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DHH News Roundup 28th November - 4th December 2022

12/4/2022

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As we head into December, and the Christmas holiday draws ever closer, we have some fantastic books deals to help you while away the time; simply click on the covers below to take you straight to the promo:
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A date for your diaries!

Client Victoria Selman will be doing a very special event at the Brighton branch of Goldsboro Books in March 2023.

Victoria will be joined by fellow authors Elly Griffiths, Araminta Hall and Ruth Ware for 'Celebrating Women in Crime Fiction'.

Click this link to book your tickets - they're selling fast!

Phillipa Ashley contributed a short story to last week's edition of My Weekly, entitled 'Special Connections'.
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The magazine is on sale now. In addition, the magazine reviewed Phillipa's latest book, the fabulously festive The Christmas Holiday:

"I'd defy even the most ardent Christmas grinch not to be converted to loving the season through this gorgeous story. The Christmas Holiday is a total festive treat filled with emotion and entertainment."

We are delighted to welcome new client Jacquie Bloese to the Agency this week. 

Jacquie, who joins Broo Doherty's list and whose debut novel, The French House was published earlier this year by Hodder and Stoughton will see her next novel, The Golden Hour, is coming in spring 2024. 
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The forthcoming second in Richard Swan's Empire of the Wolf series, The Tyranny of Faith, has been given a starred review in Kirkus:

"This book travels even further beyond the traveling investigator/justice dealer mold of Tremayne’s Sister Fidelma and van Gulik’s Judge Dee series and more squarely into territory reminiscent of Andrzej Sapkowksi’s Hussite trilogy, another complex and dark historical fantasy series inspired by medieval state-military-church political conflicts."

Doom is inevitable; it will be interesting (and no doubt, heart-wrenching) to see what form it will take."
To read the full review, click here.

Congratulations to Eva Björg Ægisdóttir and Ragnar Jónasson, who saw both their novels respectively shortlisted for the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award. 

Ægisdóttir's Boys Who Hurt and Jónasson's Reykjavík (co-written with Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir) are honoured at this year's Awards.
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Both Jo Thomas' Keeping A Christmas Promise and Noel O'Reilly's soon-to-be-published The Darlings of the Asylum were selected as the 'Best Books of December by Apple Books!
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Access the full list and download / pre-order your copies here.

Finally, the cover for The Ungrateful Dead, the third in Adam Simcox's The Dying Squad series, has been revealed:
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A MISSING DETECTIVE

Detective Joe Lazarus is missing. The Dying Squad are on the case, but following reports of his sighting, signs suggest he may have fallen back into his criminal ways.

A DEATH IN A NIGHTCLUB

A new drug is taking the world by storm. Spook allows the living to see the dead, but its effects are often fatal. The Dying Squad's visit to a Berlin nightclub quickly turns their search into an entirely more sinister case.

TWO WORLDS COLLIDE

Because the invention of Spook has another purpose. One that's been decades in the planning. Two worlds are on a collision course - the living and the dead's - and the Dying Squad must summon all their investigatory cunning to stop a plot that could change people's (after)lives for ever.


​The book will be published in July 2023.

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DHH News Roundup 21st - 27th November 2022

11/27/2022

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Richard Swan appeared on the podcast Page One last week, to talk about his Empire of the Wolf series, and how how long love of Sci-Fi led to him picking up that pen to write his own stories. 

You can catch up wherever you get your podcasts, here.

Congratulations to Ragnar Jónasson who last week won the Le Prix Points Par Points Award in Paris, for his debut novel Snjór (Snowblind). The Award celebrates the "best books of the past 50 years", to coincide with 50 years of Le Point. 

Readers were asked to vote on their favourite crime novel and, by a huge margin, we were delighted to see Jónasson's book take home the coveted prize.
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We are very happy to welcome to the Agency this week, L. J. Weller.

L. J., who joins Harry Illingworth's list, is ​currently working on her debut novel, a Norfolk-set supernatural mystery inspired by her lifelong interest in urban legends, folktales and ghost stories.

The paperback for M. W. Craven's fifth Washington Poe book, The Botanist, was released last week, as was The Judas Tree by Amanda Jennings (previously published in 2014 as The Judas Scar)​.
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With the festive season fast approaching, look no further than Phillipa Ashley's The Christmas Holiday, which last week was included in LoveReading's November Highlights:

"A gorgeously heart-warming tale of friendship and romance in the perfect setting of the wilds of the Lake District."

