BOOKS million global sales.


Agent Eve White Rights UK (Simon & Schuster), USA, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Finland


A Beautiful World James Norbury Internationally bestselling characters Big Panda and Tiny Dragon return to explore life’s struggles and joys.


Agent Ludo Cinelli Rights UK (Michael Joseph), Germany


Fall of Civilizations Paul Cooper Stories of the greatness and decline of 14 civilisations in this companion to a podcast with more than 100 million downloads.


Agent Eve White Rights UK (Duckworth), US (HarperCollins), Czechia, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia


Circle of Liars Kate Francis Seven teens end up in a deadly version of a childhood game in this nail-biting début YA thriller.


Agent Ludo Cinelli Rights UK (Usborne), Netherlands


Sun Trap Rachel Wolf An actor gets more than she bargained for when she impersonates her best friend on a shoot in Dubai.


Agent Eve White Rights UK (Head of Zeus)


The Feldstein Agency


The Ghost of Tenth Street Paul Spillenger Memoir by Spillenger of life in 1940s, 50s and 60s Manhattan—and the New York art scene— through vignettes of his abstract impressionist painter father.


Agent Paul Feldstein


Me, Myself and AI: Reclaiming My Stolen Voice from Big Tech Remie Michelle Clarke An Irish voice actor’s account of trying to prevent her voice from being synthesised by AI, and in the process becoming an


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accidental campaigner for artists’ rights against big tech’s exploitative practices.


Agent Paul Feldstein


Paris, Kentucky Dominique Falkner Literary novel based on the last three years of Sam Shepard’s life: “A stunning and unique insight into the life and mind of a great American literary figure.”


Agent Paul Feldstein


Micheala Frank Kirby Literary début “in the spirit of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn” in which the “tenets of conservative Catholicism weigh upon and inform the characters’ worldviews”.


Agent Paul Feldstein


Incompatible with Life: A Memoir of Grave Illness, Great Love, and Survival Michael J Tallon “Evocative and extraordinary” medical memoir by Tallon who, in 2015, was left fighting for his life after suffering from a rare genetic anomaly, hereditary hemochromatosis: an overload of iron in the body.


Agent Paul Feldstein


Felicity Bryan Associates


In Bloom Liz Allan “Brash, bold, grunge- inflected” début by Australian Allan, following four young girls in a poor coastal town who form a rock band as a means to escape—but then the lead singer quits and accuses their music teacher of sexual assault.


Agent Angelique Tran Van San Rights UK (Sceptre)


What am I, a Deer Polly Barton The first novel from award-winning non-fiction writer and translator (Asako Yuzuki’s Butter) follows one woman’s move to Frankfurt to start a job at a famous gaming company—a “sharply funny, idiosyncratic and deeply charming story of


Therapy Talk Julia Bueno Psychotherapist Bueno shows how language from therapy has conquered popular culture, and provides a useful guide for anyone who has found themselves hearing and using these words.


Agent Carrie Plitt Rights UK (Bonnier)


Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World Kathryn Hurlock Medievalist Hurlock explores the complex history and contemporary relevance of pilgrimage through journeys to 19 extraordinary sites around the world.


Agent Catherine Clarke Rights UK (Profile), Korea (Booksea)


No Small Matter: The New Science and Unseen Power of Earth’s Microbiome Ben Martynoga Biologist and award- winning science writer Martynoga’s “wondrous and urgent” introduction to the paradigm-shifting concept of Earth’s microbiome—the invisible, interconnected network of microscopic beings that is essential to the shaping the entire planet.


Agent Carrie Plitt


Georgina Capel Associates


The Spy in the Archive Gordon Corera The BBC’s security correspondent’s remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin, the in-house archivist for the KGB, turned dissident and spy, exposed Russia and changed the world.


Agent Georgina Capel Rights World English (William Collins)


Ovid and his Women Daisy Dunn


“Phenomenal” new exploration of Ovid, the unstable world he wrote in and the extraordinary works he created, revealed for the


karaoke and obsession”.


Agent Angelique Tran Van Sang Rights UK (Fitzcarraldo)


first time through the women he wrote both for and about.


