Susanna Lea Associates
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot The sexual abuse survivor’s extraordinarily powerful memoir, a story inspiring change, compassion and courage.
Agent Susanna Lea
UK The Bodley Head, US Penguin Press, France Flammarion, Germany Piper, Canada and 15 others
Betrayal Luke Harding The Guardian journalist’s guide to the post-1945 international order in the Trump era, and the anti-western alliance of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Agent Susanna Lea
UK Faber, Denmark, Finland, under offer in US
Messy Bitch
Christine Pillainayagam A “zeitgeisty” workplace romantic comedy about how typically un-messy Pia ends up caught in a love triangle between handsome Conor and thoughtful barman Jake.
Agent Thérèse Coen Under offer in UK
Flaws Charlotte Casiraghi A deeply personal number-one French bestseller exploring the idea that “brokenness” is not a flaw to be hidden, but a part of being alive.
Agent Susanna Lea
France Julliard, under offer in Italy, Spain, Korea
9 Months That Last Forever Jessie Inchauspé The bestselling Glucose Goddess’ guide to the science of pregnancy nutrition to help mothers- to-be to improve their baby’s health.
Agent Susanna Lea
UK New River, North America Simon Element, France Laffont Germany Bertelsmann, Italy Longanesi, Australia and New Zealand, and nine others
Jerry! Jake Maynard An audacious, heart- wrenching novel, centred on the narrator’s quest to recreate his sister’s tragic life story through imagined episodes of The Jerry Springer Show.
Agent Martha Wydysh US Grove Atlantic
The Body Keeper Leslie Wolfe The bestseller’s new thriller has an FBI special agent infiltrating an organ-trafficking ring in order to find her husband.
Agent Robert Gottlieb US Park Row
Becoming Martian Scott Solomon As we approach the golden age of space travel, how will living in space affect future generations? What are the potential unintended consequences of space settlements?
Agent Don Fehr World English MIT Press, China, Korea
Trident Media
The Disappearers Marlon James The Booker winner’s newest centres on the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica, in a “riveting and deeply human” story of men forced to make compromises to survive.
Agent Ellen Levine
UK Hamish Hamilton, US Riverhead, France Albin Michel, Germany Kunstmann, under offer in Italy
The Power of Print Stephen Harrison A science-backed case for why paper and ink – not screens – are humanity’s most powerful tools for focus, memory and clear thinking in the age of AI.
Agent Mark Gottlieb US St Martin’s Press, Korea
United Agents
To Deep and Endless Skies Kat Stewart Cracking under the weight of polygamy and the need to be a good, God-fearing wife and mother, first wife Joslyn and second wife Flora witness their home become an inferno.
Agent Ariella Feiner UK John Murray, Canada
Cali Cuckoo Emily Usher The Wild Ground author’s life-affirming story about a troubled young woman who, facing eviction, is forced to move in with her ex and his new family.
Agent Millie Hoskins
UK Serpent’s Tail, US Random House
The Starving Bride Catherine Chidgey A dark speculative tale set in a recognisable seaside town of near-future England: about body image, shame, and a faltering climate, in all senses.
Agent Caroline Dawnay
UK John Murray, US Cardinal, Canada, New Zealand, Australia
Get Back Hunter Davies The author of the only ever authorised biography of the Beatles (1968), Davies brings us all-new material collected during his time at Abbey Road, charting the group’s early lives growing up in council housing in the 1950s.
Agent Robert Kirby UK Ebury
Utility Monsters: The Utilitarian Impulse from Jeremy Bentham to Sam Bankman-Fried Nikhil Krishnan The author and New Yorker writer charts the history of utilitarianism and asks whether attempts to do not just good, but maximum good, are valid.
Agent Sophie Scard
UK Constable, US Simon & Schuster
Agent Christy Fletcher US Ten Speed, Film/TV Blumhouse
UTA They’re Here
Jesse Michels, Nils Parker Global, century-spanning investigation into UFOs and non-human intelligence, written for a worldwide audience living through a historic moment of disclosure, by journalist Michels, creator of the hit UFO podcast American Alchemy.
Agent Byrd Leavell
The Joy of Joy Joe Hudson Drawing on modern psychology, neurology and ancient practices, a coach to some of the most famous founders in the world (OpenAI, Google, Apple, YouTube) clears a path for self- discovery and connecting to joy in our everyday lives.
Agent Christy Fletcher
Tricks of the Light Rose Himber Howse A contemporary novel in the gothic tradition set on an island off the coast of Maine: “Rebecca meets Wild Dark Shore”; US rights sold at auction.
Agent Duvall Osteen US Celadon
Obscura Raelle Tucker Debut novel from award- winning TV scriptwriter Tucker is “wildly imaginative, genre- shattering”, offering a new mythology of those who know that history is not always written by the victors – sometimes it is buried by them.
AgentsChristy Fletcher, Rebecca Gradinger US Ten Speed
Something Is Killing the Children: Hope Is a Knife James Tynion IV, Kiersten White A first full-length novel based on the Eisner- winning hit comic series set in a terrifying world where monsters are real and only the hunters of the Order of St George are equipped to challenge them.
28 Promoted
Roll the Calls Ari Emanuel Powerful memoir by one of the most influential people in Hollywood, written with Pulitzer Prize winner JR Moehringer.
WME
Line in the Snow Dan McDougall An intimate portrait of Greenland across 18 interconnected lives, as it stands on the frontline of climate collapse and a new Cold War, revealing what happens when the forces shaping our collective future collide, who pays the price and why it is time to draw a line in the snow.
Agent Matilda Forbes Watson Agent Ethan Bassoff
Housewives of Salem Natasha Bardon Desperate Housewives meets Practical Magic in an upmarket mystery debut set in contemporary Salem following four housewives who accidentally blow a man’s head off.
Agent Hellie Ogden
Wuthering Frights Kinza Ameria A contemporary reimagining of the literary classic, Wuthering Frights is a gothic paranormal romance for fans of Bride and Saltburn.
Agent Suzannah Ball
Runebreaker Mila Finch ( 28) A self-published sensation and the first novel in a new romantasy trilogy following the story of human Aelie, who has the power to break the magic that holds the Fae world together.
Agent Kimberley Atkins UK HarperVoyager, Poland, auctions
in Germany and Spain
UK Penguin Press, US Avery, auction in Germany and offers in Japan
The Weight of Angels John Boyne A reimagining of the life Oscar Wilde never had, asking whether a single decision can mean the difference between ruin and redemption.
Agent Laura Bonner
UK Transworld, US Holt, French JC Lattes, Dutch
Guardians & Monsters Mariah Grace A dystopian paranormal romance following a healer who, after a life of careful obedience, defies the suppressive rules of the guardians when she communicates with the monster lurking outside the impenetrable Wall.
AgentsCaitlin Mahony, Rikki Bergman
US Bloom, UK HarperVoyager Agent Jay Mandel US Knopf, UK William Collins
Philosophy for Rule Breakers Jeffrey Kaplan Celebrated professor of philosophy and viral YouTuber Kaplan upends centuries of tradition to reveal how philosophers’ methods of analysing big mysteries can be applied to understand the smaller challenges of everyday life.
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