A Moon Bound in Thorns Annie Summerlee Dark academic, sapphic romantasy début in which a vampire hunter’s final mission—to infiltrate an elite university and steal an ancient book—is thwarted when she begins to fall for her roommate, heir to the most powerful vampire family in Europe, and is accidentally made her familiar.
Agent Kiya Evans
The North Agency
Human, Animal Seth Insua A début following three generations of a farming family from the Second World War to the present, exploring the friction between tradition and progress as the youngest son, grappling with his gender identity, draws the attention of the animal rights activists targeting the dairy farm his father is struggling to keep afloat.
Agent Julie Fergusson Rights World English (VERVE)
Don’t Tell Tales Katherine Graham Eight-year-old Alice thinks a white lie will keep her uncle out of trouble, but if she doesn’t tell the truth—and soon— someone is going to die; psychological thriller début set in Newcastle at the tail end of the miners’ strike.
Agent Stan
Grapevine Alex Craig Début thriller featuring “ballsy” college professor Lou Gomersall: when her 19-year-old daughter, Abby, vanishes on a mysterious road trip, Lou takes the investigation into her own hands with potentially deadly consequences.
Agent Stan
Goddamn Hell Rick Burin
A “heart-melting” love story, set in a vividly- realised 1930s Hollywood, with a whip-smart, wise-ass narrator— Frances Levin—a lesbian screenwriter at 20th Century-Fox.
Agent Stan
TheBookseller.com
Autonomy: Portrait of a Buzzcock Steve Diggle Diggle’s inside account of punk band the Buzzcocks from the band’s looking at their complex friendships, going from supporting Sex Pistols to “Top of the Pops” and “the excess of success, break-up, reformation and life beyond bereavement”.
Agent Kevin Pocklington Rights World English (Omnibus)
Northbank Talent Management
The Extreme Brain Dr Nafees Hamid A King’s College London cognitive scientist weaves together memoir with evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, political economics, and his fieldwork with jihadists, white nationalists, and QAnon devotees to explain how people develop and act on extremist beliefs, why more of us are creeping towards the edge of political violence—including you and me—and what we can do about it.
Agent Matthew Cole
The Age of Fraud Alexander Martin Cybersecurity journalist Martin investigates the history of online fraud and the arms race between organised crime and law enforcement, from the New York Mafia in the 1990s stealing credit card details through to Russian hacker gangs today.
Agent Matthew Cole
Borrowed Time Gerard Lyons “Vital” new examination of debt from the influential economist, using 12 key questions to explore how the debt we are born, live and die with impacts us individually and the wider world around us.
Agent Matthew Cole
Bodies We Buried Chloe Michelle Howarth Howarth’s follow-up to Nero Book Awards- shortlisted début Sunburn is a “hypnotic” story of obsession, troubled pasts, complicated relationships
Manna Austin Taylor “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow meets Bad Blood” in a love story which charts the rise and fall of two undergraduate chemistry students at Harvard who believe they've discovered a drug
and hope between two families in an Irish village.
Agent Elizabeth Counsell
The Book of Heartbreak Ova Ceren
“Sparkling” début from BookTokker and Instagrammer Ova (@ excusemyreading) when, after her mother’s death, 17-year-old Sare Silverbirch—cursed to die when she suffers a broken heart—travels to Istanbul to unravel her secret family history and the truth behind her mysterious spirit guide.
Agent Elizabeth Counsell
Paper Literary All We Have is Time Amy Tordoff “Combining the historical aspects of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue with the emotional heft of The Time Traveller's Wife”, an impossible love story between an immortal woman and a time traveller.
Agent Catherine Cho Rights UK (Viking), US (Atria), Germany (Heyne), Italy (Nord), Romania (Editura Trei), Brazil (Intrinseca)
Hollow is the Heart Natasha Siegel A sapphic gothic reimagining of the Faustian legend where a witch is stalked by a demon determined to take her soul as her own.
Agent Catherine Cho Rights UK (Bloomsbury), US (Mariner)
The Sad Boys’ Guide to Time Travel David Yi A contemporary queer YA love story between a Korean-American Tiktok influencer and a boy in the 1980s who are connected by a mysterious phone booth.
