Frankfurt Book Fair Briefcase 2022

Rights Monday, 10th October 2022

Agents announce the top titles they will take to, or sell during, the Frankfurt Book Fair (19 - 23 October)

Aitken Alexander
For fans of Lisa Halliday and Patricia Highsmith, The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
(right) is a psychological suspense novel about an ascendant writer, the sudden death
of her husband, and what it takes to emerge on her own (agent Emma Paterson;
Weidenfeld UK; Grove US; Hachette Australia; DTV Germany; Marsilio Italy; Trei Italy). In
A House for Alice by Diana Evans, conflict stirs among Alice's daughters about whether
she should leave for Nigeria or stay near them in London (agent Clare Alexander;
Chatto UK). Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein is a sweeping story of two families
colliding in 1940s Trinidad (agent Chris Wellbelove; Bloomsbury UK; Ecco US; Leda
Czech).
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba is about the orchestra formed in the death camp in
1943 at the order of SS officers - an order that would mean survival for almost all of them (agent Clare
Alexander; Weidenfeld UK; St Martin's Press US). Francis Spufford's noir homage and "book of the century"
(Richard Osman) Cahokia Jazz is set in a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night
at the end of winter, when two detectives find a mutilated body on the roof of a skyscraper (agent Clare
Alexander). In 2011, 25-year-old Gary Stevenson became Citibank's most profitable trader in the world; in
2014, he gave it all up - The Trading Game is about why he took that decision (agent Chris Wellbelove; Allen
Lane UK; Crown US; Ariston, Heyne Germany; Hayakawa Japan; Ambo Anthos Netherlands).
Darley Anderson
Naomi and Luca are best pen-emies, but they've never met; after two years of no
letters, Luca gets back in touch, in Donna Marchetti's debut romcom Hate Mail (agent
Rebeka Finch; on submission UK and US; Aufbau Germany; under offer Brazil). In Ally
Zetterberg's (left) debut romcom The Sync Up, Klara returns to manage her dad's
construction company, and soon decides to sync calendars with the gorgeous new
carpenter (agent Tanera Simons; on submission UK and US). Author and criminal
barrister Imran Mahmood's new novel is Finding Sophie: Sophie has disappeared, and
her distraught parents are standing trial for murder (agent Camilla Bolton; Raven Books
UK; on submission US).
The Prisoner by BA Paris: it's dark; you don’t know where you are; you can hear footsteps approaching; and
then you hear your husband's screams (agent Camilla Bolton; Hodder UK; St Martin's Press US; nine
international deals). Natalie and Rani are neighbours who find themselves sucked into each other's worlds,
in desperation and obsession, in Mira V Shah's debut Her (agent Camilla Bolton; Hodder UK).
The Blair Partnership
The Sweetest Revenge by Lizzy Dent is Bridesmaids meets Emily in Paris: Amy flees to London after a
misjudged act of revenge on her ex ends her career, but just as she's getting her life together, her past
catches up with her (agent Hattie Grunewald; Putnam US). In Their House by Ruth Kelly, a YouTuber couple
are gifted a beautiful chateau in France, only to find that they have become part of a more sinister agenda

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 (agent Jordan Lees). Josef Lewkowicz tells the story of how he survived six concentration camps and went on
to rescue hundreds of orphaned children and bring prominent Nazis to justice in The Survivor (agent Jordan
Lees; Transworld UK; Harper Canada; Newton Compton Italy; Bookzone Romania; Alexandra Kiado Hungary;
Albatros Media Czech Republic; HarperCollins Holland; Michel Lafon France; Media Rodzina Poland; Heyne
Germany).
In Stephen Ronson's World War II thriller The Last Line, an ex-commando investigates
the disappearances of evacuees who leave London but don't arrive at their destinations
(agent Jordan Lees; under offer UK). In 1920s Edinburgh, Evelyn's quiet existence is
shattered when her husband announces he can communicate with the dead, in
Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam (right) (agent Hattie Grunewald; John Murray UK).
Red Dirt Road is a new thriller by SR White in which Detective Dana Russo investigates
the savage murders of two men in an outback town with a population of 50 (agent
Hattie Grunewald; Headline world English).
Blake Friedmann
For Such a Time as This by Shani Akilah is a collection of powerful, timely stories of
Black-British millennial relationships set against the backdrop of a fast-changing world
(agent Sian Ellis-Martin; on submission). Dwell by Rue Baldry is a coming-of-age story of
a secret relationship between a traumatised former soldier and a privileged medical
student in the aftermath of WWI (agent Sam Hodder; on submission). Rachel
Blackmore's (left) lush historical debut Costanza charts the rise and fall (and rise again)
of the sculptor Bernini's mistress (agent Juliet Pickering; on submission).
The Hyacinth Girl: TS Eliot's Hidden Muse by Lyndall Gordon is a ground-breaking biography drawing on
over 1,000 newly revealed letters from Eliot to his hidden muse, Emily Hale (agent Isobel Dixon; Virago UK;
Norton US). The Dive by Sara Ochs is a gripping, twisty thriller set in the world of scuba-diving (agent Kate
Burke; Transworld UK; Sourcebooks US; Bazar Finland; Blanvalet Germany; De Fontein the Netherlands).
Windham-Campbell winner Ivan Vladislavić returns with The Near North, an autofictional exploration of
walking the streets of Johannesburg in lockdown, meeting its ghosts (agent Isobel Dixon; on submission).
Felicity Bryan
In Porn: an Oral History, writer and translator Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a
topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives (agent Angelique Tran van Sang; Fitzcarraldo UK; La
Nave di Teseo Italy). Kathryn Hurlock, reader in modern history at Manchester, looks at 19 pilgrimage sites
round the world in Heavenly Places: A Global History of Pilgrimage (agent Catherine Clarke; Profile UK). In
The Quiet Mind: The Surprising Science of Doing Nothing, neuroscientist Dr Joseph Jebelli reveals research
showing that doing nothing has a number of profound benefits for your brain and body (agent Carrie Plitt;
Transworld UK).
Set in Donegal in 1994, the year before divorce is legalised in Ireland, The Coast Road is
a compassionate portrait of three marriages by debut novelist Alan Murrin (agent
Caroline Wood; Bloomsbury UK; DTV Germany; Mondadori Italy). In The Social Cure:
Why social connection matters - and how to build better relationships, David Robson
uses cutting edge psychology and neuroscience to examine our profound need for
social connection, the reasons that we often fail to create closer bonds, and the ways in
which we can build more fulfilling and authentic relationships (agent Carrie Plitt;
Canongate UK). Wellcome-funded Oxford University biologist Liam Shaw's (right) Fossil
Drugs: A natural history of antibiotics - and how we burned through them tells the story of antibiotics,
starting with their origins millions of years ago, showing that if we are to adapt to the future of antibiotic

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 resistance, we need to understand how they really work - and fast (agent Catherine Clarke; Bodley Head UK;
Simon & Schuster US; Garzanti Italy).
Georgina Capel
Ben Okri (left) evokes the magic of nature and the urgency of protecting our
environment in Tiger Work: Poems, Stories and Essays about Climate Change (agent
Georgina Capel; Head of Zeus UK; Other Press US). Robert Hardman tells the story of
the royal family from the 19th century to the present day in The Windsors: A Story of a
Dynasty (agent Georgina Capel; on submission). Historian Andrew Roberts has joined
forces with General David Petraeus for Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to
the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, identifying the issues that have stymied Vladimir Putin
in his invasion of Ukraine (agent Georgina Capel; William Collins UK; HarperCollins US).
In spy novelist James Wolff’s The Man in the Corduroy Suit, Leonard Flood investigates the poisoning of a
colleague, with the trail leading not to Russia but to the heart of the English countryside (agent Georgina
Capel; Bitter Lemon UK). Philosopher and economist Daniel Chandler points to the work of John Rawls in
investigating how to create a fair society in Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? (agent
Georgina Capel; Allen Lane UK). In Growth, Daniel Susskind brings together all the disparate threads on the
subject of economic growth (agent Georgina Capel; Allen Lane UK; Henry Holt US; China Translation &
Publishing House simplified Chinese).
C&W
At a dinner party, a young couple in financial strife drunkenly joke about life insurance fraud - then one night,
the wife doesn't come home, in Olivia Kiernan's The End of Us (agent Susan Armstrong; riverrun UK). A
woman meets a man and learns that they are grieving for the same person, in a world without shadows, in
Laurane Marchive's As the Light Runs Out (agent Susan Armstrong). Dan Sheehan's Even Lovers Drown is
about a man's return to County Mayo, where he met his late wife and where their children were born (agent
Lucy Luck).
Anjana Khatwa (right) tells the story of how rocks have influenced our physical lives,
cultural practices, and ways of thinking, in The Whispers of Rock (agent Richard Pike).
Alex Perry's Blood Will Flow is an exposé of international energy companies, showing
how they really make their profits (agent Richard Pike; Bonnier Books UK). Callum
Robinson's Natural Selection is an account of life as a contemporary craftsman,
intertwined with an exploration of why wood, and woodcraft, still matters, as well as a
portrait of a father and son relationship (agent Sophie Lambert).
Curtis Brown
Curtis Brown is relaunching Jilly Cooper in the translation markets as her novel Rivals
gets a Disney+ series adaptation (agent Felicity Blunt; Bantam UK). Louise Candlish's
(left) new novel is The Only Suspect, a cautionary tale of obsession, love, jealousy and
deception (agent Sheila Crowley; Simon and Schuster UK). Beginning in Latvia in 1913
and ending in post-war Soho, Linda Grant's The Story of the Forest is about myths and
memory and how families adapt both in order to survive (agent Jonny Geller; Virago
UK).
In Celia Dale's suburban horror A Helping Hand, an apparently unassuming couple make it their mission to
lend a helping hand to lonely old ladies - but their motives and the results of their 'care' are far from
charitable (agents Norah Perkins and Becky Brown; Daunt Books UK). Amanda Craig's new novel The Three
Graces is a story of female friendship - in old age, last love; and also about the crisis in Italy (agent Cathryn
Summerhayes; Little, Brown UK). The Happiness Is Near by Rachelle Unreich is a memoir of the author's

