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DHH News Roundup 25 - 31st May

5/29/2020

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We're kicking off this week's news roundup with a big congratulations to client Joanna Toye, who this week, saw the publication of her new book, Heartache for the Shop Girls. 

This is the third in the Shop Girls series, set in Marlow's Department Store, and as war rages on, Lily's family receives a knock at the door - forcing them to face their biggest challenge yet.

This week, Woman's Weekly picked the book for review: "compelling... The sense of wartime community is strong, and this evocative novel may just be the balm our souls need right now." 

Order your copy here. 

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Death of a Shipbuilder, the sixth in L.C. Tyler's John Grey series has had its cover revealed, and we absolutely love it! The book is due for publication in September 2020

In more L.C. Tyler news, the next two John Grey books have been snapped up by Little, Brown imprint Constable & Robinson. 


Kate Mallinder's forthcoming book, Asking For A Friend, has been reviewed pre-publication in the Daily Mail, with the paper's Sally Morris saying: "​a feel-good adventure that reinforces how friendship can be a source of strength in the face of intimidation — from others and from within."

The book is published this coming Thursday (4th June) - pre-order your copy here!

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Delighted for Julie Caplin, who saw her book The Northern Lights Lodge, enter the Der Spiegel charts in Germany at No.20! Absolutely fantastic news, and very well-deserved for this gorgeous, wintry romance. 

Also in the Romantic Escapes series, Julie's next book, The Little Teashop In Tokyo, has sold to Grada in the Czech Republic. It is due for publication in the UK on the 11th June.

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We were so pleased to see YA debut The Sky Is Mine, from Amy Beashel, be selected by Anstey Harris (The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton) as one of her picks in last week's heat magazine. "This book is a perfect crossover between young adult and mainstream fiction. Its themes are dark, but its characters are bold and engaging... I loved watching Izzy, the main character, grow into herself through the story."

This moving and powerful book is available to buy here.


It has been announced that client Yvonne Singh will be a judge for the SSI Leeds Prize. 

The SSI Leeds Literary Prize is a national biennial prize for unpublished fiction from UK black and Asian women. Previous prize alumni include Kit de Waal, Winnie M. Li and Mahusda Snaith. 

​To read more about the prize itself, click here.
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To set you up for the week ahead, we've got some fantastic eBook deals to shout about. Two of Jo Thomas' gorgeous, getaway books, The Honey Farm on the Hill and her latest, Escape to the French Farmhouse, as well as Sara MacDonald's moving Come Away With Me, are only 99p each in the Kindle Monthly for the WHOLE month of June.

Click on the title(s) above to take you straight to the deal.
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Lucinda Hawksley was on the Past Loves Podcast last week, about the artist Katey (née Dickens - the daughter of Charles and Catherine Dickens) and Carlo Perugini. A totally fascinating listen, and you can catch up here. 

If you love your history, art and literature, then Lucinda will be appearing a virtual #LockdownLecture on Katey. It is available to join from anywhere, and you can book your slot right here. 


Finally, we are delighted that Phillipa Ashley's new book, A Perfect Cornish Escape, is now available in selected Tesco stores across the country, a full TWO WEEKS before its official publication, and is part of their 'Fern Picks Book Club'. 

This gorgeous summery read will warm your heart, and have you smell the fresh, Cornish sea air. 

Haven't got a Tesco near you? No fear! You can pre-order here.
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Storytel Award to Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir

5/26/2020

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We're wishing a HUGE congratulations to client Eva Björg Ægisdóttir for winning the Storytel Award in Iceland, for her debut novel The Creak on the Stairs. 

A Blackbird Award-winner, the book was published in Iceland as Marrið í Stiganum and published in the UK by Orenda Books in May 2020. 

The audiobook Award is annual, voted for by producers and listeners, and celebrates the very best in audiobook fiction. 

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DHH News Roundup 18th - 24th May 2020

5/26/2020

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The cover for The House, the debut political thriller novel from former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson, co-written with client Imogen Robertson, revealed itself last week and it's a beauty!

Published by Little, Brown on 22nd October, you are sure to hear more about the brilliant title very soon, so watch this space...
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My Perfect Wife, the latest psychological thriller from Clare Boyd, is included in the US Apple Books Sale for the genre, for only 99c! Ends today (26th May).

​Click on the title to take you to the deal.
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Finnish rights for Stuart Turton's second novel, The Devil and the Dark Water, have been sold to Otava. Stuart is the author of Costa Award-winning The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.

This is the seventh territory the book has sold in pre-publication. It is available for pre-order now and will be published by Bloomsbury Raven on 1st October. 


We want to extend a hearty welcome to two new clients, to Broo Doherty's list:

Thomas Mogford is the author of the Spike Sanguinetti novels, and his work has been shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger and the CrimeFest eDunnit Award. Currently, his books are being developed for television by Endor Productions. You can read more about Thomas here.

