London Book Fair 2026: Agents' Hotlists
Agents’ hotlists: the books agencies are backing to fly at the London Book Fair 2026.
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Darley Anderson
David Raker #16
Tim Weaver
David Raker is always the one to solve the missing person cases – but who solves the case when Raker goes missing? From Sunday Times bestseller and four-time Richard and Judy Book Club author with more than 1.7 million copies sold.
Agent Camilla Bolton
UK & Commonwealth Penguin Michael Joseph, options in Italian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian
A River Red with Blood
John Connolly
In Connolly’s latest thriller, the rules of the game are simple: no killing close to home and no killing outside the game. But those rules have been broken, drawing the attention of the infamous PI Charlie Parker.
Agent Darley Anderson
UK & Commonwealth Hodder, North American Emily Bestler, options in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Turkish, Greek
The Twist
Holly Seddon
Reality-slip love story with an espionage undercurrent. Maya goes to sleep on an overnight train and emerges in London in an alternative world where the UK is a Soviet state.
Agent Camilla Bolton
North American Emily Bestler, options in Italian and Dutch
The Life She Stole
Sophie Gillies
Debut in which Kate wakes up covered in blood in ex-fiancé Rupert’s house with
no memory of the
night before. But Kate
is forbidden from
seeing him and their daughter. Why is she
in their house? Why doesn’t her daughter recognise her? And where is Rupert?
Agent Camilla Bolton
German
Blanvalet
Rot Girl Summer
Vale James
“If Mean Girls was a
horror film”: a blood-soaked love letter to doomed girlhood. A parasitic body horror set at a cursed lake house where an obsessive friendship begins to rot. Literally.
Agent Jade Kavanagh
North American Under offer
Cut and Run
Mia Wren
Dark romance. Lila is feeling empty after her sister’s death. When she witnesses a murder, she’s relieved to feel something. But what hits her is not fear. It’s desire. And now she can’t stop chasing the feeling. Or the killer.
Agent Rebeka Finch
UK & Commonwealth Piatkus, North American Berkley, German Fischer, Brazilian Portuguese and world Spanish V&R Editoras, Hebrew
You’re Gorgeous
Phoebe Grant
Powerful book club debut novel set between the 1990s London fashion scene and the 2012 Olympics, and an unflinching exploration of love, beauty, ambition, and the devastating price some women pay to be seen.
Agent Sarah Brooks
My Voice in the Dark
Phoebe Morgan
A happily married woman sees a future version of herself with a lover she doesn’t yet have… a book club thriller exploring obsession, infidelity and choices
that ultimately derail your life. For fans of The Versions of Us and Apple Tree Yard.
Agent Camilla Bolton
Mariann Gunn O’Connor
The Baggage Handler
Pascoe Foxell North
A kinetic, blackly comic speculative thriller. In a world where you can transfer your emotions to another person, a gig worker struggles under the weight of the many, many feelings he has been paid to store – so much grief, heartache, jealousy, rage and lust, all stacking up and up inside him. And when he receives a mysterious, disturbing transfer of guilt – guilt over killing someone – he truly begins to unravel, needing to solve the murder before it destroys him from the inside out. A fresh take on a crime novel.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
An Incomplete History of Josephine Pyke by the Historian Herself
Anna Fitzgerald
From the winner of the John McGahern Debut Novel Prize for Girl in the Making comes a brilliantly written, quirky intimate narrator, Josephine Pyke, who provides an account of her life with all the earnestness of one who sees herself as having made a vital contribution to the world. Born in 1950, she is simply seen in that time as “odd”. Told in an utterly unique voice and a worldview that is deeply sympathetic but also light and comical, Josephine Pyke is an incredibly loveable and unforgettable character.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
What the World Needs Now – A Rom-Com
Lisa Heathfield
Bobby’s quest for the perfect wedding dress has taken her from her family home in Cornwall to North Wales. But then, a delayed train and a split-second decision propel Bobby into another world where she finds herself falling in love with Vincent, the man she hitches a ride with. With its irresistibly romantic premise, winning protagonists and portrait of a kind, rural Britain, this is a special novel about what it means to follow your heart.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Queen of War and Hound of Shadows
CC Prasifka
A reimagining of one of Ireland’s most epic stories, which bridges
the gap between romantasy and retelling. Medb was raised to be a queen, not a warrior. But the Morrígan saw something greater in her, and so she was never going to let that happen… A searing tale of desire, loyalty and revenge, where the battlefield is dangerously personal. Queen of War and Hound of Shadows is a story about one woman carving her own way in a patriarchal world, and the price she pays for it. Think A Court of Thorns and Roses meets The Song of Achilles.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
City of Talons
Hilary White
A stunningly written hybrid of memoir and nature writing set during a year of personal upheaval, as an urban falconer maps Dublin using birds of prey as a cipher to understand the changing face of the city. Framing this exploration is a personal journey of memory, loss, fatherhood and a bond with a trained bird. City of Talons explores the interplay between our natural and human heritage, and our capacity to both plunder and destroy, nurture and repair. For readers of Helen Macdonald, Robert Macfarlane, Olivia Laing and Amy Liptrot.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
UK & Commonwealth, Ireland
Penguin Sandycove, Penguin General
Are We in Trouble
Jean Pasley
Haunted by memories of the extramarital affair that almost destroyed her, an elderly woman reveals her secret past to her daughters and provokes unexpected reactions. Set over the course of a single day in Dublin in 2025, Sarah, now 75, widowed and partially paralysed as a result of a stroke, is moving to sheltered accommodation. An incredibly tender and moving Brief Encounter-esque story of two people who fall desperately in love with someone other than their spouse.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
WME
Line in the Snow
Dan McDougall
An intimate portrait
of Greenland across
18 interconnected lives,
as it stands on the frontline of climate collapse and a new
Cold War, revealing what happens when the forces shaping our collective future collide, who pays the price and why it is time to draw a line in the snow.
Agent Matilda Forbes Watson
Housewives of Salem
Natasha Bardon
Desperate Housewives meets Practical Magic in an upmarket mystery debut set in contemporary Salem following four housewives who accidentally blow a man’s head off.
Agent Hellie Ogden
Wuthering Frights
Kinza Ameria
A contemporary reimagining of the literary classic, Wuthering Frights is a gothic paranormal romance for fans of Bride and Saltburn.
Agent Suzannah Ball
Runebreaker
Mila Finch
A self-published sensation and the first novel in a new romantasy trilogy following the story of human Aelie, who has the power to break the magic that holds the Fae world together.
Agent Kimberley Atkins
UK HarperVoyager, Poland, auctions in Germany and Spain
Roll the Calls
Ari Emanuel
Powerful memoir by one of the most influential people in Hollywood, written with Pulitzer Prize winner JR Moehringer.
Agent Jay Mandel
US Knopf, UK William Collins
Philosophy for Rule Breakers
Jeffrey Kaplan
Celebrated professor of philosophy and viral YouTuber Kaplan upends centuries of tradition to reveal how philosophers’ methods of analysing big mysteries can be applied to understand the smaller challenges of everyday life.
Agent Ethan Bassoff
UK Penguin Press, US Avery,
auction in Germany and offers in Japan
The Weight of Angels
John Boyne
A reimagining of the life Oscar Wilde never had, asking whether a single decision can mean the difference between ruin and redemption.
Agent Laura Bonner
UK Transworld, US Holt, French JC Lattes, Dutch
Guardians & Monsters
Mariah Grace
A dystopian paranormal romance following a healer who, after a life of careful obedience, defies the suppressive rules of the guardians when she communicates with the monster lurking outside the impenetrable Wall.
Agents Caitlin Mahony, Rikki Bergman
US Bloom, UK HarperVoyager
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The Check Out Girl
Caz Frear
When middle-aged check-out girl Evelyn takes an unusual interest in a young couple who frequent her shop, alarm bells start ringing. When one of them is found dead, the questions become more urgent.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
UK & Commonwealth, translation Simon & Schuster, US & Canada Holt
Master of Ruins
Emma Mallory
Dark romance flowers when a Scottish laird invites an archivist to work on his remote island.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
The World’s
Greatest Detective
Matthew Reilly
Second in Reilly’s new series featuring private detective Sam Speedman. When someone starts kidnapping members of a billionaire’s family, five of the most talented US detectives are called to solve a series of complex puzzles to have the family members returned.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
UK & Commonwealth Orion,
Australia & New Zealand
The Rewind
Keith Stuart
Empty-nesters Jack and Sara’s marriage is floundering. But then they wake up as their teenage selves in the 1990s. Can they find their way back and will they find each other again?
Agent Eugenie Furniss
World rights Little, Brown
The Widow’s Mirror
SK Tremayne
Second in an atmospheric new crime series with a supernatural edge about a grieving forensic psychologist, Karenza Bray, set in Cornwall. This time it’s a case of apparent demonic possession…
Agent Eugenie Furniss
UK & Commonwealth Hemlock
ACM UK
The First House
Avni Doshi
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar comes a gripping psychodrama of unravelling and rebirth – for readers of Katie Kitamura, Deborah Levy, Gwendoline Riley and Elena Ferrante.
Agent Maria Cardona Serra
UK Hamish Hamilton,
US Summit, German DuMont, Italian Nord, World Spanish Gatapardo, India, Greek,
EU Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
Imperfect Spells
Emma Tueller
Cosy romantasy in which disgraced witch Ariel’s solitude shatters when celebrity Percy Cannata arrives, forcing secrets, snowstorms, baking – and risky love – into her imperfect magic.
Agent Clara Foster
Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother
Daniel Finkelstein
Gripping account of the Belsen Trial, the first post-1945 crimes hearing that exposed Auschwitz’s gas chambers and condemned 11 – including camp commandant Josef Kramer, who authorised the killing of the author’s grandmother.
Agent Toby Mundy
UK William Collins,
Dutch
Exiles
Enda Delaney
The story of the global Irish diaspora told through the lives of emigrants, the places they made their homes, and the objects they brought with them.
Agent Jack Ramm
The Messy Middle
Dr Tuesday Watts-Overall
A psychologist-mother reframes maternal struggle as a human response to identity shifts, emotional labour and inadequate support.
Agent Valeria Huerta
World English Transworld
The Agency
Anya and the Light
Above the Ocean
Amelia Giudici
While searching on a stormy sea for her missing mother, Anya encounters a strange window of light above the waves.“Thilling adventure with a sci-fi twist.”
Agent Jessica Hare
World rights
Andersen Press, Turkish
Peregrine Quinn and the Battle for Olympus
Ash Bond
The conclusion to Bond’s epic fantasy middle-grade trilogy. Peregrine and her friends must face their most dangerous challenge yet.
Agent Jessica Hare
World English Piccadilly Press, French Casterman, German cbj, Latin American Spanish Trillas, Turkish
The Society of Free Spirits: A Grave Inheritance
Felicity Epps
Ghosts. Murder. The patriarchy. Never underestimate what free-spirited young women can handle, in a YA crime series with a supernatural twist; a Waterstones’ YA Book of the Month for August 2025.
Agent Jessica Hare
World Hodder Children’s, French Albin Michel
My Name Is Jodie Jones
Emma Shevah
Original YA story exploring language and hidden trauma, with a whip-smart and unforgettable protagonist.
Agent Jessica Hare
World David Fickling
The Wolf and His King
Finn Longman
“Luscious” adult fantasy debut from medieval historian and YA author Longman: “Madeline Miller meets medieval literature in a spellbinding, queer werewolf tale.”
Agent Jessica Hare
World Gollancz, North American Erewhon, French City Editions
Aitken Alexander
Poor Baby
Sarah Bernstein
The Booker Prize-shortlistee’s newest is a story of a haunting: a haunted house, a haunted wood, a haunted history. “Beguiling, hypnotic and singularly brilliant.”
Agent Harriet Moore
UK Granta, US Transit, Canada
Jean
Madeleine Dunnigan
A “startlingly assured” debut set over one hot summer that is a meditative narrative of loss and escape distilled into the heart-rending story of an intense and dangerous adolescent love.
Agent Emma Paterson
UK Daunt, US Norton, Spain Plata/Urano, Germany Diogenes
The Fields
Martin MacInnes
A sweeping, multigenerational novel unfurling the secrets, violences and beauties that shape a Scottish family and our grand universe, from the Booker Prize-longlisted author.
Agent Emma Paterson
UK Atlantic, US Zando, Spain AdN, Canada
Burn and Rave
at Close of Day
Max Porter
The fifth novel from the bestselling, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Shy and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
Agent Lisa Baker
UK Faber, US Riverhead, Canada
Into that Dark Sea
Anuradha Roy
A “powerful and beautifully” crafted novel about three generations of women who each rescue the next from their lives, set amid the changing political turmoil of Calcutta, from the Booker Prize-longlisted writer.
Agent Clare Alexander
AM Heath
On One Condition
Eve Binder
Len and Fran are child-free. When Len is asked by his brother to be his and his wife’s sperm donor, Len – after a lifetime of longing for purpose – sees the chance to do some good. Fran sees disaster.
Agent Florence Rees
The Clarity of Conflict
Yeshim Harris
Peace-building expert applies lessons from her years working with politically polarised countries to everyday problems, teaching us how to communicate effectively and thoughtfully engage with uncomfortable situations.
Agent Euan Thorneycroft
The Map of Europe: A History
Luka Ivan Jukic
A cartographical history of Europe from a critically acclaimed writer, told through 10 maps imposed by leaders from Napoleon to Putin. “For readers of Tim Marshall, Jerry Brotton and Peter Frankopan.”
Agent Tom Killingbeck
The Bureau of Second Chances
Jennifer Ross
Love story about an agent at the Bureau of Second Chances who, desperate to rescue a man from the fallout of a decades-old mistake, accidentally uncovers a truth that could rewrite both of their histories.
Agent Rebecca Ritchie
UK
HQ
Impunity
Kamila Shamsie
In 1970s Karachi, a military coup is reshaping the nation. A young girl’s life alters irrevocably the day a stranger arrives in her family garden. The “haunting” latest from the Women’s Prize winner.
Agent Victoria Hobbs
UK Bloomsbury, US Riverhead
Andlyn
Broken Atlas
DZ Tijani
Set during a fantastical Islamic Golden Age in which a cartographer aims to map the most challenging of terrains while in search for
his missing mentor
and a cure for his shapeshifting companion.
Agent Davinia Andrew-Lynch
Fizog Agog; Apoplectic (Part One of The Belch’s Grimoire)
C Moran
A fraudulent medium and an ardent activist are forced into a hostile alliance when real magic returns to a small Midlands town.
Agent Davinia Andrew-Lynch
Andrew Lownie Agency
Physics Around the Clock: Adventures
in the Science of Everyday Living
Michael Banks
The long-time news editor of Physics World reveals the hidden science in our daily lives.
Agent Andrew Lownie
UK The History Press,
US Prometheus, China
Thinking Large and Small: How Microbes Made and Can Save the World
Peter Forbes
The science writer’s look at thefundamental importance of microbes to life on Earth.
