London Book Fair 2025: agents' hotlists
Agents’ hotlists: the books agencies are backing to fly at LBF 2025.
Tom Tivnan is the managing editor of The Bookseller.
Tom Tivnan is the managing editor of The Bookseller.
The Bookseller’s Hotlists are literary agencies’ top manuscripts out on submission with UK and international publishers, compiled by Tom Tivnan for the London, Bologna and Frankfurt book fairs.
Each agency selects their own titles, limited to a maximum of five. Rights deals listed are confirmed deals, unless noted as being on offer or with option publishers; for entries with no rights flagged, the title has yet to be acquired in any territory. Eight global markets (UK, US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand) have been denoted with flags and list the acquiring imprint. Agents noted are primary, not translation, agents, barring a select number of instances, such as firms that specialise in foreign rights.
To participate in upcoming hotlists, please email tom.tivnan@thebookseller.com.
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Kill Billionaire
Anders Lustgarten
When 14-year-old Australian Kayla witnesses her farm burn down due to the effects of climate change, she decides the world’s billionaires are to blame and that it is time to take justice into her own hands.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
Film/TV 42/Great Company
American Detective
Matthew Reilly
The bestselling action thriller writer moves into crime, with a new series based around private detective Sam Speedman.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
Australia/New Zealand Pan Macmillan Australia, UK & Commonwealth, excl. Canada Orion
The Nightless City
Callum McSorley
From the prize-winning author of Squeaky Clean comes the first in a new series of historical thrillers set in Japan, in which a male courtesan in Tokyo’s infamous Yoshiwara neighbourhood – the Nightless City – discovers his one and only client, a British diplomat, dead and himself in the frame for the man’s grisly murder.
Agent Emily MacDonald
World Pushkin
Gatsby
Alex Swann
A “sexy” reimagining of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, set in contemporary Mykonos, from “a number one thriller writer” under a pen name.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
How (Not) to Be a Political Wife
Sarah Vine
Life at the heart of politics, from one of the UK’s most influential tabloid journalists, and a former Westminster resident.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
World HarperCollins
Aevitas Creative Management
Power Struggle
Anjani Trivedi
Economic journalist Trivedi explores the fierce geopolitical battle over energy storage and reveals how battery innovation is the key to national security.
Agent Toby Mundy
UK & Commonwealth, excl. Canada Simon & Schuster, North America Scribner, Polish
Written by the Victors
Max Horder
Cognitive anthropologist Horder uncovers the dark history of literacy as a tool of control, revealing how empires used writing to silence dissent.
Agent Jack Ramm
UK & Commonwealth, excl. Canada Penguin Press
The Book of Risk
Kirstin Innes
The Scabby Queen author’s newest book explores four generations in the Scottish village of Risk, and how their lives are shaped by the intergenerational trauma of the Second World War: “a powerful narrative of love, loss and belonging”.
Agent Charlie Brotherstone
UK & Commonwealth, excl. Canada Oneworld, North America Avid Reader
This Room Is Impossible to Eat
Nicol Hochholczerová
Debut novella that, with “stark, poetic prose”, delves into the complex, unsettling relationship between 19-year-old Tereza and 57-year-old Ivan.
Agent Maria Cardona Serra
UK & Commonwealth, excl. Canada Parthian, German Danube Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech, and six others
Even Your Bones Would Do
Claire Schultz
A Gothic fairytale “with a modern Sapphic twist”, as Bluebeard is reimagined as a ghostly love story.
Agent Clara Foster
Aitken Alexander
Hookbone
Eleanor Ashburn
“Deeply affecting” memoir about a childhood lived within a uniquely dysfunctional and abusive middle-class family, “with echoes of Educated and Bad Blood”.
Agent Clare Alexander
UK Under offer
Communion
Jon Doyle
A “powerfully confronting” debut of “immersive atmosphere, deep intelligence and unabashed sincerity”, about a young unordained priest who returns to his industrialised home town in South Wales.
Agent Emma Paterson
UK Atlantic
Fly, Wild Swans
Jung Chang
The long-awaited sequel to Wild Swans, the multi-million copy international bestseller, describing the events after Chang made her home in the UK while her beloved mother remained in China.
Agent Clare Alexander
UK HarperCollins
Wolf at the Door
Daisy Johnson
Highly anticipated new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Everything Under; a meditation on motherhood, language, community and hope.
Agent Chris Wellbelove
UK Cape, US Riverhead
A Trick of the Mind
Daniel Yon
Experimental psychologist Yon’s new book on the brain, which he says works like a scientist using past experiences to build theories of how the world works and using these models to make sense of it.
Agent Chris Wellbelove
UK Cornerstone, US Grand Central, Spain Urano, China, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Russia
AM Heath
Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler
Tim Bouverie
A landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace, by the bestselling author of Appeasing Hitler.
Agent Bill Hamilton
UK The Bodley Head, US Crown, Portuguese/Portugal
The Distant Daughter
Lorna Cook
A secret love story has generational repercussions that could save a family’s crumbling estate; first in a series “for fans of Soraya Lane and Lucinda Riley”.
Agent Rebecca Ritchie
World English Amazon
The Floating World
Ben Eastham
As he helps to bring a morally ambiguous billionaire’s vision of a utopian city to life, a struggling critic grapples with the paradox of art and capitalism.
Agent Anna Webber
UK Fitzcarraldo
The Mirror Halls
Cailean Steed
A girl discovers a hidden world of mirrors that hold the dreams of the sleeping and the dead.
Agent Oli Munson
UK John Murray, US Little, Brown, French Lunes d’encre/Denoël, German dtv, Spanish Urano, Russian
A Great Act of Love
Heather Rose
The prize-winning Australian author’s newest tale takes the reader on an epic journey from the French Revolution to Tasmania.
Agent Victoria Hobbs (on behalf of The Naher Agency)
UK John Murray, US Summit, Australia/New Zealand Allen & Unwin
Andrew Lownie Literary Agency
Nine Minds
Daniel Tammet
“Vivid” work where Tammet continues his exploration of the mind.
Agent Andrew Lownie
UK Profile, US The Experiment, France Les Arènes, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania
Spice
Roger Crowley
The story of six crucial decades, 1511-71, from the Portuguese conquest of Malacca to the founding of Manila.
Agent Andrew Lownie
UK & US Yale University Press, Portugal, Korea, China and six others
Kitty’s Salon
Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner, Julia Schramel
True story of how a notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic became a wartime spying centre.
Agent Andrew Lownie
UK Bonnier, US Pegasus, France Saint Simon, Slovenia, Estonia, Russia, Romania
Flaws of Nature
Andy Dobson
An account of everything in the animal kingdom that is self-defeating, ill-made and downright weird – and how natural selection has favoured it.
Agent Andrew Lownie
UK The History Press, Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia
To Overthrow the World
Sean McMeekin
The evolution of communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes, along with its post-1991 revival.
Agent Andrew Lownie
UK Hurst, US Basic, Spain Palabra, Japan, Turkey
Andrew Nurnberg Associates
Sanctuary
James Cleary
“Darkly gripping, unputdownable” high-concept thriller in the vein of Michael Crichton and Robert Harris, set in an America of the near-future, where one billionaire and his family seek sanctuary in their luxury underground bunker while the world burns.
Agent Sara O’Keeffe
Firestarter
Sheila de Liz
“Illuminating, encouraging and empowering” new book by a bestselling German gynaecologist on female desire and sexuality after 40, with a focus on hormones and what role they play.
Agent Sabine Pfannenstiel
German Rowohlt
The Age of Imperfection: Medieval Adventures in Being Human
Irina Dumitrescu
A vivid quest through the Middle Ages to discover how best to live a life.
Agent Charlotte Merritt
UK & Commonwealth Faber
After Darcy
Libby Fitzpatrick
“Riotously funny, achingly romantic” contemporary-set sequel to Pride and Prejudice, where we find the Bennet sisters either in or approaching middle age, with “all the accompanying hell that is menopause, internet dating, toddlers peeing on the doorstep and teens sexting instead of revising for GCSEs”.
Agent Jenny Savill
World English Bedford Square
Rasputin
Antony Beevor
Bestselling historian Beevor’s biography of Rasputin is “an unparalleled portrait of one of history’s most dubious masterminds”.
Agent Michael Dean
UK Weidenfeld, US Viking, France Calmann-Lévy, Italy Rizzoli, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland
ASH Literary
Finding Her Edge
Jennifer Iacopelli
The Break the Fall author’s YA romance is set in the world of figure skating and is a retelling of Persuasion, set to be adapted by Netflix in 2026 ahead of the Winter Olympics.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
UK Hachette Children’s, North America Razorbill, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, European Portuguese, South American Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian
For the Ring
Jennifer Hennessy
The second adult romance from the author of Degrees of Engagement, this time set in the world of baseball.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
World English Headline Eternal, German, options in Poland and Ukraine
Lights, Camera, Latte!
Sarah Saville
A cosy romance set in Edinburgh, following an undercover movie star and a grumpy café owner, with disability representation shared by the author.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
All These Lights
LA Jasper
Closeted NHL captain Nick’s ex-boyfriend reappears after five years and signs with an opposing team at the same time as Nick meets an out-and-proud rockstar.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
Mondays Are Murder
Ravena Guron
Third YA thriller from bestseller Guron, this time following Kay, who returns to her hometown a year after the death of her friend, but the killer seems to be back…
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
UK & Commonwealth Usborne, Dutch, options in US, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Turkey, Russia
Bell Lomax Moreton
Until Autumn
Artème Waters
A debut upmarket, romantic, coming-of-age novel featuring Clara, an aimless young woman floating through life while working at her grandmother’s Italian lakeside hotel, and Birdy, who arrives like a warm thunderstorm every summer: “A love story – for friends, for lovers and for life.”
Agent Katie Fulford, Julie Gourinchas
The Flesh I Want
Todd S Jordan
A debut literary horror novel wherein an isolated young man falls in love with a woman who becomes the flesh of what she consumes – bird, beast, or human being – and discovers he can sculpt her into the image of his wildest desires.
Agent Julie Gourinchas
Dark Century
Jordan Acosta
A “Fatherland meets Chernobyl” dystopian far-future mystery, set in the Kingdom of Denmark centuries after climate collapse.
Agent John Baker
Summer Bae-cation
Kaz Kamwi
Love Island fan favourite Kamwi turns to romantic novels: Tamara’s long-term “forever bae” dumps her out of the blue, her happily-ever-after is now her forever-alone-future and she didn’t even see it coming. Her childhood friends insist she needs a summer of girlhood fun, the “Bae-cation”.
Agent Jo Bell
Both Sides of the Stethoscope
Dr Liz Murray
Insights and lessons learned from doctor-cum-patient Murray while navigating her own chronic health challenges.
Agent Jo Bell
The Bent Agency
Don’t Open Your Eyes
Liv Constantine
“Twisted” psychological thriller from the bestselling co-author of The Last Mrs Parrish, in which a woman is tormented by nightmarish visions of her future – and then they start to come true.
Agent Jenny Bent
US Bantam
Alchemy of Secrets
Stephanie Garber (
1)
The YA superstar’s first adult novel is a story of myths and murder in Hollywood, as a student seeks to prove that Tinseltown’s most infamous deaths were killings committed by the Devil.
Agent Jenny Bent
UK Gollancz, US Flatiron, Germany cbj, World Spanish Urano, Brazil, Hungary, Poland, Portugal,
Blackthorn
JT Geissinger
A “tautly written, deliciously Gothic” tale of a prodigal daughter returning home to family secrets – and the man she could never forget.
Agent Jenny Bent
World EnglishBramble
The Age of Blood and Magic
Hannah Mathewson
A “blistering Succession with vampires”, contemporary fantasy novel about corporate greed and family politics, with a blood-soaked twist.
Agent Zoë Plant
UK & Commonwealth Harper Voyager, US Morrow, Brazil
The Foxfire Prophecy
KS Patterson
The YA and middle-grade author’s first for adults is an American folk magic-inspired “sweeping fantasy with a delicious love triangle” that is “perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and Hannah Whitten”.
Agent Molly Ker Hawn
UK & Commonwealth Hodderscape
Bird Literary Agency
Long Live Vivienne Moon
Liz Hyder
“Screwball comedy meets crime thriller and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” in this original adult novel by the multi-award-winning Hyder.
Agent Anwen Hooson
The Blair Partnership
Men Would Kill for This
Sheena Cook
Upmarket Scottish crime fiction about a lawyer returning home after many years to claim the family farm after her beloved father dies in mysterious circumstances.
Agent Ed Wood
All She Burns
Charlotte Essex
Commercial psychological thriller about a fire investigator, Red, who is also addicted to arson. When she is called to a job at an empty house she set fire to the night before, a body is found and Red senses a trap.
