Maven Literary


Childish Things Airy Something “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit meets Everyone Else Burns” in a novel laced with humour and darkness throughout, based on the author’s own childhood growing up queer in a Christian Doomsday cult.


Agent Amanda Harris


The Appetite Reset: How to Eat, Drink and Thrive Before, During and After GLP-1s Federica Amati The Imperial College London scientist and bestselling author’s “definitive” guide to thriving in the era of GLP-1s, which includes nutrient-dense recipes by Kathryn Bruton.


Agent Amanda Harris World English PMJ


Dementia: Your Most Urgent Questions Answered When Words Fail Emily Carver The awarding-winning dementia carer answers the most difficult-to- ask questions in this vital guide, a short but powerful book that extends an expert hand to relatives in crisis.


Agent Amanda Harris


Act, Don’t React: How to Let Someone Else Have Your Way Alexander Dragonetti Master yourself and influence others by following the advice of former British diplomat, crisis deployment team leader and media star.


Agent Amanda Harris


Misbehave: Why We Need to Fall out of Love with Behavioural Science and Embrace Our Agency Alexandra Evans Technologist, law writer and former big tech executive Evans explains why we need to dismantle our behaviourally engineered world and fall back in love with agency: “It’s time to start misbehaving.”


Agent Amanda Harris 21 JURY DOMINGUEZ 22 LARA DOWNIE


Give Me ’Til Midnight Oran Doyle An Irish YA romcom, time-loop debut set over a single day: “Before Sunrise meets Groundhog Day meets One Day.”


Agent Kirsty McLachlan World English Everything with Words


The Michael Greer Literary Agency


The Paradise Garage Toby Bevan A “pulsating” historical fiction novel from 1980s New York City; a multi- character narrative straight from the pioneering dance venue the Paradise Garage.


Agent Melanie Michael-Greer


Our Betters Conor O’Sullivan A modern-day retelling of Great Expectations with a dark academic twist.


Agent Melanie Michael-Greer


Suit Up: How Formula One Became the Greatest Advertising Platform in the World Mark Mann Bryans A probing and analytical account of the modern business of Formula One.


Agent Melanie Michael-Greer


Northern Portions Gill Howard The definitive recipe book of food from north England, from the distinctly lovable The Great British Bake Off semi-finalist.


Agent Melanie Michael-Greer


Why Men Should Read Novels Jack Aldane Cultural commentator and host of the My Martin Amis podcast delivers his finest, and most important, polemic on men and literature.


Agent Melanie Michael-Greer


Counting Penguins Peter John Watson At 64-degrees South, on a tiny Antarctic island bustling with penguins, a travel writer counts each penguin born over a life-changing three months.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan World English DK Red


Gathering Nina Mingya Powles In learning to make her own clothes, the author beautifully reconsiders her relationship with creativity, connection, resistance, fast fashion, material history and her own body.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada


Sceptre


Morgan Green Creative


Frontier: Fieldnotes from the Edges of Capitalism Sipke Shaughnessy From northern Kenya to Greenland, Frontier tells the story of capitalism’s outer edges and the reasons the frontier is now at the fore of global politics.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan


Jealousy: and Other Warnings Oluwaseun Olayiwola ( 21) Through art, music and literary forms, personal narrative and meditations, Jealousy is an exploration of its texture in the mind and body.


Agent Kirsty McLachlan Option in UK Fitzcarraldo


Mushens Entertainment


End Credits River Sinclair Two assistants to celebrities fall in love during the international press tour for their bosses’ new film franchise.


Agent Juliet Mushens


Untitled Jessie Burton ( 22) A contemporary novel following a single mother and her son, whose lives are changed by the decision to enter a reality TV show.


Agent Juliet Mushens UK


Phoenix


The Hunters Kate Bailey A speculative novel set in the near-future. Two children living in a cult begin to question everything they have been told about the world beyond their village’s walls after discovering their mother dead.


Agent Rachel Neely


Raw Talents Vana Lei Eighteen-year-old Jamie realises her raw talent will not be enough to win the prestigious piano competition, so she begins killing off the competition with a new horrifying and unnatural ability.


Agent Rachel Neely


The Toother Amy Erskine Desperate to support her family, Maggie joins a gang of body snatchers, and becomes skilled in “toothing”. When she refuses to aid in a murder, she risks everything to expose the truth.


Agent Maria Whelan


The North Literary Agency


Deathbound Heather Palmer The first in an enemies- to-lovers sapphic romantasy trilogy where Princess Ythsie must choose a husband to secure the kingdom’s future, but is thwarted by magical forces wishing to unravel the realm’s stability. “Expect intrigue, necromancy and sword lesbians.”


Agent Lina Langlee World audio Audible


Murder on the Cornish Train JM Hall A stormy, atmospheric, cosy crime sees a passenger vanish into thin air while on the Sleeper to Cornwall. The next day a body is found on a windswept beach. Coincidence?


Agent Lina Langlee World English Hodder


The Limits Emily Munro In this speculative literary debut, a wellness retreat for the super-rich on a converted North Sea oil rig is invaded by eco-militants who take the young daughter of their target hostage.


Agent Julie Fergusson World English Polygon


Role Play Seth Insua Critically acclaimed, Insua’s second novel is an accessible literary fiction with a razor- sharp premise: a queer, contemporary Rebecca.


Agent Julie Fergusson UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada


under offer


Darling Death Adam Southward Barrister Mae Darling defends the innocent by day and murders the guilty by night. Her hunt for revenge unravels a conspiracy that takes her to the upper echelons of British power.


Agent Julie Fergusson World audio Audible


Northbank Talent


Management


The Identity Question Marion Todd A claustrophobic psychological thriller from the author of the bestselling DI Clare Mackay series. When Rosa wakes up in hospital, everyone insists she is a woman called Clemency. But Rosa knows this is no mistake, it is a plan, and her baby is at the centre of it.


Agent Marissa Constantinou


Phantom Limb Charlotte Cole “Intoxicating” literary horror debut about grief, love and letting go. As May’s grasp on reality slips, she starts to see the ghosts of the women who raised her, all trapped in their last moments in their Southampton flat block.


Agent Marissa Constantinou Overdrive


Chloe Michelle Howarth An “addictive” sapphic love story from the author of Sunburn, following Aly and Meadhbh’s dizzying relationship from London to rural Ireland.


Agent Marissa Constantinou


UK and Commonwealth PMJ, North America Melville House, German Pola, North American audio Echo Point


ScaleUp Nation: The New Race for Global Power and How Your Country Can Win Alan Mak A “bold, urgent” exploration of the new global race for power and why only the countries that master scale will capture and shape the future.


Agent Matthew Cole


The Silver Route: A New History of the Age of Exploration Lubaaba Al-Azami From Potosí’s mountain of treasure in Bolivia to the markets of Ming China, the epic story of how silver made the modern world, forging a pioneering yet brutal path of exploration and exploitation that connected east and west.


Agent Matthew Cole 17


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