A very happy publication day to Dee Benson, whose debut YA novel, Glow Up, Lara Bloom, was published last week. The secret diary of a "teenage catastrophe", this is a heart-warming story of friendship, crushes and learning to love yourself. |
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir's debut, The Creak on the Stairs, has sold to Hohe Publishers in Ethiopia, for Amaric rights. This marks the 13th foreign territory for the first in her Iceland-set DI Elma series. |
Also published this week was the new edge-of-your-seat thriller from E. V. Seymour, The Patient (previously published as Beautiful Losers in 2016). With a shocking twist that will leave your breathless, this is one you don't want to miss. |
But one day two groups of professional killers arrive in town, looking for a young girl and an older woman. A deadly chase through deserts, mountains, and mines begins. And Ree will have to discover her former self if she is to keep them both alive.
The book will be published by HarperVoyager in July 2023.
Released only a few weeks ago, Abi Elphinstone's Saving Neverland reached No.1 on the official Indie Children's Bestsellers Chart last week. The book was also recorded as the eighth bestselling hardback children's book. Congratulations, Abi! |
Dead Ground, the fourth in M. W. Craven's bestselling Washington Poe series has been sold to Pegasus Kirjastus in Estonia, the eighth foreign territory for the book. |
The final book published last week was Tom Hindle's brand new locked room crime mystery, The Murder Game. One house. Nine guests. Endless motives for murder. It's New Year's Eve, and the owner of Hamlet Hall has organised a 1920s murder mystery party; but someone is playing by their own rules, and in a close-knit community, old rivalries run deep... |
In our final foreign rights deal for this week, An Endless Cornish Summer, the sunny Cornwall-set delight from Phillipa Ashley has been sold to Grada in the Czech Republic. |
Lastly, we were delighted to welcome Foluso Agbaje to the Agency last week. Foluso, a freelance HR consultant, joins Emily Glenister's list, and is working on her debut novel, The Parlour Wife, set in 1930s and 40s Lagos, Nigeria. |