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Barrington Stoke has scooped The Deadsoul Project, the first instalment in “The Night House Files” series, a “thrilling” teen science fiction from Dan Smith. Publisher Ailsa Bathgate acquired world rights from Ella Diamond Kahn at Diamond Kahn & Woods Literary Agency for publication in February 2025. The Deadsoul Project is billed as a “fast-paced [and] tense” novel […]

Author of Meet Me In Another Life Catriona Silvey’s LOVE AND OTHER PARADOXES will be published in early 2025 by HarperVoyager in the UK and by William Morrow in the US. Cambridge University, 2005. Student Joe Greene pens verses in the margins of his notebook, dreaming of a future where his words will echo through the […]

DKW are delighted to announce that Daniel Aubrey’s debut novel Dark Island has been shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize 2024  and for the inaugural McDermid Debut Award, as part of the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival! Stay tuned for the winners to be revealed later this summer! Dark Island was published by HarperNorth on 25th April […]

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 […]

Puffin has signed a six-figure deal for a fantasy debut, The Monsters at the End of the World, by Rebecca Orwin. Fiction publisher Ben Horslen pre-empted world rights to the post-apocalyptic middle-grade story with a six-figure advance for two titles from Camille Burns at Diamond Kahn & Woods. The first book will be published in paperback […]

Boldwood has acquired World English Language rights to four novels by Clare Marchant, from Camille Burns, at DKW, on behalf of Ella Kahn. Marchant’s first novel with Boldwood will be a gothic historical timeslip story called The House of the Witch: 1645: Ursula Broome believes she has no need for a man and is determined to focus […]

Frances Lincoln, an imprint of the Quarto Group will publish an in-depth exploration of the rich and diverse influences behind Frank Herbert and his novels, including the best-selling epic Dune.  John Parton acquired World Rights to Tom Huddleston’s THE WORLDS OF DUNE from Ella Kahn at DKW. In the decades since its publication, Herbert’s Dune has […]

HarperCollins today announce the acquisition of Daniel Aubrey’s debut novel, Dark Island, and two further novels. HarperNorth’s Commissioning Editor Daisy Watt acquired World English rights from Ella Kahn of Diamond Kahn & Woods Literary Agency, in a four-way auction. French rights to Dark Island were sold to Le Masque/JC Lattes; Swedish to Lind & Co; […]

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 […]

Andersen Press has acquired On Silver Tides, the first teen novel by author and comedian Sylvia Bishop. World rights were secured at auction by Charlie Sheppard, publishing director and Chloe Sackur, commissioning editor for fiction, as part of a two-book deal, with the second book set in the same world, to follow in spring 2025. Rights […]