DHH News Roundup 8th - 14th January 2024
We’ve eased ourselves back into the New Year, and are ready & raring to go! Read on to find out what our clients have been up to this week…
(*The deal for the book was negotiated by Abi Fellows while she was at The Good Literary Agency)
Eve Seymour
Congratulations to E. V. Seymour, whose latest heart-pounding psychological thriller, My Lying Husband, was published in eBook and print-on-demand last week.
Louise Beech
In 2007, when Louise Beech's daughter, Katy, was just seven she was diagnosed with diabetes which meant she needed regular injections of insulin to stay alive - but by the time she was ten, she'd had enough. So her mum made a bargain with her - if she could tell her a good enough story, Katy would agree to have her injections. The story Louise chose was an amazing one - the true story of her grandfather's shipwreck in World War Two.
Catch up here on BBC Radio Outlook.
Jon Ransom
Jon Ransom's second novel, The Gallopers* (Muswell Press, January 2024), was chosen as the Guardian's Book of the Day last week.
“This is a lust-drenched, ache-filled gay love triangle of sorts that gnarls into a sly emotional thriller … The Gallopers is a whispered howl of a novel about men fettered by masculine norms, the ideas that curtail their freedom.”
M. W. Craven
The Daily Express selected M. W. Craven's forthcoming new Washington Poe book, The Mercy Chair, as one of the books it was most looking forward to in 2024, hailing it part of "one of Britain's finest and most inventive crime series."
The book will be published by Little, Brown in June 2024.
Gareth Brown & James Goodhand
Both the forthcoming debut from Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors (Transworld, February 2024) and James Goodhand's forst foray into adult fiction, The Day Tripper (Black & White, March 2024) were selected as two of Goodreads' most anticipated books of 2024.
Additionally, The Book of Doors has a fabulous competition lined up for its release, courtesy of Waterstones. You could win a fancy champagne afternoon tea, and an overnight stay in London, simply by throwing your name in to the hat by Wednesday 14th February!
Sunyi Dean
We are delighted to welcome new author Sunyi Dean to the Agency.
Sunyi is the author of the instant Sunday Times top ten bestseller, which went straight in at no.2), The Book Eaters (HarperVoyager, August 2022), and has joined Harry Illingworth's list. Her next book is due out in 2025.
Eleni Kyriacou
The recently-released novel from Eleni Kyriacou, The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou*, has been longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024.
The prize is awarded annually to book about Greece, and the winner - announced on 17th June 2024 - will receive £10,000. The list, which covers books published globally in English in 2023, includes books on history, biography, archaeology, philosophy and classical reception, plus novels, poetry and literary translation. The books selected span Hellenic experience from antiquity until today.
Lizzie Huxley Jones & Thomas Leeds
Congratulations to both Lizzie Huxley Jones and Thomas Leeds, who last week saw their children's fiction shortlisted for the Adrien Prize 2024.
Huxley Jones' Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend (Knights Of, June 2023)* and Leeds' Jayben and the Golden Torch (Hodder Children's, May 2023)* were both recognised for the prize, which recognises the disability experience in commercial children's fiction.