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 mother's Holocaust experience, asking how, despite having experienced and witnessed horrors, she had
managed to live life with such happiness (agent Tara Wynne, Curtis Brown Australia; Hachette Australia).
DHH
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown is a debut novel of magical books, for fans of The Binding and The
Cartographers (agent Harry Illingworth; Transworld UK; Morrow US; Heyne Germany; Rizzoli Italy; Luitingh
Netherlands; Maeva Spain). MW Craven begins a new series with Fearless, introducing fearless and
unpredictable Ben Koenig (Constable UK; Flatiron US). Kat Devereaux's Escape to Florence is a debut novel
of resistance and revolution, courage and defiance, loss and gain (agent Broo Doherty; Head of Zeus UK;
Harper US; Fontein Netherlands).
An Inspector Calls meets The Mousetrap in historical crime novel The Good Liars by
Anita Frank (agent David Headley; HQ UK). End of Story by Louise Swanson (right) is The
Handmaid's Tale meets Vox, set in a future where fiction is banned (agent Emily
Glenister; Hodder UK). In the debut novel Perilous Times, Thomas D Lee mixes
Arthurian legend with contemporary fantasy (agent Harry Illingworth; Orbit UK;
Ballantine US; Heyne Germany).
Diamond Kahn & Woods
In the Shadow of the Wolves by Virginia Macgregor is based on the author's family
history, hidden for generations, featuring the 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler as well
as a secret love affair (agent Bryony Woods; on submission). Caroline O'Donoghue's
(left) third novel is The Rachel Incident, a story of losing yourself, finding yourself and
the lengths we will go to for those we love (agent Bryony Woods; Virago UK; Knopf NA;
KiWi Germany; Ambo Anthos Netherlands; WF Howes UK audio; film/TV to be
announced).
Dark Island by Daniel Aubrey is a debut crime novel set in the Orkney islands and featuring a neurodivergent
protagonist, inspired by the author's own experiences (on submission). In Lilith, Nikki Marmery offers a
ground-breaking, feminist retelling of the biblical story (Legend Press UK; WF Howes UK audio; S Fischer
Germany; under offer NA).
Edwards Fuglewicz
In The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life after Fifty by Ellen Warner, women from vastly differing
backgrounds talk about how they view their lives before and after reaching 50 years old (Brandeis). The
Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy is an intimate history of the Oscars
by Bruce Davis, who was the executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for over
20 years (Brandeis). Inventing Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot by Geoffrey Batchen traces Fox
Talbot's experiments from the 1830s onwards and includes three albums of photographs until very recently
in the possession of Fox Talbot's sister's heirs (Bodleian Library).
The legends of Alexander the Great are brought to life with storytelling from round the
world in Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth by Richard Stoneman, with original
illustrations from books and manuscripts (British Library). In Courses for Horses: A
Journey Round the Racecourses of Great Britain and Ireland by Nicholas Clee (right), the
author of the award-winning Eclipse offers a portrait of horseracing and of the
extraordinarily diverse venues where it takes place, gaining behind-the-scenes insights
from key figures in the sport - from jockeys to bookmakers, trainers to form experts,
broadcasters to administrators (Weidenfeld world rights). Dancing in Time: A History of
Moving and Shaking by Robert Hylton, with an introduction by Oti Mabuse, is a visual history of dance from

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 the waltz to modern hip-hop (British Library).
Feldstein Agency
Never Waste a Good Hysterectomy: Life lessons from a crisis by Melanie Verwoerd (left)
is a "brutally honest" memoir reflecting on a year following major surgery, by a former
member of the South African Parliament, South African Ambassador to Ireland and
executive director of UNICEF. Carmel Maria McMahon's In Ordinary Time: Fragments of
a Family History is a hybrid memoir comprised of essays, poems and photographs,
examining how "ordinary traumas" resonate through a life (Duckworth: world English).
From Hollywood to Hollywood: The Era of Global Lawfare by Paul Tweed is an
exploration of libel in the social media era, describing "the famous cases the author has fought for the
mighty, the powerful, for famous royals, and for many notable Hollywood A-listers". Eoin Lane's Still Falls the
Rain draws us into the private, inner worlds of eastern European immigrant Katja and her next door
neighbour Martin, an old Irishman, and quickly gathers momentum as their stories begin to unfold and
Martin's harrowing past comes vividly to life. Tina Pisco's The Dithering, Tales From the Peri-Apocalypse is a
collection of stories set against the background of the climate emergency.
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Translation rights: Alexandra Cliff at Rachel Mills Literary
Jack Anderson's The Grief Doctor is a debut thriller about a wealthy man who travels to
a remote island to see a controversial therapist - and is prevented from leaving until
he's better (agent Marilia Savvides; on submission). Lila Cain's The Blackbirds of St Giles
is set in the little-known world of Georgian London's Black community (agent Eugenie
Furniss; on submission). In What Women Want: Conversations on Desire, Power, Love
and Growth psychotherapist Maxine Mei-Fung Chung (right) answers Freud's question
by telling the stories of seven of her patients (agent Eugenie Furniss; Hutchinson
Heinemann UK; Rowohlt Germany; Insignis Poland).
An ex-squaddie and an army nurse overcome shared grief and PTSD in Seven Poppies by Lisa Collins (agent
Eugenie Furniss; on submission). Kate Griffin's Fyneshade is a ghost story inspired by The Turn of the Screw
(agent Eugenie Furniss; Viper UK). Eleanor Tucker reveals how swapping, borrowing and renting can help us
live more affordable, more sustainable, and more fulfilling lives in Thanks for Sharing: How I Gave Up Buying
and Embraced Borrowing, Swapping and Renting (agent Emily MacDonald; Aurum: world English).
David Godwin Associates
Jim Crace's new novel is Eden, set in the years after Adam and Eve left the Garden, where another inhabitant
escapes and the threat of a second Fall looms (agent David Godwin; Picador UK; under offer Canada). Frank
Trentmann's The Germans is billed as the first major history of the transformation of German society from
the Second World War to today (agent David Godwin; Allen Lane UK; Knopf US; McClelland & Stuart Canada;
De Arbeiderspers Netherlands; Corpus Russia). The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra is a
story of romance and friendship set against the background of the Indian Partition and the ethereal world of
perfumery (agent David Godwin; Flatiron US; HarperCollins India; Uitgeverij Nieuw Amsterdam Netherlands).
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait Of A Marriage by Jonny Steinberg is the little-told story of a
relationship that put the entire South African nation at stake (agent David Godwin;
HarperCollins UK; Knopf US). A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (left) is a
prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree: when the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it
terror and violence, three women must protect humankind from a devastating threat
(agent David Godwin; Bloomsbury world English; VR Editora Brazil; Host Czech Republic;
De Saxus France; Next 21 Kiado Hungary; Mondadori Italy; Wydawnictwo SQN Poland;