Also included was the aforementioned M. W. Craven book, The Botanist:

"An addictively perfect example of a locked room mystery (or two) awaits in this latest addition to one of the best crime series around."
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We had some fantastic endorsements come in last week, for upcoming novels to look forward to in 2023:

"Intensely moving, genuinely gripping, plausible and absorbing; this is a stunning debut by a truly talented new writer."
Charlotte Mendelson on Not Alone by Sarah K. Jackson (Picador, April 2023)
"Wow. Swanson gives us what few writers can— a thriller with heart. END OF STORY will undoubtedly be the hit of 2023!"
​Christina Dalcher on End of Story ​by Louise Swanson (Hodder & Stoughton, March 2023)
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"So Pretty is like Stephen King on crack; the most accomplished book I've read this year. Dark, gothic as hell, and genuinely scary, Turner has managed to portray loneliness, obsession and monster-worship in one neat little package. I dare you to open it ... Oh, and that curiosity shop is the stuff of nightmares."
M. W. Craven on So Pretty by Ronnie Turner (Orenda Books, January 2023)

The debut crime fiction novel from Graham Bartlett, Bad For Good, has been shortlisted for The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2022.

Graham's novel was released earlier this year and hailed as a "cracking debut" by fellow novelist Mark Billingham, with the Daily Mail stating that fellow Brighton-based author, Peter James "had better watch out, he has a new competitor."

You can vote in all categories here, and voting closes at noon on 30th November.
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Finally, huge congratulations to A. J. West, who last week took home the HWA Debut Crown Award for his novel, The Spirit Engineer​, fighting off stiff competition.
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DHH News Roundup 14th - 20th November 2022

11/20/2022

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Over the weekend, we were delighted to see Noel O'Reilly's upcoming novel, The Darlings of the Asylum (HQ, December 2022) reviewed in The Times, who branded this fabulous historical tale "always engaging".

Last week, we welcomed the first of three new clients to the Agency. 

Boston-based Ryan Rose, who works in event production, joins Harry Illingworth's list, and will be working on his debut novel, Seven Recipes for Revolution. 
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The Danish rights for M. W. Craven's forthcoming standalone, Fearless, were sold to current Denmark publishers, Jentas. 

Fearless is the first in a new series, featuring Ben Koenig, and will be released in June 2023.

David Headley saw two new clients join his list last week:

Jón Atli Jónasson is one of Iceland's foremost playwrights and his plays have been performed in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Athens. He has also written several scripts for film, most notably The Deep, produced by 101 Studios Iceland, based on his own play. ​Jón Atli has various projects in different stages of development, with companies including Warner Brothers TV in Germany and Turbine Studios in the UK.
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Kathy Lette is a journalist, sitcom writer and author, who has several international bestsellers under her belt, including Mad Cow, How To Kill Your Husband (And Other Handy Household Tips) and The Boy Who Fell To Earth. Her novels have been published in seventeen languages around the world - and we have very exciting news about Kathy, coming very soon...!

Get your diaries out, bookworms: client Victoria Selman will be taking part in a 2023 event at Goldsboro Books Brighton: Celebrating Women In Crime Fiction. 

Victoria will be sitting down with fellow female crime heavyweights, Elly Griffiths, Araminta Hall and Ruth Ware on Wednesday 1st March at 6.30pm. 

Head to this link to book tickets.
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The covers for both the UK (below left) and US (below right) versions of M. W. Craven's Fearless, were revealed last week:
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Everyone is looking for Ben Koenig. Be careful what you wish for.

Ben Koenig is a ghost. He doesn't exist any more.

Six years ago it was Koenig who headed up the US Marshal's elite Special Ops group. They were the elite unit who hunted the bad guys - the really bad guys. They did this so no one else had to.

Until the day Koenig disappeared. He told no one why and he left no forwarding address. For six years he became a grey man. Invisible. He drifted from town to town, state to state. He was untraceable. It was as if he had never been.

But now Koenig's face is on every television screen in the country. Someone from his past is trying to find him and they don't care how they do it. In the burning heat of the Chihuahuan Desert lies a town called Gauntlet, and there are people in there who have a secret they'll do anything to protect. They've killed before and they will kill again.