Agent Catherine Cho
Earth, Wind & Fire: How Trees Conquered the World Harriet Rix Biochemist and botanist Rix explores the wonderful and revelatory story of how trees shaped our world: how they invented and manipulated fire as a tool, how they split rocks
that will reverse ageing in humans.
Agent Katie Greenstreet Anonymous Kate Fagan
A fictional “memoir” and love letter to the women who shaped her from pseudonymous and bestselling author Cate Kay in which she comes clean about who she is, what she has done, and where she is going: “for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”.
Agent Katie Greenstreet Rights UK (Bloomsbury), US (Atria)
PEW Literary
Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Revolution in Our Understanding of Life Rowan Hooper Biologist and New Scientist writer Hooper uses symbiosis as the lens through which to tell an “entirely fresh” story about life on Earth, highlighting the single moment of symbiosis that gave rise to all complex life and pivoting between our deep past and our future survival.
Agent Patrick Walsh Rights UK and Commonwealth (Vintage), US (Knopf), Canadian (Signal), Spanish on offer
Fatology: Why Fat is Not All About Food Alanna Collen Colleen’s cutting-edge science with a self-help spin, demonstrating how the hypothalamus in the brain controls our “Weight Set Point” and how modern phenomena have raised it causing increasing weight gain, with practical ways that you can attempt to restore it to healthy functioning.
Agent Patrick Walsh Rights UK and Commonwealth (HarperCollins), Taiwanese (Suncolor)
and created soil to allow them to grow anywhere and how they learned to control water, wind, and even other plants and animals.
Agent Doug Young
Nesting Roisín O’Donnell Début novel from award winning short story writer O’Donnell, is a powerful portrait of one woman’s fight to escape a controlling relationship, overcome homelessness and rebuild a life for herself and her children.
Agent Eleanor Birne Rights UK and Commonwealth (Scribner), US (Algonquin), German (Blessing), Hebrew (Tchelet)
The Wardrobe Department Elaine Garvey Début about a young Irish woman establishing her identity in London and returning to her home town—partly inspired by “Buile Suibhne (Sweeney Astray)”, an old Irish poem about a king who is transformed into a bird and exiled from his people.
Agent Eleanor Birne PFD
When Words Fail: The Story of the Jews, 1900-2025 Simon Schama The much-anticipated final instalment of Schama’s acclaimed, internationally bestselling The Story of the Jews series.
Agent Caroline Michel Rights UK (Bodley Head), US (Ecco), Israel (Miskal), Netherlands (Atlas Contact), Brazil (Companhia Das Letras), Italy (Mondadori), Norway (Historie et Kultur), Spain (Debate), Portugal (Temas e Debates), Russia (Gonzo), Poland (Poznanskie), China (ERC Media), Taiwan (Linking), Turkey (Alfa)
Dancing through the Fire: The Authorised Oral History of Paul Weller Dan Jennings The first authorised biographical book on the Jam founder Weller: a “groundbreaking oral history, meticulously curated from this
extraordinary wealth of material”.
Agent Tim Bates
When Sleeping Women Wake Emma Pei-Yin “Ambitious and unforgettable” début set during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, following the interconnected lives and fates of three extraordinary women.
Agent Laurie Robertson Rights US (Ballantine), Italy (Garzanti)
Leave the Girls Behind Jacqueline Bublitz The second suspense novel from the author of the international hit Before You Knew My Name centres on a woman haunted by a serial killer and the ghosts he left behind.
Agent Cara Lee Simpson Rights UK (Sphere), US (Atria), Allen & Unwin (Australia and New Zealand)
Murder at the Monastery Reverend Richard Coles The third cosy crime in Reverend Richard Coles' bestselling Canon Clement series, now sold in 13 territories.
Agent Tim Bates Rights UK (Weidenfeld)
Portobello Agency
Q is for Garden Jenny Chamarette The multiple-award winning nature writer’s “moving and tender” exploration of the connections between the natural world and queerness, binaries, culture, “the boundaries we build and the paths we choose”; “for fans of Olivia Laing, Rebecca Solnit and Maggie Nelson”.
Agent Caro Clarke
Nothing About Us Without Us Rachel Charlton-Dailey In anticipation of the 30 year anniversary of the Disability Equality Act in 2025, an urgent part-history, part- manifesto of disability activism in the UK from award-winning disability rights journalist, editor and activist Charlton-Dailey.
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