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 Roca Spain). The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatalika is the Booker-shortlisted tale of a Sri
Lankan photographer's quest to expose his murderer and the horrors of Sri Lankan civil war from beyond
the grave (agent David Godwin; Sort Of Books UK; Norton US; Labyrinth Bulgaria; Rowohlt Germany;
Gutenberg Editions Greece; Éditions Banyan France; MTS Publishers Russia).
Greene & Heaton
No Season but the Summer by Matilda Leyser transports classic myth to the present in
the story of Persephone, of the stories behind why our seasons change, and of how
climate change is stretching and breaking the rules that have long kept the natural
world in rhythm (agent Laura Williams; Scribe UK). Tate Kinsella, in The Girl on the
Ledge by Ruth Mancini, was the last to see a woman who fell to her death from a 25th-
floor roof terrace - and Tate was rumoured to be having an affair with the woman's
husband (agent Judith Murray; Century UK). Sounds Like Fun by Bryan Moriarty (right)
is a romcom following the progess of Eoin after his boyfriend, Rich, announces he
wants an open relationship (agent Laura Williams; Hodder UK).
Sun & Ssukgat: The Lost Art of Korean Self-Care by Michelle Bang is a practical pocket guide by an eco-
entrepreneur who has learned from self-healing masters and explored preventative self-care rituals within
her heritage to uncover Korea's centuries-old health secrets (agent Holly Faulks; under offer UK). In Simple
Shelter: Loss, Recovery and the Living World in Fifteen Mountain Bothies, Kat Hill journeys through Britain
visiting simple shelters that provide haven and community (agent Imogen Morrell; on submission UK).
Marcus du Sautoy offers a mathematical, strategic and cultural portrait of games from tic-tac-toe to
Dungeons & Dragons, from Go to Majong to Poker to multi-player video games, in Around the World in 80
Games (agent Antony Topping; 4th Estate UK; Basic Books US; Interpark Korea).
Greyhound Literary
Victoria Belim's The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Secret is a family history told
across four generations, as a young woman searches for traces of her great-uncle, who
disappeared during the 1930s - a search that uncovers Ukraine's complex relationship
with its Soviet past (agent Charlie Campbell; Virago UK; Abrams Press NA; BestSeller
Brazil; Enciclopedia Catalan; Faces Chinese complex characters; Klim Danish; de
Arbeiderspers Dutch; Rahva Raamat Estonian; Tammi Finnish; Aufbau German;
Könyvmolyképző Hungarian; La Nave di Teseo Italian; Moonhak Soochup Korean;
Aschehoug Norwegian; Mova/Kobiece Polish; Porto Editora Portuguese; Lumen
Spanish; Brombergs Swedish). AP Firdaus' (left) Remember, Mr Sharma is about a mother's love, inter-
generational trauma and one boy's journey to uncover his family's hidden history (agent Julia Silk; Sceptre
UK; AST Russian). In Further, former cycling champion Michael Hutchinson immerses himself in the world of
endurance cycling, talking to ultra-distance athletes, exercise scientists, nutritionists and psychologists
(agent Charlotte Atyeo; under offer UK).
In Sue Ransom's debut thriller Listen to the Fear, a wealthy audience flocks to an exclusive, 80s-themed
music festival with no idea that they are being held hostage (agent Charlie Campbell; on submission UK;
Ambo/Anthos Dutch). David Moats, in Computer Says No, shows how the introduction of technology to
human processes has often led to controversy and even disaster, offering an alternative understanding of
both human and machine decision-making (agent Natalie Galustian; on submission UK). The late Alan
Rickman shares 25 years in his life as an actor, political activist and traveller in Madly, Deeply: The Alan
Rickman Diaries (agent Natalie Galustian; Canongate world English; Henry Holt NA; Euromedia Czech;
Kossuth Hungarian; Poznanskie Polish; Nash Format Ukrainian).
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 To Kill Ukraine by David Finkel explores Russia's history of political violence against Ukraine and how it led to
the current genocide (agent: Caroline Hardman; UK & Commonwealth: John Murray; US and world all
languages: Basic Books; Dutch: Ambo Anthos). In Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials, Marion Gibson explores a
global history of witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the present day, shining a lightl on the victims' stories
(agent: Joanna Swainson; UK and Commonwealth: S&S; US: Scribner). Women on Porn (title tbc) by Fiona
Vera-Gray is an account of sex and sexuality written by an academic authority on pornography, feminism,
and sexual violence (UK and Commonwealth: Transworld; Spain: Planeta & Península).
The One That Got Away by Charlotte Rixon (right) follows university sweethearts Ben
and Clara. A devastating mistake pulls them apart in 2000, and 20 years later a tragedy
brings them back together (agent: Caroline Hardman; UK and Commonwealth: Head of
Zeus; US: St Martin's Press; Hebrew: Tchelet; Hungary: Libri Kiado; Romania: RAO;
Portuguese in Brazil: Faro; Ukraine: Family Leisure Club). In the Middle of Middle
America by David B Lyons is about seven people who are unaware their lives are about
to interweave and entangle into a messy web that will end up changing the face of
America forever (agent: Joanna Swainson; on submission). Chasing Fog by Laura Pashby
is a narrative non-fiction title that combines a physical journey to the foggiest places one can find with an
exploration of the moods and meanings that we attribute to fog, its stories, role in mythology, and how it is
represented in art (agent: Caroline Hardman; under offer).
AM Heath
How Migration Really Works by Hein de Haas explores the past, present and future of
migration, aiming to correct decades of bad thinking, political duplicity, and misguided
policy on the subject. De Haas is a sociologist and geographer (agent: Tom Killingbeck;
UK: Viking; China: under offer; Holland: Het Spectrum; France: Albin Michel; Germany: S
Fischer Verlag; Portugal: under offer; Spain: Ediciones Peninsula). Australian debut
novelist Brooke Hardwick's psychological thriller Ten Days interweaves Gaelic
mythology and is full of danger, dark secrets and duplicity (agent: Euan Thorneycroft;
UK: under offer). Dr Graeme Lawson (left) tells a global history of humanity in In Search
of Lost Music through the archaeology of musical instruments. Lawson is a fellow at Corpus Christi College
and an archaeologist, scientist, musicologist, instrument-maker, and performer (agent: Bill Hamilton; UK:
The Bodley Head; US: Knopf; Germany: Piper Verlag; Italy: Garzanti).
Though the Bodies Fall by Irish author Noel O'Regan is a haunting literary debut full of power and lyricism
(agent: Euan Thorneycroft; UK: Granta). Kamila Shamsie's new novel Best of Friends is about friendship,
identity, and the unknowability of other people (agent: Victoria Hobbs; UK: Bloomsbury; US: Riverhead;
Arabic: Dar Al Tanweer; Holland: Signatuur; Finland: Gummerus; Italy: Astoria: Portuguese [Brazil]: Grua
Livros; Romania: Editura Prestige). Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy by Robin Waterfield is an essential
full-length biography by a renowned Greek scholar (agent: Bill Hamilton; world English: OUP USA; Dutch:
Athenaeum; Greece: Patakis).
Sophie Hicks Agency
In How to Read a Tree, Tristan Gooley shares hundreds of secrets about the epic stories of trees, sharpening
our understanding of the environment and painting a new vivid portrait of the surrounding land (agent:
Sophie Hicks; UK: Sceptre; US: The Experiment). The Choice by Lucy Martin is the second in the DS Ronnie
Delmar series. When a young woman vanishes and a boy is snatched from his school playground, Delmar
discovers that the answer to one disappearance lies wth the other (agent: Hicks; UK: Welbeck). Alex Smith's
DCI Robert Kett series continues in King Rat, the eleventh volume. After Kett is violently abducted he awakes
in a labyrinthine warehouse, where he must become a rat in a maze to get out (agent: Hicks; UK: Relentless
Media; Czech Republic: Dobrovsky; Estonia: Eesti Raamat; Finland: Minerva; Germany: Rowohlt; Italy: Newton