Only this time they've made a mistake. They've dismissed Koenig as just another drifter - but they're wrong. Because Koenig has a condition, a unique disorder that makes it impossible for him to experience fear. 

​And now they're about to find out what a truly fearless man is capable of. Because Koenig's coming for them. And hell's coming with him...

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Finally, we were thrilled with the news last week that Sean Lusk's debut, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley, as well as appearing on BBC2's Between the Covers, was shortlisted for the Scottish First Book of the Year Award 2022.

The Scottish National Book Awards have been awarded by the Saltire Society since 1937 and in 2022 are supported by The National Library of Scotland and the Scottish Historical Review Trust.  All entrants must be born in Scotland, live in Scotland or their books must be about Scotland. 
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The winners of each category will receive a bespoke Award created by Inverness-based artist Simon Baker of Evergreen Studios.  Winners of all the Awards will be announced at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh on the evening of 8 December attended by the judges, shortlisted authors and publishers. 
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DHH News Roundup 7th - 13th November 2022

11/13/2022

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Happy Publication Day to million-copy bestseller, Anna Jacobs, who last week saw the publication of the first in her brand new Jubilee Lake series, Silver Wishes:

Lancashire, 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies, it seems that Elinor Pendleton finally has a chance of freedom. But her hopes are soon dashed when she learns that the thuggish Jason Stafford has inherited every penny, and is determined to have Elinor too.

Forced to flee with her beloved maid, Maude, Elinor finds shelter with Maude's distant cousin in the remote village of Ollerthwaite, on the shore of Jubilee Lake.
But Walter Crossley has troubles of his own. Having lost his closest family in a tragic accident, he needs one of his grandsons to return from America to inherit his farm - and when practical, kindhearted Cameron arrives, he appears to be the perfect heir.

But is this young man everything he seems? And will Elinor's secret wish to have a family of her own ever come true...?

Congratulations to Eve Seymour, who has sold two more titles to current publisher, Joffe Books. 

Beautiful Losers and An Imperfect Past (previously published by Midnight Ink), starring clinical psychologist Kim Slade, are due for publication in 2023.

More to come on these titles soon!
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Also published last week was the paperback for The Christmas Castle In Scotland, the brand new 'Romantic Escapes' novel from Julie Caplin.

Izzy McBride had never in a million years expected to inherit an actual castle from her great uncle Bill but here she was, in the run up to Christmas, Monarch of her own Glen – a very rundown glen in need of a lot of TLC if her dream of turning it into a boutique bed and breakfast was to come true.

But when Izzy’s eccentric mother rents a room to enigmatic thriller author Ross Adair and the Scottish snow starts to settle like the frosting on a Christmas cake, it’s a race to get the castle ready before they’re all snowed in for the holidays.

If you're looking to bump up your holiday reading even further, then Phillipa Ashley's The Christmas Holiday, published last week, will tick every box you could have:

Krystle didn’t have a normal childhood and longed for warm family Christmases with presents under the tree. Now she makes sure everyone else has the perfect Christmas she never had, bringing beautiful decorations to cheer as many people as possible.
With her festive business booming, she decides to celebrate by renting a secluded house in the Lakes, with a plan to make this the ultimate yuletide getaway.
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But fate immediately throws a spanner in the works in the form of a broken-down car, a flooded river and Max; a man who despises Christmas.

Krystle becomes determined to show Max the joys of the holiday. She won’t take no for an answer. Can she melt Max’s Grinch-like heart? And can he show her that life doesn’t need to go to plan to take you somewhere magical…

The paperback cover for Clare Whitfield's second novel, The Gone and the Forgotten​, was revealed over the weekend.
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Hot on the heels of the announcement of her second two-book deal with current publishers, Head of Zeus, the paperback will be published in January 2023.

Pre-order here!

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The last book to be published last week was the new murder mystery from our resident 'King of the Locked Room', Chris McGeorge. A Murder at the Castle (set during a snowy Aberdeenshire Christmas) is out now:

During a violent snowstorm, the Royal Family gather at the Castle for a traditional Christmas together. Amid rumours that he plans to name a new successor, King Eric stands to make his traditional after-dinner speech. He sips from a glass of his favourite whisky- and drops dead.
The king has been poisoned, and only one of the royals could have done the deed. Trapped by the raging blizzard, it is up to Eric's beloved head chef, Jonathan Alleyne, to play detective and get to the bottom of this heinous crime.

