) France (Mazarine/Fayard), Korea (Baram), China (United Sky), Finland (Atena)
Mrs Shim Is a Killer
The Korean bestseller follows 51-years-old Mrs Shim, who recently lost her husband and her longtime job as a butcher. She is struggling to make ends meet until a detective agency thinks she’s the perfect fit: as a killer.
Agent Lisette Verhagen
Rights UK (Doubleday), US
(Harper), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Italy (Harper Collins), Germany (Eichborn Verlag), Spain (Lumen), Sweden (Wahlström & Widstrand), Finland (Johnny Kniga), Dutch (De Geus)
Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
Seven strangers meet at Serendipity’s for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening winds down, cards appear in front of the diners… revealing the age at which each will die.
Agent Sam Brace
Rights UK (HarperNorth), US (Sourcebooks), Italy (Newton Compton), Ukraine (Family Leisure Club)
The World That Jack Built
Architect Owusu—who in her 50-year career has been trying to make her profession more diverse—exposes the inequities of a world of buildings built by men for other men, and argues for the need to involve all in building design.
Agent Adam Gauntlett
Portobello Literary
Awakened
A claustrophobic and surreal horror novel exploring the systematisation and monetisation of science, humanity and chronic illness with shades of Greek mythology.
Agent Caro Clarke
Rights World English (Angry Robot)
These Mortal Bodies
An eerie, empowering campus novel 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
Rights UK and Commonwealth excl. Canada (Simon & Schuster)
Marie Maitland: The Remarkable Untold Story of a 16th-Century Queer
Historian Douglas chronicles for the first time the remarkable life of poet Marie Maitland—“Scotland’s 16th century Sappho” and contemporary to Mary Queen of Scots—aiming to install her in the feminist and queer history canon.
Agent Caro Clarke
Love and Politics: Why the Personal is Political
“Urgent and thought-provoking” look at bringing the personal into the political and centring love and care in our political and economic systems: “Perfect for fans of Emma Dabiri, Naomi Klein and Angela Saini.”
Agent Caro Clarke
Under The Hammer
“If Muriel Spark had written the TV show ‘Dexter’”: a “formidable, piercingly funny” novel of a woman who, at the end of her tether, decides to make the world a better place by punishing landlords.
Agent Caro Clarke
Rachel Mills Literary
The Sea Library
The newest from the breakout author of The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands blends mystery and romance in an alternative 18th century England of sea monsters, lighthouse cults and political upheaval.
Agent Nelle Andrew
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Weidenfeld), options in 16 territories
Private Lives
Edwards’ “addictive and thought-provoking” newest has young single mother Abi coming to a new town for a fresh start. But then she sees Seb, and their complicated hidden past threatens to destroy them both.
Agent Nelle Andrew
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Transworld)
Smartphone Nation
A UCL professor of digital humanities’ “groundbreaking” framework for keeping children and young adults safe online”: “For readers of The Book you Wished Your Parents Had Read and Ultra-Processed People.”
Agent Rachel Mills
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Bluebird), Canada (Knopf)
How to Speak so Others Will Listen
The director and curator for TedxLondon’s toolkit for anyone who has ever felt their voice isn’t being heard, which aims to teach readers to believe that what they have to say is worth saying.
Agent Rachel Mills
Seven Myths About Money
Bestselling financial expert Dix argues that most of the received wisdom about making money isn’t just misleading—it’s flat out wrong.
Agent Rachel Mills
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Cornerstone), Portugal (Porto), Korea (Influential), Taiwan (Infortress)
RCW
The House at the End of the World
A young under-butler sets out to solve an impossible murder with the irascible dowager countess of the house in children’s author Montgomery’s “irresistibly characterful, clever and moving” historical mystery début.
Agent Claire Wilson
Rights UK (Viking), US (HarperCollins), Italy (Longanesi)
Love’s Labour
A psychoanalyst’s look at the obstacles of love—the traps of submission and the achievement of surrender—and a reflection on the work we must do to find love, sustain it and survive its inevitable loss.
Agent Georgia Garrett
Rights UK (Chatto), US (Norton), Germany (S Fischer), Korea (Tornado), Romania (Trei), Spain (PRH Spain), Turkey (Yapi Kredi)
Red
A moving novel of love and friendship by the author of the breakout, award-winning début Trespasses.
