The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from Jennifer Killick. Out today with Farshore.

It’s Colette’s birthday and the friends are spending an evening at Neon Perch – an epic entertainment spot where they can eat pizza, play mini golf and – best of all – take part in Project Z – an epic new escape room experience. It’s going to be the best night ever! Or is it . . . ?

“Deliciously scary and hilarious comedy-horror, perfectly pitched for eight-plus.”

The Guardian

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.

Beneath the New Year's Eve fireworks, shy science-nerd Mel and slacker songwriter Sid get pregnant on their first date. Any sixteen-year-olds would expect trouble – but this is Northern Ireland 2018, where abortion is still illegal. Mel's religious parents insist she must keep the baby, whilst Sid's feminist mum pushes for a termination.

Published today by Walker Books. Translation and US rights represented by PFD.

From the author of the award-winning Flying Tips for Flightless Birds.

"Kelly McCaughrain is one to watch" Susin Nielsen

We are delighted to announce that author and academic Ben Alderson-Day has won the 2023 British Psychological Society Book Award in their Popular Science Category for his book Presence: The strange science and true stories of the unseen other.

Ben Alderson-Day is an Associate Professor in Psychology and a Fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. A specialist in atypical cognition and mental health, his work spans cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy, and child development.

The British Psychological Society Book Awards seek to recognise works of excellence in the literature of psychology.

All translation rights with PFD.

Kindle Entertainment (a Banijay Kids & Family company), today announces it has secured the adaptation rights to the popular children’s book series Adventures on Trains. Created by bestselling and award-winning authors M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman, and published by Macmillan Children’s Books, Kindle Entertainment will transform the beloved books into a family film franchise. The deal was brokered by Morgan Green Creatives.

The first of the six-book series, The Highland Falcon Thief, was published in Jan 2020, and won multiple awards including Children’s Fiction Book of the Year in the British Book Awards. The series has now sold nearly 210,000 copies through TCM in the UK alone and has sold in twenty one languages since launch.

A ghostly journey through Northern Japan in search of yokai monsters and the Otherworld, told equally in manga and prose by Julian Sedgwick and Chie Kutsuwada.

Abducted by spirits from his village, lost boy Akira must make the long journey in north Japan to find his family and save his young sister, before time runs out. Voyaging deeper and deeper into a Japan ‘between the worlds’, Akira and his companions encounter a host of yokai monsters and famous ghosts, discovering a sometimes comical and sometimes terrifying world of interlinked and ghostly short stories along the way.

Published today by Guppy Books, all rights with the publisher.

Six lies killed Huw Jones.

On New Year's Eve 2011, Huw Jones disappeared from his bedroom while his father and five friends were downstairs. His body was later discovered on the nearby cliffs at St Non's. That night, all six friends lied in their statements to the police.

Mallory Dawson must uncover the lies lurking in the tight-knit community of St Davids. But someone has kept their secrets for years, and they would kill to protect them...

The second book in the Mallory Dawson series, published by Canelo.

Translation rights with PFD.

Published today by Macmillan, 'As unforgettable as Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" . . . a whirlingly imaginative storyline full of wonder and hope as well as warning.' - The Times

The Ice Children is an exciting, modern, magical mystery adventure inspired by classic fairy tale 'The Snow Queen'. Gorgeous coloured endpapers, and black-and-white illustrations throughout by Penny Neville-Lee.

At the stroke of midnight on the dawn of December, five-year-old Finn Albedo is found frozen in the city park standing on a pedestal of ice. His heart is beating, he is smiling serenely, but no one can wake him. Can Bianca save her brother and the other Ice Children before they are forever lost?

All rights with Macmillan Children’s Books.

From Nancy Campbell, the author of Fifty Words for Snow comes a treasure trove of nature tales from storytellers across the globe, bringing a little magic and wonder to every winter night. Published now with Elliott & Thompson.

From the late days of autumn, through deepest cold, and towards the bright hope of Spring, Nancy Campbell, brings together a community of familiar names and dazzling new discoveries.

All rights with Elliott & Thompson.

We are thrilled that Nancy Campbell is the winner of the 2023 Ackerley Prize for memoir with her wonderful book, Thunderstone. A beautiful book about place, and healing and hope.

The Ackerley Prize was established in memory of Joe Randolph Ackerley (1896–1967), the author and long-time literary editor of The Listener magazine. It is awarded annually to a literary autobiography of outstanding merit, by an author of British nationality, and published in the UK in the previous year.

Thunderstone is published by Elliott & Thompson.

Congratulations, Nancy!

Farshore has signed two new books in the Dread Wood series from Jennifer Killick, the queen of middle-grade horror. Fright Bite will publish in January 2024, with a second book coming later in the year.

Killick's profile is set to soar in 2024, with a £1 book written by Jennifer – Creepy Creations – to be included in the recently announced World Book Day 2024 titles launch.

Penguin Random House US is due to publish the first book (titled Dread Detention), with book two following later in the year. The first book in the series, Dread Wood, scooped the FCBG Book Award for the Older Reader category, the Bolton Children’s Fiction Award and the Warwickshire Secondary Book Award. Dread Wood has also been selected as one of the titles which will be included in the Bookbuzz programme 2023.

Herbie and Violet's fifth gripping adventure brings the internationally bestselling Eerie-on-Sea series to a heart-stopping climax as Mermedusa is published by Walker Books today!