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 Compton; Russia: Eksmo; Spain: Atico de los Libros).
Under Water is a memoir of self-discovery and a meditation of the power of the breath
by Claire Walsh (right), an Irish eight-time national record holder free-diver and all-year-
round sea swimmer (agent: Sarah Williams; UK and Ireland: Gill Books). In Battle of the
Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of WW2, Tom Whipple tells the
story of Reginald Jones, who developed radar tracking with the British government and
continued to develop technologies against the Nazis as both sides tried to out-fox the
other (agent: Sarah Williams; UK: Transworld). All the Hollow of the Sky by Kit Whitfield
is about Jedediah, whose father was a good fairy-smith but walked out of Jedidiah's life.
40 years later he's back and he hasn't aged a day (agent: Sophie Hicks; UK: Jo Fletcher Books).
David Higham Associates
The Future by Women's Prize winner Naomi Alderman (left) brings together white-
knuckle narrative drive with an intellectually dazzling critique of the world we have
made and what comes next (agent: Veronique Baxter; UK: 4th Estate; Italy: auction on-
going). Cordelia Fine's Patriarchy Inc is a dissection of inequality in the workplace, the
most successful pillar of patriarchy (agent: Andrew Gordon; UK: Atlantic; US: W W
Norton). Debut novel Piglet by Lottie Hazell is about what happens when a carefully
controlled and constructed life comes toppling down, and liberation in the aftermath
(agent: Harriet Moore; on submission).
Pathogenesis by Jonathan Kennedy takes a look at how the major transformations in history, from the rise
of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism, have been shaped not by humans but by germs (agent: Jessica
Woollard; UK: Transworld; US: Crown; Chinese simplified: Golden Rose Books; Dutch: De Bezige Bij; Norway:
Manuskript Forlag). Kate Morton's new novel Homecoming is a sweeping saga with a mystery tracing a crime
whose events echo across continents and generations (agent: Lizzy Kremer; UK: Macmillan; US: Mariner
Books; AUS: Allen & Unwin; Catalan: Suma de Letras; Danish: Cicero; Dutch: Boekerij; Finnish: Otava; French:
Charleston; German: Heyne; Norwegian: Vigmostad & Bjoerke; Spanish: Suma de Letras; Czech, Italian,
Polish, Romanian and Swedish: under offer). The House of Doors, the new novel by Man Booker Prize-
shortlisted Tan Twan Eng, is an exploration of race, class and sexuality at the end of the British Empire
(agent: Jessica Woollard; UK: Canongate; US: Bloomsbury; Dutch: Xander; Italian and Spanish: under offer).
Kate Hordern Literary Agency
On Gallows Down by Nicola Chester (right) is both a memoir and a call to action, tracing
Chester's coming-to-awareness in North Wessex, from fighting for ancient trees at road
protests to the rewilding of Greenham Common's former nuclear base (agent: Anne
Williams; world English rights: Chelsea Green). Amy Perry's Assumptions is the second
novel by Laura Starkey, following driven and ambitious Amy. When she is forced to
leave the city and go back to the village she once called home, she must adjust to
country life and set up a romance imprint for the publisher she works for - and she
meets someone she's spent years trying to forget (agent: Kate Hordern; world English
rights: Bonnier Embla). A Village Secret by Julie Houston follows Jennifer, who found her own Byron in
student actor Laurie when she went to Cambridge University. 15 years and two children later their
relationship is starting to feel more like an epic tragedy (agent: Anne Williams; world English rights: Head of
Zeus/Aria; Danish: Palatium).
The Girl in the Photo by Sam Harrington is about Mercy, who is begging for help to find her daughter. When
Erica agrees to help, she discovers that there has never been a record of a missing girl matching the
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 a mistake (agent: Anne Williams; world English rights: Avon). Victoria Jenkins' 11th thriller The Midwife follows
Lauren, who realises she has seen her midwife Jackie somewhere before. When Jackie suggests a home
delivery, Lauren thinks she and her baby are in safe hands - aren't they? (agent: Anne Williams; world English
rights: Bookouture).
Janklow & Nesbit
Literary debut I Come From A Cold Country by Erica X Eisen is set in a city where it hasn't snowed for seven
years, and a teacher sets about creating a 'snow archive' from the memories of the people in her apartment
block (agent: Rebecca Carter; on submission). Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin is a psychological thriller
about a woman convinced her daughter has been possessed by her former babysitter, holding up a mirror
to privilege, motherhood, and marriage (agent: Emma Leong; submission to come). Diary of a Moscow Man
by Alexander S is a response to the invasion and unfolding situation in Russia by an anti-war,
pseudonymous writer living in Moscow (agent: Claire Paterson Conrad; on submission).
Mother Tongue by Laura Spinney (left) brings together linguistics, genetics and
archaeology to tell the history of the civilisations that spoke Proto Indo-European, the
world's most influential language (agent: Will Francis; UK: William Collins). Biology
professor Lewis Dartnell explores how the evolution of the human body has dictated
history in Being Human (agent: Will Francis; UK: Bodley Head; China: CITIC; Germany:
Aufbau; Italy: Il Saggiatore; Japan: Kawade Shobo Shinsha; Korea: Next Wave Media;
Spain: Debate Y Taurus; Taiwan: Commonwealth). Memoir On God's Time by Bernard E
Harcourt is about the 30-year struggle to save the life of Doyle Lee Hamm on death row
and the injustices of the US death penalty (agent: Julia Eagleton; submission to come).
Johnson & Alcock
Nick Bradley's new novel Four Seasons in Paris follows translator Flo as she stumbles upon a mysterious
manuscript left by a drunken passenger on the Tokyo Subway; the novel becomes a 'book within a book' as it
follows both Flo and the story of a rekindled relationship between grandmother and son, separated by
generations and unspoken family truths (agent: Ed Wilson; UK: Doubleday). The Theory of (Not Quite)
Everything by Kara Gnodde is a novel following two adult siblings bound together by the loss of their parents
in their childhood. When Mimi decides she wants to find romance, she is met with resistance from her
brother (agent: Charlotte Seymour; UK: Mantle). Stuck Money by James Hamilton-Paterson examines our
'innocent' habits and how they contribute to climate change (agent: Michael Alcock; UK: Head of Zeus).
The Twenty is a thriller by Sam Holland about a serial killer leaving spray-painted
numbers above his victims' bodies in a chilling countdown (agent: Ed Wilson; UK:
HarperCollins; US: Crooked Lane; Holland: HarperCollins, options in Czech Republic,
Poland, Russia, Slovenia and Sweden). Murder in the Family is a new standalone thriller
by Cara Hunter (right), about a true crime TV series that recruits a group of experts to
examine an unresolved murder (agent: Anna Power; UK: HarperCollins; options in 20
languages). One Medicine by Matt Morgan discovers how some of the greatest
advances in human medicine were achieved through understanding how animals
survive, using real cases of patients with critical illness to illustrate the links between these animal
discoveries and the diagnoses, drugs and technologies they inspired in human medicine (agent: Charlotte
Seymour; UK: S&S; sold in China, Korea, Russia with options in Portugal and Poland).
LBA
Summer thriller Out of Her Depth by Lizzy Barber is about the choices you make as a teenager, and what
happens when they go horribly wrong (agent: Luigi Bonomi; world: Macmillan UK: film option: Sony). The Ship
Beneath Thin Ice by Mensun Bound is an adventure story following the discovery of Shackleton's legendary

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 lost ship sunk beneath the Antarctic (agent: Luigi Bonomi; foreign rights: ILA; world English: Macmillan UK;
US: William Morrow). In debut mystery The January House, Julia Gray tells the story of a wealthy family
riddled with secrets about the death of a young girl at their country house (agent: Louise Lamont; on UK
submission).
The Legacy of Halesham Hall by Jenni Keer (left) is a dual timeline novel in which the
heirs to a board game fortune are pitted against each other to solve a series of puzzles
built into their house, until a long-lost relative's arrival changes everything (agent:
Hannah Schofield; world: Headline Accent). Unorthodox Love by Heidi Shertok is a love
story about a young Orthodox Jewish woman as she considers a proposal for a fake but
advantageous marriage but finds herself in danger of falling for a secular man (agent:
Hannah Schofield; foreign rights: ILA; UK and Commonwealth: Embla; US: Alcove Press;
Brazil: Faro). Debut thriller Good Girls Die Last by Natali Simmonds is set over just 24
hours: Em must cross London on the hottest day of the year while a serial killer and secrets from her past
threaten to catch up with her (agent: Amanda Preston; foreign rights: ILA; UK and Commonwealth: Headline).
Susanna Lea Associates
The Wager is the new title by David Grann, the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon. It is a
narrative of survival which tells the 18th century story of a shipwreck, a mutiny, and a trial full of twists and
turns (agent: SLA on behalf of The Robbins Office; UK: S&S; US: Doubleday; France: Editions du sous sol;
Romania: Editura ART; under negotiation in Brazil, Holland, Spain and Sweden). Notes on Complexity by Neil
Theise is an introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave in the world,
revealing and illuminating the nature of life itself (agent: SLA on behalf of Spiegel & Grau; on submission). In
Invasion, Guardian journalist Luke Harding explores the first year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a
firsthand account (agent: Susanna Lea; UK: Faber; US: Vintage; Czech: Zed; Finland; Into Kustannus; Spain:
Planeta).
Fiona McFarlane's new novel, The Sun Walks Down, tells the story of a boy lost in
colonial Australia (agent: Stephanie Cabot; UK: Sceptre; US: FSG; ANZ: Allen & Unwin;
Italy: Stile Libero). Brotherless Night by V V Ganeshananthan (right) follows a young
woman who tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as civil war devastates Sri
Lanka, asking what it would take for a woman to become a terrorist (agent: Stephanie
Cabot; UK: Viking; US: Random House). Skull Water by Heinz Insu Fenkl tells the story of
Insu, the son of a Korean mother and a GI father in the US Army, exploring family,
loyalty, and history (agent: SLA on behalf of Spiegel & Grau; on submission).
Andrew Lownie Literary Agency
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach tells the history of Nazi
fugitives turned post-war agents - for America, the Soviets, the Third World, or themselves (UK: Hurst; US:
Pegasus; Israel: Kinneret Zmora Publishing House; Hungary: Europa Kiado; France: Editions Nouveau
Monde). Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin is a revisionist history, arguing that
the United States and Britain's self-defeating strategy of supporting Stalin and his armies at all costs allowed
the Soviets to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism (UK: Penguin; US: Basic
Books; Turkey: Kronik; Lithuania: Briedis; Romania: Litera; Germany: Antaios; Poland: Znak; Spain: Palabra;
Germany: Druffel). Syndrome K: How Italy resisted the Final Solution by Christian Jennings tells the story of
the Holocaust in Italy, including the inside story of how Bletchley Park cracked the codes of the Holocaust,
and what information this really gave the Allies about the fate of Europe's Jews.