Elliot Worsell joined us in December 2019 as part of out Pitch DHH: Liverpool event and we are delighted to welcome him to the DHH stable. Since he was 17, Elliot has been writing about combat sports and is the senior writer at Boxing News, the world's longest running boxing magazine. He has now turned his hand to fiction. Read more about Elliot here.
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The cover for Chaos​, the second Christopher Radcliff novel from Andrew Swanston has been revealed. 
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Following The Incendium Plot, and set in 1574 London, this is a fantastic historical thriller that will have you gripped until the very last page. 

Chaos will be published in August 2020 by Bantam Press and you can pre-order here.

Also revealed last week were the first two covers for Mike Hollow's forthcoming Blitz Detective series. 
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Both books,The Blitz Detective and The Canning Town Murder, will be published in July 2020 by Allison & Busby. 

Last week, the British Library collated a list of the 2018-2019 Top 50 most borrowed authors in UK, and we were delighted to see Anna Jacobs at No.5, holding her place from 2017-2018. 

Anna has an extensive backlist of beautiful, uplifting and moving fiction and most recently released A Widow's Courage (Hodder & Stoughton, April 2020), the second in her new Birch End series. 
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Amy Beashel's debut YA novel, The Sky Is Mine has been making waves over on New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven's (All the Bright Places) Instagram page. 

Jennifer regularly recommends books she has loved under her #NivReads hashtag, and we were so excited to see Amy's debut being given a mush-deserved shout-out. Describing the book as "compelling" and "absolutely beautiful", we couldn't agree more & you can watch the video for yourself here. 


A Perfect Cornish Escape, the forthcoming book from Phillipa Ashley in her Porthmellow series, has landed itself in the Top #100 Audible chart for Hot New Releases (pre-order). 

"Escape" is the definitely the operative word here, as we could all do with one. This gorgeous, summery, feel-good book will be released on 11th June, and you can pre-order here. 
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Stephen Moss released his new book, The Accidental Countryside, back in March this year and we spied a fantastic blog piece over on the online magazine, Bloom and Doom. 

The piece explores how we can all we inspired by wildlife in unexpected places, which is what Stephen's book is about. Stephen himself has contributed to the feature, and it is a really lovely read complete with beautiful photos to get lost in.

In addition, if you are keen on all things nature, Stephen will be appearing on one of @urbanbirder's webinars on Friday 29th May at 7pm, to talk about Nature Writing. It is free but booking is required - click here!


Finally, we're wishing a HUGE congratulations to client Eva Björg Ægisdóttir for winning the Storytel Award in Iceland, for her debut novel The Creak on the Stairs. 

A Blackbird Award-winner, the book was published in Iceland as Marrið í Stiganum and published in the UK by Orenda Books in May 2020. 

The audiobook Award is annual, voted for by producers and listeners, and celebrates the very best in audiobook fiction. 
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DHH News Roundup 11th - 17th May 2020

5/18/2020

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HUGE congratulations to Anita Frank, who has been shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2020, for her debut novel The Lost Ones. 

The shortlist, which was announced on Monday 11th May, is an incredibly strong all-female list and features some of the best writing around today. 

The winner is due to be announced on Thursday 2nd July, and you can read more about the shortlist here.


The long-awaited third instalment of Ragnar Jónasson's Hidden Iceland series, The Mist, was published on the 30th April and has since garnered this absolutely brilliant review in the Daily Mail:

"This is Icelandic noir of the highest order, with Jonasson’s atmospheric sense of place, and his heroine’s unerring humanity shining from every page."

​You can read the full review here. 

In addition, none other than Ian Rankin endorsed the book with this fantastic quote:

​"Chilling, creepy, perceptive, almost unbearably tense."
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Someday In Paris, the sweeping and evocative love story debut from Olivia Lara, was published last week in eBook. 

This is the absolute perfect escapism for those wanting to shut the doors on the stresses of this time, if only for a few hours. Don't believe us? Some of the top women's fiction writers of today had this to say about it:

​"Well, I just finished reading this beauty and - WOW! Stunning. Someday In Paris is a deeply moving, richly evocative story of love, loss and the power of hope. Absolutely gorgeous!"
Miranda Dickinson

"Someday In Paris was the bookish escape I truly needed right now. An epic, sweeping romance set in the art worlds of Paris and New York, it's about soulmates and second chances – a love story that felt timeless yet completely original. Adored it."
Holly Miller

"An absolutely unforgettable love story ... You will lose your heart to this epic romance."
Mandy Baggot


See... Told you. You can get your copy here (currently FREE on Kindle Unlimited!).