It is midwinter once again, and the hosts of a paranormal podcast have descended on Eerie-on-Sea eager for a sighting of the legendary malamander. Herbie and his friend Violet Parma will need all their courage as they head deep below the town to seek answers. Perhaps here, finally, they – and the malamander too – will discover the Deepest Secret of Eerie-on-Sea.

All rights with Walker Books.

In this exclusive World Book Day story, published by Farshore, by Jennifer Killick, Angelo and the rest of Club Loser must venture deep into the tunnels underneath Dread Wood High to rescue their favourite teacher, Mr Canton. But more hideous creations live in the Latchitts’ old laboratories . . . and they’re hungry! Can Club Loser stop these creatures from escaping into the world and make it out of the tunnels in one piece? Read it and see, if you dare!

World Book Day is on 7 March 2024.

Happy publication to all the wonderful authors who have written stories for Read, Scream, Repeat out today with Farshore. Do you dare to see what’s lurking inside…?

A spine-tingling collection of horror stories that will chill, thrill and delight middle-great readers, keeping them on the edge of (or hiding behind) their sofas!

Read, Scream, Repeat brings together thirteen bestselling, award-winning authors: Kirsty Applebaum, Jasbinder Bilan, Aisha Bushby, Joseph Coelho, Rachel Delahaye, Kat Ellis, Phil Hickes, Polly Ho-Yen, Sharna Jackson, Jennifer Killick, Elle McNicoll, Dan Smith and J.T.Williams. The collection is curated by Farshore’s queen of middle-grade comedy-horror, Jennifer Killick.

The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from Jennifer Killick is out today with Farshore!

It’s summer term and time for a school trip with a difference! Year 8 are on a boat off the coast of France, learning about ocean life. But things are about to get WEIRD . . .

Who is the creepy man on board the ship? And what IS the vast, shadowy creature seen lurking at the bottom of the ocean?

All rights with Farshore.

“A fascinating and intimate portrait of a garden over time … Reading is like being given a rusty key to a beautiful secret garden." - Ben Dark, Author of The Grove

Hidden away behind high stone walls in the centre of London is Lambeth Palace Garden, a 10-acre site that has been continuously cultivated for more than a thousand years. Join Head Gardener Nick Stewart Smith as he unlocks the gates and invites us to wander through a secret garden where nature is at the heart of everything and where a thoughtful approach to gardening creates a haven for all sorts of native wildlife, allowing nature to flourish in the midst of one of the world’s busiest cities.

Published today by The History Press. All translation and US rights with PFD.

This Ragged Grace tells the story of Octavia's journey through recovery from alcohol addiction, and the parallel story of her father's descent into Alzheimer's. Looking back over this time, each of the seven chapters explores the feelings and experiences of the corresponding year of her recovery, tracing the shift in emotion and understanding that comes with the deepening connection to this new way of life. Over the course of this seven-year period, life continues to unfold. Paths are abandoned, people fall ill, waters get choppy, seemingly impossible things are navigated without the old fixes.

Published by Canongate today. All translation/US rights with PFD.

Hodder Press has snapped up a new book from Wellcome Prize-winning neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan on medical diagnosis.

Executive publisher Kirty Topiwala acquired world all-language rights for The Age of Diagnosis from Morgan Green Creatives in an exclusive submission. It will publish in 2025 as one of the flagship titles on the new imprint.

When we are suffering, it is natural to seek a diagnosis. We want a clear label, understanding and, of course, treatment. But is diagnosis an unqualified good thing? Could it even make us worse instead of better? Through the stories of real people, neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan will compare the impact of a medical label to the pain of not knowing.

Cassell, part of the Octopus Publishing Group, has made a dash for The Path We Run: The Incredible and Very Personal Story of Women’s Ultrarunning by Jen Benson.

Trevor Davies, publisher, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Kirsty McLachlan at Morgan Green Creatives. It will publish on 1st August 2024.

In her book, running journalist Benson looks at the science, hidden history and what it takes personally to run an ultra-marathon. The backbone of the book is Benson’s own story of training for and running her first 100-mile ultramarathon, through the Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog).

We are wishing Kerri the happiest of publication days as her book, Cacophony of Bone, is published today by Canongate.

Cacophony of Bone maps the circle of a year - a journey from one place to another, field notes of a life - from one winter to the next. It is a telling of a changed life, in a changed world - and it is about all that does not change. All that which simply keeps on - living and breathing, nesting and dying - in spite of it all. When the pandemic came time seemed to shapeshift, so this is also a book about time. It is, too, a book about home, and what that can mean.

Milkweed will publish in the States and all translation rights are with Canongate.

Hannah Westland at Serpent’s Tail has signed UK and Commonwealth rights to No Small Thing by Orlaine McDonald.

This beautifully written debut captures one year in the lives of three generations of Black British women in one family in South London, the past that tore them apart and the present that has brought them together.

It is about trying to find your place in the world, grappling for a sense of identity and belonging without any solid thing to tether you or guide you. It is about the choices we make when our options are limited, limited by being a woman, poor, Black. It is about how to be a mother when your mothering instinct is gone, or perhaps was never there in the first place. Ultimately, it is about the damage we do to the people we claim to love the most. Publication is scheduled for summer 2024.

Translation rights with PFD.