Agent Eleanor Birne
Rights UK (Bloomsbury), US (Riverhead)
Farewell to Panic Beach
Newest from Swedish bestseller and literary star Stridsberg stretches from 1917 to the present day and follows generations of the same family navigating guilt, truth, sorrow and what shapes a person.
Agent Laurence Laluyaux
Rights Sweden (Albert Bonniers), Denmark (Politikens), Finland (Tammi), France (Grasset), Italy (Guanda), Norway (Aschehoug)
Parallel Lines
The Patrick Melrose creator returns with a “profoundly moving” story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss.
Agent Peter Straus
Rights UK (Cape), US (Knopf), Canada (Knopf Canada)
Rebecca Carter Literary
Nova Scotia House
“Electric” début novel of queer love, creativity and magic from fashion journalist writer Porter, which compares “to the likes of Hilton Als, Philip Hoare and Olivia Laing”.
Agent Rebecca Carter
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Penguin Press)
Predator
The Oxford professor of biology’s newest is a fascinating and fun look at his specialist subject: the extraordinary diversity of predatory behaviour, and the way the removal or addition of predators impacts ecologies.
Agent Rebecca Carter
Rich Lit
The Book of Lost Art
In war-torn 1940s Italy, a young woman’s quest to protect priceless artworks intertwines with the lives of two families across generations in this dual timeline saga “perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah, Fiona Valpy and Kelly Rimmer”.
Agent Rachel Richardson (on behalf of Storm Publishing)
Rights World English (Storm)
The Librarian’s Secret
Psychological thriller “perfect for fans of The Housemaid” has a bookseller working as a private librarian for the wealthy Dorsey family discover dark secrets at the heart of their home.
Agent Rachel Richardson (on behalf of Storm Publishing)
Rights World English (Storm)
The Lake House Children
Kate’s son Jack insists he used to be someone else—someone who died, tragically. And when Jack reveals something he saw, years ago at the family lake house, Kate realises the truth could tear their family apart…
Agent Rachel Richardson (on behalf of Storm Publishing)
Rights World English (Storm)
The Awards
The author and Hashtag Press co-founder’s newest is a dual-point-of-view novel set within the publishing industry, examining the ways in which Black women are (and aren’t) allowed to challenge bias and advocate for themselves.
Agent Rachel Richardson (on behalf of Gemma Cooper Literary)
Questers Academy: The Box of Locks
“Fast-paced” contemporary middle-grade fantasy in which a team of kids have to retrieve a powerful mythical object before it falls into dangerous hands: “The Da Vinci Code meets The London Eye Mystery”.
Agent Rachel Richardson (on behalf of Gemma Cooper Literary)
Rights World English (Firefly)
Sarah Such Literary Agency
Can YOU Solve the Murder?
“Masterful” interactive crime novel and puzzle book for adults by the Dog Sitter Detective series creator, where the reader steps into the shoes of an investigator to try to solve a most mysterious crime.
Agent Sarah Such
Rights UK (Transworld), US (Pam Dorman), Canada (Doubleday); Germany (Fisher), Italy (Newton Compton), France (Le Cherche Midi), Turkey (Destek Media), Greece (Metaichmio), Brazil (Record), Spain (Temas de Hoy), Holland (Meulenhoff)
The Phantom at The Feast
DS Rex King returns in White’s “inventive” literary crime novel, with two murder mysteries, a missing senior officer, institutional abuse and a Home Office that thinks AIs are more effective than boots on the ground.
Agent Sarah Such
Listen With Father: How I Learned to Love Classical Music
“Life-affirming” musical memoir of a beloved father, told through the classical composers and pieces that he loved, by the writer and associate editor of The Bookseller.
Agent Sarah Such
Rights World English (Unbound)
The Airline Spy
“‘Catch Me If You Can’ meets ‘Bridge of Spies’” in which, at the height of the Cold War, a commercial airline captain with a messy love life is caught up in Soviet espionage activity following a suspicious death aboard one of his flights.
Agent Sarah Such
Strandline: Distant Shores, Birdlife and Belonging
An empty nester summons her braver, younger journalist self for a fresh start and a new adventure. But when she moves to an unfamiliar remote Scottish island, she fears she has acted in haste. Will she ever settle?