Agent Andrew Lownie
UK Icon
Dianarama: The Shocking True Story of Deception, Cover-Ups and the Panorama Scandal that Betrayed Princess Diana
Andy Webb
The story of one of the biggest scandals in public life and broadcasting history – and of the cover-up that followed to hide what happened, leaving the damaged princess to her fate.
Agent Andrew Lownie
UK Penguin Michael Joseph, US Pegasus
Andrew Nurnberg Associates
Putin Lives in Our House
Sasha Denysova
The prominent Kyiv-born playwright’s satire is
set in the basement
of a besieged Mariupol theatre, where a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl puts Vladimir Putin on trial.
Agent Doug Wallace
Morningstar
Brooke Fortune
Sweeping and richly imagined romantic fantasy about a young woman who has been reared as a religious sacrifice, only to reject the fate that has been written for her in favour of carving out her own destiny.
Agent Sara O’Keeffe
UK Bloomsbury, Spain Urano
Darling Bud
CJ Skuse
The new comedy thriller from the Sweetpea universe, starring Rhiannon’s teenage daughter, Ivy: “Dark and hilarious.”
Agent Jenny Savill
World English
HQ
The Last Story of Jamie Gunn
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Gripping new horror novel from Olde Heuvelt “explores what happens when the stories we tell ourselves to survive take on a life of their own”.
Agent Jenny Savill
UK & Commonwealth Transworld, German Heyne, Netherlands
Il Trucco Del Diavolo (The Devil’s Trick)
Fabiano Massimi
Historical thriller set
in 18th-century Rome
that challenges the
reader with symbols and enigmas where the truth is hidden in a still-undeciphered, mysterious ancient manuscript.
Agent Barbara Barbieri
Italian Longanesi
Apple Tree Literary
The Age Code: The New Science of Food and How It Can Save Us
David Cox
A “revelatory and optimistic” book by health journalist Cox, which points out why our eating habits must change if we are to live longer and healthier lives.
Agent Max Edwards
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada
4th Estate, complex Chinese, Croatian, Korean
The Human Stereotype
Lasana T Harris
An eye-opening first book from Harris, professor of social neuroscience at University College London, which reveals how we can learn to avoid confining one another into stereotypes.
Agent Max Edwards
The Cracks
Tom Huddleston
A haunting contemporary novel “giving a nod to a modern Rebecca”, about a malevolent country mansion that is determined to make history repeat itself.
Agent Ella Kahn
World English Titan
The Hidden Library
Sharon Gosling
Commercial, uplifting romantic women’s
fiction. At the centre of a scandal, bestselling author Helen escapes to Rathbrooke Hall and stumbles across a mysterious hidden library in the process.
Agent Ella Kahn
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Simon & Schuster, Germany Dumont, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden
The Impossible Job
William Ralston
Exploration of the world of football refereeing, with unrivalled access to UEFA and Premier League match officials.
Agent Max Edwards
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Viking, North America Norton
ASH Literary
Finding Her Truth
Jennifer Iacopelli
The sequel to Iacopelli’s figure-skating romance Finding Her Edge –
a second Netflix season is coming in 2027 – follows Adriana’s choice between Freddie and Brayden.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
UK & Commonwealth, Spanish, South American Portuguese, Swedish; Options in Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (EU), Russian, Slovakian, Ukrainian
Trick Shot
LA Jasper
Spicy hockey romance “for fans of Heated Rivalry” about a closeted National Hockey League captain and the out rock star he falls for, set during the run-up to the Stanley Cup finals.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
World English
Late Bloomer
Allora Dannon
With her sister’s wedding looming, Lainey – who has never had romantic attention – pushes herself to navigate the dating world so she doesn’t have to go to the wedding alone.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
The Scottish Boy
Alex de Campi
A casualty of Unbound, this steamy gay medieval romance follows a young English knight who falls for his prisoner-turned-squire before learning he is a bastard with claims to both the English and French thrones.
Agent Paula Weiman
World English, Italian
Tokyo Shadow Games
Hailie Kei
When an ancient tournament returns to Tokyo’s parallel world, a group of school classmates are forced into the Shadow Games, where they face trials to win a chance to return home.
Agent Saffron Dodd
Bell Lomax Moreton
The Deadliest Candidate
Rory Dumont
Eldritch horror meets arcane intrigue and cut-throat competition in this adult dark academia romantasy debut “for fans of The Library at Hellebore and The Atlas Six”.
Agent Julie Gourinchas
Only Fangs
Georgia Bowers
“The Flatshare meets Being Human” in this new adult paranormal romcom about love, longing and what happens when a thirst trap turns into the real thing.
Agent Lauren Gardner
The Unforgettable Life of What’s Her Name
Christina Ford
“The Three Lives of Cate Kay meets Gilmore Girls” in a witty, sharply written story of mothers and daughters, family secrets, truth and lies. Inspired, in part, by the author’s life as the mother of a social-media influencer.
Agent Katie Fulford
Murder on the Island
Federico Ruiz
“Love Island meets And Then There Were None in the first title of a global two-book adult fiction submission from debut author and experienced reality TV broadcast professional Ruiz.
Agent Jo Bell
23 Minutes
Jo Wozencroft
“The Martian meets John Green” in the FAB Prize runner-up’s debut YA speculative romance about two teenage astronauts who ask if you can fall in love in 23 minutes.
Agent John Baker
The Bent Agency
The Mirror of Infinite Endings
Stephanie Garber
A new, illustrated companion novella to
the YA fantasy star’s Once Upon a Broken Heart series, centring on Jacks and Evangeline.
Agent Jenny Bent
UK Gollancz, US Flatiron
Everything Is Like Something Else
Suzy Krause
A Saskatchewan farm vanishes overnight. Years later, a bookseller notices people and objects disappearing. As their stories converge, two women must confront the strange elasticity of grief, hope and longing.
Agent Victoria Cappello
US Blackstone
Nightburner
Brett Puryear
Over a single harrowing night in the remote corridors of the East Tennessee mountains, two fierce women are hunted by a psychotic killer.
Agent James Mustelier
US Minotaur
Unfortunate Creatures
Holly Race
“Frankenstein meets Starling House” in a gothic fantasy about a grieving girl who steals her murdered soulmate’s heart and retreats to a remote mountain mansion to bring him back to life.
Agent Zoë Plant
UK Hodderscape
Bird Literary Agency
Six String Bear
Joshua Morgan
A mysterious bear uses a delightful piece of subterfuge to remove a despotic king from power. A modern fable with a winning twist from new talent Morgan.
Agent Anwen Hoosen
Squawk and Squeak
Luned Aaron
A vibrant pre-school offering introducing different animal sounds, from the double Tir na nÓg, and Wales Book of the Year winning author and artist.
Agent Anwen Hoosen
Angry Bubbles
Carys Glyn
Author, schoolteacher and literacy specialist Glyn brings her “unique voice and joyous rhymes” to the story of a young boy grappling with his emotions.
Agent Anwen Hoosen
The Dreadful Dead and the Happy Ending
Colette Hiller
Boji, a street dog who rides Istanbul’s public transport, is accused of something…disgusting. Inspired by real events, this is the latest picture book from CLiPPA-winning writer Hiller.
Agent Anwen Hoosen
The bks Agency
(Probably)The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Suzy Quinn
Heart-warming story about second chances, unlikely friendships and discovering the courage to love: “About a Boy meets The Rosie Project”.
Agent Jason Bartholomew
German Ullstein, Italian Feltrinelli
Love Needs No Words: What Raising My Autistic Sons Has Taught Me About Hope, Acceptance and Joy
James Hunt
Powerful parenting memoir, described by Stephen Fry as “wonderfully inspiring”, from the creator of the Stories About Autism community.
Agent James Spackman
UK Simon & Schuster
The Stormfell Academy Series
Torsten Weitze
The latest from the bestselling fantasy author follows orphaned Niri, whose only hope is the special coin that will grant her admission to the prestigious Stormfell Academy.
Agent Jessica Killingley
UK & US Absurd Press, Germany Torsten Weitze
This Is Our Game
Joel Rookwood,
Daniel Fieldsend (eds)
Essay collection celebrating football fan cultures in all their diverse glory, with native sports writers taking an anthropological look at their behaviour, society, kinship and tradition.
Agent James Spackman
World English
Canelo
Vows to the Dead
Shannon Ellison
Ellison’s claustrophobic literary horror draws on the shared vocabulary of spiritual, psychotic and psychedelic experiences: “The Last of Us reimagined by Margaret Atwood.”
Agent Jessica Killingley
The Blair Partnership
Love, Her
Amy Beashel
An epic romance “for fans of One Day and a love letter to the female body”: Gioia and David almost get together as teenagers but are interrupted by biology. Instead, their love story will take decades.
Agent Hattie Grünewald
Haren (The Hare)
Linus Blad
The Swede’s quietly powerful, deeply human story of underdogs and outsiders, of mothers and sons, of loyalty, cruelty, and of the struggle of young boys growing up in a world where every day is a fight.
Agent Liane-Louise Smith
Swedish, Norwegian
Finished
Natalie Grant
Young journalist Vera goes undercover at a renowned Swiss finishing school aiming to expose its links to the tradwife movement, only to discover that its polished image hides something much more sinister.
Agent Ed Wood
Poetry for Strangers
Olivia Dodd
Dodd writes poems in the moment, on her typewriter, for strangers, based on what they tell her; her debut book is a collection of 100 of those poems and the story of the people behind them.
Agent Emily Barrett
At auction in UK & Commonwealth
Dangerous Animals
Stevie Braste
Debut with two stories – the first told over nine years, the second over a single day – coming together in a dark American tale about crazy love, hidden trauma and family in its most visceral sense.
Agent Ed Wood
Blake Friedmann
Meant to Be
Jessica Merry
Sexy and immersive romance between a social worker and a police officer, exploring found family and second chances, in a beautiful Scottish lochside town.
Agent Juliet Pickering
The Meaning of Fire
Tomasz Jedrowski
Jedrowski’s follow-up to his internationally acclaimed debut Swimming in the Dark is a haunting, beguiling love story, set in a time of discovery, division and fierce conflict. “One for fans of William Golding’s The Inheritors.”
Agent Isobel Dixon
Children of War:
The Last Survivors of the Kindertransport
Kate Thompson
December 2028 will mark 90 years since the founding of a unique humanitarian rescue operation to save children from Nazi-controlled territory. This book will tell the story of the last living survivors.
Agent Kate Burke
Into the Streets: Queer Women and the Fight for Liberation in Britain
Emily Chudy
A comprehensive and inclusive celebration of lesbian culture, history and activism from the 1900s to the present day.
Agent Siân Ellis-Martin
Beneath the
Orange Blossom
Emma Cowell
Gloriously emotional and escapist search for lost love in Greece’s rugged Mani Peninsula.
Agent Kate Burke
World English Avon
Bryony Woods Literary Agency
Everything Not Saved
Sarah Maria Griffin
After the death of a videogame designer, Orla decides to track down an unreleased game. But there’s more to the game than meets the eye, and she’s not the only one looking for it. Novel about grief, desire and fandom.
Agent Bryony Woods
UK & translation Weidenfeld
Vervain Hollow
Catriona Silvey
Powerful gothic thriller about a young woman returning to the burnt-out ruins of the house where she once lived as part of a paranormal cult, and the charismatic leader who had promised to grant her impossible power.
Agent Bryony Woods
US Union Square
Never Go Home
Jen Cownie
Six friends meet for a long weekend deep in the woods, where they must confront old tensions and secrets from the past. Not all will return home. An unsettling and moving contemporary novel with a darkly magical twist.
Agent Bryony Woods
C&W
The End of Law:
Power, Freedom and
the Pursuit of Justice
Martha Spurrier
The human rights barrister and the former director of Liberty tells the story of the law “in unparalleled breadth” addressing its relationship with the most profound aspects of life: death, bodies, sex, thoughts, drugs, land, nature and technology.
Agents Sophie Lambert
Wits
Stephanie Bain
In 1674 London, Mariana and Thomasin are rival “Female Wits” on the London stage. But when Thomasin’s play is plagiarised and Mariana is subjected to attacks by a puritan campaigner, the two plot revenge, with each set to go against the other’s tormentor.
Agent Clare Conville
Under offer in France, Spain
Ashland
Joe Eurell
When Ashland experiences its first murder in 30 years, newly appointed chief of police Nash – the town’s first woman to wear the badge – is called to investigate. A man has been assassinated with a shot that could only have come from a world-class sniper, and there’s only one witness: a four-year-old-boy from a neglected home.
Agents Liv Bignold, Jess Molloy
Black Bounty
Charlotte Peters
Romantasy set in an alternative Wild West following Cora, a rare silverblood (person with unlimited magic), as she races across the frontier to find her family with bounty hunters hot on her tail. A “firmly adult The Mortal Instruments meets The Knight and the Moth with a touch of True Grit”.
Agent Sue Armstrong
CAA
Mother
Jay Franklin
First thriller from Franklin, pseudonym of drag queen and DJ Jodie Harsh, which is a dark and twisted vision of fame and vividly destructive account of a mother’s love, “somewhere between Notes on a Scandal and the Britney memoir”.
Agent Harriet Poland
Inner Country
Mitchell Morgan Johnson
A misunderstanding sends an apathetic PhD student out of academic aimlessness and into a world of real stakes, idealism, and the first meaningful relationship of his life: “ a poignant literary debut reminiscent of Ben Lerner, Andrew Holleran and Andrew Sean Greer”.
Agent John Ash
German dtv
Vile Star
Rachel Cockerell
Every 75 years, Halley’s Comet returns. Through a cast of unforgettable characters, using only primary source accounts of Halley’s visits, a rising star of British non-fiction will “redirect our gaze towards space, and, from an unfathomably provincial corner of the galaxy, tell our story”.
Agent Karolina Sutton
UK Hutchinson Heinemann, US FSG
Fourth God
Ana Kirova
“Mating in Captivity meets Four Thousand Weeks” from the creator of the sex-positive dating app Feeld. “A visionary exploration of how to live with change and lean into curiosity, guided by the impulses of Eros.”
Agent Harriet Poland
Don’t Write About Me
Veronica Raimo
A “magnetic and unsettling” novel from the International Booker longlisted Italian author, which explores the scandal of desire that hides within trauma and the absurdity that accompanies tragedy.
Agent Anna Stein
UK Virago, US Grove Atlantic, Italy Einaudi, Turkey, under offer in Spain
Chiara Tognetti Rights Agency
A Taipei Girl’s Retro Shopping List
Hung Ai-Chu
A “lush, voice-driven” food memoir in which rising Taiwanese food writer Hung retraces her grandmother and mother’s market routes.
Agent Chiara Tognetti
Japanese, Thai, simplified Chinese, Korean, film/TV
Mail from PO Box 110
Lee Do Woo
A long-running Korean bestselling romance, reprinted more than 110 times, following a guarded scriptwriter and her frustratingly charming producer and their misaligned feelings, tangled friendships and anonymous letters.
Agent Chiara Tognetti
French, Italian, Korean, Japanese, simplified Chinese, film/TV
We Are Capable of Beauty
Ripu Daman Singh
A “Ferrante-esque, visceral” debut that follows the intertwined lives of two girls coming of age in a Delhi neighbourhood sharply divided by class and gender, wittingly exploring female friendship, class, womanhood, desire, beauty and belonging.
