BOOKS


The House with Nine Locks Philip Gray An “odyssey of survival and self-invention” set in 1950s Flanders where a young woman who is struggling and alone has her fortunes transformed by a legacy from a relative who, it turns out, was living a double life as a master forger.


Agent Nicola Barr Rights UK (Harvill), France (Sonatine)


Game On Seressia Glass The Love Con author returns with a new romance following a gamer who, when an unexpected “player two” enters her life, must decide if their relationship is worth levelling up.


Agent Jenny Bent Rights World English (Berkley)


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The Odds of You Kate Dramis “‘The Holiday’ meets ‘Notting Hill’” as début novelist Sage crosses paths with Theo, Hollywood’s hottest new star, and finds herself in the middle of a gossip column frenzy when their run-in is mistaken for romance.


Agent Jessica Killingley


10 Marchfield Square Nicola Whyte


“Sharp and surprising” mystery sees elderly heiress and landlady Celeste team up with her tenants Audrey and Lewis to investigate a murder that takes place in London’s smallest residential square.


Agent Jason Bartholomew Rights UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), US (Union Square), Germany (Lübbe), Hungary (Agave)


The ADHD Focus Friend: Planning & Productivity Workbook Grace Koelma “Groundbreaking” evidence-based productivity tool designed especially for ADHD brains from the team behind the hugely popular Future ADHD digital


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Agent Jessica Killingley Rights World English (TarcherPerigee)


Money on Your Mind: The Psychology Behind Your Financial Habits Vicky Reynal A financial psychotherapist dives into different money behaviours such as overspending, underspending, money secrets and self-sabotage to reveal how our past experiences impact our relationship with money.


Agent Jason Bartholomew Rights UK and Commonwealth (Bonnier), US (Te Experiment), Chinese Simplified (China Book Machine), Chinese Traditional (China Times), Germany (Kosel Verla)


Smarter: 10 Simple Lessons for a More Productive (& Less- Stressed) Life Emily M Austen Influencer and entrepreneur Austen’s “Manifest meets Atomic Habits” practical guide to amplifying talent, increasing productivity and improving work-life balance.


Agent Morwenna Loughman


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Broken Country Clare Leslie Hall “Sweeping” love triangle about a woman torn between the farmer that she married and the famous author she once loved, “for fans of The Paper Palace”.


Agent Hattie Grünewald


The Boy Who Lived David Holmes “Powerful” memoir from Holmes, who played Harry Potter’s stunt double, suffered a life-changing injury during filming “and went on to inspire the world”. With a foreword by Daniel Radcliffe.


Agent Rory Scarfe Rights UK and Commonwealth (Hodder)


Lines of Sight S R White A waitress is found dead in the courtyard of an


apartment block, her death witnessed by five residents—who each tell a different story of what happened.


Agent Hattie Grünewald


The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance Chiara Bullen A cosy fantasy following a burnt-out historian striving to complete career- defining work—if he can break the curse standing in his way.


Agent Bea Fitzgerald


George and the Dragon Ryan Collett A disaffected 21st-century Londoner travels back in time to the year 1300, and is charged with defeating a dragon.


Agent Hattie Grünewald


Blake Friedmann Smitten: Romantic Obsession, the Neuroscience of


Limerence, and How to Make Love Last Tom Bellamy An academic neuroscientist’s “brilliant and much-needed” exploration of the psychology of infatuation, and how to recognise and move beyond it towards a healthier experience of love.


Agent Juliet Pickering Rights UK (Watkins), Audio (Bolinda)


Ice Town Will Dean Deaf investigative journalist Tuva Moodyson returns and is on the trail of a missing teenager in an ice-bound mountain village, with a serial killer on the loose.


Agent Kate Burke Rights World English (Hodder)


The Woman in the Chinese Collar Hannah Lowe The Costa Book of the


Year winner returns with an “astounding” hybrid memoir, weaving together the personal and historic, the poetic and investigative.


Agent Isobel Dixon Rights UK (Scribner)


Gunner


Alan Parks “Engrossing” Second World War thriller featuring a war-wounded ex-cop, by the author of the acclaimed McCoy series.


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Agent Isobel Dixon Rights UK (John Murray), France (Rivages), Italy (Bompiani), Spain (Tusquets)


Have You Eaten Francesca Chang An “incisive and nourishing” début novel about grief, family, friendship and food: “for fans of Crying in H Mart and Conversations with Friends”.


Agent Juliet Pickering ALAN PARKS


C&W The Family Allowance Claire Lynch “Heartbreaking, perfectly observed” début that takes place over two timelines: 2022, when Maggie’s father, Heron, receives a terminal diagnosis, and 1982, when he discovers that his young wife and the mother of his child has been having a lesbian affair.


Agent Emma Finn Rights UK and Commonwealth (Chatto), US (Scribner), Catalan (Periscopi), Germany (Penguin), Spanish (Literatura Random House), Swedish (Bokfabriken)


I’m Not Normally Like This Emily Ostlere Upmarket literary début that follows social worker Elodie as boundaries blur between the personal and professional and her past rears its head, “forcing Elodie to confront her present and begin to heal”.


Agent Sophie Lambert


The Undercover Bride Kosuke Ohashi “Japan’s answer to


‘How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days’” has Sayaka quitting her job and dumping her fiancé on the same day but the job, then bagging a role on Tokyo’s top, cut-throat fashion magazine; but the job comes with a condition: find a husband in six months and write a column about it, or she’s out.


Agent Lee Harada, Annabel White Rights Japanese (Bunkyosha)


How to Build a City Gabriella Bennett The Times and Sunday Times housing correspondent’s deep dive into the adaptability of the world’s cities as architectural innovation seeks solutions to the acute emergencies of our time including loneliness, war, overcrowding and ageing populations.


Agent Sophie Lambert


Coastlines: A Four-Billion Year Journey Along the World’s Seashores Ben Wilson Bestselling historian Wilson “leaves no pebble unturned” in his newest on coastlines, taking in four billion years of geography, archaeology and ecology to examine “one of the most overlooked elements of our geographical heritage: the liminal space between land and sea”.


Agent Clare Conville


CAA Just Good Manners William Hanson An English etiquette book for the 21st-century from manners coach Hason, delving into major battle grounds of behaviour— from queuing, cutlery and correspondence through to “new frontiers” like supermarkets, the online world and dating.


Agent Harriet Poland Rights UK (Century)


Pretty for a Day Elna Baker


A “brilliant, vulnerable and witty” memoir about the psychology of extreme weight loss that sheds light on ideas of conventional womanhood.


Agent Karolina Sutton Rights UK (Viking),


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