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Alex Neptune is back for his most epic adventure in this fifth and final instalment of the action-packed series – perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and Dragon Realm! Brineblood the pirate is back on the high seas with a dastardly plan – he’s going to steal every drop of sea magic and use it to raise an […]

The nominations for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing were announced today and we are delighted that On Silver Tides by Sylvia Bishop has been included! The Carnegies are organised by CILIP, the UK’s library and information association, and are uniquely judged by librarians. CILIP invited nominations for the 2025 Carnegies from its members, as well as […]

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has announced the shortlist for its 2024 award, and DKW are delighted that Caroline O’Donoghue’s The Rachel Incident has been shortlisted! Judge Pippa Evans says: “The Rachel Incident returns us to our 20-something selves, desperately trying to fit in whilst insisting on being different. A university farce, if […]

The original drama series, Curfew, by Paramount+ is out now. 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 […]

All over the world, once-flourishing horticultural spaces have been abandoned and forgotten. From the once-crumbling grandeur of the Villa d’Este and the magic of the Lost Gardens of Heligan, to the sculptural surrealism of Las Pozas and the colourful rebirth of Le Jardin Majorelle, there are countless gardens around the world with fascinating stories to […]

The Worlds of George R.R. Martin is an in-depth bringing together of the enormous range of inspirations behind Martin’s work ­– from historical borrowings as wide-ranging as the Roman empire, the Wars of the Roses and the Mongol conquests, to diverse literary and mythological texts, and Martin’s own family experience and biography. With A Song of Ice and […]

The Saltire Society has announced the longlists for Scotland’s National Book Awards, which ‘present a snapshot of Scotland’s vibrant literary landscape across Fiction, Non-Fiction, First Book, Poetry and Research’ and DKW are delighted that Daniel Aubrey’s debut novel Dark Island has been nominated in the First Book of the Year category. Dark Island was also recently shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut […]

DKW are very excited to share the trailer for CURFEW, the TV adaptation of Jayne Cowie’s AFTER DARK (PRH Century, 2022). All 6 episodes will be released on Paramount+ on 10th October 2024, and with its stellar cast and provocative, timely themes, the series is already garnering a huge amount of buzz in the UK press:   […]

Set in a small community on the Scottish coast, The Secret Orchard is the brand new feel-good story about family, belonging and finding peace with the past from Sharon Gosling, the author of The Lighthouse Bookshop and The Forgotten Garden. Bette and Nina Crowdie have never been close – the ten-year age difference doesn’t help, […]

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 […]

Virago has snapped up Caroline O’Donoghue’s latest novel, The Rachel Incident, which has also been pre-empted in the US (Knopf), Germany and the Netherlands and seized in a production deal with Universal Content Productions. Sarah Savitt, publisher, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Bryony Woods at Diamond Kahn & Woods Literary Agency.  It will […]