Agent Sarah Such
The Shaw Agency
I Know How This Ends
Witty and moving contemporary novel from this Reese & Radio 2 Book Club author—and Geek Girl creator, now adapted by Netflix—about a meteorologist who can see the future.
Agent Kate Shaw
Rights UK and Commonwealth excl.Canada (Century), North America (Mira)
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
The New York Times’ bestselling historian weaves together four heartbreaking stories of struggle, courage and survival.
Agent Kate Shaw
Rights UK and Australia, New Zealand (Ultimo), North America (Harper), Finland (WSOY)
The Secret Message
In war-torn Warsaw, Hana must deliver vital information that could help free her city or bring destruction if it falls into the wrong hands.
Agent Kate Shaw
Rights World English (Bookouture)
The Moonlit Maze
The “exquisitely written” adult début by the award-winning YA author is a spellbinding love story set in Yorkshire in 1924 and the present day, exploring passion, betrayal and atonement.
Agent Kate Shaw
Rights World (Headline), Germany (Goldman), Netherlands (De Fontein)
The Lunch & Revenge Club
Comedy thriller in which four 60-year-old women plot a daring heist to avenge the death of their friend decades earlier.
Agent Kate Shaw
Sheil Land
The Six Murders of Daphne Saint Clair
When 90-year-old serial killer Daphne Saint Clair features on her podcast, journalist Ruth must sort through the lies while resisting Daphne’s undeniable charisma if she wants to find out the truth.
Agent Gaia Banks
Rights UK (Mountain Leopard), Italy (Longanesi)
The Fan Who Knew Too Much
Kit is a professional fan, interviewer, podcaster and occasional obituary writer, but this time, the obituary she is writing is for her friend, maverick podcaster Wolf Tyler, who was murdered in his shed during live broadcast, moments before revealing a huge secret about the cult TV show “Vixens from the Void”: “Classic ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Star Trek’ meets Richard Osman”.
Agent Piers Blofeld
Rights UK (Titan)
Children of the Gods
Bestseller Hancock’s latest looks at ancient Sumer, Egypt and India, and claims the three civilisations share a common ancestor: a lost civilisation of the Ice Age that was destroyed in the cataclysms that shook the world around 12,000 years ago.
Agent Sonia Land
Rights World English (St Martin’s)
The Bookseller’s Gift
The bestselling author’s newest has Catherine opening a bookshop on the west coast of Ireland. But with Christmas and a big celebrity chef due to visit for a signing, a building disaster strikes. Catherine reaches out to the local community and finds friends—and perhaps love.
Agent Gaia Banks
Rights UK and Ireland (Hachette Ireland), France (Prisma)
Rose in Chains
The romance author moves to romantasy in the first of her Evermore trilogy: as her castle is overrun, Briony is stripped of her powers and auctioned to someone who will siphon off her magic to fuel theirs. The high bidder is Toven: scion to a cruel family—and her long-time infatuation.
Agent Gaia Banks
Rights UK (Magpie), US (Forever), Brazil (Harlequin), France (Bragelonne), Germany (Goldmann), Italy (Newton Compton), Spain (Crossbooks)
The Soho Agency
What Does it Feel Like?
The romance superstar’s most autobiographical work to date: a brave and unforgettable novella about a renowned novelist facing a devastating brain cancer diagnosis and learning to live and love anew.
Agent Araminta Whitley and Marina de Pass
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Transworld), North America (Random House), Germany (Goldmann), France (Belfond), Italy (Mondadori), the Netherland (House of Books), Brazil (Record), Denmark (Flamingo), Serbia (Laguna), Romania (Polirom)
The Regency Switch
“‘Bridgerton’ meets ‘Freaky Friday’” in an escapist rom-com début. A modern woman and her 1817 counterpart trade places, sparking romance, drama and more than a few etiquette faux pas.
Agent Marina de Pass
Henry
Contemporary literary love triangle début shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Discoveries prize, in which Robin and Yolanda have three things in common: they are in love with the same man, they despise each other, and they are oblivious to the fact that Henry is spiralling into an obsession.
Agent Marina de Pass
The Stolen Child
Forty years after her infant brother Robert goes missing on a family holiday, a new patient turns up at psychotherapist Lily’s door claiming to know what happened.