Agent Chiara Tognetti
Fifty People
Chung Serang
The acclaimed Korean author’s polyphonic hospital drama set in contemporary Korea, weaving together the intersecting lives of 50 ordinary men and women.
Agent Chiara Tognetti
Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese
The Answer Lies in the Journey
Rui Kodemari
A tender, cross-cultural YA road novel following a Japanese boy newly uprooted to the US and a rock-obsessed Texan girl with a Japanese mother whose solo spring-break trips between El Paso and Woodstock unexpectedly intersect.
Agent Chiara Tognetti
Children’s Books North Agency
Dim Sum Valley
Belinda Chen
A new novelty book
series steeped in East and South East Asian roots with fun interaction and world-building characters.
Agent Emma Layfield
A Bug’s Bop
Bethan Clarke
From the award-winning writer of Holey Moley, an irresistible picture book about bopping bugs with an inspiring message that will make your heart dance.
Agent Emma Layfield
An ABC of Animals Penguins
Josette Reeves
Get ready to learn your ABCs with this laugh-out-loud picture book all about penguins at the South Pole, “perfect for fans of Oi Frog!”.
Agent Emma Layfield
When Humphrey Learns Human
Josette Reeves
A charmingly funny and stunningly original story about using your words that will have you both laughing out loud and feeling cosy inside.
Agent Emma Layfield
Terrible Tempest
Emma Whitehall
A hilarious middle-grade series by a children’s bookseller about Princess Tempest (“Pest”) who causes carnage when she steals some Drago-essence.
Agent Emma Layfield
Clare Hulton Agency
Pinch of Nom: Air Fryer Light & Easy
Kate and Kay Allinson
All-new time-saving recipes from the five-million units-plus Pinch of Nom creators.
Agent Clare Hulton
World
Bluebird
Run for Your Life
Jackie Kabler
Every step could be your last. A gripping and addictive psychological crime thriller from the bestselling thriller writer.
Agent Clare Hulton
World English
One More Chapter
How to Cheat at Baking
Sarah Rainey
Seventy quick and easy recipes for busy bakers.
Agent Clare Hulton
World
Michael O’Mara
The Cancer Food Map
Dr Liz O’Riordan
How to eat well after cancer treatment by a critically acclaimed and prize-winning doctor and author.
Agent Clare Hulton
World English
HarperCollins
Speedy 10: 10 Everyday Ingredients, 100 Dinners in Under 30 Minutes
Amy Sheppard
Second in a series following Sheppard’s 2025 bestseller, Easy 10.
Agent Clare Hulton
World
Quadrille
Colwill & Peddle
Gentrifiers: How Private Equity Shapes our Cities and Rules Our Lives
Adam Almeida
An urgent exploration of how private equity has embedded itself deep into the global urban terrain and how this affects us all, and how we can fight back.
Agent Kay Peddle
UK & Commonwealth
excluding Canada Manchester University Press
Tooth & Claw: Apex Predators, Humankind and the Fight to Rewild the Earth
Nick Clarke Powell
Uncovers the deep history of the human-apex predator relationship and issues an urgent rallying call for the rewilding of apex predators.
Agent Kay Peddle
The Wound Is: Troubling the Lies We’ve Been Told About Mental Health
Dr Sanah Ahsan
A reframing of how we understand emotional pain at a moment when diagnoses, burnout and mental health discourse are at an all-time high.
Agent Milly Reilly
UK & Commonwealth
Cornerstone Press
A Holy Show
Riley Johnston
“Jackson Brodie meets Derry Girls” in this achingly funny, contemporary crime novel set in Northern Ireland. Ex-police officer Saoirse Muldoon and her crew of reluctant helpers search for a missing man in Belfast.
Agent Donna Greaves
Janus
Gianni Washington
A short-story writer’s debut novel traces the toxic relationship of Black twin sisters growing up in the South who are given two lockets that unlock supernatural abilities and unsettle the balance of power between them.
Agent Charlotte Colwill
UK & Commonwealth Serpent’s Tail, US CLASH
Cull & Co
New Horizon: My Journey from Sub–Postmaster
to Campaigner
Seema Misra
A memoir of wrongful prosecution in the Post Office Horizon scandal and the fight for justice that followed.
Agent Tom Cull
Bloody Good Friends: Online Friendship, True Crime and the Price of Proximity
Daniela Barkley
Memoir from Barkley, who was part of a tight-knit Facebook true-crime friendship group with Erin Patterson, the Australian “mushroom murderer” who was convicted last year in a trial that made headlines around the world.
Agent Tom Cull
Film/TV Beyond Productions
Vienna ’48
Karina Urbach
A “true-event” dual timeline spy novel in which an MI6 agent infiltrates The Third Man film crew in 1948 Vienna, and a 2026 London death drags the past into the present.
Agent Tom Cull
German Limes
The Copper Railway: The Lobito Corridor and the New Scramble for Africa
Samuel Williams
A coast-to-coast journey through the Lobito Corridor – the critical-minerals flashpxoint at the heart of US-China competition in Africa.
Agent Tom Cull
The Appropriators
Rosemary Jenkinson
In Belfast’s literary scene, a debut novelist’s rise on borrowed lives and stolen stories spirals into scandal and tragedy.
Agent Tom Cull
Curious Minds
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Beronda Montgomery
A stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and botanical mastery, shared through the stories of long-lived trees.
Agent Jeff Shreve
World English
Holt
How to Make a Happy Country: What Really Works to Make People – and Nations – Thrive
Mark Henry
A narrative exploration of the World Happiness Index mixing culture, science, smart thinking and personal development.
Agent Eli Keren
World English
Bloomsbury
Older Than Human:
How 12 Genetic Mistakes Shaped the Story of Us
Omer Gokcumen
A prominent US geneticist and anthropologist reveals how 12 ancient genetic mutations have shaped our survival, health and shared diversity.
Agent Peter Tallack
World English
St Martin’s Press
The Heart of the Wheel: A Wheelwright’s 5,000-Year Tale of Craftsmanship and Engineering
Phillip Gregson, Simon Ings
From restoring a worm-eaten shrimping cart to riding hand-built Iron Age chariots, master wheelwright Gregson and novelist and non-fiction writer Ings celebrate an ancient and disappearing craft.
Agent Peter Tallack
World English
Oneworld
The Naturalist and the Stargazer: The Untold Story of Charles Darwin, John Herschel, and the Clash That Created Modern Science
Dan Falk
The remarkable true story of how two men with contrasting views of nature made science scientific.
Agent Marissa Koors
Curtis Brown
The First Hundred Hours
Max Brooks
In World War Z author Brooks’ latest novel, people from around the globe must fight off a powerful invading alien force before it destroys humanity.
Agent Jonny Geller
UK & US Del Rey
The Ballad of Tom Gallino
Marcel Theroux
The story of a cantankerous American writer, whose misguided rowing expedition with his 13-year-old step-grandson goes awry. “Smart, funny and timely” adventure about art, ageing and the eternal human quest to live authentically.
Agent Cathryn Summerhayes
The Wine-Dark Sea
Victoria Hislop
Bestseller Hislop’s newest is a heart-wrenching family drama set against the panoramic backdrop of the Greek Civil War which follows a mother desperately searching for her missing children.
Agent Jonathan Lloyd
UK
Headline
I Think Therefore I Can
Hiroyuki Nomura
A bestselling Japanese puzzle book that combines problem solving with practical theory, to simultaneously sharpen readers’ minds, strengthen good habits and remind us how smart we really are.
Agent Polly Peraza-Brown
UK Ebury, US Union Square, German dtv, Italy Giunti, Japan and six others
The Learning Code
Dr Tej Samani
A practical seven-step toolkit that teaches children how to learn – through an evidence-based approach that boosts focus, nurtures happiness and establishes lifelong learning habits.
Agents Lucy Morris, Rachel Goldblatt
UK
The Bodley Head
Darby Literary
The War Dog
Philip Gray
Crime novel set in Northern Italy where one of Italy’s first female police officers is investigating the poisoning of prized truffle hounds, only to discover a childhood friend’s death may not have been accidental.
Agent Mary Darby (for Nicola Barr, Rye Literary)
Options in UK & Commonwealth, France
The Witness
Fleur McDonald
Third in McDonald’s bestselling series set in the outback town of Kalgoorlie in which a recent fatal accident is a little too coincidental for Detective Jack Higgins.
Agent Mary Darby (for
Gaby Naher, Naher Agency)
Australia & New Zealand
Dear Kindred Soul
Michaela McDuffie
Commercial fiction set in the Appalachian Mountains where widow Sylvia has gone to live out her grief – but a note left in a mysterious mailbox in the woods helps her to heal.
Agent Mary Darby (for
Laura Heathfeld, Greenstone)
Under offer in
UK & Commonwealth
Canopy
Bianca Thomas
Arborist Thomas explores a type of ecosystem that most readers will never see up close: the canopies of the world’s most remarkable trees.
Agent Mary Darby (for Ludo Cinelli, Eve White)
Finding Power in Perfectionism
Natalie Englander
This incredible new framework provides tools to thrive, turning perfectionism into a superpower.
Agent Mary Darby (for
Laura Heathfeld, Greenstone)
UK & Commonwealth Headline, US Ballantine, Spanish Planeta
Darley Anderson Children’s
Cleopatra’s Amulet
Lindsay Galvin
Middle-grade mystery adventure from the acclaimed author: when her father the pharaoh is kidnapped, young Cleopatra must navigate the dangerous world of gods and monsters to save him.
Agent Clare Wallace
UK & Commonwealth Chicken House
Like a Brother
Nathanael Lessore
Fourth funny and heartfelt teen novel from multi-award winner Lessore has Owais’ chill summer turning upside down when his chaotic cousin Abass comes to stay.
Agent Clare Wallace
UK & Commonwealth Hot Key, options in Italian, Dutch, Korean
Nightslayer
Bill Wood
“Buffy meets Bridgerton” in a first New Adult queer romantasy from bestseller Wood set in New Elrand where vampires are turning on each other, witches are being murdered and a vampire and vampire-hunter are falling in love.
Agent Lucy Irvine
UK & Commonwealth Gollancz, German, world Spanish
Last Orders at the Full Moon Dinner
Karen Nguyen
Uplifting New Adult debut in which Noel runs a magical diner but her only customers are lonely souls who have one meal left to enjoy on earth. No customer has ever returned – until Evander.
Agent Becca Langton
The Academy
of Endless Hours
Melissa Welliver
This adult speculative debut from YA author Welliver has Ettie’s husband disappearing through a door to the past, so she trains at the government’s Academy of Endless Hours to search for him.
Agent Lucy Irvine
David Godwin Associates
The Midnight Bell
Jim Crace
Crace’s 14th novel is set in a brutally subjugated wartime town in middle Europe during the 1840s: “Unequivocal, unflinching and compassionate.”
Agent David Godwin
World English
Picador
Rift, from Origin to Horizon
Aminatta Forna
Prize-winner Forna’s newest examines Africa’s Great Rift Valley and Great Lakes region, where “everything you need to know about the world – its history, evolution, present and future – is contained”.
Agent David Godwin
UK William Collins, US Grove Atlantic
Watershed
Jessica J Lee
The environmental historian traces the threats facing freshwater species and habitats – and the work of scientists and activists attempting to save them.
Agent David Godwin
UK Hamish Hamilton, North America Simon & Schuster
Making a Killing: How the West Profits from Slaughter in Gaza and Yemen
Andrew Feinstein
Meticulous examination by Feinstein and Shadow World, the arms-trade investigation firm he co-founded in 2019, of how Western governments violate their own laws to fuel genocidal conflicts.
Agent Sebastian Godwin
World English
Verso
Three Million
Kavita Puri
Puri reveals the stories of the three million people who died during the Bengal famine of 1943, one of the largest losses of civilian life on the Allied side during the Second World War.
Agent David Godwin
UK
William Collins
David Higham Associates
Agony in the Garden
Gabriel Krauze
The Booker longlistee’s newest is a personal reckoning and work of autofiction from the frontlines of the Russia-Ukraine war “for readers of George Orwell, Annie Ernaux, Karl Ove Knausgård and Édouard Louis”.
Agent Nicola Chang
What Heals the World Grows Here
Dr Yemisi Bokini
Medical doctor turned science journalist Bokini investigates the ways that modern medicine depends on nature and why we need to protect nature to protect ourselves.
Agent Jessica Woollard
The Runner
Scarlett Thomas
A “propulsive and edge-of-your-seat” novel following Jay, who has to go on the run, owning only three objects and no credit cards, passport or identity. But he does have millions of air miles and the ability to run fast…
Agent Veronique Baxter
UK
Simon & Schuster
A Mug of Life: Strangers’ Advice on What Makes a Good Life
A Mug of Life Team
Based on the social media phenomenon, a collection of lessons from ordinary strangers on what makes a good life, all shared over a cup of tea on a park bench.
Agent Orli Vogt-Vincent
UK at auction, under offer in Italy
Foreign Affairs
Alison Lurie
In the centenary of her birth, a re-release of Lurie’s Pulitzer-winning 1984 comic, heart-wrenching classic of an unexpected romance between a shy American literature professor and a brash engineer.
Agent Georgia Glover
UK Vintage, US Open Road,
Italian Astoria
David Luxton
Epic: The Many
Lives of Pelé
Andrew Downie
The Reuters Brazil football correspondent’s life of Pelé – the only player to have won the World Cup three times – told through the characters that populated his life and the events that shaped his existence.
Agent David Luxton
World excluding Spanish and Portuguese Viking, Portuguese
Kylian Mbappe:
The Definitive Biography of the World Cup Star
Julien Laurens
“Vivid and intimate” portrait of the Real Madrid and French national team superstar’s life, from France’s leading football journalist.
Agent David Luxton
World
Orion
Inside Red Bull Racing
Matt Majendie
A behind-the-scenes look at the Red Bull Formula 1 set-up from veteran racing journalist Majendie, who was given unprecedented access to the team’s 2025 season.
Agent David Luxton
Netherlands, Poland
Game Theory
Christoph Biermann
The football writer on the element of chance in the sport – based on his interviews with coaches, managers, club owners and mathematicians – is a deep-dive which “will change how we talk about the magic of the game”.
Agent Nick Walters
Cheers in Every Language
Jonny Garrett
Garrett explores the various nations’ favourite beer brands to explore what it says about culture, cuisine, history, geography, politics and identity: “Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography, but with beer instead of mountains.”
Agent David Luxton
DHH Literary
The Table in the Corner
Alison Barrow
The veteran Transworld publicist’s “powerful” debut novel is a multi-generational family drama and a meditation on the destructive and redemptive power of love.
Agent David Headley
UK Juniper, US Union Square, Germany Blessing
The Quickening
Claire McGowan
A powerful exploration of motherhood, sacrifice, and “the terrifying cost of complicity in a world where freedom is the ultimate rebellion; for fans of Vox, Red Clocks and The Handmaid’s Tale”.