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 Agent Sniper: The Best Spy the West Ever Lost by Tim Tate is the story of Michal
Goleniewski, 'one of the West's most valuable counterintelligence sources' and 'the
best defector the CIA ever had' (UK: Transworld; US: St Martin's Press). Pandemic 1918
by Catharine Arnold (left) is the story of the global epidemic, its impact and the men
and women who battled against it (UK: Michael O'Mara; USA: St Martin's Press; Korea:
Golden Time; China: Shanghai Educational Publishing House Co; Russia: Eksmo). Bird is
a memoir by Tracey Curtis-Taylor, who paid homage to two historic female aviators
with three epic flights in a 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane (UK: Reach).
Lutyens & Rubinstein
All My Wild Mothers by Victoria Bennett is a memoir that follows Bennett as she grows
an apothecary garden with her son after fighting grief and poverty (agent: Jenny
Hewson; UK: Two Roads). Mark Billingham (right) introduces a new crime series in The
Last Dance, starring Declan Miller, an unconventional detective (and amateur ballroom
dancer) (agent: Sarah Lutyens; UK: Little, Brown; Germany: Kamp Verlag). In The
Memory of Animals, Claire Fuller explores a damaged woman, a controlled vaccine trial,
and an octopus (agent: Jane Finigan; UK: Fig Tree).
In An Orchard Grown from Ash by Rory Power is the sequel to the fantasy novel In A Garden Burning Gold.
The siblings of the Argyros family must rebuild their alliance following a devastating civil war (agent: Daisy
Parente; UK: Titan). The Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson is a book club novel set in Kingston about
colourism, the legacy of colonialism and the cathartic power of baking, told through the eyes of 14-year-old
Pumkin Patterson (agent: Jenny Hewson; UK: offers; Canada: Harper Collins; Italy: Garzanti).
MBA
The Beasts of Paris by Stef Penney is a 'dazzling, panoramic epic of love and survival set
in late 19th century Paris in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Susanna Clarke' from the
award-winning author of The Tenderness of Wolves and Under a Pole Star. (UK &
Commonwealth: Quercus; US: Simon and Schuster.) In Rosanna Ley (left)'s The Forever
Garden, a young woman agrees to her frail grandmother's urging that she visit a long
deserted but once much-loved garden - a journey which takes her from Southern Italy
to rural Dorset and into hidden family secrets. (World English Language: Quercus.)
You Were Always Mine by Sheila Bugler, 'a twisty novel full of dark secrets', sees Eastbourne's finest
journalist-turned-detective Dee Doran hired by a woman accused of her husband's murder. (World English
Language: Canelo.) In The Italian Girl's Secret by Natalie Meg Evans, in a village outside Naples late in WW2,
Carmela del Bosco takes the fateful decision to help a badly wounded British spy - a decision that will change
her life and put her family in mortal danger. (World English Language: WEL Bookouture. All rights enquiries
to: Louisa Pritchard Associates.)
The Marsh Agency
Owner of a Lonely Heart by Beth Nguyen (right) is a memoir about parenthood,
absence, and the condition of being a refugee, in a coming of age story spanning
Nguyen's Midwestern childhood, her first meeting with her mother, and becoming a
parent herself (agency handles translation rights for principal agent: Nicole Aragi at
Aragi, Inc; US: Scribner). Alina Grabowski portrays the private lives of women in Women
and Children First, exploring womanhood, class, ambition, and sexuality against the
backdrop of the tragedy of a young woman's death in a small Massachusetts town
(agency handles translation rights for principal agent: Duvall Osteen at Aragi, Inc; NA
rights: SJP Lit at Zando; Germany: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag). Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's

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 Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin is a narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through
Chin's family journey to lay down roots in America, uncovering a legacy of exclusion and resilience that
speaks to the American experience, past and present (agency handles translation rights for principal agent:
Frances Coady at Aragi, Inc; US: Penguin Press).
The Most Important Job In The World? by Gina Rushton investigates the question 'should we become
parents?', aiming to stop a panicked internal monologue and start a genuine dialogue about what we want
from our lives and why (agency handles translation rights for principal agent: Rach Crawford at Wolf Literary
Services; world English language rights excluding ANZ: The Indigo Press). Constance by Joseph Zigmond is
set in 2006 London and 2064 Morocco, following a man willing to abandon everything he has to recapture a
transformational summer night when he was young, and to understand how the actions taken - and not
taken - have changed all their lives (agency handles translation rights for world rights publisher: The Indigo
Press). Bill McGuire, professor of geophysical and climate hazards, explains the science behind the climate
crisis in Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide (agency handles translation rights for world rights publisher:
Icon Books; Korean: Tindrum Press; Arabic under offer).
Madeleine Milburn
The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder by C L Miller is 'a quintessentially cosy crime' novel, which follows an
unlikely mystery-solving duo as they avoid peril in the underbelly of the antiques world. (Rights: UK &
Commonwealth: Pan Macmillan; US: Atria; Canada; S&S Canada; plus six European deals. Agent: Hannah
Todd.) Hanako Footman's Mongrel sees a stranger from Tokyo getting in touch with Mei claiming to be her
half-sister; Mei's world is upended as it collides with aspiring concert violinist Yuki and bar hostess Haruka in
the unlikeliest of ways. (On submission; Agent Rachel Yeoh.) The Drift, the new 'heart-pounding speculative
thriller' from author C J Tudor, follows Hannah, Meg and Carter as each battles the dangers they face lurking
in the shadows of a killer snowstorm. (Agent: Madeleine Milburn. Rights sold: UK & Commonwealth: Penguin
Michael Joseph; US: Ballantine/PRH; plus Canada, Czech: Euromedia, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Polish and
Portuguese, with a further 28 international publishers optioned.)
The List, by journalist Yomi Adegoke (left), is 'a sensational, page-turning debut novel
about secrets, lies and our lives online, centred around a young couple whose lives are
irrevocably changed by an allegation that goes viral.' (Agent: Hayley Steed. UK &
Commonwealth: Fourth Estate/HarperCollins; North American: William
Morrow/HarperCollins; plus five European territories.) Climavore: Eating at the End of
Seasons by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe is a 'ground-breaking book
that shows us transformative ways to think, eat and live in a broken food system, at a
time of climate crisis.' (Agent: Emma Bal; to be submitted soon.) A novel exploring envy,
extramarital affairs, motherhood, and the intuitions we silence, The Whispers, by Ashley Audrain, follows the
fate of four families on Harlow Street over the course of a week, 'as the hidden and explosive truths which
connect them are revealed.' (Agent: Madeleine Milburn. UK & Commonwealth: Penguin Michael Joseph; US:
Pamela Dorman Books/PRH; 18 territories, with a further 20 international publishers optioned.)
Rachel Mills Literary
The Uprising of Rita Marsh by Nilesha Chauvet follows Rita, a lonely and isolated care home owner by day,
and predator-hunting vigilante by night, posing as teenage girls online to ensnare pedophiles. But as she
starts to unravel, the hero may have become the villain (agent: Nelle Andrew; UK and Commonwealth:
Faber). Youtuber, investor, personal finance guru and author Rob Dix shares the message that doing
financially better than you ever thought possible is far more attainable than you think in Money Rebel (agent:
Rachel Mills; UK and Commonwealth rights auction underway). Medical and integrative medicine doctor Dr
Dani Gordon reveals the secret to long lasting energy, clarity, happiness, focus and health in an eight-week
plan in The Resilience Blueprint (agent: Rachel Mills; UK and Commonwealth: Orion Spring).

