27th February 2026
42 MP
The Check Out Girl Caz Frear When middle-aged check-out girl Evelyn takes an unusual interest in a young couple who frequent her shop, alarm bells start ringing. When one of them is found dead, the questions become more urgent.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
UK & Commonwealth, translation Simon & Schuster, US & Canada Holt
Master of Ruins Emma Mallory Dark romance flowers when a Scottish laird invites an archivist to work on his remote island.
Agent Eugenie Furniss
The World’s Greatest Detective Matthew Reilly Second in Reilly’s new series featuring private detective Sam Speedman. When someone starts kidnapping members of a billionaire’s family, five of the most talented US detectives are called to solve a series of complex puzzles to have the family members returned.
Agent Eugenie Furniss UK & Commonwealth Orion,
Australia & New Zealand
The Rewind Keith Stuart Empty-nesters Jack and Sara’s marriage is floundering. But then they wake up as their teenage selves in the 1990s. Can they find their way back and will they find each other again?
Agent Eugenie Furniss World rights Little, Brown
The Widow’s Mirror SK Tremayne Second in an atmospheric new crime series with a supernatural edge about a grieving forensic psychologist, Karenza Bray, set in Cornwall. This time it’s a case of apparent demonic possession…
Agent Eugenie Furniss UK & Commonwealth Hemlock
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ACM UK
The First House Avni Doshi From the Booker Prize- shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar comes a gripping psychodrama of unravelling and rebirth – for readers of Katie Kitamura, Deborah Levy, Gwendoline Riley and Elena Ferrante.
Agent Maria Cardona Serra
UK Hamish Hamilton, US Summit, German DuMont, Italian Nord, World Spanish Gatapardo, India, Greek, EU Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
Imperfect Spells Emma Tueller Cosy romantasy in which disgraced witch Ariel’s solitude shatters when celebrity Percy Cannata arrives, forcing secrets, snowstorms, baking – and risky love – into her imperfect magic.
Agent Clara Foster
Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother Daniel Finkelstein Gripping account of the Belsen Trial, the first post-1945 crimes hearing that exposed Auschwitz’s gas chambers and condemned 11 – including camp commandant Josef Kramer, who authorised the killing of the author’s grandmother.
Agent Toby Mundy UK William Collins, Dutch
Exiles
Enda Delaney The story of the global Irish diaspora told through the lives of emigrants, the places they made their homes, and the objects they brought with them.
Agent Jack Ramm
The Messy Middle Dr Tuesday Watts-Overall A psychologist-mother reframes maternal struggle as a human response to identity shifts, emotional labour and inadequate support.
Agent Valeria Huerta World English Transworld
The Wolf and His King Finn Longman “Luscious” adult fantasy debut from medieval historian and YA author Longman: “Madeline Miller meets medieval literature in a spellbinding, queer werewolf tale.”
Agent Jessica Hare
World Gollancz, North American Erewhon, French City Editions
Into that Dark Sea Anuradha Roy A “powerful and beautifully” crafted novel about three generations of women who each rescue the next from their lives, set amid the changing political turmoil of Calcutta, from the Booker Prize- longlisted writer.
Agent Clare Alexander
The Agency
Anya and the Light Above the Ocean Amelia Giudici While searching on a stormy sea for her missing mother, Anya encounters a strange window of light above the waves.“Thilling adventure with a sci-fi twist.”
Agent Jessica Hare World rights Andersen Press, Turkish
Peregrine Quinn and the Battle for Olympus Ash Bond The conclusion to Bond’s epic fantasy middle-grade trilogy. Peregrine and her friends must face their most dangerous challenge yet.
Agent Jessica Hare
World English Piccadilly Press, French Casterman, German cbj, Latin American Spanish Trillas, Turkish
The Society of Free Spirits: A Grave Inheritance Felicity Epps Ghosts. Murder. The patriarchy. Never underestimate what free- spirited young women can handle, in a YA crime series with a supernatural twist; a Waterstones’ YA Book of the Month for August 2025.
Agent Jessica Hare
UK Atlantic, US Zando, Spain AdN, Canada
World Hodder Children’s, French Albin Michel
My Name Is Jodie Jones Emma Shevah Original YA story exploring language and hidden trauma, with a whip- smart and unforgettable protagonist.
Agent Jessica Hare World David Fickling
Burn and Rave at Close of Day Max Porter The fifth novel from the bestselling, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Shy and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
Agent Lisa Baker UK Faber, US Riverhead, Canada
Impunity Kamila Shamsie ( 1) In 1970s Karachi, a military coup is reshaping the nation. A young girl’s life alters irrevocably the day a stranger arrives in her family garden. The “haunting” latest from the Women’s Prize winner.
Agent Victoria Hobbs UK Bloomsbury, US Riverhead
Aitken Alexander
Poor Baby Sarah Bernstein The Booker Prize- shortlistee’s newest is a story of a haunting: a haunted house, a haunted wood, a haunted history. “Beguiling, hypnotic and singularly brilliant.”
Agent Harriet Moore
UK Granta, US Transit, Canada Jean
Madeleine Dunnigan A “startlingly assured” debut set over one hot summer that is a meditative narrative of loss and escape distilled into the heart- rending story of an intense and dangerous adolescent love.
Agent Emma Paterson
UK Daunt, US Norton, Spain Plata/Urano, Germany Diogenes
The Fields Martin MacInnes A sweeping, multigenerational novel unfurling the secrets, violences and beauties that shape a Scottish family and our grand universe, from the Booker Prize-longlisted author.
Agent Emma Paterson
AM Heath
On One Condition Eve Binder Len and Fran are child- free. When Len is asked by his brother to be his and his wife’s sperm donor, Len – after a lifetime of longing for purpose – sees the chance to do some good. Fran sees disaster.
Agent Florence Rees
The Clarity of Conflict Yeshim Harris Peace-building expert applies lessons from her years working with politically polarised countries to everyday problems, teaching us how to communicate effectively and thoughtfully engage with uncomfortable situations.
Agent Euan Thorneycroft
The Map of Europe: A History Luka Ivan Jukic A cartographical history of Europe from a critically acclaimed writer, told through 10 maps imposed by leaders from Napoleon to Putin. “For readers of Tim Marshall, Jerry Brotton and Peter Frankopan.”
Agent Tom Killingbeck
The Bureau of Second Chances Jennifer Ross Love story about an agent at the Bureau of Second Chances who, desperate to rescue a man from the fallout of a decades-old mistake, accidentally uncovers a truth that could rewrite both of their histories.
Agent Rebecca Ritchie UK HQ
Andlyn
Broken Atlas DZ Tijani ( 2) Set during a fantastical Islamic Golden Age in which a cartographer aims to map the most challenging of terrains while in search for his missing mentor and a cure for his shapeshifting companion.
Agent Davinia Andrew-Lynch
Fizog Agog; Apoplectic (Part One of The Belch’s Grimoire) C Moran A fraudulent medium and an ardent activist are forced into a hostile alliance when real magic returns to a small Midlands town.
Agent Davinia Andrew-Lynch
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1 ZAIN MUSTAFA
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