Jon is determined to expose the truth, even if it puts him in grave danger, and threatens to shake the entire monarchy to its core...

Finally, we are delighted to remind you that The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley, the debut novel from Sean Lusk, will be featured on BBC2's Between the Covers tomorrow evening at 7pm. Make sure to tune in!
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DHH News Roundup 31st October - 6th November 2022

11/6/2022

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A brand new month equals a new set of Kindle Monthly Deals for your eReading pleasure. Click on the covers below to take you straight to the deal.
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Our thanks to Woman & Home for reviewing two festive sparklers: The Christmas Holiday by Phillipa Ashley and Keeping A Christmas Promise by Jo Thomas:
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The Christmas Holiday is also a LoveReadingUK Pick of the Month:

"A gorgeously heart-warming tale of friendship and romance in the perfect setting of the wilds of the Lake District ... it is a perfect Christmas treat for anyone wanting to experience some sparkle and joy."

The cover reveal for the upcoming memoir from Louise Beech, Eighteen Seconds​, was revealed last week:
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Family is the best thing in your life. And the worst.

My mother once said to me, ‘I wish you could feel the way I do for eighteen seconds. Just eighteen seconds, so you’d know how awful it is.’

I thought about it. Realised we could all learn from being in another person’s head for eighteen seconds. Eighteen seconds inside Grandma Roberts’ head as she sat alone with her evening cup of tea, us girls upstairs in bed. Eighteen seconds inside one-year-old Colin’s head when he woke up in a foster home without his family. Eighteen seconds inside the head of a girl waiting for her bedroom door to open.

Writer, Louise Beech, looks back on the events that led to the day her mother wrote down her last words, then jumped off the Humber Bridge. She missed witnessing the horror herself by minutes.
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Louise recounts the pain and trauma of her childhood alongside her love for her siblings with a delicious dark humour and a profound voice of hope for the future.


​The book will be published by Mardle in April 2023.


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Congratulations to Julie Caplin, whose new Romantic Escapes book, The Christmas Castle in Scotland, was published last week in eBook. 

Unwrap this gorgeous gift of a book for an escape to the snow-peaked caps of the Scottish Highlands and a romance that will melt your heart...

A few months ago, we told you of the fantastic news that T. M. Payne's debut novels starring Detective Sheridan Holler, had been sold to Amazon in a three-book deal, with the first, Already Dead​, set to publish in January 2024. 

We are delighted to reveal that the books have also been sold to Thomas & Mercer in Germany. 
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Another cover revealed last week was Sarah Bonner's second book, Her Sweet Revenge​. 
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Secrets and lies ruin lives

Two women receive an anonymous note.
For one it's a threat.
For the other it's an invitation for revenge.

Helena is beautiful, successful, and living in married bliss in Exeter. But she's hiding a secret that could tear her perfect life apart. When the notes begin to arrive, she realises someone else must know her secret. But what might her husband and his overbearing family do if they find out the truth?

Thea is reeling from her best friend Helena's death. But when she starts digging into the circumstances, she receives a threatening note warning her to stop. She knows her friend's death wasn't an accident. This was murder. And she is determined to get revenge...


The book will be published by Hodder & Stoughton in April 2023.


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The recently-published second YA novel from Amy Beashel, We Are All Constellations, received a fantastic review from The Irish Times:

"[Amy's second novel] echoes the emotional authenticity of her first ... This is a book about mental illness without being anything as reductive as an "issue book"; it is both insightful and compulsively readable."

Finally, huge congratulations to Victoria Selman, who this week finalised a deal with Union Square & Co publishers in the US, for her latest book, Truly, Darkly, Deeply - a huge hit of summer 2022 and a Sunday Times bestseller.

​Congratulations, Victoria!
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DHH News Roundup 24th - 30th October 2022

10/31/2022

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The debut from Sarah Bonner, Her Perfect Twin, was chosen as one of the 'Best Mystery / Thriller Books of 2022' from Publishers' Weekly:

"The ingeniously twisty plot and complex characters set this above the psychological thriller pack."

To read the full review, click here.

Also in Publishers' Weekly last week, was Heather Darwent's forthcoming debut, The Things We Do To Our Friends:

"Deviously plotted . . . the characters . . . like a nest of vipers, are tough to take one’s eyes off of. Darwent is off to an auspicious start."