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 Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict by Elizabeth Day (right) tells one
woman's journey to understand why she's addicted to friendship (agent: Nelle Andrew;
UK and Commonwealth: Fourth Estate). Cathy Rentzenbrink's new novel Ordinary Time
is a story of the trials and sacrifices of everyday life, asking questions about marriage
and friendship, forgiveness and salvation, and the path of true love (agent: Rachel Mills;
UK and Commonwealth: Phoenix). This England: The Last Plantagenets by Helen Carr is
the story of the last Plantagenets and the fourteenth century, a century in revolution
and a a crucible of change and progression in English history (agent: Rachel Mills; UK
and Commonwealth: Cornerstone).
Morgan Green Creatives
The world of ultrarunning is a place of uprising. It's a place where those with slightly different sets of athletic
skills can flourish, even dominate. It's a place where our psychology doesn't just support our physiology, it
carries it along. In 2023 Jen Benson will run a 100-mile ultrarun. The Path We Run: The science and stories
behind the rise of women in ultrarunning is the story of that run (agent: Kirsty McLachlan). This Ragged
Grace by Octavia Bright tells the story of her journey to recovery from alcohol addiction, and the parallel
story of her father's descent into Alzheimer's. As Octavia moves between London, Stromboli, New York,
Cornwall and Margate, each place offers something new but ultimately always delivers the same message:
that wherever you go, you take yourself with you (agent: Kirsty McLachlan; UK: Canongate).
Part memoir, part meditation on stone and the transformative power of craft, Stone
will Answer: A journey guided by craft, myth and geology by Beatrice Searle, reveals the
author's intimate knowledge of stone as a trained stonemason and explores what
stone means to her. Green Crime: Why we are killing the planet, each other, and how to
stop by Dr Julia Shaw (left) uses true crime stories and social science to fundamentally
redefine our relationship with the planet, and each other. An infamous poisoning. A
child murderer. What happens when a killer grows up? The Birthday Girl by Sarah Ward
is the first book in a new crime series featuring former Met police officer Mallory
Dawson who moves to the remote Welsh island of Eldey to become night manager at a boutique hotel.
Mulcahy Sweeney Associates
From a Black nurse dealing with a white woman whose voluntarily installed 'Ally-Chip' is
malfunctioning, to the Yoruba-influenced tale of a renowned mental health expert who
holds a mysterious secret, Kelechi Okafor's (right) Edge of Here is 'a thrilling collection
of stories that explore contemporary womanhood, interweaving the modern-day with
speculative concepts both ancient and futuristic.' (UK & Commonwealth rights:
Trapeze; Agent: Sallyanne Sweeney.) Set in a high-end Dublin restaurant in the mid-
2000s, Sarah Gilmartin's novel Service explores #Metoo, power and sexual politics from
the point of view of a waitress, a domineering chef and the chef’s wife. (UK &
Commonwealth rights: Pushkin: Agent: Sallyanne Sweeney.) Sing, Wild Bird, Sing by Jacqueline O'Mahony is
set between famine-ravaged Ireland and frontier America; an Irish woman and Indigenous American man
have a seismic encounter, changing the course of both their stories forever. (World English rights: Lake
Union; Agent: Sallyanne Sweeney.)
In Edible Economics, author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes 'challenging economic ideas delicious by
plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar
food items to explore economic theory.' (UK & Commonwealth rights: Penguin Press; North American rights:
PublicAffairs, plus 19 other territories; Agent: Ivan Mulcahy.) A gripping debut psychological thriller set on
the east coast of Ireland – atmospheric, twisty, and propulsive - Her Last Words by E V Kelly is an edge-of-
your-seat read about obsession and dark secrets coming to light. (World English Language Rights: Quercus;

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 Agent: Ivan Mulcahy.) A 'game-changing' (Margaret Atwood), essential and revelatory book from one of the
leading figures in marine conservation, Rewilding the Sea by Charles Clover urges us to rethink our
relationship with nature and our approach to saving our oceans, by reminding us that preserving our life
support system is easier to achieve than we think. (UK and Commonwealth rights: Witness Books; Agent:
Ivan Mulcahy.)
Mushens Entertainment
In Underwater by Fiona McPhillips, a new student arrives at an exclusive private school
in 1980s Dublin to expose a teacher abusing his students. (Key rights: On submission;
Agent: Rachel Neely.) Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis (left) is set in 19th century Paris.
Two estranged sisters meet up for one last con as they pretend to exorcise ghosts in an
aristocratic home, only to find more than just secrets buried in the past. (Key rights: UK
(Doubleday), US (Atria); agent: Rachel Neely.) Miss Austen Investigates: The Hapless
Milliner is by Jessica Bull. When her brother is found guilty of murder, Jane Austen must
use her wit and knowledge of society to clear his name and save the day. (Auction in the
UK, Offer in the US, offer in Italy; Agent: Juliet Mushens.)
The agency is also representing a new series from Richard Osman. In it, a father and daughter-in-law duo
run their own private investigation company which takes them around the world, solving mysteries that
nobody else can. (Key rights: UK (Viking), US (Pamela Dorman Books), Denmark (Gyldendal), Germany
(Ullstein), Netherlands (Cargo), and Norway (Gursli Berg); agent: Juliet Mushens.) Queen, mother, activist, and
reformer: In A Most Rebellious Queen by Hayley Nolan, Anne Boleyn's voice is finally heard in this feminist
corrective retelling of her life. (Key rights: On submission; Agent: Liza DeBlock.) Sally Abe's memoir, A
Woman's Place is in the Kitchen, takes readers through the male-dominated fine dining industry and shows
that a woman's place is in the kitchen - a Michelin-starred kitchen. (Key rights: on submission; agent: Liza
DeBlock.)
Northbank
Lisa Bradley's thriller The Gallows Tree is set in a small Yorkshire village where old legends bleed into the
present day and every year a Gallows Queen is crowned. But when the Gallows Queen goes missing, the race
to find her uncovers a tangled web of friendships and secrets that have been buried for twenty years. (Rights
sold: Under offer; Agent: Hannah Weatherill.) The Curation of Eamon O'Reilly is a literary debut from Hugh
Blackthorne about a genderfluid working-class runaway who leaves behind a difficult home life to pursue his
dreams of fashion runways in London; for fans of Garth Greenwell. (Rights sold: on submission; Agent:
Hannah Weatherill.) Victoria Scott's The Women who Wouldn't Leave is a story of courage and friendship as
the residents of a rural council estate fight the council who want to evict them to make way for a new
development. (Rights sold: World English - Head of Zeus; Agent Hannah Weatherill.)
Kings and Queens, the next book in Iain Dale's acclaimed series, will contain
contributions by leading experts on every English and British monarch from Saxon
times onwards. Covering 1,200 years of history, the book concludes with an essay on
King Charles III, setting his new reign in the context of his predecessors. (Rights sold:
World English - Hodder & Stoughton; Agent: Martin Redfern.) Sex, Spies and Scandal by
Alex Grant is a cinematic account of a British spy scandal from the height of the Cold
War, for fans of A Very English Scandal. 'Proving that truth is often stranger than fiction,
the book includes a honeytrap, gay sex orgies in Moscow, spying on an industrial scale,
journalists jailed for not revealing their sources and the first tabloid witch-hunt that resulted in a ministerial
resignation.' (Rights sold: UK & Commonwealth (ex. Canada) - Biteback; Agent: Martin Redfern.) In Food
Therapy, nutritionist Pixie Turner (right) combines her expertise in nutrition and psychotherapy to show us

