BOOKS


Sharp spy series by the “Atomic Blonde” creator, with Sharp infiltrating a dark web of online fascism that bleeds out into the real world.


Agent Sarah Such Rights UK & Commonwealth exc. Canada and audio (Lightning), TV and film (Red Planet)


Smoke and Cracked Mirrors Karen Charlton The historical crime author’s first in the York Lady Detective series, featuring two ingenious female PIs set in 1940s York.


Agent Sarah Such


I Heard What You Said Jeffrey Boakye Unpacking the realities of structural racism in British schools from the insightful and unflinching perspective of Boakye, a Black teacher in a white education system.


Agent Sarah Such Rights World (Picador)


The Shaw Agency


Untitled Louise Mumford New thriller from the Sleepless author in which 21-year-old Esther believes the air outside the bunker she shares with her mother is toxic—but then a stranger turns up, the first new person in 16 years, and Esther’s world unravels.


Agent Kate Shaw Rights World English (HQ Digital)


The Berlin Zookeeper Anna Stuart “Gripping and heartbreak- ing” intergenerational family mystery set during the Second World War around Berlin’s famous zoo.


Agent: Kate Shaw Rights World English (Bookouture), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Italy (Newton Compton)


The Secret Diary Anna Stuart Stuart’s follow-up to The Berlin Zoo has brave gunner-girl Nancy trying to adapt to married life after the Second World War—but will the terrible


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truth about the worst night of her life resurface and shatter her marriage?


Agent Kate Shaw Rights World English (Bookouture)


Show Stoppers Serena Patel Fourth in Patel’s bestsell- ing and award-winning Anisha Accidental Detective series takes place during Diwali, with Anisha drawn into a mystery at the school musical.


Agent Kate Shaw Rights UK & Commonwealth (Usborne)


Deephaven Adam Connors An “edge-of-your-seat” deep-sea thriller about a young girl who communi- cates with an underwater life-form. “‘Vigil’ meets ‘Arrival’ for middle grade.”


Agent Kate Shaw


Sheil Land The Collector’s Daughter Gill Paul The “riveting” latest by bestseller Paul is about Lady Evelyn Herbert’s expedition to the lost tomb of Tutankhamun and the curse that seems to follow those who step into it.


Agent Vivien Green Rights World English (HarperCollins)


The Boyfriend Michelle Frances Follow-up to the hit The Girlfriend focuses on Amy, a woman who has every- thing but romance. After an accident that leaves her memory of the last six months shaky, she wakes up with a boyfriend who is too perfect to be true…


Agent Gaia Banks Rights UK (Macmillan)


Never the Wind Francesco Dimitri The London-based Italian author’s coming-of-age story-cum-mystery takes place in Southern Italy, where two families have been feuding for genera- tions. “A captivating story about unlikely friendship and survival.”


Agent Piers Blofeld Rights World English (Titan)


The Chateau Catherine Cooper Thriller about a couple on the edge of divorce making a new start in a glamorous chateau in France. But when a neigh- bour is found murdered, the welcoming community turns sinister.


Agent Gaia Banks Rights UK (HarperCollins)


Elizabeth and Monty Charles Casillo Screenwriter and biographer Casillo’s account of the intense platonic bond between Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift—one of the most famous friend- ships in Hollywood.


Agent Sonia Land Rights US (Kensington)


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In Case of Emergency Poorna Bell The journalist and author’s début novel follows Bel Kumar, who has a near-death experi- ence at work—and her boss has notified an ex-boyfriend from years ago, still listed in HR’s records as her next of kin. Their reunion leaves Bel questioning everything.


Agent Rowan Lawton Rights UK & Commonwealth (Century)


Morgan is my Name Sophie Keetch An origin story and commercial feminist re-telling of the early life of the famed Arthurian villainess Morgan le Fay.


Agent Marina de Pass


The Memory Keeper Jackie Kohnstamm Powerful memoir charting the author’s journey into her family history in the Holocaust and, “in the course of uncovering their lives, she transforms her own”.


Agent Rowan Lawton


Hedgewitch Skye McKenna First in a magical five-book middle-grade fantasy series by début author McKenna. “Perfect for fans of Nevermoor, The Worst Witch and The Wizards


of Once.”


Agent Philippa Milnes-Smith Rights UK & Commonwealth (Welbeck), Brazil, Czech Republic, Slovakia


Order Out of Chaos: How Kidnap Negotiation Strategies Can Transform Your Life Scott Walker A Scotland Yard officer with more than 300 successful kidnap negotiations on how you can use his lessons of communication, resilience and empathy to bring order to your life.


Agent Ben Clark


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The Secret World of Weather Tristan Gooley The nature writer’s latest decodes the weather by teaching the skills to read signs in “every cloud, breeze, hill, street, plant, animal and dewdrop”.


Agent Sophie Hicks Rights UK (Sceptre), US (Te Experiment), Chinese Simplified (Yillin Press), Chinese Complex (Morning Star), Korea (Humanist Publishing), Catalan (Sidilla), Spanish (Atico de los Libros), Slovakia (Tatran), Turkey (Avantür)


Stop at Nothing Lucy Martin Martin’s second DS Ronnie Delmar novel begins with an assault on a teenager by her school caretaker— but Delmar uncovers more than she bargained for, including her own demons.


Agent Sophie Hicks Rights UK (Welbeck)


Instant Fires Andrew Meehan The Irish author’s third outing is set in Heidelberg over the course of one week. Ute and Seanie test the pull of a summer romance against the weight of family histories and one life-changing secret.


Agent Sarah Williams Rights UK & Ireland (New Island)


Every Mother’s Son Alex Smith The seventh Robert Kett novel has the DCI looking into the brutal murder of


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