exec try to prevent the Venomous Lumpsucker from permanent extinc- tion in this “dazzling dystopian eco-caper”.


Agent Jane Finigan Rights UK (Sceptre)


Delphi Clare Pollard During the March 2020 lockdown, a translator and Classics professor turns to tarot cards and lucid dreaming in an attempt to harness the fates. Will she notice the future creeping into her home?


Agent Jenny Hewson Rights UK (Fig Tree), US (Avid Reader), Germany (Aufau)


In a Garden Burning Gold Rory Power The fantasy author’s latest has Rhea and her twin brother Lexos help- ing their father rule their small, unstable country, but the twins must take matters into their own


hands to prevent their world—and their family— from collapse.


Rights UK (Titan), US (Del Rey), Russia (AST), Turkey (Epsilon) Agent Daisy Parente


Every Family Has a Story Julia Samuel Psychotherapist Samuel reflects on her sessions with eight different families and suggests how we might learn from trauma and hardship, and create the families we wish for.


Agent Felicity Rubinstein Rights UK (Viking)


It Could Never Happen Here Eithne Shortall A “witty, gripping novel about small-town politics, competitive mothering and the power of gossip” based in West Cork, where a parent catches her daughter sending a nude photo and


“all hell breaks loose”.


Agent Sarah Lutyens Rights UK (Corvus), US (Putnam)


Madeleine Milburn


Where Lost Things Go Amanda Cassidy Former “Sky News” reporter Cassidy’s début is a suspense drama imbued with rich Irish mythology exploring the media scrutiny on a grieving mother after her daughter suddenly vanishes off the Florida Keys.


Agent Madeleine Milburn


The Dark that Doesn’t Sleep Simon Mockler A compelling, twisty Cold War-era espionage thriller and locked-room mystery “for fans of John le Carré and ‘Mindhunter’”.


Agent Giles Milburn


The Grief Café Jo Leevers


Uplifting début following Henrietta, as she starts a new job transcribing the stories of the terminally ill, and Annie, her first client, uncovering the mystery of how Annie’s sister drowned in 1974.


Agent Hayley Steed


Savage Beasts Poorani Selvarajah A retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Medea set during the rise of the East India Company in India, with Medea reimagined as Meena, the daughter of the powerful Nawab of Bengal.


Agent Olivia Maidment


How to be a Citizen Professor Cindy Skach A world-renowned scholar of the law’s “ambitious and radical” look at how the law fails us. She shows us how we can empower


ourselves as citizens. Agent Emma Bal


Marjacq Scripts


there are more things Yara Rodrigues Fowler Second novel from the author who has been shortlisted for multiple prizes is about Melissa and Catarina’s friendship, finding their political and sexual agency in London, and the 20th-century mili- tary dictatorship of Brazil.


Agent Imogen Pelham Rights UK & Commonwealth (Fleet)


The Orphan God Carl Goodman Crime writer Goodman’s first science fiction title has an alien race making first contact with Earth— not to conquer, but to warn humans of a bigger threat looming over both species.


Agent Sandra Sawicka


Wild and Wicked Things Francesca May “The Great Gatsby meets Practical Magic.” Gothic novel in which a young woman gets swept into a glittering world filled with illicit magic, romance, blood debts and murder.


Agent Diana Beaumont Rights UK (Orbit), US (Redhook)


Little Rumours Bryony Pearce In a small town, three mothers wave goodbye to the children at the school gates. By the end of the school day one will be missing, and rumours swirl that one of them knows why.


Agent Catherine Pellegrino Rights World English (Avon)


You Never Said Goodbye Luca Veste Veste’s latest thriller has Sam Cooper’s dying father revealing his mother may still be alive, leading him


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