We are welcoming two new authors to the DHH stable this week:
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First up, is Cate Green, a new addition to Broo Doherty's list. Allow us to tell you more about her:

Cate Green grew up in Buckinghamshire longing for city life and lived in Manchester and London before moving to France over twenty years ago. She now lives and writes just outside Lyon, France’s second city and gastronomic capital. Her novel For the Record won this year’s Exeter Novel Prize and she was runner-up in the Yeovil Novel Competition in 2016.  Cate is a broadcast and print journalist and copywriter with over twenty years’ experience in international radio, television and corporate communications. ​

Also joining us, on Harry Illingworth's client list, is Richard Swan.

​Richard is a commercial litigator by trade. He has been writing science fiction and fantasy novels since his early teens with the hope of one day being published. He is currently spending a year in Australia with his wife and infant son, and is taking the opportunity to read and write as much as possible.

​Watch this space for more on these very exciting new authors...


Finally, we're sure you're as excited as we are for the arrival of Stuart Turton's new book The Devil and the Dark Water. Stuart is the author of Costa-winning debut The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and his second novel is due out in October 2020. 

One person who has got her hands on an early copy, is Good Me Bad Me author Ali Land, who had this to say:

"​Stuart Turton has done it again. The Devil and the Dark Water is mind bending, genre bending, intricate, vivid, intelligent and with one of the most gloriously grizzly cast of characters ever. An absolute razztwizzler of a novel!"

High praise, indeed! The book has already sold in six territories and there is major interest to the film/TV rights. If you like your books to mess with your mind a little, then look no further. Pre-order your copy now!
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The Lost Ones Shortlisted for Glass Bell Award

5/11/2020

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We are delighted with the news that today, Anita Frank's debut gothic novel The Lost Ones, has been shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2020!

From a longlist of twelve, the team at Goldsboro Books have whittled them down to a shortlist of six, with a winner being announced on Thursday 2nd July. 

The Lost Ones was published by HQ in October 2019, to great acclaim, being chosen as one of the Sunday Times' picks for their Historical Books Round-Up, one of MyWeekly's Best Books of October and was also a Book Club pick for Woman & Home. 

​Congratulations, Anita!

To read more about the Glass Bell Award, click here.

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DHH News Roundup 4th - 10th May 2020

5/10/2020

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M.W. Craven's first Washington Poe book, The Puppet Show, has been given a makeover with a brand new cover. The rest of the series (Black Summer and the forthcoming The Curator) would make a fantastic addition to anyone's bookshelf, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a better place to start than this fantastic, CWA Award-winning crime thriller.

In other M.W. Craven news, he has released an exclusive short story featuring Poe and Tilly.

Why Don't Sheep Shrink is available to read from the Crime Vault here.

The new book in Stephen Moss' 'Bird Biography' series, The Swan, has been sold to PRH's non-fiction imprint, Square Peg, in a deal negotiated by Broo Doherty.

The cygnet-based book is due for publication in autumn 2021, and follows The Robin, The Wren and ​The Swallow.
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Wishing our Jo Thomas a huge congratulations on the eBook publication of Escape to the French Farmhouse, her new irresistible novel set in and around the Lavender fields of Provence. 

The blog tour is in full swing and the book is already garnering fantastic reviews:

"It's a perfect read for a lazy afternoon, a book that is for sure going to leave you feeling warm and optimistic." On My Book Shelf blog

"This was such a heartwarming, uplifting tale of new beginnings, fresh starts, community, and friendship." Book Mad Jo blog

"Such a sweet, uplifting story – the perfect antidote to the world right now." The Love of Books blog​
Over on MyWeekly, the book was also described as "the perfect recipe for coping with lockdown", "[a] little slice of joy" and "uplifting and full of warmth."

You can read the full review here.
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We were thrilled to see Olivia Lara's Someday In Paris has been selected by CNN for their roundup of Books To Read In May!

Someday In Paris is a beautiful and sweeping romantic story set across twenty years. For two lovers destined to be together, faced with obstacle after obstacle, will they ever find a way to finally be together?
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Amanda Jennings' forthcoming The Storm has picked up another fantastic quote! This time, from Rewind author, Catherine Ryan Howard:

"The Storm is a classy and clever twist on the marriage-with-secrets thriller that I devoured in one sitting. Whatever you *think* may be going on at the start... You're wrong. [Amanda Jennings] does sinister frighteningly well."

It will be published in July 2020.


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 The paperback of Samantha Baines' debut children's book, Harriet Versus the Galaxy, was also published last week. 

A fantastic and hilarious, intergalactic adventure with Harriet, who discovers that her hearing-aid can do much more than she ever bargained for when she finds an alien in her room. 

​Congratulations, Sam!

Finally, we are delighted with the news Little, Brown imprint, Constable & Robinson has acquired the four first Inspector Ben Devlin thrillers, by Brian McGilloway, for reissue, with brand new covers. 

