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.

Gary Budden at Influx Press has snapped up Deliverywoman, Eva Wyles’ "perceptive, razor-sharp" debut to be published on 17th April 2025.

"Deliverywoman is a collection of 13 short stories that dive into the complexities of human connection, the pursuit of meaning and modern-day loneliness," the synopsis reads. "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 using a combination of realist and speculative elements."

Translation and US rights represented by PFD.

Angelo and his friends have faced some truly fearsome foes, from mind-controlling parasites to deadly monsters of the deep and giant spiders to vampire birds … but their adventures aren't over yet!

Dread Wood High is suffering from an infestation of caterpillars. But these are no ordinary caterpillars. It’s Club Loser’s toughest battle to date. It’s all to play for … and everything is at stake.

Published by Farshore, ahead of Jennifer Killick's new series in 2025. All rights with Farshore.

Editorial director Izzy Everington at Profile books has pre-empted Into the Dream Lab: The Science of Nightmares and the Sleeping Mind by dream engineer Dr Michelle Carr, to be published by Profile in the UK and by Holt in the US in the autumn of 2025. Profile said: “Into the Dream Lab is a guide to the science of dreaming and nightmares, and the astonishing impact the dreaming brain has on your waking life.

Carr is the director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory at the University of Montreal and former president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

Rights also sold: Dutch (Querido Facto, following a pre-empt), Chinese simplified (Citic)  Russian (MIF).

The longer the distance run, the more women have an edge over their male competitors. Yet, the longer the distance, the less likely women are to start the race.

In this incredible and personal account, established running journalist Jen Benson looks at the science, hidden history, and what it takes to run an ultramarathon - unveiling why women are so well adapted for endurance sports.

Detailing her own account of completing her first 100-mile ultramarathon, Jen brings to the fore the harshness, humour, and personal sacrifice of ultra-running.

Published by Cassell, all rights represented by PFD.

LIfe and Death of the American Worker is published today by Atria/One Signal Publishers.

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, this is an explosive exposé of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America and the immigrant workers who had the courage to fight back.

Richly detailed, fiercely honest, and deeply reported, Life and Death of the American Worker will forever change the way we think about the people who prepare our food.

Time Keys is a blockbusting, time travel, middle-grade mystery series by award-winner M. G. Leonard. Sarah Hughes, Associate Publisher, Fiction, at Macmillan Children’s Books bought world rights from Morgan Green Creatives in a significant six-figure, four-book deal.

The series will launch with Hunt for the Golden Scarab in B-format paperback original on 30 January 2025, with further titles following every six months. The first four titles in the series take readers from Ancient Egypt to Viking Norway, on to Ancient Rome and, finally, to medieval England.

All rights with Macmillan. Film/TV rights with MGC Ltd.

Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre has unveiled the remainder of its 2024-2025 season, which will include the U.S. premiere of Haley McGee's Edinburgh Fringe hit Age is a Feeling.

Age is a Feeling, written and performed by McGee, is described as a celebration of "the glorious and melancholy unknowability of human life." The work was a Fringe First Award winner at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it premiered before playing two sold-out runs at London's SoHo Theatre. Mitchell Cushman will direct the U.S. premiere.

Performances will run September 11-October 13. Vineyard is presenting in association with Alchemation.

Georgina Laycock at John Murray has snapped up Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs by journalist Miranda Sawyer. To be published in October 2024.

A "fascinating pop history" exploration of the Britpop musical movement, Uncommon People explores 90s British music through 20 "key" songs, the "surprising stories behind them and their unlikely creators".

Miranda said: "I’m surprised at how much I have enjoyed delving back into my past! Back to a time when interesting outsiders in second-hand blouses, old sportswear and bovver boots used their fantastic tunes and considerable charm to smash into the centre of UK culture and completely change it.”

All rights with John Murray.

an accomplished novel that, in its very attention to the ordinary, is among the most unusual and refreshing debuts I have read this year -- Kieran Goddard ― Guardian

Out today with Profile Books, No Small Things is a beautiful generational novel set on a South London estate.

There's Livia, who has been running for long enough to think her past might never catch up with her. Then Mickey, with no other place to go, she needs the mother who abandoned her.And Summer, who left to roam, finds friends who are willing to give her the attention that Mickey won't. But are they as kind as she thinks they are?

This is a novel about the power and pain of mothering. It crackles with desire, burns with hope and sings in a voice as compelling as it is true.

Farshore will publish Serial Chillers, a spooky middle grade comedy-horror series from award-winning author Jennifer Killick. Sarah Levison, editorial director at Farshore, acquired world rights to three books from Kirsty McLachlan, founder of Morgan Green Creatives literary agency.

The first book in the Serial Chillers series is scheduled for April 2025, with book two due in February 2026 and book three in September 2026. Farshore said: "Serial Chillers is set in the town of Hazard, a place notorious for mysterious disappearances and unexplained disturbances. But to the children trying to grow up there, it’s just their weird and creepy home. As the young people of the town are thrown into a series of life-or-death situations, will they discover the truth behind the horrors of Hazard?"

Translation rights with Farshore.

Everyone in the family had a secret. Which one has proved deadly

When Mallory Dawson gets a call from a former colleague, Elsa, describing a strange scene, she initially thinks nothing of it. The teenage cleaner had gone into clean a holiday cottage in the forest to find a kettle boiling on the Aga, sandwiches half made and the family who were renting it gone.

A tense and atmospheric Welsh crime thriller. Perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Fiona Cummins.

The Vanishing Act is published by Canelo Crime, all rights represented by PFD.

Published today by Usborne, the new series by midgrade author, Clare Povey.

Meet Flo and Joseph Wanderday.

Their mum is one of the world's greatest explorers, but she's gone missing on her latest expedition. When a mysterious stranger appears, they discover the sinister reason for Mum's trip. Flo, Joseph and their friends Funmi and Isaac find a map and follow clues taking them to a secret island to save Mum and expose Titan's fishy plans...

An exciting watery adventure packed with brilliant baddies, bravery, friendship and real passion for protecting the natural world.

Congratulations, Roxanne!

'A gripping narrative of suffering, loss and survival, with music at its heart' Fiona Maddocks

All future, freedom and success lay ahead of young pianist Stephen de Bastion in 1930s Hungary. Life whirled headily around cocktails, romance, applause and the buzz of Budapest late into the night. Then, 1939. Stephen's world disintegrates and this becomes a story of his brutal descent, of his time in labour camps, of Mauthausen and Gunskirchen and the unimaginable horrors he endured during the Holocaust as a man of Jewish descent. Yet, this is also a tale of extraordinary escape ... and the piano, waiting for him. Told by his granddaughter, Roxanne de Bastion, this is an inspiring true story.

Published today by Robinson. All rights represented by PFD.

A novel on consent told in five acts over the course of one weekend.

Cloe and Gertrude and the Jenkins-Bell sisters, Mathilde and Sarah, have never met. They are strangers who share a city.It is Sunday morning. Cloe has woken-up in someone else’s home; Gertrude starts her shift in the pub kitchen, while Mathilde and Sarah are on their way to lunch.

Soon, these four women’s lives will overlap.

Published today by Simon & Schuster, all translation rights represented by PFD.