Agent Rowan Lawton
Rights Headline (World English)
Hollow Grave
The third twisty cold-case mystery in the Wiltshire-based crime series in which new evidence resurfaces in the case of a missing archaeologist, who vanished during the filming of a TV documentary.
Agent Mark Lucas
Rights World English (Quercus), Germany (Heyne)
The Sophie Hicks Agency
The Guardians of Cedar Wood
The kids’ superstar’s second in the middle-grade series featuring Juniper Lane and her reindeer friend Skära has the duo battling troublesome and unfriendly visitors.
Agent Sophie HicksRights US (Roaring Press)
Domain
Gavin’s YA adventure has 14-year-old Porter able to channel data into his brain—in an eye-blink he can learn new languages and skills. But Porter is being used by the US government and every time he accesses new information, he loses a bit of himself. To make matters worse, an unseen enemy wants him taken offline… permanently.
Agent Sophie Hicks
Rights UK (Black & White)
The Hidden Seasons
The bestselling nature writer returns in a look at the seasons “the prism of deduction” and how sun, moon, stars, plants, fungi, animals, water and weather all reflect seasonal changes back to us.
Agent Sophie Hicks
Rights UK (Hodder Press), US (The Experiment)
An Instruction in Shadow
The second in Jacka’s contemporary fantasy series set in a world where the ultra-rich control magic, as they do everything else. Can Stephen beat the rich at their own game?
Agent Sophie Hicks
Rights UK (Orbit), US (Ace), Germany (Blanvalet), France (Bayard)
So the Story Goes
Début adult rom-com from children’s author Thomas kicks off when beleaguered bookseller Clarrie runs into aspiring author Declan, with Clarrie suggesting he write a better book. Two years later, Declan has done just that and it’s become a bestseller, with speculation building over the mystery behind the bookseller he dedicated the book to.
Agent Sophie Hicks
Rights UK (Headline)
Susanna Lea Associates
The Lady Butchers
“Electrifying and undeniably daring” darkly comic début about three women who are butchers by day and feminist vigilantes by night.
Agent Susanna Lea
Rights France (L’Iconoclaste), under offer in Spain
What the Dead Have to Say
First in the massive French bestselling crime series by forensic pathologist/author Boxho, in which “bodies disappear, murders are covered up and the dead aren’t always as dead as we think”.
Agent Susanna Lea
Rights Brazil (Objetiva), Finland (Gummerus), Hungary (Libri), Italy (Ponte alle Grazie), Korea (Minumsa), Netherlands (Volt), Poland (Sonia Draga), Portugal (PRH), Russia (Bombora), Spain (Plaza y Janés/PRH), Japan (under offer) and UK and Commonwealth under offer
Kate: A Fable
Set in the dazzling world of Hollywood’s golden age, where Katharine Hepburn navigates love, betrayal and personal tragedy, while refusing to pretend to be anyone but herself.
Agent Stephanie Cabot
Rights North America (Ballantine)
The White Octopus Hotel
Epic time-travel romance about a young art valuer who follows the trail of a small white octopus crest, which takes her to a dilapidated Swiss belle Époque lakeside hotel, where she is transported to the 1930s.
Agent Thérèse Coen
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Del Rey), North America (Ballantine), Germany (HarperCollins)
Such Massive Little Wants
“Gorgeously observed” humorous novel about a woman who trials a non-monogamous relationship as a way of working through her attachment issues—which doesn’t exactly go to plan.
Agent Cara Lee Simpson
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Fig Tree)
United Agents
Lies We Tell for America
The Wole Soyinka Prize Ugandan writer’s memoir of her time at Columbia University, examining the lengths people from “shithole countries” go to when seeking an education in the West.
Agent Sophie Scard
Legenda: A New History of Nations Through the Medieval Women at the Heart of Them
The Femina author returns, exploring myth-making, nation-building and gender, and challenging the misconception that the history of nations can only be told through the lives of great men.
Agent Rosemary Scoular
Rights UK (Ebury), German PRH Germany)
The Book of Guilt
The Betty Trask winner’s dystopia, “reminiscent of Never Let Me Go”, in which Vincent lives in a strange children’s home with his two brothers, given medicine to keep them safe from The Bug. When the government decides to close the home down, secrets come out that rock the children to their core.