Agent Georgina Capel Rights UK (Faber), US (Viking)


The Work We Need: A 21st Century Imagining Hilary Cottam The sociologist and entrepreneur’s reimagining of our working lives, rethinking work and work’s place in the modern world.


Agent Georgina Capel Rights World English (Virago)


Franco Giles Tremlett “Definitive” biography of Europe’s longest-lasting 20th century dictator.


Agent Georgina Capel Rights UK (Bloomsbury); North America (OUP), Spanish (PRH Spain)


Greene & Heaton


The Model Patient Lucy Ashe Suspense novel set in London during the Big Freeze of 1963, as a woman’s obsession with her psychotherapist takes a dangerous turn when she finds out that her childhood best friend is engaged to marry him.


Agent Antony Topping


Births, Deaths and Marriage Laura Barnet “‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ meets ‘When Harry Met Sally’” in an era-spanning, globetrotting novel about love, friendship and everything in between following six university friends.


Agent Judith Murray Rights UK (Doubleday)


Lambing Season August Lamm “Funny, tenderly observed” début in which a young woman—a newly disabled illustrator— confronts her diagnosis and follows an impulse to move to rural Wales to become engaged to a near stranger.


Agent Holly Faulks Rights UK (Dialogue)


The Call of the Void Rebecca Taylor McKay


A young couple travels to the Amalfi Coast for their belated honeymoon. But all is not quite as it seems in this lovers’ paradise, as the bride must face the possibility that her husband may be harbouring secrets too dark to share.


Agent Laura Williams Rights UK (Dialogue), Germany (Rowohlt)


She Herself Is a Haunted House Georgia Poplett Literary gothic novel about a cursed house buried in the Kentish landscape, and two women, living a century apart, whose fate may be sealed within its walls.


Agent Imogen Morrell


Greenstone Literary


Swept Away Beth O’Leary The bestselling author’s latest rom-com, which “sees two strangers lost at sea… with their one-night stand”.


Agent Tanera Simons Rights UK (Quercus), US (Berkley), Brazil (Intrinseca), Finland (WSOY)


The Dating Game Ally Zetterberg Socially awkward board game designer Tilda works in Monaco and decides to approach her dating life as a game, eliminating players who break her rules. But someone watching is intent on playing their own game of revenge.


Agent Laura Heathfield Rights World English (Berkley)


The Secrets of Flowers Sally Page Seeking distraction from the death of her husband, Emma sets out to uncover the identity of the florist on the Titanic—and finds friendship, connections, and hope along the way.


Agent Tanera Simons Rights UK (Harper Collins), US (Blackstone), Germany (dtv), Russia (Azbooka- Atticus)


Romance Is Dead Katie Bohn Enemies-to-lovers rom-com in which


scream queen Quinn and an on-set love interest stumble across a dead body on-set of their horror movie.


Agent Tanera Simons Rights UK (Quercus)


Head First Claire Kershaw Forced proximity STEM rom-com in which two sparring marine biologists find themselves on the same dive trip in the Great Barrier Reef.


Agent Tanera Simons Rights UK, Canada (Bonnier)


Greyhound Literary


The Death and Life of Ellen Fenton Yvvette Edwards A rich psychological portrait of a family by Booker long-listed Edwards unfolds as Ellen Fenton—wife, mother, grandmother— lies on her deathbed and realises her life project, the big beautiful Caribbean family she sacrificed so much in order to build, has crumbled away beneath her.


Agent Salma Begum Rights UK and Commonwealth (Virago)


Winging It Mike Lawson “Raw and honest” queer rom-com takes you behind the curtain into the dramatic world of cabin crew, as flight attendant Callum tries to overcome the turbulence of his past relationship and find love again with the attractive new engineer.


Agent Maria Brannan


Not Just a Bad Period Jen Moore Timely, evidence-based guide to endometriosis by award-winning campaigner and educator Moore, which combines the latest research with personal experience, practical advice—and compassion.


Agent Julia Silk Rights UK and Commonwealth (Green Tree)


The Wild Indoors Susan Richardson


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