Agent Ed Wood
The Last Room
DM Holloway
The escape room was meant to be the bonding date that saves their marriage; but when his wife disappears, Sam must solve the puzzle to save them both.
Agent Hattie Grünewald
Full Throttle
Lucy Cameron
Minnie is Channel 3’s up-and-coming new F1 reporter, but will a romance with sexy world champion Jack send her off-track?
Agent Hattie Grünewald
Atomic Universe
David Kelly, Paul M Sutter
Follow your atom on an awe-inspiring, once-in-a-universe trip back in time to the Big Bang, created by the makers of the hugely popular YouTube channel History of the Universe.
Agent Emily Barrett
Blake Friedmann
Dovecombe
Alex Clark
A contemporary Gothic literary thriller about obsession, unrequited love and the way in which the past reaches out to ensnare the present: “for fans of Sarah Waters and K Patrick”.
Agent Siân Ellis-Martin
US Norton
Love and Malice
Jemma Wayne
Historical novel following the fortunes of the dazzling, fiercely-loving and fiercely-fighting Schwartzinger sisters as they grow up in 1930s Brooklyn; “Middlesex meets A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”.
Agent Juliet Pickering
Adrift
Will Dean
Tense thriller about a family’s descent into darkness during a harrowing canal boat journey, “perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Shari Lapena”.
Agent Kate Burke
UK Hodder, US Emily Bestler
Benbecula
Graeme Macrae Burnet
“Gripping” novella-length retelling, in the Booker-shortlisted author’s inimitable style, of a real-life 19th-century murder on the Outer Hebridean island of Benbecula.
Agent Isobel Dixon
UK & Commonwealth, excl. Canada Polygon
The Wreckers
George Makana Clark
A “One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Count of Monte Cristo” multivocal narrative by the O Henry Prize-winning author, which is a centuries-spanning tour de force centred on a mysterious will, revealing the scars of the Atlantic slave trade.
Agent Isobel Dixon
C&W
A Far-flung Life
ML Stedman
The Light Between the Oceans author returns with a “timely as it is timeless” sweeping family drama set against the vast landscape of Western Australia.
Agent Susan Armstrong
UK & Commonwealth Transworld, French Stock, German Blanvalet, Italian Garzanti; under offer in Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden
The Last Love Song of Ros & Holland
Laura Kay
“Sweeping, big-hearted” book club novel “for fans of David Nicholls, Gabrielle Zevin and Taylor Jenkins Reid” about the connection between two lovable, complicated women from their first meeting as teens.
Agent Emma Finn
Easy Money: Inside OnlyFans and the “Sex Work Revolution”
Ellie Flynn
Award-winning investigative journalist and broadcaster Flynn investigates the truth behind the meteoric rise of OnlyFans, from tiny Essex startup to the porn industry’s biggest disruptor.
Agent Richard Pike
Unspeakable
Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne
Second narrative non-fiction book from the bestselling authors of The Devil You Know, delving into the notion of trauma.
Agent Sophie Lambert
UK & Commonwealth Faber
It’ll Be Fun, They Said
Jessica Pan
Pan’s latest has her embarking on a year of adventures to proactively seek joy – including journeying to Finland to investigate why it consistently wins the Happiest Country award and enlisting the help of “happiness mentors”.
Agent Emma Finn
CAA
Everybody Loves Our Dollars
Oliver Bullough
The Moneyland author’s “Liar’s Poker meets McMafia” exposé crosses continents to show how it has never been easier to be a criminal.
Agent Karolina Sutton
UK
Weidenfeld
The Dogs in the Street
Séamas O’Reilly
Debut novel from the bestselling memoirist in which Derry is abuzz about Hollywood star Monica being in town in this Troubles-set series; but she goes missing and attention turns to flaky scriptwriter Diarmuid.
Agent Harriet Poland
UK Little, Brown
Absolute Beginners
Alex Kadis
Kadis’ 1970s east London-set novel has Greek-British Connie coming to terms with the crash that killed her mother and two brothers – then a split-second decision changes everything.
Agent Sarah Harvey
UK Hutchinson Heinemann, US Random House, Spain Urano
The Devil and Mrs Gooch
Oliver Darkshire
Cosy fantasy novel in which arch-capitalist villain Gwendolyn Gooch embarks on a professional and romantic relationship with the Devil.
Agent John Ash
Options in UK, US, Germany, Italy, Vietnam
The Compound
Aisling Rawle
A “Love Island meets Lord of the Flies” debut, where Lily wakes up in a compound in the middle of the desert with nine other women, then 10 men arrive with reality TV cameras in tow.
Agent Rachel Mann
UK The Borough Press, US Random House, Germany btb, Italy E/O
Clare Hulton Literary Agency
The Revenge Plot
Jackie Kabler
A gripping new psychological crime thriller from the Kindle bestselling author.
Agent Clare Hulton
World English HarperCollins
The Cancer Road Map: Real Science to Guide Your Treatment Path
Dr Liz O’Riordan
Confronting big cancer truths (and myths) and offering clear, evidence-based answers.
Agent Clare Hulton
World English HarperCollins
Curry Guy Air Fryer
Dan Toombs
The bestselling cookery star returns with an appliance-based recipe book.
Agent Clare Hulton
WorldQuadrille, Dutch
The Co-Parenting Method: Six Steps to Raise Happy Kids After Separation and Divorce
Marcie Shaoul
A helpful book for separating parents by a co-parenting expert.
Agent Clare Hulton
World Ebury, Spain Planeta
Colwill & Peddle
How to Read Minds: Reflections on Empathy and Lessons in Connection
Aimee Cliff
“Eye-opening” journey into empathy from autistic psychotherapist Cliff that “will change how we connect with, care for and love one another”.
Agent Milly Reilly
UK & Commonwealth William Collins, US The Experiment
Come What May: Life-Changing Lessons for Coping With Crisis
Lucy Easthope ( 2)
“Poignant” wisdom in an uplifting guide to navigating hard times from the leading disaster recovery expert and author of When the Dust Settles.
Agent Donna Greaves (Milly Reilly covering maternity leave)
UK & CommonwealthHodder
Grandparenting
Terri Apter
“Warm, wise” guide to the crucial and changing role of the modern grandparent, from psychologist Apter, using cutting-edge research, as well as her own experiences.
Agent Kay Peddle
World English Duckworth, Italian Corbaccio, Dutch, Chinese, Russian
The Filthiest Corner of the House
Ro Mitchell (writing as Ro Hollinrake)
“The Dangers of Smoking in Bed meets Hereditary horror” as a young woman inherits a remote Peak District cottage, but must reckon with its dark past.
Agent Charlotte Colwill
World EnglishTitan Books
Showstopper
Tom Ramsay
“Joyous” queer YA comedy set in the world of musical theatre in the West End: “for fans of Gay Club! and Heartstopper”.
Agent Charlotte Colwill
UK & CommonwealthFirefly
Curious Minds Agency
Good Soil: How Organisational Culture Leads to Growth and Innovation
Marcus Collins
Unlocks the necessary practices to nourish a genuine organisational culture that leads to “creativity, success, and shared vision”.
Agent Jeff Shreve
World English Basic Venture
The Health and Wellness Lie
Nick Tiller
A sport scientist’s trade debut is a deep dive into how and why the global health and wellness industry is not working for us, equipping the reader with “the tools they need to navigate the maze big business would keep us trapped in”.
Agent: Eli Keren
UK & Commonwealth Bloomsbury, North America Johns Hopkins University Press
How Math Will Save Your Life
Susan D’Agostino
The science writer explores the role of mathematics in mitigating – and solving – crisis and catastrophe, “from fractal wildfires to the bubble geometry of airbags”.
Agent Marissa Koors
The Stoic Mom
Meredith Alexander Kunz
A leading philosophy populariser’s “transformative” approach to parenting that weaves timeless Stoic thinking into everyday family life.
Agent Peter Tallack
Future Build: How Construction Can Heal the Planet
Will Arnold
An award-winning environmentalist and structural engineer exposes the massive yet largely hidden environmental toll of the construction industry, while offering a hopeful vision for sustainability.
Agent Peter Tallack
World English Bloomsbury
Curtis Brown
She Didn’t See it Coming
Shari Lapena
“Gripping” new book from the bestselling thriller writer, in which a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins.
Agent Felicity Blunt
UK Transworld, US Pamela Dorman
The Revenge of Odessa
Frederick Forsyth, Tony Kent
Forsyth and Kent join forces for a sequel to Forsyth’s classic The Odessa File, featuring the original hero Peter Miller’s grandson Georg finding evidence that Odessa – a network whose goal is to return the Nazis to power – has resurfaced.
Agent Jonathan Lloyd
UK Transworld, US Putnam
Salka
Francesca Simon
The children’s star’s first adult novel is an “exquisite and tautly moving” tragedy told by multiple voices, a “richly woven retelling of an ancient Welsh myth and a thought-provoking drama for our times”.
Agent Steph Thwaites
UK Faber
Five
Ilona Bannister
“Page-turning drama” set on a train platform, where five strangers – a child, a mother, a businessman, an old woman and a gambler – unknowingly face a chilling countdown to one of their deaths.
Agent Alice Lutyens
UK HQ, US Crown, France Fleuve, German Droemer Knaur, Italian Giunti
L’Anglaise
Tatty Macleod
Comedian and social media star Macleod’s “Everything I Know About Love meets A Year in Provence” memoir.
Agent Jess Molloy
UK Transworld, France Flammarion
Darby Literary Rights Agency
The Prospect
Fleur McDonald
New commercial crime series from McDonald in which senior constable Higgins and partner Zara uncover a dangerous plot involving gold smuggling and political corruption.
Agent Mary Darby (for Gaby Naher at Naher Agency)
Australia & New Zealand HarperCollins
Your Body/Their Data
Matt Evans
Why our health data is so valuable, how we’ve been tricked into giving it away – to feed to AI – and how we can take back control, by a TechRadar journalist.
Agent Mary Darby (for Ludo Cinelli at Eve White)
World English Bloomsbury
Half Truth
Nadia Mahjouri
Dual-narrative, inter-generational family drama. From isolated Tasmania to beautiful Morocco, two women seek the truth about what happened to the same man.
Agent Mary Darby (for Gaby Naher at Naher Agency)
Australia & New Zealand Vintage
Requiem
John Palisano
Latest horror from the Bram Stoker Award-winner, in which Ava must fight an entity locked in on taking out the crew of the Eden, a moon-sized cemetery in space.
Agent Mary Darby (for Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary)
World English
Flame Tree
When We Were Young
Elaine Hastings
Dual-narrative, dual time-line love-story about a fated musician and a promising young artist.
Agent Mary Darby (for Tanera Simons at Greenstone Literary)
UK & Commonwealth Avon
Darley Anderson
How to Catch Lightning
KA Chapman
“Sweeping” will-they-won’t-they upmarket love story, spanning 25 years, “for fans of One Day and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” and set around the concept of quantum entanglement after two children are struck by lightning.
Agent Camilla Bolton
Fruit Fly
Josh Silver
Adult debut from YA author Silver in which blocked writer Mallory stumbles on a piece of advice for her next work: “Go gay, go sad, go dark.” When she infiltrates sex worker Leo’s life for a story, their lives dangerously overlap.
Agent Clare Wallace
UK & Commonwealth Oneworld
The Fawn Girls
Laura Moore
Debut in which recently orphaned Bridget moves in with her estranged aunt and cousins and everything seems perfect – apart from their strange rituals. And then neighbours start to disappear…
Agent Jade Kavanagh
Guts
Amy Ashton
Really Good, Actually meets Maame in a debut centred around Stella, whose alcoholic father is thrust back into her life, disrupting her already messy 20s. Can she develop the guts to face up to her past?
Agent Jade Kavanagh
The Lucky Winners
KL Slater
You’ve won the house of your dreams. It’s about to become a nightmare…the latest thriller from bestseller Slater.
Agent Camilla Bolton
UK & Commonwealth Michael Joseph
Options in Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Korean, Portuguese
Darley Anderson Children’s Agency
Seam Ripper
Anna Fiteni
“Bridgerton meets The Lost Boys” in a crossover/ New Adult debut, a glamorous and gory, vampire-filled historical fantasy set in an haute couture London atelier.
Agent Lydia Silver
What Happens Online
Nathanael Lessore
Third teen novel from rising star Lessore in which school “nobody” Fred wields his anonymous online influence to bring down his bullies and push himself up the social hierarchy, with hilarious and heartbreaking consequences.
Agent Clare Wallace
UK & Commonwealth Hot KeyOption in US
According to Plan
Christen Randall
Second feel-good queer YA romance from the bestselling author, featuring cosy coffee shops, lit nerds, creative chemistry and finding first love in unexpected places.