Agent Caroline Dawnay
Rights UK (John Murray), US (Hachette), New Zealand (Te Herenga Waka University Press) Canada (Knopf), Australia (Random House Australia, German (Heyne)
Hardanger
The actor’s first novel explores a “family of lovable monsters” in Yorkshire in the 1990’s in “an accomplished début in the vein of the Cazalet Chronicles”.
Agent Zoe Ross
Rights UK (Canongate), US (Viking)
#IFoundaBody
When an influencer accidentally discovers a dead body during a livestream, DS Mona Hendricks is put onthe case, with a promotion on the line: “‘Happy Valley’ meets a Bella Mackie twist on ‘Legally Blonde’”.
Agent Becky Percival
Rights UK (Black & White), North America (Crooked Lane)
Watson, Little
Fire Fight
Latest in Wood’s Viktor series, where the enigmatic assassin has loyalties tested as he is not not prepared to kill someone to whom he owes his life.
Agent James Wills
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Sphere)
The Other PeopleC B Everett
Dark, offbeat horror mystery—”And Then There Were None meets Shutter Island”—in which 10 strangers wake up in an old, locked house with a killer stalking the halls, and something is waiting below.
Agent James Wills
Rights UK and Commonwealth and US (Simon & Schuster), Italy (Newton Compton), Russia (Eksmo)
A House for Miss Pauline
Award-winner McCaulay’s “tender and urgent” novel about who owns the land on which our identities are made, featuring 99-year-old Miss Pauline who has weathered hurricanes, farmed ganga, and built her house from plantation ruins.
Agent Laetitia Rutherford.
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Dialogue), US and Canada (Algonquin)
Rebel Grrrls: The Real Story of Women and Punk from the 1970s To Today
A look at women and punk music, from the 1970s to today, from the perspective of both performers and fans.
Agent Donald Winchester
Rights World English (Omnibus)
A Man’s World
“Steamy” feminist Formula 1 romance featuring Georgia, the lead racer of the all-female Valkyrie F1 team, who enters a PR fake-dating scheme with a rival driver with a bad boy reputation, Luca.
Agent Megan Carroll
Rights under offer in Germany, Russia
WME
Annie Knows Everything
“Laugh-out-loud” rom-com about a self-possessed young woman who can’t resist the impulse to meddle in other people’s business.
Agent Suzannah Ball
Rights UK (Bonnier), Germany (Luebbe)
How to Lose the Lottery
After a life-changing lottery win, Edie’s dreams of a normal life are catapulted out of her control. A witty début exploring the deep divides between poverty and wealth, and every woman’s bitter struggle to hold on to a sense of self.
Agent Hellie Ogden
The Vulnerable Brain
Neuroscientist Zafar explores our innate vulnerability to addictive behaviour and the cutting-edge science behind breakthrough therapies designed to restore resilience and connection, and set us free from the cycles that bind us.
Agent Matilda Forbes Watson
Some Part of Her
A darkly comedic take on new motherhood and identity by the American bestselling author.
Agent Suzanne Gluck
Rights US (Dutton)
The Anatomy of Deceit
New York Times Magazine writer Bhattacharjee delves into the new science of lie detection, how we can better understand this murky, dangerous world and live safer lives.
Agent Ethan Bassoff
Writers House
What Kind of Paradise
The Pretty Things author returns with a story of a teenage girl who breaks free from her father’s world of isolation to discover that her whole life is a lie.
Agent Susan Golomb
Rights US (Random House)
Eden Undone
Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, an incredible true story of murder, romance and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos.
Agent Susan Golomb
Rights UK (HarperCollins), US (Crown), Hungary (Libri), Dutch (Mozaiek), Polish (Znak)
Creation Lake
Kushner latest is the Booker-shortlisted tale following a secret agent, a beautiful 34-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and bold opinions, sent to do dirty work in France.
Agent Susan Golomb
Rights UK (Cape), US (Scribner), Brazil (Todavia), France (Stock), Finland (Tammi), Germany (Rowohlt), Italy (Einaudi), Latvia (Varrak), the Netherlands (Atlas Contact), Romania (Trei), Turkey (Siren)
Money for Couples
The author and host of Netflix’s “How to Get Rich” goes beyond the usual “make a budget” advice and gives couples a step-by-step plan to transform their financial lives.