Agent Diana Beaumont
UK Corsair
The Hollow Man
Tariq Ashkanani
The latest novel from Edinburgh-based Ashkanani, winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Award for Welcome to Cooper and the McIlvanney Prize for The Midnight King.
Agent Harry Illingworth
UK Viper, Dutch under offer, options in Germany, Japan
Catherine
Essie Fox
A retelling of Wuthering Heights, told from
a bold new perspective that uncovers the
hidden depths, haunting truths and untold
desires buried beneath Emily Brontë’s classic.
Agent David Headley
World English
Orenda
Big Man
Dean Atta
A “beautiful” adult literary debut novel from poet and BAFTA-nominee Atta, which is “playful, vulnerable, daring and full of heart”.
Agent Abi Fellows
World English Cipher Press
DunnFogg
Beasts of Beauty
Ben Timberlake
A gripping investigative narrative tracing looted antiquities from freshly raided tombs to elite dealers, auction houses and private collections, exposing a shadow economy behind the global art market.
Agent Ben Dunn
UK Headline, US Simon & Schuster, Film/TV Motive
Anything with a Pulse
Eliana Ostro
A sharp, voice-driven romantic comedy following George and Clara as they ricochet through the chaos of modern dating: “Funny, painfully recognisable and emotionally honest.”
Agent Ben Dunn
UK Canelo,
audio Audible
Loyalty Inc: The Science of Building Connections That Last
Dr Martha Newson
An anthropologist and psychologist reveals how leaders, brands and communities can build deep human connection in an AI-driven world by understanding belonging, identity and the psychology that binds us together.
Agent Jack Fogg
One for the Living, Two for the Dead
Iain MacIntosh
The start of an entertaining fantasy series in which a disgraced ex-guard and a wide-eyed runaway investigate a political murder, uncovering conspiracy, mercenaries and the impossible return of magic.
Agent Jack Fogg
Eve White Literary Agency
The Woman in Suite 11
Ruth Ware
The bestselling author returns with the nail-biting sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10, recently made into a Netflix film starring Keira Knightley.
Agent Eve White
UK Simon & Schuster,
US Scout Press, German, Greek and 16 others
Big Panda’s Little Book of Calm
James Norbury
The international bestseller returns with a new smaller-format book full of serenity and inspiration.
Agent Ludo Cinelli
UK & Commonwealth Penguin Michael Joseph, Netherlands Fontaine
My Brother, the Gun
Gary Grace
This harsh-yet-tender debut autofiction sees two Irish brothers reunite following years of separation in order to search for their missing father.
Agent Steven Evans
UK Eriu
A History of the Rising Sun
Isaac Meyer
The History of Japan podcaster explores the big question “What is Japan?” through the volatile relationships it has forged with the world and the stories it tells itself.
Agent Steven Evans
Not Going to Plan
Tia Fisher
Carnegie Award-winner Fisher returns with a taboo-busting narrative YA verse novel about consent, gender identity and shame.
Agent Eve White
UK
Hot Key
Featherstone Cairns
Thwarted
Joanna Scanlan
A memoir of success and failure and how to spot the difference from BAFTA-winning actress and screenwriter Scanlan. When Scanlan’s uncle died, his vengeful will left her family in turmoil. In a picaresque diary over several years, Scanlan’s own creative story weaves alongside the unfolding ancestral disaster. “This is a true story as far as memory can permit.”
Agent Ruth Cairns
Glorious Broads
Maryjane Fahey
The debut book from the New York-based global movement of women over 60 who are smashing the myth of invisibility and decline.
Agent Ruth Cairns
A Beautiful Place: A Doctor’s Diaries from Gaza
Dr Victoria Rose
“Unflinching, gripping and beautifully written” diaries from surgeon Rose, who took leave from her post at St Thomas’ Hospital, London to operate on the Gaza frontlines for a disaster relief charity. She reveals the pressures of trying to save lives in a war zone, and the human stories at the heart of the disaster.
Agent Ruth Cairns
World
Quercus
Felicity Bryan Associates
Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at
the End of Empire
Simukai Chigudu
Professor of African politics Chigudu tells the moving story of his family’s fight for freedom and his own reckoning with its meaning.
Agent Carrie Plitt
UK The Bodley Head,
US Crown, Brazil
The Brain at Work:
The New Neuroscience of Working Well
Joseph Jebelli
On the neuroscience that informs better working lives – with more focus, meaning and less burnout – by the author of the bestselling The Brain at Rest.
Agent Carrie Plitt
UK
Transworld
Graceland
Melody Razak
In 1980s London, artist Aida accepts a commission from a wealthy couple in Ladbroke Grove to paint a family portrait, only to begin an affair with their beautiful but troubled son.
Agent Caroline Wood
The Light of Nicodemos: Books, Belief and Empire
Nil Palabiyik
Stylish narrative history from a senior lecturer in medieval and early modern studies beginning in 1627 when a Greek Orthodox monk smuggles a secret cargo from London to Constantinople with the potential to spark revolution.
Agent James Gill
Why We Buy Stupid Stuff: The Hidden Economics of Shopping and What It Tells Us About Ourselves
Hermione Taylor
In this book Investors Chronicle columnist Taylor uses economic theory blended with history and psychology to examine why we all buy stupid stuff.
Agent Sally Holloway
UK Hodder Press, Germany Piper, under offer in Spain
Gemma Cooper Literary
Almost the Whole Truth
Robin Stevens
The children’s superstar’s debut adult crime novel is a playfully twisty timeline-hopping murder mystery, told in a mix of prose, letters, transcripts and messages: “The Appeal meets Listen for the Lie.”
Agent Gemma Cooper
UK Viking, US Crown, Italian Giunti, Spanish RBA, German Piper, Czech, Hungarian
The Bad Luck Book Club
Claire Fayers
The debut adult fantasy from the award-winning children’s author is a cosy, character-driven fantasy mystery in which a book club reads a cursed book that unleashes deadly consequences on their small town.
Agent Gemma Cooper
Georgina Capel Associates
The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion: Vol 1-8
Beth Brower
The traditional launch of Brower’s previously self-published series.
Agent Georgina Capel
UK Bloomsbury, German Rowohlt, Spanish Suma de Letras, French Flammarion, Italian Corbaccio, Canada, Portuguese/Brazil, EU Portuguese, Hebrew, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian
Castles: A Fortified History of the World
Dan Jones
A new history of the world told through over a dozen iconic strongholds.
Agent Georgina Capel
UK Head of Zeus, US Viking, German CH Beck, Spanish Atico de los Libros, Polish, Dutch
Napoleon And His Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal
Andrew Roberts
A reassessment of how Napoleon’s creation of an ambitious Marshalate undermined his empire.
Agent Georgina Capel
UK Allen Lane, US Avid Reader
Futureless: How Pessimism Is Derailing the World and What Can We Do to Stop It
Diego Rubio
A look at how economic interests are fuelling a collective pessimism which threatens our future.
Agent Georgina Capel
UK Profile, Spanish Debate
Collapsing Houses: Pieces of Natalia Ginzburg
Thea Lenarduzzi
First-ever English language biography of Italian writer Ginzburg.
Agent Irene Baldoni
UK Allen Lane, North America FSG, Spanish Lumen, Italian Mondadori, Dutch
Greene
& Heaton
Tillinghast
Clare Cavenagh
“Darkly compelling” literary horror debut centring on Stutley Tillinghast, who lives a solitary life and what little human contact he has had, has been “brief, frenzied and bloody… and always ends in a shallow grave in his cellar”.
Agent Judith Murray
UK The Borough Press, US Viking
Mortal Passions
Avery Curran
A delicious and utterly consuming queer vampire romance that is at once an excoriating send-up of capitalism and a sexy campus novel.
Agent Imogen Morrell
UK riverrun, US & Canada Doubleday, Italy Mercurio
Tailwind
Olivia Hayward
The kick-off to The Dragon Rush romantasy trilogy showcasing female empowerment and sisterhood and centring around the first team of women dragon riders in the Volitant Cup.
Agent Mia Dakin
UK Penguin Michael Joseph, Spain Minotauro
The Bookshop Crawl
Rebecca Powell
Can a book heal a
broken heart? Izzy follows the clues in her late mother’s unfinished manuscript and retraces her steps to solve the infamously unsolved Great British Book Hunt of 1984.
Agent Judith Murray
The Honeymoon Suite
Rebecca Taylor McKay
“White Lotus meets The Talented Mr Ripley” in this psychological thriller set on the Amalfi Coast in 1961.
Agent Laura Williams
UK Renegade, France Sonatine, Germany Rowohlt, Russia, Ukraine, under offer in Poland
Greenstone Literary
The Name Game
Beth O’Leary
Charlie Jones has her dream fresh start. But another Charlie Jones is trying to steal it. New love story from the bestselling author about “second chances becoming new beginnings and love finding us in secluded places”.
Agent Tanera Simons
UK & Commonwealth Quercus, US & Canada Berkley
Confinement
Sarah Fung
“The Housemaid meets Crazy Rich Asians” in this debut thriller. New mother Lara agrees to the Chinese tradition of “confinement” which keeps the world out – but what if the danger is already inside?
Agent Laura Heathfield
Etiquette for Undergraduate Enchantresses
Claire and Gigi McCauley
Three of the first women admitted to Oxford University of Magical Studies must band together to make it through the first year without dying, or worse.
Agents Liza DeBlock, Tanera Simons
The Bone Tide
Sandra Marslund
After inheriting a
cabin, a woman returns to the Danish island she fled as a teenager. When bones are found, she wonders which of the many men they belong to, and why they were not sacrificed to the bone tide.
Agent Liza DeBlock
When they
Weren’t Looking
Charlotte Bigland
When an updated e-fit video goes viral on TikTok, everyone thinks Ruby is a young girl who went missing 15 years ago. Is she Isla?
Agent Laura Heathfield
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Bedford Square, Canada
Greyhound Literary
White Smoke
Nick Brucker
A high-concept heist thriller by Nicholas Binge, writing as Nick Brucker, set among a group of duplicitous conmen and thieves, who are determined to steal the Vatican’s most remarkable treasures.
Agent Alexander Cochran
Spanish Planeta, Italian Newton Compton, Dutch Xander, Hungarian, at auction in the UK, German
Lost Eden: In Search of a Secret Garden in Venice
Ciar Byrne
Blending memoir, social history and horticulture, Byrne explores the history of the mysterious Giardino Eden. Once witness to high society, artists and princesses in exile, it has been locked away from the public for decades.
Agent Salma Begum
Swallerjaw
Tif Robinette
Upmarket Southern-Gothic folk horror set in the humid Florida swamps, which offers a new take on Frankenstein.
Agent Sam Edenborough
World English Tor UK & US, German Fischer Tor
Tears of the Patriarch
Lias Saoudi
The frontman of rock bank Fat White Family’s reckoning with ageing, loneliness and desire, identity and fatherhood.
Agent Natalie Galustian
World English Orion
Mandarin Capitalism:
The Market Inside
the State and
the Paradoxes of China’s Rise
Wei Xiong
Xiong argues that understanding China’s economy requires seeing the market not as separate from the state but as embedded within it.
Agent Philip Gwyn Jones
UK & Commonwealth Allen Lane, auction in US
Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency
Untitled: Parenting Neurodiverse Children
in a Broken System
Dr Rosie Gilderthorp
A moving memoir and self-help manual from a clinical psychologist and parent to three children with additional needs, endeavouring to support parents through the heartbreak and shame of parenting neurodiverse children.
Agent Louise Buckley
Country Pride
Rachel Kellehar
“An Irish Heated Rivalry”, set in the competitive world of the Irish football league.
Agent Louise Buckley
A Killer Guest List
Sarah Bonner
Murder on the Moors is the most glamorous murder mystery event of the season…but this year, it’s more than just a game.
Agent Hannah Sheppard
World English Boldwood
The Red String Murders
Chris McGeorge
“The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle meets Ready Or Not” in a novel that puts a speculative spin on the ubiquitous red-string evidence board.
Agent Hannah Sheppard
Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Storm Heart
Philippa Leathley
The epic finale of bestseller Leathley’s middle-grade Inkbound fantasy trilogy.
Agent Hannah Sheppard
UK & Commonwealth
excluding Canada HarperCollins Children’s; options in US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal
Hardman & Swainson
The Relics
Emma Nesporova
A deeply atmospheric and gripping historical mystery for readers
of CJ Sansom and
SJ Parris. Christina,
a manuscript illuminator, is drawn into a chilling murder investigation
amid the social unrest following the Peasant’s Revolt.
Agent Joanna Swainson
World English
Fontana
The Symptom Trap: Rethinking Bodily Symptoms
Omer Van den Bergh
A groundbreaking
work dismantling medicine’s deeply held assumption that symptoms are straightforward signs
of physical dysfunction, exploring the brain’s powerful role in shaping them and transforming the way we think about health.
Agent Caroline Hardman
HHB Agency
The Big Debate
Mishal Husain
The journalist’s groundbreaking, illustrated guide to navigating facts, questions and the history of finding and using your voice, aimed at turning children aged eight and over into critical thinkers.
Agent Elly James
World
DK
The Parkinson’s Puzzle
Rory Cellan-Jones
The former BBC tech correspondent reflects on his battle against Parkinson’s symptoms while exploring technological developments designed to “cure” the disease.
Agent Elly James
World
Duckworth
The Windermere Children
Trevor Avery
The story of the 300 orphans who were brought to Lake Windermere from the liberated Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War to take part in a ground-breaking programme of rehabilitation.
Agent Elly James
UK & Commonwealth Ebury, US Little, Brown
Thin Ice
Louise Minchin
Chilling new thriller from the author and TV presenter about Noora returning to Finland to confront her best friend’s mysterious death, to uncover a community determined to keep the truth buried beneath the ice.
Agent Elly James
World English Headline
Midnight Sun:
A Scandinavian Cookbook for Long Summer Days
Trine Hahnemann
Recipes and stories, along with stunning location photography.
Agent Elly James
World
Quadrille
International Creative Agency
The Life Swap
Jeananne Craig
Two very different sisters, two messy lives, one idea that will fix everything. But as Sarah and Sinead step into each other’s shoes, they find they don’t know each other as well as they thought…
Agent Sallyanne Sweeney
World English Hachette Ireland
Here We Are at the End
Sara Barnard
A “wise, uplifting” adult debut from the YA author in which two families and a handful of strangers gather on a private Italian island for the perfect destination wedding just as news breaks that a doomsday comet will soon collide with Earth.
Agent Sallyanne Sweeney
North American Berkley, Germany Heyne, Brazil, UK under offer
Olga & Beaver
Lydia Syson
Meticulously researched bio-fiction about Olga Kosakiewicz, the rebellious Kiev-born schoolgirl who embarks on a relationship with her philosophy teacher Simone de Beauvoir, forming a love triangle with Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Agent Ivan Mulcahy
Dig Where You Stand
Peter Matthews
A “searing reckoning with the bones beneath Europe’s feet”, as Matthews uncovers the largest collection of plundered human remains ever assembled, each fragment leading back to Europe’s colonial crimes.
Agent Sharmaine Lovegrove
Child and God
Kevin Quinn
An “exquisite, lyrical and daring” polyphonic debut that moves between alternating perspectives within a Black Pentecostal family in 1990s Detroit exploring “the emotional costs of faith”.
