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by her ageing rock-star dad, so she heads North to rural Hartfell with her teenage daughter in tow. The lack of wi-fi turns out to be the least of her problems when she stumbles upon sitting tenant Gil, the local vet: “divorced, very annoying and yes, oh so very hot”.


Agent Catherine Pellegrino Rights World English (Canelo)


Marianne Gunn O'Connor


The Egg


Dearbhaile Houston Début from short story writer Houston centres on Grace, who is broke, living in a tiny apartment in Washington DC, telling friends and family back in Ireland that she’s having the time of her life. Then she discovers that she can donate her eggs in exchange for money, a lifeline that she grasps without thought for the future—but this small action takes on huge proportions in the years that follow


Agent Marianne Gunn O'Connor


Old Romantics Maggie Armstrong Short story collection of alternative romances told “from a netherworld of love and disenchantment”: Armstrong’s narrators “navigate a world of awkward expectation and latent hostility, from bad dates to comically observed workplace absurdity”.


Agent Marianne Gunn O'Connor


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The Wigmaker Lara Muth Muth’s début has Udolfo Guiermo, wigmaker to Queen Elizabeth I and her keeper of secrets, falling out of favour and banished from court. Determined to restore himself to her good graces he travels to rebel Ireland to source hair for the Queen, only to come up against a fierce young Irishwoman who happens to have the most striking red locks in the land.


Agent Marianne Gunn O'Connor


In Her Place Edel Coffey The RTÉ broadcaster turned author second novel has Ann, yearning for escape after devoting years to her mother’s care, finding happiness after a chance meeting. Only problem, Justin is grieving for a wife who is very much alive.


Agent Marianne Gunn O'Connor


Think Like a Farmer John Connell Across the globe, farmers’ protests are making headlines, showing a world at odds with those who produce our food. The author, investigative journalist and filmmaker, who comes from generations of farmers, introduces us to the members of this 10,000-year-old profession and argues that thinking like a farmer is the mindset we all need for these troubled times.


Agent Marianne Gunn O'Connor


Marsh Agency


Nightwatching Tracy Sierra “Razor-sharp” thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by an intruder.


Agent Helen Heller Agency Rights UK (Viking), US (Pamela Dorman), Czech (Euromedia), German (Heyne), Romanian (Trei), Serbian (Laguna), Swedish (Forum), Ukrainian (Bookclub), Dutch under offer


Sing Like Fish Amorina Kingdon Science writer Kindgon’s look at the vital role sound plays in marine life—and how just how pervasive, deafening and destructive human noise is to the ecosystem..


Agent Gillian MacKenzie Agency Rights UK (Scribe), US (Crown)


Colored Television Danzy Senna Senna’s fifth novel revolves around writer Jane who thinks she and her family’s fortunes are to turn around when they land a luxurious year-long house-sitting gig in LA, but then her gaze turns to Hollywood and just as things seem to be going right they turn terribly wrong.


Agent Aragi, Inc Rights UK (Dialogue), US (Riverhead)


Becoming Free: The Nine Personality Patterns that Shape Our Lives. Daniel Siegel US bestselling clinical psychologist Siegel demonstrates how genetics, neural wiring and early attachment combine to form who we are and how we can access all the pathways to free ourselves from these innate and learned ways of being to lead fuller and more connected lives.


Agent Idea Architects Rights US (Avery)


CLAIRE MCGOWAN


Level Up: Persuasion and Negotiation Skills to Help You Get What You Want John Richardson & Attia Qureshi Harvard, MIT and


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University of Michigan negotiation lecturers Richardson and Qureshi present a basic component of negotiation theory in each chapter, then show you how to practise the skills that make that advice work.


Agent Steve Ross Agency Rights UK (Penguin Michael Joseph), US (Simon & Schuster), Brazilian Portuguese under offer


Morgan Green Creatives


What Remains of Us is Love Jess Bailey Written by a third- generation quilter and framed over a person’s life, from birth to burial, celebrating the art and care of quilting; a book about “the humanity of the art made at kitchen tables, on front pouches, and in moments of community care”.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan


No Small Thing Orlaine McDonald “Exceptional” Black British début filled with desire and jeopardy and set on a south London estate, revealing “tender truths about motherhood, the intersection of class and race, and the history we inherit”.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan Rights UK (Serpent's Tail)


Breaststrokes Margaux Vialleron Vialleron’s second novel is on consent, told in five acts over the course of one weekend. “Sharply observed and painfully relatable… and perfect fo fans of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Beautiful World, Where Are You”.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan Rights UK (Simon & Schuster)


Of Small Labours Eva Wyles


“Needle-sharp writing, with characters that yearn for connection” using both the real and surreal to explore the dangers of life in Wyles first short story collection: “sits alongside A M Homes’ The Safety of Objects and Ottessa Moshfegh’s Homesick for Another World”.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan


Mulcahy Sweeney


The Third Perspective: Brave Expression in the Age of Intolerance Africa Brooke A “compass for connection, in a deeply divided world” which is a framework for breaking free from self-censorship, learning to truly listen and building stronger relationships with others, “but most importantly, with yourself”.


Agent Ivan Mulcahy Rights UK and Commonwealth (Catalyst), US (Hachette)


Queen B Juno Dawson Dawson’s novella is set in her “sapphic, Tudor, witchy” HMRC universe telling the origin story of the titular coven, following Anne Boleyn.


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


Gate to Kagoshima Poppy Kuroki First in Kuroki’s Ancestor Memories series has Scottish student Isla escaping to Japan after a relationship falters to find old ghosts and new loves when a typhoon sends her time-travelling to the last days of the Samurai.


Agent Edwina de Charnacé Rights UK and Commonwealth (Oneworld), US (Harper Collins), Italian (Sperling & Kupfer), Portuguese (Planeta)


The Book of Gold Ruth Long Inspired by the true story of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible—an overambitious, almost disastrous project which became a masterpiece of Renaissance printing— interweaving reimagined history, fantasy and a thrilling heist.


Agent Sallyanne Sweeney Rights UK and Commonwealth (Hodderscape)


Unruly


David Mitchell The comedian, actor and writer’s bestselling look at England’s kings and queens, examining why


their sometimes “Cnut-like behaviour” matters in the 21st-century.


Agent Ivan Mulcahy Rights UK and Commonwealth (Penguin Michael Joseph), US (Crown)


Mushens Entertainment


We Solve Murders Richard Osman The Thursday Murder Club record-breaker’s new series stars a father and daughter-in-law duo who run their own private investigation company which takes them around the world, solving mysteries that nobody else can.


Agent Juliet Mushens Rights US, UK, Catalan, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden


Cleopatra Saara El-Arifi Bestseller El-Arifi reimagines one of the world's most famous women, bringing to life the last Pharaoh of Egypt in a “heart-wrenching and powerful” new epic.


Agent Juliet Mushens Rights UK, US, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain


The Retirement Plan Sue Hincenbergs The long-time TV producer turned author’s début follows three friends in their 60s who are forced to come up with a new retirement plan after their husbands lose everything in a bad investment. Their solution? Murder their husbands and collect their seven-figure life insurance pay-outs.


Agent Rachel Neely Rights UK, US, Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Spain


Bombshell Rebecca Lewis Smith Lewis Smith’s début centres around ordinary woman Kate who begins to suspect she’s been used as an alibi by her childhood best friend, movie star Lena, when the murder of Lena’s much older male co-star and rumoured lover explodes onto the news.


Agent Kiya Evans


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