Agent Becca Langton
UK Pushkin, US Atheneum Option in Brazil
Hari Kumar: Ultimate Superstar
Rashmi Sirdeshpande
First in a middle-grade series where nine-year-old Hari knows cracking Bollywood is a combination of luck, talent, looks and timing. Will a national film competition finally be his time to shine?
Agent Lydia Silver
UK & Commonwealth HarperCollins Children’s
When the Storm Comes
Polly Ho-Yen
Award-winner Ho-Yen’s middle-grade in which four students trapped in a library reluctantly team up to escape a brutal storm: “The Breakfast Club meets The Day After Tomorrow.”
Agent Clare Wallace
World English
Knights OfOptions in Arabic, Russian
David Godwin Associates
Among the Burning Flowers
Samantha Shannon
A story of “human resilience in the face of dire circumstances” in the fantasy star’s newest, which precedes events in her bestseller, The Priory of The Orange Tree.
Agent Sebastian Godwin
UK & US
Bloomsbury
Making a Killing
Andrew Feinstein
The activist and author’s “gripping” intervention in the state of the arms trade, looking at the current wars and following the money from the UK and US to the battlefields of Yemen and Gaza.
Agent Sebastian Godwin
World English Verso
The Ceylon Island
Shehan Karunatilaka
The Booker winner’s novella is a compilation of three stories linked to each other through a common theme – Sri Lanka – and speculates on the country’s past, present and future.
Agent Aparna Kumar
UK Little, Brown
Sanctuary
Marina Warner
Warner’s latest tackles the crisis of displaced peoples and argues a new concept of integration is urgently needed, “which takes shape along distinctive lines, neither assimilation nor multiculturalism”.
Agent David Godwin
UK William Collins
Untitled memoir
Bella Freud
The fashion designer’s memoir “aims to say a lot in a few words”, from the woman who has a sketchbook with her at all times, and realised at 25 that she could create order through fashion.
Agent David Godwin
UK & English language in Europe Penguin
David Higham Associates
Love by the Book
Jessica George
The Maame author’s newest is about two women who meet by chance, and the beautiful, at times messy, friendship that follows: “a moving, hopeful novel about navigating your mid-late 20s”.
Agent Jemima Forrester
UK Hodder, US St Martin’s,German btb
Travel Light
Naomi Mitchison
Reissue of the late Scottish novelist’s 1952 philosophical fairy tale following the journey of Halla, the abandoned daughter of a king.
Agent Georgia Glover
UK Virago, French Callidor, Italian Fazi, Turkish Ithaki
The Icarus Economy
John Rapley
A Cambridge economist’s “punchy and provocative” look at how wealthier economies will struggle more as the climate crisis deepens, and what they can do to prevent continued stagnation.
Agent Andrew Gordon
UK Atlantic, Under offer in Portugal
On Thin Ice
Olivia Belle
This first in a “bright and swoony” romcom series is a Dancing On Ice-inspired “grumpy x sunshine romance for fans of Christina Lauren’s The True Love Experiment”.
Agent Maddalena Cavaciuti
Under offer in the UK and Germany
The Thing about Giants
Christopher Galvin
“Thrilling” middle-grade book set in a world where humans hunt giants for their bones. We follow the daughter of a giant hunter who unexpectedly joins forces with a giant.
Agent Christabel McKinley
UK Walker, US Candlewick
David Luxton Associates
Carlos Alcaraz: Behind the Smile
Mark Hodgkinson
A deeply researched biography of the new (smiley) face of tennis, Alcaraz, the 21-year-old global star who has achieved more than Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer did by this stage of their careers.
Agent Nick Walters
Germany, Poland, Italy, Romania
The Meaning of Beer: The Surprising Story of How Beer Made Us
Johnny Garrett
Beer expert Garrett’s globe-trotting tale of the fascinating stories of beer lovers and brewers across Europe, the Middle East and East Asia, which, he argues, helped lead to breakthroughs such as pasteurisation and the development of railways – and how the beer industry continues to shape the politics of the modern world.
Agent David Luxton
US, Czechia, Russia, Spain
Arne Slot: The New Era
Mikos Gouka
Dutch football writer Gouka’s look at his compatriot Slot’s methods, coaching style and how he interacts with his players – and how that informs his current success at Liverpool.
Agent Nick Walters
Bullfight: A Season Inside Red Bull
Matt Majendie
Long-time F1 journalist Majendie has been given unprecedented access to Red Bull for its 2025 Formula 1 season when it faces its stiffest season ever.
Agent David Luxton
DHH
Home Before Dark
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Dark, twisty new standalone from the award-winning author of the Forbidden Iceland series, sold in 17 languages.
Agent David Headley
UK Orenda, Netherlands De Fontein, France La Martinière
The Society of Unknowable Objects
Gareth Brown
The bestselling author of The Book of Doors’ newest centres around the world of unknowable objects – magical items that most people have no idea possess powers – which had been quiet for decades…
Agent Harry Illingworth
UK Transworld, US Morrow, Germany Heyne, Netherlands, Slovak, Turkey
Tiny Daggers
Caroline Corcoran
Psychological thriller exploring the toxicity and sinister undercurrents of one female friendship where the past hides shocking secrets that they’ll do anything to hide.
Agent Diana Beaumont
World English
Thomas & Mercer
The Infinite State
Richard Swan
Galaxy-spanning science fiction in which the lives of a widowed party member, a disgraced investigator and a hypersled pilot are entangled as they plot to break free of the fascist Decurion Empire.
Agent Harry Illingworth
UK Gollancz, US Tor, Germany Fischer Tor
Them Girls
Eva Verde
Two sisters, a lifetime of secrets, and the chance to set the record straight…
Agent Abi Fellows
UK Simon & Schuster
DunnFogg
How to Art
Kate Bryan, David Shrigley
Art for everyone, from tips on how to actually enjoy really famous artworks, to how to own art and make art at home, through to vital advice for making a career as an artist and even how to make your dog more cultural.
Agent Ben Dunn
UK & Commonwealth Cornerstone, US Workman,Spain Grijalbo, Germany Goldmann
False Idols
Karla Marie Sweet
The novelist, screenwriter and actor’s “unflinching and compulsive” thriller looks at power and exploitation in the wellness industry.
Agent Ben Dunn
UK Mountain Leopard
Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness
Megan Eaves
“Far-reaching and beautifully written” book about our connection to the night sky – and the threats posed by artificial lighting – that takes in science, history, arts, nature and travel writing.
Agent Jack Fogg
UK & Translation Simon & Schuster, US Grand Central
Negotiate Up! How to Get What You Want When the Odds Are Stacked Against You
Dr Sunny Lee
A “deeply researched, authoritative and empowering” book that will teach “reachers” of all backgrounds how to better negotiate from a position of lesser power.
Agent Jack Fogg
UK Aurum, Taiwan
Eve White Literary Agency
The Woman in Suite 11
Ruth Ware
The bestselling author (
3) returns with the “nail-biting” sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10 – soon to be a Netflix film starring Keira Knightley.
Agent Eve White
UK Simon & Schuster, US Scout Press, Germany, Greece, Seven others
A Beautiful World
James Norbury
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon are back in this “enchanting” new adventure from the bestselling author-illustrator.
Agent Ludo Cinelli
UK Michael Joseph, US William Morrow, Nine others
poyums annaw
Len Pennie
“Formidable” follow-up collection from the bestselling poet, activist and social media star.
Agent Ludo Cinelli
UK Canongate
Cecily Sawyer: How to Be a Spy
Iona Rangeley
This “hilarious, wacky” spy thriller is the first in a new series from the award-winning author of Einstein the Penguin.
Agent Eve White
UK HarperCollins Children’s
Monster Study
Han Smith
Two babies mysteriously disappear in this gripping, queer coming-of-age novel by the Goldsmiths Prize shortlistee.
Agent Ludo Cinelli
The Feldstein Agency
I am Magpie
Bethany Joy Dawson
Novel telling the story of three generations of Irish women who are faced with a choice: take responsibility for their lives, or allow history to repeat itself.
Agent Paul Feldstein
Incompatible with Life: A Memoir of Grave Illness, Great Love, and Survival
Michael J Tallon
Tallon’s story of healing and hope after his diagnosis of hereditary haemochromatosis,a rare genetic disorder that a doctor told him was “incompatible with life”.
Agent Paul Feldstein
Felicity Bryan Associates
Love’s Labour: The Revolutionary History of Childcare
Emily Baughan
Baughan looks at how societies care for women and children, and the mismatch between visions of ideal motherhood and the realities of women’s lives.
Agent Carrie Plitt
UK
Allen Lane
Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet
David Farrier
A “profound journey” into the natural world, offering the possibility that humans might evolve to solve the problems we’ve caused the planet.
Agent Carrie Plitt
World English Canongate, Spain Critica, Turkey, Korea
The Power of Counting
Tim Harford
The economic journalist shows how counting holds the key to future innovation.
Agent Sally Holloway
UK Ebury, US Riverhead
Oracy: The Transformative Power of Finding Your Voice
Neil Mercer
The professor and director of Cambridge University’s department that promotes speaking in schools shows the importance of learning to communicate clearly.
Agent James Gill
UK Vintage
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
Iain Pears
“Fascinating, moving” account of the relationship between the daughter of a Soviet army officer and a Cambridge art historian.
Agent Caroline Wood
UK Collins, US Norton, Germany Zsolnay, Netherlands, Portugal
Georgina Capel Associates
What Should My Children Do? How to Flourish in the Age of AI
Daniel Susskind
Susskind answers the question of how to flourish in an economic future dominated by artificial intelligence.
Agent Georgina Capel
UK
Allen Lane
Wolfpack: Germany’s U-Boat War 1939-45
Roger Moorhouse
The story of the German U-Boatmen for the first time, filling one of the great historical gaps of the Second World War.
Agent Georgina Capel
UK William Collins, US Basic
The Untold Power: Rome in the Age of Augustus
Honor Cargill-Martin
The story of Augustus and the revolution of the greatest republic in the world, and how it still impacts us today.
Agent Georgina Capel
UK Head of Zeus, US Avid Reader
Acts of Oblivion: A History of a Forgotten Forgetting
Linda Kinstler
Uncovers the lost history and evolution of oblivion, telling the origins of our contemporary understanding (and misunderstanding) of memory and forgetting, law and justice.
Agent Georgina Capel
UK Bloomsbury, US Norton
The Work We Need: A 21st Century Imagining
Hilary Cottam
Through technological revolution, ecological awakening and examining wider racial, social and spatial injustices, Cottam offers a re-imagining of our working lives, rethinking work and work’s place in our world.
Agent Georgina Capel
World English Virago, Danish
Greene & Heaton
Spoiled Milk
Avery Curran
The death of a student at a girls’ boarding school begins a series of escalating supernatural events in a “thrilling” debut about teenage repression and queer desire.
Agent Imogen Morrell
UK riverrun, US Doubleday,Canada
The Day I Lost You
Ruth Mancini
Latest thriller from the bestselling author focuses on Hope, who has an interesting career and the baby she always longed for, Sam. Then Sam goes missing…
Agent Judith Murray
UK Century, US HarperCollins
The Art of a Lie
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Shepherd-Robinson’s latest is a “twisty cat and mouse thriller” about a widow whose husband is killed in what looks like a violent street robbery, the charming man who enters her life – and the secrets they are both keeping.
Agent Antony Topping
UK Mantle, US Atria, Italy Neri Pozza
Lunacy: Fictions, Fantasies, and False Promises of the New Space Age
Ben Bramble
Space ethicist Bramble interrogates the 10 reasons given for the new age of space exploration and meticulously debunks each one.
Agent Holly Faulks
Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity
Marcus du Sautoy
“Innovative and insightful” exploration of how mathematics underpins creativity.
Agent Antony Topping
UK Fourth Estate, US Basic, Spain Acantilado, China, Korea, Netherlands
Greenstone Literary
Swept Away
Beth O’Leary
“Lost at sea… with your one-night stand.” An “epic” love story between two strangers who find themselves stranded in the North Sea on a houseboat.
Agent Tanera Simons
UK & Commonwealth Quercus, North America Berkley, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Russia
The Unforgettable Mailman
April Howells
“Heartwarming” debut novel based on a true story of an intergenerational friendship set in 1960s Chicago, when 81-year-old Henry sets out to deliver hundreds of lost letters after the post office is shut down.
Agent Laura Heathfield
Six Little Words
Sally Page
A feel-good and uplifting new novel from bestseller Page, set in the wilds of Norfolk and exploring themes of hope, creativity and connection.
Agent Tanera Simons
UK & Commonwealth HarperFictionOption in North America Blackstone
You, Again
Natalie Cooper
Audible romance star Cooper’s transatlantic romcom in which the man who ghosted Holland Beck one year earlier turns up to stay in her village.