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 how we can rebuild the damage caused by diets and eat freely, without guilt, setting ourselves on a course
to lifelong health. (Rights sold: UK & Commonwealth (ex. Canada) - Little Brown (Piatkus); Agent: Martin
Redfern.)
PEW
Paul Caruana Galizia (left)'s In The Name of the Mother is a young journalist's memoir
of the battle which he and his brothers fought to identify and prosecute those who
killed his mother, the anti-corruption campaigner Daphne Caruana Galizia, and in the
process collapsing the Maltese government. (Rights sold: UK & Commonwealth:
Hutchinson Heinemann, North American: Riverhead. Film rights to Angelina Jolie and
Working Title. Agent: Patrick Walsh.) From Sally Hayden, who won the Orwell Prize with
My Fourth Time, We Drowned, comes I Loved You Then, and I Love You Still, an
exploration of love under extreme pressure - the orphans who formed simulated
families after the Rwandan genocide; a mother who pretended to be mad to save her daughter from forced
marriage to Boko Haram warriors; the Druze brides who on leaving to marry can never return home to their
families. (Agent: Patrick Walsh.) Justinian, by Cambridge academic Peter Sarris, is the definitive biography of
the sixth century Byzantine emperor who laid the political foundations of Christendom, built the Hagia
Sophia in Istanbul and redefined the nature of kingship for centuries to come. (Rights sold: World English
language: Basic Books, Dutch: Athenaeum, Spanish: Taurus. Agent: Doug Young.)
Red is a new novel set between London and Ireland by Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses. (Agent:
Eleanor Birne.) By young historian and arts writer Breeze Barrington, The Graces is a history of the
seventeenth-century Italian princess and Queen of England, Mary of Modena, and the community of female
learning she cultivated at the Jacobite court. (Agent: Rebecca Sandell.) The Broken Places by Russell Franklin
is a novelization of the life of Ernest Hemingway's third child, who was born Gregory and died Gloria,
charting their struggle for acceptance across nearly 70 years from Cuba to New York to Montana to Florida.
(UK & Commonwealth: Phoenix Books; German: Kein & Aber; agent: John Ash.)
PFD
In Night Side of the River, Jeanette Winterson brings us a collection of thirteen
'imaginative, funny and bold ghostly tales. Night Side of the River blends fictional
encounters of the supernatural with the author’s own experiences of spectrality,
haunting and the otherworldly.' (Agent: Caroline Michel; Rights sold: UK: Jonathan Cape;
US: Grove Atlantic.) Simon Schama's Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the
Health of Nations is 'a new and vibrant cultural history investigating the complex
history of pandemics and vaccines, by one of the world's foremost writers.' (Agent:
Caroline Michel; Rights sold: UK: Simon & Schuster; US: Ecco; and eight other
territories.) Mountain by Rose McDonagh (right) is a debut literary suspense novel, following a young woman
who is convinced a young man she repeatedly bumps into is her childhood friend - who died aged 17. (Agent:
Kate Evans.)
A Death in the Parish by The Reverend Richard Coles is the sequel to Murder Before Evensong. 'All hell
breaks loose when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing.' (Primary agent:
Tim Bates; UK: W&N.) An 'electrifying new short novel about first love', Absolutely and Forever is by Rose
Tremain. Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly and
absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward
without difficulty into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes.
(Primary agent: Caroline Michel; UK: Chatto & Windus.) The Sustainable Use of our Souls is the debut novel
from Ray Bradbury Prize-shortlisted Japanese author, Aoko Matsuda. 'A smart, inventive novel that offers a

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 fearless and comprehensive indictment of the systemic sexism and misogyny prevalent in contemporary
Japanese life and society, told through the story of Keiko - a young woman who becomes enraptured by the
country’s newest female idol.' (Primary agent: Lucy Barry; Japan: Chuokoron shinsha; Korea: Hansmedia.)
Sheil Land
In The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett (left), two rival authors
vie to publish the best true crime book about the case of the Alperton Angels, a cult
which famously indoctrinated a mother to think that her child was the antichrist. (UK:
Viper Books/Serpent's Tale; Agent: Gaia Banks.) Forget-Me-Not by Julie Soto is a modern
riff on Persuasion set in Sacramento. Ama is an expert wedding planner; she is more
than ready to take on a celebrity wedding that will transform her career but the catch
is, her ex is doing the flowers. (UK: Harper Fiction, US: Forever/Grand Central; rights
sold in three territories. Agent: Gaia Banks.) Susan Hill's The Front Room is a spooky
short story, soon to be a psychological horror film. Two young parents-to-be take in an estranged
stepmother and find themselves tormented by her evil presence... even after her death. (UK: Profile; Agent:
Gaia Banks.)
Inanna is by Emily Wilson. Inanna's birth is heralded as a miracle: she is the first full-blood Anunnaki to be
born in centuries. The twelve Anunnaki who rule the city states of Sumeria are worshipped as gods. Only she,
with the help of the unlikely human hero, Gilgamesh, can save her dissenting family from losing their
immortality. (World English: Titan; Agent: Ian Drury.) In Taxtopia by The Rebel Accountant, an anonymous
whistle-blower shows just how rigged the UK tax system is in favour of the uber-wealthy, as he charts his
journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax consultant in this witty and revelatory exposé. (World English:
Welbeck; Agent: Piers Blofeld.)
Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency
From Fiona Gibson comes The Man I Met on Holiday, a tale of getting a second chance
at love. In Corsica, Lauren meets James, the man of her dreams. Both in their fifties,
they fall madly in love, and they're both sure it's more than just a summer fling. But
back home, with their busy, messy real lives - and young adult offspring to contend with
- can Lauren and James hang onto that holiday feeling? (HarperCollins/Avon, March
2023; plus rights sold in six European territories. Agent: Caroline Sheldon.) The Palace
by Flora Harding (right) is a brand-new series from the author of the bestselling debut
Before the Crown. Set in 1936, it follows the lives of Lily Pickard, personal maid to Wallis
Simpson; her brother Jack, a Communist and footman to the King; and Ellen Kidd, a raw Scottish girl who is
nursery housemaid for the Duke and Duchess of York. Between them they witness the unfolding crisis of the
abdication from a unique perspective, behind the scenes with Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson and the future
George VI. (HarperCollins, One More Chapter, plus deals in eight European territories. Agent: Caroline
Sheldon.)
Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young is the final whodunnit in this Yorkshire-set cosy-crime trilogy.
A murderer plays a killer game when a team of obsessive crazy golfers arrives at the Seaview Hotel in
Scarborough for a tournament. The team captain aims to win by fair means or foul, then the rival team
captain is murdered. (UK: Headline Accent, September 2023. Agent: Caroline Sheldon.) Heidi Stephens' The
Only Way is Up is 'the perfect feel-good romantic comedy'. Twenty-five years in showbiz is a good run, right?
Because after tonight, when her small (read: huge) wardrobe malfunction was broadcast to the nation,
Daisy's time in the spotlight might be over. Daisy needs an escape route, and she needs whoever is selling
stories to the tabloids about her and the local headmaster to stop immediately. Because that's just a
rumour, right? (UK: Headline Accent; Agent: Caroline Sheldon.)