The book will be published in January 2023 by Viking (UK) and Ballantine (US).
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The second book from bestselling author Becca Day, All Her Little Lies, was published last week.

​Everyone's convinced her son is a killer, but Alex Forrester knows him best, doesn't she?

Cynthia and Alex have always been like sisters. Living and working for years on Cynthia's mother's sprawling farm, they've raised their families together. It was the perfect life until the fateful night that Alex finds Hannah, one of Cynthia's eighteen-year-old twins, inexplicably murdered in her own home.
Soon Alex's life is spiralling out of control as she questions everything she knows and everyone she trusted. And when local detective, Stefani Warner starts investigating Hannah's murder, one prime suspect quickly rises to the fore: Daniel, Alex's nineteen-year-old son.

As Alex fights to protect him, she starts to uncover disturbing truths. Friendship, family bonds, even her own marriage are not what she thought, and threats seems to come from every direction, both invisible and way too close to home...

Congratulations to client A. J. West, who last week saw his debut novel, The Spirit Engineer (perfect for Hallowe'en reading, by the way...) shortlisted for HWA Debut Crown Award 2022. 

​The 2022 HWA Crown Award winners will be announced at the HWA Awards party on 23 November, 2022.
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Victoria Hawthorne's (aka Vikki Patis) second novel has been revealed!

The Darkest Night will be published by Quercus in April 2023, and is a bewitching story of family secrets - and the lengths some will go to protect them...

When Ailsa Reid becomes the subject of a trial by media after an incident at the school where she works, she escapes to the comfort of her grandparents' house in Fife. But she arrives to find her grandmother, Moira - recently diagnosed with dementia - has gone missing, and her grandfather, Rupert, gravely injured.
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Desperate to ensure Moira's safe return, Ailsa must rely on the help of her estranged mother, Rowan, who abandoned her at birth. Tensions simmer between the two women as they attempt to piece together the lead-up to Moira's disappearance.

But in order to move forward and find Moira, both Ailsa and Rowan must go back to the beginning; to a story about witches burned on the hill above the Reid house centuries ago, and the curse laid upon the women that came after. Can they break the bonds of history in time to save their family? Or will the Reid curse be their undoing?

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Also published this week was Abi Elphinstone's new picture book (illustrated by Fiona Woodcock), The Frost Goblin, which was also selected as 'one to watch' in yesterday's Sunday Times​.

In Bertie Crash-Wallop's noisy family, it can sometimes feel like there is no room for a quiet boy like him. But when Bertie meets a family of goblins on the night of the deepest frost, is it possible he might make some magic and discover his own place in the world?
Join Bertie and the Frost Goblins on an exciting adventure in this beautifully moving story by the bestselling author of Sky Song and The Unmapped Chronicles, Abi Elphinstone, and renowned illustrator Fiona Woodcock. The perfect book for frosty winter's nights and cosy Christmas mornings.
And in more Abi news, her forthcoming Saving Neverland (January 2023, Puffin) was selected as Editor's Choice in The Bookseller:

"Elphinstone's reimagining of J. M. Barrie's classic is thrilling, imaginative and brilliantly reinterpreted for a modern audience, and features a young heroine who learns how to shake off the rest of the world and have an adventure." 
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Finally, we are thrilled for client Clare Whitfield (author of the acclaimed People of Abandoned Character), who has signed another two-book deal with current publisher, Head of Zeus.

Madeleine O’Shea, acting publishing director, acquired world all language rights from David Headley following an exclusive submission. The first in the deal, Elephants and Diamonds, will be published under the Apollo Fiction imprint in September 2024. 

Based on a real-life all-female London crime gang, the Forty Elephants, the novel will follow 19-year-old Eleanor Mackridge,
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who leaves behind her working-class family to reinvent herself as “Nell the Mack”.

To read the full press release, click here.
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Head of Zeus takes two historical novels from Whitfield in exclusive submission

10/28/2022

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Head of Zeus has swooped for two historical novels from Clare Whitfield, beginning with the “unmissable” Elephants and Diamonds.

Madeleine O’Shea, acting publishing director, acquired world all language rights from David Headley at DHH Literary Agency following an exclusive submission. Elephants and Diamonds will be published under the Apollo Fiction imprint in September 2024. 

“I am delighted that Madeleine and the rest of the brilliant team at Head of Zeus will continue publishing Clare’s books,” said Headley. “Her previous two books were beautifully published with a clear strategic vision and I 
really believe that the in-house passion for Elephants and Diamonds will further build Clare’s readership and bring her even more fans.”