Agent Laura Heathfield
World English audio Audible
Beech Avenue Five
Rachel Sargeant
In the Kindle bestseller’s newest, police raid a suburban home where they find a traumatised teenager held captive, who thinks that perhaps he would have been safer at “home” than he is on “the Outside”.
Agent Laura Heathfield
Greyhound Literary
Extremity
Nicholas Binge
“Gripping” time-travel police procedural novella, in which a disgraced detective investigating a billionaire’s murder uncovers an impossible scene – two identical bodies of the same victim – leading her into a twisted conspiracy.
Agent Alexander Cochran
World English Tor
Film and TV under offer
The Story of Storytelling
David Clifford
The Cambridge professor’s “bravura” work on how storytelling drove humanity’s development from our earliest spoken words to the birth of writing.
Agent Sam Edenborough
UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada Duckworth, Korea
The Bloody Branch
Brigid Lowe
“Sensuous and vital” retelling of the Mabinogion unites three powerful heroines – an enslaved queen, a reclusive sorceress, and a woman crafted from flowers – as they challenge a dangerous sorcerer.
Agent Philip Gwyn Jones
World English Harvill
Brother Thirteen
Mal Peet
An unpublished adult novel from the late Peet, a biting satire in which a charismatic charlatan who performs as an Egyptian god in 1920s Southampton transforms himself into the doom-prophesying Brother Thirteen, gathering wealthy followers.
Agent Charlie Campbell
Birth Power
Megan Rossiter
One of the UK’s most trusted birth educators’ guide blends practical wisdom, scientific insights and expert knowledge to help parents-to-be feel informed and in control.
Agent Julia Silk
Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency
How to Slay on Holiday
Sarah Bonner
Chloe is planning the murder of her husband, but needs an alibi. What better way to avoid suspicion than playing the loved-up wife on an extravagant holiday with their extended family?
Agent Hannah Sheppard
World English Boldwood
Our Gifted Hearts
Jennifer Kennedy
Darkly gothic reimagining of the Bluebeard legend has Fortune accused of witchcraft – should she stay and hang, or marry the mysterious Mr Quickly and escape?
Agent Hannah Sheppard
World EnglishAngry Robot
The Hill in the Dark Grove
Liam Higginson
Welsh folk horror set on an isolated farm, deep in the mountains of Snowdonia: “The Loney meets Ghost Wall”.
Agent Louise Buckley
UK & Commonwealth Picador,US, France
Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo
Philippa Leathley
Ten-year-old Meticulous (Metty) Jones’ magical tattoo reveals she’s fated to be a murderer… but who is she destined to kill, and is a fating ever wrong?
Agent Hannah Sheppard
UK & US HarperCollins Children’s, Netherlands, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal
Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Shadow Compass
Philippa Leathley
The second in the series has a tombstone appearing in the magical city of New London, and Metty’s name is engraved on it…
Agent Hannah Sheppard
UK & US HarperCollins Children’s, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy
Hardman & Swainson
Book of Forbidden Words
Louise Fein
An encrypted manuscript unleashes a chain of consequences stretching from 1550s Paris to 1950s New York, from one era to another of banned books, fear of new ideas, and the dangers of censorship.
Agent Caroline Hardman
North America William Morrow
Under offer Germany
Mind Flu: The Story of Social Contagion
Matilda Gosling
Social scientist Gosling explores extraordinary cases of socially driven outbreaks from the past and present, shedding light on the current epidemics of mental illness and chronic pain.
Agent Caroline Hardman
Under offer UK
Right Place, Right Time
Ali McNamara
McNamara’s first romantic novel with a magical twist, set in and around Eve’s cosy Cambridge shop, Rainy Day Antiques.
Agent Hannah Ferguson
World English Bloomsbury
Do Not Go Gentle: Against State-Assisted Suicide
Kathleen Stock
The Material Girls author and former philosophy professor aims to bring to light some of the “less conscious, more irrational” factors that dispose us to “the collective fantasy that state-assisted suicide is a progressive option”.
Agent Caroline Hardman
UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada Bridge Street
The Memory Foundation
Amanda West
A “high-concept, high-tension” thriller set at a mysterious, mountain-top clinic where a quest for a cure for memory loss has deadly repercussions.
Agent Joanna Swainson
HHB Agency
Bread & War: A Ukrainian Story of Food, Bravery & Hope
Felicity Spector
The journalist’s story of the cooks, bakers, kitchen volunteers, charity workers, refugees and young chefs who, determined to reclaim Ukrainian cuisine after decades of Soviet oppression, repeatedly reopen their cafes and canteens in the face of the ongoing war.
Agent Elly James
World Duckworth
Muv
Rachel Trethewey
Journalist and modern historian Trethewey’s biography of Sydney Redesdale (née Bowles), mother of the Mitford girls.
Agent Elly James
UK & Commonwealth The History Press
Under a Riviera Moon
Helen McGinn
New novel from the TV wine expert has heartsick Maggie sent to Cannes to collect her late grandmother’s belongings, but the French Riviera and Elizabeth’s old friend “weave their magic and show her how to live for the moment”.
Agent Elly James
World Boldwood
The Bookseller of Hay
James Hanning
Biography of bookseller and entrepreneur Richard Booth, who transformed the Welsh market town and inspired the creation of “book towns” across the world.
Agent Elly James
World Corsair
The Frozen Peas Cookbook
Samuel Goldsmith
One hundred everyday recipes for the most versatile ingredient in your freezer, from the author of The Tinned Tomatoes Cookbook.
Agent Elly James
World Murdoch
Janklow & Nesbit
The Arcane Archives
Norees Gasper
Crossover low-fantasy that centres on Astra, Keeper of the Life Books at the Arcane Archives, who finds a black page and a vision of a handsome green-eyed stranger in her brother’s life book.
Agent Hayley Steed
Fugue Society
Dr George Gillett
A Cambridge university psychiatrist tells the history of the West through the lens of mental illness.
Agent Will Francis
UK Faber
Flotilla
Emma Hine
The first novel from award-winning poet Hine follows Carina and Ursa, two estranged sisters, concealing a devastating childhood secret aboard a flotilla of spaceships: “a lyrical meditation on sisterhood and loss” that blends the “domestic and the galactic, the post-apocalyptic and the elegiac”.
Agent Julia Eagleton
What Doctors Don’t Tell You
Merope Mills
Part exposé of the medical world, part practical guide, part memoir that aims to “revolutionise” the way we approach doctors and healthcare.
Agent Claire Paterson Conrad
UK Cape
(Mostly) Human Resources
Grace Viall
The first of an Appalachian-set fantasy series crawling with cryptids, cults and a slow-burn workplace romance: “the perfect debut for fans of Heather Fawcett and T Kingfisher”.
Agent Hannah Todd
UK Head of Zeus
Jemma McDonagh Agency
Chosen Family
Madeleine Gray
The bestselling author of Green Dot’s latest follows Nell and Eve in a relationship in which they both love and destroy each other.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Grace Heifetz, a4 Literary)
UK Weidenfeld
Warning Signs
Tracy Sierra
The Nightwatching author’s return is set in the backcountry of the Colorado mountains, in which a father-son ski weekend becomes a matter of life and death.
Agent: Jemma McDonagh (for The Helen Heller Agency)
UK Viking, US Pamela Dorman, Canada
A Siege of Owls
Uchenna Awoke
Follows Ekwe, a young boy living in an unnamed African village, in a “masterful exploration of social upheaval and violence, resilience, and familial love”.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Annie DeWitt, DeWitt Authors/The Shipman Agency)
US Catapult
The Unbelieved & the Stolen
Vikki Petraitis
The inaugural Allen & Unwin Crime Prize winner’s series has senior detective Antigone Pollard going to the small town of Deception Bay to investigate a string of escalating crimes against women.
Agent Jemma McDonagh (for Andrew Taylor, More Talent)
Australia & New Zealand Allen & Unwin
Paper Sisters
Rachel Canwell
Set in 1914 in the Lincolnshire fens, following the lives of three women trapped by dark obligations of the past and a deserted hospital on the edge of the marsh.
Agent Jemma McDonagh
UK Northodox
Jenny Brown Associates
The Rebel of Seventh Avenue
Annabelle Marx
A “sweeping” story of a young dress designer who makes her way from the backstreets of Edinburgh to create highly sought-after couture for New York society.
Agent Jenny Brown
World English Storm
The Shapeshifter’s Daughter
Sally Magnusson
What if the Norse gods walked among us? In Orkney, two women come together: one has only months to live, the other has been alive for a thousand years.
Agent Jenny Brown
UK & Commonwealth John Murray
Hawthorn: A Scottish Ghost Story
Elaine Thomson
The first in a quartet of ghost stories, each set in a different part of Scotland at the four “turning points” of the year: Samhain (or Halloween), the spring equinox, midsummer and midwinter.
Agent Jenny Brown
World EnglishSphere
The Cromarty Library Circle
Shona MacLean
Cromarty, the Scottish Highlands, 1832. Against a background of society on the cusp of change, eminent townsfolk set up a Circulating Library, unwittingly causing their ordered lives to fracture.
Agent Lisa Highton
UK & Commonwealth Quercus
The Castle of Stories
Matt Cain
Adam inherits a rundown castle in Tuscany and his boyfriend Theo flies out to be with him for the summer. But a surprise discovery and Theo’s children cause Adam to re-evaluate everything.
Agent Lisa Highton
North America Kensington
Johnson & Alcock
Oddbody
Rose Keating
A “transgressive and utterly unique” collection of 10 bold feminist short stories that confront themes of desire, fear and shame, each asking how far the human form can be pushed, stretched and subverted.
Agent Ed Wilson
UK Canongate, US Simon & Schuster, Italy Mondadori
The Bone Raiders
Jackson Ford
The start of an “action-packed and irreverent” fantasy series, in which a wild band of badass women harness the power of gigantic, fire-breathing lizards to defend their homeland.
Agent Ed Wilson
World English Orbit
The Hiroshima Men
Iain MacGregor
Narrative history of the personal experiences of key figures across continents from 1936–46, when the world was plunged into a catastrophic global conflict.
Agent Anna Power
UK Constable, US Scribner, Spain Atico, Under offer in Poland
St Petersburg
Sinclair McKay
The central part played by the city over the centuries, from its glory years as “Window to the West” through to the devastating reality of the siege of Leningrad.
Agent Anna Power
World English Viking
Travels with Agatha
David Suchet
The Poirot actor’s richly illustrated title spanning the countries Agatha Christie explored in the 1920s, aimed to uncover the mystery writer’s inspirations for her stories.
Agent Michael Alcock
UK Constable
Jonathan Clowes
The Undrowned
Toby Vieira
A follow-up from the author of Marlow’s Landing, with the author bringing his “singular understanding of the geopolitical and his sense of the surreal to play with the structures of the thriller”.
Agent Nemonie Craven
UK & Commonwealth Weatherglass
Love Child
Maureen Duffy
A reissue of trailblazer Duffy’s 1971 novel, a “powerful exploration of gender”.
Agent Nemonie Craven
North America McNally Editions, Germany Reclam
The Tailor of Temperance Town
David Llewellyn
The Polari-shortlisted author’s newest is set in the multicultural Cardiff of the early 20th century, inspired by the real-life trial for “indecency” of Louis Perlin.
Agent Nemonie Craven
UK & Commonwealth Parthian
So Good to See You
Francesca Hornak
The follow-up to Hornak’s Seven Days of Us is a “One Day meets The White Lotus” sharply observed examination of university friendship and class.
Agent Ann Evans and Nemonie Craven
World Piatkus
Scottish Lost Boys: Nine Renegade Essays
Kirsten Norrie
Essays by the poet, musician and novelist also known as MacGillivray, on figures including Jim Morrison and Alexander McQueen.
Agent Nemonie Craven
UK & Commonwealth Broken Sleep
Kate Hordern Literary Agency
Maria Theresa, Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
Richard Bassett
New biography of the formidable Habsburg empress, the single most powerful woman in 18th-century Europe, using hitherto unpublished sources by Central Europe expert Bassett.
Agent Kate Hordern
World English
Yale University Press
Lessons in Life
Julie Houston
A Yorkshire-set novel of family, friendship and forbidden love in which matriarch Lisa meets 70-something care-home resident Eloise and they form an unbreakable bond. But unbeknown to them, they share secrets that, once uncovered, will change everything…
Agent Anne Williams
World English Boldwood, Option in Denmark
A Troubled Tide
Lynne McEwan
McEwan’s fifth Scotland-set DI Shona Oliver novel has the detective dealing with one of her officers drowning during a triathlon – and the possibility of murder coming from within her own team.
Agent Anne Williams
World English
Canelo
Love Off Script
Laura Starkey
The fourth witty romance from Kindle bestseller Starkey has English literature lecturer Jess swapping life in academia for a role as a script consultant on a TV show about her beloved 18th-century author Georgiana Scott, after she’s been “shafted” both in love and career by her boyfriend and fellow academic Jonathan.
