DHH News Roundup 21st April - 4th May 2025

Theakston Old Peculier Award

Congratulations to clients M. W. Craven, Barbara Havelocke & Stuart Turton, all of whom have been long listed for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Craven for The Mercy Chair (Constable, June 2024), Havelocke for Estella’s Revenge (Hera Books, May 2024) and Turton for The Last Murder at the End of the World (Bloomsbury Raven, March 2024).

Voting is open now!

Amelia Ireland

The debut novel from Amelia Ireland, The Seven O’ Clock Club, published in the US by Berkley Books has been selected as one of USA Today’s top 15 new releases to read right now!

Mike Hollow

The eBook price of all of Mike Hollow’s ‘Blitz Detective’ books have been slashed to just 99p for the whole of May.

Download your copies now!

Roz Watkins

Finnish rights to Roz Watkins’ The Red House (HQ, June 2023*), have been sold to Bouq Publishing.

Elliott Grover

A warm welcome to Elliott Grover, who joins David Headley’s list.

Elliott is the culinary director at the hotel, 45 Park Lane, overseeing the culinary vision at the famed restaurant CUT. He is also the first British chef to ever cook at the Oscars.

Sean Lusk

Congratulations to Sean Lusk, who last week saw the paperback release of his latest novel, A Woman of Opinion (Transworld) - a spellbinding novel about the fascinating history of pioneering writer, poet and feminist, Mary Wortley Montagu.

Eve Smith & Tariq Ashkanani

We were thrilled to spot both Eve Smith’s The Cure (Orenda Books, April 2025) and Tariq Ashkanani’s The Midnight King (Viper Books, April 2025), selected as two of the Sunday Times’ best thrillers of 2025 so far.

Lauren du Plessis

The forthcoming novel from Lauren du Plessis, Tender (Influx Press, September 2025), has been revealed.

Blending folkloric horror and an exploration of womanhood, against a background of eco-anxiety, Tender depicts the quiet violence of overcoming and accepting our darkest sides.

Essie Fox

Also published was Essie Fox’s new dazzling historical novel, Dangerous (Orenda Books).

When the disgraced Lord Byron is associated with the deaths of women in Venice, he turns detective to unveil the killer and clear his name.

Maddie Please

Our final publication day congrats go to the bestselling Maddie Please, whose latest book, The Dolce Vita Divas (Boldwood Books) was published last week.

Gareth Brown

Dutch rights to Gareth Brown’s forthcoming new novel, The Society of Unknowable Objects (Transworld, August 2025) have been sold to Luitingh-Sijthoff.

Amélie Skoda

Congratulations to Amélie Skoda, whose debut novel, Bethnal Green (Manilla Press, January 2025), has been long listed for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.

*deal done by Diana Beaumont at Marjacq Scripts