Agent Lisa DiMona
Rights US (Workman), Poland (Zysk), Spain (Obelisco), Croatia (Udruga Knjigoteka)
Sunderworld
New YA series from the Miss Peregrine creator is a “stunning tale of loss, triumph, friendship and magic, [that] will remind readers everywhere that true heroes are made, not born”.
Agent Jodi Reamer
Rights US (Dutton) and 15 others
The Wylie Agency
Just Economics
Nobel-winning economists Banerjee and Duffo, and their co-author Greenstone, propose a “grand bargain” to resolve the impasse of climate change, in which rich countries’ emissions make the lives of the world’s poor harder and shorter.
Agent James Pullen
Rights UK (Allen Lane), US (Norton), India (Juggernaut)
The Original Daughter
“Major” literary début from San Francisco-based presenter-turned-lauded-short-story-writer Wei, set in turn-of-the-millenium Singapore, about sisterhood, ambition and dissolution of family bonds.
Agent Jacqueline Ko
Rights UK (Weidenfeld), US (Doubleday), Netherlands (Meridiaan)
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Booker winner’s newest addresses loneliness through the comic lens of an endlessly unresolved romance between two modern Indians.
Agent Andrew Wylie
Rights Brazil (Companhia das Letras), China (ThinKingdom), Germany (Fischer), India (Penguin India), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Poland (Literackie), US (Knopf)
L’Effrondrement
The French autofiction superstar’s latest revolves around his brother’s struggles of trying to break free of the poor, violent milieu he grew up in—and his ultimate failure.
Agent Charles Buchan
Rights France (Seuil), UK (Harvill Secker), US (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Brazil (Todavia), Czech Republic (Paseka), Denmark (Gyldendal), Finland (Tammi), France (Seuil), Germany (Aufbau), Greece (Antipodes), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Norway (Aschehoug), Sweden (Wahlström & Widstrand)
Intermezzo
The Irish literary phenomenon’s newest about grief, love and family.
Agent Tracy Bohan
Rights UK (Faber), US (FSG), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Canada (Knopf), China (Archipel), Croatia (Fraktura), Catalan (Periscopi), Czech Republic (Argo) and 23 others
YMU
Untitled
The presenter and writer’s latest is a “heartbreaking One Day meets They Both Die at the End” high-concept love story.
Agent Amanda Harris
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Michael Joseph)
The Avenue
“Deathly” suspense novel set in the hills of Snowdonia centred on Rachel, who leaves her London life to train with charismatic life coach David, but quickly becomes involved in something much darker and more menacing.
Agent Amanda Harris
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Quercus)
The Pleasure Palace
Historical fiction with modern sensibilities that has Emerald, famous showgirl to the Edwardian upper classes, spirited away to attend an elite party in a remote Scottish castle. Servants are blindfolded as evening falls and moans are heard from the castle walls. Perhaps all is not what it seems…
Agent Amanda Harris
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Hodder)
The Beginning and the End of Everything
A memoir of addiction, but also of “hope, self-belief and the magic of love”.
Agent Amanda Harris
The Leadership Formula
A unique and practical guide to leadership success by the former c.e.o. of PWC and a Formula 1 performance psychologist.
Agent Amanda Harris
Zeno
These Shattered Spires
Queer, gothic fantasy (“perfect for fans of The Atlas Six”) in which four young Arcanists plot to overthrow the crown, while contending with the daily apocalypse, undead nuns and their obsessive love-hate relationship.
Agent Stevie Finegan
Rights World English (Bloomsbury), Polish (Jaguar), Italian (Fazi)
No Such Thing as a Cat Paladin
Sri Lankan-inspired swords and sorcery fantasy where a duo aim to set the world to rights, one a disgraced Paladin and the other is stuck in the form of a talking cat.
Agent Stevie Finegan
Teachers in Love
Male/male romance, which begins when a child joins his class in the middle of the year and teacher Marvin can’t help but notice a very hot dad.
Agent Stevie Finegan
Rights UK and Commonwealth (Michael Josep), North American (Forever), Italian, Portuguese
Six Lives
“A grand tour” of six lives, connected through blood and history, each “rooted in the dirt of their inheritance”.
Agent John Berlyne
Rights World English excl. North America (Head of Zeus)
Witchland
“‘Bridgerton’ meets Fourth Wing” story that tells of a witch, cursed to kill the man she marries, being matched with a suitor she hates. But what happens when she begins to fall for him?
Agent Bianca Gillam