Based on a real-life all-female London crime gang, the Forty Elephants, the novel will follow 19-year-old Eleanor Mackridge, who leaves behind her working-class family to reinvent herself as “Nell the Mack”.

Whitfield said: “I’m elated to be working with Madeleine and Head of Zeus again and thrilled to bring to life this story of a working-class girl in the 1920s as she moves through the ranks of what has to be the most successful female crime gang of all time.”  
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O’Shea added: “I absolutely love Clare’s writing and am thrilled to have secured two more books with her. The historical inspiration behind Elephants and Diamonds is incredible – an all-female crime gang who mixed glamour with ‘Peaky Blinders’-style grit. Clare is a master at weaving fact into fiction and this is going to be an unmissable novel.” ​
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DHH News Roundup 17th-23rd October 2022

10/24/2022

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Happy Publication Day to Tania Crosse, who last week saw the tenth in her Devonshire Saga series, The Convent Girl, published in eBook. 

​1941. Bombs are falling all over Plymouth. Young Maisie O’Sullivan must make a choice that will change her life for ever.

Maisie O’Sullivan yearns for a family of her own. Raised in a convent-run orphanage, she believed she was all alone in the world until her very much alive father, Francis, arrives unexpectedly to take her back to live with him in Plymouth. But Francis clearly has no feelings for her, and only wants Maisie to act as his skivvy.
But Maisie is resilient. She surrounds herself with a family of her own making. Lovely old Zeek, her grandfather-like neighbour. Feisty Kitty, her inseparable friend who looks so like Maisie, they are often mistaken for sisters. Young fisherman Nick, her kind and patient boyfriend.

Now as war breaks out across Europe, Maisie increasingly seeks Nick’s steady, solid comfort. But when he volunteers for the Naval Reserve, Maisie is convinced her one chance of happiness — a home and family of her own — is slipping away.

Determined to never be alone again, Maisie makes a momentous decision that will take her life in a very unexpected direction.

The cover for Richard Swan's second book, and the follow-up to his debut, The Justice of Kings, has been revealed. 
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A Justice's work is never done.

The Battle of Galen's Vale is over, but the war for the Empire's future has just begun. Concerned by rumours that the Magistratum's authority is waning, Sir Konrad Vonvalt returns to Sova to find the capital city gripped by intrigue and whispers of rebellion. In the Senate, patricians speak openly against the Emperor, while fanatics preach holy vengeance on the streets.

Yet facing down these threats to the throne will have to wait, for the Emperor's grandson has been kidnapped - and Vonvalt is charged with rescuing the missing prince. His quest will lead Vonvalt - and his allies Helena, Bressinger and Sir Radomir - to the Empire's southern frontier, where they will once again face the puritanical fury of Bartholomew Claver and his templar knights . . . and a dark power far more terrifying than they could have imagined.


The Tyranny of Faith will publish in February 2023.

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Huge congratulations to husband-and-wife writing duo, Satish and Gabrielle Shewhorak, whose joint debut novel, Rani Reports on the Missing Millions, has been sold in a three-book deal to Rock the Boat

​What do a priceless painting, a minotaur, a lighthouse and a glass eye have in common? They’re all part of a treasure trail set by an eccentric millionaire. For 10-year-old aspiring journalist Rani it couldn’t be more perfect. A chance for adventure and also a shot at getting the perfect scoop for a story competition in the local newspaper.

Teaming up with her Nani, who is visiting from Mauritius, she sets out to get to the bottom of the mystery. But solving the clues isn’t so simple…and neither is outwitting rival wannabe journalist Lexi. Can Rani and Nani crack the code and avoid a dangerous nemesis determined to take the prize at any cost?

There will be illustrations throughout from Navya Raju, and the first will publish in June 2023.


To read the full press release, click here.

We are delighted to welcome Andrea Carter to the Agency. 

Andrea, who joins David Headley's list, is the author of the Inishowen Mysteries, most recently The Body Falls. Her first three books have been optioned for television.

Click here to read more about Andrea.
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Finally, we are so very happy with the wonderful news that Frances White's debut, The Voyaged of the Damned​, has been sold to Penguin Michael Joseph, with publication slated for early 2024. 