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Kate Young's Experience introduces us to Bette, who had been exclusively dating men
until recently, but with her 30th birthday came the world-altering realisation that she in
fact wanted to be with women. Now, on a break from the new love of her live, she is told
to plunge into the queer dating scene and make up for lost time, a journey which takes
her to unexpected places and love that is waiting where she least expects to find it. (UK:
4th Estate plus six other territories. Agent: Zoe Ross.) The Bottomless Man by AK
Blakemore (left) is the second novel from the winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize, a dark
bildungsroman set in 18th Century France following the life and times of Tarare, a
showman and soldier in possession of a hideous and all-consuming appetite. (UK: Granta; Agent: Zoe Ross.)
The Quick and The Hollow by Hannah-Marie Holwell is 'an unputdownable debut fantasy novel' with a deaf
heroine, set in an alternate medieval England where magic rules life and death. (UK: on submission; Agent:
Molly Jamieson.) The fifth novel from JP Delaney, The New Wife, is a murder mystery set amidst the
mountains of Mallorca's north coast, a moral dilemma about doing the right thing, a social commentary
about prejudice, power dynamics, saviour syndrome and the fear of outsiders and a twisted game of cat-
and-mouse in which we're never quite certain who is the hunter and who the hunted. (UK: Quercus; Agent:
Caradoc King/Millie Hoskins.)
Civilisation is facing a grave existential crisis in the Anthropocene era, in which economic activity is
condemning humanity to environmental catastrophe. In Capitalism in the Anthropocene, Kohei Saito shows
us that there is one possible way out: by obtaining what we need to survive through economic degrowth, the
clues to which have been waiting for 150 years in the teachings of Karl Marx. (WEL: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
plus rights sold in eight territories; Agent: Zoe Ross.) Women in the Shadows of Psychoanalysis by Catherine
Humble is an examination of the lives of three 20th century female psychoanalysts whose biographies have
so far been overlooked: Lou-Andreas Salomé, Sabina Spielrein and Joan Riviere. This book examines the
reasons why they have faded from view and provides 'an enthralling portrait of their personal and
professional lives, their illnesses, loves, achievements and tragedies.' (UK: Faber; Rights sold: Dutch: Ten
Have; German: Goldmann; Agent: Seren Adams.)
Jo Unwin Literary Agency
Penance is a new novel by Boy Parts author Eliza Clark (right). Nearly a decade after a
murder in a seaside town, journalist Alec has written the definitive account of the crime
- but how much of the story is true? (agent: Rachel Mann; world English: Faber). Other
Women by Little Deaths author Emma Flint is based on a notorious murder in London
in the 1920s (agent: Jo Unwin; UK and Commonwealth: Picador). Debut novel Her Best
Girls by Katy Massey is based in a brothel in Leeds in 1977, when the Yorkshire Ripper
was on the rampage (agent: Jo Unwin; under offer).
Set in 1899, Moon Alley by Sally O'Reilly tells the story of Sybil, who ends her life while staying at a seedy
boarding house in Brighton, as three women get entangled in the mystery (agent: Jo Unwin; on submission).
One Last Hurrah by Claire Parkin follows two old ladies who share a house in London: they love each other.
They can't bear each other. They've known each other since childhood (agent: Jo Unwin; on submission).
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding is a memoir woven through with a study of art and social history
by Joanna Wolfarth, exploring how breastfeeding has been represented, repressed, celebrated and
censored (agent: Jo Unwin; UK and Commonwealth: W&N).
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 Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahari (left) is a collection of short stories filled with insight
into Lahiri's relationship with the Italian language. (US: Knopf; UK: Picador; Dutch: Atlas
Contact; German: Rowohlt; Italian: Guanda; and Spain Luman/PRH.) From the
bestselling author of The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, comes Hang The Moon, a novel
about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. (US: Scribner; UK:
S&S; German: Hoffmann und Campe.) Priscilla Gilman's The Critic's Daughter is about
her life as the daughter of legendary literary and drama critic Richard Gilman. From a
sunny childhood spent at the breakfast table with Toni Morrison, to an adolescence
shuffling between bitterly divorced parents and trying to find her own voice without dimming her father's
shine, Priscilla invites the reader into her family home. (US: WW Norton.)
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino is his first work of nonfiction, a deliriously entertaining, wickedly
intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino. (US: HarperCollins; UK:
W&N; French: Flammarion; German: KiWi; Italian: La Nave di Teseo; Spanish: Reservoir.) From the
eponymous subject of the classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes The Wisdom of Morrie by Morrie and Robert
Schwartz, 'an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life.' (US: Blackstone).
Beautiful Days by Zach Williams is a 'rare, extraordinary collection from a new master of the form. These
eleven short stories will pull at the corners of your mind long after you’ve read them.'
Watson, Little
My Child, The Algorithm is a 'genre-bending' memoir by poet Hannah Silva (right),
interrogating conventional motherhood from a gay single-parent perspective (agent:
Laetitia Rutherford; under submission). Noir epic Sinners of Starlight City by Anika Scott
is set at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair and 1920s Sicily, featuring a burlesque dancer
seeking revenge, a mother who will stop at nothing to protect her baby, a reluctant
mobster and a group of circus misfits (agent: Laetitia Rutherford; UK & BC: Duckworth,
US: William Morrow). The Queen of Codes by Jackie Uí Chionna is a biography of Emily
Anderson, a once-renowned but now-forgotten musicologist whose decoding skills
were, it is now revealed, also put to use at Bletchley Park, and whose romantic liaisons with other women
add another layer of secrecy to her fascinating life (agent: Donald Winchester; world English language:
Headline).
In The Social Brain, renowned psychologists Robin Dunbar, Tracey Camilleri and Samantha Rockey explain
the science and art of leadership in a post-covid world, providing insights into how to create organisations in
which people can learn, develop and thrive the face of change and disruption, and, crucially, how you can
feel close to people even if your only point of contact is a phone or a computer (agent: Donald Winchester;
UK & BC: Cornerstone Press). Tender Spirits by Marianne Eloise follows Rebecca, who becomes convinced
that the bar where she works is haunted when strange things start to happen in the basement. A new
relationship with local florist Lily forces her to open up and explore her past, and Rebecca begins to see a
connection between the mysterious happenings and a guilt that she's carried for years (agent: Megan
Carroll; on submission). The Great Defiance by David Veevers is a history of the British Empire but not as we
know it, looking beyond the myths of triumph and into the realities of the British misadventures in the early
days of Empire (agent: Donald Winchester; UK & BC: Ebury).
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 Marigold and Rose is 'a magical and incandescent fiction' from the Nobel laureate
Louise Glück (left), an 'astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls.
Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is
also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka's Metamorphosis, an
incandescent act of autobiography.' (US pub date: October 11, 2022; rights sold in a
further nine territories.) The Card-Players is by fellow Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Set
in Turkey in 1942, with Istanbul braced for a Nazi attack, it tells the story of five
protagonists connected to one of Turkey's largest factories, half Muslim owned, half
Jewish owned. The novel explores 'the ironies of history and romantic love, and themes of adultery, betrayal,
and belonging.' (Turkish pub date: autumn 2023.) Victory City by Salman Rushdie is 'the epic tale of a woman
who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries.' (S pub date:
February 7, 2023; rights sold in a further 17 territories.)
Christopher Clark offers in Revolutionary Spring 'a magisterial account of the 1848 revolutions that swept
Europe from France to Denmark to Moldavia in Revolutionary Spring, the charismatic actors who propelled
them forward, and their deep and lasting consequences.' (pub date: May 2, 2023; rights sold in a further nine
territories.) Work in Progress is from Virgil Abloh and Anja Cronberg; Abloh was Men's Artistic Director at
Louis Vuitton. Trained in civil engineering and architecture, his work traversed fashion, art, design, and
popular culture. He died last year. Cronberg is the founder and editor-in-chief of Vestoj, the Paris-based
magazine and online platform for critical thinking on fashion. In the last few years before his death, Abloh
sought refuge in detailed conversations with Cronberg; Work in Progress is the culmination of their
dialogue, illuminating the ideas behind Abloh's astonishing process and practice. (Delivery in July 2023; rights
sold: North America, UK.) Rich with Pulitzer Prize-winning Siddhartha Mukherjee's revelatory and
exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song
of The Cell is the third book in the writer's exploration of what it means to be human. (US pub date: October
25, 2022; Rights sold: UK; US and another 10 territories.)
Barbara J Zitwer
I Went to See My Father by Kyung-sook Shin (translated by Anton Hur) is Shin's first
new novel in 12 years, an epic story about a family and the secrets are often only
revealed by chance. (Rights sold to W&N and five other territories.) Few things are as
mysterious as what goes on in a marriage, sometimes even one's own. Lee Hanjo, the
artist at the centre of J M Lee's emotionally wrenching novel Broken Summer
(translated by Br. Anthony) wakes up one day to find that his beloved wife has
vanished. Left behind - part clue, part threat - is a portion of her soon-to-be-published
novel, whose main character is an aggressively unflattering, fictionalized version of
himself. Published by Amazon Crossing; WEL: Ginkgo Tree/Korea. Walking Practice by Dolki Min is a radical
literary sensation from South Korea, which follows a shapeshifting alien's hunt for food after they crash-land
on Earth. As they discover, humans are delicious. (World English rights to Harper Via)
Starting off with a scene of a comically failed suicide attempt, Tube by Won-pyung Sohn, translated by Anton
Hur, quickly turns out to be feel-good fiction in which the middle-aged protagonist, Sung-Gone Kim, tries to
turn his life around and get back on his feet. The Consultant, translated by Br. Anthony and written by Sung-
Soon Lim, is a literary thriller about about a seemingly ordinary protagonist who works as a murder
designer. According to the protagonist, a truly exceptional murder needs to be so natural that no one
suspects a puppeteer behind the whole thing. (Sold to Bloomsbury WEL, plus five other territories.) The
Korean Book of Happiness is by Barbara J Zitwer (right), in which the literary agent travels around Korea
from Seoul and Busan to the mountains, countryside, rivers, islands and Demilitarised Zone. (Short Books
UK, Hachette North America March ‘23, plus Dutch and Italian deals.)

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