DHH News Roundup 9th - 22nd December
Andrea Mara
Toutes ses fautes (the French translation of All Her Fault**) by Andrea Mara has won the NetGalley Award for Best Crime Fiction of the Year 2024. Congratulations Andrea!
Layla McCay
A huge congratulations to Layla McCay whose Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling* has featured on Forbes list of The Ten Best Business Books of 2024. A brilliant achievement!
Elizabeth Lovatt
The cover for Elizabeth Lovatt’s Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line* has been revealed! Publishing by Dialogue Books in January 2025.
Timely and vital. A hidden history of queer women.
Phillipa Ashley
Phillipa Ashley’s feel-good autumn read, Confetti at the Cornish Cafe (Avon Fiction, 2017) has sold French rights to Bragelonne.
Anna Jacobs
Listen to multi-million copy bestselling author, Anna Jacobs’, compelling interview with Teena Raffa-Mulligan on Not the Plot podcast.
Anna talks about her path to publication, her writing process and where she finds the inspiration for her constant flow of stories.
Phillipa Ashley
We are thrilled with these reviews for Phillipa Ashley’s Escape for Christmas. Naturally, we agree!
‘A picture-postcard setting’ Good Housekeeping
‘Pure indulgence’ The Lady
‘A warm-hearted, comic romance’ Cumbria Life
Ragnar Jónasson
Ragnar Jónasson’s Death at the Sanatorium has been named winner of the Crime Fiction Lover Awards Best in Translation 2024. Congratulations to Ragnar and translator, Victoria Cribb, on their second CFL win!
Ed Crocker
We are delighted to see that Ed Crocker’s Lightfall is one of seven to be chosen for Goodreads’ Readers’ Most Anticipated Books of 2025 in the Fantasy list. A brilliant achievement and amongst exceptional company!
Heather Darwent
The cover for Heather Darwent’s thrilling new novel about the dark underbelly of the wellness industry, A Sharp Scratch, has been revealed.
Publishing by Viking PRH and coming to a bookshop near you in May 2025!
Ed Crocker
The first in Ed Crocker’s Everlands trilogy, Lightfall (St Martin’s Press, January 2025), has sold Hungarian rights to Könyvmolyképzo Kiado Kft.
Jo Thomas & Phillipa Ashley
Both Jo Thomas’ A Recipe for Christmas and Phillipa Ashley’s Escape for Christmas have featured in Culturefly’s list of 6 Festive Books to Get You in the Mood for Christmas. There’s no better way to get into the yuletide spirit than with these reads!
Ronnie Turner
We are delighted with these fabulous reviews for Ronnie Turner’s new novel Small Fires, publishing in February 2025 by Orenda Books.
“Crackles with menace and authenticity.” Sarah Hilary
“Rarely will you meet a story as unsettling, nor one as bewitchingly told ... I challenge you to pick it up and when you do, to put it down.” Janice Hallett
When We Ruled
The brilliant cover for Paula Akpan’s When We Ruled* was revealed last week. Publishing in May 2025 by Trapeze.
The spellbinding history of the rise and fall of twelve African queens and warriors.
Andrea Mara
Congratulations to Andrea Mara whose Someone in the Attic** was shortlisted for the Eason Favourite Book of the Year 2024, celebrating exceptional storytelling, and captivating books that have defined 2024.
Alessandra Ranelli
Alessandra Ranelli’s debut Murder at the Hotel Orient (Baskerville, 2026) has sold French rights to Bragelonne.
Jules Wake
We are delighted to share this picture of Jules Wake with Broo Doherty in the British Embassy in Prague. This was part of a hugely successful trip to celebrate the publication of A Little Place in Prague, which is dominating the bestseller lists!
*deal done by Abi Fellows at The Good Literary Agency
**deal done by Diana Beaumont at Marjacq Scripts