Agent Kate Hordern
World English Bonnier Embla, Option in Denmark
Kate Nash Literary Agency
Paper Cuts
Helen Blair
A jaded romance author’s longtime stalker goes missing in this darkly comic cat-and-mouse debut crime novel.
Agent Francesca Riccardi
German Bastei Lübbe, Russian
Zombies to Lovers
Lara Slabber
Secret zombie Rae must turn to her worst enemy to keep her zombie status hidden and solve her murder in this debut queer enemies-to-lovers romance.
Agent Saskia Leach
Let’s Play
Kath Jayne
Debut in which a writer traumatised as a child by her sister craves answers. When she finds evidence to free her sister’s lover and suspected killer from life in jail she must enter his world of dangerous sex games to find the truth.
Agent Justin Nash
Deadlights
Katie Daysh
The Sunday Times historical author of the year 2023 turns to horror: eerie occurrences aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic force the crew to question whether there are malevolent forces at play.
Agent Francesca Riccardi
You Had Me at Pumpkin Patch
Anita Faulkner
The Gingerbread Café author’s latest has a writer’s job being stolen by a chatbot, so she finds solace in the countryside, falling for an aloof pumpkin farmer.
Agent Kate Nash
Ki Agency
The Villains We Made
Arianna Bent
Fantasy set in Ancient Rome, where civil war beckons, and the gods seek any opportunity to return. The Mavros siblings (priestess, general and augur), are pieces in their consul father’s machinations to control an empire and desperate enough for his approval to destroy each other.
Agent Helen Lane
Remembrance
Megan Flynn
When a cataclysmic event causes over half the population to drop dead, Remy is left alone to fend for herself. But it rapidly becomes clear the people she has loved have not truly left her, and that dead does not necessarily mean gone.
Agent Helen Lane
Twelve Sunless Cities
Kimberly G Dawn
Beneath a permanent midnight sky, 12 men, ordained by the gods, rule over 12 cities – each walled off and filled with its own dangers. But even in a sunless world, darkness can have shadows. And Carden will have to survive them all to save her family.
Agent Helen Lane
Alistair Fall and the Restless Dead
Marianne Gordon
First in a dark fantasy mystery series where state-sanctioned magic user Alistair Fall and shapeshifting thief Sunny meet over not one, but two dead bodies. They are quickly drawn into a world of dodgy dragon-riding generals, enigmatic physicians and a murderous and necromantic cult.
Agent Meg Davis
Laxfield Literary Associates
Dom’s Dream Kingdom
Victoria Amelina
A family inhabits the former childhood home of Stanislaw Lem, a survivor of the Holocaust in Lviv; the humans are unable to talk about the city’s complicated past, so a dog named Dom narrates their story.
Agent Emma Shercliff
UK William Collins, Italy Guanda, Georgia, Germany Mauke, Poland, Spain Avizor Ediciones, Sweden, Ukraine
When We Were Fireflies
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
“One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Famished Road” in an “extraordinary” novel about life and death and generational trauma, from the winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature.
Agent Emma Shercliff
Africa, France Julliard, Germany/Austria Residenz
Carrion Crow
Heather Parry
Newly-betrothed Marguerite is confined in the family attic with Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, a taxidermied bat and a Singer sewing machine. A “festering Edwardian nightmare in exquisitely tailored language”, based on a true story.
Agent Emma Shercliff
UK & Commonwealth Doubleday
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraine
Oleksandr Mykhed (Tanya Savchynska and David Mossop, trans)
The Language of War author’s trip across the Ukrainian east to explore its deep history and contested present.
Agent Emma Shercliff
World English Northwestern University Press, Germany Ibidem, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine
LBA
Our Song
Anna Carey
“Normal People meets Daisy Jones” where Laura and Tadhg have not spoken since college – now she’s a 30-something nobody and he’s a rock star. But when he gets in touch, is it time to finish what they started?
Agent Louise Lamont
UK & Ireland Hachette Ireland, German Goldmann
Gone to Earth
Jane Jesmond
The third in Jesmond’s Jen Shaw series sees the daredevil climber in Glasgow for a funeral and in search of answers.
Agent Amanda Preston
World English Verve
It’s Goth to Be You
Katherine Dyson
A “Mhairi McFarlane with vampires” romance in which reporter Lucy meets vampire bar owner Bram. Is he really ready to fall for a human?
Agent Amanda Preston
UK HarperCollins
What We Have Lost
Marina McCarron
An “if Liz Moore wrote a love story” about Eireann who, 25 years on from her soulmate dumping her after his family were victims of a terrible crime, travels to his small Texan hometown to try to pick up the pieces.
Agent Hannah Schofield
Return to Sender
Stephanie Parente
Road-trip romance debut starring Violet, who vows to return a love letter – and its writer – across the country, but realises she’s catching feelings for the guy she’s sworn to deliver to his soulmate.
Agent Hannah Schofield
Lewinsohn Literary
Strap in
Lou Morgan
“Spicy” Sapphic age-gap romance from debut romance author Lou Morgan in which married-to-her-career lawyer Jean’s life is turned upside down by a chance encounter at a bar.
Agent Becky Thomas
World English Hera
Virgin
Hollie McNish
New collection from bestseller McNish “explodes our viewpoint on what virginity really means” and also includes poems packed with “plates of mashed potato, record players and train station kisses”.
Agent Becky Thomas
World English Fleet
Lack
Cecilia Knapp
New novel from author/poet Knapp centring on a woman who, as she contemplates becoming a mother, grapples with the buried traumas of her motherless past.
Agent Becky Thomas
UK & Commonwealth The Borough Press
Use the Words You Have
Kimberly Campanello
An erotic literary novel debut from poet Campanello set in coastal Brittany, where a young American stagiaire’s love affair with a Breton man “accelerates her self-actualisation as a woman and writer”.
Agent Becky Thomas
World English Somesuch
Lexington Literary
May We Feed the King
Rebecca Perry
“Beguiling” debut novel by the TS Eliot prize-shortlisted poet about an eccentric curator who recreates scenes in a historic house for an exhibition, and the life of the medieval king who inspires her work.
Agent Seren Adams
Georges
Augustine Cerf
“Deliciously perverse and biting” debut about the lives of a middle-aged, loveless couple and their undocumented cleaner, which become irrevocably intertwined when a grieving mother concocts a chilling plan to continue her late son’s legacy.
Agent Kat Aitken
No Ordinary Love
Asa Seresin
“Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.” This quote, often misattributed to Dorothy Parker, forms the basis of this “illuminative and entertaining” cultural history of heterosexuality from Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize shortlistee Seresin.
Agent Kat Aitken
Inheritance
Sarah Thomas
“Taut, ambitious” literary novel from the author of Queen K: when their rental flat falls through, Lara – who works for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission – moves with her boyfriend Max and his daughter Paloma into a West London townhouse owned by her wealthy uncle, Patrick. But her desperation to secure a home makes her willing to overlook Patrick’s dubious business connections…
Agent Seren Adams
Lorella Belli Literary Agency
Outlier
Susie Tate
An enemies-to-lovers romance with a neurodiverse heroine and a grumpy hero.
Agent Lorella Belli
World English print Keeperton, Hebrew
Gone
Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter
Latest from the wife-and-husband team starts with Alison, blaming herself 10 years after her son Sam disappeared. When her ex-husband seeks to have Sam declared legally dead, Alison must find out what really happened.
Agent Lorella Belli
World English Audio Thomas & Mercer
How Do I Tell You
Nicola May
The romcom superstar’s celebration of the human spirit has Victoria going out with her mates, but a reckless decision that night leads to devastating news.
Agent Lorella Belli
World English Storm
If Two Are Dead
Rick Mofina
Driving alone at night in a wild rainstorm, Luke Conway strikes something – or someone. No one else is around. No witnesses. And he can’t find a body.
Agent Lorella Belli
North America Mira, UK and Commonwealth excl. Canada audio Bolinda
The Best Wrong Move
Lily Parker
Debut romance about a woman who goes viral after proposing to her boyfriend on live national TV – but he says no. She escapes to Hawaii to forget but her ex is there, with his new supermodel girlfriend.
Agent Lorella Belli
World English Choc Lit, World audio Audible
Lutyens & Rubinstein
Dark Like Under
Alice Chadwick
A day in an English school in the 1980s unfolds in the aftermath of the death of a beloved teacher with rivalries and hormones simmering, and old secrets surface.
Agent Jenny Hewson
UK Daunt, US Biblioasis
The Last Kings of Hollywood
Paul Fischer
“Intimate, comprehensive” telling of how Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg transformed the Hollywood studio system.
Agent Jenny Hewson
UK Faber, US Celadon
Hunger and Thirst
Claire Fuller
The Costa Novel winner moves to horror in a “propulsive” tale of a reclusive sculptor whose past catches up with her when a true crime documentary-maker starts digging into an unsolved case.
Agent Jane Finigan
UK Fig Tree, US Tin House, Canada
Work-Love Balance
Sophie Loxton
Can Lizzy and Oli overcome their differences when they are forced to work together on a new dating app, or will they fail to find their work-love balance?
Agents Jane Finigan, Daisy Parente
UK Simon & Schuster
Half Light
Mahesh Rao
In the mountains of Darjeeling, a landslide traps the guests and staff of a dilapidated hotel. Cooped up inside, two men embark on a chance affair. Years later, their paths cross again…
Agent Sarah Lutyens
UK Pushkin, India
Madeleine Milburn Agency
The Wild Beneath
Kelly Anderson
Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing-esque story of a young woman who, when a tsunami strikes, must decide between evacuating with her childhood sweetheart or uncovering the truth about a stranger.
Agent Madeleine Milburn
UK & Commonwealth under offer, US Park Row, Canada, Denmark and eight others
The Pleasure Trap
Emelie Olsson
“Spicy and escapist” debut with a feminist edge following an unassuming couple who play a toxic seduction game on their targeted hotel guests.
Agent Madeleine Milburn
The Village: Re-finding Each Other in a World of Beauty and Ruin
Elizabeth Wainwright
Blending lyrical nature writing with history, sociology, science and myth, this walk through the author’s village – and beyond – becomes a profound and universal search for our common unity.
Agent Emma Bal
Animal Oracle
Freya Bromley
Novel following a young woman who alchemises her own grief after her sister’s death in a successful memoir, then must reckon this with her family.
Agent Liv Maidment
UK & Commonwealth, Hutchinson Heinemann
When the Sea Burns Red
Catherine Cheng
Upmarket adult romantasy that “reimagines the rise of the Chinese god Nezha, with the romantic tragedy of A Song to Drown Rivers…and the epic historical fantasy scale of She Who Became the Sun”.
Agent Maddy Belton
Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Everything That Is Beautiful
Louise Nealon
Nealon’s second novel, following on from her feted debut Snowflake, is about women whose lives have been changed forever because of the actions of a man, a man who is not a monster but a fallible human being. It explores the idea of beauty as an unspoken contract we all have within ourselves, a spell that can be broken over and over again by disappointment, hurt and rage, only to lift us into new ways of believing in the world again.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
UK & Commonwealth, excl Canada Manilla, US HarperCollins
The Crack in Everything: A Love Story
Deirdre Power
A gorgeous, raw, heartbreaking debut novel of what it means to close down in the wake of a tragedy, how it might feel to open up to someone who knows something of your pain, how that relationship might shift into something difficult and intractable, yet how your life might still be changed for the better.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
The Shackles
Conor Griffin
They called themselves The Shackles because they could never get away from each other, but after they cover up a fatal hit-and-run in their provincial Irish town, four friends are forever bonded in a drastically different way.
Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor
Marjacq Scripts
Hallows Hill
Olivia Isaac-Henry
On Halloween 15 years ago, a group of friends performed a ritual on Hallows Hill. One didn’t survive. Now, on the anniversary of that fateful night, buried secrets are coming to light…
Agent Sandra Sawicka
World English HarperCollins
The Vanishing Act
Jo Jakeman
Eloise lives a quiet, respectable life in a small village. But when she reads that police received a tip-off about the body of Elizabeth King, missing for 30 years, she can’t believe it. Because she was Elizabeth.
Agent Imogen Pelham
UK & Commonwealth, excl Canada Constable
Muse of Fire
Howard Linskey
A lady-in-waiting is found dead at Queen Elizabeth’s court and William Shakespeare finds himself out of favour, caught up in the machinations of the ruthless Robert Cecil who wants his rival, the Earl of Essex, out of the way.
Agent Philip Patterson
UK & Commonwealth Canelo
Real People’s Lives
Rosa Silverman
A journalist investigates links between the murder of two university students in the same house, 20 years apart: “The Secret History meets True Crime Story”.
