Walker Books has signed award-winning Irish author Kelly McCaughrain’s YA speculative romance, Just Another Dead Boy, which is pitched as ‘Adam Silvera meets Romeo & Juliet’.

The book is set in a world where everyone knows the date they will die and follows wild-child Regan who works for the Romeo & Juliet Service, hired by parents to provide the illusion of star-crossed romance to rich boys on their way out. Over-achieving Jude Daly sees through the set-up, but they agree to a fake relationship for the sake of Jude’s parents and Regan’s job. As mutual contempt turns into something else, news breaks of the first ever Death Date survivor.

Deliverywoman is the stunning debut collection from Eva Wyles - thirteen short stories that dive into the complexities of human connection, the pursuit of meaning, and modern-day loneliness. Across a diverse cast of characters - from teachers and gas station workers to hedonistic revellers and wealthy gamers - Wyles explores the strange dimensions of our world and the dangers of ordinary life, with needle-sharp writing both real and surreal. Deliverywoman sits alongside A.M.Homes' The Safety of Objects and Ottessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World, announcing the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction.

We are delighted that Jen Benson’s The Path We Run has been shortlisted for this year’s Sports Performance Book of the Year. The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards is a major annual promotion for sports writing and publishing. The awards exist to highlight the most outstanding sports books of the previous calendar year, showcasing their merits and enhancing their reputation and profile. The winners will be announced at the Kia Oval on 1st May.

Published by Cassell, The Path We Run is a personal history of ultra marathon running.

In April 2027, Puffin Press will publish The Lantern and the Labyrinth by Thomas Taylor, author of Malamander, which it describes as “a rich, atmospheric and deeply perilous fantasy adventure”. World all-language rights were acquired in a major three-book pre-empt from Kirsty McLachlan at Morgan Green Creatives. 

Puffin Press, Puffin’s new literary middle-grade imprint, will feature a mix of new and established voices.   Led by publisher Natalie Doherty, the imprint will focus “on groundbreaking and enduring middle-grade for the most voracious young book lovers”. 

Published today by Farshore, The Witch in the Woods, the must-read middle-grade novel from Jennifer Killick. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine’s Goosebumps and Stranger Things.

"Jennifer Killick has become the go-to horror writer for readers aged nine and over … readers are as likely to howl with laughter as with terror.” – The Sunday Times

Welcome to Hazard. An ordinary town where strangeness is a way of life. A town where sink holes appear with no warning, where people go missing way too often and where things really DO go bump in the night …

All rights with Farshore.

Lavinia Singer, Editor at Faber, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Dwell  by Simon Armitage.

The poems in Dwell illuminate and reimagine the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us, and was inspired by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, an ambitious restoration project where history and mystery coexist. In time, these poems will be manifested physically within the Gardens at site-specific locations in different forms  including light installations, sculptures and recorded readings. 

It will be published on 8 May 2025 and is illustrated by Beth Munro.

Suzanne O’Sullivan’s The Age of Diagnosis is published today by Hodder Press.

The boundaries between sickness and health are being redrawn. Mental health categories are shifting and expanding all the time, radically altering what we consider to be 'normal'. Drawing on the stories of real people, as well as decades of clinical practice and the latest medical research, Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan overturns long held assumptions and reframes how we think about illness and health.

All rights with Hodder Press. US publisher is Portfolio/Penguin US. Translation rights placed include Polish, Italian, Japanese, Taiwan and Spanish.

We are thrilled that Kelly McCaughrain’s book, Little Bang has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize. Published by Walker Books, Little Bang is a bittersweet Northern Irish romance that takes a new look at teen pregnancy, the magic and mess of first relationships, and a young woman's right to choose her own future.

The Carnegies are the UK’s longest running and best-loved children’s book awards, recognising outstanding reading experiences created through writing and illustration in books for children and young people.

The gripping sequel to the bestselling The Clockwork Conspiracy pitches Isaac and Hattie into a Parisian crime caper when an invaluable item is stolen from the French National Archives. The Forbidden Atlas by Sam Sedgman is published today by Bloomsbury.

Isaac and Hattie have been invited to a high-profile event at the French National Archives in Paris to finally celebrate their achievement in saving time. But as Isaac prepares to make his speech, the lights go out and a single shot is fired.

All rights with Bloomsbury.

We are thrilled that Orlaine McDonald has been awarded the 2025 Kate O’Brien Award by the Limerick Literary Festival. This is an annual award for a debut novel from an Irish female author. The Award is presented as part of the 41^st annual Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien. No Small Thing was described as beautifully written, tender, intelligent and compassionate by the judges.