Agent Sharmaine Lovegrove
North America Knopf
Janklow & Nesbit
Ravenous Appetites
Helena Bailach Adsuara
Gruesomely compelling fantasy “for fans of Netflix’s Wednesday” following illegal monster hunter Valeria who investigates when a rogue monster starts killing students at the local alchemy academy.
Agent Hayley Steed
Nostalgia
Rena Blake
“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets The Notebook” in which Anya questions her reality in a utopian world called The Inside as she develops a relationship with her mysterious and handsome colleague Kai.
Agent Emma Leong
Wild Thing
Matilda Brindle
Engaging popular-science book about the evolution of non-reproductive sex habits in the animal kingdom and what they reveal about humans.
Agent Claire Paterson Conrad
Digital Sovereignty
Hermann Hauser, Hazem Danny Nakib
The first book from Hauser, the technologist and founder of
Acorn Computers,
on how we can each seize back control from the tech companies who preside silently over our lives.
Agent Will Francis
The Translator
JR Thorp
A “fiercely intelligent, politically tender and stylistically inventive” novel about a translator living under a far-right regime, for fans of Ali Smith and Olga Tokarczuk.
Agent Claire Paterson Conrad
World English Chatto
Jemma McDonagh Agency
The First White Hair
Yasmin Zaher
The prize-winning author’s literary thriller is an exhilarating “late bloomer bildungsroman” that follows a young Palestinian journalist, set amid the demise of a group of Palestinian escapists facing a terrible future.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Monika Woods, Triangle House)
The Memory Addicts
Caroline Graham
The first novel by award-winning investigative journalist Graham is set on a remote island in a future where memory is a drug, so a man with perfect recall must unravel a mystery of inherited memories to find his mother and four women.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Grace Heifetz, a4 Literary)
Dish Pig
Emily Unwin
Wise, endearing and funny debut novel following a vulnerable American teenager whose flamboyant mother’s collapse propels him into an uneasy coming of age in the pubs and clubs of Edinburgh.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Calvert Morgan, Enliven Endeavors)
Not a Word
Linwood Barclay
The bestselling thriller writer’s newest has a man stumbling upon a grisly crime scene in the family home. At first it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father.
Agent Jemma McDonagh
(for Helen Heller, the Helen Heller Agency)
UK HQ, US William Morrow
Salvation
Michael Nava
An “unflinching, thrilling” examination of the American justice system as a dedicated attorney fights to save a Mexican immigrant farmworker from a racially prejudiced death-row conviction.
Agent Jemma McDonagh
(for Soho Press)
US Soho Press
Jenny Brown Associates
The New Bookshop Diaries
Shaun Bythell
A wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland’s biggest secondhand bookshop from the author of three previous bestselling diaries with rights sold into 31 territories.
Agent Jenny Brown
UK & Commonwealth New Modern
The Translator
Annabelle Marx
In the aftermath of the First World War, 15 years after the woman she loved drowned in the Thames, a mysterious package of French novels takes Edie Adler on a desperate hunt for answers from Paris to Malta.
Agent Jenny Brown
World English Storm
The Stray Dogs
Ruth Hogan
Lost dogs and lost people alike find new beginnings and unexpected routes to happiness in Hogan’s latest uplifting story.
Agent Lisa Highton
UK & Commonwealth Corvus
The Silver Thread
Kate Lord Brown
Set in London and Tokyo in 1875 and Paris in 1985, this epic love story crosses oceans, cultures and timelines: “For fans of Santa Montefiore and Dinah Jeffries.”
Agent Lisa Highton
UK & Commonwealth Simon & Schuster
The Art Lovers
Fiona McIntosh
A romantic adventure that celebrates the life and work of Caravaggio while exploring a passionate love between a teenage girl and a dashing British Spitfire pilot in 1940s Malta.
Agent Lisa Highton
UK & Commonwealth excluding Australia
and New Zealand, Australia
and New Zealand
Johnson
& Alcock
The Second Life of Professor Takahashi
Nick Bradley
A layered, multi-narrative novel in which a visiting Japanese professor settles for a year in a quiet English town hoping to close the gulf with his teenage daughter Kaori.
Agent Ed Wilson
World English Transworld, Options in 15 territories
The Duchess
SA Lawless
Epic debut regency romantasy telling of the rise of orphan Eleanor, thrown into the treacherous royal court through a pretend marriage with the Duke of Ashmount.
Agent Ed Wilson
UK
Harper Voyager
Dublin (series)
Caimh McDonnell
The tightly plotted, hilarious, originally self-published crime series with 1.5 million copies sold and a TV adaptation to premiere this year.
Agent Ed Wilson
World English McFori Ink, German Eichborn, Czech Republic, Estonia, Japan, Poland, Russia, Ukraine
The Language of Lies
Kirsty King
A short and universal toolkit to spot the liars around you by a forensic linguist, mixing pop science and true crime.
Agent Anna Power
World English Cornerstone, German Goldmann, Croatia, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand
A History of the World in 22 Traitors
Sinclair McKay
An exploration of the most famous traitors in world history.
Agent Anna Power
World English Viking, options in Italy, Spain
Jonathan Clowes
Your Space, Your Story
Java Bere
Artist and podcaster Bere expands on her popular workshop, Tell the Story of Your Home, in a holistic, creative and practical guide for creating a unique and personal home.
Agent Nemonie Craven
World
Batsford
Los: A Vision of William Blake
John Riordan
Graphic-novel origin story of William Blake, from Riordan, a Blake Society trustee (and art director of its journal), best known for his Time Out comic strip, William Blake, Taxi Driver and the psychedelic comic Hitsville UK.
Agent Nemonie Craven
Bad Hamlet
Ewan Fernie
The Shakespeare expert sketches various “dark Hamlets” of the past and present and explains what it is about the sweet prince that makes him what we might now call a troll.
Agent Nemonie Craven
Love Child
Maureen Duffy
A reissue of trailblazer Duffy’s 1971 novel, a “powerful exploration of gender”. Duffy was awarded the inaugural Royal Society of Literature Pioneer Prize in 2025 by Bernadine Evaristo, who will write a new introduction.
Agent Nemonie Craven
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Hamish Hamilton, North America McNally, Germany Reclam
Kate Hordern Literary Agency
The Italian Lakes Affair
Rachel Barnett
PA Amy’s assignment at a Lake Garda cookery school sees her losing her luggage and her food-writer boss. But when she meets chef Tad, happiness might be on the menu.
Agent Anne Williams
World English Boldwood
A Cold Harbour
Lynne McEwan
When DI Shona Oliver is seconded to a new area, the policeman she is covering for asks her to look into a cold case, the murder of his wife’s sister.
Agent Anne Williams
World English Canelo
A Yorkshire Affair
Julie Houston
Jess has always played it safe. Pursuing her love for cooking, her professional life is flourishing. She takes back her no-good ex but a new face in the village catches her eye. Maybe change isn’t always a bad thing…
Agent Anne Williams
World English Boldwood, options in Germany, Brazil, Denmark
The Wedding Party
Laura Starkey
Hannah is a wedding planner with a successful business… but a broken heart. She is thrilled to plan her twin brother Ed’s wedding to his partner, Joe. Shame her ex and the man she can never forget will be there.
Agent Kate Hordern
World English Embla, Options in Denmark, Norway
A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Catching a Killer
FH Petford
August 1915. When a guest at the Timperley Spiritualist Hotel dies, hotel owner Alma – who can talk to the dead – is recruited by the police to help.
Agent Kate Hordern
World English Hodder
Kate Nash Agency
Christmas at Honeycombe Bay
Lilac Mills
A retiree and a widower fall in love and rediscover
the joy of Christmas, playing Mr and Mrs Claus for a single mum and her child in a cosy seaside guest house.
Agent Saskia Leach
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Head of Zeus, US & Canada Dell
Better Off Dead
Sean Watkin
A sinister app, police corruption and a 20-year-old cold case that links two murders are intertwined in this Liverpool-set thriller.
Agent Francesca Riccardi
World English
Canelo
Pelt
Charlotte Haley
Making a werewolf
mask for an independent film, an unhappy millennial slowly awakens the beast inside her, in this weird-girl horror.
Agent Francesca Riccardi
World English
Angry Robot
17A Keong Saik Road
Charmaine Leung
A lyrical memoir,
“echoing Wild Swans”, follows three generations of women tied to a Singapore brothel, charting a legacy of displacement, maternal inheritance and resilience.
Agent Kate Nash
Singapore, Malaysia,
Indonesia, English & world Chinese Ethos
The Menopause Book Club
Helen Watts
Four friends launch a reading group and rediscover themselves in this community up-lit by a Carnegie Medal-nominated author.
Agent Saskia Leach
World English Embla
Ki Agency
Corridors of a
Hollow Dungeon
Maria Minaeva
Standalone horror inspired by Sofia Ajram’s Coup de Grâce, which has an unemployed French architect at last finding the sentient saintly city that has been haunting his
dreams, until he realises he cannot leave the ever-shifting corridors of the city’s abandoned hotel.
Agent Miriam Cortinovis
The Sunburst Hotel
Mike McClelland
A “queer and fabulous” thriller about a deadly
game, where Escape Room meets Clue and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, set in a locked-door, old-Hollywood-
glamour hotel.
Agent Helen Lane
Caribbean Gothic
Amber Houlders
An epic fantasy
with strong political leanings, set in a
waterless Sargasso Sea, where the characters must choose between selfish survival and sacrificing themselves for others.
Agent Fabienne Schwizer
The Communion of Flesh
Vivian Fernandes
A thrilling, seductive
and gross literary horror novel set around a cannibalistic congregation; a deep dive into what it means to hunger.
Agent Fabienne Schwizer
The Tree That Flew
Nuzo Onoh
A novel about Harachigi,
a Nigerian woman now living in Britain with her
abusive husband and annoying son, who meets a kind white woman at a bus stop who enables her painful, yet often funny, journey to freedom.
Agent Meg Davis
Laxfield Literary Associates
All The Hollow Places
Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone
A hybrid, multi-vocal novel centred around
the last day in the life of the adventurer, archaeologist and political officer
Gertrude Bell, who
died in suspicious circumstances in Baghdad 100 years ago.
Agent Emma Shercliff
The Weathering
Artem Chapeye
This award-winning Ukrainian author’s
new novel follows
a young couple who escape city life for an off-grid retreat in the Carpathian Mountains, only to discover a dystopian reality upon their return.
Agent Emma Shercliff
World English Seven Stories
Lewinsohn Literary
Ask Me What I’m Reading
Eleanor Goymer
A slow-burn romance about chance encounters, the love of books and the quiet thrill of meeting someone who just gets it. “Perfect for fans of One Day and Talking at Night.”
Agent Becky Thomas
World English
One More Chapter
The Hurricane Edge
Bradley Quirk
Taut action thriller series opener with an outgunned, headstrong hero who must survive a conspiratorial world of tech, narcotics and big pharma from an exciting new voice, a film and TV executive.
Agent Becky Thomas
Film/TV Universal
Untitled Memoir
Linda Thompson
A no-holds-barred memoir of the 1970s folk icon, with tales of mischief, freedom and survival, told in a hugely entertaining voice and style.
Agent Becky Thomas
World English
Abacus
Trash
Erol Alkan
World-renowned DJ Alkan takes us on a journey of recollections, interviews and archives into Trash, the London club night he ran, which became the focal point of a Noughties sonic revolution. Contributions include LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Peaches and Soulwax.
Agent Becky Thomas
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Faber
Lexington Literary
Visiting Hours
Ella Fox-Martens
A young South African woman grapples with
the death of her much-lauded father while working at a right-wing newspaper in London.
A debut novel “with shades of Natasha Brown and JM Coetzee” by short-story writer, journalist and Scribner UK assistant editor Fox-Martens.
Agent Kat Aitken
Tide
Anna Richmond
This domestic drama threaded with speculative horror centres on Imogen, whose mudlarking excursion with her son has devastating consequences, and who is left struggling to convince those around her of her innocence and her sanity. “For fans of Megan Hunter’s The Harpy and Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter.”
Agent Kat Aitken
Poor Posture
Rosa Friend
“Motherland meets
Such a Fun Age” in which a mother breastfeeds another woman’s baby without consent, setting off a disastrous and bleakly funny series of events in this debut modern comedy of manners about mothers and daughters, friends and enemies, nostalgia and cynicism.
Agent Seren Adams
UK Canongate
Lorella Belli Literary Agency
The Woman Before Me
Ruth Dugdall
Probation officer turned CWA Dagger-winning writer’s latest has Cate questioning her judgement over Rose, just released from prison for a terrible crime.
Agent Lorella Belli
World English HQ, TV
One Second Away
Rick Mofina
Bestseller Mofina’s propulsive and page-turning newest with a mother in a global race against the clock when her nine-year-old son disappears on a cross-country flight.
Agent Lorella Belli
World English Doubleday Canada
The Arctic Cruise
Caroline James
James’ newest has widow Joy on a cruise to the Norwegian fjords, hoping to believe in happiness again. A heart-warming, feel-good voyage of self-discovery, romance and second chances, “perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan and Judy Leigh”.
Agent Lorella Belli
World English Avon
The Makoto Murders
Richard Jerram
“Pitch-black, Dexter-like” gripping and atmospheric Tokyo-set literary-crime thriller featuring down-on-his-luck half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist Ken Kato, who is suspiciously first to the scene every time a serial killer strikes…
Agent Lorella Belli
World English Titan
The House of Mystery
Joy Ellis
The third Ellie McEwan crime novel has police stumped when a murder investigation is hampered by almost supernatural events, so they turn to McEwan, a healer who can read auras.
Agent Lorella Belli
World English Joffe, audio Audible
Luigi Bonomi Associates
Masterminds
Geoff White
What organised crime can teach us about doing business better – and legally – by an award-winning crime journalist and author.
Agent Luigi Bonomi
The Last Library of Paris
Kerry Barrett
“Riveting” sequel to Barrett’s bestselling
The Bookshop of Secrets and a return to wartime Lisbon, where British
spy Cassie is breaking
the rules to get refugees to safety.
Agent Amanda Preston
World English HQ
This Jury Is Guilty
Laurie Blake
“Everyone Is Watching meets Twelve Angry Men” in a tense, twisty locked-room thriller in which a jury must decide the fate of a Hollywood actor accused of attempted murder
Agent Amanda Preston
North American Sourcebooks
Receipts from the Bookshop
Katie Clapham
A “warm and funny” chronicle of a year in the life of an award-winning indie bookshop run by a mother and daughter on the Lancashire coast, based on the popular Substack.
Agent Louise Lamont
UK & Commonwealth Phoenix, North America William Morrow, Swedish, Arabic
Hot Young Widow
Kacie B Keegan
A strangers-to-lovers debut “for fans of Annabel Monaghan and Carley Fortune” in which a hot young widow and a buttoned-up finance guy with mommy issues delight the busybodies at the fanciest retirement village in Lake Genny, Wisconsin, where they work, by – despite their best efforts – falling in love.