Agent Philip Patterson
World English HQ
Mrs Wolff
Harriet Whitehorn
“Practical Magic meets Operation Mincemeat” in a lighthearted and thought-provoking adult debut by the children’s author, a tale of witchcraft set during the Second World War.
Agent Catherine Pellegrino
The Marsh Agency
No Drama Teams
Diana Chapman and Jim Dethmer
How to transform our work lives to create a culture of “connection, innovation and joy”.
Agent for Idea Architects
US Portfolio
Safer: How We Survive and Thrive Together in the Age of Pandemics
Dr Raj Panjabi
The Time 100 leader, TED speaker and White House pandemic expert offers a “solutions-driven playbook” for handling not just the next viral epidemic, but any big moment of uncertainty and change.
Agent for Wave Literary
US HarperOne
The 24: Intangible Norms that Limit Our Best Work
Nilofer Merchant
Merchant shows how “invisible norms”, such as outdated hierarchies and unconscious bias, determine who succeeds – and how to go about dismantling these silent forces undermining innovation.
Agent for True Literary
US Harper Business
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones
Horror set in the American West following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire haunting the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.
Agent for BJ Robbins Literary US Simon & Schuster
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Rabih Alameddine
The PEN/Faulkner-winner’s “transporting” newest about an Arab American trans woman’s journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos.
Agent for Aragi, Inc
US Grove, Italian under offer
Morgan Green Creatives
The Queens of Arabia: A New History of Ancient Middle East
Dr Ellie Bennett
In this compelling political, economic and social history, eight forgotten queens are placed at the heart of Ancient Arabia’s story.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
Gathering: Sewing, Connections and Resistance
Nina Mingya Powles
Told through personal encounters with cloth, a meditation on slow sewing as a mode of community, solace and solidarity.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
UK Sceptre
Into the Dream Lab: The New Science of Dreams and Nightmares
Dr Michelle Carr
A scientific exploration of where nightmares come from, the impact they have, and how we can move away from them toward a more positive dream life.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
UK Profile, US Holt, Netherlands, China, Russia
Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen
Fern Riddell
“Passionate and provocative” re-evaluation of Queen Victoria’s relationship with her servant John Brown that promises to uncover the secrets the royal machine still keeps from us.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
UK Ebury
Night Vision: Into the True Dark
Jean Sprackland
Explores darkness and what it means to us, as humans, through nature, landscapes and stories of others and their experiences in the dark.
Agent Kirsty McLachlan
UK Cape
Mulcahy Sweeney Associates
Lore of Gon
Liana Kim Skrzypczak
The first in a historical fantasy trilogy set in Korea’s warring Three Kingdoms period about a lowly Riverland girl who journeys from her drought-ravaged village to serve as Royal Palace boatman under her male friend’s assumed identity.
Agent Edwina de Charnacé
I Don’t Usually Do This: The Right Way to Make Relationships Work
Stina Sanders
Self-help guide to attracting, choosing and creating relationships that last, by therapist Sanders.
Agent Edwina de Charnacé
Little Vanities
Sarah Gilmartin
Set in Dublin, Gilmartin’s latest novel explores pain, desire and longing in a world still reeling from lockdown, through the prism of two couples.
Agent Sallyanne Sweeney
UK & Commonwealth Pushkin
Shinwa: Japanese Myths Then and Now
Poppy Kuroki (
7)
This book is a “Mythos-style” introduction to the world of Japanese myths, legends and fairytales by fantasy author Kuroki.
Agent Ivan Mulcahy, Edwina de Charnacé
The Godfather of Terror
Lynne O’Donnell
A real-life adventure told in thriller-style telling of the capture by American secret agents of the founder and biggest funder of the Taliban, that also offers a full understanding of Afghanistan’s vital geopolitical position.
Agent Ivan Mulcahy
Mushens Entertainment
Paper Dolls
Andrea Stewart
The daughter of a famous YouTube family – who left her past long behind her – is forced to go home to save her sister.
Agent Juliet Mushens
Things We Never Said
Rebecca Hardy
Following three former friends whose role in a wrongful murder conviction comes to light, forcing them to confront the lies they told as teenagers.
Agent Juliet Mushens
Révérence
Faith Gladwin
Eden is invited to a secluded manor house to compete for the lead role in a new ballet. As the competition intensifies, the body count rises with freak accidents plaguing the dancers. It seems the mysterious manor has its own agenda, and it doesn’t involve any of them leaving alive.
Agent Rachel Neely
The Ballad of the Banshee
Saoirse Morrigan
When the Queen of the Banshees is sentenced to death, she must work with her sworn enemy, the Lord of the Sea, to overthrow the corrupt gods – but can she win her rightful throne without sacrificing the soul of the enemy she has grown to love?
Agent Liza DeBlock
Shadow Reaper
Lynette Noni
A hunter on the search of the reaper who killed her parents. The criminal who serves him. An unlikely partnership that might cost her everything… or give her everything.
Agent Jen AzantianUK, US, France
The North Agency
Human, Animal
Seth Insua
Debut following three generations of a farming family from the Second World War to the present, exploring the friction between tradition and progress as the family’s youngest son grapples with gender identity.
Agent Julie Fergusson World English Verve
Leia Moodie Is All Over the Place
Jane May Morrison
Leia Moodie likes routine, her beloved Blue System wardrobe and Birds Eye potato waffles. She can barely navigate her own neighbourhood, so when her best friend Rose convinces her to go on an around-the-world trip, Leia finds herself in uncharted territory.
Agent Julie Fergusson
Isabel Tries Again
Jackie Fraser
Ten years ago, Isabel was left by the love of her life. When in-the-middle-of-a-divorce Will books into the artist retreat Isabel runs, the chemistry is there but can you really find The One a second time?
Agent Lina Langlee
Professor McPhadden’s Absolutely Essential Guide to Ghosts and Ghost Hunting
Rob Taylor
“Ghostbusters meets Murdle Junior” in a middle-grade debut where young readers are invited to join Professor McPhadden to get to the bottom of ghostly shenanigans.
Agent Lina Langlee
The Climate Crisis Explained
John Ironmonger; Jemma Pentney (illus)
An accessible and illustrated guide for anyone who would like to understand more about the “climate crisis” but doesn’t know where to start.
Agent Lina Langlee
Northbank Talent Management
Stalemate
Mary Newnham
“Witty” debut about the realities of modern love, in which an awkward schoolteacher, pushed towards marrying earlier than planned, struggles to rekindle the flame with her fiancé.
Agent Elizabeth Counsell
World English Hodder, German Bastei Lübbe
My Daughter is Missing
JD Kirk
“Gripping” psychological thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author, as a parent’s worst nightmare comes true when their past comes back to haunt them.
Agent Elizabeth Counsell World English Bookouture
Heap Earth Upon It
Chloe Howarth
A Gothic story of sibling rivalry and Sapphic obsession with “a delicious mid-century feel”, from the critically acclaimed author of Sunburn.
Agent Elizabeth CounsellUK & Commonwealth, excl Canada Verve, Romania
Simplify: Lessons from Apple
Neil West
An insider’s account from a top-level executive of Apple’s approach to simplicity, how that drives its leadership, culture and success, and how we can apply this to our own work and life.
Agent Matthew ColeUK & Commonwealth, excl Canada Macmillan Business
The Great Italian Break Out
Karen Farrington
The audacious and incredible true stories of Allied troops in the Second World War who escaped Italian prisoner-of-war camps following the 1943 Armistice, whose remarkable tales of survival remain largely unknown.
Agent Matthew Cole
Originate Literary Agency
Untitled memoir
Tony Visconti
The follow up memoir to Tony Visconti’s acclaimed Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy.
Agent Natalie Jerome
Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy
Tony Visconti
With a back catalogue that reads like a who’s-who of movers and shakers in popular culture, this memoir takes you on a roller-coaster journey through the glory days of rock and pop music, when men wore sequins and pop really rocked.
Agent Natalie Jerome
UK: HarperCollins UK
Untitled
Alexis Ffrench
A series of children’s books inspiring kids to harness the power of music to learn and create.
Agent Natalie Jerome
We the Peoples: Red Land, Black Labor, White Liberty – The Origin of America and What it Means Now
Claudio Gatti
We the Peoples reconstructs the founding of the US by bringing the narratives of the three peoples involved together for the first time, showing how land dispossession and slavery were key to the Founding Fathers’ vision of America and what that means for us today.
Agent Natalie Jerome
Italy: Rizzoli
Paper Literary
Gutterwitch
Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
“Sweeping” fantasy duology from the bestselling author about a servant girl who gains admittance to an exclusive university for witches – and her subsequent fall from grace.
Agent Catherine Cho
Bright Light on the Horizon
Lindsey Anderson Rios
A debut YA dystopian fantasy set in Alaska after the world has been overrun by a parasitic fungus, focusing on a young supply runner forced to team up with her enemy to try to retrieve a potential cure.
Agent Catherine Cho
Murder in the Straits
FQ Yeoh
“Crazy Rich Asians meets Succession” Golden Age-style murder mystery in which Sara and Alix are a millennial Sherlock and Watson – except each thinks the other is Holmes. When Sara’s billionaire grandfather dies, they go to Singapore to investigate.
Agent Katie Greenstreet
People Watching in the Desert
Cora James
A fish-out-of-water debut about a lonely woman on a spa holiday who transforms from a people watcher into a people person: “For fans of Katherine Heiny and Alison Espach, with White Lotus-esque characters and setting”.
Agent Katie Greenstreet
Matchmaking for Psychopaths
Tasha Coryell
Everyone deserves love, right? A woman working as a matchmaker for a very specific clientele – psychopaths – finds herself entangled in the lives of two of her clients.
Agent Katie Greenstreet
UK Orion, US Berkeley
Peters Fraser & Dunlop
Oroppa
Safae el Khannoussi
The Netherlands’ newest literary star’s debut centres around Salomé Abergel, an established Jewish-Moroccan artist and former political dissident, who goes missing.
Agent Lisette Verhagen
UK Viking, US Pantheon, France Robert Laffont, Germany Hanser and seven others
Nightshade
Autumn Woods
Ophelia enrolls at the prestigious and secretive Sorrowsong University and plans to keep her head down, her grades up and find out what really happened to her parents. The last thing she wants is to wind up in a mafia war…
Agent Daisy Chandley
Italy Newton Compton, Hungary
Men in Love
Irvine Welsh
Choose life. Choose love? A new sequel to Trainspotting has Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leaving heroin behind to seek joy on the dance floor.
Agent Lucy Barry
UK Cape
One Aladdin, Two Lamps
Jeanette Winterson
Winterson’s newest is partly a feminist retelling of One Thousand and One Nights, and partly an exploration of the power of imagination.
Agent Caroline Michel
UK Cape, US Grove, Dutch
Pet (working title)
Chloe Dalton
The Raising Hare author returns to examine the human-pet relationship as a lens through which to consider our attitude to the natural world.
Agent Caroline Michel
UK Canongate, US Pantheon
PEW Literary Agency
I Loved You Then, and Still Love You Now
Sally Hayden
Orwell Prize-winning author and war reporter Hayden turns her attention to the moments of transcendent love that enable people to survive war and crisis.
Agent Patrick Walsh
UK & Commonwealth Fourth Estate, North American Scribner, Dutch, Polish
The Fever and the Cures: The Epic Story of the Plants That Could Eradicate Malaria
Mark Honigsbaum
Medical historian and Observer writer Honigsbaum’s intellectual detective story of how recent botanic discoveries will make it possible to extinguish malaria worldwide.
Agent Patrick Walsh
Byzantium: The Story of An Empire
Peter Sarris
“Revolutionary” new history of the continent-spanning empire, in which the award-winning Cambridge historian Sarris shows how this ancient civilisation has a timely message for the present day.
Agent Doug Young
World English Basic
Evening over Potsdam: Twelve Lessons for Democracy from Germany before Hitler
Mark Jones
University College Dublin history professor Jones looks at the years of the Weimar Republic, the last time a liberal democracy chose to end itself.
Agent Doug Young
The Future of Creativity
Ed Newton-Rex
An “AI wunderkind”, choral composer and campaigner with non-profit Fairly Trained, Newton-Rex examines how creativity itself will be redefined and changed by the advent of AI, virtual reality and brain-computer interfaces.
Agent Patrick Walsh
Pickled Ink
Murder, She Invoked
Annaliese Avery
“Legends & Lattes meets Murder, She Wrote” in YA author Avery’s adult cosy-crime fantasy debut about a young hedgewitch who takes a job in a sleepy town, and discovers that as well as inheriting the town’s hedgewitch business, she has also inherited a murder.
Agent Helen Boyle
Storm Heart
KC Collinson
“Outlander meets Powerless” in this YA romantasy debut set in a parallel Scottish world full of clan rivalry, fierce warrior trials and mythical beasts and goddesses.