Senior commissioning editor Rebecca Hilsdon bought world English rights from Harry Illingworth and the novel follows Ganymedes who – along with 11 others – boards The Dragon’s Dawn as it voyages through the mythical Concordia. But shortly after the ship sets sail someone is murdered, and it isn’t long before the body count begins to rise. It is up to Ganymedes to unmask the killer before everyone on board is damned.
​To read more click here.
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Rock the Boat lands ‘fresh, fun and diverse’ middle-grade series from husband and wife team

10/22/2022

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Rock the Boat has signed a “fresh, fun and diverse” new series for lower middle grade readers written by husband and wife team Satish and Gabrielle Shewhorak.

Commissioning editor Katie Jennings bought world rights in a three-book deal from Hannah Sheppard at D H H Literary Agency. There will be illustrations throughout from Navya Raju. Rock the Boat will publish the first title in the series, Rani Reports on the Missing Millions, in paperback in June 2023.

The book sees junior journalist Rani and her mischievous Nani join forces to unravel a string of newsworthy mysteries. The synopsis explains: “What do a priceless painting, a minotaur, a lighthouse and a glass eye have in common? They’re all part of a treasure trail set by an eccentric millionaire. For 10-year-old aspiring journalist Rani it couldn’t be more perfect. A chance for adventure and also a shot at getting the perfect scoop for a story competition in the local newspaper.

“Teaming up with her Nani, who is visiting from Mauritius, she sets out to get to the bottom of the mystery. But solving the clues isn’t so simple…and neither is outwitting rival wannabe journalist Lexi. Can Rani and Nani crack the code and avoid a dangerous nemesis determined to take the prize at any cost?”

Jennings said: “Rani Reports is Rock the Boat’s first foray into publishing for lower middle grade readers, and Gabrielle and Satish’s series has all the ingredients I was looking for. Mystery and adventure, humour by the bucketload, and vivid characters from a background that is still under-represented in children’s fiction. The curious and determined Rani is the perfect inspiration for any budding journalist, while with Nani and parrot Cookie around, things don’t always go quite as planned…”

Gabrielle Shewhorak, who also writes middle grade under the name Gabrielle Kent, added: “We’re so happy that our Rani Reports series has found a nurturing home with Rock the Boat. With so many ways that children absorb news today, it can be hard for them to know what to trust. Hopefully Rani’s love of story hunting will raise an army of truth-hunting junior journalists, while teaching them about the importance of fact checking as Rani explores print, online and video journalism.”
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Satish Shewhorak said: “Growing up, I rarely saw anyone who looked like me in books, film and TV, and never anyone from Mauritius, where my parents were born. With our daughter now looking for characters that resemble her family I’m delighted that our publisher, Rock the Boat, is among the few taking action on South Asian representation. In this series we hope that all children will enjoy discovering more about the vibrant cultures of Mauritius while laughing at Rani and Nani’s adventures, and cooking up some of Nani’s favourite recipes!”

​From the Bookseller article
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White’s ‘thrilling’ fantasy début Voyage of the Damned lands at Penguin Michael Joseph

10/19/2022

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Penguin Michael Joseph has signed the “thrilling” fantasy début Voyage of the Damned by Frances White, a creative writing graduate from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Senior commissioning editor Rebecca Hilsdon bought world English rights from Harry Illingworth at D H H Literary Agency, for publication in hardback in early 2024.

The novel follows Ganymedes who – along with 11 others – boards The Dragon’s Dawn as it voyages through the mythical Concordia. But shortly after the ship sets sail someone is murdered, and it isn’t long before the body count begins to rise. It is up to Ganymedes to unmask the killer before everyone on board is damned.

Hilsdon said: “This novel was a total joy from start to finish. Frances has created an incredible world full of humour and heart that is all tied up with a thrilling murder mystery. This is a book that will appeal to crime and thriller readers along with fans of fantasy and Dee is certainly a character no one will forget in a hurry.”

White commented: “I am thrilled Voyage of the Damned has found its home with Penguin Michael Joseph. Rebecca’s enthusiasm and vision for the book perfectly aligns with my own and I’m so excited to be working together.
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“This book has all the trappings of a classic murder mystery – a collection of quirky characters, a claustrophobic setting, and a ticking clock, but also with a hefty dose of magic. I can’t wait to share this story, Dee, and all his chaotic messiness with readers.”

From The Bookseller article | Lauren Brown
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