Published by Profile books, translation rights with PFD.

A passionate and provocative re-evaluation of Queen Victoria's relationship with her servant John Brown that uncovers the secrets the royal machine keeps from us, by acclaimed historian Dr Fern Riddell.

Robyn Drury at Ebury Press has acquired the UK and BC rights to Victoria’s Secret.

Award-winning UK Production Company Impossible Factual have secured the factual TV rights to the book.

US and translation rights are represented by PFD.

Dramatisation rights are represented by MGC.

The action of Indiana Jones meets the time travel of Dr Who in Hunt for the Golden Scarab, the first title in the Time Keys series by bestselling award-winner M. G. Leonard. Illustrated in black and white throughout by Manuel Šumberac.

Sim and his mum never live anywhere long. When dangerous strangers appear one night, Sim discovers why. His mum has been keeping secrets: she has the power to open doors in time.

Published today by Macmillan. Rights sold in Germany and the Netherlands. All rights with Macmillan.

Strange Beach is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola.

‘In this exciting debut, the tideline of the poetic phrase is constantly shifting, is forever rebuilt and remade on the shifting sands of language, every grain of a word held up to the light to consider its myriad refractions’
― Andrew McMillan, author of Pity

Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola is a poet, critic, choreographer and performer based in London.

Published today by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK and by Soft Skull Press in the US.

Published today by Penguin Books, Swell explores the triumphs and hardships of the journey to new motherhood – through pregnancy, miscarriage, birth and beyond.


Maria Ferguson’s second poetry collection is a raw and powerful documentation of one woman’s experience of becoming a mother. Against a backdrop of the sounds and sensations of daily life, Ferguson observes her body changing and charts a course through loss and wilting house plants, towards recovery, empowerment and renewal.

We are delighted that Orlaine McDonald’s debut novel, No Small Things, has been shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award, hosted by the Limerick Literary Festival. The award is given for a debut novel from an Irish female author. The Award will be presented as part of the 41^st annual Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien in February 2025.

Congratulations, Orlaine!

Women Poet's Prize and Nan Shepherd Prize winner Nina Mingya Powles will publish a much-anticipated second collection in July 2025 – In the Hollow of the Wave examines Orientalism, art and artmaking in a time of ecological crisis in distinctive poems that are elemental and tactile, shaped by memory and landscapes of the body. Powles’ debut poetry collection, Magnolia, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Ondaatje Prize.

Auckland University Press will publish the collection in New Zealand.

All other rights represented by PFD.

The awards are open exclusively to writers based in the UK and Ireland, and the category winners will be announced on 14th January 2025. One of these books will be selected as the overall winner and will be awarded the Nero Gold Prize, Book of the Year.

When Livia left her husband and her daughter Mickey, she never imagined Mickey would find her years later, with a daughter of her own. Now, Livia, Mickey, and young Summer must share one small council flat in South London as they learn to look out for each other as much as themselves. Richly drawn and burning with hope and desire, No Small Thing is a novel confronting the complicated power of a mother’s instinct and the damage we can do to the people we love most.

Published today by John Murray, Uncommon People, picks out twenty key songs, delving into the surprising stories behind them and their unlikely creators, Uncommon People takes us back to when Jarvis Cocker became a national hero, Trainspotting was a global hit, fire-starting seemed like a good night out - and it felt as though the revolution was happening.

Uncommon People re-lives the mad exhilaration of what it was like to hear these songs for the very first time - and what it was like to make them.

Translation/US rights with John Murray.

The thrilling conclusion to the Great Fox series, The Great Fox Revealed by Justyn Edwards.

Flick is a magician out of tricks. Every attempt to find her father has so far failed. Flick and her best friend, Charlie, travel to Cornwall, where they believe her father may be hiding in an abandoned museum. But something else is hidden there – the Bell System, the most dangerous magic trick the world has ever seen.

Translation rights with Walker Books. TV rights under option.

Death Rites. published today by Canelo Crime is the first book in the Carla James series by Sarah Ward.

Archaeology professor Carla James takes a job at an elite New England college. On her first day, Carla is asked to represent the department at a murder site. She initially believes there is nothing notable about the scattered debris that surrounds the body, but there is more to the case than meets the eye. Can she uncover the truth before she becomes the next victim?

A dark and tense crime thriller. Perfect for fans of Kathy Reichs and Elly Griffiths.

US/translation rights represented by PFD.