27th February 2026


Greyhound Literary


White Smoke Nick Brucker A high-concept heist thriller by Nicholas Binge, writing as Nick Brucker, set among a group of duplicitous conmen and thieves, who are determined to steal the Vatican’s most remarkable treasures.


Agent Alexander Cochran


Spanish Planeta, Hungarian, at auction in the UK, Dutch, German, Italian


Lost Eden: In Search of a Secret Garden in Venice Ciar Byrne Blending memoir, social history and horticulture, Byrne explores the history of the mysterious Giardino Eden. Once witness to high society, artists and princesses in exile, it has been locked away from the public for decades.


Agent Salma Begum


Swallerjaw Tif Robinette Upmarket Southern- Gothic folk horror set in the humid Florida swamps, which offers a new take on Frankenstein.


Agent Sam Edenborough Under offer for World English


Tears of the Patriarch Lias Saoudi The frontman of rock bank Fat White Family’s reckoning with ageing, loneliness and desire, identity and fatherhood.


Agent Natalie Galustian World English Orion


Mandarin Capitalism: The Market Inside the State and the Paradoxes of China’s Rise Wei Xiong Xiong argues that understanding China’s economy requires seeing the market not as separate from the state but as embedded within it.


Agent Philip Gwyn Jones Under offer in UK, auction in US 15 12 16


Agent Hannah Sheppard World English Boldwood


The Red String Murders Chris McGeorge “The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle meets Ready Or Not” in a novel that puts a speculative spin on the ubiquitous red-string evidence board.


Agent Hannah Sheppard


Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Storm Heart Philippa Leathley The epic finale of bestseller Leathley’s middle-grade Inkbound fantasy trilogy.


Agent Hannah Sheppard


UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada HarperCollins Children’s; options in US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal


Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency


Untitled: Parenting Neurodiverse Children in a Broken System Dr Rosie Gilderthorp A moving memoir and self-help manual from a clinical psychologist and parent to three children with additional needs, endeavouring to support parents through the heartbreak and shame of parenting neurodiverse children.


Agent Louise Buckley


Country Pride Rachel Kellehar ( 15) “An Irish Heated Rivalry”, set in the competitive world of the Irish football league.


Agent Louise Buckley


A Killer Guest List Sarah Bonner Murder on the Moors is the most glamorous murder mystery event of the season…but this year, it’s more than just a game.


Hardman & Swainson


The Relics


Emma Nesporova A deeply atmospheric and gripping historical mystery for readers of CJ Sansom and SJ Parris. Christina, a manuscript illuminator, is drawn into a chilling murder investigation amid the social unrest following the Peasant’s Revolt.


Agent Joanna Swainson World English Fontana


The Symptom Trap: Rethinking Bodily Symptoms Omer Van den Bergh ( 16) A groundbreaking work dismantling medicine’s deeply held assumption that symptoms are straightforward signs of physical dysfunction, exploring the brain’s powerful role in shaping them and transforming the way we think about health.


Agent Caroline Hardman


HHB Agency


The Big Debate Mishal Husain The journalist’s groundbreaking, illustrated guide to navigating facts, questions and the history of finding and using your voice, aimed at turning children aged eight and over into critical thinkers.


Agent Elly James World DK


The Parkinson’s Puzzle Rory Cellan-Jones The former BBC tech correspondent reflects on his battle against Parkinson’s symptoms while exploring technological developments designed to “cure” the disease.


Agent Elly James World Duckworth


The Windermere Children Trevor Avery The story of the 300 orphans who were brought to Lake Windermere from the liberated Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War to take part in a ground- breaking programme of rehabilitation.


Agent Elly James


UK & Commonwealth Ebury, US Little, Brown


Thin Ice


Louise Minchin Chilling new thriller from the author and TV presenter about Noora returning to Finland to confront her best friend’s mysterious death, to uncover a community determined to keep the truth buried beneath the ice.


Agent Elly James World English Headline


Midnight Sun: A Scandinavian Cookbook for Long Summer Days Trine Hahnemann Recipes and stories, along with stunning location photography.


Agent Elly James World Quadrille


Dig Where You Stand Peter Matthews A “searing reckoning with the bones beneath Europe’s feet”, as Matthews uncovers the largest collection of plundered human remains ever assembled, each fragment leading back to Europe’s colonial crimes.


Agent Sharmaine Lovegrove


Child and God Kevin Quinn An “exquisite, lyrical and daring” polyphonic debut that moves between alternating perspectives within a Black Pentecostal family in 1990s Detroit exploring “the emotional costs of faith”.


Agent Sharmaine Lovegrove North America Knopf


International Creative Agency


The Life Swap Jeananne Craig Two very different sisters, two messy lives, one idea that will fix everything. But as Sarah and Sinead step into each other’s shoes, they find they don’t know each other as well as they thought…


Agent Sallyanne Sweeney World English Hachette Ireland


Here We Are at the End Sara Barnard A “wise, uplifting” adult debut from the YA author in which two families and a handful of strangers gather on a private Italian island for the perfect destination wedding just as news breaks that a doomsday comet will soon collide with Earth.


Agent Sallyanne Sweeney


North American Berkley, Germany Heyne, Brazil, UK under offer


Olga & Beaver Lydia Syson Meticulously researched bio-fiction about Olga Kosakiewicz, the rebellious Kiev-born schoolgirl who embarks on a relationship with her philosophy teacher Simone de Beauvoir, forming a love triangle with Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.


Agent Ivan Mulcahy


Janklow & Nesbit


Ravenous Appetites Helena Bailach Adsuara Gruesomely compelling fantasy “for fans of Netflix’s Wednesday” following illegal monster hunter Valeria who investigates when a rogue monster starts killing students at the local alchemy academy.


Agent Hayley Steed


Nostalgia Rena Blake “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets The Notebook” in which Anya questions her reality in a utopian world called The Inside as she develops a relationship with her mysterious and handsome colleague Kai.


Agent Emma Leong


Wild Thing Matilda Brindle Engaging popular- science book about the evolution of non-reproductive sex habits in the animal kingdom and what they reveal about humans.


Agent Claire Paterson Conrad


Digital Sovereignty Hermann Hauser, Hazem Danny Nakib The first book from Hauser, the technologist and founder of Acorn Computers, on how we can each seize back control from the tech companies who preside silently over our lives.


Agent Will Francis


The Translator JR Thorp A “fiercely intelligent, politically tender and stylistically inventive” novel about a translator living under a far-right regime, for fans of Ali Smith and Olga Tokarczuk.


Agent Claire Paterson Conrad World English Chatto


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