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Sceptre have acquired a 'smart, funny and passionate' book on love from Ella Risbridger. In Love with Love: The Persistence and Joy of Romantic Fiction will be published in November 2025. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Fig Tree have acquired Hunger & Thirst the new novel from Claire Fuller, described as 'an addictively propulsive, richly nuanced and haunting story of horrors without and within'. Fig Tree will publish in February 2026 and you can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Ruben Reyes Jr has been longlisted for the 2025 PEN Faulkner Award for his collection of short stories There Is A Rio Grande in Heaven. You can see the full longlist here.
Luke Palmer has been longlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing for his brilliant coming of age story Play. You can see the full longlist here.
Fig Tree have acquired Angela Tomaski's debut novel The Infamous Gilberts at auction. Described as a 'story in which the lines between eccentricity and madness and cruelty and love become hilariously, heartbreakingly blurred' the novel will publish in Spring 2026. You can read the full announcement here.
We are thrilled that Enlightenment by Sarah Perry has won the 2024 East Anglian Book Award for Fiction. You can read the full announcement here.
Lucy Hughes Hallett has been awarded the 2024 Biographer's Club Exceptional Contribution to Biography Award. You can read the full announcement here.
Virago have triumphed in a passionate five-way auction for Natural Disaster, the new novel by Lisa Owens. A 'darkly funny and sharply observed novel which charts one woman’s increasingly desperate attempts to spend a last, special day with her children before returning to the ‘real world’ of her office job'. Virago will publish in July 2026 with a 'major and ambitious' campaign. You can read the full Bookseller article here.
Firefly have acquired a third YA novel from Yoto Carnegie nominee Luke Palmer. Live is a stunning coming of age novel about the power of music and song. Firefly will publish in June 2025. You can read the full Bookseller article here.
Ebury imprint Rider have acquired Scorpions, the extraordinary memoir about living with OCD by British actor Tuppence Middleton. Rider will publish in February 2025 and you can read the full announcement here.
Titan have acquired The Captive a 'brilliantly subversive' horror novel by Ned Beauman written under the pseudonym Kit Burgoyne. Screen rights have already been optioned and Titan will publish in 2025. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Annie Worsley has been longlisted for Scotland's National Book Awards 2024 for her book Windswept; Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands. You can see the full longlist here.
Head of Zeus have acquired The Wedding Forecast the debut adult novel from Australian YA author Nina Kenwood. An 'addictive, feel-good romantic comedy', they will publish under their Aria imprint in July 2025. You can read the full Bookseller article here.
Scholastic have acquired Kill Creatures, a 'mind bending' YA thriller from Rory Power. You can read the full Bookseller article here.
We are thrilled that THE SEARCH PARTY by Hannah Richell has been shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction. You can see the full shortlist here.
Sarah Perry has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her breath-taking new novel ENLIGHTENMENT. The judges called it 'a novel of great ambition..... full of passion for the life of ideas, richly and satisfyingly written'. You can see the full longlist here.
Doubleday have acquired Greater Sins the debut historical novel from Gabrielle Griffiths. Set in Cabrach, Aberdeenshire in 1915, Greater Sins follows what happens in an isolated community when a woman’s body is discovered perfectly preserved in a peat bog. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Little, Brown have acquired three more novels from Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham. The novels will include the third instalment of his new DS Miller series as well as the landmark twentieth book in his award-winning Tom Thorne series. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.
Brilliant to see that THE LAST DANCE by Mark Billingham has been shortlisted for this year's Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. You can see the full shortlist here.
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow has won the 2024 Author's Club Best First Novel award for her brilliant debut novel All The Little Bird Hearts. You can read the full announcement here.
We are thrilled that Kate Grenville has been shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction for her brilliant novel Restless Dolly Maunder, congratulations Kate. You can see the full shortlist here.