Agent Hannah Schofield
North America Dial Press
Lutyens & Rubinstein
Untitled
Tom Lamont
Eleven-year-old Gus discovers a trove of texts, emails and instant messages exchanged between her estranged parents, and sets out to discover more about their shared past.
Agent Jane Finigan
UK Sceptre
The Thin Land
Sarah Larkham-Hall
YA fantasy in which Tessa “Rabbit” Young wakes up in the Thin Land, where she must navigate unknown vistas, from the Forest of Lost Souls to the Isthmus Bridge, and harness courage she did not know she had.
Agent Daisy Parente
Solace in Winter
Mary Lawson
The newest from the Booker-longlistee is set in Solace, 1969, where as the snow falls a series of chance encounters will change the lives and loves of an old man, a young American and a dog in need of a home.
Agent Felicity Rubinstein
UK Chatto, German Blessing, Canada, under offer in Czechia
White Powder Empires
Kulvinder Nagre
What does salt, flour and sugar have in common with cocaine? This book will explore the hidden history of how our needs and desires for these powders have been exploited to build and reshape the modern world.
Agent Jane Finigan
Trial of the Space Invaders: The Case That Changed Video Games
Simon Parkin
Part courtroom thriller, part investigative mystery and part origin story for the most popular entertainment medium in the world.
Agent Jane Finigan
UK Sceptre, US Scribner
Madeleine Milburn Agency
The Things You’ll
Never Know
Ashley Audrain
A bold and thought-provoking multi-timeline suspense novel about motherhood and identity.
Agent Madeleine Milburn
UK & Commonwealth PMJ, US Pamela Dorman, German Penguin, French JC Lattes, Italian Rizzoli, Canadian, Finnish, EU Portuguese, South American Portuguese, options in six others
Everything Is Material
Maikel Kuijpers
A history of humankind explored through our relationships with the materials that shape the modern world.
Agent Emma Bal
UK & Commonwealth Hutchinson Heinemann, North American Crown, German Droemer, French Albin Michel, Italian Aboca, Dutch, simplified Chinese and five others
Maelstrom
Hope Tala
The singer-songwriter’s heartfelt debut about siblings pulling together to overcome a trauma.
Agent Liv Maidment
UK & Commonwealth Virago, North American The Dial Press
The Twelve Dares of Barbara Wilde
Annie Monday
Big-hearted debut that is an exploration of grief, friendship and the indignities of ageing.
Agent Shanika Hyslop
UK & Commonwealth Quercus, North American Crown, German HarperCollins
The Kindling
LK Steven
A dystopian novel for fans of The Power, which asks the question: what happens to human creativity if it has nowhere to go?
Agent Chloe Seager
UK & Commonwealth HarperVoyager, Spanish Urano, Options in 11 territories
Marjacq Scripts
Sleepwalker
Brian Dearborn
Max’s nightmares are getting worse: terrifying visions that cast him in the role of a killer. When people in his life start meeting violent ends, Max has a horrifying realisation that they might not be dreams at all. A twisty, queer psychological horror set in the high-stakes world of 1980s Wall Street.
Agent Sonny Marr
Ghost Notes
Doug Johnstone
A woman’s lover is murdered, a teenager disappears and a mother becomes addicted to a “grief app” and the avatar of her dead daughter in this latest Skelfs novel.
Agent Philip Patterson
UK & Commonwealth
Orenda
Paradise Row
Ioan Marc Jones
Two years on from Gracie’s death, London cabbie Callen still cannot talk about his feelings. But if he is going to save his late wife’s favourite mural from being demolished, he is going to have to ask for help.
Agent Sonny Marr
The Unknowing
Eloise Poole
Unable to write anything else, a daughter reconstructs her mother’s life – literary icon, elusive parent – circling the family tragedy that shaped them both. Literary debut “for readers of Deborah Levy and Claire Keegan”.
Agent Imogen Pelham
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada
Hutchinson Heinemann
Shoot Prey Love
Claire Wells
A debut “survival rom-com” in which Elena escapes to the wilderness to reclaim her life – but had not counted on an obnoxiously loud, chainsaw-wielding, survivalist influencer neighbour. But then a zombie outbreak hits their remote corner of the world…
Agent Sandra Sawicka
The Marsh Agency
Soldiers & Sailors
Terrence Holt
War novel set in a once-thriving Mississippi River town following the life of Dr Hal Adams as he flees a medical practice.
Agent on behalf of Aragi Inc
US
Norton
Our Noble Selves
Kate Atkinson
Atkinson’s latest is a tale of post-Second World War London following foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn and an oddball team of misfits.
Agent on behalf of Kate Atkinson
UK Transworld, US Doubleday
The Group Chat
Matt Baumont
Comic novel following the residents of Tambo Road in Muswell Hill as they grapple with big first-world problems such as delayed bin collections and misplaced Amazon deliveries.
Agent on behalf of Larry Finlay
UK
Sphere
Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids’ Learning – and How to Help Them Thrive Again
Jared Cooney Horvath
A specialist in human learning’s evidence-based case shows that the widespread use of laptops, tablets and educational software in classrooms is quietly undermining how children learn, think and develop.
Agent on behalf of Rachel Neumann, Wave Literary
US
Harmony
Green Shoes: Forty Years of a Radical Women’s Craft Collective
Alison Hastie
The co-founder of the Devon-based Green Shoes explores personal tragedies, relationships, motherhood and professional life.
Agent on behalf of The Indigo Press
World English
The Indigo Press
Maven Literary
Childish Things
Airy Something
“Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit meets Everyone Else Burns” in a novel laced with humour and darkness throughout, based on the author’s own childhood growing up queer in a Christian Doomsday cult.
Agent Amanda Harris
The Appetite Reset: How to Eat, Drink and Thrive Before, During and After GLP-1s
Federica Amati
The Imperial College London scientist and bestselling author’s “definitive” guide to thriving in the era of GLP-1s, which includes nutrient-dense recipes by Kathryn Bruton.
Agent Amanda Harris
World English
PMJ
Dementia: Your Most Urgent Questions Answered When Words Fail
Emily Carver
The awarding-winning dementia carer answers the most difficult-to-ask questions in this vital guide, a short but powerful book that extends an expert hand to relatives in crisis.
Agent Amanda Harris
Act, Don’t React: How to Let Someone Else Have Your Way
Alexander Dragonetti
Master yourself and influence others by following the advice of former British diplomat, crisis deployment team leader and media star.
Agent Amanda Harris
Misbehave: Why We Need to Fall out of Love with Behavioural Science and Embrace Our Agency
Alexandra Evans
Technologist, law writer and former big tech executive Evans explains why we need to dismantle our behaviourally engineered world and fall back in love with agency: “It’s time to start misbehaving.”
Agent Amanda Harris
The Michael Greer Literary Agency
The Paradise Garage
Toby Bevan
A “pulsating” historical fiction novel from 1980s New York City; a multi-character narrative straight from the pioneering dance venue the Paradise Garage.
Agent Melanie Michael-Greer
Our Betters
Conor O’Sullivan
A modern-day retelling of Great Expectations with a dark academic twist.
Agent Melanie Michael-Greer
Suit Up: How Formula One Became the Greatest Advertising Platform in the World
Mark Mann Bryans
A probing and analytical account of the modern business of Formula One.
Agent Melanie Michael-Greer
Northern Portions
Gill Howard
The definitive recipe book of food from north England, from the distinctly lovable The Great British Bake Off semi-finalist.
Agent Melanie Michael-Greer
Why Men Should Read Novels
Jack Aldane
Cultural commentator and host of the My Martin Amis podcast delivers his finest, and most important, polemic on men and literature.
Agent Melanie Michael-Greer
Morgan Green Creative
Frontier: Fieldnotes
from the Edges
of Capitalism
Sipke Shaughnessy
From northern Kenya to Greenland, Frontier tells the story of capitalism’s outer edges and the reasons the frontier is now at the fore of global politics.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Jealousy: and Other Warnings
Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Through art, music
and literary forms, personal narrative and meditations, Jealousy is an exploration of its texture in the mind and body.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Option in UK
Fitzcarraldo
Counting Penguins
Peter John Watson
At 64-degrees South,
on a tiny Antarctic island bustling with penguins,
a travel writer counts
each penguin born over a life-changing three months.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
World English
DK Red
Gathering
Nina Mingya Powles
In learning to make her own clothes, the author beautifully reconsiders her relationship with creativity, connection, resistance, fast fashion, material history and her own body.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
UK & Commonwealth
excluding Canada Sceptre
Give Me ’Til Midnight
Oran Doyle
An Irish YA romcom,
time-loop debut set
over a single day:
“Before Sunrise meets Groundhog Day meets One Day.”
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
World English Everything with Words
Mushens Entertainment
End Credits
River Sinclair
Two assistants to celebrities fall in love during the international press tour for their bosses’ new film franchise.
Agent Juliet Mushens
Untitled
Jessie Burton
A contemporary novel following a single mother and her son, whose lives are changed by the decision to enter a reality TV show.
Agent Juliet Mushens
UK Phoenix
The Hunters
Kate Bailey
A speculative novel set in the near-future. Two children living in a cult begin to question everything they have been told about the world beyond their village’s walls after discovering their mother dead.
Agent Rachel Neely
Raw Talents
Vana Lei
Eighteen-year-old Jamie realises her raw talent will not be enough to win the prestigious piano competition, so she begins killing off the competition with a new horrifying and unnatural ability.
Agent Rachel Neely
The Toother
Amy Erskine
Desperate to support her family, Maggie joins a gang of body snatchers, and becomes skilled in “toothing”. When she refuses to aid in a murder, she risks everything to expose the truth.
Agent Maria Whelan
The North Literary Agency
Deathbound
Heather Palmer
The first in an enemies-to-lovers sapphic romantasy trilogy where Princess Ythsie must choose a husband to secure the kingdom’s future, but is thwarted by magical forces wishing to unravel the realm’s stability. “Expect intrigue, necromancy and sword lesbians.”
Agent Lina Langlee
World audio Audible
Murder on the Cornish Train
JM Hall
A stormy, atmospheric, cosy crime sees a passenger vanish into thin air while on the Sleeper to Cornwall. The next day a body is found on a windswept beach. Coincidence?
Agent Lina Langlee
World English
Hodder
The Limits
Emily Munro
In this speculative literary debut, a wellness retreat for the super-rich on a converted North Sea oil rig is invaded by eco-militants who take the young daughter of their target hostage.
Agent Julie Fergusson
World English
Polygon
Role Play
Seth Insua
Critically acclaimed, Insua’s second novel is an accessible literary fiction with a razor-sharp premise: a queer, contemporary Rebecca.
Agent Julie Fergusson
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada
under offer
Darling Death
Adam Southward
Barrister Mae Darling defends the innocent by day and murders the guilty by night. Her hunt for revenge unravels a conspiracy that takes her to the upper echelons of British power.
Agent Julie Fergusson
World audio Audible
Northbank Talent Management
The Identity Question
Marion Todd
A claustrophobic psychological thriller from the author of the bestselling DI Clare Mackay series. When Rosa wakes up in hospital, everyone insists she is a woman called Clemency. But Rosa knows this is no mistake, it is a plan, and her baby is at the centre of it.
Agent Marissa Constantinou
Phantom Limb
Charlotte Cole
“Intoxicating” literary horror debut about grief, love and letting go. As May’s grasp on reality slips, she starts to see the ghosts of the women who raised her, all trapped in their last moments in their Southampton flat block.
Agent Marissa Constantinou
Overdrive
Chloe Michelle Howarth
An “addictive” sapphic love story from the author of Sunburn, following Aly and Meadhbh’s dizzying relationship from London to rural Ireland.
Agent Marissa Constantinou
UK and Commonwealth PMJ, North America Melville House, German Pola, North American audio Echo Point
ScaleUp Nation:
The New Race for Global Power and How Your Country Can Win
Alan Mak
A “bold, urgent” exploration of the new global race for power and why only the countries that master scale will capture and shape the future.
Agent Matthew Cole
The Silver Route:
A New History of the Age of Exploration
Lubaaba Al-Azami
From Potosí’s mountain of treasure in Bolivia to the markets of Ming China, the epic story of how silver made the modern world, forging a pioneering yet brutal path of exploration and exploitation that connected east and west.
Agent Matthew Cole
Originate Literary Agency
The Wilding’s Path:
A Reclamation of
Your Authentic Self
Katrice Horsley
“Deep within the dark fairytale forest of your being, there is a vital and true part of yourself, waiting to be welcomed home.” Self-help title inviting us to decolonise our bodies from the dominant narrative defining us.
Agent Natalie Jerome
Untitled
Anchal Seda
Powerful memoir from the author of What Would the Aunties Say? exploring South Asian culture. Covers love-bombing, the weaponisation of cultural familiarity and how psychological control can dismantle even the most capable women.
Agent Natalie Jerome
Black Girl, Disrupted
Sylvia Ikomi
Collection of this Black girlhood specialist’s work including her case studies of Child Q and Ma’Khia Bryant, and her Churchill Fellowship study on the adultification of Black girls in state care.
Agent Natalie Jerome
Kaisar
Jiwa
“Until we meet again, keep fighting for your dreams.” When a mafia prince and a devout village girl cross paths by fate, their hearts must choose between love, power and faith.
Agent Natalie Jerome
Malaysia
Paper Literary
Pox
August Thomas
A sweeping historical novel based on the true story of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the daring 18th-century adventurer and smallpox survivor. “For fans of Maggie O’Farrell and Lauren Groff.”
Agent Katie Greenstreet
How to Save a Dog from the Underworld
SJ Cristea
Debut fantasy romcom following a necromancer willing to go to hell and back for her dog – literally. Jodie travels to the Underworld to retrieve her beloved dead dog’s soul, only to find Zach, the infuriating God of the Underworld, pet sitting.
Agent Kiya Evans
Polite Conversation with the Enemy
Seema Mitra
A debut upmarket novel set in Manchester following a contemporary British Indian family. Set during a week of upheaval and told from the points of view of the three adult siblings, this title is “for readers of Monica Ali and Claire Lombardo”.
Agent Catherine Cho
Big Olive
Abby Manship
“Pineapple Street
meets The Hunting Wives” in a southern-fried ensemble-cast novel
set over the course
of 24 hours in a South Carolina country club, shot through with upstairs/downstairs dynamics and a The White Lotus-esque murder-mystery angle.
Agent Katie Greenstreet
PEW
California Schemin’: How Two Lads from Scotland Conned the Music Industry
Gavin Bain
The true story of how a young rap duo from Dundee duped the music industry into believing that they were star rappers from the US.
Agent Patrick Walsh
UK & Commonwealth Simon & Schuster
Rule of Lies: My Wild Ride Through Chaos, Corruption and Murder in Putin’s Russia
Jamison Firestone
Memoir of how the son of a New York conman became a daredevil lawyer in Moscow, battling mobsters, before morphing into an internationally renowned activist battling Putin’s corruption.
Agent Patrick Walsh
World English HarperCollins
Despicable Insects: Creepy Crawly Carnage
Dave Goulson
An entomologist’s creepy-crawly compendium comprising 101 accounts of delightfully disgusting insect behaviour.