Agent Helen Boyle
The Plot Agency
The Return of Moriarty
Jack Anderson
First in a new series in which Moriarty receives a posthumous challenge from Holmes, and is baited into taking on the role of detective to solve an impossible locked-room mystery in a Bavarian manor house with a dysfunctional noble family.
Agent Marilia Savvides
UK Raven, US Crooked Lane, Spain Planeta, Italy Tre60/TEA
Hex House
Amy Jane Stewart
The literary horror debut from the award-winning Scottish author is a dark and unsettling feminist fairytale about a safe haven for women, which transforms them into vessels of revenge: “perfect for fans of AG Slatter and Julia Armfield”.
Agent Marilia Savvides
World English Titan, France Seuil
Portrait of a Woman
Jessica Moor
Based on stranger-than-fiction true events, a stunning Gothic reimagining of artist and muse Lizzie Siddal’s tragic relationship with the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artist Dante Rossetti, and all the women he claimed to love.
Agent Marilia Savvides
Signed by the Author
Lauren Brown
Debut book club novel, in which Northerner Kelsey’s debut novel publication doesn’t live up to her expectations, so she finds solace visiting London’s bookshops and signing copies of her book. But when the fevered signings escalate to books that aren’t her own, unexpected consequences force her to choose who she wants to be.
Agent Marilia Savvides
Portobello Literary
Under the Hammer
Samantha Dooey-Miles
An “if Muriel Spark had written the TV show Dexter” novel of a woman who decides to make the world a better place by punishing landlords: “for fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer and Death of a Bookseller”.
Agent Caro Clarke
UK Verve
Awakened
Laura Elliott
Horror novel exploring the systematisation and monetisation of science and chronic illness: the world is overrun by maddened victims of an experiment to allow humans to go without sleep.
Agent Caro Clarke
World English Angry Robot
Marie Maitland: The Remarkable Untold Story of a 16th-Century Queer Icon
Ashley Douglas
Historian Douglas chronicles “Scotland’s 16th-century Sappho” Maitland, who was writing lesbian love poetry two centuries before Anne Lister, long thought to be Britain’s first lesbian writer.
Agent Caro Clarke
World English Headline
Maturescence: Reclaim Your Self in Early Perimenopause
Lindsay Johnstone
A personal investigation of the misogyny, misinformation and inequality in the diagnosis and management of early perimenopause.
Agent Caro Clarke
The New Eden: Life in Human Landscapes
JC Niala
Environmental historian Niala’s exploration of the extraordinary biodiversity within human-saturated spaces, which leads to a hopeful vision of the future.
Agent Caro Clarke
World English Gaia
Rachel Mills Literary
American Dream
Sara Collins (
8)
Highly-anticipated second novel from the author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton about the fall of a fictional hip-hop icon and the woman he betrayed in the name of his ambition.
Agent Nelle Andrew
UK & Commonwealth Fourth Estate, US Harper, Germany C Bertelsmann
Crazy Spooky Love
Josie Silver
The bestseller’s first in a new ghost-hunting series featuring the complicated love triangle of plucky psychic Melody, her fame-chasing ex and an infuriatingly handsome and sceptical reporter.
Agent Nelle Andrew
UK & Commonwealth Evermore, US & Canada Crown, Germany Rowohlt, Russia, Israel
Deceit
RL Heber
Sexy literary suspense about the wife of the soon-to-be president of an elite New England university who has been having an affair with another staff member – on the day she was due to end the relationship, her lover’s body is discovered in the campus’ woods.
Agent Nelle Andrew
The Protein Myth
Dr Richard MacKenzie
A professor of metabolic health explores the truth behind the macronutrient in which the West is the least deficient, but spends the most money supplementing.
Agent Rachel Mills
Little Addictions
Catherine Gray
The author of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober on gaining greater mastery over our smaller compulsions, to free up peace of mind, disposable income, time and happiness.
Agent Rachel Mills
UK & Commonwealth Aster
RCW
Europe in 7½ Chapters
Timothy Garton Ash
Britain’s “greatest writer on Europe” now writes the shortest introduction to the world’s oldest – and newest – continent.
Agent Natasha Fairweather
Vianne
Joanne Harris
A prequel to the Chocolat series has a pregnant teenage girl arriving in France after the death of her mother. She must find who she really is while staying one step ahead of the pursuing “Man in Black”.
Agent Jon Wood
UK Orion, France Le Cherche Midi, Italy Garzanti, Netherlands, Russia, on offer in Bulgaria
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
McEwan’s newest is a “hugely compelling, brilliantly original and deeply humane novel in which the past, present and future address each other across the barriers of time”.
Agent Peter Straus
UK Cape, US Knopf, Brazil and 17 others
The Palm House
Gwendoline Riley
Literary star Riley’s seventh novel has Laura’s long friendship with Edmund Putnam tested when he resigns from Sequence magazine.
Agent Zoë Waldie
UK Picador
The New Snake Oil
Xand van Tulleken
Van Tulleken aims to guide us through the confusing and conflicting health claims that bombard us from the wellness industry.
Agent Zoë Waldie
UK Cornerstone, Canada, Brazil, under offer in US, Italy, Netherlands
Rebecca Carter Literary
The Silver Book
Olivia Laing ( 9)
A new novel from acclaimed non-fiction writer Olivia Laing takes us to 1970s Italy and the world of Italian cinema in a “tense, Ripley-esque” story about the last months of Pasolini’s life and a young English art student caught up in a dark, political world he doesn’t understand.
Agent Rebecca Carter
UK & Commonwealth Hamish Hamilton, North America FSG, Italian Il Saggiatore
Scheherazade Goes to Izium: Tales from Ukraine
Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
A reimagining of war reportage through transmutation into myth, fairytale and folklore, this “extraordinarily original and powerful” book creates new narratives to explore Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Agent Rebecca Carter
Robert Caskie
This Book Made Me Think of You
Libby Page
An unconventional love story that celebrates the healing power of reading: “think PS, I Love You meets Eat, Pray, Love for bibliophiles”.
Agent Robert Caskie
World Viking, US Berkley, Germany Goldmann, France Leduc, Brazil, Serbia, Ukraine
How to Talk About Money
Claer Barrett
A “money confessional” by FT columnist and bestselling author Barrett, which reveals the financial dynamics that underpin all our relationships.
Agent Robert Caskie
UK & Commonwealth Ebury
What We Left Unsaid
Winnie M Li
“Brave and unflinching” novel which weaves an eye-opening exploration of family, race, growing up and what it means to be American.
Agent Robert Caskie
World Orion, US Emily Bestler
Seeking Sexual Freedom: African Rituals, Traditions and Sankofa in the Bedroom
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
“Bold” foray into African traditions around sexual pleasure, with the personal goal of self-discovery and liberation by one of Africa’s pre-eminent feminists.
Agent Robert Caskie
UK & Commonwealth Dialogue, US One Signal
Maternity Service: A Love Letter to Mothers from the Front Line of Maternity Leave
Emma Barnett
Barnett celebrates the work of being on maternity leave, with its soaring highs and challenging lows, and the impact it has on women.
Agent Robert Caskie
UK & Commonwealth Fig Tree
Rich Lit Rights
Everything Looks Better in Red
Gwendolyn Kiste
“Rachel Harrison’s Such Sharp Teeth meets Fatal Attraction” in a Sapphic werewolf horror novel.
Agent Rachel Richardson (on behalf of Copps Literary Services)
The Third Rule of Time Travel
Philip Fracassi
“Riveting” science fiction from the acclaimed horror author, in which a scientist has unlocked the mysteries of time travel – but the rules are only the beginning.
Agent Rachel Richardson (on behalf of Copps Literary Services)
World English Orbit
The Widows’ Guide to Murder
Amanda Ashby
Charming cosy mystery “for fans of Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, Robert Thorogood and The Thursday Murder Club”.
Agent Rachel Richardson (on behalf of Storm Publishing)
World English Storm
The Last Stars in the Sky
Kate Hewitt
“Unforgettable and heartbreaking” story about one woman’s determination to keep her family together when the world falls apart.
Agent Rachel Richardson (on behalf of Storm Publishing)
World English Storm
The Last Lullaby
Roberta Kagan
In the shadow of two wars, a mother’s sacrifice ripples through generations, as love and loyalty collide in a tale of three women bound by an unbreakable legacy.
Agent Rachel Richardson (on behalf of Storm Publishing)
World English Storm
Sarah Such Literary Agency
Teapot One
Jeffrey Boakye
Amateur sleuthing meets immigrant survival in Boakye’s first novel: when police cook Faith Amponsah finds herself catapulted into a world of secrets and crime, her life is tested beyond measure.
Agent Sarah Such
Can You Solve the Murder?
Antony Johnston
“Masterful” interactive crime novel for adults where you, the reader, step into the shoes of a detective and investigate the most mysterious crime of your career.
Agent Sarah Such
UK Transworld, US Pamela Dorman, Canada, Germany Fischer and eight others
Phantom at The Feast
Tony White
“Cain’s Jawbone meets Calvino’s The Castle of Crossed Destinies” in this sweeping, inventive follow-up to The Fountain in the Forest, where police procedural, literary games and social history combine.
Agent Sarah Such
World English Unbound
Irregular Joy: Riding the Rollercoaster of Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood When Things Don’t Go to Plan
Louisa Leaman
Moving, uplifting and informative memoir by an author and special needs teacher.
Agent Sarah Such
Start Where You Are! The Ultimate Guide to Motivate, Inspire and Empower the New Runner in You
Sabrina Pace-Humphreys
Aimed at all women who are at the start of – or resuming after a break - their running journeys, by a trainer and leading UK voice on inclusivity and diversity in running.
Agent Sarah Such
World English Bloomsbury Sport
The Shaw Agency
The English Wife
Anna Stuart
Gripping new novel from the author of France’s second-bestselling book of 2024 (and Kindle number one), The Midwife of Auschwitz. Inspired by real events, Stuart’s newest tells the story of Clementine Churchill’s Second World War experiences.
Agent Kate Shaw
World English Bookouture
Four Red Sweaters
Lucy Adlington
The bestselling author weaves together four heartbreaking Holocaust stories of struggle, courage and survival, about strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments.
Agent Kate Shaw
UK & Australia/New Zealand Ultimo, North America Harper, Finland
Final Judgement
Nicola Williams
New standalone courtroom thriller from the Lee Mitchell series author, about a judge who faces his estranged son in the dock.
Agent Kate Shaw
I Know How This Ends
Holly Smale
The new novel from the Geek Girl creator and author of Reese’s and Radio 2 Book Club pick Cassandra in Reverse is a “witty, time-twisty” love story about a meteorologist who develops the ability to see into the future.
Agent Kate Shaw
UK & Commonwealth, excl. Canada, North America Mira
Magdala
Joanna Courtney
Eye-opening new novel about the early Christian church centring on Mary – Jesus’ mother and Mary of Magdala (or, Magdalene).
Agent Kate Shaw
World English Piatkus
Sheil Land
The Penthouse
Catherine Cooper
World famous singer Enola had it all, then she vanished without a trace, leaving her band’s careers in ruins. Fifteen years on, the remaining members are reuniting for a series of concerts in Las Vegas. But mysterious accidents begin to plague them – is Enola back for revenge?
Agent Gaia Banks
World English HarperCollins
The Killer Question
Janice Hallett
The “Agatha Christie for the 21st century” returns with an “edge-of-your-seat” mystery that takes place at the weekly trivia night of a rural pub called The Case Is Altered.
Agent Gaia Banks
UK Viper, US Atria
Once a Year
Felicity Hayes-McCoy
The brand-new festive novel from the bestselling author of the Finfarran series has four generations of women returning to their family-owned hotel for their annual New Year’s celebrations.
Agent Gaia Banks
UK & Ireland Hachette Ireland
Children of the Gods
Graham Hancock
Hancock posits that ancient Sumer, Egypt and India all share a common ancestor, a lost civilisation of the Ice Age.
Agent Sonia Land
World English St Martin’s
Escape from Kabul
Karen Bartlett
The extraordinary true story of the Afghan women judges who fought for justice in the courtroom and then fought to escape with their lives, from the bestselling British author.
Agent Gaia Banks
UK September, US The New Press
The Soho Agency
Prentice
Rachel Jackson
Inside a high-security prison mental health unit, patient JP’s cunning mind turns the tables on those meant to control him.
Agent Rowan Lawton
Well, This Is Awkward
Esther Walker
The journalist’s first novel is about how life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans – “and the enduring magic of aunties”.
Agent Alice Saunders
UK & Commonwealth Bedford Square
Beyond the Edge of Light
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton
On the eve of the Second World War, Julia falls in love with Conrad von Echlau. Separated, their fates later collide during the war when Conrad is sent on a spy mission to England.
