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Début about three women breaking free of the control of one man preparing for the end of days in a remote religious community in Scotland.


Agent Lisa Highton Rights UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada (Legend)


Vile Apparel Glennis Virgo The winner of the inaugural JBA Over 50 Début Award is a “glorious” world-building novel set in 16th-century Bologna where young seamstress Elena fights for justice for her wronged friend and battles to become a tailor in a male- dominated society.


Agents Lisa Highton and Jenny Brown Rights Czech (Alpress)


The Phoenix Ballroom Ruth Hogan Bestseller Hogan’s newest is “warm and touching novel of hope and second chances across the generations”.


Agent Lisa Highton Rights UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada (Corvus), North America (Morrow), Brazil (Verus/Record)


The Herbalist’s Secret Anabelle Marx “Gripping” historical mystery set in the Scottish Highlands.


Agent Jenny Brown Rights World English (Storm)


Jo Unwin Literary Agency


Re: Story of Your Life Jaz Ampaw-Farr Teacher, Speaker of the Year and former “The Apprentice” contestant Amparr-Faw uses her inspirational story and “failure CV” to help readers reframe adversity.


Agent Jo Unwin


Ask Me How it Works: Frequently Asked Questions about my Open Marriage Deepa Paul Paul’s experience of pushing the boundaries of what it takes to make modern love work, and the story of her journey to sexual freedom, “one tough conversation, one


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(mis)adventure and one realisation at a time”.


Agent Jo Unwin Rights UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada (Viking), Germany (Hanserblau), the Netherlands (Nieuw Amsterdam)


Sunbirds Penelope Slocombe “Perceptive, profound and page-turning” real-life mystery of the nearly two dozen Western travellers who disappeared in Northern India's Kullu Valley between the mid 1990s and early 2000s.


Agent Jo Unwin Rights UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada (John Murray), Italy (Salani), Germany (Ullstein)


The Christmas Book Hunt Jenny Colgan “A priceless book. A race against time. A new chapter for Mirren and Theo?” A short story from “the Queen of Christmas”.


Agent Jo Unwin Rights World English (Amazon)


Oh Put it Away Greg: Why We Need to Look at the Dick Pic Becky Holmes The Keanu Reeves is Not in Love with You author explores the phenomenon of unsolicited dick pics and looks at the many issues surrounding it.


Agent Jo Unwin


Johnson & Alcock


The Small Museum Jody Cooksley Award-winner Cooksley’s “chilling gothic and haunting” novel following Madeleine Brewster, who after marrying Dr Lucius Everley is introduced to his “Small Museum” of bones and his sister Grace’s house for fallen women, where she discovers unimaginable horrors.


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Agent Charlotte Seymour Rights UK (Allison & Busby)


The Blindspot Hannah King “Taut and thought- provoking” Northern Ireland-set exploration of a sister who would do anything for her younger brother, even when he’s


AMBER MASSIE-BLOMFIELD


Agent Anna Power Rights UK (Footnote), US (Norton)


Jonathan Clowes First Born


accused of an appalling crime.


Agent Charlotte Seymour Rights UK (Bedford Square)


Gallows Wood Louisa Scarr First in crime writer Scarr’s new “addictive” series featuring police dog handler PC Lucy Halliday and her scent spaniel, Moss, as they are pulled into a gritty serial murder case.


Agent Ed Wilson Rights UK (Canelo), the Netherlands under offer


Never Had a Dad Georgie Codd “Funny, moving and thought-provoking” narrative non-fiction of Codd’s quest to find a father figure in her 30s, and a reflection on the meaning of fatherhood across different cultures; featured in the podcast “This American Life”.


Agent Ed Wilson Rights UK (William Collins), TV (Hat Trick)


Acts of Resistance Amber Massie-Blomfield Cultural criticism, history and memoir with an “urgent reminder that art is an essential part of our existence in times of crisis”, taking examples like the Paris Commune of 1871, the Siege of Sarajevo, musicians in Auschwitz and indigenous communities in Bolivia.


