Starring Sarah Parish, Doctor Who’s Mandip Gill, Mitchell Robertson and singer Alexandra Burke, Curfew is set in a society where all men live under ‘The Women’s Safety Act’, meaning they are bound by a strict curfew from 7PM to 7AM every night, with their movements tracked by an ankle tag 24 hours a day. When a woman’s body is discovered, brutally murdered during curfew hours and left on the steps of the Women’s Safety Centre, veteran… (read more)
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIES, FEATURING DETECTIVE EDDIE GIRAL In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in. And his latest investigation into the murder of a black-marketeer has made it clearer than ever: Eddie is no longer just catching criminals. He’s working for… (read more)
Midwinter in Orkney. Six hours of daylight. A race against time to catch a killer. Reporter Freya Sinclair has always known she was different. While waiting on the outcome of an autism assessment, Freya uproots her life in Glasgow, quitting her job at one of Scotland’s top broadsheets and taking a local beat in her childhood home of Orkney. But her plans for a quiet life are… (read more)
Can a return to the past be the start of something new? Warm, romantic and enchanting – the new novel from the author of The Lighthouse Bookshop and The Forgotten Garden. Two sisters. One unexpected inheritance. The Crowdies have worked the same landscape on the Scottish coast for generations. When Bern Crowdie passes away, everyone expects the farm to pass to his youngest daughter Nina who, with her young son Barnaby, has… (read more)
When Ada Winters finds the fossilised remains of an unrecognisable creature up on the cliffs, she believes she has found the answer to her scientific ambitions and her family’s financial struggles. Meanwhile, Doctor Edwin Moyle has come to Dorset in search of the discovery that will bring him fame and fortune, and instead finds a strange young woman who seems to hold the key to everything he seeks. But what is the… (read more)
This isn’t one love story. It’s two. Becca Calloway is calling it: she’s ready for Mr Right, and she’s ready now. She even goes as far as to hold a manifestation ceremony for him – and when she receives a text from her ex five minutes later, she knows it’s a sign. The problem is, she doesn’t know which way it’s pointing… Should Becca reply and reignite things with her old flame… (read more)
Evie Bird is a romance writer whose latest bestseller is being made into a Christmas movie. Duke Carlisle is a world-famous actor who has landed the role of leading man. When Evie and Duke meet on set, it’s a frosty encounter – even icier than the cobbled Bavarian streets they’re filming on. But after images of them arguing leak to the press and put the movie in jeopardy, they… (read more)
A woman running for her life. A soldier who has lost it all. Norway, 1942 When Helda Dahlström flees her abusive husband and the horrors of Nazi-occupied Norway with her six-year-old son, she doesn’t know if they’ll make it out alive. In her desperate journey to safety, she finally finds refuge in the rugged and isolated Shetland islands. Shetland, 1942 On the same rocky shores, Canadian RAF soldier Bill Gautier is haunted by… (read more)
ONE OF STYLIST’S BEST NEW FEMINIST RETELLINGS TO READ IN 2023 In the Garden of Eden, at the beginning of time, an outrageous lie is born: that women are inferior. Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. But when Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him, she refuses – and is banished forever from Paradise. Demonised and sidelined, Lilith… (read more)
A novel of second chances and blossoming communities from the author of The Lighthouse Bookshop. Budding landscape architect Luisa MacGregor is stuck in a rut – she hates her boss, she lives with her sister, and she is still mourning the loss of her husband many years ago. So when she is given the opportunity to take on a parcel of land in a deprived area, she sees the… (read more)
US TITLE: ONE OF THE BOYS If you could test your son for a gene that predicts violence, would you do it? Antonia and Bea are sisters, and doting mothers to their sons. But that is where their similarities end. Antonia had her son tested to make sure he didn’t possess the “violent” M gene. Bea refuses to let her son take the test. His life should not be determined by… (read more)
Sphere is to publish THE BONE HUNTERS, an exquisite, expansive historical novel by Joanne Burn about fossil mania in Lyme Regis in the 1820s. Senior Commissioning Editor Rosanna Forte acquired world rights from Ella Kahn at Diamond, Kahn and Woods. Sphere will publish THE BONE HUNTERS in hardback in early 2024. THE BONE HUNTERS plunges the reader into the tumultuous world of nineteenth-century Dorset, where a young woman is about to make… (read more)
A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers: Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O’Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeymi, Rachel Seiffert, Kamila Shamsie and Ali Smith – introduced by Sandi Toksvig. DRAGON. TYGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. For centuries past, and all across the… (read more)
Sometimes you need to find yourself before you’re ready to find The One. From the outside, Lorna has everything sorted. A cool job in radio, a home to call her own, plenty of friends. And anyone would be happy to attend their school reunion if they’d had the kind of post-adolescent glow up she’s managed to pull off. Library Lorna is no more, and this new Lorna is 100%, definitely over her… (read more)
The hilarious and heartbreaking new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of PROMISING YOUNG WOMEN and SCENES OF A GRAPHIC NATURE The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it’s not the one you’re expecting. It’s unconventional and messy. It’s young and foolish. It’s about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love. When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her… (read more)
Lilith is the heroine women have waited six thousand years for Legend Press has acquired UK & Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights for Lilith by Nikki Marmery. The novel will be published in the UK by Legend Press in October 2023. Rights were acquired by Lauren Parsons, Commissioning Editor, from Ella Kahn at Diamond Kahn & Woods Literary Agency. Audio rights have been acquired by WF Howes and German rights sold to S. (read more)
Century has acquired World All Language rights to two novels by Laura Jane Williams, from Ella Kahn at Diamond Kahn & Woods. Williams’ first novel with Century, Lovestruck, will be published in paperback, ebook and audio in summer 2023. Lovestruck tells the story of Becca Calloway – a woman who is so ready for Mr Right that she goes as far as to hold a manifestation ceremony for him on the… (read more)
‘You have a choice which way you go in this war…’ Paris, September 1940. After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The dead man is not the first or the last criminal being let loose onto the streets. But who is pulling the strings,… (read more)
Could a rediscovered map show her the way? Present day: When thirty-six-year-old Robyn Willoughby discovers an exquisite yet blood-stained Tudor map in her father’s antique map shop, desperate for a distraction from her problems, she decides to investigate. But as Robyn delves into the mystery, she finds herself caught up in a centuries-old secret – one that will change her life forever. 1569: Forced to flee Holland to escape persecution, twenty-year-old Freida Ortelius uses her mapmaking skills to… (read more)
At the heart of a tiny community in a remote village just inland from the Aberdeenshire coast stands an unexpected lighthouse. Built two centuries ago by an eccentric landowner, it has become home to the only bookshop for miles around. Rachel is an incomer to the village. She arrived five years ago and found a place she could call home. So when the owner of the Lighthouse Bookshop dies suddenly, she steps… (read more)