The first three, Borderlands, Gallows Lane and Bleed A River Deep, will be released in eBook in June 2020 and paperback in February 2021. The remaining two, The Rising and The Nameless Dead, will also be released in eBook in June 2020 but in paperback, April 2021.
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New Stephen Moss 'Bird Biography' Book to PRH

5/5/2020

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We've had The Robin, The Wren, the forthcoming The Swallow, now meet... The Swan. 

In a deal negotiated by Broo Doherty, Penguin Random House's non-fiction imprint, Square Peg, signed a new deal for the fourth in Stephen's 'Bird Biographies' series, centered around the majestical water bird.

​Publication is scheduled for autumn 2021.

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DHH News Roundup 27th April - 3rd May 2020

5/1/2020

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We were delighted to read that Ragnar Jónasson's The Mist was chosen as one of the Times' Best Books of 2020. 

The third in the Hidden Iceland series, starring DI Hulda Hermansdottir, The Mist was published by Michael Joseph last week and has already garnered some fantastic reviews:

"Nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction." The Times

"Jónasson weaves his suspenseful tales together with remorseless logic up to a climax more nightmarish than the buildup." Kirkus Reviews​


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Also published last week, was the eBook of Jean Levy's second psychological thriller, Other Women (Dome Press). 

Sophie thought she and Jonah were happy, bringing up their small daughter, until one summer's day, she discovers that Jonah is far from the man she thought he was. Sam - an attractive English teacher - seems to offer her some comfort, and new friendships are a support.

But is Sam really who he says he is? Where have her new friends appeared from? Is anyone telling the truth? As Jonah's lies threaten Sophie and her daughter, can anyone be trusted?


The paperback of this twisty page-turner will be published in September.



If you love your audiobooks then watch out for a fantastic deal on Tuesday 5th May, where Phillipa Ashley's A Perfect Cornish Summer will be only £1.99 as part of the Audible Daily Deal. 

Simply type the title in to Audible's search bar & you'll find what you're looking for. 
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Congratulations to Amy Beashel, whose debut YA novel, The Sky Is Mine, has been longlisted for the Bristol Teen Book Award. 

The award is organised by librarians, teachers and students and is aimed at celebrating diversity in young adult fiction.

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The second in Gerard O'Donovan's Tom Collins mysteries, The Doom List, has been given a fantastic review from Publishers Weekly:

"O'Donovan makes fine use of period details, and peoples the cast with fascinating real-life characters. This action-packed, tightly plotted mystery should win the author news fans."

The Doom List follows the first in the series, ​The Long Silence.


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There are some brilliant eBook deals out there for you keen bookworms - feast your eyes on these:
  • For the whole of May, you can get Julie Caplin's The Little Paris Patisserie, A Perfect Cornish Summer by Phillipa Ashley, and I Know You're There by Sarah Simpson for a fraction of their original price.
  • Kobo are holding a UK Women's Fiction Sale, and Rachael Featherstone's debut romcom Puzzle Girl is included at a steal of just 99p
  • You can nab M.W. Craven's Black Summer ​and Joanna Toye's A Store At War, also for 99p, as part of Kindle's Mad Madness Promo 

Now if that those don't see you through over the forthcoming Bank Holiday, nothing will! Simply click on the title to take you straight to the promo in question.
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Clare J. Cavanagh has written a piece for Edinburgh News, reflecting on her late grandfather's incredible tale of survival, 75 years after his plane was shot down behind enemy lines in the Second World War. 

Clare was one of our pitchers at our Pitch DHH session in York, in December 2018. She is represented by Natalie Galustian, and is working on her debut non-fiction book.

​To read the article, click here. 
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It was a great month for Scandi-Noir, as both Eva Björg Ægisdóttir's debut The Creak on the Stairs and Ragnar Jónasson's The Mist were selected as two of the Sunday Times' Crime Club picks of the month. 

In addition, Eva's book is the Goldsboro Books Book of the Month - they will be releasing an exclusive, signed, first edition complete with glorious sprayed edges. Get your copy here.
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Amy Beashel Debut Longlisted for BTB Award

5/1/2020

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Congratulations to Amy Beashel, whose debut YA novel, The Sky Is Mine, has been longlisted for the Bristol Teen Book Award. 

The award is organised by librarians, teachers and students and is aimed at celebrating diversity in young adult fiction.

​Izzy feels invisible. Trapped under the weight of expectation and censored by shame.

Her mum Steph and best friend Grace have always been there to save her. But with one under the control of her stepfather and the other caught in the throes of new love, Izzy is falling between the cracks.
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As threats to her safety grow, Izzy wants to scream. But first she must find her voice.
And if the sky is the limit, then the sky is hers.


Congratulations, Amy!

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