Maureen Duffy Re-issue by Gollancz SF Masterworks series of Duffy’s 1981 novel, previously adapted by the BBC, to coincide with Duffy’s 90th birthday this October.


Agent Nemonie Craven Rights World English (Gollancz)


In the Land of Oz Toby Vieira Vieira’s follow up to the acclaimed Marlow’s Landing, his newest is novel similarly full of “real global political insight, the fantastical and the uncanny”.


Agent Nemonie Craven Rights UK and Commonwealth (Weatherglass)


Mysticism Simon Critchley From the bestselling author of What We Think About When We Think About Football and On Bowie, an exploration of mysticism via Julian of Norwich, Anne Carson, Annie Dillard, Julian Cope and Krautrock.


Agent Nemonie Craven Rights UK and Commonwealth (Profile), North America (New York Review Books), Spanish (Sexto Piso)


An American Book of the Dead Kirsten Norrie A début novel by Norrie— also known as musician and poet MacGillivray— which is “a major arcana of death in America, shot through with bullets, black humour and an assassin- artist’s eye for detail of place and thought”.


Agent Nemonie Craven Rights World English (Broken Sleep)


Kate Hordern


Escape to the French Chateau Rachel Barnett Tasked with checking on the management of a gloriously luxurious Loire Valley retreat, Fran finds herself mistaken for staff and pulled into the life of the hotel—including one young wine merchant, Johnny, who is nursing heartbreak as painful as Fran’s own.


Agent Anne Williams Rights World English (Bonnier Embla)


A Wedding at Heatherly Hall Julie Houston The last in Houston’s triplet trilogy has sisters Hannah, Rosa and Eva determined to succeed in making a business out of a historic Yorkshire stately home: “for fans of Katie Fforde and Gill Mansell”.


Agent Anne Williams Rights World English (Aria), options in Denmark, Hungary


The Gathering Storm Lynne McEwan McEwan’s fourth Scotland- set DI Shona Oliver title has her ex-classmate— now a famous actor— returning to home to make a Robert Burns biopic, and Shona is tasked with his safety on the windswept island film set. A routine job suddenly becomes much harder when a body wearing his coat is washed ashore.


Agent Anne Williams Rights World English (Canelo)


The Spare Room Laura Starkey Rom-com in which Rosie is unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend so her landlord, Aled, offers to move into her spare room to help her cover the rent. Will they cross the line into love?


Agent Anne Williams Rights World English (Bonnier Embla), Danish (Palatium)


Under the Black Mountain K T Fitzpatrick “Atmospheric” first crime


novel from Fitzpatrick set in 1919 in far northern Queensland where Eva has fled after a violent marriage and finds employment in the local constabulary. When her new friend Sylvia disappears, Eva decides to investigate.


Agent Anne Williams Rights World English and e-book (Bolinda)


Kate Nash Agency


Carbon Dating Jen Smith Début romance when an archaeologist is about to make the discovery of a lifetime, but her sworn enemy is also at the site, “digging it—and her”.


Agent Saskia Leach


Male, Unknown Chris Griffiths Début medical thriller from paramedic Griffiths where an unknown man is admitted to A&E with the name of one of the hospital’s doctors carved on his chest.


Agent Francesca Riccardi


Land’s End Brid Cummings


Début suspense in which a disgraced teacher starts work at a school where no one wants to work in isolated South Australia.


Agent Kate Nash


The Fit List Rosy Dawson A début dark academia feminist thriller begins when a “fit list” of women rated on looks is found pinned to a murdered student in an exclusive music summer school.


Agent Francesca Riccardi


The Algorithm Daisy Jervis YA début which asks the question: in a points- driven world controlled by AI, would you be a conformist or a dissenter?


Agent Saskia Leach LBA


It’s a Love Story Catherine Walsh Walsh’s newest is a “Book Lovers meets Leap Year” rom-com in which an ambitious editor travels


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