Agent Patrick Walsh
UK & Commonwealth Profile
This Is Also a Love Story: Searching for Good in a Divided World
Sally Hayden
Chronicles the human capacity for love and goodness in the middle
of war, crisis and disaster.
Agent Patrick Walsh
UK & Commonwealth 4th Estate, North American Scribner, Dutch, Polish
Drawing Down the Sun: How Trees Fuelled Human Civilisation
Harriet Rix
Documents the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlistee Rix’s journey through time and space, examining the centrality of trees to human culture around the world.
Agent Doug Young
PFD
Blood Bound
Ellis Hunter
One of 2026’s hotly tipped fantasy romance debuts, set against a once-in-a-generation duel to the death between witches and dragons.
Agent Sarah Hornsley
UK HarperVoyager, US Atria, France Editions Seuil, Spain Hidra, Brazil, Poland
Daybreak
Autumn Woods
The conclusion to Woods’ Sorrowsong University duology is a dark academia romance full of mystery and forbidden love. Can Ophelia and Alex find a way to trust each other and repair the love they had?
Agent Daisy Chandley
UK HarperVoyager, US Zando, Germany Fischer, France Editis, Italy Newton Compton, and 17 others
How to Talk to AI
Jamie Bartlett
The award-winning tech writer’s essential reading for anyone who wants to discover how AI thinks and reasons.
Agent Caroline Michel
UK Ebury, German Piper
A Carol and the Killing
Reverend Richard Coles
Bestseller Coles’ latest Canon Daniel Clement cosy crime, this time set in the festive season.
Agent Tim Bates
UK
Weidenfeld
Lanvil, 2070 (Tè Mawon)
Michael Roch
The French cult sensation, shortlisted for both
the Prix Utopiales
and the Prix Julia
Verlanger, imagines a Blade Runner-style Caribbean mega city
split between a
high-tech upper world and a buried undercity.
Agents Kieron Fairweather, Lucy Barry
French
La Volte
The Plot Agency
The Mark of Moriarty
Jack Anderson
Reluctant detective James Moriarty reunites with Clara Mendel, this time in New York City, to solve the impossible disappearance of socialite Viola Bellman and unmask the
secretive Arcane Society, whose crimes have the city living in fear.
Agent Marilia Savvides
UK Raven, US Crooked Lane
The Trouble
at Number 7
Margot Valette
Described as “Emily in Paris meets Janice Hallett”, Valette’s
debut tells the story of Countess Aimée
de Villiers, who opens
a finishing school in
her luxurious Parisian home, hiring influencer Lara Trent to attract students. But she
gets more than she bargained for when
Lara is suspected
of murder. And then, another student turns up dead…
Agent Marilia Savvides
The Plum Agency
Rainbow Lion
Jessie James,
Anna Süßbauer
For all children, and all children who might grow up LGBTQ+, this gorgeous picture book sees a little lion with a rainbow mane find his lost colours again.
Agent Hannah Whitty
Come with Casper
Tim Budgen
Come with Casper and his magical backpack on a new adventure in this joyful, character-led, preschool picture book series from debut author and established illustrator Budgen.
Agent Hannah Whitty
When Dragon Lost his Roar
Paula Bowles
A remarkable, empowering picture book for families navigating serious illness and uncertainty, from
The British Book Awards 2025 shortlistee.
Agent Hannah Whitty
The Heart of Tanglewood
Jonny Lambert
Lambert’s “luminous” picture book has three determined friends help a forest spirit find his lost heart.
Agent Hannah Whitty
Like Stars in Sky
Jessie James, Brendan Kearney
A vibrant picture-book exploration of neurodivergent hyperfocus, in which a little cat’s obsession with the stars helps her to achieve her goals. But something is missing – can the constellations offer a clue?
Agent Hannah Whitty
Pontas Agency
The Prophecy of the Birds (Le Présage des Oiseaux)
Myriam Chirousse
Set in a reimagined Middle Ages, Chirousse’s contemporary fable is about a woman who silences her desires for the common good, until the day her city burns.
Agent Anna Soler-Pont
French Le Soir Venu/Jouvence
The Shipikisha Club
Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Three generations of Zambian women are confronted with the reality of the female condition in a courtroom drama.
Agent Clara Rosell
UK Cassava Republic,
US Dzanc Books, French Éditions de l’Aube, Italian Astoria, Brazil, South Africa
Born at the End of the World
Donica Merhazion
An epic of espionage, love and sacrifice in 1970s Eritrea, where two young people find each other in the underground resistance.
Agent Anna Soler-Pont
World English Catalyst
Mamita
Gustavo Rodríguez
The Peruvian literary star’s witty metafictional novel traces the extraordinary story of his family back to the Putumayo genocide.
Agent Anna Soler-Pont
World English Charco, Spanish Alfaguara
The Shepherd and the Whale (La Baleine et le Berger)
Olivier Truc
At the end of the
19th century in Corsica, a young goat shepherd stumbles upon a stranded whale and the lifeless body of a young sailor.
Agent Anna Soler-Pont
French Éditions Cambourakis
Portobello Literary
Under the Hammer
Samantha Dooey-Miles
Insightful, hilarious
and pacey, this debut novel, described as
“the ultimate Generation Rent revenge novel”, will be cathartic to every disillusioned tenant.
Agent Caro Clarke
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Verve Books, German Atrium, French Le MacGuffin
Joy, Joy, Nothing Else
Soula Emmanuel
The award-winning
Irish writer’s provocative, modern and literary
Greek tragedy about
fate, modernity and the perils of getting everything you want. “Anne Enright meets Yorgos Lanthimos.”
Agent Caro Clarke
Q Is for Garden
Jenny Chamarette
A moving and tender exploration of the connections between the natural world and queerness, binaries, fluidity, culture and the paths we choose.
Agent Caro Clarke
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Manchester University Press
The Great Escapism
Joe Donnelly
Donnelly’s fascinating look at how to escape from reality and relieve stress while celebrating video games.
Agent Caro Clarke
The New Eden
JC Niala
Combining memoir, social history and cultural commentary, Niala celebrates city life and asks what we are missing by overlooking nature in the everyday.
Agent Caro Clarke
World English Gaia
Rachel Mills Literary
The Last Act of
Albert Hodge
Laura Foster
Octogenarian Hodge moves into Pear Tree Place intending to wait for death. But then his new neighbour Sylvia drags him into a decades-old search for justice and revenge.
Agent Nelle Andrew
UK & Commonwealth HQ, Germany dtv, Italy Newton Compton, under offer in US, Canada
Feel Human
Dr Ayan Panja
An accessible guide for the millions of busy people who have no medical diagnosis but are sick of feeling “not quite right”.
Agent Rachel Mills
The Brain Game
Dr Soumya Mukherjee
A neurosurgeon’s guide to upgrading brain health and performance.
Agent Rachel Mills
UK & Commonwealth Cornerstone, North America Hanover Square, Germany Fischer, Spain Destino, Italy Vallardi, Netherlands and six others
The Library of Stars
Jordan Rose
An “enchanting” fantasy that explores the pull between legacy, duty and destiny.
Agent Nelle Andrew
UK & Commonwealth, US Del Rey, Germany dtv, Spain Urano, Italy Newton Compton, France Olympe, Brazil, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Ukraine
1912: Reinvention, Rebellion and Revolt – The Year that Changed Women’s Lives Forever and its Bittersweet Legacy
Annabel Abbs
A gripping narrative seen through the lens of women as they grapple with profound shifts of status, opportunity and new notions of what a "New Woman" is.
RCW
The Newer World
Sebastian Barry
Barry’s newest is set in the world of Days Without End, following Tennyson Bouguereau – freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man – in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
Agent Matthew Marland
UK Faber, US Viking, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden
The Security of the Hungarian Nation: Hunting for a Butterfly
László Krasznahorkai
The 2025 Nobel Laureate’s new novel about friendship, politics, butterflies, quantum physics and human nature.
Agent Laurence Laluyax
UK Tuskar Rock, US New Directions, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Hungary, Denmark
Ratri
Saranya Murthi
The Deborah Rogers Award winner’s debut, in which 11-year-old Ratri is cast in a horror film. With ever more disturbing events taking place both on and off set, will she be able to keep hold on reality?
Agent Matthew Marland
The Castle
Jon Ronson
Ronson journeys into a world of masculinity in crisis.
Agent Natasha Fairweather
UK Viking
The Neverfear
Katherine Rundell
The third Impossible Creatures title, set in the magical world of the Archipelago.
Agent Claire Wilson
UK Bloomsbury, US Knopf, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey
Rebecca Carter Literary
St Rita’s Day
Lauren J Joseph
Joseph is “at the top of her game” with a Muriel Spark-ish third novel about female friendship, intergenerational angst and the pursuit of bodily autonomy, set over a hot London summer.
Agent Rebecca Carter
Such Stuff
Hannah Morrish
Actor Morrish’s extraordinary and immersive debut about love, identity and grief, set during the hour before a young woman goes on stage to play Miranda in The Tempest.
Agent Rebecca Carter
UK & Commonwealth Sceptre
The English Boys
Sameer Rahim
A tragicomedy of male friendship and cultural identity, as two Muslim boys navigate their London sixth-form school-days at the end of the 20th century.
Agent Rebecca Carter
UK & Commonwealth John Murray Press
Everlasting Oak Song: Meetings With Miraculous Trees
Robert Penn
With his trademark blend of science, history, memoir and nature writing, Penn travels through Britain to explore the story and biology
of 10 remarkable 1,000-year-old oak trees.
Agent Rebecca Carter
Limitless: Tech Visions of a Counter-Elite Unbound
Benjamin R Teitelbaum
The American academic and ethnographer, who has studied the far-right for a long time, examines the ideologies of the techno-futurists.
Agent Rebecca Carter
World English Verso
Rich Lit Rights
The Kennedy Rule
KC Carmichael
A steamy rivals-to-lovers gay romance featuring hockey-league pressure, locker-room loyalty and the kind of love that conquers all.
Agent Rachel Richardson on behalf of Storm
World English Storm, French Bragelonne, German LYX, Italian Giunti, Spanish Urano, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, South American Portuguese, Romanian
A Fall to Remember
Ellie Alexander
Bestseller Alexander’s latest is a cosy, heartwarming romance “perfect for fans of
Laurie Gilmore, Julie Olivia and Misty Wilson”.
Agent Rachel Richardson on behalf of Storm
The Mudpuddle Manual of Natural Magic
Ciara Blume
Cosy fantasy about an “ordinary” woman and the magical bakery and café she unexpectedly inherits, aimed at “anyone who believes it’s never too late for second chances”.
Agent Rachel Richardson on behalf of Storm
Father, a Fugue
Jason Reynolds
Two estranged brothers, with 20 years between them, reconnect on a road trip after their father’s death in this adult debut from the award-winning children’s author.
Agent Rachel Richardson on behalf of Heirloom Literary
UK Bloomsbury, US Scribner, German Reihe Hanser,
Italian Rizzoli, Spanish Urano
The Blue Butterfly
Philip Fracassi
Speculative dark thriller about a young fashion designer who discovers a starlet’s vintage wardrobe, catapulting her back in time to relive one of Hollywood’s most infamous murders.
Agent Rachel Richardson on behalf of Confluence Literary
World English Union Square
Robert Caskie
Perilous Journeys: Ancient and Modern Reflections on Memory, Migration and Exile
Dr Mai Musié
Part-memoir, part- history, this is a journey of past and present exploring the lives of refugees and asylum seekers, from antiquity’s mythical stories to real-life contemporary experiences.
Agent Robert Caskie
kNOw Peace
Emma DeSouza
A zeitgeisty warning and clarion call for action that challenges our understanding of peace and democracy and the role we can play in defending these principles.
Agent Robert Caskie
Roman Holidays
Matson Taylor
Set in 1970s Rome, this fun novel follows the chaotic adventures of two emotionally broken people brought together to heal by the magic of the city they live in.
Agent Robert Caskie
World Scribner
Footprints
Marc Hamer
After decades as a jobbing gardener, Hamer and his wife, both in their late 60s, leave their home and possessions in the UK for a life in France, where the culture, landscape, climate and language will make them new again.
Agent Robert Caskie
North America and translation, Greystone
Seeking Sexual Freedom
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
A personal exploration of how returning to deep ancestral knowledge, rites and rituals as a source of inspiration can lead to living a more pleasurable life today.
Agent Robert Caskie
UK & Commonwealth Dialogue, US Atria/One Signal
Sarah Such Literary Agency
Death in Alassio
Louise Beresford
“Orange Is the New Black meets The Talented Mr Ripley” in this Italian-set psychological prison-noir debut. A woman released after 17 years in prison reinvents herself on the Riviera, only to discover freedom has its own rules.
Agent Sarah Such
Sinking
Ruby Lewis
New Adult debut in which an extinction-level event forces civilisation onto boats. On “House”, Kay and her vagabond crew struggle against thirst and the rising threat of “Surrender”, a brutal, fanatical Cargo ship.
Agent Sarah Such
Fieldwork in Siren Song
Matthew De Abaitua
The Arthur C Clarke Award shortlistee’s Michael Crichton-style speculative thriller and gripping alternative history, imagining the violence and wonder of the mythic in our contemporary world.
Agent Sarah Such
Sequins to Sirens:
How Becoming a Paramedic Saved My Life
Melissa Graham
With the 1990s girl band Solid HarmoniE, Graham sold millions of records and then lost everything – before finding herself through becoming a paramedic.
Agent Sarah Such
Alston Moor
Anne Charnock
Epic literary eco-fiction with entwined storylines of two women 500 years apart, set in the North Pennines by the Arthur C Clarke Award winner.
Agent Sarah Such
World English Gold SF
The Shaw Agency
The Last Baby
in Auschwitz
Anna Stuart
The bestselling author of The Midwife of Auschwitz returns with a new, heartbreaking novel inspired by true stories. It tells of a mother’s love and courage in a time of unimaginable darkness.
Agent Kate Shaw
World English Bookouture, French City Editions, Danish People’s Press
Burning Season
Martin Griffin
“High-octane” thriller centres on firefighter Jade who, five years ago, watched a killer burn and did nothing. Now settled in Canada, she attends a plane crash and, with a fire raging, finds one survivor: the same killer.
Agent Kate Shaw
World Sphere
The Children on the Train
Anna Stuart
Inspired by real events, a novel telling of the brave and desperate women of Germany and the Netherlands who saved their children and other people’s from the Nazis via the Kindertransport.
Agent Kate Shaw
World English Bookouture
Suites
Christine Colt
Four women flirt, scheme and drink together in one of the world’s most glamorous hotels. When a blackmailer starts to expose the guests’ escapades, the friends decide to band together. First in a new series.
Agent Kate Shaw
Sheil Land
The Scholars
MacKenzie Common
Follows a group of postgrad students at an Oxford college, whose murderous secrets threaten to find them out.
Agent Gaia Banks
World English Mountain Leopard
Head Over Skis
Sophie Davies
Lottie and her friends’ ski trip is jeopardised when she catches her boyfriend cheating. She then has a one-night stand with a stranger – who turns out to be her new ski instructor.