Agent Mark Lucas
World English Transworld
Tidespeaker
Sadie Turner
Debut YA fantasy duology in which a girl with the ability to control water secures a position serving a powerful noble family – but she must navigate her employers’ secrets if she wants to survive.
Agent Marina de Pass
UK & Commonwealth Rock the Boat, US Delacorte, audio Bolinda
The White Crow
Michael Robotham
Philomena McCarthy – a police officer from a family of gangsters – is immersed in a case which leads to suspicions about the McCarthy clan, and herself.
Agent Mark Lucas
UK & Commonwealth Little, Brown, US & Canada Simon & Schuster, Germany Goldmann, Netherlands
Sophie Hicks Agency
Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues
Tristan Gooley
Natural navigation expert Gooley uncovers fascinating seasonal changes, deepening our understanding of how nature makes its way through a year.
Agent Sophie Hicks
UK Hodder, US The Experiment
Love on a Bookshelf
Kiah Thomas
“Joyful and deliciously romantic” debut with a charming bookstore setting: a story of “second chances and new beginnings”.
Agent Sophie Hicks
UK
Headline
A Judgement of Powers
Benedict Jacka
“Thrilling” new contemporary fantasy in which Stephen Oakwood has potential, but converting it to magical power takes money, opportunity and training. And all he has is a minimum wage job and a cat...
Agent Sophie Hicks
UK Orbit, US Berkley, German Blanvalet
Domain
Rohan Gavin
Speculative YA novel imagines a world where your mind is a desktop with hundreds of apps – from martial artist to concert pianist – streamed directly to your brain, AKA your “Domain”.
Agent Sophie Hicks
UK Bonnier Books
Firefox Moon
Eoin Colfer
The bestselling author’s newest Juniper Lane middle-grade adventure title has magic, humour and mythological characters.
Agent Sophie Hicks
US Roaring Brook Press
Susanna Lea Associates
On Broligarchy
Carole Cadwalladr
The investigative journalist dives into our post-truth world run by tech billionaires, and tells us what it means for civil liberties and surveillance.
Agent Susanna Lea
UK & Commonwealth Faber, North America Penguin
The Mission
Tim Weiner
The Pulitzer winner’s look at the CIA in the 21st century – a successor to 2007’s Legacy of Ashes, which won the National Book Award.
Agent On behalf of The Robbins Office
UK & Commonwealth William Collins, North America Mariner, France Robert Laffont, Germany Fischer, Netherlands, Spain Debate
The Bookshop of Forbidden Books
Marc Levy
The French superstar’s whimsical comedy about Mitch, a bookseller, who is imprisoned for selling banned books.
Agent Susanna Lea
France Robert Laffont, Spain HarperCollins, Brazil, Portugal, Serbia, Vietnam, Russia
June Baby
Shannon Garvey
“Sally Rooney meets Elin Hilderbrand” following a woman in her late 20s over the course of one summer on Block Island, where she grapples with grief, her choices and love.
Agent Stephanie Cabot
North America Random House
L’Invention de Tristan
Adrien Bosc
The award-winning author of Constellation, a brilliant and richly told investigative novel, tells the story of cult author Tristan Egolf.
Agent Susanna Lea
France Stock
Trident Media
Here Lie All of the Boys Who Broke My Heart
Emma Simmerman
A murder mystery about a young woman who writes eulogies in her journal for every boy who breaks her heart, but then her exes start turning up dead and the entries appear at the crime scenes.
Agent Kristen Bertoloni
UK Simon & Schuster, US Avon, Brazil
Decoding Cybersecurity
Pablo Brum
Cybersecurity for the non-specialist, explaining that we’re all at risk each time we look at our phone or open our laptop.
Agent Don Fehr
US Prometheus
Culpability
Bruce Holsinger
A suspenseful family drama in the wake of a life-changing accident involving an autonomous vehicle: “Leave the World Behind meets Little Fires Everywhere”.
Agent Ellen Levine
US Spiegel & Grau
The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
A kaleidoscopic novel following five women – Desiree, Danielle, Nakia, January and Monique – trying to navigate the wilderness that is young adulthood as the realities of life sweep over them.
Agent Ellen Levine
US Mariner
World Enemy Number One
Jochen Hellbeck
A history of the Second World War that argues the ideology of “Judeo-Bolshevism” fuelled the Holocaust and the killing of nearly 26 million Soviet citizens.
Agent Don Fehr
UK Macmillan, US Penguin, Italy Mondadori, Germany Fischer, Netherlands
United Agents
Everything We Think We Know About Religion Is Wrong
Erin Wilson
Global reassessment of faith, spirituality and belief for 21st-century life by a professor of politics and religion.
Agent Olivia Davies
Main Characters
Bobby Palmer
Aspiring director Clara and reluctant actor Seb’s “magnetic connection” is charted over two decades, seen through their audience: friends, rivals and lovers; the bartender on their first date; and the waiter on their last.
Agent Millie Hoskins
UK Headline
Let the Bad Times Roll
Alice Slater
The Death of a Bookseller author’s newest has Daniel going missing while on holiday in New Orleans, and his sister Caroline bringing together those who knew him best to find out who he really was.
Agent Zoe Ross
UK Hodder
Pixie
Jill Dawson
Pixie is neither daughter, wife, mistress, mother nor sister but is underestimated by the “great men” she meets; inspired by the true story of Pamela Colman Smith, designer of the world’s best known Tarot deck.
Agent Caroline Dawnay
UK Bloomsbury
Now You Tell Me Yours
Cassandra Neyenesch
A “sexy, darkly comedic” debut literary novel about an obsessive love affair between social worker and an anarcho-Marxist roofer that ends in a murder, set in Obama-era San Diego.
Agent Caroline Dawnay
US Summit, Canada
Watson, Little
Rasayana: The Ayurvedic Formula for Staying Young in Mind and Body
Geeta Vara ( 10)
An “uplifting”, practical and holistic guide to well-being over the course of a long life.
Agent Laetitia Rutherford
UK & Commonwealth Green Tree
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
Martin Edwards
In a snowbound village at Christmas, six strangers race to solve a fictional murder mystery, only to find themselves picked off by a real-life killer.
Agent James Wills
UK Head of Zeus, US Poison Pen, Italy & Spain Newton Compton, France Sonatine
The Disorder
Hannah Brennan
First in a debut crime series has a respected psychiatrist brutally stabbed to death. The only clue is a document, pinned to his chest, pointing to an experiment he conducted with five teens over a decade ago…
Agent Donald Winchester
UK & Commonwealth Avon
Entanglement
Ajay Chowdhury
This speculative tech thriller sees two mismatched women race across the US to unravel the cryptic clues left by the man they both love, while guarding a secret that could decide the fate of humanity.
Agent James Wills
UK & Commonwealth Harvill
Say You’ll Be There
Nina Millns
Four women who grew apart after an intense teenage friendship reunite when one of them goes missing, opening up a world of trouble they all believed was firmly in the past.
Agent Hannah Weatherill
UK & Commonwealth Simon & Schuster
WME
Girl Dinner
Janet Change
“Compulsive Emily in Paris meets The Bear” book club debut novel about a downtrodden personal assistant whose heiress boss dies in a freak accident, and she is left impersonating her at culinary school in Paris.
Agent Hellie Ogden
We Are Not a Family
Nell Montgomery, Elisa Morris
An expert take on how our earliest experiences determine the course of our professional lives, across 12 office archetypes.
Agent Matilda Forbes Watson
Losing the Plot
Katie Ogunsakin (née Packer)
An editor working on a Hollywood memoir is caught between the star and the co-writer in this messy romcom and love letter to London.
Agent Hellie Ogden
I Don’t Care (But I Still win)
Hikaru Nakamura
Memoir of the top-rated chess player in America and the world number three, on how taking things less seriously is essential to success in any domain.
Agent Alex Kane
UK Orion, US Portfolio
Silver Fox
Adam Borba
A “romp” of an espionage thriller featuring retired CIA field agent Harvey Fox who, at 83, has to run one more covert op – all on his own.
Agent Eric Simonoff
Writers House
Skin Contact
Elisa Faison
A provocative debut about a couple who decide to open their marriage before having a baby, and the shock waves that follow.
Agent Alexa Stark
UK Sceptre, US Reagan Arthur’s new imprint, Italy Stile, Germany Piper
Seduction Theory
Emily Adrian
When two married professors tiptoe toward infidelity, their transgressions are brought to light in a graduate student’s searing thesis project. Innovative, witty and tender.
Agent Susan Ginsburg
UK Weidenfeld, US Little, Brown
The Method
Matthew Quirk
The Night Agent author’s new thriller centres on an actress whose physical training for action roles is put to the ultimate test when her best friend disappears after consorting with glamorous but shadowy figures.
Agent Dan Conaway
US Morrow
The Four Seasons Of Heartbreak
Sheleana Aiyana
Aiyana’s new non-fiction offers a more compassionate, thoughtful and gentle way to heal from the end of relationships.
Agent Johanna Castillo
US Penguin Life
Scriptnotes
John August, Craig Mazin
The top Hollywood screenwriters adapt their discussions on their craft in their popular podcast, Scriptnotes.
Agent Jodi Reamer
UK Crown, UK Transworld
The Wylie Agency
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Women’s Prize-winner’s much-anticipated first novel since 2012 is the story of four women and their desires.
Agent Sarah Chalfant
UK Fourth Estate, US Knopf, Brazil, Canada and 13 others
This Is For Everyone
Tim Berners-Lee
The story of our modern age, told through this “groundbreaking” memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Agent Sarah Chalfant
UK Macmillan, US FSG, Germany Rowohlt, Italy Mondadori, Japan, Korea, Spain Deusto
The Original Daughter
Jemimah Wei
One of 2025’s most-talked about literary debuts, set in working-class Singapore, about an intoxicating relationship between two sisters.
Agent Jacqueline Ko
UK Weidenfeld, US Doubleday, Italy Mondadori, Netherlands
All the Way to the River
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Eat Pray Love author returns to memoir after a decade.
Agent Sarah Chalfant
UK Bloomsbury, US Riverhead, Brazil, Bulgaria and seven others
Things That Disappear
Jenny Erpenbeck
The 2024 International Booker winner’s collection of “most intimate miniatures”: a series of short essays meditating on the impermanence of things.
Agent Sarah Chalfant
UK Granta, US New Directions, Egypt, Germany Galiani and Penguin, Greece, Spain Anagrama
YMU
Be Happy I Am Mad
Dakota Warren
The debut novel from BookTok star and Goodreads Choice Awards poetry finalist Warren is a Sapphic tale of obsessive first love set across one sticky summer in late 1960s Australia.
Agent Elise Middleton
The Leadership Formula
Kevin Ellis, Dr Phil Hopley
The psychology behind leadership in a “comprehensive” guide from acclaimed performance mentor and psychological coach Hopley, and PwC chairman Ellis.
Agent Elise Middleton
Vipers
Rosie Day
This “cracking” debut “for fans of I’m Glad My Mom Died” centres on female friendship and kicks off with Cece attending New York Fashion Week in a bitterly cold February, just as a distracted alcoholic manager sends Angie to pilot season there.
Agent Anna Dixon
Out of Chaos
Sam Marsden
“Westworld meets the Greek gods” in an adult Sapphic romance where Maya finds herself thrown into Olympia World, a place that pushes guests to their psychological limits in the name of wellness and entertainment – and you can make money beyond your wildest imagination... if you know how to play the game.
Agent Anna Dixon
Next Gen CEO: Why Everything You Know About Leadership Is About to Expire
Mike Soutar
A new leadership playbook from entrepreneur and The Apprentice interviewer Soutar for an age when companies compete with algorithms and workforces include AIs.
Agent Anna Dixon
Zeno Agency
Himbo Henchman
Clio Evans
“For fans of Butcher and Blackbird”, a dark romcom about finding the perfect partner to help you get that dead body into your truck.
Agent Stevie Finegan
The Archeology of Falling Worlds
Megan Chee
Studio Ghibli-esque science-fantasy set in a refugee world, where two main characters must come together to help a strange void creature and stop universes being devoured.
Agent Stevie Finegan
The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World
JR Dawson
“Beautiful” Sapphic Orpheus and Eurydice retelling featuring the daughter of the ferryman who looks after the souls of the dead on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Agent Stevie Finegan
World English Tor
A Holy Maiden’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped
Katy Nyquist
A spicy romantasy featuring a heroine who can heal any injury but must pay by losing a day of her own life.
Agent Stevie Finegan
World English Podium
Teachers in Love
MA Wardell
Spicy male/male romance quartet featuring love stories between the teachers at the local school.
Agent Stevie Finegan
UK & Commonwealth Michael Joseph, North American Forever, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese
