Andrew Lownie Agency
Physics Around the Clock: Adventures in the Science of Everyday Living Michael Banks The long-time news editor of Physics World reveals the hidden science in our daily lives.
Agent Andrew Lownie
UK The History Press, US Prometheus, China
Thinking Large and Small: How Microbes Made and Can Save the World Peter Forbes The science writer’s look at thefundamental importance of microbes to life on Earth.
Agent Andrew Lownie UK Icon
Dianarama: The Shocking True Story of Deception, Cover-Ups and the Panorama Scandal that Betrayed Princess Diana Andy Webb ( 3) The story of one of the biggest scandals in public life and broadcasting history – and of the cover-up that followed to hide what happened, leaving the damaged princess to her fate.
Agent Andrew Lownie
UK Penguin Michael Joseph, US Pegasus
Andrew Nurnberg Associates
Putin Lives in Our House Sasha Denysova The prominent Kyiv-born playwright’s satire is set in the basement of a besieged Mariupol theatre, where a 12-year- old Ukrainian girl puts Vladimir Putin on trial.
Agent Doug Wallace
Morningstar Brooke Fortune Sweeping and richly imagined romantic fantasy about a young woman who has been reared as a religious sacrifice, only to reject the fate that has been written for her in favour of carving out her own destiny.
Agent Sara O’Keeffe UK Bloomsbury, Spain Urano Agent Max Edwards
Darling Bud CJ Skuse The new comedy thriller from the Sweetpea universe, starring Rhiannon’s teenage daughter, Ivy: “Dark and hilarious.”
Agent Jenny Savill World English HQ
The Last Story of Jamie Gunn Thomas Olde Heuvelt Gripping new horror novel from Olde Heuvelt “explores what happens when the stories we tell ourselves to survive take on a life of their own”.
Agent Jenny Savill
UK & Commonwealth Transworld, German Heyne, Netherlands
Il Trucco Del Diavolo (The Devil’s Trick) Fabiano Massimi Historical thriller set in 18th-century Rome that challenges the reader with symbols and enigmas where the truth is hidden in a still- undeciphered, mysterious ancient manuscript.
Agent Barbara Barbieri Italian Longanesi
The Cracks Tom Huddleston A haunting contemporary novel “giving a nod to a modern Rebecca”, about a malevolent country mansion that is determined to make history repeat itself.
Agent Ella Kahn World English Titan
The Hidden Library Sharon Gosling Commercial, uplifting romantic women’s fiction. At the centre of a scandal, bestselling author Helen escapes to Rathbrooke Hall and stumbles across a mysterious hidden library in the process.
Agent Ella Kahn
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Simon & Schuster, Germany Dumont, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden
The Impossible Job William Ralston Exploration of the world of football refereeing, with unrivalled access to UEFA and Premier League match officials.
Agent Max Edwards 3
UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada Viking, North America Norton
Apple Tree Literary
The Age Code: The New Science of Food and How It Can Save Us David Cox A “revelatory and optimistic” book by health journalist Cox, which points out why our eating habits must change if we are to live longer and healthier lives.
Agent Max Edwards UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada
4th Estate, complex Chinese, Croatian, Korean
The Human Stereotype Lasana T Harris An eye-opening first book from Harris, professor of social neuroscience at University College London, which reveals how we can learn to avoid confining one another into stereotypes.
ASH Literary
Finding Her Truth Jennifer Iacopelli The sequel to Iacopelli’s figure-skating romance Finding Her Edge – a second Netflix season is coming in 2027 – follows Adriana’s choice between Freddie and Brayden.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
UK & Commonwealth, Spanish, South American Portuguese, Swedish; Options in Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (EU), Russian, Slovakian, Ukrainian
Trick Shot LA Jasper Spicy hockey romance “for fans of Heated Rivalry” about a closeted National Hockey League captain and the out rock star he falls for, set during the run-up to the Stanley Cup finals.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes World English
Late Bloomer Allora Dannon With her sister’s wedding looming, Lainey – who has never had romantic attention – pushes herself to navigate the dating world so she doesn’t have to go to the wedding alone.
Agent Alice Sutherland-Hawes
The Scottish Boy Alex de Campi A casualty of Unbound, this steamy gay medieval romance follows a young English knight who falls for his prisoner-turned- squire before learning he is a bastard with claims to both the English and French thrones.
Agent Paula Weiman World English, Italian
Tokyo Shadow Games Hailie Kei When an ancient tournament returns to Tokyo’s parallel world, a group of school classmates are forced into the Shadow Games, where they face trials to win a chance to return home.
Agent Saffron Dodd 4 5 MARK TUZMAN 05
Bell Lomax Moreton
The Deadliest Candidate Rory Dumont Eldritch horror meets arcane intrigue and cut- throat competition in this adult dark academia romantasy debut “for fans of The Library at Hellebore and The Atlas Six”.
Agent Julie Gourinchas
Only Fangs Georgia Bowers ( 4) “The Flatshare meets Being Human” in this new adult paranormal romcom about love, longing and what happens when a thirst trap turns into the real thing.
Agent Lauren Gardner
The Unforgettable Life of What’s Her Name Christina Ford “The Three Lives of Cate Kay meets Gilmore Girls” in a witty, sharply written story of mothers and daughters, family secrets, truth and lies. Inspired, in part, by the author’s life as the mother of a social-media influencer.
Agent Katie Fulford
Murder on the Island Federico Ruiz “Love Island meets And Then There Were None in the first title of a global two-book adult fiction submission from debut author and experienced reality TV broadcast professional Ruiz.
Agent Jo Bell
23 Minutes Jo Wozencroft “The Martian meets John Green” in the FAB Prize runner-up’s debut YA speculative romance about two teenage astronauts who ask if you can fall in love in 23 minutes.
Agent John Baker
The Bent Agency
The Mirror of Infinite Endings Stephanie Garber ( 5) A new, illustrated companion novella to the YA fantasy star’s Once Upon a Broken Heart series, centring on Jacks and Evangeline.
Agent Jenny Bent UK Gollancz, US Flatiron
Everything Is Like Something Else Suzy Krause A Saskatchewan farm vanishes overnight. Years later, a bookseller notices people and objects disappearing. As their stories converge, two women must confront the strange elasticity of grief, hope and longing.
Agent Victoria Cappello US Blackstone
Nightburner Brett Puryear Over a single harrowing night in the remote corridors of the East Tennessee mountains, two fierce women are hunted by a psychotic killer.
Agent James Mustelier US Minotaur
Unfortunate Creatures Holly Race “Frankenstein meets Starling House” in a gothic fantasy about a grieving girl who steals her murdered soulmate’s heart and retreats to a remote mountain mansion to bring him back to life.
Agent Zoë Plant UK Hodderscape
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