BOOKS


Boring Asian Female Canwen Xu Upmarket thriller début with a delightfully unhinged, coldly calculating and obsessive anti-hero, whose sociopathic tendencies turn racial stereotypes of the meek, submissive Asian woman on their heads.


Agent Rachel Yeoh Rights US (Berkley), Canada (HarperCollins Canada)


Marianne Gunn O’Connor


Esther Is Now Following You Tanya Sweeney A “‘Baby Reindeer’ but from the stalker’s perspective” thrill ride that gives a ringside view of the unique appeal of fandom and obsession.


Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor Rights UK and Commonwealth


These Precious Things Aimee Bennett The “quirky charm of Before The Coffee Gets Cold meets the fantastical storytelling of Matt Haig” in a magical story about the things we treasure most in life, set in the grime and glory of modern Paris.


Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor


Swing


Anne Fitzgerald “Recalling Revolutionary Road and Little Fires Everywhere” and set in Ireland in the Swinging 60s, in which the people on one suburban street in Dublin discover marriage can provide a convenient place to hide all manner of sins.


Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor


Strange Fruit Cindy Forde The author and activist’s exploration of the links between our bloody colonialist history and present climate crisis: how the past’s claiming of land and disregard for human life has translated into the capitalism-fuelled destruction of our planet.


Agent Marianne Gunn O’Connor


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Floaters Craig Taylor “Extinction Rebellion meets ‘Ocean’s Eleven’” in this Teen/YA début warm and funny crime caper of ecological disobedience.


Agent Catherine Pellegrino


Scenes of a Desperate Nature Kylie Whitehead A dark literary novel of morals and ambition, as two women land their dream jobs working on a horror film, but it soon becomes clear that the director has an unorthodox approach.


Agent Imogen Pelham Marsh Agency


Vanishing World Sayaka Murata The Convenience Store Woman’s newest goes “to a bold new level”


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Marjacq Scripts


Living Is a Problem Doug Johnstone Upmarket crime series featuring three generations of women running an undertakers and solving crime in Edinburgh.


Agent Philip Patterson Rights World English (Orenda), TV/film (Ecosse/ Blazing Griffin), options in Germany, Japan


They Own the Night Amy McCaw A supernatural thriller set in a spooky Scottish university town. Mia’s brother Johnny disappears on a secret journalist assignment. With her penchant for true crime (her dad is a serial killer, after all) Mia decides to investigate.


Agent Sandra Sawicka Rights World English (Black & White)


Meltdown


Elliott Simpson A “post-millennial Dorian Gray meets The Double” as Damian’s sculpted self-portrait comes to life. Initially, it might be the answer to all his problems. But his clay doppelganger is more open, engaged; more human. And it becomes clear there’s only room for one Damian...


Agent Imogen Pelham


Agent on behalf of Idea Architects Rights UK (Canongate), US (Crown)


One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad Novelist and journalist El Akkad’s “powerful reckoning” with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn’t consider you fully human.


Agent on behalf of Aragi, Inc Rights UK (Canongate), US (Knopf)


The Intimate Animal: Why We Live and Die for Love Dr Justin Garcia An evolutionary look at understanding our intimate relationships, from the director of the Kinsey Institute and Match.com scientific adviser.


Agent on behalf of Idea Architects Rights UK (Penguin Life), US (Little, Brown Spark), Chinese (Guomai), Spanish (PRH Grupo Editorial)


Morgan Green Creatives


Exquisite Beauty Rebecca Burn Début horror novel in which, in a social experiment conducted


in an alternative Japan where attitudes to sex and procreation are wildly different to our own.


Agent on behalf of Aragi, Inc Rights UK (Granta), US (Grove), German (Aufau), Italian (Edizioni E/O), Russian (Popcorn)


Brainjacking: The Science of Influence and Manipulation Brian Clegg The science writer explores the psychology of storytelling: the ability that makes us human


Agent on behalf of Icon Rights UK (Icon)


The Future Is Peace Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon A Palestinian and an Israeli, two lifelong peace activists, both of whom have lost family in the current conflict, take readers on a searing journey to “understand this holy, bloodstained land”.


by the feared figure of Mother, two children bring themselves up on an island beset by horrors.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan


Deliverywoman Eva Wyles Début short-story collection that explores the complexities of human connection, the pursuit of meaning, and modern-day loneliness.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan Rights UK and British Commonwealth excl. Canada (Influx)


What Remains of Us Is Love Jess Bailey A celebration of quilts and quilters, and the humanity of art made at kitchen tables, on front pouches and in moments of community care.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan Rights UK and British Commonwealth excl. Canada (Chatto)


Into the Dream Lab Michelle Carr


CATHERINE WALSH


A dream engineer’s guide to the science of dreaming and nightmares, and the astonishing impact the dreaming brain has on our waking life.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan Rights UK and British Commonwealth excl. Canada (Profile), US (Holt), Dutch (Querido Facto), Chinese (Citic), Russian (MIF)


Scandal ’63: Searching for the Lost Art of Pauline Boty Tom Glover A treasure hunt by a young art historian for paintings by the only female British pop art painter, which has remained elusive for 60 years.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan


Mulcahy Sweeney


Queen B Juno Dawson A sapphic, Tudor witchy novella telling the origin story of Her Majesty Royal Coven, featuring


Anne Boleyn.


Agent Sallyanne Sweeney Rights UK and Commonwealth (HarperVoyager), US (Viking)


Awakened Kelechi Okafor The writer and presenter’s first novel features Pels, a journalist on assignment in West Africa, who takes part in a ceremony involving the sacred Spirit Vine, which reveals her destiny to stop an otherworldly conspiracy connected to the disappearance of young Black kids.


Agent Sallyanne Sweeney Rights UK and Commonwealth (Orion)


Slashed Beauties A Rushby A gothic historical fantasy set between the present day and Victorian London following the “slashed beauties” (anatomical wax models) who come to life at night to exact revenge on men who have dared ogle them.


Agent Edwina de Charnacé


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