Agent Natalie Barracliffe
World English Canelo
The Little Shop
of Celtic Charms
Lou Hallow
Cosy romantasy debut, set in a faraway corner of Ireland, where charm-shop owner Enya Elvery and wolf-shifter Conall Conneely find themselves untangling a centuries’ old mystery.
Agent Gaia Banks
World English
Harlequin US
Daughter of Crows
Mark Lawrence
Lawrence’s latest has 100 girls sent to an academy each year – only three of whom survive – to become The Kindly Ones, agents of retribution who “even the gods hesitate to stand against”. A lifetime later, ex-Kindly One Rue thinks she has finally found peace, but war comes to her doorstep.
Agent Piers Blofeld
UK HarperVoyager,
US Berkley, France Bragelonne, Spain Nocturna
Five Silver Spoons
Sam Steele
DC Hope Fenton and her forensic scientist ex-husband investigate the murder of a Cambridge graduate that might be the key to solving their own son’s cold case.
Agent Gaia Banks
World English
Allison & Busby
The Soho Agency
Love Unlocked
Cecelia Ahern
Bestseller Ahern’s newest has couples worldwide mysteriously splitting on the same day, and a heartbroken romantic and romance-sceptic podcaster team up to find out why.
Agent Marina de Pass, Rowan Lawton
UK & Commonwealth HarperCollins
The Fullness of Time
Cathy Haynes
An evocative exploration of time as felt through light, landscape and seasonal change, reconnecting modern life with ancient ways of noticing.
Agent Rowan Lawton
UK & Commonwealth Bloomsbury, North America Riverhead, German Goldmann Verlag
Free Rein
Jock Hutchison
On the fringes of the Scottish Highlands lies a space where broken humans and broken horses can find connection and community, recovery and resilience. This is the story of how this came to be.
Agent Mark Lucas
UK & Commonwealth Bloomsbury
Hit or Miss
Elle Kelk
The first in a new series from Kelk has a scorching-hot soccer star and a bookish wallflower colliding during a year abroad, turning rivalry into irresistible heat in a spicy new adult college romance.
Agent Rowan Lawton
World English HarperCollins
The Undead Hero Brigade
Meg Small
A middle-grade horror-fantasy, with Lyre hunting down the monster who left her for dead in the cold and falling in with a band of necromancers, spooks and ghouls.
Agent Lydia Silver
Sophie Hicks Agency
The Snakestone Girls
Kit Whitfield
Three lonely outsiders –
a witch/palaeontologist, a spirited child with uncontrollable powers and her protective brother – are drawn together in a coastal town, only to be torn apart by fear, suspicion and magic.
Agent Sophie Hicks
UK
Arcadia
City of Clouds
Kiah Thomas
Thomas’ middle-grade adventure has Thea trying to break the curse that has hung over Edgemere since the king stole a shard from an ancient glacier. But can she trust anyone beyond the city walls?
Agent Sophie Hicks
Australia HarperCollins
Hey Man
Andrew Meehan
Set in London, Dublin and the Scottish Highlands, tracing the fraught and tender friendship – as potent and sustaining as any love affair – of Ian and Tommy, from the 1980s to the present day.
Agent Sarah Williams
UK Muswell Press
Permission to Rest
Sarah Crosby
The author of 5 Minute Therapy reveals why stopping feels so threatening – and makes the case that reclaiming rest is one of the defining challenges of our time.
Agent Sarah Williams
Darkness in Light
Vivien De Bernardi
Memoir illuminating the final, least-documented decade of one of the
20th century’s most complex and brilliant writers, Patricia Highsmith, through the lens of an unexpected friendship.
Agent Sarah Williams
Susanna Lea Associates
A Hymn to Life
Gisèle Pelicot
The sexual abuse survivor’s extraordinarily powerful memoir, a story inspiring change, compassion and courage.
Agent Susanna Lea
UK The Bodley Head,
US Penguin Press, France Flammarion, Germany Piper, Canada and 15 others
Betrayal
Luke Harding
The Guardian journalist’s guide to the post-1945 international order in the Trump era, and the anti-western alliance of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Agent Susanna Lea
UK Faber, Denmark, Finland, under offer in US
Messy Bitch
Christine Pillainayagam
A “zeitgeisty” workplace romantic comedy about how typically un-messy Pia ends up caught in a love triangle between handsome Conor and thoughtful barman Jake.
Agent Thérèse Coen
Under offer in UK
Flaws
Charlotte Casiraghi
A deeply personal number-one French bestseller exploring the idea that “brokenness” is not a flaw to be hidden, but a part of being alive.
Agent Susanna Lea
France Julliard, under offer in Italy, Spain, Korea
9 Months That Last Forever
Jessie Inchauspé
The bestselling Glucose Goddess’ guide to the science of pregnancy nutrition to help mothers-to-be to improve their baby’s health.
Agent Susanna Lea
UK New River, North America Simon Element, France Laffont Germany Bertelsmann, Italy Longanesi, Australia and
New Zealand, and nine others
Trident Media
The Disappearers
Marlon James
The Booker winner’s newest centres on the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica, in a “riveting and deeply human” story of men forced to make compromises to survive.
Agent Ellen Levine
UK Hamish Hamilton,
US Riverhead, France Albin Michel, Germany Kunstmann, under offer in Italy
The Power of Print
Stephen Harrison
A science-backed case for why paper and ink – not screens – are humanity’s most powerful tools for focus, memory and clear thinking in the age of AI.
Agent Mark Gottlieb
US St Martin’s Press, Korea
Jerry!
Jake Maynard
An audacious, heart-wrenching novel, centred on the narrator’s quest to recreate his sister’s tragic life story through imagined episodes of The Jerry Springer Show.
Agent Martha Wydysh
US Grove Atlantic
The Body Keeper
Leslie Wolfe
The bestseller’s new thriller has an FBI special agent infiltrating an organ-trafficking ring in order to find her husband.
Agent Robert Gottlieb
US Park Row
Becoming Martian
Scott Solomon
As we approach the golden age of space travel, how will living in space affect future generations? What are the potential unintended consequences of space settlements?
Agent Don Fehr
World English MIT Press, China, Korea
United Agents
To Deep and Endless Skies
Kat Stewart
Cracking under the weight of polygamy and the need to be a good, God-fearing wife and mother, first wife Joslyn and second wife Flora witness their home become an inferno.
Agent Ariella Feiner
UK John Murray, Canada
Cali Cuckoo
Emily Usher
The Wild Ground author’s life-affirming story about a troubled young woman who, facing eviction, is forced to move in with her ex and his new family.
Agent Millie Hoskins
UK Serpent’s Tail, US Random House
The Starving Bride
Catherine Chidgey
A dark speculative tale set in a recognisable seaside town of near-future England: about body image, shame, and a faltering climate, in all senses.
Agent Caroline Dawnay
UK John Murray, US Cardinal, Canada, New Zealand, Australia
Get Back
Hunter Davies
The author of the only ever authorised biography of the Beatles (1968), Davies brings us all-new material collected during his time at Abbey Road, charting the group’s early lives growing up in council housing in the 1950s.
Agent Robert Kirby
UK Ebury
Utility Monsters: The Utilitarian Impulse from Jeremy Bentham to Sam Bankman-Fried
Nikhil Krishnan
The author and New Yorker writer charts the history of utilitarianism and asks whether attempts to do not just good, but maximum good, are valid.
Agent Sophie Scard
UK Constable, US Simon & Schuster
UTA
They’re Here
Jesse Michels, Nils Parker
Global, century-spanning investigation into UFOs and non-human intelligence, written for a worldwide audience living through a historic moment of disclosure, by journalist Michels, creator of the hit UFO podcast American Alchemy.
Agent Byrd Leavell
The Joy of Joy
Joe Hudson
Drawing on modern psychology, neurology and ancient practices, a coach to some of the most famous founders in the world (OpenAI, Google, Apple, YouTube) clears a path for self-discovery and connecting to joy in our everyday lives.
Agent Christy Fletcher
Tricks of the Light
Rose Himber Howse
A contemporary novel in the gothic tradition set on an island off the coast of Maine: “Rebecca meets Wild Dark Shore”; US rights sold at auction.
Agent Duvall Osteen
US Celadon
Obscura
Raelle Tucker
Debut novel from award-winning TV scriptwriter Tucker is “wildly imaginative, genre-shattering”, offering a new mythology of those who know that history is not always written by the victors – sometimes it is buried by them.
Agents Christy Fletcher, Rebecca Gradinger
US Ten Speed
Something Is Killing the Children: Hope Is a Knife
James Tynion IV, Kiersten White
A first full-length novel based on the Eisner-winning hit comic series set in a terrifying world where monsters are real and only the hunters of the Order of St George are equipped to challenge them.
Agent Christy Fletcher
US Ten Speed, Film/TV Blumhouse
Watson, Little
Silent Mountain
Anika Scott
“Conclave meets The Matrix” in a gripping historical mystery about a secretive convent of nuns, snowed in on a mountaintop in Renaissance Italy, who discover their abbess murdered.
Agent Laetitia Rutherford
Cold Fusion
Paul Grimstad
Literary debut from academic, composer,
and actor Grimstad
(One Battle After Another, Marty Supreme), about an alienated student reeling from his father’s sudden death in 1990s Wisconsin.
Agent James Wills
US Simon & Schuster
The Cohort
Lana St James-Kautny
Debut thriller set at an elite Finnish business school, where 30-something Ava becomes entangled in a seductive circle of young founders: “Industry meets The Secret History.”
Agent Ciara McEllin
The Greatest Game
Tara Sexton
Spicy football romance about rival coaches – gutsy American Marcee and ex-Premier League player Remington – who butt heads when their teams compete for the state championship.
Agent Megan Carroll
World English Canelo, Portugal
The Scottish Art of Living Slowly
Molly Ella
Month-by-month guide showing readers how to move away from hustle culture, reconnect with nature and live a slower, more mindful life.
Agent Hannah Weatherill
UK & Commonwealth Watkins
Writers House
Cello’s Gate
Maurice Africh
Africh’s originally self-published debut space opera about Captain Grey’s crew of sky pirates and the race to find seven mythological stones.
Agent Merrilee Heifetz
UK Hodder, US Saga
Immortal Rose
Alexandra Bracken
The YA star’s debut adult fantasy set in a sumptuous world ruled by magical perfume with an achingly romantic, slow-burn love story; “perfect for fans of Bridgerton”.
Agent Merrilee Heifetz
UK Hachette, US Avon
Quant
Shanley Jane Kearney
“Searing” Wall Street-set debut about three prodigies who must navigate the fatal and twisting floor of their high-frequency trading firm.
Agent Sasha Landauer
UK Abacus, US Simon Six, France Gallimard, Italy Stile Libero, Spain Anagrama, Netherlands
Habila
Wayétu Moore
Award-winner Moore’s “dazzling and daring” work of magical realism that follows the lives of a Liberian immigrant family and the water goddess who haunts them.
Agent Susan Golomb
US Viking
Life in Perspective
Tiago Forte
Productivity expert Forte’s practical guide to The Annual Life Review, a new strategic framework for personal renewal that can happen at any time of year.
Agent Lisa DiMona
US Simon Acumen
The Wylie Agency
Assaut contre la frontière (Assault on the Border)
Leïla Slimani
The Prix Goncourt winner’s reflections on why she does not write in the language of her native country and the painful relationship she has with that.
Agent Sarah Chalfant
French Gallimard
Sea Change
Rana Foroohar
The Financial Times associate editor follows the crew of the Healy, the US Coast Guard’s largest icebreaker, to chart how a new Great Game is being played in the melting Arctic between Russia, China and the US for control of minerals, gas and sea lanes.
Agent Andrew Wylie
UK Swift Press, US Crown, Korea
Anti-Fascist Economics
Isabella Weber
Economist Weber’s “paradigm-shifting” look at economics in the age of Trump, and how the conversation can be pivoted to centre on people’s dignity.
Agent Sarah Chalfant
UK Penguin Allen Lane,
US Random House, Germany Suhrkamp, France La Découverte, Italy Einaudi, Brazil, Japan
Contrapposto
Dave Eggers
Eggers’ newest is a “sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art”.
Agent Andrew Wylie
US Knopf, UK Canongate, Germany Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Netherlands
Everything Is Nice, Everything Is Lovely
Nicole Flattery
An unnerving, deliciously precise account of a newly engaged couple’s weekend at a spa in the Irish Midlands.
Agent Tracy Bohan
UK Cape, US Riverhead
YMU
Eat For Life:
The New Science of Supportive Eating
GQ Jordan
Cutting through the noise of modern wellness culture, this nutritional therapist with more than 1.3 million social media followers offers a clear, flexible plan for “Supportive Eating”
– a way of approaching food that emphasises nourishment over rules.
Agent Briony Gowlett
UK & Commonwealth Orion
Pre-Cancer: The Scientific Race to Stop Cancer Before It Starts
Sarah Blagden
An inside account of life at the cutting edge of pre-cancer research by a professor of experimental oncology, guiding readers through the exhilarating, often messy race toward cancer-prevention vaccines and early-interception strategies.
Agent Briony Gowlett
World Penguin Life
No Contact: A Modern Guide to Estrangement
Becca Bland
A journalist and estrangement specialist explores how families fracture, to the emotional pain and social stigma of disconnection, offering clear pathways to understanding for a deeply misunderstood reality.
Agents Briony Gowlett and Anna Dixon
No Meat Disco
Sam Jones
“Plant-forward” soul food from the man behind
@nomeatdisco that “hits hard on flavour, colour and texture, without overcomplicating it”.
Agent Anna Dixon
UK & Commonwealth Little, Brown, US Countryman
Zeno
The Archeology of Falling Worlds
Megan Chee
Slow-burn romance in a fantastical world where strange creatures and objects fall from the sky: “Brandon Sanderson’s Yumi and the Nightmare Painter if it was a Studio Ghibli film.”
Agent Stevie Finegan
UK & Commonwealth Daphne Press, UK & Commonwealth audio Bolinda, North America The Binder, Hungarian
These Shattered Spires
Cassidy Ellis Salter
Four magical rivals avoid their twisted romances and the end of the world in a deadly competition. Queer gothic fantasy YA.
Agent Stevie Finegan
World English Bloomsbury, Italian Fazi, French Ynnis, Polish, Ukrainian
Deadlift
Clio Evans
A dark romcom “for fans of Butcher and Blackbird” about finding the perfect partner to help you get that dead body into your truck.
Agent Stevie Finegan
UK & Commonwealth, North America Bramble Macmillan
Hungry Thirsty Roots
Shaina A Cordas
Small town, “coming-of-rage” novel in which every night Dove wakes up in a haunted house and has to survive until the morning with the help of a mysterious guardian she can’t fully trust.
Agent Kirsten Lang
The Luminous Infinity
Lavie Tidhar
Tidhar’s newest space opera centres on a ragtag group – including a sentient flower, an insane machine mind, a gentle if parasitic librarian and a warrior nun – searching for a mysterious relic across three billion years and megalight-years.
Agent John Berlyne
World English Head of Zeus
